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So you get it to zero, or to low enough to test trace isolate. China is a good example of how this can work.
by somewhereoutth 5y ago
So you get it to zero, or to low enough to test trace isolate.
China is a good example of how this can work.
- marssaxman 5y agoIf Chinese-style totalitarianism is the means necessary for an elimination strategy, I'd much rather take my chances with the disease. I do not understand why people think it is reasonable to expect that humanity can completely control diseases. That has never been the case. Disease is a fact of life. We get better and better at managing our responses, as we learn more, but we can only reduce, never eliminate the risk.
- somewhereoutth 5y agoDisease was a fact of life -but since antibiotics and vaccines we live much more disease free than we did before. Covid is reversing this progress. We do not have to become totalitarian to stamp out Covid, we just have to enforce the necessary policies for a limited and specific circumstance. I'd like to think our democratic institutions are capable of doing so in this instance, as they did so in previous times.