Endemic

[TheDrake]

What does it mean now with endemic COVID? We've got a disease that is now more dangerous and harder to recover from than the flu. We've got a booster coming that targets new variants. Mask use is intermittent at best. I've seen a lot more people exercising mask discipline in California than Texas, no surprise. Would anyone be willing to do anything if a weird variant evaded treatment or became more dangerous.

[Fenring]

I guess get a better health care system.

[TheDrake]

Good luck with that. Republicans think a "better" health care system is one that provides advanced treatments to the privileged with no waiting lines, while sacrificing the poorest people for that privileged class. Not a great formula for battling a pandemic, and deSantis would float bodies out to sea before closing a theatre, a school, a church, or a mall.