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Is anyone gonna mention this was the first world wide pandemic of this scale since modern medicine really? There were pandemics, but not of such a world wide sc

Is anyone gonna mention this was the first world wide pandemic of this scale since modern medicine really? There were pandemics, but not of such a world wide scale. Sure 1918, but that wasn't to much past just throwing leeches on a person to filter out the bad blood or demons. I bring it up because, yea execution was not perfect. I expected this in the beginning. But so many people act like the response should have been perfect. Critique what was wrong with it and learn. However, assuming everyone who made a decision we didn't like as evil isn't going to help us at all. At some point in the future, there will be another world wide pandemic. It could be tomorrow, it could be 20 years from now, it could be 100 years from now. Unless everyone stays within 10 miles within home, it will happen again. And it may be be worst, like Ebola with flu-like transmission, or it may be not as bad. Whatever the case, lessons learned now will influence decisions later.

AndrewBissell 5y ago
> But so many people act like the response should have been perfect. No, no one is demanding "perfect" here, just a media and governmental infrastructure that responds to changing data to accurately inform the public and enact policies which properly balance the risks of the virus with the potential harms of the intervention. Instead what we're getting is constant overhyping of the threat (e.g. emphasizing that the % of children being hospitalized by the Delta variant is higher as a way of downplaying the reduced hospitalizations in the older, vaccinated population) to support various power grabs like restricting freedom of movement and assembly, mandating pharmaceutical interventions, and consolidating the economy into the hands of large, entrenched corporations. The fact that this pandemic is nowhere near the level of 1918's and yet we are blithely accepting the proposition "we can never go back to normal" should be giving everyone serious pause right now.
ajkdhcb2 5y ago
I think the execution was unbelievably incredible for most governments - if you take a cynical view that the goal was to manufacture consent to erode personal freedoms of the populace.

AndrewBissell 5y ago

> But so many people act like the response should have been perfect. No, no one is demanding "perfect" here, just a media and governmental infrastructure that responds to changing data to accurately inform the public and enact policies which properly balance the risks of the virus with the potential harms of the intervention. Instead what we're getting is constant overhyping of the threat (e.g. emphasizing that the % of children being hospitalized by the Delta variant is higher as a way of downplaying the reduced hospitalizations in the older, vaccinated population) to support various power grabs like restricting freedom of movement and assembly, mandating pharmaceutical interventions, and consolidating the economy into the hands of large, entrenched corporations. The fact that this pandemic is nowhere near the level of 1918's and yet we are blithely accepting the proposition "we can never go back to normal" should be giving everyone serious pause right now.

ajkdhcb2 5y ago

I think the execution was unbelievably incredible for most governments - if you take a cynical view that the goal was to manufacture consent to erode personal freedoms of the populace.