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Our response was actually what made it a much more insignificant blip (thanks public health + vaccines), and technically we aren't through it yet.
by boringg 4y ago
Our response was actually what made it a much more insignificant blip (thanks public health + vaccines), and technically we aren't through it yet.
- pc86 4y agoI'd argue that we are through it in the public health, government mandate, change how you live day-to-day sense of things. Everyone who is willing to get vaccinated is probably vaccinated at this point. There is very little support for more government intervention even as cases rise in various areas, regardless of political persuasion (at least in the US, maybe it's different in the UK and EU?) The fact that COVID is still out there, infecting and mutating, is irrelevant to most people.
- tasuki 4y agoWikipedia says 0.1-0.3% global population lost [0]. It would have been perhaps 0.5% without any response whatsoever. That's still insignificant compared to all the other pandemics, which seem to often kill 20-50% of the regional population. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
- boringg 4y agoWell I think that's using an assumption that if we had greater exposure (ie less public health measures/vaccines) for the virus it wouldn't mutate and cause more damage than it did in its current form and causing a step change in in impact. Also wikipedia in and of itself is not a high quality source.