I've been wondering why I find the latest Covid surge so profoundly depressing when:
a) I wrote a note in May saying endemic Covid would look *exactly* like this, and
b) as @WRGuinn points out, there IS some good news (India improving, TX w/12 wks of declining deaths, etc).
a) I wrote a note in May saying endemic Covid would look *exactly* like this, and
b) as @WRGuinn points out, there IS some good news (India improving, TX w/12 wks of declining deaths, etc).
https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1318386563076718592
I think my disappointment stems from an innate trust that when the chips are down and we're faced with a common enemy, I really did expect some aspect of representative government somewhere in this gigantic country to rise to the occasion. I really did.
This is not just a White House failure. It's an every-level-of-government failure.
In this latest Covid surge I feel abandoned by gov't in their most basic task of GOVERNING in a way that I didn't feel in prior months.
At least in Mar/Apr and in July/Aug there was an EFFORT.
In this latest Covid surge I feel abandoned by gov't in their most basic task of GOVERNING in a way that I didn't feel in prior months.
At least in Mar/Apr and in July/Aug there was an EFFORT.
The individual and community buy-in to distancing, masks, testing and accountability is there. It really is. Of course it could be better in some places, but the bottom-up effort to "keep with it" is absolutely there.
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