To be honest, getting the Covid is probably the best thing that could happen for Trump's re election, though not his health of course. He will likely survive, even given the risk factors, to enjoy a groundswell of support at the great corona messiah. He will dine out on how he's "beaten" the "China virus". and in return Biden will look weak (sadly, he is). It is the American dream writ large.
I hope I'm wrong. I don't really care what happens to him, one way or the other. He's a terrible human being. I just don't want him as POTUS. But I don't have a say so too bad I guess. Probably shouldn't worry about it, I guess. It's not as if we don't have our own cretins in charge to worry about.
This is our reality now. Even if and when a vaccine arrives it will take a good long while for it to filter through. Even then it will have to prove effective enough in terms of herd immunity to keep everyone else safe. Will it be free for those of us not in certain risk groups?
That day seems to be a long way off. Where we are is cases rising by 5-7 thousand a day, ever threatening a major increase. Will that happen? It's possible. I don't think the government cares anymore. 770 cases tested positive in one school, but the government hasn't closed the schools down. People go on pub crawls instead of isolating and we haven't shut the pubs down.
This is the herd immunity strategy right now. The government got its wish in the end. We are being put through this weird survival of the fittest because they care only about profits. Not even the economy, because we could change our economic model. We won't, though. Instead we'll be forced to live like this for a long time to come, and perhaps after that. Who knows what effect the end of furlough will have but it can only increase the risk as people have to take potentially dangerous jobs to survive. At the mercy of capitalists who will value safety less than they ought.
We are in the petri dish.
Keir Starmer ("we don't need another Keiro") is correct to simply say Boris has lost control. Unfortunately all he's done so far is hide under Boris' coattails, agreeing with the government's every intention, despite their epic incompetence. But that's what we have to live with right now. Will Christmas bring a respite? You can be sure people will pile into the shops one way or the other. There's no way people won't want to buy turkeys and presents. More so, given how everyone will be feeling. Likewise New Year will require a greater deal of control from the government, which of course won't happen. Everyone is going to want to go out and celebrate the end fo a terrible year even though it's not going to end with auld lang syne. Unfortunately the more people will want to go out and party, the more the government will have to crack down.
Sadly, I don't see that happening.
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