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> and pretending it is just the flu With vaccines, it's pretty close to that. What we learned from that past two years is that covid zero isn't possible. You'

> and pretending it is just the flu With vaccines, it's pretty close to that. What we learned from that past two years is that covid zero isn't possible. You'll never get enough people or countries to agree with the restrictions required, and as the article mentioned, there are animal reservoirs. Realistically, the amount of "trouble" looks like what China's doing right now.

HWR_14 5y ago
New Zealand seems to be doing just fine.
- refurb 5y ago
  New Zealand has abandoned zero Covid and has new cases reported every day.
  - HWR_14 5y ago
    Did they abandon Covid Zero? I thought it was a case of omicron giving false negatives on the tests they used allowing it to break through the border.
somewhereoutth 5y ago
Animal reservoirs don't seem to be causing trouble in China - my understanding is that animal to humantransmission has been observed only in minks. Vaccines have indeed been a great success - but we wait to see how much protection they give against long COVID, and how COVID might evolve to evade them. With wide circulation, there is a strong selection pressure for such evasion. Luckily Omicron was inherently milder than Delta, so the vaccines' protection against severe disease held up. Maybe we won't be so lucky the next time (and the next time, and the next time...)
- nradov 5y ago
  Are you sure animal reservoirs aren't causing trouble in China? The leading hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origin is zoonotic transmission from bats. Assuming that's correct, the bats are still out there somewhere...