Clarifying the power structure (like butter) would expose it and give up the game. Americans are already tracked like elk, but to sell them trinkets and give them speeding tickets.

This looks to me like it burns itself out. The US and Europe look bad now because they haven’t exhausted their fuel yet.

It may be herd immunity. The asymptomatic who have recovered without ever knowing they had the virus become a silent majority.

The northeast of the US looks especially bad. Having once lived there, I blame it on a generally unhealthy environment.

The west of Europe also looks much worse than the rest of Europe. I have no idea why.

Everybody take zinc and stay warm. Can’t hurt.

Never in history has it been technically easier to control a communicable disease — even one without a vaccine or a cure.
Yet this technology does not work on its own. Here too we see a test not only of our government, but of our form of government. Nonmedical interventions have to work uniformly and perfectly. Our system of government is incapable of achieving this.

Here’s an analogy. Suppose you manage a wildlife reserve in Montana — stocked with ten thousand elk. Suddenly this herd is attacked by mad elk disease, for which there is no vaccine or cure. What can you do? Nothing.

So let’s change the rules. Every elk on your ranch is tagged. It has a number and a tracking chip. There is no vaccine or cure for mad elk disease — but there is a test. You also have a fleet of small, birdlike drones which can land on an elk, and test it — and big ones which can capture and transport live elk.

I can’t wait to be tagged like wildlife.