https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/these-are-the-countries-best-prepared-for-health-emergencies/
people have stopped giving a shit. people are already referring to the pandemic as if it's a thing in the past.
The “Omicron Is Mild” meme is quite something to behold
I mean it is milder. So it's a sign that hopefully the disease will eventually just become another coronavirus during cold season. But that's still pretty far in the future. And it's so contagious that it's still a problem for our medical infrastructure.
If the normal flu was as contagious as covid it would cripple our hospitals every year. Letting this virus become seasonal is incredibly dangerous.
Capitalism is about short-term profits. Long-term thinking is unamerican
Yeah, uh, let's not think about horizontal gene transfer and what might happen if enough people have delta and Omicron at the same time.
Also, milder over decades. It might become another coronavirus by 2025 or so, maybe, but even then there will be sudden reversions to virulence over many years.
Or it could go Spanish Flu on us and go from "kind of deadly" to "very deadly". Or like Syphilis in the 1500s where it went from "Very deadly over many years" to "All your skin falls off in a week and you die screaming" and then back again several times.
idk bruv that's just what i've been told. I have literally no way to know if what you're saying is wrong or right
Yeah, it is indeed milder - but it’s not a mild disease by any means. Absolutely fucking everyone, from chuds to libs to some people on here, are taking “milder” to mean “it’s just a cold bro”, not “fuck, it’s far more contagious with just a 40% drop in hospitalization and insufficient data to assess the burden of long term chronic disease”. There of course, has been little to no push back on this narrative from state institutions due to the need for the line to go up. It’s utterly horrifying tbh
China – which is at the centre of the recent coronavirus outbreak – is in 51st place, scoring 48.2.
lmao
Can't wait for the big one million dead celebration in a few months
Cmon man, if Presinald Trunt had not left me with 400,000 dead, I would have less deaths than 1 million. whispering Less. Deaths. Than. 1 million.
I hope “fewer dead Americans” becomes an obviously fake election promise, like “more economy” has been for decades.
In 2028 I want to hear “my opponent said he could keep Covid deaths below 6 million, but under his watch they soared to nearly 7.8 million. I promise I will keep Covid deaths under 10 million!”
Just the other day I heard on CNN one of the people on the show talking about how covid is something we're going to have to learn to deal with. A very far cry from Biden riding in proclaiming he was going to stop the virus lol
NPR did a "countries are learning to live with the virus!" segment a while ago. We're gonna learn to live with the virus everyone wheeee!
edit: here's the story: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/30/1050850666/singapore-abandons-the-zero-covid-strategy
They say Singapore "abandons zero-covid policy" but they're not really lol. Just trying to torture it out of him. Actually I think this article was clipped from a longer interview segment. I remember him almost explicitly saying "no uh we're not trying to live with it that sounds crazy".
you know who won't be able to learn to live with the virus, NPR? the people it killed :amerikkka-clap:
Social Darwinism is in the air. I wonder if we'll see the return of mask off eugenics in mainstream political thought.
Actually, I wonder if the Spanish flu played a role in the popularity of eugenics in the 20s and 30s...
Many news outlets are also going after China's zero-covid policy and implying that they're getting left behind by the rest of the world. No discussion of the lives saved or failed responses elsewhere on the planet, just discussions of the scale of lockdowns (as if it's a bad thing). Recently someone here shared an article that cited pilots, chambers of commerce, and diplomats about how the quarantine rules are taking a toll.
You can get a pretty good sense of how much these outlets value human life, particularly compared to profits and xenophobia.
Yesssss I can see it now - the GOP candidate saying something like “if liberals want another dangerous shot, they can vote with their own damn wallet, not that of patriotic middle Americans”
