Watching a Goat Rodeo

 Thanks to a FB friend of mine, a new term: "Goat Rodeo"

It seems a pretty appropriate way to describe what's going on in the USA these days and perhaps elsewhere, as public health officials try to encourage people to be sensible and take simple precautions, while some politicians deliberately try to confound the whole process.

A recent article in The Atlantic - America is Caught in a Pandemic Spiral accurately describes the situation.

That article was followed by another: How We Survive the Winter, discussing a selection of quite simple things that all of us could do to minimize the problems that will surely visit us in the coming months.

An inordinate amount of air time has been wasted arguing (fighting, really) over this matter of masks.  It is simply too big a task to summarize it all here, but this article from Science Based Medicine, entitled Misinformation and Disinformation About Masks and COVID-19 covers the topic quite well.

So, we will see.  Schools are opening up and already cases are appearing in students all across the country.  Some, in the USA, opened and then promptly shut down again.  Cases are spiking upwards and deaths are slowly increasing.  Protests against lockdowns, masks, vaccines and probably other annoyances, are running rampant in many countries.

This could be an interesting winter.