I should be working right now, giving #guitarlessons , but I'm not:

My 6:30 lesson is out sick. Maybe with "no covid"?

But last week I had 2 students out with #covid. Another who came back from the prior 2 weeks with it, who has a grandchild that had to be hospitalized.

I just got a text from a student's father that his son isn't going to be doing his lesson tomorrow, because they're admitting him to the hospital.

..and earlier today, having to make the obligatory #Facebook rounds I see 2 people I know _ both in their 30s - died last week. 2 more - in their 30s - are suddenly in the hospital for #kidneyfailure.

Anti-vaxxers may be quick to point fingers. Maybe it's a coincidence I know 2 people in their 30s that suddenly has kidney failure.

#Covid variants going around now are quite vaccine resistant. "Natural immunity" is proven to effectively be nonexistent beyond a just a few weeks, provided you're not the 3 in 5 that will have zero immunity following an infection.

Going into #Christmas / #holidays with no advisement from the #CDC, #Fauci or #Walensky I think we're reset to the year #2020: no vaccine protection, no immunity - with the added addition of more aggressive #variants AND...

.... nobody is afraid of it or taking any precautions.

#CDC counting is artificially low post July 4 changes - and #HHS not requiring reporting. With #hospitals already over 80% capacity, it *may* make the news week after next that the hospitals are in trouble.

People won't talk about it. It's been rendered a non-issue.

But going into January - I think we could see a #surge equal to 2021. Maybe worse. Probably worse.

I've learned trying to proselytize is a waste of energy. I've learned a lot about humans in the past ew years. As usual, my "pessimist" prediction I'll couch by saying "I hope I'm wrong".

If you look me up on #hellsite, I was one of the first people in 2019 to comment on the #Wuhan #virus; and comment on what was going to happen.

Given the parameters:

1) vaccine resistant/escaping variants;

2) More aggressive than the Prime variant of 2020;

3) nobody wearing masks, or taking any precautions at all;

4) having the double super spreader events of Christmas/#Hannukah/#holidays and #newyears;

5) large percentage of the population *possibly* having damaged immune response due to prior #covid infection(s),

there is ZERO reason not to expect #January to be at least as bad as 2021. THESE ARE THE PARAMETERS, and they point to January having possibly the worst ever surge.

No #health agency is preparing for it, no government organization preparing. No hospital chain as far as I know. There is literally every reason to believe the most tragic side of this, a re-run of 2020 - with the addition of orders of magnitude pre-loading conditions:

Hospitals already in trouble;
People unafraid, and delusional about the consequences.

An added bonus: #hellsite now has *thousands* of previously banned anti-science jerks promulgating their propaganda over there: as it gets worse, and it's obvious we MUST have #masks, the pushback is going to be deafening.

Much less a #lockdown

I have been working from home since 2020. But my wife cannot. I don't see how we're escaping this. It's like knowing you're going to be in a war zone in a few weeks, being shelled, and helpless.

BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY! It *never* had to be this way!!

#Sociopaths manipulating the ignorantly innocent, for political or financial gain, brought us "here". *There are more sociopath/NPD in the population than officially recognized*. They've seen the elderly die, their family, maybe even their children - and they *literally DO NOT CARE*.

I know I cannot instill intelligence points in the median, convert the true #MAGA believer to reason. That #masking isn't a social norm at this point is literally mass insanity.

But maybe a remaining angle is having people think in terms of recognizing what is invisible to the neuro typical. Certainly was to me, until events post-2016, past 3 years opened my eyes: there are sociopaths everywhere. Some more obvious than others, some more belligerent/dangerous. They're ironically maybe more outgoing, charismatic, *seemingly likable*: but they do not care about anybody.

In places of power they will not bother to warn of danger, do anything that jeopardizes their station. Whether a media personality, a representative of a health care organization, a politician - if people start considering the premise that "maybe the person you see not wearing a mask, smiling and acting like nothing is wrong, has a reason to be deceptive" a moderate fence-sitting demographic will take the situation more seriously in the coming weeks.

Maybe not. I don't know, I'm just a #guitar teacher. I hope I'm wrong, and maybe in a better time my cynicism will change.

#wearamask
#distance
#covidisnotover