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COVID-19 rears its ugly head once more this summer, though ‘evidence of growing herd immunity’ may likewise be present. {NPR 14 August}
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/14/nx-s1-5927115/summer-vaccine-covid-19-surge
Fear not: the government of Trumpistan has matters thoroughly in hand —
FTA: Unlike previous years, the CDC hasn't issued updated recommendations for the vaccines because of litigation over the Trump administration's efforts to overhaul immunizations in the U.S. The administration no longer recommends that everyone aged 6 months and older routinely get an annual shot.
But major medical groups still do recommend it. And insurers have indicated they will keep covering vaccines. The shots are likely to remain available for free through government programs like the Vaccines for Children program.
Public health experts worry that conflicting messages will cause confusion, discouraging people from getting another shot.
"The message is that COVID vaccine and flu vaccine will be available, they're covered by insurers, they're recommended by medical societies. People should get them and get them for their kids," says Clare Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, which advocates for immunization programs.
On second thoughts… perhaps, just when nobody is expecting it, a newer and more lethal strain of COVID shall emerge — resistant to existing vaccines and more readily transmissible than prior strains — to wreak havoc anew, as though 2020 were repeating itself in full. A karmic reckoning visited upon those belligerent individuals who still have not finished crying and fearmongering about masks, social distancing, vaccination, and ‘muh freedumb’, and who did so much to prolong the pandemic with their lack of cooperation. Verily, this nation hath been tempting providence through its wholesale rejection of science and reason, and through its restoration to the presidency of the very incompetent imbecile who so catastrophically mismanaged the pandemic’s initial wave. People no longer trouble themselves even to wash their hands, let alone don masks whilst unwell or extend to others the most rudimentary courtesy of physical distance — that very simple concept somehow seems lost on most everybody now, even the few and far among thee who actually are well-meaning.
Then again, it need not even be COVID: the next major public-health emergency — whatever form it ultimately assumes — shall find America considerably less prepared than circumstances demand. So many possibilities, more so now than in decades thanks to the dominant white working-class electorate deciding to return an elderly felon, probable paedophile, and certified destroyer of nations to the presidency; and that orange motherf**ker’s subsequent decision to place foxes (led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) in charge of the proverbial henhouse that is public health and safety. We have not, of course, even addressed here the irreversible damage this cabal is inflicting upon national security, human rights, the environment, America’s international standing, or the global and domestic economies alike.
The people in our lives who cast their votes for this man — particularly those who did so three times over — are going to be brought to understand that America’s reputation in the world is never going to be restored. At least not in our lifetimes. History has a habit of rendering its own verdicts. Whether they acknowledge it or not, those who empowered this administration shall forever be obliged to live with the consequences of that choice. Something along the order of another pandemic — one perhaps two or three times more devastating than the COVID pandemic of 2020–22 — would likely prove insufficient to induce some ninety-five per cent of these individuals ever to concede their error in following this reprobate president. They voted as they did out of pure spite, and each shall go to their grave with spiteful hearts, unsatiated by whatever fleeting thrills Daddy Trump furnished them in their miserable, grievance-filled lives.
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
