Forgotten? No – deliberately disregarded. Sick days and distancing protocols cost money that’s much better spent on ignoring the problem and forcing people back to work.
That is a terrible article. You have to actually say who is doing what, because that’s the basics of reporting. Who is forgetting? Did they ever believe it? Come on now, either do the research or learn to write, or both.
The article refers to the pandemic as though it’s over, which doesn’t exactly help with the problem. Sigh.
The pandemic kinda is over and has been for a few years. That doesn’t mean the virus is eradicated, just that it isn’t spreading rapidly worldwide infecting huge amounts of people.
Covid was not deadly enough. I have nothing to base this on, but i really think that was the issue. If covid had been super deadly it would never have gone this far, because everyone would have been actually scared. Anyone that would have even suggested that “its not real” or “its a bill gates plot” or “vaccines are dangerous” would have just gotten a fist to the face. It was like this perfect in between of deadly enough to kill millions but not enough to make people quarantine voluntarily. All industry sectors and governments would have been mobilized immediately to make sure most people could stay at home 24/7.
The 1919 flu outbreak was just as bad, if not worse. There were naysayers and detractors doing the same thing then. Spouting at the mouth about things they dont really know. It could have been the worlds deadliest disease and there would still be someone doing the same dumbass things. There is a reason there is a status quo where most people find comfort and unless they are forced usually people do not change.
worlds deadliest disease and there would still be someone doing the same dumbass things
Yeah but they wouldnt be alive or outside of prison very long. If entire families are just wiped out in a matter of days then it wont take long until the naysayers are gone. Its just natural selection again at that point.
Im starting to feel like this conversation is going to enter eugenics territory.
I mean i wish people were smart enough to avoid these consequences, but thats not the reality we live in sadly.
That’s the irony though. If a virus is super deadly it actually won’t last as long because it kills off its host before transmitting as often. Oddly the most “successful” virus are the strains of common colds because they replicate the best while causing the least amount of issue.
The deniers will deny. Jesus, just look at MAGA today if you need another reminder. More dead people just means they’ll alter the conspiracy theory.
I think you both have a valid point. There definitely would have been a hard pivot in the rhetoric and dissonance had it been more deadly.
There’d also be a lot fewer MAGA just because licking spittle off the ground became political.
Never underestimate the level of stupidity of people.
Perhaps memory loss is a symptom of long covid.
Mask, vax, avoid unnecessary crowds. It’s normal and smart under the circumstances.
That didn’t take long
For what?
Here in the US they were never learned.
Even Biden leaned into “if we stop testing, we’d have fewer cases” even though he never said it out loud like Trump.
Hes not wrong…but it’s a head-in-sand approach. Part of why “Don’t look up” was too on-the-nose when it came out.
Still is. Maybe even more, even though the pandemic was a perfect example to show its relevance to reality.
It never happened like that. There wasn’t a head in the sand approach. OP made it up
even though he never said it out loud like Trump.
If he never said that, how do you know he believed it?
even though that never happened im going to say it did anyways
“The plan itself is well-articulated, clear and ambitious — appropriate given the challenge,” says Michelle Williams, an epidemiologist and dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. But, she adds, “execution is always challenging.”
At the time Biden assumed office, cases and deaths were hitting record highs and the newly launched vaccines were in short supply. To move the country past “a dark winter of this pandemic,” Biden pledged to restore public trust, vaccinate the country, minimize COVID-19 spread and reopen society — with a focus on equity — and resume America’s global leadership.
