WE ARE NOW SOMEHOW, LITERALLY, IN THE SEVENTH YEAR OF THE COVID PANDEMIC
Well. I’m more than a little bewildered to realized that we are now in the seventh-the seventh!- year of the Covid pandemic. Looking back at this reality is pretty hard to stomach. But in this case the bug is emotional and not virus-delivered bacteria. I said to someone the other day that I missed the good old days when a cold was a cold, and random flu symptoms didn’t mean possible organ failure and death. But here we are! Seven damn years, and the obvious reality is that the pandemic won’t end in our lifetime, even though it will in many ways totally define it. It’s now clear to me that my pandemic brain never went away, as this is daunting to even consider, never mind inevitably confront; we are in the seventh year of the Covid pandemic.
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REALITY SHIFTED PERMANENTLY WHEN THE WORLD WENT INTO COVID LOCKDOWN
And yet it’s really rather odd, isn’t it, that we don’t really even talk about the Covid pandemic anymore? It’s simply there, and then there, maybe over there too. Or was it the flu? I literally saw my first Covid victim, a friend, pass away in front of me unwittingly about a week and a half before the whole world entered a state of emergency. It was unwitting because the friend was 92 years old, and despite his vitality what are you supposed to think? I just thought it was his time and emotionally railed at biological reality. But then I, you and the rest of the world went into lockdown insanity and tried to figure out how to remain uninfected and find toilet paper to buy. And now we’re in the seventh year.
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NOW IN THE SEVENTH YEAR OF COVID, WE CAN EXPECT 1 MILLION NEW INFECTIONS PER DAY
But this Covid pandemic isn’t going anywhere, even as it spreads everywhere. In the United States right now, we’re facing a brain gobsmacking 12th major wave of infections. We think Covid has caused 1.2 million deaths here so far. I think that’s far short of the real total. Globally, the death total estimate is 27 million, which I think is laughably short. Last year alone saw 240 million Covid infections. And now, the world is on pace, so far, with 1 million new infections, every day. And not for nothing, now in the seventh year of the pandemic, not only are we not talking about Covid anymore, we aren’t even still talking about what the hell Covid really is.
Lovely, right? Good thing science caught up with Covid. NOT. Well, it’s a good thing that inflated prices from “supply chain issues” went down, finally. NOT. Hmmm. Well, at least here in the United States we’re investing heavily in science and medical research as a result.
NOT NOT NOT.
