Originally Posted by
rickair7777
My SWAG... they want as much progress as possible now, by any and all means, so they can lighten up before the midterms. They don't want a covid surge next summer, they don't want economic disruption, and I don't think they want to be pushing mandates hard next year either... they know that will drive a lot of the middle ground away.
They put themselves deep enough in the hole now and they won’t be able to climb out by next November. I mean seriously, what do you do? Try to hire back the people you have just fired? And expect everything to be forgiven?
Do they think they can really ignore the increasing scientific evidence that post infection immunity is CLEARLY SUPERIOR (if riskier to acquire) than COVID vaccine induced immunity and then hope to convince people they are following the science?
Look, COVID is going to cause supply chain problems related to just-in-time logistics that are demonstrably NOT THE FAULT OF CURRENT POLITICIANS, but that’s going to spatter on them anyway. And that won’t be over in a single year. It’s already FUBAR. Getting people pi$$ed off at them by trying to haze the unwilling right now is unlikely to make it easier on them.