Stop the virus blame game. It’s up to us now.

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August 21 One of the legitimate concerns and scariest aspects of the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was that we didn’t know what we didn’t know.

As we have said over and over again last year, the risk of the virus was downplayed and then reversed, as projections of potential astronomical deaths were heralded and then lowered, as the masks were pooped and then imposed, it didn’t there was no game manual.

The left and their domestic media maids, having failed to defeat then-President Donald Trump with an investigation into Russia and two charges of political impeachment, have seen an opening with the virus. Either way, they would be making Trump’s fault for the arrival of the virus, its spread, the uncertainty of how to deal with it, its deaths.

In a presidential election year, the ploy worked. The president was narrowly beaten.

Today, a year away from the confusion of a year ago, the public is, well, still confused. And it may get worse rather than better.

One of the left’s drumbeats in recent months has left the public with the impression that only backward Republicans in backward states refuse to be vaccinated and that anyone who now receives COVID-19 has been irresponsible, is a anti-vaccine and must be a Republican redneck from a southern state.

Remember the playbook we complained about? Hello, delta variant.

The first fully vaccinated U.S. senator to contract the virus was Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

Hearing the news, a Democratic lobbyist from Rhode Island tweeted: “It’s wrong to hope he dies of Covid, right?” she wrote. “Ask a friend.”

ABC, recalling the success of tying Trump to the virus, headlined their story: “Donald Trump’s ally, US Senator Lindsey Graham, tests positive for COVID-19 despite having been vaccinated.”

That was over two weeks ago.

When Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas tested positive for the virus earlier this week despite having been vaccinated, two Democratic minister sons we know took to Facebook to express their joy.

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Then on Thursday, two left-wing US senators, John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Angus King of Maine, announced they were among three senators vaccinated but infected.

Left-wing Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly also announced this week that he was diagnosed with COVID-19 while being fully vaccinated.

We hope no one will criticize Hickenlooper, King and Kelly, because all of this will only make people more afraid of getting the vaccine. After all, vaccine hesitants might say, if more and more people have breakthrough infections and they are, what’s the use of getting the vaccine in the first place?

Let’s stop here and repeat what we’ve said before: Getting vaccinated offers individuals and those they come into contact with the best chance of not contracting COVID-19. Not only that, but the larger the vaccinated population, the fewer sick people there will be and the more the virus will be able to disappear from sight.

Unfortunately, the Democratic president who replaced the president accused of the virus is not making things easier. He couldn’t meet the number he had promised to be vaccinated by July 4, and now he has angered the medical profession by telling people they will need to have a booster shot.

People who have been following the vaccine news closely knew it would happen, but many experts say the recent mention of President Joe Biden of a third blow undermines the ability to get first and second shots in the arms of those who resisted them.

“I think we scared people off,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, told Modern Healthcare.

“We sent a terrible message,” he said. “We just sent a message saying that people who consider themselves fully vaccinated are not fully vaccinated. And this is the wrong message because you are protected against serious illness.”

As to whether the boosters would make the virus less transmissible, Dr Anthony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser, said he didn’t know. And other scientists said they didn’t think a third vaccine would have any side effects, but couldn’t say for sure because the issue was still under investigation.

Elsewhere, parents were still trying to figure out what to do with all the times they were told that children weren’t as susceptible to the virus, only to find out that the delta variant proves it to be wrong.

Remember there is no playbook.

But what we can say for sure is that blockages like the ones we saw in the spring of 2020 will not happen again. And that puts the outcome of this virus squarely on our backs. To avoid all the confusion that still reigns, we can get vaccinated, wear masks in large groups and on request, and avoid blaming or shaming anyone who is infected. In other words, we can be responsible. Damn, what a concept.

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