Covid 19 deaths in the US are the highest total number of any country. Public health policy is now a political firefight. Public health and protecting human life is being defined as a bad choice. The economy and business as usual, the business of destroying the planet, is more important.
Wildfires are contained with thoughtful and strategic actions. Fighting this disease in this country, at least by federal officials, feels less than the most thoughtful and strategic. Maybe more chaotic and thoughtless than needed.
Maybe that’s why over 42,000 people have died. Or maybe I am just blaming. Maybe I’m angry too. Maybe our health care workers have not trained for this and federal officials ignored our own advice and preparations.
Wildfires and economic collapse are maybe inevitable. And the spark may be as irrelevant as a pile of ashes in a windstorm.