The Perpetual Covid Crisis

The Wall Street Journal ^ | March 4, 2021 | The Editorial Board

[MinorityRepublican]

President Biden’s announcement this week that the U.S. should have enough vaccines to inoculate every adult American by the end of May brought hope of a return to normalcy. This apparently is prehistoric thinking.

“The last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking,” Mr. Biden said Wednesday after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifted his statewide mask mandate and restrictions on businesses. Democrats are applauding Mr. Biden, but imagine if Donald Trump had attacked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdown as “Neanderthal thinking.”

Vaccination rates in Texas and other states have been increasing while hospitalizations are plunging. About one in five adults in Texas has received at least one dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Most are seniors and people with health conditions who are at highest risk of severe illness. Hospitalizations in Texas have fallen more than 60% since a mid-January peak.

Politicians created a box canyon with lockdowns last spring that were originally intended to “flatten the curve.” But then every time governors loosened restrictions and cases ticked up, Democrats would demand lockdowns. Not that lockdowns (or mask mandates) much helped California or New York, which experienced bigger surges this winter than Florida did with neither.

Vaccines were supposed to enable Americans more or less to get back to their before-Covid lives—youth sports, eating out, family gatherings, and even walking outside without a mask. It’s probably still prudent to wear masks in public settings indoors for a few more months, and businesses like Starbucks and Target plan to continue requiring them.

But liberals and their public health friends don’t seem to want the pandemic to end—ever. Some lockdown advocates are warning that myriad new gene variants may be more infectious—though it’s unclear if they are—and could render vaccines less effective.

[ClearCase_guy]

We have always been at war with East Asia.

[Grampa Dave]

“The last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking,” Mr. Biden said Wednesday after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifted his statewide mask mandate and restrictions on businesses. Democrats are applauding Mr. Biden, but imagine if Donald Trump had attacked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdown as “Neanderthal thinking.”

REP. Waltz said on "Fox & Friends" that Biden's comments showed typical Washington, D.C. "liberal elitism" where politicians "pretend" to have the right answers.

REP. WALTZ: "Let me tell you what Neanderthal thinking is:

Neanderthal thinking is keeping our schools closed, letting our kids fall further and further behind.

Maybe Neanderthal thinking is letting restaurants put people in tents while they're sitting outside but they can't let them inside or not putting seniors first when it comes to our vaccines ...

What Neanderthal thought it was a good idea to allow infected seniors back into nursing homes when it was clearly the most exposed and vulnerable population?

[Ken522]

We have always been at war with East Asia.

Hold that thought before it goes into the memory hole!

[no-to-illegals]

Can’t wait till it’s discovered sex causes pregnancies SOMETIMES

[oldenuff35]

The Neanderthal thinking in this is that china joe believes he can continue to control all of us with the pandemic exaggerations.

NOPE NOT HAPPENING!!!!!

In our home, we have had the virus and we have both been vaccinated so china joe and his boys and girls can sit on it and spin.

I give it another month and then I will not spend a dime in a store that mandates masks. I will also take the time and let them know that I will hold that position for the next year no matter when they drop the mask mandate.

WE ALL NEED TO BE TEXANS RIGHT NOW.......

[mosesdapoet]

THE BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump.

Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay

[Pollard]

The Great Reset. No traveling. No unnecessary activities. Stay in your pod. Cover your face. Stay away from that other person.

[Pollard]

In our home, we have had the virus and we have both been vaccinated

Why would you get vaccinated if you already had the virus? Just following fedgov guidance?

[oldenuff35]

“Why would you get vaccinated if you already had the virus? Just following fedgov guidance?”

Yes, it is required for the traveling and employment we are involved with. Common since and sanity have nothing to do with this virus or the government puppets who make up the stupid rules.

We have been tested and do have antibodies. I still have to wear a mask to shop for groceries or walk into my doctors office.

[griswold3]

Yesterday Dewine will not lift restrictions until the infection levels reach 50:100,000.
A virus is gonna virus. We need the approval of outpatient treatment protocols. No more waiting until you’re at deaths door.

[IrishBrigade]

‘It’s probably still prudent to wear masks in public settings indoors for a few more months, and businesses like Starbucks and Target plan to continue requiring them.’

I can’t say here what I’m thinking without violating codes of conduct...