Lunacy

Ka-ching!

            Ultimately it all costs money. What are the costs of the pandemic? Republican leadership professes to understand money. Exactly who is paying for the lunacy of the anti-vaxxers? The easy answer is—society does (we do).

No need

            In reference to vaccines I keep reading comments where people say “Do your research!” Admittedly I did a lot of research in the beginning way back when the pandemic first hit.

            One of the best responses that I read in regards to the ‘do your research’ comment was and I’m paraphrasing: “Don’t need to!” They pointed out that by now thousands of scientists from a variety of disciplines and a few billion dollars have been spent on doing just that. Research. Not just any scientists either but the tops in their respective fields. Respected, truthful, professional, honest people who care about humanity and saving lives.

That’s good enough for me.

Tune change

            Now since it’s mostly the unvaccinated (predominantly Trump supporters) who are getting Covid-19, the Republican leadership and right wing media have decided to say that people should get vaccinated after all. When it was seniors in nursing homes and minorities being impacted the most they were okay with no masking and getting everybody back to work. Now it’s their base being hospitalized and dying.

ON THE FLY

            We’re watching in real time Republicans rewriting history. The election was rigged. News is fake. The insurrectionists were loving patriots. The pandemic isn’t real. Science is wrong. Masks don’t work. The vaccines are dangerous. Immigrants are evil. Muslims are bad. Rich people are the bulwarks of society. Poor people are lazy. (All 40 million of them.) They (Republicans) are the real victims. Up is down. The sky is not blue.

 And on and on.

            Every day throughout his entire Presidency Trump played the victim card. His entire Presidency. Now he’s playing the ex-President victim card. He will forever be the perpetual victim. That makes his supporters suffering victims as well. They are in an abusive relationship with Trump and they can’t leave their abuser.

They are drawn to him.

$ And resources

            I have watched a couple of videos lately where the hospitalized anti-vaxxers who survived professed that if they had it to do over they still wouldn’t have got the vaccine and still won’t get the vaccine (after all, they survived!). Then there’s also the ‘if it’s my time to die—it’s my time crowd’. ‘It’s all a hoax’ also still has a huge following.

            At some point bean counters will figure up the total cost of the pandemic in dollars. There will be an average cost of hospitalizations due to Covid-19. (I’m just talking money here not the human toll. That’s incalculable.) At this point in the United States we’ve had several hundred thousand die needlessly. The ones dying now are the great unvaccinated.

Death before dishonor!

The Antis

            The antis (maskers and vaxxers) have cost society billions of dollars. It’s too early to tell if it’s tens of billions or hundreds of billions but I lean towards hundreds of billions. It takes a team of nurses, doctors, support staff and high tech equipment to treat Covid-19 patients in hospitals. That takes a lot of $$$$! Their “personal choice” is costing society in real dollars. Whether it’s insurance, the government, hospitals or individuals the costs are real. Ultimately it’s all the rest of us that pay for it.

The costs will be much higher than they needed to be, thanks to the antis.

Hoax vaccine coming soon!

 

Look to the skies!

            The Trump coronavirus task force has decided that a vaccine isn’t needed after all. Essential oils are going to be distributed to the entire population including bitty small children. It’s going to take a combination of English Leather, lavender, sandalwood, frankincense, WD40, musk, Old Spice, essence of Trump steaks, myrrh, and some proprietary oily stuff that comes off car windows that have been sitting in the sun for years. Some herd mentality chanting will be involved in order to attain maximum effectiveness.

Plan 9.

            The coronavirus is a hoax but Tweety Trump is going to deliver a vaccine for the hoax coronavirus at a cost of several hundred million dollars paid to some bigly rich Big Pharma CEOs so that he can be the savior for the virus that never was and that his devotees won’t take anyway because that would be too controlling and cost them their freedom to be American and holy as the founding fathers intended when they created a nation of slavery that continues until today because Black Lives Don’t Really Matter to them unless they’re getting ready to move into low cost housing and bring down their property values since there will be unstoppable rioting, looting and marauding moved into their neighborhoods with only the mighty Tweety Trump to save us as he’s the only one that can do all these things because the President is all powerful and above the law as are all those that cover for him and commit any illegal acts that he never knew about except hearing that the witch-hunting Dems were after him again at the behest of their behind-the-scenes unknown handlers who are in all likelihood malicious interdimensional travelers like Bob Woodard which doesn’t matter to the probably big surly that will come to Trump with tears in their eyes saying, “Sir, here’s the vaccine that only you could have made possible”.

God Bless America.

Anybody that wants a vaccine can get a vaccine.

            Remember when < Trump said that >, “Anybody that needs a test gets a test”? Said that in March. Wasn’t true then. Isn’t true now. He also said that the tests were perfect. They weren’t. Six months into a pandemic and the nation is still hobbled with inadequate testing.

            Not only that, his administration has cut back on testing support that wasn’t adequate in the first place. Widespread testing for anybody that needed it didn’t happen any more than the travel ban. Trump just says whatever he thinks is selling at the time. People wanted to hear that widespread testing was available so he said that it was. But it wasn’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XwC9IQKBc .

He really doesn’t care.

            It’s immaterial to Trump whether the vaccine works or not. He’s saying it to get re-elected. If it isn’t ready it will be somebody else’s fault anyway because the buck stops anywhere else but with him.

            It’s immaterial to his cult members as well. Good grief, they won’t wear a mask; does anyone really think that they’re going to stick a needle in their arm to get a vaccine for a virus that’s a hoax? These people are a textbook example of what not to do during a global pandemic. They are the zombies of the apocalypse. Their job is to spread the virus while making fun of people. They really don’t care either.

Do you?