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> We did obey and suffer the lockdowns. We did get the vaccine. But it certainly doesn't look like we're getting our liberties back. I mean, is the COVID gone?
by glogla 5y ago
> We did obey and suffer the lockdowns. We did get the vaccine. But it certainly doesn't look like we're getting our liberties back.
I mean, is the COVID gone? Is 99 % vaccinated so we have herd imunity? Do we have updated vaccine for the delta? Have we beaten the pandemic in any other way?
Why would you expect the measures to end, when the situation is still underway? Would you complain "it's been two days why can't I return to my home" while the water from the flood is still there, new water is approaching and new dams to stop it are being build as we speak?
- systemvoltage 5y agoMate, it's not going away. Ever.: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/coronavirus-will-never-go-away/614860/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/coronavir...
- voldacar 5y agoThe situation? This is a disease with a mortality rate less than an order of magnitude greater than the flu. If I told you a few years ago that we would be shutting down the economy, forcing people to wear masks and submit to biometric tracking and surveillance, all to (ineffectively) combat a disease that isn't even much worse than the flu, you would have rightly scoffed at me. The liberties that have been taken from us are not even remotely proportional to the danger of the "situation"
- soco 5y agoI'm afraid you have the numbers very wrong thus lmfgify, so we don't start spreading on HN false information: https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid (or just any other link)