GaleNov 21, 2022
Gregg Gonsalves

The single best thing written on endemicity & #COVID is by @ariskatzourakis from last January.

"Thinking that endemicity is both mild and inevitable is more than wrong, it is dangerous: it sets humanity up for many more years of disease, including unpredictable waves of outbreaks. It is more productive to consider how bad things could get if we keep giving the virus opportunities to outwit us. Then we might do more to ensure that this does not happen."

#epidemiology

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00155-x

COVID-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmless

Rosy assumptions endanger public health — policymakers must act now to shape the years to come.

Nov 21, 2022 at 10:38amWeb
Show threadAris KatzourakisNov 21, 2022
@gregggonsalves Thank you Gregg! I appreciate the kind words, and circulating this piece here also.
Show threadk cavaliereNov 21, 2022
@gregggonsalves @ariskatzourakis Excellent article! Thank you!
Show threadProud Progressive Navy VeteranNov 21, 2022
@gregggonsalves @ariskatzourakis
I’m so tired of American idiocy and the fact that so many of us think we know better than the experts that have devoted their lives to the study of disease and how we can protect ourselves. If they could only read beyond a fourth grade level.
Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Nov 21, 2022
@gregggonsalves @ariskatzourakis So true. Yet instead of doing the work to educate the public on an effort akin to a world war that every citizen needed to get behind, bad faith pols & their enablers used the opportunity to stoke ignorance and division, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths. In my mind, this should be considered criminal.
Show threadTrey_nycNov 21, 2022

@gregggonsalves @ariskatzourakis

I honestly thought this was the way we thought of it already and the world just went political with Covid.

Show threadDoug HardyNov 21, 2022

@gregggonsalves @ariskatzourakis

Excellent article!! I also believe that the main vulnerability to covid is poor metabolic health as they share the same cellular pathways. Dr Robert Lustig has explained these vulnerabilities well.