The Covid Response: Thinking about it 5 years later.

I never liked the Covid response. Not the government shutting down churches (PEOPLE VS. CALVARY CHAPEL SAN JOSE is an affront to essential liberty), nor people accusing others of racism for pointing out the disease came from Wuhan (Nobody accuses anyone of anti-veteran sentiment for referring to a certain bacterial infection as Legionnaire's Disease. ), nor the government halting commerce, and, certainly, not the forced shots and having to carry a vaccination card to gain access to many places. But I can go on and list many more horrible things we did; ballooning the national debt, shutting down schools, mask mandates (a particularly absurd piece of moralistic political theater), travel restrictions.... But those are just the things that the government and some of my fellow citizens did that I dislike like. There are things that have NOT been done that I dislike just as much. 1. We have not stopped funding of the U.N.s health programs even though the U.N. was complicit in covering up for the Chinese. In fact, the United States is the largest financial backer of the U.N.'s health programs. 2. We have not stopped Chinese students in the biological sciences from studying at American Universities even though, on at least two occasions since Covid restrictions on travel have been lifted, students from the PRC have been caught smuggling viruses into the United States. 3. We have not expelled all Chinese citizens and companies from the United States. 4. We have done nothing to avenge the lives of the more than 1.1 million American's killed by the Chinese-made virus. 5. We have not imprisoned Anthony Faucci or his team members who lied to the American people. But part of the response has been good. Here is a list of the the things we have done in response to Covid that are good decisions. 1. According to the White House website, the U.S. government—via executive orders and policies issued by HHS and the NIH—has prohibited federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function and high-risk life sciences research both domestically and internationally. 2. According to Science.org, federal funding is explicitly banned for researchers and institutions in "countries of concern" such as China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba, as well as foreign nations lacking adequate biosafety and oversight standards. 3. According to the New York Times, the NIH has restricted U.S. scientists from directing federal grant money to international research partners through new or competing foreign subawards. 4. According to Science.org, specific named institutions that have less than stellar reputations in the area of hazard containment are now, barred from receiving grant money. 5. According to the University of Minnesota's CIDRAP website, the U.S. government has imposed a regime of strict and exacting rules on any laboratory conducting biological research that might pose a threat to human life, and has restricted biological research to areas of cure and prevention.