The Coronavirus

[Eric the Green]

The USA had over 40,000 new cases and over a thousand new deaths today from coronavirus. The pandemic is not going away. Most people have been pretty diligent in following the rules and guidelines. I suppose maybe a relatively few skeptics and trumpers and indulgent young party animals are ruining it for everyone else. Or the ways we are trying to limit the spread of the virus just don't work. It seems they work in some places that know how to do it and don't open too soon, but some European countries have failed too, as well as India and Latin America. And in some places we don't know how it's going, because the government won't or can't keep track.

Republicans and sometimes Democrats open things up too soon, following Trump's fantasies. But now it seems too late to correct this, and the pandemic is going to be with us for a long time. They are also going to drag their feet getting the vaccine out to people, using all sorts of excuses. I hope if Biden gets in that the response will be more sane and efficient. But it is frustrating that lots of people are doing something about it and nothing ever changes. Biden's poll numbers are slowly trending downward, and enough people might like happy talk that they might settle for 4 more years of this hell.