46-1's crazy approach to COVID-19, which preceded 46-1 ignoring it and getting on with the important business of running for re-election and dancing to YMCA, was bad enough, right? Over 400k Deaths, over 24M Infections, thank you very not much Felony Trump. But, it gets worse.
Because COVID has been around, running wild actually, for over a year, despite 46-1's worst efforts, the virus had time to mutate. Ahh, you see? A virus is not a stupid thing, it laughs in your face when you suggest injecting light and bleach or chewing hydroxychloroquine to kill it and spends the time you lent it to become sneakier. So when you get around to being less stupid--or--when you elect a president who is less stupid, it will have evolved already into a variation that stays one step ahead of un-stupid.
The original COVID 19, if you got it, provided you with some short-term immunity to getting a repeat. The most worrisome of the variants, the South African, or B.1.351, has been known to be lightning- spreading. It has also been shown this week to be vaccine-elusive. Now yesterday, Jan. 28, it was reported that in a "small" trial in South Africa by a company working on a fourth vaccine, about one-third who had B.1.351 had previously had original COVID-19. Original COVID had not provided one-third with immunity to B.1.351. :) And as if to prove its nous B.1.351 has appeared in, of all places, South Carolina in two separate individuals who were not in contact one with the other and who hadn't traveled. That is, B.1.351 has landed and taken root in the U.S. As Teresa Kearns of North Charleston, South Carolina said, “This virus is a lot faster than we are."
