So we screwed that up completely.
The coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and too broadly for the U.S. to bring it under control, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday.
The U.S. has set records for daily new infections in recent days as outbreaks surge mostly across the South and West. The recent spike in new cases has outpaced daily infections in April when the virus rocked Washington state and the northeast, and when public officials thought the outbreak was hitting its peak in the U.S.
But that peak wasn’t bad enough, so we decided to make it much worse.
“We’re not in the situation of New Zealand or Singapore or Korea where a new case is rapidly identified and all the contacts are traced and people are isolated who are sick and people who are exposed are quarantined and they can keep things under control,” she said in an interview with The Journal of the American Medical Association’s Dr. Howard Bauchner. “We have way too much virus across the country for that right now, so it’s very discouraging.”
We’re a failed state. A big, floppy, clumsy, blundering failed state. We put our shoes on upside down.
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14 responses to “The horse has bolted”
We put our shoes on upside down.
So that’s why Trump had trouble with the ramp. Thanks, OB.
Well, Skeletor will come along to say that’s an odd way to put it, you know.
It’s all academic now, but I can imagine how much pushback there would have been against really vigourous contact tracing and isolation procedures amongst “Deep State” conspiracy types. I predict similar resistance once a vaccine is found, not just from the usual anti-vaxxer crowd, but from freedom-luvin’, gun-totin’ REAL AMMURIKUNS. “THEY AIN’T GONNA PLANT NO MIND CONTROL CHIP IN ME!!!” That horse, sadly, has already bolted too.
Too right, Bruce. The sane part of this country is practically vestigial.
It’s looking pretty ugly out there in Real Murka. Texas is getting messed with but good. I think it was Philip K. Dick who said “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
The so-called Librul Hoax of the COVID somehow didn’t just go away.
Skeletor is not Ophelia’s enemy and his attempt to express amusement at proposed pliers violence has been tragically misunderstood.
Skeletor, so it’s all She-Ra’s fault?
It’s probably the fault of the ambiguity of text without facial cues. If you wish to refer to such phenomena as “She-Ra”, then yes. But, generally speaking, no.
That was an attempt to express amusement? Really?
Yes, really. I thought it was funny that you had the desire to inflict pain on Trump in such a specific, atypical way.
Skeletor, I didn’t think it was so atypical. That’s the exact same wish I had about my ex-husband approximately, oh, 20 years (make that 30 – wow, it’s already 2020!) years ago.
I found the pliers thing weird and funny, so I think I read Skeletor’s comment in the tone it was… typed. I don’t know what that means. Also, the shoes upside down thing had me wondering for an embarrassingly long time about how that would even work. [Insert shrug emoji]
The pliers thing isn’t so atypical. Atypical would be a pliers/blowtorch combination as mentioned – but not shown – in Pulp Fiction.
Well sure, the pliers thing was meant to be funny, and weird, but Skeletor didn’t say it was funny, only that it was weird, and since Skeletor is always finding fault and almost never doing anything else, it’s not hugely surprising that I saw the “that’s weird” comment as another fault found.
Not the same with you or anyone else.
I joked that the pliers scenario was “oddly specific”, which I see as different than calling it weird.
You said this:
I replied with this:
The intent was to indicate I found it amusing, ie, “ha ha, don’t know why your specific attack would be pinching his arm with pliers, but sounds good to me..”
I apparently failed in expressing amusement. You were also unhappy with me for accusing you of “[putting ]things oddly”, which I never intended to say. For the record, the amusing pliers fantasy was expressed quite clearly.
As for only contributing negativity, I have made a conscious effort to dial back on nitpicking the last several months. Perhaps I haven’t succeeded. Or perhaps it will just take time for the kindler, gentler Skeletor to be appreciated. ;-)