200,000 Dead, Yet we still Don’t Get It

There is pandemic fatigue. Americans want things to go back to normal. Many believe it will be gone, as if by magic. The problem is that it is not. So we are now blaming certain groups for spikes. Chiefly, we are blaming college students. My county is a perfect example. While San Diego State has less than one-quarter of active cases, residents are blaming the college for us going back into a more restrictive list. This we avoided this week.

I blame the county. And I blame citizens who are behaving as if they were individuals living on their own. This is proving just how little civic pride and civic society exists in the United States. Perhaps this crisis will prove that we need a lot more community and less individualism. But I am not holding my breath.

The County of San Diego is releasing the positivity rate every day, and that we have clusters. However, except for San Diego State, I have no idea where those clusters are. They are not releasing the names of businesses or communities where there are clusters. I guessed that we had cases where I live. Why? The size of the community and statistics told me that we likely did. Indeed, over the neighborhood grapevine I know we had cases, and I have met a C-19 survivor. In fact, there are active cases. But we do not know, officially.