Save Us From the Ignorant!

It really doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand the physical science of virus transmission.  Even

people of average intelligence, certainly those who hold the position of mayor or governor, cannot deny the science of virus transmission.  The Covid-19 virus has shown its transmission ability to be at lightning speed with superior ability to infect.  Surely it makes sense then, that if people who are potentially infectious without any symptoms come into contact with additional people, the virus will continue to roll on, effectively rushing along any vector provided to its next host/victim.

What would be the only way to follow and control its inevitable, invisible paths?  You must TEST everyone, and then trace their contacts to quarantine them.  Doesn’t that make sense to most intelligent people?  And yet, there is governor after governor and mayor after mayor who somehow don’t see the connection between the virus and the people.  Who are they getting their information from?  Who has said that we don’t really need to TEST?    It was President Trump who said,  "All we need to do is relax the measures that prevent the virus from spreading in places where there are less people and there is plenty of room."  

So then why is Sioux Falls, SD a hotbed of virus?  The Smithfield Pork plant in Sioux Falls has over 800 cases of Covid-19 out of their 3000 employees.  Don’t you think those 800 people at the end of their shift went to the dry cleaner’s, stopped for a Big Mac, went to the barber shop, dove into the Piggly Wiggly for a loaf of bread or some fried chicken, stopped for gas, went into Target to get a baby gift, and then came home for a birthday party for their kid?  How many people do you think they came into close contact with?........X 800! 

Sioux Falls has a major problem on its hands because the governor of South Dakota has done nothing to make people shelter in place.  And so, the result is that there will be major death in Sioux Falls because those who should be smart enough to know better, aren’t.

How about other leaders?  Are they deaf and blind to the condition of the hospitals and health care systems that surround them?  Covid patients have depleted virtually all hospital supplies of PPEs, masks, ventilators in most major medical centers where there are increasing numbers of cases....places that have not hit their peak yet.    Aren't they watching the first person accounts from health workers on the front lines as they struggle emotionally and physically?   These leaders want us to ‘open the states’ for the sake of the economy.  How much more infection will that spread, and what do you think will happen to the hospital’s supplies and readiness and effectiveness when those patients start showing up in the ER?

And then there are those pseudo doctors like “Dr. Phil” and “Dr. Oz”.  They are making comparisons to death rates and calling them comparable.  The only trouble is that fatal auto accidents, lung cancer and pool drownings aren’t contagious.

Here is what is necessary to fight this pandemic and what we should be expecting our national government to do, which they are NOT doing:

1. Appoint a Covid Czar who will organize a logistical solution to manufacturing and distributing enough test kits nationally based on needs and projections.  Let that person follow medical guidelines provided by Fauci, Birx, and others who fully understand the testing paradigm.  The Czar needs to create and publicize a schedule for manufacture and deployment nationally of diagnostic and antibody tests, and then draft whomever or whatever is necessary to make that project happen.

2. Then appoint another person to do logistical analysis and create comprehensive nationwide plans to insure supply lines for PPEs, Masks, ventilators, and whatever support supplies are needed.  Then they need to make it happen using whatever federal instruments need to be brought to bear.

This plan is so obvious, and yet we have a President who simply doesn’t feel the responsibility to do it.   After abandoning his claim that he was the ‘final authority’ and delegating control of the opening of the country’s economy to the governors,  he is now taunting them by encouraging his gun-toting, demonstrating supporters to ‘liberate Michigan’ or ‘liberate Minnesota’!  He is fomenting rebellion against civil authority which he just assigned to the governors of the states!  This guy is unbelievable!  We have no federal government serving the needs of the citizens any more.    Thank goodness the states are already organizing to achieve some of these goals!

All that can be said is that we have no coherent leadership in this administration.  Trump is repeating his incompetent failures that will subject us to an impending new wave of viral attack.  His push to disregard the science is a rush to re-ignite the economy, and his only concern is to try to avoid blame by making any future failure appear to be the governors’ faults.  He is only worried about being untarnished so he can be re-elected. 

I hope the people of the United States all agree it is too late for that.