I believe that most Americans save the MAGA idjits do see the country imploding, we do see that we are being riven with culture wars, we do understand democracy is at stake and fascism is the booby prize. I know that citizens are frustrated as hell but we have never faced this before so WE DON'T HAVE a playbook like the MAGAs do i.e. Project 2025. We protest and wave signs and write letters and tsk tsk our way through the days and wait wait wait for the midterms and "that'll show 'em." What can we do, really do?
Your words describe perfectly where we are as citizens and a country. The only comfort I take is the percentage of us who are against the madness, 78%. When we take to the streets, en masse, on October 18th, No Kings Day, we can only hope that p0ercentage will be reflected. We're all we really have at this time.
Thousands of native Hawaiians died in 1848 in a measles epidemic. They had no natural immunity, never having been exposed to measles before.
The MMR vaccine became available in the US in the early 1970s. So there are what, three generations of Americans who have had access to MMR vaccinations.
Those of us who received our immunity the "old-fashioned" way - by catching measles - also had a certain level of ancestral immunity, perhaps helping to blunt the worst effects of the disease.
Today's MMR vaccines protect the immunized individual, but after even a couple generations of ancestors who've never had the disease, only vaccinations, how much natural immunity - inherited immunity - is available in the average child?
I'm no scientist, but I'm wondering if we're on the verge of a major measles epidemic with so many anti-vaxxer parents not getting their children vaccinated. Will an epidemic develop not only from the lack of vaccinations, but also from a weakened natural / inherited immunity?
We had no immunity to the first surge of COVID, and look where that went.
A tune that plays in my head these days was sung by the evil Mordred in the 1960s musical Camelot - a list of the “seven deadly virtues” he scorned as only for the meek and weak, not him. The disparaged virtues are: courage, purity, humility, honesty, diligence, charity, fidelity.
The entire Trump cabal is populated with Mordreds. When the song was written, the lyricist assumed audiences knew evil vs. good as mankind had portrayed them over millennia. Millions of MAGA Americans are proving the author was naive.
I believe that most Americans save the MAGA idjits do see the country imploding, we do see that we are being riven with culture wars, we do understand democracy is at stake and fascism is the booby prize. I know that citizens are frustrated as hell but we have never faced this before so WE DON'T HAVE a playbook like the MAGAs do i.e. Project 2025. We protest and wave signs and write letters and tsk tsk our way through the days and wait wait wait for the midterms and "that'll show 'em." What can we do, really do?
Excellent synapse Katy, thank you.
That this wasn’t forseen exasperates me. I am quite disappointed in fact with the leadership of our Democratic Party due to this.
The multiple cracks in our systems ,as well as complacent America, have been made quite clear, and should serve as the lessons we needed.
It is up to all of us to remedy.
Excellent piece, Mary.
Thanks Mary once again for making sense of the senseless.
Your words describe perfectly where we are as citizens and a country. The only comfort I take is the percentage of us who are against the madness, 78%. When we take to the streets, en masse, on October 18th, No Kings Day, we can only hope that p0ercentage will be reflected. We're all we really have at this time.
Thousands of native Hawaiians died in 1848 in a measles epidemic. They had no natural immunity, never having been exposed to measles before.
The MMR vaccine became available in the US in the early 1970s. So there are what, three generations of Americans who have had access to MMR vaccinations.
Those of us who received our immunity the "old-fashioned" way - by catching measles - also had a certain level of ancestral immunity, perhaps helping to blunt the worst effects of the disease.
Today's MMR vaccines protect the immunized individual, but after even a couple generations of ancestors who've never had the disease, only vaccinations, how much natural immunity - inherited immunity - is available in the average child?
I'm no scientist, but I'm wondering if we're on the verge of a major measles epidemic with so many anti-vaxxer parents not getting their children vaccinated. Will an epidemic develop not only from the lack of vaccinations, but also from a weakened natural / inherited immunity?
We had no immunity to the first surge of COVID, and look where that went.
A tune that plays in my head these days was sung by the evil Mordred in the 1960s musical Camelot - a list of the “seven deadly virtues” he scorned as only for the meek and weak, not him. The disparaged virtues are: courage, purity, humility, honesty, diligence, charity, fidelity.
The entire Trump cabal is populated with Mordreds. When the song was written, the lyricist assumed audiences knew evil vs. good as mankind had portrayed them over millennia. Millions of MAGA Americans are proving the author was naive.
Wonderful observation. I’d forgotten about Camelot but you make a great point