Even after a vaccine is discovered and deployed, the coronavirus will likely remain for decades to come, circulating among the world\u2019s population. Experts call such diseases endemic \u2014 stubbornly resisting efforts to stamp them out. Think measles, HIV, chickenpox. There are already four endemic coronaviruses that circulate continuously, causing the common cold. But COVID-19 kills and permanently disables. The USA desperately needs a road map for the trillions of dollars needed, and a fixed navigational point to replace our nation’s current, chaotic state-by-state patchwork strategy.<\/p>\n
It’s what a May 27, 2020 Washington Post<\/i> article<\/a> is saying. In fact, it’s what a February 25, 2020 article in The Atlantic<\/i><\/a> said as well (James Hamblin’s articles are worth reading, regularly<\/a>).<\/p>\n On our way back from Baja, California, Mexico, I knew things were going to be different for months, not for just weeks. People saying “this is only for two weeks” – I couldn’t understand those comments at all. All you had to do was spend 15 minutes a day reading the news and that was obvious.<\/p>\n Within a week of being home, at the end of March, I wondered why there wasn’t a nationwide lockdown declared through July 5th, with a massive mobilization for widespread, frequent testing – it seemed obvious to me that that was what was needed in order for schools to be open in the Fall.<\/p>\n And everything I’ve read since well before COVID-19 has said that while face masks don’t do much to protect you, but they protect others FROM you and whatever you might be carrying – and the February article referenced earlier said that most people don’t get sick.<\/p>\n In April, I asked repeatedly on Twitter where the social media messages targeting 20 somethings and 30 somethings were, why no one was targeting that age group specifically. I never got an answer.<\/p>\n I just don’t get it. We all had this information. Why are we pretending we didn’t? Why is everyone acting shocked now that our world may be different?<\/p>\n Not that I like it. I hate it. But I’m furious at the state of denial the world seems to be in. And I’m furious that it’s very likely I’ll pay the price for it. \ud83d\ude21\ud83e\udd2c<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even after a vaccine is discovered and deployed, the coronavirus will likely remain for decades to come, circulating among the world\u2019s population. Experts call such diseases endemic \u2014 stubbornly resisting efforts to stamp them out. Think measles, HIV, chickenpox. There are already four endemic coronaviruses that circulate continuously, causing the common cold. But COVID-19 kills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}