11-25-2021, 08:53 PM
I can appreciate how people want this pandemic to be over. Unfortunately it is not and may well be around for more years. How long it stays around will largely, it appears, depend on everyone's ability to join in on the solutions and minimize being a problem. The worst recorded pandemic, The Black Death, ran unchecked for a minimum of seven years and killed, it is estimated, 100 million or a third to half of the human population. Fortunately for us all Covid is not the Black Death except for those innocents who have succumbed. RIP
It has taken over 100 years to develop our public health systems to the point where they are now and it is a minor miracle of science that we so rapidly acquired the vaccines to give us a strong weapon to defend ourselves. Public health services goals are simple... to extend lifespans and improve life quality. This is an ongoing success.
I find the folks who complain loudly about things as simple as masks and social distancing to be remarkably self centered and un empathetic. Such weaklings.
It has taken over 100 years to develop our public health systems to the point where they are now and it is a minor miracle of science that we so rapidly acquired the vaccines to give us a strong weapon to defend ourselves. Public health services goals are simple... to extend lifespans and improve life quality. This is an ongoing success.
I find the folks who complain loudly about things as simple as masks and social distancing to be remarkably self centered and un empathetic. Such weaklings.