Posted on 08/01/2021 2:22:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob
...The pandemic, these professionals say, is entering a dark new phase. Nearly half the nation rejects vaccines, goes maskless and sees virus restrictions as an assault on liberty. As cases rise again, scientists and doctors are grappling with the exasperating realization that the country has the means to tame this virus, but large parts of the population reject them.
"How much more energy and effort can the nation exert to save even more lives when Americans, given the options and tools to save themselves, aren’t doing it?” said James Hodge, director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University. “That’s a very different pandemic we’re facing.”
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Christopher Mason, who studies the genomic sequencing of COVID variants at New York’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, said... this resistance has driven colleagues to leave the field, exhausted by the past year and frustrated with the public’s rejection of vaccines.
“It’s the duration of the pandemic and the constant workload, but also the feeling of society’s disrespect of a vaccine that can prevent the very pandemic that we’re in,” he said. “Knowing that there’s a way to prevent it and they’re still saying ‘no thanks’ is just maddening to people working in health care.”
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Contact tracing has also seen significant improvements. But Larry Jones, executive director of the Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence, said that as cases increase, those infected become more difficult to identify, and tracing less effective...
“I keep hearing over and over, when we call and say ‘have you been exposed,’ they hang up the phone,” he said.
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What was “interesting”, in 2020, at the start of this debacle, was the push for a 2 week-to-flatten-the-curve lockdown.
That made sense to anyone who has a good handle on viral epidemics. The reason of course, is because of the fact that nobody, not even governments, can stop the spread of a virulent corona or flu virus. It can be slowed down. By isolating everyone, the idea was to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by everyone trying to show up at once.
But these measures don’t change the numbers, just the time frame. Maybe 3/4 of the nation will be exposed to the virus sooner or later, there is no way around this, and maybe up to 1/2 the nation will actually become infected with it. I might not have the percentages exact, but you get the idea, the point is it’s a big $hit sandwich and we’re all gonna have to take a bite.
But then something curious happened. I don’t know where this notion came from. People started acting in such a way that they thought they could, or would, have to avoid this particular bug the rest of their lives. Further they somehow came to the conclusion that if they did contract this particular bug, it was an automatic death sentence.
I don’t understand “The Madness of Crowds”, but it went off the rails somewhere in there. And then the goalposts kept getting moved. “Well just stay in your basement till a Vaccine is whipped up for this thing, and THEN everything can get back to normal. I think a lot of people probably took the jab extremely reluctantly under extreme manipulation and for reasons of spousal harmonicity etc etc, with the expectation due to assurances that “everything can get back to normal”.
I suspect a lot of people are pretty pissed off right now, for a gazillion different reasons.
Good one. Well timed.
The screen-caller aint doing their jobs.
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