• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Its not going to burn itself out, period. China tried a full-blown at-all-costs lockdown and they kept a lid on it for years. But they couldn't eliminate it. Highly contagious diseases that casually skip across boarders in asymptomatic careers aren't something you can just make go away.

    The class war angle is simply the defunding of health care services for the majority of the Western public. It has far less to do with COVID specifically than any kind of treatment or prevention for every form of medical care. You can't quarantine your way out of that kind of problem.

    • TheModerateTankie [any]
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      2 years ago

      At minimum we need to do as much as we can to limit the spread in public indoor areas, filtration/ventilation and masks essentially, and give people sick time to isolate.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        The pictures from DAVOS - rapid tests, HEPA filters, ultraviolet lights, on staff medical - really illustrated the disparity afforded "elites" relative to everyone else.

        Every Fortune 500 CEO who thinks they deserve this treatment but the rest of us don't deserves :gui-better: