COVID
Resurgence: This One is on Us
As of this article’s posting, it is the start of July, 2020. And while most of the world is getting better
and slowly reopening from the COVID-19 global pandemic, the United States is
doing the opposite.
We are posting record
numbers of infections in all the states that were quick to open up to
appease a certain orange-skinned narcissist.
Record deaths will most likely follow.
It does take time for the virus to wreak total havoc on the body, even with
drugs and ventilators. Meanwhile
hospitals in America are again swamped with new patients and resources already
stretched thin are pretty much gone.
And, you know what? This is all on
us. I mean, we, the people of the United
States of America. We only have
ourselves to blame for this viral resurgence that makes us the embarrassment of
the world community.
The two things I keep hearing from people is that their plans will vary “depending
on what the virus will do”, and that we re-opened up for business “way too soon”.
Both statements are bunk.
First of all, the coronavirus will “do” nothing to make things better or worse. The COVID-19 virus is a very simple
thing. As
I’ve mentioned in previous articles, it has two goals: thrive and
multiply. If it can do the former, it
will do the latter automatically. There
is no brain involved with this. No
strategy. No sinister plot. It doesn’t pick and choose where it goes or
what it does. It doesn’t care about race
or creed or ethnicity or gender or preference or age or political affiliation
or religious beliefs or wealth. It doesn’t
care if you’re a celebrity or if you’re some dude that works at McDonald’s. It will get you all the same.
So it’s not about what “the virus will do”, because the virus will do the
same thing it has been doing all this time: thriving and multiplying. It has always been what *we* will do to respond
to it.
As for whether or not America reopened “way too soon”, I have realized
that it really does not matter when we decided to reopen the country and get
businesses back to work. It could have
been this past May or May of next year, it would not matter in the least. Because as long as there are people infected,
the risk of spreading it would always be there.
I’ll let you in on a little secret: the decision to reopen the businesses
depended entirely on us, the people, to wear masks and practice social distancing
and to wash our hands. There is nothing
about coming up with a cure or some kind of immunization, because those will
take at least a year before any of it can become available to the masses.
And you know what happened once those pandemic restrictions started
lifting. We, the great self-centered self-important
self-entitled ignorant lot, carried on as though there was no more
coronavirus. We refused to wear masks,
we refused to social distance, we refused to wash our hands. We went out and we demanded that our world continue
like there was no coronavirus.
Some workplaces even demanded that their employees work without masks and
without social distancing or else lose their jobs. Having to choose between getting infected and
possibly dying or being unemployed in the midst of an economic collapse and risking
bankruptcy and foreclosure. Either way,
people were endangered. And all for
money. All for greed!
Granted, it would help if the virus was a little quicker on the attack. It takes two weeks before we know something is
wrong with us and, by then, the damage is already done to ourselves. That’s two weeks of spreading it to our
friends and co-workers and our family members and to anyone else we come in
contact with that don’t wear a mask or practice social distancing. Because they proudly claim - and I have
personally heard them claim - “I don’t have the COVID”... until they do. Yeah, it would help if it attacked sooner. Like instantaneously. And leave bright purple blotches where people
can see them so we know who is infected.
Would be preferable. Too bad
COVID doesn’t work like that.
Let’s get brutally honest here... this is all on us. Entirely.
America’s fault. *Our*
fault. The COVID resurgence would not
have happened if we continued to do our part and continued to stay home unless necessary
and wear masks and carry out social distancing and wash our hands and clean
like germophobes.
Yes, we listened to the wrong people.
We listened to an orange-skinned narcissist who spent half the time
proclaiming that the pandemic was a “hoax” and claiming that it would soon just
“disappear” and the other half of the time pretending that it’s over with and
he’s the “wartime savior” of America and the explosive recovery is right around
the bend. We listened to ignorant ass-kissing
governors who wanted to appease said orange-skinned narcissist and put
businesses over people. We listened to
the propaganda of talk radio and certain cable TV channels that pretend to be “news”
as they regurgitated the delusions of said orange-skinned narcissist and his
proclamations that the pandemic was “a hoax” and that it would just “disappear”
and that it was no worse than the flu and that the “recovery” was on the way. And then we listened to our friends and total
strangers about how it’s all a “hoax” and that it would just “disappear” and
that we shouldn’t be forced to wear masks.
But it is still on us. All of
it. On us. We had one job: stay safe. We’re failing that. We’re getting infected. We’re getting sick. We’re dying.
From the co-worker at your workplace all the way up to the White
House Cabinet and the
girlfriend of the narcissist’s oldest son.
That’s our collective fault.
So now we are being told to
just deal with it. We’re not
closing. We’re not shutting down. We’re not stopping. We’re not going to get a break or a
bailout. This is it. It’s here.
Live with it.
And, again, that’s on us. Not China or any other nation. All on us.
We have a choice, people. We can
either mask up and practice social distancing or we can continue to be ignorant
self-entitled idiots and throw temper tantrums like spoiled children and continue
to spread the virus amongst ourselves. The
longer we chose to act like children, the longer this will go on. And that, too, is on us.
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