Stopping This Pandemic Is Like Plugging Holes In A Dike...... [View all]

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As soon as one hole is plugged - another one opens up - and so on.

This is because we're all doing something different to deal with this pandemic.

You have 50 states doing their own thing.

You have maskers and anti-maskers.

You have vaxxers and anti-vaxxers.

People traveling from a hot spot in the country - to one that has things reasonably under control - and the Covid breaks out again.

You have mutations of the virus.

You have super-spreader events (i.e., Lollapoolooza; Sturgis; etc) where people throw caution to the wind.

You have Repugs turning this into a political football (i.e., let people get Covid - it'll make Biden look bad).

You have all this going on and as soon as those that do the right thing to take control - you have people doing just the opposite.

You have people wanting very badly to get back to a pre-pandemic normal. Get back to work. Get back to eating at restaurants. Get back to vacations. Get back to school. etc, etc, etc.

We rush things and we keep making the same mistakes as we expect different results.

I don't know if we'll ever get this under control.