Jessica,

I love the fallacy refresher -- it is gold, as is all of your stuff.

I know that I say different things. I wish to be wrong and please not the proactive warning -- I'm no expert, I did not sleep at a Holiday Inn Express, and frankly, I resent having to think about how exponentials, the volume of a gas, common sense, pandemic history and the separate history of black in America works.

I yearn to be a regular citizen instead.

I wish that there was one answer for the US now. I believe the correct answer was always the same -- it's the one used by the place to which the wealthiest people will retreat. I wish that the history of the United States regarding pandemics was different.

We always make sure our decisions end in megadeath. It is as if American leaders believe that collateral damage is a sign of something good. We always focus on restaurants any time a deadly contagion is in play. We ignored the bubonic plague because we thought white people were immune to it.

Most things that seem real on the first pass here turn out to be BS.

We ignored the plague in California. We did not want to close restaurants for the second wave of the Spanish Flu, so we knowingly refused, and people died. As a rule, the only time we did try to be properly robust was swine flu -- again. Last year, I made my first mask from a full-face snorkel over which I put n95 material.

I do not think anyone should ignore the CDC.

However, COVID was always airborne. I would never go indoors anywhere. I would be underground if it were possible. It is impossible to eliminate a coronavirus. An infectious disease vector can't be endemic since all infectious vectors are exponential series. All exponential series start in a deceptive phase and move to a disruptive one.

Finally, it is impossible to have an "endemic" anything if you never get R of zero to be less than or equal to 1. Delta was always here, as were Lambda and the rest -- they fly under the radar until it is impossible to ignore. We knew all of this the whole time -- opening up over and over -- we knew all of this.

In the face of these actions with no explanation -- I understand getting angry at others. The fact is, though, even if they were all obedient -- even if everyone were vaccinated, the result would be similar. Sorry. And please, assume that I am wrong -- I always hope for the same, that our leaders have this on lock.

Michael