>I do think we need to make a bit more of an effort to communicate to
people that unless they all make an effort to reduce transmission of the
virus it’s going to go on circulating and being a problem.
We’ve been told to plan to live with the virus, despite eradication having (once?) been a prospect. We are left with the equivalent of lectures over sorting our recycling when those with any substantial power to effect systems-change do nothing. We have been **told** it’s “going to go on circulating and being a problem” — we are told this inevitabilty makes curtailment of civil rights necessary.
All of this while discussion of a patent waiver to help the global south goes quiet. Current covid policy promises more deaths, more dangerous variations, and more lockdowns.
I don’t know how new, more contagious variants effect what the BMJ said earlier this year (doesn’t the delta variant reduce mask-efficacy considerably?), but in August, public health researchers argued [eradication was still a prospect](https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/8/e006810). I’m alarmed by the more or less complete absence of discussion of this in the media.
Sorry guys, Covid isnt going away this year or the next. It will be around for many years to come, we can either accept it or live in a cycle of lockdowns and restrictions. Vaccinations limit the effects of covid but I personally know a few people who have been double jabbed and still caught it.
I mean if we need evidence of why the case load is so high, the UK government produces heatmaps for cases by age group.
You only need to look at how since the beginning of July when all restrictions were dropped, its primarily younger people testing positive with the bulk being young adults, students and children. That’s why hospital admissions remain flat, as those age groups are low risk, using caseload numbers out of context like this is just the media being inflammatory to generate clicks.
Britain currently has 1.5 million active Covid Cases. Germany has 240,000.
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The wording of this article is really confusing
>I do think we need to make a bit more of an effort to communicate to
people that unless they all make an effort to reduce transmission of the
virus it’s going to go on circulating and being a problem.
We’ve been told to plan to live with the virus, despite eradication having (once?) been a prospect. We are left with the equivalent of lectures over sorting our recycling when those with any substantial power to effect systems-change do nothing. We have been **told** it’s “going to go on circulating and being a problem” — we are told this inevitabilty makes curtailment of civil rights necessary.
All of this while discussion of a patent waiver to help the global south goes quiet. Current covid policy promises more deaths, more dangerous variations, and more lockdowns.
I don’t know how new, more contagious variants effect what the BMJ said earlier this year (doesn’t the delta variant reduce mask-efficacy considerably?), but in August, public health researchers argued [eradication was still a prospect](https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/8/e006810). I’m alarmed by the more or less complete absence of discussion of this in the media.
Sorry guys, Covid isnt going away this year or the next. It will be around for many years to come, we can either accept it or live in a cycle of lockdowns and restrictions. Vaccinations limit the effects of covid but I personally know a few people who have been double jabbed and still caught it.
I mean if we need evidence of why the case load is so high, the UK government produces heatmaps for cases by age group.
[https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=nation&areaName=England](https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=nation&areaName=England)
You only need to look at how since the beginning of July when all restrictions were dropped, its primarily younger people testing positive with the bulk being young adults, students and children. That’s why hospital admissions remain flat, as those age groups are low risk, using caseload numbers out of context like this is just the media being inflammatory to generate clicks.
Britain currently has 1.5 million active Covid Cases. Germany has 240,000.
What’s the ICU situation like?
Shots are working great.