This phase of the pandemic feels like a blizzard with all data being abandoned and facts being downplayed and obfuscated. A blizzard in itself is not deadly, it is disorienting since you can’t see hour hand in front of your face. Pandemic era support programs have become a thing of the past. Everyone is on their own as COVID treatments will become commercialized. New quack remedies will hit the shelves as no effort is being put into improving air quality and masks.
The Census Bureau reported last year that COVID relief efforts and others sharply reduced childhood poverty. But these programs have now expired.
America is flying blind. Those who claim, “We have the tools”, are lying. With new variants, those tools are being knocked off one by one. Monoclonal antibodies no longer work against the newest variants. Testing has ceased and at home testing isn’t working well to detect the new variants. Most people don’t even know they have COVID when they are knocked off their feet for a week.
The initial infection might be “Mild” but COVID hardens the arteries and is causing blood clots and heart attacks weeks after recovery. COVID is a level 3 bio hazard more akin to HIV that a cold or the flu. President Biden ran on a platform where he claimed he would handle the pandemic. He has instead overseen 700,000 COVID deaths. Within months of taking office he declared victory over COVID and suggested everyone press together for July4th celebrations. It turned out being vaccinated does not stop infections from happening. Sending at home tests effectively made COVID cases disappear since any at home tests were not reported.