The forgetting of the dead and disabled is a tragedy. My concern is a bigger tragedy of forgetfulness is afoot. Our government, media and health care industry are forgetting the foundations of good public health. Yes, we should all wash our hands, but we will not get rid of aerosol spread covid that way.
The CDC “recommendations” for clean indoor air should be mandated, or at least shouted from the rooftops. All public buildings should have five air changes an hour and filtration upgrades. During surges and in very crowded settings, masks should be strongly encouraged. And masks need to return to all health care settings. Schools go to the top of the line for this. One of the most awful misinfo tropes of this mess was kids don’t get covid, and won’t pass it to others. That anyone fell for this baffles me.
What I found amazing is how quickly it disappeared from the mass media. One week it was quite dominant and the next week strangely absent! Here today gone tomorrow. How did they do that?
We didn't have lock downs in the US. There were "stay at home" orders, which requested people to avoid large gatherings, but they weren't really enforced. You couldn't really enforce those kinds of things in a country where millions of Americans are houseless.
As for the protests and marches, they were actually met with curfew orders and police and military presence in most of the areas they happened in, which was part of the reason many turned into "riots." So even in those circumstances, they weren't seen as "ok" by local and federal governments.
The forgetting of the dead and disabled is a tragedy. My concern is a bigger tragedy of forgetfulness is afoot. Our government, media and health care industry are forgetting the foundations of good public health. Yes, we should all wash our hands, but we will not get rid of aerosol spread covid that way.
The CDC “recommendations” for clean indoor air should be mandated, or at least shouted from the rooftops. All public buildings should have five air changes an hour and filtration upgrades. During surges and in very crowded settings, masks should be strongly encouraged. And masks need to return to all health care settings. Schools go to the top of the line for this. One of the most awful misinfo tropes of this mess was kids don’t get covid, and won’t pass it to others. That anyone fell for this baffles me.
What I found amazing is how quickly it disappeared from the mass media. One week it was quite dominant and the next week strangely absent! Here today gone tomorrow. How did they do that?
"It would mean actively attempting to reduce harm, forever. "
Sounds expensive.
cultural amnesia is structured, that is not the same as forgetting. this is a murder scene.
We didn't have lock downs in the US. There were "stay at home" orders, which requested people to avoid large gatherings, but they weren't really enforced. You couldn't really enforce those kinds of things in a country where millions of Americans are houseless.
As for the protests and marches, they were actually met with curfew orders and police and military presence in most of the areas they happened in, which was part of the reason many turned into "riots." So even in those circumstances, they weren't seen as "ok" by local and federal governments.