‘(though the “impending doom” is ridiculous overreaction).’
if only it were ridiculous; but it is much more damaging than that...people have been massaged into believing ‘health experts’ to the extent that anyone given a health designation, even a simpleton beaureaucrat like Rochelle, can hold sway over the public awareness...
this has been the basis of my harsh critique against the medical community for the past year; they are the ones who should have been able to dispense common sense knowledge to the public about how to deal with a new virus, not politicians and their stooges in the media, but they failed miserably, and got themselves boxed into following prevailing orthodoxy rather than their own knowledge, for the purposes of controlling public opinion...it’s the least acceptable kind of failure possible...
Front-line medical workers have been watching the ERs and ICUs fill with dying patients for the past year. They see only the worst of the worst from this pandemic. Some areas had to bring in refrigerated trucks to handle all the bodies.
It’s not the world-ender advertised by the media and the Democrats, but it’s definitely generated a lot of pain and suffering, and the front-line medical workers have every right in my mind to sit back and not run around telling people that it’s no big deal. They’re the ones who have to deal with the results of both the bad policies of the politicians driving infection and the bad behavior of individuals (”oh screw this covid mess, I’m going to visit grandma in the nursing home no matter what!”) bringing people to their hospital.