The damage caused by a non-governing party

     

      We only have one political party, the Democrat Party, that believes in the need to actually govern.  In watching the Republican party, controlled by Trump, we see how the party is nothing more than an oppositional party with no real interest in using government to handle a pandemic.  While other Western developed countries have taken a national approach in handling the pandemic the United States has a government that has 50 state plans to address the pandemic.  The virus has shown that state boundaries are not recognized by the virus.  We have enough Republican governors to ensure that the virus will always find states with limited social restrictions.  

    We are now in a situation that reminds us of the old analogy of the boiling frog that I have mentioned before.  Basically, the analogy relates how a frog in warming water will not jump out until it is too late and they are boiled to death.  The hesitancy of governors to impose social restrictions soon enough to have an impact on the spread of the virus will only mean that when the crisis comes the impact of the restrictions will be too late to control the spread.  The point that we are at now with the virus means that anything less than a complete shut down with severe travel restrictions has any chance of controlling the virus.  Keeping businesses open on a limited basis only delays the inevitable.   The availability of the vaccines to end the pandemic will be months off to reach the 70% vaccinated level.  Reducing the spread now will mean that we reach that level sooner not later.  

     Now if we only had a governing party to take the necessary actions.