The science of disease prevention
comes full circle. We have been told for the last two critical months that we don't need to wear masks in public. Now, to help prevention of the spread of the disease, we are being told to wear masks in public. I just have to assume that either the physics of the spread of disease has changed in the last sixty days or we were being sacrificed on the alter of politics and economics. Think back to all of the "medical experts" who were poo-pooing the idea of protecting yourself and your community by wearing a mask. They, including esteemed Dr. Fauci, are culpable in the rapid spread of the disease. Fauci knew, and he should have been shouting the president down. I am beginning to think the old guy is enjoying his day in the sun too much for our own good.
I certainly know nothing about epidemiology; most high-school educated construction workers don't, but I believed then, and I believe now, that he failure to recommend masks was because there were not enough masks to go around, and to suggest that people wear ersatz masks, and demanding that we stay at home would have been too politically uncomfortable for the people in power who were doing their best to downplay the seriousness of the issue. It was a sacrifice of our national health for the benefit of the official party line. The people in control were basing all of their decisions on the optics, rather than the science, and like the officials of Boeing, they were crossing their fingers that the worst would not happen. They based their decisions on what they hoped the disease would do, not on what it was capable of doing; if was a formula for disaster.
I believe that this government thought that they could sacrifice the health of the nation to save the economy and Republicanism. Now, we are losing the economy, losing the health, and we must work like hell to make sure we lose the Republicans. The simple fact is that we can't live with the Republicans in control.
