Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic
scientificamerican ^ | 02/06/2024 | MEGHAN BARTELS

Posted on 02/06/2024 12:58:30 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

For four years now, either as a physical virus or as a looming threat, the COVID-causing pathogen SARS-CoV-2 has been the elephant in every room—sometimes confronted and sometimes ignored but always present. While once we dreamed of eradicating COVID, now much of society has resigned itself to SARS-CoV-2’s constant presence—a surrender that would once have been unthinkable.

Worldwide, there were more than 11,000 reported deaths from COVID between mid-December 2023 and mid-January 2024, and more than half of those deaths occurred in the U.S. In that same time frame, nearly one million cases were reported to the World Health Organization globally (although reduced testing and reporting means this is likely a vast undercount). In particular, epidemiologists are monitoring the newest variant of SARS-CoV-2, JN.1, and looking for any signs that it may be more severe than previous strains.

(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: challenges; chinavirus; covid; pandemic; rampant
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last
To: BenLurkin

There never was a real pandemic, there was only a very bad response to a sometimes severe respiratory ailment, for which some very good treatments were found to have been very effective, but for political reasons having nothing at all to do with public health, were suppressed. Some highly ineffectual procedures and treatments were instituted, resulting in MILLIONS being diagnosed incorrectly as “dying of COVID”, when in fact they died of some untreated co-morbidity, and they died with COVID.


21 posted on 02/06/2024 1:19:53 PM PST by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: PGR88

“…or as a looming threat.”

It looms…


22 posted on 02/06/2024 1:20:11 PM PST by EEGator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Even Spanish flu burned itself out after a couple years.

The only reason Covid is still a thing is because the left won’t let it die. They are still using it as fear porn to whip up hysteria as if it were the Black Death or Ebola, so some other highly fatal actual disease.


23 posted on 02/06/2024 1:20:50 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

So more than half of the deaths in the current cycle are in the US.

Why is that?

Was the virus designed to target Americans or is our testing system more sensitive?


24 posted on 02/06/2024 1:20:52 PM PST by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: DarrellZero

If you think about it now, your crazy uncle was probably right.
A John Bircher maybe…
Conspiracy theorist…
The money isn’t backed by gold…


25 posted on 02/06/2024 1:22:32 PM PST by EEGator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: ConjunctionJunction

I agree.

But I wonder. Are they actually that delusional? I think many are.


26 posted on 02/06/2024 1:27:47 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Pandemic of stupidity.


27 posted on 02/06/2024 1:36:25 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

One of the challenges is being able to call it a pandemic when nobody is dying.


28 posted on 02/06/2024 1:39:59 PM PST by webheart
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: cuz1961

Exactly correct.
Plus a big LOL


29 posted on 02/06/2024 1:42:05 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: 1Old Pro

I had a five day cold 13 years ago. Period
Does that count as rampant?


30 posted on 02/06/2024 1:43:07 PM PST by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Ben, Srednik here.

Right on. The only pandemic is excessive deaths due to the vaccine.

WHO woulda thunk WHO would be fostering panic?


31 posted on 02/06/2024 1:44:42 PM PST by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: CFW
Covid is nothing more than a serious cold for most people.

Pretty much. Three days of dry coughing and fatigue for unvaxxed me, three days of a standard cold for my vaxxed husband.

32 posted on 02/06/2024 1:50:19 PM PST by Lizavetta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Go get another booster asap

that way you can know that when you get the covid it will be much more mild that it could have been


33 posted on 02/06/2024 1:53:37 PM PST by algore
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin
My work currently has two people out with COVID. They way they acted when their tests came back positive, you'd think they won the lottery.

An extra 4 days of paid vacation...

34 posted on 02/06/2024 1:56:30 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin
Used to be Scientific American.
35 posted on 02/06/2024 2:06:12 PM PST by Da Coyote
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

A Meme tweet I saw a month or so ago sums it up the best:

“I sincerely believe that many people’s lives are so boring that they desperately NEED this coronavirus situation to be real.

They need it so they can LARP around pretending that they’re surviving the end of the world.

For many, this is the most interesting event of their lives”


36 posted on 02/06/2024 2:07:08 PM PST by Little Pig
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Restless

“Just to be safe, I am wearing a mask and also standing six feet from my computer while reading this article”

You’re not safe if you’re not wearing goggles with 3 dozen jabs under your belt.


37 posted on 02/06/2024 2:15:52 PM PST by chuckb87
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: DarrellZero

I too was a Scientific American groupie.

Along with National Geographic, Nature and Smithsonian.

All of these great journals of science have been captured by the loonie Left.

I dumped my subscriptions to them about twenty years ago when it became obvious that they had decided that science must serve the political agenda of Socialism.


38 posted on 02/06/2024 2:17:32 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin
CDC/WHO 8egte2 .
39 posted on 02/06/2024 2:28:41 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Scientific American is unscientific and un-American.


40 posted on 02/06/2024 2:39:04 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson