Delusions Of Adequacy

Jim Jordan says liberals must be defeated like the 'evils' of Nazy German and slavery. pic.twitter.com/14zvzSaxTd

— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) December 6, 2021

2. Since #COVID19 tracking has started, 780,000+ people have died in 22 mo in the US, but more than 1 million still died of cancer.

More have died in 2021 from covid than 2020 in spite of Gov mandated widespread vaccines, mass public masking, & trillions spent. pic.twitter.com/HYO3PywFLw

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 4, 2021

I actually thought of the cancer comparison myself this morning. Gov. Absent announced a "surge" in hospital personnel and nurses (so he can order them around, but Biden can't?  How does that work?).  He also said he would not impose vaccine mandates, lockdowns, or allow mask mandates.  In other words, the same way we approach cancer care, which is that cancer largely arises from exposure to carcinogens. But rather than work harder to control those carcinogens (Cancer Alley is an identifiable place on the map in several parts of the country to this day), we work harder to provide expensive and sometimes futile treatment after the fact.

Of course, cancer patients don't flood the hospitals in physical distress and in need of intubation and induced coma so they can be on ventilators (let's stop talking about that as if it's just a mask and oxygen, like on the TeeVee shows), turned every few hours to prevent bedsores, treated by a team of people per patient 24/7.  It's not the death count that's the problem with covid (bad as that count is), it's the patient care required.

Cancer patients can get outpatient therapy.  We owe them more than deadly chemicals and toxic radiation and radical surgery, but that's still all we offer.  Covid patients who go to the hospital (and far more go there than die, and almost all the dead went from a hospital bed to the morgue) can't get outpatient treatment, and that's a large part of the problem with Covid. The treatment is time consuming, labor intensive, consumes hospital space, and the number of patients in crisis can easily overwhelm a local health care system. Can cancer do that? Or the flu?

We've had this discussion before.  First, the dead are not insignificant:  they are mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and friends and relatives we'll never see again, and they died of a respiratory disease that, by now, could have been controlled and exposure prevented, but for idiots like MTG and Gym Jordan. Second, the dead are not the primary issue. We don’t have a shortage of cemetery space or undertakers. What we do have, still, is not enough hospital beds, equipment, or personnel to treat every potential Covid patient in the country. Which is still the primary reason we need to control it. But we’ve known that for a long time, now.