We now have a Philippines strain to worry about, there will be more until we solve this globally, yet there is no sense of urgency whatsoever.
The urgency went away with the restaurants, the jobs, the summer protests and the winter elections. “Two weeks to slow the curve” became “Let’s make sure the poorest people with the most vulnerable relatives still have to ride the NYC subway to work because a city survives on its underclass, and hey let’s stick COVID patients in nursing homes.” The pandemic became the one thing that’s poison to a news cycle: boring.
The urgency went away with the restaurants, the jobs, the summer protests and the winter elections. “Two weeks to slow the curve” became “Let’s make sure the poorest people with the most vulnerable relatives still have to ride the NYC subway to work because a city survives on its underclass, and hey let’s stick COVID patients in nursing homes.” The pandemic became the one thing that’s poison to a news cycle: boring.