Editor,
It was peak irony that your Jan. 23 continuing cover story “COVID-19 isolation rules end,” was paired directly opposite from the story “How COVID affects heart, brain and other organs.” We have renounced public health altogether when new troubling studies emerge about COVID daily, yet, that is matched by a “loosening” of safety measures.
This new California policy, much laxer than the CDC’s mind you, encourages public spread of a highly contagious and crippling disease. A recent Census analysis found that almost 1 in 4 American adults who get COVID suffer from Long COVID, which includes neurological, vascular and fatigue symptoms (and that number is almost surely under-reported).
Meanwhile, another recent study found that 75% of people have minimized illness to avoid missing plans or work.
Taken together, I, too, would like to hide my head in the sand to deny this powder keg of circumstances could ultimately lead to mass disability and a collapse of our health care system. We should be strengthening our COVID mitigation efforts not letting it rip.
Kathy Berger
San Mateo
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(11) comments
Who exactly are you praying to?
The religion of Branch Covidianism has their own gods.
Worshiping at the altar of St. Fauci
No one was following "quarantine" rules anyway, what regular person even pays attention to this stuff? So the change makes sense. And no reputable study shows that 1 in 4 people who get Covid (everyone now) suffer from "long Covid". Look around you, most of us, even here in the Bay Area, have been living our lives, getting the occasional mild illness and suffering no long term repercussions. Life is great out here, let us know if you want to join us! But no, we are NEVER going back to 2020 style "mitigations", that ship has long sailed.
Yes, it is hard to see the people who have been negatively affected - they are dead or living lives of disability from the virus.
Hear hear! The pandemic made us worse, not better, people. Though we are really in this together, collective denial has gone into full gear and we ignore the effects of going out to work, school, family parties, clubbing, etc., and think well, the elderly and immune compromised just have to look out for themselves while we party on. Employers who insist on people coming into offices when they can work well at home put people's lives at risk unnecessarily. Covid has shown us who we really are.
The pandemic didn’t make us worse. So-called leaders (many hypocritical, such as Newsom and Pelosi) following their emotions rather than science made it worse. We should feel especially sorry for the kids, who will have to bear the brunt of instructors and so-called adults who only looked after their interests, not the kids. However, you are correct in saying the Covid has shown us who we really are. And for some, their reputations will never recover from putting their feelings first rather than science. Those disastrous decisions will follow them forever.
I feel especially sorry for the kids - the Covid orphans and the ones who feel responsible for giving their grandparents a fatal illness.
Well, HFAB, if you want to swerve into that lane… We should feel sorry for parents or anyone else trying to lay a guilt trip on COVID orphans and others in accusing them of being responsible for giving their grandparents a fatal illness. And in case you don’t know, jabbed folks have the ability to infect anyone else whether they’ve been jabbed or not. It’s a thing so you can expand your blame circle to, well, everyone.
While you’re looking to lay blame, how about Biden’s plan for COVID, letting people continue to die? Or blaming folks mandating a COVID “vaccine” that doesn’t vaccinate? BTW, I hear they’re considering a global moratorium on COVID shots and there’s a peer reviewed study proving big pharma knew about COVID vax dangers and ineffectiveness. Things people who were willing to learn, do the homework, and ignore the propaganda already knew about. We should feel sorry that folks making decisions based on emotion rather than science are not sorry. We should feel sorrier for the folks that blindly follow that emotion rather than educating themselves or following common sense.
It did make us worse people. Much of it because the cult leader found that masks marred his makeup.
Agreed, Westy, it’s amazing that Newsom tells us to mask up when he doesn’t. And you’re right, perhaps because it mars his makeup while also mussing up his hair-gelled hairstyle.
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