A group of U.S. researchers has modelled where society’s current path — an unmitigated spread of COVID — would lead. They concluded that unfettered transmission could result in death tolls exceeding 100,000 a year in the U.S. alone. “Endemicity is not a victory,” they added.
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So it’ll have to stop being the United States, got it
It would literally have to make people explode into a swarm of flies
Resident Evil Village style.
At this point, I have to believe there is no limit. If it killed 50% of the entire populace, the remaining living people would just want to keep their heads down and keep going to work so they can continue to pay off their landlord's mortgage.
Celebrity deaths would need to hit some critical mass
An organized counter narrative to the consent manufacturing already taking place. Until that happens, the majority will always fall in line with authority.
Sounds romantic, I’m in
it's morquin' time
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If it got to MERS level dangerous despite vaccines... maybe? Then again, it would probably cause us to double down on the eugenics. "Why lock down? everyone has immunity now and it's only killed the old and sick... I assume"
"It's only killing the weakest 30-40% of the population! I and my fellow Neo-Aryans will rule the ashes!" - Neera Tanden, probably.
Mass famous and rich people Deaths and deliveries not happening.
Even then, they would rather have the money.
It won't happen. I think the West has conclusively proven that the capability to enact actual quarantine procedures at a national level simply does not exist. The logistics aren't there, the governments aren't capable enough, the bourgeois would coup before accepting the economic losses, and the culture is too resistant to communal action.