Maggie's Farm

The safety net: A good example of the governments inability to solve this problem and preference to simply throw huge amounts of money at it is "affordable housing". Average cost to build an apartment for a family on welfare is about $250,000. Average cost of a trailer in a trailer park is about $20,000. My mother in law lived quite happily in a trailer for 30 years and it was valued at $15K. THAT is "affordable housing". The quarter of a million dollar apartments are "subsidized housing" and NOT affordable. It's a word game that the federal government indulges in to confuse the issue and hide the facts.

The risk from covid is very real. You can look at the snapshot today or 12 months ago or any point in time and use that to support your biases. But this is a weaponized virus and it isn't going away. Every year it will kill millions worldwide and likely in some of those years the variants will be so deadly that it will kill tens of millions. Also, for what it's worth, it is likely that eventually one of those variants will kill children and babies.

The masks, distancing, shutdowns, etc, don't work. We know they don't work, the evidence is there for all to see, but the fear is so great that we want our "leaders" to double down on the masking and shutdowns and punish/beat anyone who doesn't fear the virus as much as we do. Australia and New Zealand have gone full fascism with police beatings becoming the norm. Canada is jealous and may be next to go full beat down. The U.S. won't be far behind.

Most vaccines are not 100% effective and this depends on two things that we cannot control: That is the variation in individual human immune systems AND the makeup and defenses of the various viruses. The problem is made much worse if the virus is very prone to mutation, as this virus is. So it is likely that the vaccine will not be a perfect defense to Covid.

There is also an anomaly with this virus that is not yet fully understood and that is that it is possible for a fully vaccinated person, or someone who has had the disease and fully recovered to still spread the virus AND perhaps even more likely to spread the virus than an unvaccinated person is.

The CDC and our government have been totally inadequate in dealing with this pandemic and in fact may have made everything worse and likely dramatically increased the death rate due to their inaction, politicizing and bad advice. The media has been "less than helpful" in their glee to report the worst about the virus, the politicians, the treatments and the innocent civilians caught up in this maelstrom. My fear is that the CDC and government(s) will continue to be ineffective and perhaps worse become harmful in their efforts to politicize this and future diseases.