Now, India is not experiencing a wave in cases, but a vertical line on the case graph indicating an unbridled spread of the disease. What is typical is that all of India is not experiencing the same impacts and case load simultaneously. Some areas of the nation are hot beds for spread and others have crowds of people getting together in masses to celebrate religious festivals or have outright fun.
I always say that the piper will have to be paid one way or the other. If not immediately, then eventually.
We have seen politicians here in the United States be reluctant to reinstitute “stay at home” orders due to the the economic and political impacts of those decisions. Here in Washington state, the governor is taking a county by county approach. My own county, Pierce, took a step backward with limits being put on businesses due to the high case load.
While we are seeing the benefits of vaccination efforts take hold here in the U.S. and Israel, it is important to note once again that we are not safe in North America until the world has contained the virus. Otherwise, new variants will come forward and those variants will show up on our shores. There is no stopping the process.
Our “fourth wave” of infections is underway. How bad it gets is still to be determined.
