Scientists are whispering - and some are saying out loud: COVID is now a forever disease. It was allowed to rage unchecked for too long in 2020 because of politics & stupidity; the only way to stop it in 2021 was a rapid-fire, government-wide, dual-party vaccine push. GQP...1
...politics, which somehow turned basic public health measures into part of a culture war, decided to undermine our means of control both in 2020 and 2021 for votes and ratings. In 2020, they went after masks, social distancing and shutdowns,leaving...nothing. Now, they....2
...have framed vaccines and masks as a matter of personal choice and freedom, rather than community well being. There is an old cliche in tort law - your right to swing your arms ends at the tip of my nose. Your right to refuse a mask and a vaccine ends outside, 12 feet from...3
...everyone else. Masks are not 100% effective; the person wearing one is protecting others more than is protecting self. If both wearing one, extreme protection. If Billy's mom sends her kid to school without a mask, he can infect Suzy, whose mom did give her a mask, because...4
...it takes both to get highest efficacy. That we are STILL explaining this to GQPrs coming up more than a year and a half into this is a sign of willful ignorance on their part. The same goes for vaccines. If Billy's dad didn't get vaccinated, infected Billy who infected Suzy..5
...who, because of her age, depended on full protection through the humanity of others, then Billy's dad's "choice" to not get vaccinated, and "choice" to send Billy to school unmasked" robbed Suzy's parent's informed "choice" to try to protect her....6
...no parent has the right to choose whether someone else's baby will right in a car seat. But that is what @GregAbbott_TX and @GovRonDeSantis are saying: If one parent's "choice" to keep their baby out of a car seat takes yours out too, well, you don't count....7
...the GQP is, put simply, has emerged as a form of of twisted selfishness devoid of humanity, whose personal desires are transformed to "rights" no matter how many others it kills or harms. Their preferences trump your right to live, because it gets politicians applause....8
...which leads back to COVID as the forever disease. We have seen one burn-through. We are experiencing another. Basically, people are going to be on one side of a line or another - those who take basic precautions or don't. I don't think many people fully understand...9
...what Delta is. It's moving faster, it's deadlier. It either is or is close to the most infectious agent on the earth in recorded medicine. At this point, we have to recognize that the primary goal needs to be to protect the unvaccinated children in families who *would*...10
...vaccinate if they could. Work with your local schools - figure out ways to isolate is possible - masked versus unmasked sections of schools, coop teaching (homeschooling among various parents), anything. Don't give up without a fight. Get vaccinated, wear masks....11
...eventually, once COVID has burned through a few times, with more vaccinations, boosters, greater immunity of survivors from other rounds, it will become like the annual flu. Its intensity will back down. And this horrible time brought on by ignorance and incompetence...
...will pass into history as one of the greatest avoidable disasters of all time.
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