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Posted on 01/03/2022 6:31:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
One of the unresolved debates of the pandemic era is whether the zero-Covid public health strategy is the correct one. This strategy can be loosely defined as driving Covid-19 as close as possible to zero through strict control measures so that community transmissions no longer appear and, should that happen, be quickly re-suppressed. Initially, even Europe and the U.S. tried this (remember two weeks to flatten the curve?) but quickly gave up with the emergence of new variants, although through 2021 a number of small, or easily isolated, countries persisted in the attempt. As 2022 dawned, however, even these were giving up.
Australians have largely been content to endure their enforced isolation from the globe on the basis that life continued largely unaffected by a pandemic which has killed 5.4 million people globally to date. But that policy of Covid zero, dubbed “fortress Australia” or “the hermit kingdom”, has now been profoundly deserted after the arrival of the Omicron variant coincided with a loosening of Covid-era restrictions….
Though Omicron has driven the increase in cases – by last week it accounted for about 80% of all Covid infections in NSW – the end of Covid zero had long been mooted. As the two-dose vaccination rate reached above 80% in November and weariness with Covid-era restrictions rose, the prime minister, Scott Morrison, became increasingly bullish about the country’s re-opening.
“Planes are back in the air, the kids are back at school, the restaurants are opening and a big Christmas is coming for all of us,” Morrison said at the time.
The major country that has not retreated from the zero-Covid course and in fact doubled down is China.
“Whatever the cost, China is likely to push extremely hard to keep the virus under control for most of this year,
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The answer is no.
Covid, however it was created, is just going to join one of the other 100 trillion other viruses and bacteria the body has to deal with.
Covid-19, or some form of it, will always be with us. The usual Fall influenza has been around for many decades.
Just about .5% of my brain worries about making cases zero. Coincidentally, that is just about the death rate from this “most serious of diseases”.
We may as well worry about zero cases of clap, cold, cancer and criminality. Not in anyones liketime is the likelihood.
From what I’ve seen with this virus it’s morphed into a severe common cold.
God’s vaccine.
Deer (and many other animals) have it all over the US now.
That means there is an animal reservoir of Covid now.
That means it is now just another cold or flu, forever and ever.
Fortunately, in spite of the Government and Enemedia proclamations to
the contrary, this does NOT mean that the answer puts humanity’s
future under masks and Gene Therapy boosters for eternity.
It’s only until [They] are certain Trump won’t be coming back and they’ll
never lose any more elections.
~Easy
One big difference between smallpox and COVID is that if you got smallpox (and lived) you had lifetime immunity. That made it possible to develop a vaccine that also gave lifetime immunity. Once you have had COVID you can get it again (I have had it twice). So the best we can hope for with COVID is a leaky vaccine.
Curious, did you get vaxed after getting Covid the first time? Asking because I had it real bad and was hospitalized for three weeks back in February and March and haven’t been vaxed yet
I think eventually we will find cures, or simple therapeutics for the seasonal flu, as well as for Covid.
Until then, Covid will increasingly become just like the flu.
How many cases of
Black Plauge last Year?
YEAR BEFORE?
IIRC,12 CASES in 2020.
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I wonder if that’s true for those of us 72 and over, and with 7 co-morbidities? That’s why I have CHQ, Ivermectin, Quercitin and Zinc at-the-ready.
They will never get it to zero. Fauci and the Chinese will make sure of that.
Of course we can. Right after we obtain Zero Common Cold and Zero Influenza and Zero Net Carbon.
The realistic case:
1) More people died of Covid in 2021 than in 2020. This is not progress. There is zero reason to presume 2022 will be better, other than rose colored glasses.
2) The of vs with foot stomping. Over 50% of men over age 80 have prostate cancer. It grows slowly and probably won’t kill the guy, but it is ONE HELL OF A COMORBIDITY. If a man has relentlessly declining blood oxygen readings and the prostate cancer is contained, it is absurd to declare that a death with rather than of. If you start that crap, you will corrupt vital data. Rational docs use the blood oxygen reading to declare cause of death, and the vast majority are rational.
3) Beware the media beginning happy talk. The Dems desperately need a declaration of VICTORY OVER THE VIRUS to win the midterms. There will be a seasonal death decline within a few weeks. Watch how it gets splashed.
Nope. I figured whatever level of immunity I had from the first time would be better than whatever level of immunity I would get from the vaccination.
I am generally pro-vaccination. I got to experience measles, mumps and chicken pox firsthand and was happy that I could vaccinate my children against them. I was lucky enough to be born after the polio epidemics of the 1950s, but knew several older kids when I was growing up that were not so lucky.
The big difference between COVID and viruses like smallpox, chickenpox, mumps and measles is that getting COVID does not give you lifetime immunity. That means that no vaccination can give you lifetime immunity. At best the COVID vaccines are leaky vaccines.
Been taking D, Quercitin and Zinc since the git go.
Started on Ivermectin when I was exposed to people who I was around who a few days later developed Covid.
Have a stuffy nose, little tired but doing OK.
One of friends whose 70, tested positive, that has not been vaccinated but on the 1MASK+ protocol is doing great.
Coronaviruses have been around for an estimated 55 million years. It will probably be around for another 55.
Are you taking your temp every couple hours, too?
Have we gotten rid of the common cold?
That’s your answer.
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