Covid

It is time for a review of the Covid which started in early 2020 and ended in late spring of 2023 or more than three years. While it normally takes ten years to develop a vaccine the Covid vax took less than one year. By the time that Biden took office on January 20, 2021 more than 36 million doses had been distributed and by the end about 80% of the US population was vaccinated. From mid-March of 2020 to the fall of 2021 many businesses closed and schools closed in March of 2020. The schools lost nearly two years and students fell behind and have not yet recovered. A critique of the Covid rules exposed a number of misconceptions. First, many feel that closing schools was a mistake since children were rarely affected by the virus. Only one tenth of one percent of Covid deaths were children under age 18 and these were almost exclusively children with preexisting conditions. In an attempt to get more people vaxed the government gave out misinformation including saying that if you were vaxed you would not get the virus and you would not spread the virus. Then the government compounded the err by shutting down opposing opinions on social media and even threatening people who espoused such ideas. The use of paper masks was deemed effective in reducing the spread of the vax but not so with children. The six-foot rule meant that classrooms could only hold 12 or 13 students, so many had to work from home by computer. The origin of Covid was in dispute. At first it was from an animal to human transfer but as more information became available it appears it most likely came from a lab. Once again, people who suggested the lab were said to be spreading misinformation. Thousands of workers lost their job because they refused to get vaxed. This included many in the health field like nurses along with teachers and military personnel. This created some controversy because while these people were losing their job, millions of illegal migrants crossed the border without being vaxed.