Bones, a piece of friendly advice. If you find yourself, either in person or online, trying to downplay the severity of COVID19, don’t do it. The pandemic is very real, and very severe. We have lost 150,000 US citizens and we are going to lose a lot more. That’s the bottom line. There are other ways to look at the data, such as excess deaths compared to previous years, and those data are really bad too. No way you slice the data looks good, and that is even with somewhat decent social distancing.
Politicizing COVID19 is also a really bad idea, and in my opinion represents the major failure of our country compared to others. Instead of coming together to fight the virus as a country, we have spent months politicizing a virus that doesn’t care one bit about politics. We have wasted months arguing about aspects of the virus that needed no argument (socially distance, wear masks, don’t use meds that are harmful), instead of formulating a coherent national plan to test, track, and control.
You are right that those poor kids should not feel guilty about their grandparents, but there are a lot of adult leaders in the US government that should.
