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There’s a reason IN is called “the middle finger of the south”…
If only the herd had a way to fight back. Like a vaccine they could take that would make hospitalization or death super highly unlikely. Or a simple mask they could have worn that would have slowed the spread of the virus.
If only that herd wasn’t so brainwashed and followed their leaders right over the cliff of misinformation. And those leaders realized too late what was going to happen, and tried to get their sheeple to get vaccinated, but the herd had a full head of steam and was too proud to admit the error of their ways and nothing was going to stop them from dying an entirely preventable death to own the libs.
The entire lot of them should go down in history as joint winners of the 2021 Darwin Awards.
IBJ… can you *please* show some civic responsibility and remove this kind of comment, which is infused with dangerous, unfounded, inflammatory disinformation? Facebook removes this kind of nonsense, which is literally killing Americans. Why won’t the IBJ? The comment section should be for commentary, and opposing viewpoints should be welcome. This, on the other hand, is dangerous fiction and should be banned from this site. Lies are not valid opinions. Please be responsible citizens, IBJ, and start policing your comment section.
I am referring to Bernard’s comment.
I agree with Steve D. …. Bernard’s “comments” suggest the killing of a Federal official. “Fauchi” (whose name is really spelled FAUCI…but you really can’t expect Burnard to spel aniting write.
Seriously, his “opinion” lacks merit and his call for hanging deserves censorship.
Also agree. Disgusting rhetoric that has no place here.
Note: That comment has been removed by the editor.
Thank you, IBJ! We need more of this kind of action, as violent and misinforming “comments” and social media are an increasingly serious issue in this country.
We have a much bigger problem than the internal political squabbles of our Governor and our Attorney General.
We have a major public health catastrophe which is raging in our State and our Nation. The problems are complex and solutions remain challenging. If the situation was as clear to the public as during WWII, things like ration cards for the national good would be more likely acceptable. Back them, personal choice at times was sacrificed for the greater good of the nation. In this case,with unfortunately an invisible enemy, personal sacrifices have to be part of the greater good of our city, our State, and our Nation. We need to put back the public in public health.
Let me briefly review our situation.
As a reminder to all, we are experiencing a pandemic. In very simple terms this means, we were faced with an infectious agent of unknown origin with unknown ways to detect it, and unknown ways to mitigate it. In this case, mitigations means to at least control its spread. In the beginning, we had no tests for detection, and obviously no ways to treat it. The whole world was starting from scratch. Of course, it did not take long to define the virus and realized that it was in a family of viruses that the world had seen before. Mitigation was then potentially possible based on previous world pandemics of a similar nature, i.e. SARS, MERS. The world even had the experience of EBOLA (different virus) but required more extreme mitigation procedures in a much smaller location. Well, then remember, the US was totally unprepared, i.e. not enough masks, gloves, disposable gowns, ventilators etc. Obviously, no treatments or vaccines. Of course, with all viruses, there was constant mutations. As the world was responding on all fronts, new variants (a collections of mutations in a new strain of the original virus) emerged. In other words, the treatment and mitigation strategies had to keep up with this constantly moving target of the newest and most current variant. (There have been over 50,000+ mutations detected so far of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus.) New variants have emerged and are given names based on the Greek alphabet. Currently, the delta variant has been the most prevalent strain with omicron variant probably going to be the most prevalent soon in all areas of the US. With this constant evolution of the “enemy,” we have to evolve our strategy to combat the new “enemy.” What worked for treatment/mitigation yesterday may not work today. The scientific and healthcare communities fully understands this. New treatments and new strategies are constantly being developed. Unfortunately, the public and our political leaders (especially in Indiana including the Governor, the legislature, the Indiana Department of Heath with politically appointed staff), in general, have not seriously taken these concepts and implemented then in any type of serious or effective public heath approach for the citizens of Indiana. We have no outside expert providing guidance for our State. That is why Indiana is in such a dire situation with very catastrophic consequences to come. Obviously, public health has never been a priority for our State. The new initiative by the Governor for the task force on public health is only glossing over issues that will never be addressed. We have a public health crisis now. Action needs to occur now. It only appears that economics and “personal choice” trump any serious concern for the public at large. In a civilized society, we make scarifies for the common good. With this pandemic, selfishness and greed seems to rule the day