BlackRipleyDog

Covid-19 is also the first instance of a deliberately bio-augmented pathogen that somehow escaped containment.
This memorial on the Mall is just as important as another one practically right next door - The Vietnam Memorial.
We are very adept at creating memorials to human-caused disasters and then in short-order, our so-called leadership soon leads us down the same worn path to another disaster after the lessons supposedly learned earlier fade from memory.
Too bad there isn't a Hippocratic Oath for Politics instead of the default of "First, Do Harm".

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

No it was not, only in the warped mind was it suggested.

DennyT Loc: Central Missouri woods

but thats not what was meant _ read the post. attitudes like that : """I am done with additional boosters and done with the silly masks..""""



is what is prolonging the pandemic

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Yes, maybe he is done with being inundated with the pushing from the government. This doesn't necessarily mean he's talking about everyone else. But then again, maybe he should explain.

KindaSpikey Loc: English living in San Diego

Wow, here we go, I think I'm gonna leave it right there. I don't have the time or energy for a pointless argument.

BlackRipleyDog

Boosters and masks are not going to attenuate this pandemic. Only after this pathogen has touched 99.99999% of the population and it mutates itself into a less harmful version; will we be out of the woods. Constant boosters harm natural immune systems and the most common cloth masks used are as effective on viruses as screening out mosquitos with a chain-link fence.

Rob48 Loc: Portland, ME

I agree with Dennis.

btbg

Oh, but it does. If we shut down highways because there were too many deaths it would destroy the economy. Exactly what shutting down the economy for covid did. We are paying for those bad decisions now. The funny thing is all of you on the left blame Trump for not acting more decisively, but there wasn't even an accepted treatment for the virus then.

Biden came into office with the shots already being distributed, yet there were more deaths in his first year in office than the last year of Trumps term. So, who really messed up? As usual Biden did. He had all kinds of treatment options available as well as the vaccines, and already had masks and states shut down, yet they had more deaths. So, why the shut downs? Why the masks? Why all the government intrusion when it did nothing?

The deaths are tragic, but as pointed out already, the number of deaths were not much different from the deaths we have year after year from cancer. So, why are we living in fear of the one and largely ignoring the other?

btbg

Photography is good. Appreciate the work. But, since how we reacted to covid was brought up, it is now fair game.

btbg

You live on an isolated island that didn't let people in or out, so of course your cases and death rate are lower. So was Hawaii. So, you think that it is right to destroy people's ability to make in income so that other people who have greater risk are safe? Because that is what your nation is doing.

btbg

It really isn't any different because the vast majority of those who died of covid had multiple co-morbidities. In other words they had failed to take care of themselves for years. The very same reason that many people die of heart disease. Those at highest risk for death from covid had diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, or all of the above.

Most were over 75, and I venture to say the vast majority would have only lived a year or two longer. I know that sounds harsh, but if you look at the total deaths for 2020 versus 2019 there really aren't very many more deaths. That would suggest that most of those individuals would have died with or without covid, yet we destroyed the economy overreacting to it.

btbg

How are the deaths preventable? By shutting people up in their houses and never letting them out like China has done? We have a choice. We can live with the virus and the associated risk or we can hide in our homes and never come out. If you want to hide go ahead. I however, chose to live my life even if it means there is risk involved.

btbg

You might want to look at the data. Right now those who have had at least one booster are more than twice as likely to get covid than those who have just had two shots. So, anyone who continues to get boosted is not looking at the scientific data. A good example is Bill Gates who recently contracted covid despite having four shots.