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We're going to look back on our treatment of children these past 2 years as one of the greatest blunders in the history of public health policy.
We sacrificed the mental health of the young for the physical health of the old.
Who cares if the poor family never recovers after financial crisis.
We're going to look back on our treatment of children these past 2 years as one of the greatest blunders in the history of public health policy.
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Finally some glimmers of hope in moving past Covid.. if Omicron continues on its current track of highly infectious but less serious —- and infection confers reactive immunity to a variety of strains, we could be closer to the endemic but manageable end game. Good vaccines + mild severity illness are basically the best case. What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nig…
Indeed! I really hope governments will start recognising this and give us back our freedom. Media messages and restrictions are still pretty negative, despite the lack of severity. I don't know how can they talk about another lockdown. Delta also had lower mortality than the first wave: this was confirmed by some fact-checkers and not by others (depending on how alarmist the fact-checker is) but looking at numbers, i…
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>What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nightmare that would keep this rolling. How do we know we won't end up with that? Omicron evolved from Beta, which had pretty well disappeared when Omicron sprung up.
The better omicron is at spreading the more people it will confer natural / hybrid immunity to, reducing the dangers of a future variant.
We're going to look back on our treatment of children these past 2 years as one of the greatest blunders in the history of public health policy.
So the long Covid we’ve been afraid of for our children this whole time has actually been long term immunity? How ironic that our own push to vaccinate and save our children could put them in a worse position immunity-wise. Like rain on your wedding day.
Is there any reason to assume that initial infection with Covid can't cause both immunity against subsequent infection AND long Covid symptoms? Think about how chicken pox works. You get infected, you deal with (usually but not always) mild symptoms, and then you don't get chicken pox again. But you are susceptible to shingles later in life.
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We sacrificed the mental health of the young for the physical health of the old.
But hey, grandma gets to live another year now. Who cares if the poor family never recovers after financial crisis.
Finally some glimmers of hope in moving past Covid.. if Omicron continues on its current track of highly infectious but less serious —- and infection confers reactive immunity to a variety of strains, we could be closer to the endemic but manageable end game. Good vaccines + mild severity illness are basically the best case. What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nig…
The question ever since it became clear that this coronavirus was endemic has been what a "manageable end game" is: that is, what level of risk and mortality are we prepared to accept, given that deaths from Covid will never be zero. This is, in my opinion, the primary underlying disagreement. Some people think that no amount of deaths from Covid is acceptable. Some people believe that even the peak pandemic mortalit…
So the long Covid we’ve been afraid of for our children this whole time has actually been long term immunity? How ironic that our own push to vaccinate and save our children could put them in a worse position immunity-wise. Like rain on your wedding day.
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