Please read this consensus statement in Nature from last month. Lately, these common-sense recommendations are being framed as "hardline," "zero-COVID," "fringe," in the popular media and even by some from our own communities, but there is remarkable consensus among scientists on what we need to do, even if we do not want to listen. As a benchmark for our aspirations, this is a fine document. #COVID #publichealth

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05398-2

A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat - Nature

A diverse, multidisciplinary panel of 386 experts in COVID-19 response from 112 countries provides health and social policy actions to address inadequacies in the pandemic response and help to bring this public health threat to an end.

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@gregggonsalves they aren't fringe but the people labeling them so wish for a world where vulnerable people dying isn't important. Cull the already unwell
And they have mostly succeeded. Ableism runs directly into eugenics when preserving human life is regarded as intolerable limitation on the healthy.
@gregggonsalves this isn't going away. The debate of "when do we get to infect people without pushback" is squarely based on eugenics.
The idea that they are being asked to do something EXTRA so the vulnerable are not eliminated as a result of selfish actions.