Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.

I need to stop looking at this shit, it doesn’t help :doomer:

Somewhat relatedly, what this tweet’s is suggesting is sobering. From the replies:

The image says that infection waves will come faster and faster as time proceeds, that variants will multiply faster and faster and eventually this leads to entropy (utter chaos). In your real life situation it will mean constant infection with multiple variants of SARS-COV-2.

I’m gonna have a drink, I think.

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I wanted to shoot the first liberal I heard say it was endemic as we were weeks away from the peak of the whole pandemic (so far). You don't have to "understand the science" to get that the vaccination would not be nearly as effective as every liberal politician sold us on. They sold us that half-truth because they and their petite bourgeoisie base are begging for the world to return to normal without actually wanting to take the steps to reach that normalcy (which would probably cause far less economic damage to them in the process but capitalism). Instead they use a lazy opt-in half measure and immediately cave to the reactionaries on all issues.

    Aside from it dying out on its own, the only way out of this is socialism. The masses willfully staying home in isolation for a month or two while the absolute minimal production to maintain society occurs under the auspices of the proletarian dictatorship. I can't guarantee that would even end it since there are animal reservoirs everywhere, but it would allow us to move to a model similar to the Chinese where they shut down transmission rapidly.

    • learntocod [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is spot on.

      They even sort of acknowledge this at the bottom of the article in a shitty both-sides way without directly connecting it to money:

      WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week that there was a chance that Covid could be ended as a global health emergency this year if the right course of action — which includes addressing vaccine and health-care inequity — is taken. His comments came a week after another senior WHO official warned that “we won’t ever end the virus” and that “endemic does not mean ‘good,’ it just means ‘here forever.’”