The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
There is lots of competition for the top of the stupidity list.<p>NYC locking down all summer and then &#x27;opening up&#x27; in September seemed top of the list to me. It&#x27;s not that I thought they should have stayed locked down the entire time, its that they should have opened in the summer so they could lock down in the winter if they really needed it. But seriously though, locking down in the summer to only open up in flu season, really?<p>Or maybe the whole &#x27;if we just lock down for two weeks, this will be over&#x27; tops the list of stupidity. or the fact people still want to lock down despite how epically they have failed. Germany masked, distanced, and locked down better than anyone could expect, and here they are sitting with 4 million cases, 100k dead and are still in the pandemic. They don&#x27;t even share a porous border with Mexico&#x2F;South America. To no fault of their own, they are hardest hit by the pandemic, and the US sharing a border with them the way it is meant no rosy outcome was in our future.<p>Or how about how everyone was anti mask in the beginning, including the CDC, WHO, and my very liberal coworkers. When I said it would be advisable to wear a mask when in crowded places March, 2020 - I was heckled for not following the science.<p>Or what about the fact we are 2 years into this and we still haven&#x27;t built a significant amount of hospitals? if we had to lock down because of lack of hospital beds, well we better f&#x27;ing demand they have enough hospital beds, like real soon. This is why the lockdowns should have came at a price, you want to lock down then we need a metric that you are trying to achieve by the lockdown, we need timely updates on your progress to that metric, and we need an action plan such that this will never happen again (such as building more hosptials - hey, how about just opening the thousands we shut down in the last 5 years to make hospitals more profitable!). my views on that were called &#x27;myopic&#x27;. so we gave them lockdowns without restrictions, and nothing was done. here we are in the same situation, odd.<p>As far as making the vaccines political, well they don&#x27;t have to be. some research has shown that they don&#x27;t do very well at stopping spread, so why all the fuss to force people to get vaccinated? just say do it for yourself if you want to, politics removed.<p>edit: just to be clear - I am not anti vax, I am vaccinated and I recommend to everyone to do the same. There is unrefutably evidence the vaccine prevents sever cases.