aquascoot wrote on Oct 10
th, 2022 at 5:16am:
hi carl.
covid is like pet rocks , safari suits, perms, pokemons, yo yo's.
just a fad.
it trended for a couple of years and had a good run but its out of fashion.
time to move on.
Tell that to the families of the hundreds who are still dying here in Australia every week and the thousands still dying worldwide. Not to mention those currently and about to be inflicted with Long Covid.
Europe’s Emerging Covid-19 Wave Reminds Us That The Pandemic Isn’t Over ’Til It’s Over Quote:“The pandemic is over,” President Biden said in a September interview on 60 Minutes,. For all intents and purposes, life in the U.S. and other parts of the world has resumed as it was before Covid-19. But just because things appear normal doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods.
Quote:Optimism is a good thing, unless it’s a stubborn way to avoid reality. In reality, the pandemic is far from over.
While for most people the fear factor is gone, that doesn’t undo the fact that daily Covid-19 related deaths in the U.S. have remained stuck between 400 and 500 for months, or that long Covid is affecting millions to one degree or another. Vaccinations have helped to bring down disease severity and deaths considerably. But, the vaccines’ ability to curb transmission is limited at best. And so, in light of there being few if any mitigation measures set up, community transmission has stayed perilously high.
Quote:Invariably viruses mutate over time. But, the more infections there are the greater the likelihood of mutations and emerging sub-variants (as well as entirely new variants) that have immune-evasive properties, whether against vaccine- or naturally acquired immunity.
Unless Australia is somehow magically immune to what happens with Covid in the rest of the world (hint: we're not) then the same thing is about to happen here in the next few months.
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