Was reading this post and was absolutely terrified. It’s gonna be bad.
Take away is that current lock downs are basically useless against the new strain as it has mutated enough to be more transmissible thru/around mask. Vaccines are still likely to work, and its not more deadly (seems like), but just going to blow thru our preventive measures like nothing.
Reposting because the first post didn’t get enough traction and I need people to commiserate with me. Pulled out the money shot image, because I know libs don’t read .
It didn’t have to be like this.
None of this had to happen.
This could have been stopped in 1-2 months.
But no, liberalism had to condemn us to the situation we find ourselves in.
Imagine that all countries had required everyone who’s not a nurse or a firefighter to stay at home for a few weeks at the beginning of this instead of whining about the economy. This could have been over by now.
Imagine that all countries had required everyone who’s not a nurse or a firefighter to stay at home for a few weeks
Or to just not breathe the same indoor air as other people. With ventilation and cloth masks and distancing- and air filters if you want to be extra safe- you can have multiple people exist in a public place without much risk.
I’m confident that the Biden administration will exercise more centralized control and we’ll have some real experts managing the distribution where it’s been largely a political exercise up until now……
I’m not so confident.
The Lord Jesus could be managing the distribution of PPE, and we still wouldn’t be much better off, all because our dumbass federated system where every state, county, town, and hamlet is able to do their own thing. Along with a population that doesn’t care and feels not being able to sit down at a restaurant is literal slavery.
But I do think that best-case scenario, we’re going to be in this until the end of 2021 maybe slightly into 2022.
Note that the much less fussy Astra Zeneca isn’t expected to be approved until April.
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I work on software related to Covid and folks at the public health organization I am working alongside do not expect 2021 to look any different to 2020. It’s going to be really interesting seeing liberals justify nothing changing after months of a Biden admin with control of Congress
Even in exemplar blue state New York, you have to fill out a 51 question form to get a fucking vaccine.
The U.K. has utterly fucked up handling covid too, but at least the vaccination process for my elderly parents was them getting an unprompted phone call and being asked “when can you come in to be vaccinated next week?”.
Ya it’s bleak. Virus mutations that are more contagious vs more deadly means much more virus spread. Viruses with high lethality kill people before they can spread the virus. I keep hearing Covid will eventually be like the common cold or flu, but who the hell knows when that will be. Sick of living like this.
I was terrified now, and now I will be even more terrified. Argentina is experiencing a rebound as we speak, many hospitales are overwhelmed, 45k have died so far. The situation is very delicate, and so is my mental health. I cannot go through another year of this, lockdown, the constant fear of infecting myself and then infecting my mother, being jobless, with 27 years in this cursed planet and literally no future. It’s going to cause a lot of damage.
