Anytime the words “disease” and “reefer trucks” appear in the same sentence, it’s a crisis. People forget that when covid started there was nothing people coul

Anytime the words “disease” and “reefer trucks” appear in the same sentence, it’s a crisis. People forget that when covid started there was nothing people could do but ventilate and hope. Like sars, the cytokine storm burned out the lungs and that was somewhat age independent. They found anti inflammatories that worked and adapted work from other inflammation diseases to get some kind of treatment. Then vaccines appeared, and things became more manageable, but up through delta, getting covid was really bad if you ended upon ventilator. The game changed with omicron although even that can affect naive populations. Politicians and pundits trotted out “sacrifice grandma for the economy” but it didn’t really fly. Hope people remember enough from covid to improve aged care and end of life housing.