2020: COVID-19, a previously unknown virus without an existing vaccine, whose existence was originally kept from the outside World by the government of its country of origin, becomes a pandemic shortly after other governments learn of its existence and how serious it is.
The Peanut Gallery (from then until just recently): "Donald Trump messed up the COVID response! Orange Man Bad! He should have listened to Fauci! If 'one of ours' was in charge, this would not have happened! We will learn from the mistakes of the Bad Orange Man and not repeat them! ORANGE MAN BAD!"
Summer, 2022:
Bad Orange Man is no longer President, "one of theirs" is. Fauci is still employed, but several other folks have been replaced with the new President's appointees...
Meanwhile, in today's headlines...
AFTER REPEATING EARLY COVID MISTAKES, US NOW HAS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST
MONKEYPOX OUTBREAK
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-repeating-early-covid-mistakes-us-now-h as-the-world-s-biggest-monkeypox-outbreak/ar-AA10im7h?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&c vid=d5c8b162ec5d4cd3a8d2fe6fe52046af
https://tinyurl.com/3zn9fjw5
"Monkeypox was supposed to be different, because it is much harder to transmit, treatments and vaccines were already available, much was known about a virus first described in 1958, and so many lessons were supposedly learned from COVID-19.
"Yet the United States now has the world's biggest outbreak of monkeypox: More than 6,600 Americans have been diagnosed since mid-May. Rarely seen outside Africa before the spring, the virus, a less deadly cousin of smallpox, has now triggered a 26,000-person global emergency, reaching 83 countries, 76 of which had not historically seen the disease.
"In recent days and weeks the Biden administration has stepped up its approach to combating monkeypox ... but it missed key opportunities to stop the spread..."
The Peanut Gallery: <crickets>
So much for having "one of theirs" in charge.
* SLMR 2.1a * In his hand a moving picture of the crumbling land
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