Back to square one, really?

Back to square one, really?
No one can know everything. There are some influences from people coming and going in the U.S. and the spread of COVID right now that need to be investigated. Americans must still do all we can with what we have, right now. That is not debatable.
Life isn’t about any individual or group of individuals. Life is about the collective spirit that is generated by all individuals. We are one huge blue beehive floating in the mystery that is the many universes, and ever evolving. None of us, individually, really means anything, yet, we are each priceless as part of the whole. One bee is small – a single blip in the hive, but if enough individual bees desert, the hive fails.
It never ceases to amaze most of us how others of us can stare down the barrel of a crisis and see nothing. Yes, there are always people with tunnel vision; for some, there’s a mirror at the end of the tunnel. Life revolves around them and their personal wishes, but everyone is just a single bee. Still, if enough individual bees regard nothing more than themselves, again, there is no hive.
Beyond amazing, beyond puzzling, beyond belief, in America today we are fighting something worse than the COVID pandemic. Its description is a harsh word, but only harshness can explain a mindset that defies life-saving logic.
The black plague spread from town to town following marauding soldiers and panicked citizens. Diphtheria traveled across America with settlers in the late 1800s, taking the lives of numerous victims; many were infants and children. If anyone had cures, even the poorest souls would have done anything to save their children and themselves from these and numerous other plagues across time. They would have been foolish not to. No one would disagree.
Yet, here we are, as we continue to tout ourselves as the greatest country in the world with smart, informed, educated people, even elected officials, looking at our situation with the demon COVID and calling the proven cure a hoax.
We have a cure. We have a way to nip this monster in its bud, limit its spread, end its death spread. Yet, we are locked in a tug-of-war with people who defy it. Hard words aren’t anyone’s piece of cake but, sometimes, only hard words work.

Keeping our nation’s people divided, using anything possible, is the greatest tool of those who want to control us. We must recognize that, remember that, and never, ever underestimate that. Right now, those who wish to maintain the chasm between Americans, and profit from it, have dug-in up to their cuticles regarding this virus and its vaccine.
If they could have it their way, the virus could be compliant in this idiocy and defy the vaccine. Luckily, they can’t make that happen. So, they play the last card left up their sleeve. They vilify the cure and call compliance a violation of choice.
Daily, citizens do dozens of things that are not their choice. Try to drive without a license, shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater, or fail to pay your income tax. I couldn’t fly my kite on a public beach. The list gets far more serious. Millions of soldiers, sent to their deaths in numerous wars, had no choice and Americans complied.
Vaccinated people have a 50% chance of being infected by carriers of COVID or its new variant. The vaccine will keep us from dying, yes, but most of us have children, grandchildren and loved ones who can’t be vaccinated yet who can be infected. The children fare better, supposedly. So what? No one, especially children, should end up in isolation or suffer just because they probably won’t die, and what about those huge medical bills?
Anyone who refuses the vaccine … fine. That’s their prerogative, but they can’t be spreaders. Vaccinated people have done the right things and have the right to move about freely and still be, and have their loved ones be protected from the unvaccinated messengers of a deadly disease. How do we protect the innocent and the sensible from the spreaders? In most states, they can be in the elevator with us, co-workers, even teachers, school bus drivers and people who handle our food.
One person’s rights end where the next person’s begin. Spreaders should remain under lockdown, unless they want to wear a hazmat suit daily or carry a sign warning others.
Hard words, yes, but many have lived with harder ones: “There’s a telegram for you, Mrs. Jones.”

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