Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

The problem is for 240 years or so we’ve been fed a line of shit: “United We Stand.”

These past few months on so many levels have proven that we are a nation populated by stupid, selfish people who are getting exactly what they deserve, over and over again. We are quickly proving that indeed we are divided, and falling.

 

Also per Tracking Our COVID-19 Response - covidexitstrategy.org

There are 12 states with Trumpist governors and deemed to have "uncontrolled spread." Wanna guess how many of them have imposed state-wide mask mandates? Nil. The Party Of Life strikes again.
Of the seven uncontrolled spread states with Democratic governors, six have required masks. The outlier is Louisiana.

 

Sidebar:

isn't the very definition of empathy that through experience and imagination we put ourselves in someone else's shoes?

we shouldn't have to know someone who got sick before acting to prevent other people getting sick.

 

I know at least 10 people who have had it. No one has died but my friend’s 86 year old dad was on a ventilator for about 3 weeks before he somehow recovered. He’s been in a rehab facility for about a month. Another friend had a fairly mild case, except a month on, she’s having breathing problems that are worse than when she actively had it. Another friend also had a mild case, but still can’t taste or smell as well as before. His wife and two sons also had it. His son seems to have brought it back from a semester abroad. Almost all the kids in his program had it to varying extents.

I wear a mask and limit going out to the extreme because I don’t want to get sick and I don’t want anyone else to get sick from me. I know I’d feel the same even if I didn’t know 10 people who had COVID or if I wasn’t up in the middle of the night texting with my friend whose dad was in “grave” condition and all they could do was occasionally see him on an iPad if a nurse had a spare minute or two.

 

Teachers at the largest district in the largest Bay Area city just said hell no, we won't go back.

San Jose Teachers Refuse to Return to the Classroom Citing ‘Unsafe Conditions'

 

I won’t feel sorry for them.

 

And BRING THE KIDS! FAMILY FUN FOR ALL AGES.
Seriously - a one-hour rally followed by THREE HOURS of speeches?

 

Greg Abbott isn't a Trumpist governor?

 

The good goddamn silver lining in all of this is we will in my estimation reach "herd immunity" in the United States at the end of 2021 if not sooner.

Yes, I'm hearing that "herd immunity" is a joke because you lose all antibodies in a few months. After all, the common cold is a coronavirus. But after you are exposed to it once, you should have a much better chance of fighting it off based on T-cell response. Other than bubble boys and invaders in space movies, I am unaware of anybody who died of the common cold.