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There’s no other way to title our current reality.
Science doesn’t care what your political beliefs are. Nor your religious beliefs. It doesn’t care what propaganda you listen to and believe in. COVID-19 is a virus.
I am utterly baffled about what people thought was going to happen when we “opened up” given we had no national test and trace policy. We have no national policy at all regarding this pandemic except a president who today, once more, stated it will “simply go away”.
It won’t. Based on the current surge we’ll top 200,000 dead by the end of this month. We still have national shortages of PPE, testing, and more. We have a propaganda channel that publicly is downplaying the pandemic while privately following strict pandemic protocol. I’m at the point where I don’t understand the point. Why? What’s the upside of downplaying wearing masks? Social distancing? Basic, life-saving protocols?
Beyond that, the economy teeters on an abyss with no relief in sight. This is a bottom up disaster so the people at the top pretty much don’t care. But it will get to them.
The only positive note is that the mortality rate seems to be declining percentage-wise of those catching it. The research I’ve done shows we’re not quite sure why. But that might be offset by a slight mutation of…
