Biden Pandemic Adviser Calls for Four to Six Week National Lockdown

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(03-19-2021, 11:12 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(03-19-2021, 04:59 AM)Captain Genet Wrote: A good move. In Britain, the combo of lockdown aggressive vaccination efforts drove daily number of infections from 60 000 to below 6 000. Social distancing is scheduled to end by July.

We here in the states have no stomach for communal efforts because 'freedom'.  Today, I read a first-person account of a woman who nearly died of COVID (as did her husband) who proudly stated her intent to never take any of the vaccines, because they might be dangerous.  According to her, the husband had a similar experience and felt the same about the vaccines.  She spoke with true pride.

Then there are the healthcare workers who won't take it either. Several of my wife's coworkers simply refuse, even knowing that the risk is very high for them.  Like the aforementioned couple, they are captive to ideology.

This is one case where the RW Israelis seem to have the right approach: issue COVID Green Cards to the vaccinated, and make a wide variety of social events open only to those holding a card.  I would prefer other options, but this seems to be emerging default here, though no one will admit it.

Crisis wars require great sacrifices. In a shooting war that means military deaths. For civilians the sacrifices include dislocations and the possible loss of loved ones as cannon fodder, perhaps changing jobs from luxury production to war production and the severe restriction of normal indulgences. We are at war, as the death toll shows. 

I speak with pride of having both shots so that I can safely move about the country soon, even into places infested with COVID-19, perhaps to do work. I know that I needed the vaccine because I got a nasty reaction to the first shot. Basically I did my best to avoid COVID-19, and it is a good thing that I did because the stalker "Rona" could have killed me. I did not become one of more than 500,000 people, most of whom made some catastrophic mistake perhaps one time or comparatively few, that got them very sick and very dead. I will not get permanent, and probably life-shortening or crippling, organ damage from the infection. I wish there were no disease, and many who have experienced it were trapped in circumstances that they could not avoid or else did something unwise. War has innocent victims, too, and good leadership does what it can to keep the number of innocent victims down. So you make sure that people ration things, turn off lights at night, share the commute, and not do pointless travel.  

This Crisis is at the beginning of its end. It was real, and most of us can expect that we will get some relaxation of it.