It may be a shame we politicized therapeutics for treatment with this bug. No contact tracing, waste water sampling, addressing hvac at a national level in the year since dealing with this, what now appears to be, endemic.
Now comes omicron variant and it may well put us back to the begenning. No effective vaccine (not that the mRNA were all that effective in stopping the spread). With Dem Corp doubling down on authoritarian mandates while playing fealty to big Pharma we are in a worse position than when the pandemic began.
I hope Omicron is not as deadly and we catch a break but if past performance is indicative of future response, I’m not optimistic. A divide and conquer political strategy by our two rightwing political factions have done a wonderful job of rendering any public institutions impotent with little institutional capacity. That is, any public institutions that haven’t been quasi privatized or captured by private interest. CDC comes to mind here.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst as they say. Stay safe everyone. Wish we had a government that had its peoples interest.

Last edited by chunkstyle; 11/27/21 02:54 PM.