• Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    that sentence should say "it's going to do this because the vaccine will never be forced on people." That's the only way to maybe stop it. We didn't stop the flu but did stop polio, so we're just real picky about our diseases.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Polio is spread by turd particles so it's actually feasible to eradicate it, that's not really the case for covid or the flu. Our chance was to just lock down for a month or two back in Feb 2020 and we fucked it.

      • sexywheat [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Our chance was to just lock down for a month or two back in Feb 2020

        There's some evidence that the virus was present in Europe months before it was first identified as a novel virus in China, Dec 1019 (some blood samples and wastewater samples) - by the time we realised what we were dealing with it was probably already too late tbh.

        I am not normally one to engage in conspiracy theory, but if there is one I believe in 100% it's that covid originated in USA.

        Fort Detrick truthers rise up!

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      The vaccine won't stop it. That was a lie fed to people to make them accept the removal of all other precautions, but it became clear very quickly that while the vaccines were effective at preventing death and severe illness, they were never able to prevent infection well enough to stop the spread. Maybe a future generation of vaccines, but that's useless until those actually exist.

    • aleph@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Even with full vaccine coverage, we wouldn't be able to fully eradicate sars-cov-2 at this point. It's too contagious and its rate of mutation is too high.

      It's a completely different virus to polio, so a direct comparison is pretty pointless.

    • MedicareForSome [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Even if the vaccine was forced on people it wouldn’t help in its current state. The vaccine efficacy is just not that good. The virus can infect many common animals including deer, dogs, cats, mink, etc.

      Any sort of eradication would require new vaccines that work in a fundamentally different way.