The TyeeAs bad as COVID-19 was, the authors of a new book on pandemic planning believe we got off lightly,
Crawford Kilian writes. 🦠
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Ms. Que Banh@thetyee This wording is concerning because covid never ended. Our governments just opted to go cognitive dissonance route/eugenics style of public health failures instead. We are still seeing too many covid & long covid patients in health care. I work in health care. Our government is lying to the public & I wish more media wasn't so willing to aid/abet these public health failures.
#CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafety #MasksSaveLives #LongCovidIsReal #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCNDP #FireBonnieHenry #FailureToProtect #Eugenics #BCNewDeathParty
Sven Slootweg, low-spoons mode ("still kinky and horny anyway")@PhoenixSerenity @thetyee In the Netherlands, you merely need to look at the graph of total deaths per year. It went up at the start of COVID, and has never gone down since.
TastyClock@PhoenixSerenity @thetyee Yes, I don't undetstand why the co-author who is a an epidemiologist who got LC in his 70s, refers to the pandemic in the past. Also he is never masked during his book tour interviews.
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@TastyClock @PhoenixSerenity @thetyee
What if we referred to the 1918 Flu as what it really was, and still is: H1N1? If people understood and accepted that even the 1918 Flu Pandemic never really ended, maybe they would understand that viruses mutate, but they don't go away. And unlike COVID, getting the 1918 Flu did confer some immunity. This seems to confuse people, even though they know people who have had COVID over and over again, so they absolutely know about viral re-infection, and also know about at least one common kind of reactivation (chicken pox -> shingles).
I've had reactivated Epstein Barr that kicked off my autoimmune diseases. Viruses can be dangerous even when they're dormant. Just like volcanoes.
With the advent of Bird Flu (several strains) people are beginning to understand that Type A influenza has been around, and it's here to stay. They would very much like to pretend "it's over." How many health professionals, and as you point out, epidemiologists, actually mask, ever, these days? The only place I've been to that encourages masking is the cancer center.
That severe influenza in the U.K. might be something to keep an eye on. H3N2 (subclade K). This is a virus that affects dogs, so maybe pet owners will care, if nothing else.
JohnI mean, there's an irony to a book that obviously has a mix of disinformation and truth having a section called "the Infodemic".
Just in this article, I found:
- As others have noted, it's in the past tense, despite 3-4 massive global waves of COVID infection per year
- The article, and I have to assume the book, don't seem to mention LC at all, a critical and frankly disqualifying failure for any epidemiologist
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- The book plays in Liberal propaganda about things like school closures, something that 1) didn't happen in large parts of the US and 2) didn't hurt kids nearly as much as the multiple COVID infections they have been gifted with since "opening up"
- Epidemiology failed from the highest levels, but even worse, was suborned by Democrats under Biden, which seriously weakened its credibility in the population at large
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- The focus on vaccines and medical interventions misses the trick; the reality is that we learned the hard way that vaccines are *one tool* in a huge arsenal of tools to prevent infection. For many viruses, w/ today's technology, they aren't even the most effective (see: SARS-CoV-2)
- It's wild that the pandemic story they tell starts in Africa, a continent that has successfully suppressed so many pandemics it makes the West look like children picking their nose
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- "N95s... “were mostly used to protect workers from inhaling dangerous aerosolized chemicals from paints, solvents and other substances..."
Nope. Paints and solvents require P100 filters. N95s don't protect against oil- and alcohol-based off-gassing.
At least they get the whole "baggy blues are useless" right. And that COVID is airborne.
But public health is in bad shape if this is the accuracy we can expect from its most prominent practitioners.
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OMT about the "school closures":
In the US, we have a teacher staffing crisis.
While HCWs are the highest incidence of Long COVID, teachers follow closely.
Turns out, putting a bunch of middle aged people in a room with a bunch of very very sick kids who are superspreading a disabling airborne virus that hits 35-55 year olds hardest that can reinfect you every 12-16 weeks is a very bad idea.
Perhaps worse than closing schools, no?
Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉@thetyee Please fix your headline. #COVID19 continues to be a pandemic, but it has also essentially become endemic like #influenza. We are going to need vaccines for both in perpetuity at this point to prevent disability and death.
Everyone needs to stop pretending COVID was no longer a problem when governments actively gave up for the sake of "the economy".
Anthony@[email protected] "As bad as COVID-19 has been thus far", you mean. The COVID pandemic is ongoing. Large numbers of people continue to die from it; larger numbers become disabled by it.
eswillwalker@thetyee The biggest failure of public health response to COVID, in both the US and Canada, has been the failure to clean up indoor air. Cholera convinced us to clean up our water. Somehow, public health lost its way with COVID.