The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.
The coronavirus is simply too widespread and too transmissible.
For context, consider that vaccines exist for more than a dozen human viruses but only one, smallpox, has ever been eradicated from the planet, and that took 15 years of immense global coordination.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ay/614860/
The coronavirus is simply too widespread and too transmissible.
For context, consider that vaccines exist for more than a dozen human viruses but only one, smallpox, has ever been eradicated from the planet, and that took 15 years of immense global coordination.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ay/614860/
Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
Only the brain-deadest would still believe it could go away. Epidemiologists who received no air time on mainstream media were saying this back in March.
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Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
So can we stop worrying about it now?
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Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
Should we?
People were, in places a damned sight more tolerable with social distancing rules in place. Stay 2 meters apart. Or 1.5 in Belgium, or 1.0 in France, or 6ft in US, or whatever. Relax the rules, and people want to get in each other’s way again.
This says to me that general respect for others is somewhat lacking, worldwide, irrespective of culture, etc.
Why do we need a specific number, when a general consideration of respecting personal space as a fundamental would be far better, overall? Manners, polite behaviour have fallen by the wayside. The fear actually tempered some of the less appealing aspects of modern life. So we have social distancing observed out of fear, rather than civilised respect.
We’ve developed (to a great extent) a society that has an over reliance on rules to safeguard us, from ourselves. Another example of nanny-state? Several generations of modern progressive thinking have actually benefitted us very little.
We need the rules, and rant at them all at the same time.
When you’ve got elements of society who actively seek to be unpleasant, not just ignore, but overtly make efforts to spread infection-
China- spitting on handles and buttons
UK- gangs of teenagers, getting deliberately bumping into folk, and breathing directly into their faces. If it were up to me, in the UK, those youths would have had a publicly administered whipping.
There are still people who believe it’s all a hoax. Does that mean that thousands of people have been complicit in dying to perpetrate the hoax? There are still a great many people who think it only affects the old, frail and clearly sick, despite plenty of examples of victims who fit into none of those categories.
Can we stop? Yes, anytime we choose. Should we? The wake up call hasn’t really worked yet.
Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
Having done some research and study of the subject in early 2020, I was never worried about.
Unfortunately, I don't make the rules.
Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
Mortality rate: Under 65-year-old (0.09% CMR to date)Freightdog wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:27 pmThere are still a great many people who think it only affects the old, frail and clearly sick, despite plenty of examples of victims who fit into none of those categories.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/ ... #AGE775218
"Right now, the CDC's best guess is that the IFR [infection fatality ratio] is 0.0065..."
"In the United States, the current case fatality ratio is likely more dramatic-sounding than the true death rate, skewed by the fact that the real number of COVID-19 cases in the country is likely 10 times higher than official estimates."
Dr. Shantum Misra, ABC News, USA, July 24
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Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
It's all such a miserable mess.
Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
If you still haven't stopped worrying by now, I have no idea what - if anything - would have that effect on you.
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Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
I demand compensation
Slow down little world, you're changing too fast.
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Re: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
Sadly in 2020 there will still be the wackos who will claim the vaccine causes autism or some other nonsensical reason to refuse the shot for themselves and their children. With Smallpox in the 1960 these nuts were not so widespread.aggro wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 6:02 pm No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.
The coronavirus is simply too widespread and too transmissible.
For context, consider that vaccines exist for more than a dozen human viruses but only one, smallpox, has ever been eradicated from the planet, and that took 15 years of immense global coordination.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ay/614860/
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