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Related to my post last night taking a dig at Fauci's and Walenski's pessimistic "cases rising" talk, an AP article appeared this morning that summarized the easing of mitigation measures taking place in a number of states. There is no question local public health officials are ignoring the warnings coming from the federal level. Those states have mostly R governors, but not all of them. D governors are under tremendous pressure from constituents to ease life back to some sensible level of normalcy.
What's interesting to me is that there is the collision of pandemic thought that involves the promise of vaccines juxtapositioned with a continuation of fear of COVID's impact, i.e., will the presence of moderate numbers of COVID infections continue to demand the mitigation measures currently and widely in-place?
I don't think it is entirely clear yet whether or not vaccines are tamping down infections and transmission. I think they are but what do I know. Maybe in another month it will be clearer and Fauci and Walenski types will fade into the obscurity of the mundane work they did before the pandemic put people and their ideas like this center stage.
I do believe the combination of vaccines and prior immunity from past SARS-2 infections is going to become shockingly apparent by most COVID metrics over the next 45d. What's needed to push pessimistic talk off center stage is a frank presentation of excess deaths along with falling pandemic metrics. That will contribute to a large number of Americans, tired of being told what to do and where they can go. Then, we'll see an increase in voices pushing local governments to abandon most of the COVID mitigation measures in place now. IOW, state and county governors and commissioners and their PH officials will lead the way out of this with federal naysayers like Fauci and Walanski waving frantically behind them with no one listening anymore.
What's interesting to me is that there is the collision of pandemic thought that involves the promise of vaccines juxtapositioned with a continuation of fear of COVID's impact, i.e., will the presence of moderate numbers of COVID infections continue to demand the mitigation measures currently and widely in-place?
I don't think it is entirely clear yet whether or not vaccines are tamping down infections and transmission. I think they are but what do I know. Maybe in another month it will be clearer and Fauci and Walenski types will fade into the obscurity of the mundane work they did before the pandemic put people and their ideas like this center stage.
I do believe the combination of vaccines and prior immunity from past SARS-2 infections is going to become shockingly apparent by most COVID metrics over the next 45d. What's needed to push pessimistic talk off center stage is a frank presentation of excess deaths along with falling pandemic metrics. That will contribute to a large number of Americans, tired of being told what to do and where they can go. Then, we'll see an increase in voices pushing local governments to abandon most of the COVID mitigation measures in place now. IOW, state and county governors and commissioners and their PH officials will lead the way out of this with federal naysayers like Fauci and Walanski waving frantically behind them with no one listening anymore.
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