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A lot and not enough.
We knew a pandemic was inevitable, yet were unprepared. We know many things are inevitable yet prefer to ignore them.
We are now over 530,000 official deaths and the real toll, of course, is much higher. Many have died of COVID but no autopsy was performed. Also, we are experiencing secondary deaths from all the delayed physical check ups and procedures that were put off. The final toll directly and indirectly from COVID-19 will be over 1 million fatalities.
I just looked at my first post on Day 1. I was wrong about a few things: the ripple effect in the supply chain wasn’t very severe. Based on the numbers at that early time, I estimated an outside high chance of close to a million dead. I would revise that number done in the weeks ahead, but I was constantly attacked by people who said I was the man who cried wolf. But the wolf ate more people than any of the positive “just like the flu” fools predicted.
There will be another pandemic and it will be worse. Within the next decade. By the way, COVID will not go away. We will have to get vaccinated yearly for it and the variants from here on out, much like the flu.
We’ve learned that the government can act swiftly and effectively. Unfortunately, for half a million Americans, that action came…
