But they will never be able to do that anymore than they can stop people from dying from the flu.
So I ask again; what exactly is the goal that has to be reached before all this hysteria comes to an end?
It’s a legitimate question. I like
@kuririn ‘s answer.
but a reasonable goal is to get the “R” value below 1. If we do that, the plague dies out. If we don’t, it goes on and on and on.
The two easiest ways to do this are vaccination (not perfect, but still pretty good for the mRNA vaccines, although durability may be waning and resistance is likely inevitable) and masking. Social distancing is a misnomer, we should call it physical distancing as there are OTHER ways to remain “social” like FaceTiming and zoom, but it is a little harder. Lockdowns and business closures are by far the most costly economically and personally.
maybe because the military made me a “sheeple” who learned to follow instructions, or perhaps because one of the reasons I joined was to protect my fellow citizens (take your pick) I continue to be amazed at the resistance to mask wearing. I am boggled that people care so little for their fellows that the minimal inconvenience of wearing a mask outweighs the very real possibility that a person not willing to be so mildly inconvenienced to wear a mask correctly could very likely result in permanent injury or DEATH of someone else.
it’s a good thing this generation wasn’t the one around when Hitler came to power. That generation of American made the sacrifices across the board required to take that monster down. It cost over 400,000 lives
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/s...tarters/research-starters-us-military-numbers
(note, may not be accurate but works for a starter)
and it wasn’t just the military, it was the civilians back home that bought bonds and tended victory gardens and gathered scrap metal and built the ships and tanks and planes and Jeeps.
Covid has killed over 600,000 and counting. And we can’t even get people to wear a mask?! Really?!
I was proud to serve my country, and I am trying to stay proud of being an American, but this kind of selfishness makes it really hard to hang onto that pride.
we Americans boast about our freedoms, and rightfully so. But what those of us living now fail to understand is that WITH those freedoms come RESPONSIBILITIES.
at first I thought we as a nation had failed to teach that to our kids. Now I find that my generation apparently failed to learn it ourselves, so no wonder so many of our kids don’t get it.
100% vaccinating and 100% masking around non-household contacts and the infection and Death rate drop to near zero, the exceptions being imported cases and even those should be rare if we require vaccination and masks for incoming people. It’s not that hard.