20 July

What bothers me about the whole vaccine thing is that medical experts are poor guides for pandemics. We might get a vaccine that gets us through COVID-19, but there are plenty more pathogens just waiting to whack us. We’re desperate for a vaccine so we can go back to our old lives. Those lives are over. A pandemic is a problem with our economic ideas, not a health thing. We think governments budget like households. Our economies have no resilience against massive shocks, like climate change and pandemics. That’s the problem. They’re made up of hundreds of millions of working poor who can’t subsist, and a tiny elite of obscene wealth. Our cities are slaves to cars and dysfunctional. Our landscapes are terminally ill and our water situation is dire. Our air is toxic. Our education is dumber than a rock. Millions of people are mired in New Age lunatic philosophies, and vote for reality TV stars.