Prime, you must have me confused with someone else. Never said it was a conspiracy. My daughters are on the front line with covid in health care. I get first hand reports of how filled the ICU is every week in this hot spot of covid I live in. What I have said is that the draconian shut downs were politically motivated in blue states. It's amazing that Michigan, Illinois, NY and parts of California are reopening now that Biden is in. The NJ governor is talking about how stable the numbers are when just a week prior to the inauguration he was saying doom and gloom.
Sorry. Didn't mean to confuse you with someone else. Honestly, I never quite got how you could be cavalier about Covid when your family is in a position to know first hand how bad this pandemic is.
I would hate being in a position of deciding whether to shut things down or to let the pandemic play out. Either way, the economic impact is horrendous and you'd be second guessing your response and action.
Governor Brown has made her share of mistakes with her response to the pandemic. At time's it seems like she's damned if she does and damned if she doesn't do what others with less information think she should do. I cannot imagine any governor making the decision to shutdown by themselves, without a ton of advice from those who have more expertise in catastrophic health issues.
February 7th is when folks over the age of 80 can begin getting vaccinated in Oregon....unless the governor changes things again. The latest information is that the week of February 14th is when people over 75 will be eligible for the vaccine. This phase will last two weeks before those over 70 will be eligible.
Like I said, I am fine with folks who work in education being eligible for the vaccine before older folks. Kids need to be in school and that can't happen until the more vulnerable adult educations and other school personnel are protected. One thing for sure is when school starts up again the buildings will be cleaner then they probably ever have been. At least in the District where I worked. A former co-worker and custodian who I speak with frequently has been working cleaning the school he works at all along.