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Cholera and Polio were much more severe illnesses than Covid and water is much easier to treat than air. I’m not sure where you’re getting the mission accomplis

by jl6 3y ago

Cholera and Polio were much more severe illnesses than Covid and water is much easier to treat than air. I’m not sure where you’re getting the mission accomplished attitude but from what I can tell it’s simply an acknowledgement that the risks have reduced to an acceptable level, and the costs of doing anything much different are too high.

ZeroGravitas 3y ago
I'm continually surprised by the parallels between Polio and COVID and yet the common understanding puts them in two very separate categories. > Polio is a viral infection that used to be common in the UK but is now rare. > Most people who had polio would have fought off the infection without even realising they were infected. > Some people with polio would have had paralysis, muscle weakness and shrinking of the muscles. But usually these problems would have either gone away over the following weeks or months, or remained the same for years afterwards. > Post-polio syndrome is where some of these symptoms develop or get worse many years or decades after the original polio infection. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-polio-syndrome/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-polio-syndrome/
- meijer 3y ago
  Polio is much more dangerous for small children, though. This could make quite a difference.
bugglebeetle 3y ago
> Cholera and Polio were much more severe illnesses than Covid > During 1951-1954, an average of 16,316 paralytic polio cases and 1879 deaths from polio were reported each year https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm > An estimated 1.3 to 4 million people around the world get cholera each year and 21,000 to 143,000 people die. https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/general/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/general/index.html > COVID-19 was associated with approximately 244,000 deaths in the United States during January–December 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a4.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a4.htm So no, not really.

by jl6 3y ago

ZeroGravitas 3y ago

I'm continually surprised by the parallels between Polio and COVID and yet the common understanding puts them in two very separate categories. > Polio is a viral infection that used to be common in the UK but is now rare. > Most people who had polio would have fought off the infection without even realising they were infected. > Some people with polio would have had paralysis, muscle weakness and shrinking of the muscles. But usually these problems would have either gone away over the following weeks or months, or remained the same for years afterwards. > Post-polio syndrome is where some of these symptoms develop or get worse many years or decades after the original polio infection. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-polio-syndrome/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-polio-syndrome/

meijer 3y ago
Polio is much more dangerous for small children, though. This could make quite a difference.

bugglebeetle 3y ago

> Cholera and Polio were much more severe illnesses than Covid > During 1951-1954, an average of 16,316 paralytic polio cases and 1879 deaths from polio were reported each year https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056803.htm > An estimated 1.3 to 4 million people around the world get cholera each year and 21,000 to 143,000 people die. https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/general/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/general/index.html > COVID-19 was associated with approximately 244,000 deaths in the United States during January–December 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a4.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a4.htm So no, not really.