When will we learn... COVID doesn't care what we want

 

It's not fun being the purveyor of uncomfortable truths. 

 

Our state decided to unmask and remove controls ... about 2 weeks ago.... just as BA.2 is popping up. after 4 weeks of FLAT line yet at still elevated numbers - no decreases from Omicron, we're now UPTICKING - almost 3000 new cases this past weekend alone. Over a thousand case per day in the 5 days since. 

We just won't learn. 

 

I was asked at one point - when do i consider it appropriate to remove the restrictions. We haven't hit the lowest number of last July (64 cases per day) and we need to be BELOW that daily number for 4 weeks AT LEAST before we stop fooling ourselves with this nonsense. 

 

It's very very clear. cases go up every time 2 weeks after we unmask, deaths follow three weeks after the upticks.... its VERY predictable. 

 

Wear a mask and you will save lives. It's that simple.

 

I'm ANGRY, I'm SAD, I'm tired.

 

I want to see my grandson, I want to see my wonderful children, I want to have my long overdue wedding with my loved ones present. 

 

That can't happen because people don't have the fortitude {or shall we say they feel too entitled) to accept that masking and shutting down community by community for a 4 weeks stretch is truly the only way to stop this virus that doesn't care at all what your political, religious, or other ideologies are. It's a virus, it propogates when we let it. The economy will recover, but lost lives never will.

 

Vaccines help - but they won't stop this train wreck that is happening. Masks DO!

 

This country is rapidly approaching 1Million deaths due to this virus - most of which could have been prevented by universal masking.