COVID-19 has been banging around for a couple of years now.\u00a0 When it first hit the street, it did a number on Europe and North America but less damage in Africa, Asia and South America.\u00a0 In 2021 the \u201cDelta Variant\u201d began killing off significant numbers of Brazilians and Indians.\u00a0 And after the vaccination of the entire world the virus is still taking its tithe.<\/p>\n
I decided I wanted to take a look at what\u2019s going on to have something to compare to what the Great Half-Wit Liar had to say last night.\u00a0 First off, he said that the great unwashed who haven\u2019t been vaccinated are the Great Satan.\u00a0 Apparently, they are filling up the ICU beds that otherwise could be used for the victims of amateur silicone buttocks enhancement mishaps.\u00a0 But he also wanted to clarify that vaccinations are highly effective.\u00a0 And that he would make sure that the private sector would be unleashed to punish anyone who didn\u2019t get vaccinated.\u00a0 And he also said we\u2019d all be wearing masks again.\u00a0 And, once again, if we do all the things he asks we can go back to our normal lives.<\/p>\n
Put all that together and you have a totally incoherent set of claims and requirements.\u00a0 If vaccines are highly effective why are vaccinated people wearing masks?\u00a0 And if they\u2019re highly effective why did the Delta Variant cause a spike in cases and deaths?\u00a0 And if they\u2019re highly effective why are vaccinated people catching and transmitting COVID?<\/p>\n
And finally, why should we believe that he\u2019s going to let us go back to our normal lives after he told us that same exact thing six months ago?<\/p>\n
So, that\u2019s all part one.\u00a0 Joe is trying to make this thing happen and the biggest threat is Florida.\u00a0 If Florida manages to ignore him and return to normal life it will be the biggest thumb in the eye to his presidency since the Kabul Catastrophe.\u00a0 So, I assume Joe will go after DeSantis hammer and tongs.\u00a0 Ron, you have my full sympathy and prayers for success.<\/p>\n
Part Two:<\/p>\n
Assuming that COVID-19 was a bio-weapon that accidentally got out of the lab, what is its future?\u00a0 Well, so far, it\u2019s doing pretty well.\u00a0 It kills about ten times as many people as the common flu.\u00a0 It tends to kill the same people who usually die from the flu.\u00a0 It just kills them more efficiently.\u00a0 It is harvesting the very old and the chronically ill.\u00a0 It overcomes those with less ability to manage the respiratory tract symptoms.\u00a0 The fact that it kills the old and weak explains to me why it attacks first-world countries harder.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing there aren\u2019t as many ninety-year-old Nigerians or Ghanaians.\u00a0 For that matter the third world probably doesn\u2019t have as many chronically ill people.\u00a0 They tend to die earlier there.<\/p>\n
So, this bio-weapon isn\u2019t an extinction event but it is killing millions of people.\u00a0 And the first major variant is still lethal in the same way as the original strain.\u00a0 And as has been noted about corona viruses, the mutant strains are not well protected against by a vaccine for the original strain.\u00a0 What about the Mu Variant?\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s just as virulent and just as hard to protect against as the Delta Variant.\u00a0 In that case we\u2019ll see another spike in the winter.\u00a0 And unless the COVID mutations start losing their potency we\u2019ll see this COVID season happening every year and carrying away ten times as many people as the flu virus.<\/p>\n
What would that look like?\u00a0 Well, it might resemble our world back before we had antibiotics. \u00a0Back then pneumonia was much more serious situation.\u00a0 The mortality rate was probably from ten to a hundred times higher than it is today.<\/p>\n
Or it might trigger the medical community to make the same effort they did during the AIDS epidemic and find a reliable treatment that allowed most of the old and sick people to survive the onslaught of COVID.\u00a0 I would assume that is the preferrable route for us to take.\u00a0 But with Dementia Joe calling the shots maybe it\u2019s too much to ask for.<\/p>\n
But the other thing to remember is that these viruses do tend to mutate away from high lethality.\u00a0 If that occurs then COVID might end up being a flu-like disease and would go back to being a background part of the human epidemiological environment.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see what November brings.\u00a0 If the deaths shoot back up to a couple of thousand deaths of Americans a day, then COVID may be a permanent part of our lives.\u00a0 In which case I\u2019d say don\u2019t bank on living to ninety anymore.\u00a0 You\u2019d be bucking the odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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