If the study talked about in this article is even close to right, the United States is in a lot deeper trouble than we might think right now because the conditions that are given in the quote contained in it certainly will not happen, or if tried will not succeed, because Republicans will use any attempt by a Democratic administration and Congress to do the right thing against them politically. Under the prevailing legal and media orthodoxy, their use of reason, science, moral responsibility against them would prevail.
The United States may need to endure social distancing measures adopted during the coronavirus outbreak until 2022, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The study comes as more than 2,200 people died in the United States from the outbreak on Tuesday, a record, according to a Reuters tally, even as the country debated how to reopen its economy. The overall death toll in the U.S. from the virus stands at more than 28,300 as of Tuesday.
“Intermittent distancing may be required into 2022 unless critical care capacity is increased substantially or a treatment or vaccine becomes available”, the Harvard researchers said in findings published Tuesday in the journal Science.
Giving examples of South Korea and Singapore, the researchers wrote that effective distancing could reduce the strain on healthcare systems and enable contact tracing and quarantine to be feasible.
The study acknowledged that prolonged distancing would most likely have profoundly negative economic, social, and educational consequences.
The study added that even in the case of “apparent elimination”, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should still be maintained, as a resurgence in contagion may be possible as late as 2024.
"Unless critical care capacity is increased substantially or a treatment or vaccine becomes available," Republicans with the aid of FOX, Sinclare, ABC, and the media that would follow their lead would savagely attack Democrats who tried to increase critical care capacity and fund treatment and vaccine programs. If, as under our superstition promoting media and social-disease media would certainly mount an anti-vaccine crusade which the Republicans and the right-wing media would exploit for the 2022 elections and Democrats would know that that's what they could expect. They know they could expect billionaires to fund another astro-turf campaign like the "tea-party" media circus mounted in opposition to the Affordable Care Act. They could probably count on the Republican-fascist dominated federal courts and the Supreme Court to aid and promote the political interests that would do so.
And they will certainly try to gin-up and exploit people getting tired of social distancing. They're already doing that.
Democrats certainly know this is what they can expect to happen, they know that because it is the pattern of what the media, Republicans in office and on the courts have done over and over again, using their morally responsible acts against them.
And they know they can count on the same from the play-left which hate nothing so much as Democrats doing what is possible instead of delivering everything they can currently think to ask for and, as those are delivered, for ever more pie-in-the-never-to-be-reached-sky. I can guarantee you that if Bernie Sanders had become president and AOC had succeeded him as vice president, In These Times, The Nation, Sam Seder and Cenk would all be going after her. I don't trust any of them any more than I do the Republicans and the commercial media to do anything but stab us in the back.
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