12-20-2020, 12:34 PM
(12-20-2020, 08:55 AM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: UK media are speculating that the new harsh shutdowns will extend well past Christmas until the new vaccines have been deployed, which means that many people will be confined to their homes until March or April. It's believed that the new vaccines will still be effective with the new variant.
Listening to the various UK politicians talk about how the new variant is "out of control," it's pretty clear that they're desperate and have no idea what to do. The same is true in the US in the incoming Joe Biden administration, where they have no absolutely clue what to say or do except to rant that it's all Trump's fault...
It is clear that everybody does know what to do, but that COVID fatigue prevents the politicians and medical professionals from doing it. The people, some of them, won't listen. They will go with the unravelling concept of selfishness above the crisis idea of sacrificing for the common good. It will take a Hiroshima level mass of death for them to reconsider if this is wise. COVUS will have to oblige. Even then, it looks like the death toll will not get high enough to wake people up before the vaccines take effect. Maybe the new strains will change things, but people are pretty stubborn.
The Biden administration does know what to do, are planning on doing it publicly, and that it is all Trump's fault for encouraging the COVID fatigue. Some ideologues just have their head in the sand ignoring readily available facts in spite of claiming to do the research.
And again, it is not stupidity, but an unwillingness to examine their beliefs.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
