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nwhikerI guess the problem is 'us' and our attitudes.
We have a virus that is proving itself adept at evading the vaccines and that isn't afraid to mutate (LOL) to get a better foothold.
I'm not sure the solution is ever going to be vaccines or even antiviral medication, at least not for a long time.
The solution to slowing this down, and maybe even getting it to a slow burn that can be managed, is public health.
And in the US at least (and elsewhere, but eh.), Trump turned public health into something political, rather that, well, what it is.
We're looking at the Republican political appointees / partisan hacks on the Supreme Court ruling that OSHA does not have the right to mandate vaccines or tests, that it cannot, then, regulate basic workplace safety, its mission. WTF? Why take this ridiculous stand? Because the wah wah my freedumb people want to be able to 'live freely' and don't care if they kill others or put them in danger. They want to go back to 2019 without doing the very things that might allow us to get to 2019-ish.
I'm just in despair over this.
We have a virus that is proving itself adept at evading the vaccines and that isn't afraid to mutate (LOL) to get a better foothold.
I'm not sure the solution is ever going to be vaccines or even antiviral medication, at least not for a long time.
The solution to slowing this down, and maybe even getting it to a slow burn that can be managed, is public health.
And in the US at least (and elsewhere, but eh.), Trump turned public health into something political, rather that, well, what it is.
We're looking at the Republican political appointees / partisan hacks on the Supreme Court ruling that OSHA does not have the right to mandate vaccines or tests, that it cannot, then, regulate basic workplace safety, its mission. WTF? Why take this ridiculous stand? Because the wah wah my freedumb people want to be able to 'live freely' and don't care if they kill others or put them in danger. They want to go back to 2019 without doing the very things that might allow us to get to 2019-ish.
I'm just in despair over this.
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