I don’t even know where to begin.
This pandemic has changed and will continue to change every single person who lives through it. For me, it has been a radicalizing event.
The federal government’s complete abdication of responsibility has left me despondent.
First, they don’t except the genetic sequence from elsewhere; they have to repeat the work themselves. Then they don’t throw their weight behind testing, and instead rely on private industry to catch up. That leaves the entire country scrambling and no doubt has lead to significant undercounting of cases, at least in the first few months. We literally still don’t have enough testing. We still don’t have enough contact tracing. The way out of this is to be able to test everyone any time they want/need to be tested and to do it in real time. That’s the only way we are really going to be able to get back to any semblance of normalcy. Test. Test. Test some more. And then contact trace the shit out of them.
Oh, and wear a fucking mask. Honestly. The fact that so many American’s have refused something so simple, so easy as wearing a piece of cloth over their face is mind boggling. The selfishness. What, you don’t like how it feels? Get over it! You won’t like how it feels to be dead either! Or to watch your loved one die! Sure, this is America and you get to make dumb decisions. But we have mass public health measures all around us. Traffic lights, seat belts, no-smoking signs. These are all designed to keep people safe. Do they limit your “freedoms” yeah sure maybe but do they also save 100,000s of lives. yes! so we as a society have decided that we will chose that over the supposed loss of freedom. This is part of the social contract. This is how high functioning societies perpetuate. By investing in the society as a whole.
Oh and the fact that the anti-mask crowd lines up so readily with “pro-life” crowd is just new heights of hypocrisy and intellectual inconsistency. Baffling.
And then there is the Senate. The body that’s meant to be the greatest public servants our society has to offer. And did they do today? Voted to approve judges. Did they work on relief for the American people who have lost their jobs? Their health insurance? Their loved ones? Their sanity? No, of course not. They worked on judges. (and completely unqualified ones, at that. Literally. the American Bar Association thinks so. Some of these federal judges aren’t even 35 years old and they are getting LIFETIME appointments despite being rated as unqualified by their professional organization....).
America is meant to be a democratic stalwart. What is happening now, with 53 senators (really, just Mitch McConnell) deciding the fates of 330 million people is so profoundly undemocratic. Its so gross to me that they can rush through a supreme court judge and powerfuck a record number of judges on to the federal bench but the can’t do shit to help every day americans who are struggling to feed their families and to keep their homes. Gross.
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