Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
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Re: Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
#2I won’t forget.
Re: Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
#3> I feel this massive gravitational pull to go back to what we were doing before,” Van Kerkhove said. “There’s no way we should be going back.”
> “One of the big reasons we wanted to hold this conference is because we couldn’t meet in person during the pandemic,” said virologist Kei Sato of the University of Tokyo, an organizer
Maybe the "massive gravitational pull to what we were doing before" is just a natural equilibrium state. If we didn't behave this way we'd still be locked inside our homes fearing the virus. The fact that only 1000 people died from it in 2024 in the US is proof enough that this specific pandemic is over.
Re: Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
#4The deep stupidity with which this subject has been met by political organizations and the broader populace has caused me to reexamine most of my expectations of "adult" behavior from both groups. In 50 years on this planet I've never been closer to losing the battle with nihilism.
Re: Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
#5The deep stupidity with which this subject has been met by political organizations and the broader populace has caused me to reexamine most of my expectations of "adult" behavior from both groups. In 50 years on this planet I've never been closer to losing the battle with nihilism.
same. we probably encounter this type of thing every 100 or so years for centuries, just enough for the previous generation to die off and the new generation to make all the same dumb mistakes again.
Re: Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
#6The deep stupidity with which this subject has been met by political organizations and the broader populace has caused me to reexamine most of my expectations of "adult" behavior from both groups. In 50 years on this planet I've never been closer to losing the battle with nihilism.
Have you considered there were ulterior motives to getting people back to work besides health and safety? It's a power game
Re: Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
#7The biggest takeaway is don’t lie to the public, no matter how moral you think you are being. Credibility of and trust in the scientific establishment has been ruined for an entire generation.
Telling people under 18 to get the vaccine or not attend school, or that vaccine immunity was somehow magically better than natural immunity were the two things that really turned me against it. And this is after I myself got the vaccine very early (March 21), because I trusted the science.
Now I have no trust in anything the government or any pharma company tells me anymore because it’s clear we have been lied to on several levels.
Re: Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
#8The deep stupidity with which this subject has been met by political organizations and the broader populace has caused me to reexamine most of my expectations of "adult" behavior from both groups. In 50 years on this planet I've never been closer to losing the battle with nihilism.
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Re: Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
#9The deep stupidity with which this subject has been met by political organizations and the broader populace has caused me to reexamine most of my expectations of "adult" behavior from both groups. In 50 years on this planet I've never been closer to losing the battle with nihilism.
The response was truly insane.
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