If We Act Like We Already Beat the Coronavirus, That's How It Wins

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/if-we-act-like-we-already-beat-the-coronavirus-thats-how-it-wins?ref=home


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If We Act Like We Already Beat the Coronavirus, That’s How It Wins
SLOW YOUR ROLL
With recent surges in Britain, India, and Brazil, what makes us think we can eat, pray, and play in the wild?
Margaret Carlson
Published Apr. 11, 2021 5:04AM ET


We have a new epidemic of mixed messages on our hands. On the one side are those experts who remain very worried about another surge before the vaccine delivers us to the promised land and on the other those who see the vial as half-full and rising with each jab.

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In a contest with a virus we still don’t understand but which understands us enough to mutate, it’s foolish to relent. We’ll turn the corner only if vaccines proceed faster than the seven-day national average of cases. The first week in April, cases were 18 percent higher than in March.

Who if not experts can get us to hold two things in our minds at once: that victory is on the way but in the meantime eat your vegetables, huddle in sweatpants, and keep watching Netflix.

Slip in new warnings with information showing five cases of a novel “double mutant” in California and rising cases among the young, especially when playing sports. Unless you’re cosseted in hotels like college teams during March Madness, a basketball game, with shouting and heavy breathing, can be as infectious as choir practice near Seattle last March was. Singing hymns almost a foot apart left 52 singers infected and two dead. Before that, there were only two cases in the county.

With recent surges in Britain, India, Brazil, and elsewhere, what makes us think we can eat, pray, and play in the wild? Why risk dying to see an action movie that can be streamed on HBO? The vaccine will eventually win the race Fauci is running but until then, living as if it’s still 2020 is a matter of life and death.

[Wounded Bear]

1. To use a football analogy, don't spike the ball on the 5 yard line...

We're not done yet.

[JI7]

2. People are stupid and selfish

When numbers go down and things start opening up again people should continue to wear masks and social distance send other things to help prevent spread.

But instead they have large gatherings without masks.