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Delta is still the dominant strain in the US. Your desire to return to "normal" is counterproductive to preventing the spread of contagious disease. A lot of t

Delta is still the dominant strain in the US. Your desire to return to "normal" is counterproductive to preventing the spread of contagious disease. A lot of the country has already turned back to normal, and it shows in the fact that we have 140k cases a day and thousands of deaths per day. When 9/11 happened, we vowed to "never forget", but with Covid, it seems that self-induced Amnesia is what people are actually fighting for. Lets not go back to a world where it was normal to show up to work sick and we had very little in the way prepared for when a deadly disease was spreading. The culture around sickness and disease has to change. This is vastly more important than "getting to Mars" to save humanity. > We have all the data one could hope to have, vaccines, treatments, we know how to care for those that are sick, and the vast majority of people that are dying are basically at the end of their natural lives anyway. Really? In the US We have politicians of all stripes actively subverting data from being gathered and distributed. I could write a whole book on how the US failed during this Pandemic.

NoblePublius 5y ago
Please describe with specificity your goal for Covid and how masking, vaccine mandates, lockdowns, or any other coercive policy is going to get us there. Be sure to first review infections and deaths per capita in free states like Florida (lower) versus Covidistan states like New York and California (higher). Vaccines are freely available and remain effective against severe disease. That’s all there is.
johnchristopher 5y ago
> Your desire to return to "normal" is counterproductive to preventing the spread of contagious disease. A lot of the country has already turned back to normal, and it shows in the fact that we have 140k cases a day and thousands of deaths per day. When 9/11 happened, we vowed to "never forget", but with Covid, it seems that self-induced Amnesia is what people are actually fighting for. Which reminds me of this article: https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/1918-pandemic-compared-to-covid-19 https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/1918-pandemic-compared-to-... Covid-19: We're already forgetting the best lesson from the 1918 pandemic - There are individual and collective dangers to this forced amnesia.

NoblePublius 5y ago

Please describe with specificity your goal for Covid and how masking, vaccine mandates, lockdowns, or any other coercive policy is going to get us there. Be sure to first review infections and deaths per capita in free states like Florida (lower) versus Covidistan states like New York and California (higher). Vaccines are freely available and remain effective against severe disease. That’s all there is.

johnchristopher 5y ago

> Your desire to return to "normal" is counterproductive to preventing the spread of contagious disease. A lot of the country has already turned back to normal, and it shows in the fact that we have 140k cases a day and thousands of deaths per day. When 9/11 happened, we vowed to "never forget", but with Covid, it seems that self-induced Amnesia is what people are actually fighting for. Which reminds me of this article: https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/1918-pandemic-compared-to-covid-19 https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/1918-pandemic-compared-to-... Covid-19: We're already forgetting the best lesson from the 1918 pandemic - There are individual and collective dangers to this forced amnesia.