Maggie's Farm

There are two valid sides to this issue and a few fake arguments too. But the valid points are:

1. This is a serious virus and will continue to kill 100's of 1000's of people for years perhaps forever. We have been able to mitigate this fact in our minds by assuming it only kills people who are very old, compromised and were probably about to die anyway. But it will continue to mutate and it will at some point increase the death rate for all ages.

2. Most of the mandates the government implemented simply don't work; masks, shutdowns, social distancing, etc. 730,000 deaths in the U.S. so far and 1800 new deaths everyday. This count is roughly equal across the board for states and cities where mandates are eagerly enforced and states and cities where they are ignored. The only effect that these mandates seem to have had is to push 100's of 1000's of businesses into bankruptcy and cause social and civil rights havoc. But, worse yet, is the vaccines don't seem to work very well. Some hospitals now have over 50% of the covid patients that are on life support have been vaccinated. The vaccines "seem" to help but unlike previous vaccines they are not getting this virus under control.

The bottom line is we need to stop usurping civil rights and we need to find better preventative and treatments for this virus. We have already seen politics working hard to prevent this (mostly because successful medicines would have made Trump look good) but partly because the treatments in question don't benefit big business AND are contrary to government mandates. I don't think we can fix these issues with the current administration and bureaucracy. They are committed to exploiting it.