Posted on 09/23/2021 8:53:23 AM PDT by Valpal1
Each day we inch toward the end of COVID-19. The end is not when cases go to zero, but rather when we accept what has been true all along. Because of multiple animal reservoirs, because vaccinated people can still experience breakthrough infections, and because billions of people globally have yet to be vaccinated, the truth is clear: SARS-CoV-2 is an endemic virus.
Over the next decade, give or take a few years, every single person on earth has a date with this virus.
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Acceptance means reminding ourselves that the things we have put on hold -- dinners, parties, lectures, meetings, museums, restaurants, travel, weddings, and so on -- can't be put on hold forever. And avoiding all these activities in pursuit of health means giving up living in order to stay alive.
Acceptance is coming -- that's the true end of the pandemic. COVID-19 won't vanish as some may have believed early on. Instead, some pockets of the U.S. will continue to have caseload increases, some hospitals may get overloaded and local measures may be necessary, but the virus is not going away and the burden is on us to come to terms with that. Each of us has to decide how much life we are willing to trade to delay our time to meet the virus.
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Again, there is no such thing as an unplanned abortion because all surgical interventions require planning.
Also, the removal of an spontaneously deceased fetus is not an abortion. Most miscarriages complete on their own without surgery.
I don’t need to read the article. I fully understand what endemic means. As with any virus our family stays away from elderly and those with poor immune systems. So we are treating Covid the same way.
All true, but acceptance of the endemic nature also means a return to non-emergency rules of development. Since it’s endemic and not going away we can and should insist on dropping the EUA rules of development.
“But he doesn’t call for vaccine mandates.”
He does not acknowledge the Elephant in the room, the serious issues with the current vaccines.
He is pushing the vaccine as a solution.
“Everyone will meet with the virus eventually, but doing so safely (while vaccinated) is key”
Can a person with low-risk heath issue survive Covid-19 without hospitalization?
I know many that have Covid and live without hospitalization, more than those with high-risk that had died
Some researchers need to look at this:
What are the odds of a healthy 20 something year old die or be hospitalize from Covid without the Vaccine?
What are the odds of a healthy 20 something year old coming down with myocarditis or pericarditis from taking the vaccine?
IFKWIM should be IYKWIM .....
I don’t see Big Pharma agreeing to a return to the old ways.
There is just too much money on the table...
I guarantee you, that Fauci and his ilk at the CDC knows the answer to this question and are hiding it.
Because if the numbers were in their favor, they’d be crowing them to the skies on every morning talk show.
I think the EUA vaccines should be a choice and that the fat and over 50 crowd should seriously consider them.
Most, if not all respiratory viruses have an animal reservoir.
They’re not like smallpox, which only ever learnt how to infect humans.
I’ve been wondering about this. I didn’t know what “animal reservoir” was until recently (like most people I guess). My understanding of it is that animals can also catch and transmit COVID-19 and therefore, there will always be this “reservoir” of virus that we have no control over.
To be more specific, we aren’t about to go vaccinating animals, so even if 100% of humans are vaccinated, we aren’t going to eliminate the virus because of the permanent presence of the animal reservoir. Am I missing something?
I remain amazed that the “experts” consistently discount the value of natural immunity.
I understand that some people (older, obese, diabetic, etc) are at special risk. Those people can do a risk analysis and may decide that taking the mRNA vaccine, so that COVID symptoms may be reduced, may be in their interest. There might be a price to pay for that, but for some it will be worth it.
But if you are young and healthy? Thinking about your fertility? Maybe the risk analysis tells you that this vaccine is not your friend and that working through a bout of COVID is preferable. There might be a price to pay for that, but for some it will be worth it.
But, bottomline, don’t we just want society to be protected from an endemic disease? The vaccine is not the only solution. Recognizing that natural immunity is also a factor just seems like good scientific data.
The fact that the “experts” don’t want to think about natural immunity, and only want to push the jab REALLY should make people leery about that jab. Because I don’t think this is about the virus, or immunity at all.
Big Pharma won’t have a choice. They can’t operate on EUA rules if the EUA is removed when the pandemic is declared over.
I think we are viewing the world very differently.
I live in a kleptocracy where money talks and everybody else walks.
You live in a policy directed world where people of high integrity make data driven decisions.
Last year my doctor urged me to get the vaccine. I said I wanted to wait until more people got the shot to see how effective the vaccine would be. I said I believed COVID would be like the flu, that the vaccines would offer protection but it would be something you needed to get every year. He promptly told me I was wrong and that COVID was nothing like the flu.
And here we are…..vaccinated people getting COVID and booster shots on the horizon.
Medically, a miscarriage is a spontaneous abortion.
Had it. Recovered. Finished.
“you better watch your A$$ buddy”
“Acceptance is coming”
I got your acceptance right here, vax pimp.
People lack consistency and do not put risk into perspective. Driving a car, drinking alcohol, and a host of other behaviors have known risks with many yearly deaths yet we do not stop those behaviors.
The risk of a young person dying or having serious complications from COVID-19 infection may or may not be less than their chance of the same issues caused by the injection. Certainly the FDA hearing presenters indicated a very significantly greater number of heart attacks in middle aged men and in cardiomyopathy in young men following the jab than without the COVID injections, compared to age matched controls & historical data.
There is also the elephant being ignored related to sub group. By choosing to get the jab one enters the group at risk from COVID-jabs. Without the jab one is in the group where some will get COVID, some have natural immunity and some have had the disease. The putative risks from COVID infection are not appropriately representative of the risk to all people in that second group, only those with a symptomatic COVID infection, but the risk is presented as though it is for all unvaccinated. The stated risks related to COVID are only risks to the people who get sick enough with COVID to present with symptoms & get tested. The general unvaccinated population does not have that risk level since some will not contract the disease or are already immune.
Using this broad brush as a scare tactic is manipulative, deceptive and marks writers and health officials as tainted. Not to mention scientifically illiterate since the jab does not prevent the disease nor will it ever eradicate the virus.
IOW if I have had COVID my risk of getting it again is exceedingly low. The risks from the injection are much higher on a relative basis in that scenario. Similarly if I am in good health, have a genetic pattern that is more resistant etc. More importantly we have a right to make our own health decisions. Without ceding that point it is even less forgivable to mandate an imperfect drug that does not fulfill its aims and has killed many health people, over 14k in USA to date.
What if we had let healthy folks get and survive the virus...not postpone the end game for years?
By all accounts natural immunity is far more potent than any vaccine and some science says it could be long lasting.
Yep. There was no way to contain it as soon as that guy returned to Seattle from Wuhan on January 15, 2020. That was 18 months ago. After it got loose, no amount of contact tracing was going to stop it.
What is amazing is that such containment efforts applied to other viruses HAVE succeeded in stopping them from spreading globally. This one seems to have the exactly correct combination of infectiousness, lethality, and lag between infection and symptoms to do the deed.
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