COVID-19 Update

Testing is still an issue. 45* still claims we're doing massive numbers of tests, but every indication "from out there" is that it's not happening the way he says it is. There are still big spot shortages of everything from lab techs to reagents to swabs.

The "protests" are basically just flash mobs ginned up by the wingnut media hacks working the echo chamber. They're designed to demonstrate that "real Americans" are on 45*'s side in huge numbers and blah blah blah - it's astroturf bullshit - just like the Tea Party was astroturf bullshit. 

Polling shows over 70% of us understand that quarantine is the only way to deal with this thing until they come up with therapeutics (that aren't just 45*'s wishful huckstering) and then eventually a vaccine.

There are plenty of worries emerging now over the persistence of the virus. Even after recovery, there's a probability that patients could carry the virus and infect others; as well as a probability that they could get sick again themselves.

This thing is a fucking monster right now.

45*'s biggest failure is a solid indication of what we've all been saying is the failure of the "conservative movement" that spawned him: the refusal to understand that nobody stands alone. That you can't ignore everything that "happens to somebody else" just because you choose not to see how it effects you.

We have to figure out how to get back to the philosophy of a shared world. I'm not saying we've ever actually achieved that - but there was a time when more of us had come to understand how we're all interconnected.

Maybe the pendulum starts to swing back now.

BTW - we're back on track for 100,000 dead Americans by the 1st week in May.