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I absolutely love the goalposts for some people seem to have shifted from “this ends when we have a vaccine” all the way to “this ends when we have a newer, bet

I absolutely love the goalposts for some people seem to have shifted from “this ends when we have a vaccine” all the way to “this ends when we have a newer, better vaccine”. When will people finally accept this is a battle that cannot be won. Humans cannot stop a contagious respiratory virus any better than they can stop a hurricane, tornado or earthquake.

jseban 5y ago
> Humans cannot stop a contagious respiratory virus any better than they can stop a hurricane, tornado or earthquake. Yep, and these actions of trying to stop the virus with border closings and lockdowns was 100% ideas from china and north korea, the crazy thing, as mentioned in other comments, is that the western world followed and also went on this futile insane don quijotean crusade.
sudosysgen 5y ago
The vaccines simply don't work as well anymore. If they were still as effective as they were at the start, we wouldn't be here. We could have ensured that by limiting worldwide transmission and distributing the vaccines more homogeneously, but we didn't. Also, we can and have stopped contagious respiratory viruses. Multiple times.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  > Also, we can and have stopped contagious respiratory viruses. Multiple times. Ones this contagious and mutative though?
  - sudosysgen 5y ago
    COVID is actually not a very mutative virus. The only reason it mutates so fast is because we let it spread so much. The more a virus spreads, the more it mutates. As far as contagion, we have eradicated smallpox, which is right around the estimates for contagion of Omicron.