Rather than addressing those two issues and requiring only the more vulnerable among us to mask up and quarantine, we instead put the remaining 75% of Americans through ridiculous procedures to avoid catching a virtually harmless virus.
That’s the real travesty here.
How governments worldwide have bungled the response to COVID is infuriating no doubt. But we’re beyond that now and must never let it happen again.
Modern medicine and something the government did do right, Operation Warp Speed, means that all people need to do to squash this virus like the bug is a simple injection or two.
And I don’t care if the dead were old, fat, or ugly. The simple fact is an easy way to have prevented their death was neglected. And tomorrow and the day after, another several hundred will suffocate for no reason.
Should we care about whether the elderly live or die? Should we care about overweight people dying?
2/3 of the US population is overweight. Should any of us be concerned with whether they live or die?