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.

  • 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.