How can we convince the govnerment they cannot beat covid?

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So this virus is suppose to be a really powerful plague yet it needs water droplets to travel? Are you sure that's just what people want to believe to feel safer?

I agree it may never go away. The more likely outcome at this moment in time is we'll end up vaccinating the most vulnerable in society against the latest strain(s) every year, like flu.

Flu vaccination generally works pretty well, wouldn't you say? Especially in comparison with your alternative option of just not bothering to do anything.

I get a bit tired of all the false comparisons in the Covid-19 debate. Starting with the classic "Well it's not that dangerous, look at the figures". The figures are how they are precisely BECAUSE of all the measures that have been in place. Take those precautions away, and you can expect to see the death rate increase by a massive factor, I would guess at least tenfold. Why? Because at present Governments are working hard to contain a virus that would otherwise spread exponentially, and to keep the most vulnerable best protected, and to keep the infection rate low enough that hospitals aren't overwhelmed.

The infection rate won't stay gentle and predictable if we just let Covid-19 loose. Viruses don't just infect one person at a time. Think of multiplier patterns instead - 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, 91, 140, 204. Then consider what happens when there are no ICU beds and highly infectious, ill and dying people end up wheezing to death at home, in the street, in nursing homes, or on trolleys in hospital corridors. It doesn't take long for society to get overwhelmed and break down.

There's plenty of historical evidence showing this happening in the past, and so illustrating why the current precautions are necessary. Here's a very simple introduction: Wiki list of Epidemics

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Well my prediction is that covid will not get better and people will eventually say screw it, and go back to living life normally, and covid will just become as normal to people as the flu.

That's not going to happen until the initial vaccination cycle has been completed and the results assessed, and a long term strategy developed. You can't just say "screw it" and go back to living normally at the moment, because if you try it the results won't be normal. Unless of course you're somehow used to hospitals overflowing and a social life dominated by death. Covid-19 could become a relatively low risk in the long run, but only through shrewd Government policy now, and long term scientific and medical endeavour stretching well into the future.

Getting a grip over Covid-19 is reliant on people being patient, rather than saying "f**k it" and jumping the gun. That's precisely what all the science is all about - trying to reduce the threat until it's relatively trivial.

In simple terms, you can go out in the street at the moment, but it's full of tigers, and they're hungry. Or you can wait 6 months until vaccination has turned them all into racoons. They're still there, but no longer capable of biting your face off. Good luck if you think running the tiger gauntlet will be anything like normal life.

I don't think people are resilient enough to hold out long and would just give up sooner or later. And I didn't think the vaccine would do a lot of good because a lot of people I know say they wouldn't get and they are too scared, so if a lot of people feel that way, then it will still float around.

Just as a reminder, the lowest estimate of Spanish Flu deaths 1918 - 1920 is 17 million people. The upper end of estimates is closer to 100 million, and the general consensus is that it killed around 50 million. By comparison World War 1 killed approximately 38 million people. Total Spanish Flu infections were somewhere around 500 million people.

How many of those people, at the time, said "screw it"?

Flu is relatively low risk now (though less so for the elderly and the chronically ill) but that wasn't always the case. We lost a huge number of people, getting to where we are now.

Spanish Flu

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What did they to get rid if Spanish flu then? When I looked it old photgraphs from the time, no one is wearing masks in public.

The risk of complications from the vaccines is miniscule compared to the risks of Covid-19 itself. There's a lot of people out there who are useless at weighing up relative risk. And unfortunately that's being fuelled by lots of idiots on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Don't get me wrong, the world has always been full of idiots, but this is the first time everyone's ill-informed opinions have all had equal exposure. It doesn't mean they make any sense or have any validity. Opinions are like a***holes, everybody's got one, doesn't mean I need to know about it.

At the end of the day the Covid deniers and vaccine conspiracy theorists will be at a disadvantage in Darwinian terms. If Covid-19 kills them off while everyone else is protected, that's the end of the "still floating around" problem, isn't it? The whole thing becomes self-limiting. It's a definite own-goal for those affected, though.

Have you tried typing "Spanish Flu" into Google and then clicking the Images tab? I'm looking at a LOT of photos of people wearing masks.

You're going to love the write-up from Wiki....

"Public health management

While systems for alerting public health authorities of infectious spread did exist in 1918, they did not generally include influenza, leading to a delayed response. Nevertheless, actions were taken. Maritime quarantines were declared on islands such as Iceland, Australia, and American Samoa, saving many lives. Social distancing measures were introduced, for example closing schools, theatres, and places of worship, limiting public transportation, and banning mass gatherings. Wearing face masks became common in some places, such as Japan, though there were debates over their efficacy. There was also some resistance to their use, as exemplified by the Anti-Mask League of San Francisco. Vaccines were also developed, but as these were based on bacteria and not the actual virus, they could only help with secondary infections. The actual enforcement of various restrictions varied. To a large extent, the New York City health commissioner ordered businesses to open and close on staggered shifts to avoid overcrowding on the subways.

A later study found that measures such as banning mass gatherings and requiring the wearing of face masks could cut the death rate up to 50 percent, but this was dependent on their being imposed early in the outbreak and not being lifted prematurely."

Sound familiar?

That particular flu strain is still around and pops up again every so often. The main differences now are awareness, early containment and in some cases, vaccination.

H1N1

I am not sure what your point is. Are you saying that it would not be a powerful plague if required hitching a ride on water particles? Can you point to a plague did not require some larger way to transmit itself? Do you think virus cells can fly around by their own power? It is when people cough, they send water particles from their saliva, and the holes in a mask are too small for the particles to go flying through. It is pretty easy science that if everyone wore a mask to stop the spread and people acted logical, it would probably be over.



How can you write that and not see that your just ignore it is the side that is going to make this harder to get rid of. Selfish people living in fear against what the science says. Afraid enough not to get the vaccine, but not so as to think should just ignore the whole thing.

Those are good points. I just thought the virus would travel through the air a lot. Maybe I assume the worst too much and do not see a light at the end of the tunnel enough.

Sometimes when we get in an elevator, as soon as the doors close I ask my bride "Are we there yet?"

She knows I am kidding.

Sometimes when there is a really big global problem that will take a lot of time and effort to get under control, as soon as any progress is made some impatient person will ask "The problem isn't fixed yet! Wasn't it supposed to be magically fixed instantaneously?? Shouldn't we abandon all hope and give up?!"

Who are they kidding?

"They," in this case, were specifically one person, namely Donald Trump, who decided to ignore the advice he was given and downplay COVID. This decision was made back in January 2020, when COVID was still just a small problem but threatening to become a much bigger problem. Had it been dealt immediately with as the experts advised back then, it probably would not have become such a big problem.

In any case, now that the vaccines are being distributed, hopefully the COVID crisis will be over with sometime this year. In the meantime, let's all continue to wear masks and practice "social distancing" to minimize the number of people who get sick until that time.

Hopefully their fears will be alleviated after more people get vaccinated.

I know very few people who are afraid of the vaccine.

My mother got on my butt to get her vaccine appointments!

And many people I know see the value of the vaccine---and some of them are not the most enlightened people around.

We will beat COVID! It will become like the Flu where we must get shots every year, I believe.

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Recommendations then, instead of Ignoring them Like the Trump Administration Did, Very Potentially
Hundreds of Thousands of Lives Could Have Been Saved If Science, Instead of Selfish Politics Was More

in Charge...

Do or Die...

What's Amazing is that
Our System is Such that it was

Allowed to Go on When Most Every
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Problem When A President Becomes Head
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to Forever in the

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Colors of Flowers And A Full Variety of

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Deciduous And Evergreen Trees of the Nature
of Reality, The Energy of All of it, i Personally Name
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As Far As Words, Clothes, And Other Tools Go, To Add 'Body Parts' to Nature

Sadly Killing off 1 in 8 More Species of Plants And Animals in the Coming Decades...

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Lady Joyfully Said, 'Oh, You Are the Dancing Guy'

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in Flesh and Blood Life at least

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