We have vaccines that can slow down civid. Slowly more and more people are getting vaccinated. Yes, you can still catch covid / delta / omicrion with the vaccine. But if you do, it will be much less severe and far less likely to kill you. Vaccination rates are slowly going up. Look, I'm not here to argue with anti-vaxers. Please feel free to believe what ever you want. It's not my life or people around me who will suffer. If you won't or cannot do the shot, avoid crowded places and mask up. It takes a collective effort to defeat a virus. Pandemics always end and this one will be no different but let's try to make it end faster.
Omicron is rapidly replacing delta. So far, it seems less severe. This should bring the death rate down. But we still have the rest of this winter to get through. It will be very difficult for our healthcare system but hopefully this will be the last big surge. Once it does start to wind down, will we learn anything from the last two or three years? What can we learn?
As much as I don't like Trump, I cannot blame it all on him. Yes, he fucked up royalty by any metric. Even with his failings, we were gonna do pretty bad anyway. "You can't tell me to mask up, not go out or get a shot! That's communism!" "Everyone's lying except those who agree with me!" 'No big deal!" Americans are gonna be Americans. There's no way around it. Too many are consumed with identity politics, too isolated, too proud to listen to others and untrusting of others. And let's be honest, those untrusting souls have reason to be untrusting. Uncle Sam has told us some whoppers over the last few decades!
A few highlights!
"'The North Vietnamese attacked us first!"
"Cutting taxes on the rich will create jobs!"
"NAFTA is going to create jobs here!"
"Iraq has WMD!"
"We don't do body counts!"
"Like a miracle, after the election it will be gone!"
The lesson here is Uncle Sam has some hard work to do to rebuild trust. Can it be done? I'm not sure but I know to never believe any wannabe leader who wants to take us back to a mythological past, tell me who "Real Americans" are or blame others for problems we have created ourselves. The world is too interdependent to build walls. Instead, let's improve international cooperation. Let's be more honest- looking at YOU, China! Let's all listen more to each other.
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