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Because they were afraid that they'd be here for the long term, and didn't want to tolerate that? Articles like this just confirm those fears.

• linuxftw 5y ago
  Don't worry, it's just two weeks to flatten the curve.
  • TheHypnotist 5y ago
    Stupid meme responses like this are counter-productive. Imagine if for a period of time everyone wore masks when necessary and when the time finally came, vaccinated if they are able to. We wouldn't be having this discussion. But I'm glad the unprecedented nature of this event has given you the opportunity to regurgitate low level quips.
    • linuxftw 5y ago
      You think it's stupid, I think it's poignant. The situation we're in now was all perfectly predictable. Bad science, bad models, and bad medicine from the jump. The government will never admit it's failures.
      • TheHypnotist 5y ago
        My guess is that you couldn't be less qualified to make such an evaluation. The evolution of this pandemic has been something difficult to predict. The only certainty now is that vaccination is the key to moving on.
        • linuxftw 5y ago
          Where I live it's less than 60% vaccination for adults. Most of the 3rd world is not vaccinated. Vaccinating the entire planet was never a solution to a respiratory virus that will mutate quickly. The vaccination campaign was always going to be a failure. > My guess is that you couldn't be less qualified to make such an evaluation. I'm as qualified as the president or any governor. I'm capable of understanding facts and making a decision like any other person on the planet.
          • jsight 5y ago
            > The vaccination campaign was always going to be a failure. The vaccinated half of the population is faring much better than the unvaccinated half. How can you call that a failure? Getting to that state was the goal of the earlier protection measures.
            • kcplate 5y ago
              I don’t want to speak for the commenter, but I suspect they are talking about getting the US beyond a 70% vax rate goal and not the vaccine success against the virus. That rate was always going to be a tall order and was made all the more difficult by the politicization around the pandemic and the vaccine along with some of the serious bonehead moves in the last year by the CDC and Fauci. Basically the US gov made it easy for a couple of groups that were already distrustful of the government to justify their distrust.
    • AndrewBissell 5y ago
      > Imagine if for a period of time everyone wore masks when necessary and when the time finally came, vaccinated if they are able to. We wouldn't be having this discussion. You say this based on what, exactly? On the contrary, if the general public had more broadly acceded to these mandates they would simply have been cemented in place, and more aggressive ones would have been rolled out already. We'd already have the no-fly lists and hospital bans for the unvaccinated, instead they're having to manufacture the consent for this stuff with a big propaganda campaign.
      • TheHypnotist 5y ago
        Based on vaccination showing resounding efficacy.
        • jsight 5y ago
          Unfortunately it hasn't shown resounding efficacy at preventing reinfection or enough breakthrough infections to keep feeding variants. Even with perfect coverage, its likely we'd still have delta and future variants too. This isn't an anti-vaccination comment. The vaccines are showing great results at what they were intended to do, reducing hospitalizations and deaths.