Corona Thoughts

We are now many months into this pandemic...and STILL COVID-19 is not being handled even half-way rationally, from a scientific standpoint...this means 2? 3? X? waves of outbreaks to come? This might very well be a year -or more- long crisis, not including the long-term damage to the health of our population and our economy. The Executive branch is doing NOTHING, and Congress is busy giving all our tax money to billionaires (hey a**holes, the problem is the virus, not the stock market!!!). Dumb Americans who say "I've talked to my family and we've decided we're going to live as if COVID-19 doesn't exist and 'come what may'"...are complete idiots and don't understand "public health" or have any consideration of how their actions might impact others. Unfortunately, moronic decisions don't only affect morons. I've long known that gross ignorance was going to hurt us, but the last few years have revealed just how amazingly stupid Americans are and it has completely demoralized me.

General thoughts on society:
I wouldn't mind spending all my time reasoning with people (if it were simply a matter of exposure and communicating ideas), but when people don't even have basic reasoning skills to come to common sense conclusions...this is a GENERATIONAL problem with education and culture...and our problems need IMMEDIATE action. Is it "all we can do" to outline a road-map for future generations and take baby first steps towards progress? How did we fall off the "shoulders of giants"? How was it that a majority of our nation emerged from a cave...tribal, religious, incurious, unable to reason, and scientifically illiterate?