We Change Or We Die - The Most Rational Way To Look At This Crisis Is That It Is A Warning Of Where We Are Headed

The time for going over just want a catastrophic  botch the Trump error CDC-FDA-etc. made of the pandemic is not now but it must come because it wasn't just a matter of mistakes it was active and malicious malfeasance, most of that coming from the Trump regime but a  lot of the mistakes were made by those not part of the regime but who were clearly influenced by them.   As to that malfeasance, a catalogue of the irresponsible, criminally immoral statements, claims and lies told by politicians, bureaucrats, the Republican-fascist media should be complied because in a crisis such as this one, lies cost lives.  This is a good example of why lies told by the mass media should not be allowed, certainly not privileged as our courts have done. 

Here, over the past few weeks, I've talked about the experience of my family to the now very old experience of two-weeks ago, the inability to get a family member in a local ICU to be tested, THE TWO TIMES THE CDC SCREWED-UP AND LOST THE TEST MATERIALS FROM HER TEST!, and the fact that even when she was tested, finally, her results were inconclusive enough so that as she is recovering at home and out of self-quarantine I and another sister are being advised to remain out of contact.  I'd love to get tested on the assumption that if I've already had it, I might be able to go out and do something but that's not possible.  

I've got grave skepticism about the effectiveness of either the tests themselves or how they're being administered and given BUT IT'S THE BEST WE'VE GOT SO IT SHOULD BE USED.  I would hope that the few people who read what I write here would not be overly skeptical of the test which does give accurate results as well as false results both positive and negative.   It isn't ideal but it is better than nothing.  

I predicted here a couple of weeks ago that hospitals and doctors' offices would have to get back to the old practice of reusing masks and gloves and gowns and washing them, I hope there are still people old enough to remember when that was done, though in the post Reagan-Thatcher world of contracting out cleaning services instead of having professional, in house cleaners, I'll bet they don't have the equipment to do that.  

This crisis has exposed how fragile the convenient and cheap way of getting out of things leaves our most vital institutions.  How it is bound to result in disaster when the normal, every-day world such things are planned for is overtaken by a crisis like this.  All of that crap that sprang from the minds of businessmen, economists, accountants and the such falls apart when the conditions they figured into their equations in order to maximize profits don't prevail.   And they won't prevail in the modern world when we can expect other such pandemics to arise from who knows where.  From what I've seen of American factory farms, the conditions under which animals are kept, killed processed and sold, it's only a matter of time before one comes from Iowa or some other state, perhaps Maine where some of the most appalling conditions in the egg industry had the protection of Olympia Snowe and other members of the Republican establishment, here and in D C.  

We change from how things once were or we face another one of these. We change or we die.