Public health pays

After over two years since notice given of a novel coronavirus in 2019 the pandemic it has caused is worse than ever. More people have been killed this year than in 2020.

Historically pandemics are stopped by hygienic measures which continue to improve public health long after pandemic has gone.

Like we have focus on clean water as a result.

But our modern civilization is now in ideological conflict. Fighting for public health conflicts with people claiming it harms the economy.

Yeah is a bizarre situation.

Rather than focus on detecting the virus rapidly so people can avoid it, governments emphasized finding vaccines.

Sure, vaccines are great but pandemics end by hygienic measures. Ending a pandemic with a vaccine is literally a common plot in fiction. It is easy in theory but actually should go with policies to limit infections.

But with an ideology claiming that public health is too expensive governments have routinely let the virus causing the pandemic run wild while blaming individuals.

Without giving tools to know exactly where the virus is, or who has it, the public is left with few options.

I continue to try to avoid the virus by social distancing and staying home as venture out primarily for groceries. Thankfully I have that luxury.

The pandemic is worsening now with many now fatalistic about becoming infected. The ideology of refusing needed public health measures will collapse am sure. But will kill so many people first.

Governments still have to learn that public health pays for itself. Human beings are worth protecting.

Our US Constitution works

These are difficult times for our nation with continuing disasters, a lethal pandemic, and political unrest including an actual insurrection on Jan 6th of this year.

And our US Constitution has been repeatedly questioned as to efficacy in our modern world.

But read the document, and preceding president should have been removed for what US Constitution calls: high crimes and misdemeanors. 

The US Senate simply refused.

From very clear instructions, members of US Congress complicit with insurrection should have been removed from office.

Go back further, and under guidelines of US Constitution, the Speaker of the House had a duty to investigate fraudulent claims that lead to second Gulf war.

Over and over again, we have politicians who just ignored and did not do what US Constitution required them to do.

We, the People, have watched them in a political system gamed to make it difficult to remove politicians who know can flout our rules as a nation without fear of punishment or removal from office.

Notice how our nation has been saved though as only the federal judiciary of the three major branches has held the line. 

Our federal courts protected our nation relentlessly, and continue to do so, as blocked repeated attempts by politicians to ignore or break our laws.

Note, the US Supreme Court refused to support the previous president attempting to dispute election results.

When followed, our US Constitution has saved our nation.

What to do though about politicians who figured out how to ignore it, and are still in power?

That my fellow Americans, is up to us.

Updating a bit

Feel like should update on my story as have already shared much of recent struggles on this blog. And suddenly things were very much more positive for me, as my housing situation is solid and can social distance.

The pandemic really brought what is really important into focus, and I am thankful that focusing on my mental health was the best decision where was critical receiving needed community support! Bibb County has been a lifesaver for me. Where have explained much in prior posts.

Am still trying to process 2020 as is coming to an end, and still am puzzled at the disastrous response of US federal government to a known threat--pandemics were definitely predicted. There were plans not followed. And so many in this country have died where we lead the world in infections and deaths from the current pandemic.

But also businesses that were supposed to have risk management clearly did not. And despite having resources to prepare, clearly did not. Yet begged for federal bailouts with no shame.

What happened really? Guess we learned much apparent success was fake. And we learned that gamblers made profits taking risks that lead to mass death. We were fooled in a world that was shattered very quickly and now we're trying to adjust in this new one.

By we, feel like am talking about most people who struggled or were doing ok, or even well, in the world that was; who thought our world was well defended.

Yet a single lethal virus quickly revealed the truth as it penetrated nations globally and now continues.

Am still working on reaching complete health where focus is on my mental health. And my perspective turned upside down as realized how lucky I am. Got to real treatment just in time, before a world ended.

Now feel like humanity has a brave new one with focus becoming clear. And maybe we all can better figure out--real success.