Liberation

Everyone is still asking when things can start to go back to "normal," and now there are protests being held in state capitols (although embarrassingly small), demanding that governors allow people to go back to work. The president even sent a series of tweets calling for the "liberation" of certain [blue] states. There are also "Reopen [State]" web sites, but apparently they were all created by a single person, in an attempt to make a small minority opinion appear to be a large grassroots movement 🤔

In my opinion, if people are protesting anything, they should be protesting for more funding and supplies for hospitals, support for businesses to prevent layoffs, support for people who have lost their jobs (economic support, food supplies, healthcare coverage, etc.), and better protection and compensation for those front line workers who don't have the choice to stay home to protect themselves and others.

Just a reminder to everyone calling for things to just reopen and allow infections to run rampant to build herd immunity: there are many things we don't know about this virus. For example, we're just learning now about the organs and systems it impacts and its long term effects. People are losing limbs, suffering neurological damage, and dying from heart, liver, or kidney issues. Or who knows, by the time everyone's had it, immunity may wear off and people could start becoming infected again.

There's no foolproof treatment or preventive medicine right now. The one thing we have control over at this point is to remove humans from the equation so the virus has nowhere to go. I understand some people are in roles that must put them in contact with others, and hopefully they are taking every precaution to minimize their own spread (for example, medical professionals around the world  are living away from their families in an effort to isolate themselves and avoid spreading it to them).

It's a sacrifice for everyone. If the biggest sacrifice you're being asked to make is to stay home and watch movies, I'd say you're pretty lucky. And if you disagree with that because you're concerned about bills or work or food, then you should be protesting to protect those, not protesting to go back  to work and put yourself and everyone else at risk.

Never thought I'd be more of a dog person than a cat person,
but in this case, I agree with the dog!

This weekend I started seeing people posting the craziest stuff on social media. Like, when they create a vaccine for this, it will track everyone with microchips, someone found Bill Gates' patent for such a thing 🙄, people saying they will never take a vaccine, etc. First of all, we can't even get, like, self check-out cash registers to work right, do you really think we're going to have tracking microchips linked to your bank account mastered this decade? Second of all, a safe and reliable vaccine is the only thing that's going to get us out of this situation, so for all their protesting about getting back to work, they should welcome a vaccine or treatment that will allow that to happen sooner!