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> Which is why indoor dining rooms should still be closed. Pretending we aren't living through a pandemic that is respiratory in nature is fucking madness. Mayb
by Closi 5y ago
> Which is why indoor dining rooms should still be closed. Pretending we aren't living through a pandemic that is respiratory in nature is fucking madness. Maybe if we had locked down harder for longer and treated this thing seriously in the beginning we wouldn't be almost two years into this with no end in sight.
We aren't living through a pandemic anymore, we are now living in an endemic. Omicron isn't going away anytime soon - and we can't lock down businesses forever. Omicron can't be stopped by lockdown anyway (see challenges of containing it within China).
Secondly, it is highly unlikely that we would have got rid of Covid-19 even harsher lockdown measures earlier (e.g. see Omicron which happened because the original virus jumped to mice and back to humans - just humans locking down wouldn't have stopped this variant, we would have had to lock down all the rodents too).
My personal view - we have to stop viewing life as nothing but a vector for disease, and stop re-architecting our entire society and culture to avoid Covid infections (at huge societal costs to education, standards of living etc).
- sjg007 5y agoYou need to look up the definitions of pandemic, epidemic and endemic.
- pcmoney 5y agoAn endemic disease is a disease that is always present in a particular population/region. Ex. Flu, malaria, HIV, syphilis, and… COVID Am I missing something?
- sjg007 5y agoGo look up the definitions of these words and then read what Closi wrote again.
- tagoregrtst 5y agoEndemic also means, particularly in the context of disease, widely present in the area. Endemic for COVID, therefore, means that theres no locking it out because its everywhere. And since COVID can jump species, its done. Game over. It will be with us forever.
- sjg007 5y agoIf people want to use these words they should learn what these words mean in the context of infectious disease and public health and use them correctly. https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/topics/live-well/2020/04/whats-the-difference-between-a-pandemic-an-epidemic-endemic-and-an-outbreak/ https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/topics/live-well/2...
- pcmoney 5y agoIll do that if you look up pedantic