The NY Times has written a mild piece on China and COVID. However in the past week I have seen a massive outbreak of second, third and fourth infections of vaccinated patients.
The question is: Are these new mutants from China or is the virus as I had suspected creating protective granulomas and reemerging again and again, like TB for example, or both!
I suspect it is both. BUT unless we have a competent CDC to sequence these variants we are left totally in the dark and vulnerable. We are not only back at the beginning but worse. Citizens have little or any faith in their Government, especially the bureaucrats who seem to be game players but devoid of any competence.
Large samples of sequenced variants should be tracked, published, and measured. This disease is not over, it is not even hiding. It does not seem as deadly but it will become a major drag on the country. Faith in Public Health has gotten to the lowest ever, rightly earned by their lack of proactive fact based information.
The vaccines must be continuously adapted to meet the mutations, but to do that we need to monitor the mutations. We don't need extremists on either end, those academics claiming absolute knowledge and those public voices making baseless statements.
We have had three years of chaos. We need leadership of credible people not publicity hounds dictating what we all should do.
If this is not done we are again in for a very bumpy ride. The greatest risk will be as before. Namely the uncontrolled entry of infected people carrying variants. We saw that with Omicron and most likely we shall see the same if not worse. Border controls are not political, they are public health mandates. At the beginning of the 20th century the country was smart enough then to do it. Now we have regrettably politicized our limited preventative measures. That means not only the Southern border issue but China and leaky entries from there.
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