{"id":47299,"date":"2021-03-30T00:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47299"},"modified":"2021-03-30T00:45:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:45:57","slug":"impending-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47299","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Impending doom&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/9860949_012021-ap-kgo-rochelle-walensky-img.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47301\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/9860949_012021-ap-kgo-rochelle-walensky-img-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/9860949_012021-ap-kgo-rochelle-walensky-img-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/9860949_012021-ap-kgo-rochelle-walensky-img-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/9860949_012021-ap-kgo-rochelle-walensky-img-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/9860949_012021-ap-kgo-rochelle-walensky-img-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/9860949_012021-ap-kgo-rochelle-walensky-img.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rochelle Walensky is frightened at what she calls &#8220;impending doom&#8221; over the future of our nation&#8217;s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>I think that if the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worries about the virus, well, I think we all should worry, too. So, with that I&#8217;ll declare that I share Dr. Walensky&#8217;s concern.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden is asking governors to reinstitute mask mandates. He is urging Americans to keep wearing masks. To keep practicing social distancing. To not congregate among strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the nation has seen a decline in positive tests, in hospitalizations and in deaths from the pandemic. However, it appears that too many of us ae letting down our guard against the virus. It&#8217;s still killing Americans!<\/p>\n<p>The Hill reports: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to lose the script, and I&#8217;m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom. We have so much to look forward to so much promise and potential of where we are, and so much reason for hope. But right now I&#8217;m scared,&#8221; CDC Director\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/rochelle-walensky\" data-nid=\"529261\">Rochelle Walensky<\/a><\/span>\u00a0said during a White House briefing Monday.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spare me the criticism that she&#8217;s a doomsayer. That she&#8217;s crying &#8220;wolf!&#8221; where none exists. That she, in the words of the immediate ex-president, is an &#8220;idiot,&#8221; which is the label he hung on Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/545375-cdc-director-warns-of-impending-doom-on-potential-new-covid-surge\">CDC director warns of &#8216;impending doom&#8217; on potential new COVID-19 surge | TheHill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>European Union nations are locking down again. Do we really want to join them? Do we dare allow this virus to seize control of our lives?<\/p>\n<p>I am becoming increasingly concerned, too, that too many states might have let their guard down prematurely. Yes, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, that&#8217;s you, too!<\/p>\n<p>I have no solutions to this, other than to echo Dr. Walensky&#8217;s concern. If <em>she<\/em> is worried about where we might be moving, then so am I.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Dr. Rochelle Walensky is frightened at what she calls &#8220;impending doom&#8221; over the future of our nation&#8217;s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. I think that if the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worries about the virus, well, I think we all should worry, too. So, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Impending doom&#8217;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8386],"tags":[891,9423,9261,9669],"class_list":["post-47299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-science-news","tag-cdc","tag-covid","tag-pandemic","tag-rochelle-walensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47302,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47299\/revisions\/47302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}