[echelon]

I did before the CDC waffled on mask guidance. I know why they did it, but it seriously hurt credibility for a whole lot of folks and will have long term ramifications. It became something to latch onto, and it was obvious almost immediately as it happened.

If the Republicans were pro-vaccination, the numbers would change overnight. The reason they're not is because the establishment threatened the ego of Trump, and he couldn't have any group challenge his ego.

This is all political fighting, and it's stupid.

[Nursie]

I was pretty horrified, watching from overseas, as a lot of the covid stuff turned into a partisan R/D points-scoring exercise.

Our politicians in the UK are pretty damned incompetent, arrogant and nakedly self-interested. But to their credit they didn't turn much of it into a party-political exercise.

They f*cked it up in so many other ways though!

(I am now resident elsewhere and glad to be off plague island)