Scene 1: Fall, 2020.<\/p>\n
Us:\u00a0 “Eventually, Covid is going to be endemic.\u00a0 We’ll never eliminate it.\u00a0 Masks are public health theater.\u00a0 Shutdowns will make things worse. Vaccines are great news, but let’s be cautious about the claims.\u00a0 \u00a0We need to protect the vulnerable, and learn to live with it.\u00a0 Eventually, between herd immunity and mutation,\u00a0 this is going to be just like the flu.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Them:\u00a0 Hah!\u00a0 Just like the flu, he says!\u00a0 Hundreds of thousands have died!\u00a0 Masks are effective! IF we could only lock down for six weeks, we’d destroy the virus, just like the Germans!\u00a0 Mask up, Minnesota!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scene 2: Today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Them: The experts say Covid is going to be with us for good. Masks maybe useless. The economy needs to breathe! Vaccines are really more like flu shots than smallpox or polio shots. This is going to be like the flu, eventually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Us: Ummm…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Them: Becasue shut up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(And SCENE<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Scene 1: Fall, 2020. Us:\u00a0 “Eventually, Covid is going to be endemic.\u00a0 We’ll never eliminate it.\u00a0 Masks are public health theater.\u00a0 Shutdowns will make things worse. Vaccines are great news, but let’s be cautious about the claims.\u00a0 \u00a0We need to protect the vulnerable, and learn to live with it.\u00a0 Eventually, between herd immunity and mutation,\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80601,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80600\/revisions\/80601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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