Think Tempest
-13
2
Think Tempest has not written any posts yet.
Think Tempest has not written any posts yet.
"I would dare to say that the pandemic could be over by now." Then you need to learn more about pandemics. The point of a lockdown isn't to end a pandemic, the point is to buy time. There are only 3 ways pandemics "end". Viruses need their hosts, so most often pandemics "end" when viruses mutate to become less deadly. Modern medicine has also let vaccines be an alternative way to reduce virus fatalities to acceptable levels. Lastly, there's natural selection and only people who have natural immunity survive, but no one wants that.
A more severe and diligent lockdown wouldn't have accelerated vaccine development, and it wouldn't have removed the virus from... (read more)
Effectively zero and literally zero are quite different things in pandemics because it only takes one infection to make it through the lock down to start another epidemic wave. Australia (your example) is currently hitting record Covid cases for the country, if you consider that "effectively zero" I don't know what to make of that. Australia's lockdown policy is security theater. If you don't know what security theater is it's like when at an airport everyone is supposed to take off their shoes. It doesn't do anything because obviously if everyone has to take of their shoes... (read 440 more words →)