Get Them While You Can

Climate change, regime change, and preventable illness.

I can’t tell you how many times a day I hear around this area that scientists and Doctors are fake and out to harm people.

As someone who has a degree in the sciences it’s rather insulting and also false.

Why would we spend our whole lives trying to deceive other people? Scientists aren’t the ones making the big bucks. You need to be looking at corporations and politicians for that.

No, people who spend their life studying and working hard to understand the mystery of life are not the enemy.

And this brings me to the topic on my mind. The incoming “administration” (dictator wanna be) is very much an idiot. He’s tapping the worst kind of people to be in charge. Mostly conmen and sexual predators that agree with trump’s off the wall insanity and hate. They are science deniers who believe in some potentially harmful and deadly ideas with no basis in reality.

So what does that mean for everyone in the USA? It means you better stock up for the foreseeable future. Stock up on preventative measures. Masks. Sanitizers. Gloves. Medicine. (And I don’t mean horse de wormer and injectable bleach). This won’t help of course when medicine like insulin suddenly becomes much more expensive. But it may help during the next major outbreak. Because with the “team” trump is choosing there certainly will be. And no safety net to catch you if you and your family fall sick.

I’m not just talking about Covid, either. I’m talking about rarer diseases too. Which, due to climate change, are happening more and more in areas they haven’t historically been. Pair that with “leadership” who don’t believe in vaccines, even for the easily prevented common deadly ailments, and we are in trouble, folks.

So stock up and wear your masks. Stock up on free covid tests while they are still available. Get all the vaccines you need right now before you can’t. Try to avoid crowds. Stock up on water filters (since the fda and epa are going to become nothing.) Try to grow your own untainted food and make sure to thoroughly cook anything. Including fruits. Stock up on diarrhea medicine (yes, it can kill you if you don’t stop severe cases), mosquito and tick repellents, fever medicine, asthma medicine (because looser air pollution restrictions will make a LOT of people sick), first aid supplies. Just a few of the things you are going to have to think about. I’m sure you can come up with a list too, of things I haven’t even thought about.