Wednesday, December 15, 2021
It's not looking great out there...
According to the New York Times, the numbers on COVID are looking pretty bad. Infections are up, deaths are up, hospitalizations are up... and the Omicron variant is just starting to hit us. Yesterday, Cornell closed its campus and sent the students home.
Can you imagine President Biden declaring a national emergency, closing off international travel, telling the American workforce to stay home, and seeking emergency funding for efforts to combat the virus? Yeah, me neither-- but President Trump did all of those things in March of 2020, when numbers were much lower than they are now.
The truth is that we aren't very disciplined anymore, even in the places (like Michigan) where the pandemic is at its worst. Perhaps we just can't sacrifice for very long, or maybe as a society we have just internalized and accepted the costs of so many people getting sick and a smaller but significant (over 8ook) dying.
Sigh.
