All the Eggs in One Basket

     The CDC's handling of Covid 19 has leapt over logic so many times, they should compete in the next Olympics. First, there were as many gaps in the mask justifications as in the masks themselves. Then the vaccine they promised would turn the tide of virus turned out to only be able to water down the variant. Now the two wrongs make a right recommendation is that if more people get the ineffective vaccine, less people will get the virus. In other words, the vaccine only works if you don't get exposed to Covid. This hail Mary play became necessary because the theories that a) the vaccine will protect you from the variant b) okay, you'll still get it, but you won't spread it c) okay, so you're a germ factory, but the infection will be milder d) okay, you may still wind up in the hospital, but you won't die e) okay, you may die but only 1%, or 15%, or 35% . . . 

     But the overriding error is that the CDC has put all their eggs in the prevention basket. Where is the--okay, since you're getting it anyway, here are some recommendations on medications shown to decrease the symptoms, shorten the course, or prevent long term effects of the disease? I can think of three reasons for withholding this information: 1) The public might ignore their prevention measures if they knew there were effective means of treatment 2) They don't want to endorse anything Trump said, even if it kills US 3) They haven't bothered to find out. Fortunately, some doctors have and some of their research has not yet been removed from the internet. 

    If the CDC is really concerned about deaths and overcrowded hospitals, they would tell us all the treatments available to prevent Covid from getting to that stage. A friend told me that she was very sick until her doctor prescribed hydroxychloroquine which helped immediately and immensely. But when her daughter got Covid and asked for the same medication, her daughter's doctor refused. Fortunately, she found a provider that does not base medical practice on party politics, and she wrote her a prescription. 

   Prevention is the key--but it is the key to a closet. We cannot live there. Let's move the eggs to the reality basket. Better to break a few than leave them with the chickens at the CDC. None of the ones they counted on have hatched.