12-06-2021, 09:10 PM
Indeed, research is beginning to demonstrate that it's a fairly mild variant. It spreads easily, but it doesn't seem to have more serious impacts to health...which is great. Cases don't mean much as much as people love to obsess about the numbers. South African researchers have even suggested that this may "signal the end" of the virus: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ir-stories
But of course, the media and consumers of it immediately jumped on the fear porn bandwagon the moment this was discovered, leading to governments to create fairly racist travel bans to nations southern Africa but none to other countries where this particular strain has been detected as well as stringent national/local responses. I really hope we can learn from the mistakes of this pandemic when it comes to messaging, so that our response to the next one is not as chaotic. It has been very hard to get the right messaging out without either a) angering all the crazies and b) scaring all the paranoid crazies into hiding indoors and sanitizing their milk cartons and similar nonsense people started doing.
After 2 years I'm done with this. It's not even the virus or disease I am tired of, it's listening to everyone talk about it and all of the conspiratorial misinformation. I guess I can be happy that I live in Canada where we took it seriously and the majority of us got vaccinated, rather than live in some other countries where people are routinely fighting with the police in the streets because "tyranny"...
Quote:"So I actually think there is a silver lining here and this may signal the end of Covid-19, with it attenuating itself to such an extent that it’s highly contagious, but doesn’t cause severe disease. That’s what happened with Spanish flu."
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"This virus may be similar to delta in its ability to spread or in being contagious. However, it’s the susceptibility of the population that is greater now because previous infection used to protect against delta and now, with omicron, it doesn’t seem to be the case."
But of course, the media and consumers of it immediately jumped on the fear porn bandwagon the moment this was discovered, leading to governments to create fairly racist travel bans to nations southern Africa but none to other countries where this particular strain has been detected as well as stringent national/local responses. I really hope we can learn from the mistakes of this pandemic when it comes to messaging, so that our response to the next one is not as chaotic. It has been very hard to get the right messaging out without either a) angering all the crazies and b) scaring all the paranoid crazies into hiding indoors and sanitizing their milk cartons and similar nonsense people started doing.
After 2 years I'm done with this. It's not even the virus or disease I am tired of, it's listening to everyone talk about it and all of the conspiratorial misinformation. I guess I can be happy that I live in Canada where we took it seriously and the majority of us got vaccinated, rather than live in some other countries where people are routinely fighting with the police in the streets because "tyranny"...