On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 8:54 PM <[email protected]> wrote: * > I am sure that Joe is taking direct advice from Obama right thru this > moment.* >
I doubt it but I hope you're right. In my opinion Obama was the second best president in my lifetime, John Kennedy was the best. > *> In any case the plague which devoured Captain Orange, is now continuing > its meal on the Biden presidency. The reasons for this is complex* > No, it's not complex at all. The only reason the COVID-19 pandemic didn't end 5 months and tens of thousands of deaths ago is very simple, the USA has an excess of very simple people in it. Are these very stupid people divided equally among the political parties? Nope. 50% of Trump voters are so stupid they're not vaccinated, but only 7% of Biden voters are that brain dead dumb. *> My own privative serf-ish public policy recommendation would be to make > a super push for treatments rather than vaccines,* > Given that COVID-19 is now a 100% preventable disease and the treatment is easy quick painless and free, and given that the amount of resources that can be allocated towards medical research is finite I'd be opposed to devoting a great deal of effort into saving very very stupid people from themselves. * > to buy time for vaccination research* > No vaccine is any good if people are too stupid to take it. We already have a near perfect vaccine for COVID19, several in fact, what we really need now is a vaccine that prevents stupidity...... but on second thought I guess even that wouldn't help because some people would be too stupid to take that too. Oh well, Evolution in action. * > This treatment focus would buy enough time to produce eventually super > vaccines that finally send Covid to small pox land. * Smallpox became extinct in 1977, if not for the opposition from right wing religious people who violently opposed vaccinations (and I do mean violently) it could've happened a century earlier. And just five years ago it looked like polio was on the verge of extinction, but right wing religious anti-vaccination nuts in the USA and Afghanistan and elsewhere have made a comeback and thus polio has made a come back too. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> foo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv16SYXxcecSGPkZn-MGuQzYxSknzLxZ_nYXkH%2BvFQbtXQ%40mail.gmail.com.
