WHO warned that the reported number of cases and deaths do not reflect the true numbers. Read more at straitstimes.com.

WHO warned that the reported number of cases and deaths do not reflect the true numbers. Read more at straitstimes.com.

    • parrot-party@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      In a way, people are right. It’s just the flu now. Not in symptoms or severity, but in the way that we’ll just have to keep doing regular vaccinations.

      • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Just think, if we had shut down for 2~weeks at the beginning and enforced vaccination at gunpoint, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

        • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Nope, there was never a chance for us to eliminate it. By the time we even knew it existed Covid had been spreading worldwide for over 2 months (initial spread Oct-Nov 2019, discovered late Dec 2019), so there were a lot of unreported cases everywhere.

          And once it’s in a household it takes way longer than 2 weeks to eliminate due to delayed spread between household members. Also some people stay contagious for months.

          And I’m all for the vaccines, but they also don’t stop covid, they make it harder to get and reduce symptoms, but you can still get it and spread it even with the vaccine.

          The two weeks and it’s gone was a fantasy to sell people on lockdowns to slow down covid, it was never going to eliminate it.

          • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            They would have worked if we took them seriously.

            “They never would have worked” is a lie told by people unwilling to shoot violators.

            We could have ended it through a (relative to the length of the still ongoing pandemic) short period of massive testing and quarantine, like what Vietnam did.

            Instead white people had to be waited on by wage employees so their could feel important and now millions of people are permanently disabled.

            Also all the deaths.

        • pgm_01@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          This is why we are completely screwed if a bird flu or other highly transmissible but more deadly than Covid virus starts spreading. There are people who not only will not follow basic health and safety guidelines, they will actively fight, and sabotage other’s attempts at following the guidelines.

          The other part of the equation is that if the wealthier countries had not only shut down but quickly provided vaccines for poorer more densely populated countries, the spread would also have been lessened.

          • deo@beehaw.org
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            1 year ago

            Oh, you mean working together for the betterment of humanity as a whole? Fat chance.