The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the minds of many Americans who've never even had the disease i.e. in terms of their reaction to the virus' mere existence which many of them refuse to even acknowledge. And in light of their hostility to compliance with simple life saving measures including wearing face masks and refusing vaccinations against the disease, I'm very glad that my wife and I are living abroad. As such we have been able to observe this phenomenon of lunacy from afar and in safety from the violence that many of these crazies have committed against mask wearers and vaccine advocates. Moreover,I'm also concerned about the outrageous attacks in the U.S. against Asian-Americans, who have been scapegoated as sources of the the coronavirus, especially inasmuch as my wife is a Filipina and so would be at risk if we were still living in the States.
Things were bad enough before the pandemic when the anti-vaxxers were mainly irresponsible parents who were jeopardizing the safety and lives of their children by
refusing to have them inoculated against childhood diseases. But now
this twisted mentality of resistance has mutated into opposition to
coronavirus vaccinations as well and has affected the thinking of many others,including
elected officials at various levels, mainly Republicans (imagine that). It's as though
it were an epidemic itself, and one for which there is no cure. Just how out of control the situation has become in America is well documented in the following two articles which happened appear online on the same day.
"Doctor sounds alarm on low vaccination rates: 'It’s not a debate. It’s science.'"
"We’ve plummeted from dumb to dumber — to proud and unapologetically ignorant | Opinion"
In the end, I suppose what it boils down to is that Americans who want to get vaccinated will do so. And those don't, won't. Will this leave the latter to eventually infect and kill off each other? If so, they will they have no one to blame but themselves.
