Humanity: Too stupid or what?

On the job!

I was going through a text for an updating project, and was saddened to read a section about how epidemics of the future will be handled. I'd love to quote it, but it would cost me my client (NDA, don't you know). However, the gist is, or was, back in those more optimistic times not so long ago, that medical professionals had learned from studying pandemics, and we the public could be assured that if a contagious outbreak were to arise, plans were in place to contain it quickly and protect the populace. 

Uh-huh.

So, as we've learned over the last year and change, this statement is true... except for a few little tiny exceptions. Like:

🦠If the nation where the disease starts doesn't want it known, it can cover up, arrest journalists and scientists, keep everyone in the dark while sending infected citizens far and wide, and never pay a price for its wickedness. 

🦠If the United States pays ten times more toward the World Health Organization than (let's pick a random example) China, but China gives lots of nice things to the WHO officers, then the U.S. is the world's worst nation and China is not to blame for anything. More important to fund the officers than the office.

🦠If medical health professionals really hate the president, then they can contradict everything he says, even if he got the information from them, and they will never be held accountable.

🦠Public health professionals will do anything to help the public, anything at all, as long as it doesn't have a chance of adversely affecting their careers.

🦠Public health professionals think that rioting and looting is less of a danger than a worldwide pandemic, in fact they think it's good, mainly because they don't live anywhere near the rioting and looting. And because they seem to think racism killed more than half a million Americans last year.

🦠Public health officials will go along with any program, even one like putting sick people in nursing homes, which a high school biology student wouldn't do, if they think they can get away with it, and especially if it means being able to refuse help from the president that they really hate, who sends hospital ships and things. 

🦠Politics is much more important than actual lives. Lives are temporary, but politics is forever.

🦠A lot of American governors really like ordering people around. "Emergency powers" is like having the One Ring.

🦠Leftism is the enemy of everything, right up to and including the distribution of vaccines. 

🦠Thank God Almighty this Chinese Death Virus is only a fraction as dangerous as the Spanish Flu, because if we had the 1918 flu in 2020, the nation would have been completely destroyed in order to save it.