You love covid.
Hardly. My bank and retirement accounts love it even less.
The thing is, I’m in it every day. The shortages of inpatient beds and ER capacity and associated downstream effects on care are/have been real whether the people who live/work outside the healthcare field believe it or not. And, sadly many don’t and therefore don’t/won’t do a thing about it.
It’s not real until it’s their turn. And then, having often times aggressively refused any medical recommendations whatsoever to try to mitigate their risk previously, they scramble to the ER to get help when their number is called. Magically, they now somehow trust the same medical professionals to take care of them that they called conspiracy theorists, communists, traitors, and whatever else just a few days prior.
I’m not singling out any specific person or group, but how does that make sense as a society? Yes, there are lots of things that cause morbidity and mortality that we all know at our core do so, yet we still do anyway. The difference is nobody is threatening or assaulting doctors, nurses, school board members, or others within their community over their “right” to smoke inside public spaces, to go shirtless or barefoot within restaurants, to forego long-standing vaccine mandates to enroll in public schools, to drive while drunk, or to skip wearing a seatbelt when operating a vehicle. It’s troubling to see what’s become of this country as being highlighted concerning COVID. Imagine if the same division we see today existed during the eras of smallpox, or polio, or any of the many other things societies have banded together to overcome and essentially eradicate throughout history. They’d all still be raging. I have no illusions that COVID is going away and/but things don’t have to be like this. It’s a damn shame that almost 2,000 Americans are still dying from this every day when there are effective mitigation strategies available.
And if you wanna get really weird, what if all of this really is part of a larger Sci-Op to divide and destroy our country from within with social media acting as the means to do so? Like all social media and news headlines nowadays, who knows if this is actually true, but Rogan posted that 19 of the top 20 Facebook pages viewed by American Christians are run by Eastern European troll farms. I mean, it’s definitely not out of the realm of possibility and would make complete sense if the goal is to polarize the country.