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Is the Spanish flu still an emergency because a related strain still exists? Covid still exists, but most everybody has natural or induced immunity, and it jus

Is the Spanish flu still an emergency because a related strain still exists? Covid still exists, but most everybody has natural or induced immunity, and it just isn't as severe (new strains) or as much of an unknown. It's not going away. If you want to live in a state of emergency in perpetuity, go for it, just don't expect the world to not move on.

School-Cotton 3y ago
> Covid still exists, but most everybody has natural or induced immunity That’s why I compared to 2021, not 2020. In 2021 anyone who wanted a vaccine could get one. > it just isn't as severe (new strains) AFAIK this is still unproven, do you have a source? > If you want to live in a state of emergency in perpetuity, go for it I don’t, and never did. You’ve understood my point exactly backwards. I don’t think QR code menus make sense, and, along with a lot of other pandemic theatre, I don’t think they ever made sense, as evidenced by the fact that once people decided to stop using them, nothing catastrophic happened, despite the fact that the state of the pandemic is not meaningfully different from 2021.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  Yeah if anything we could have stopped caring when the South African variant came out. That was really the turning point and many countries kept ignoring the evidence of how mild it was.