In recent weeks, since mid- to late October, Czechia has experienced a “fifth wave” of the Wuhan virus. This coincided with the local start of the season for respiratory illnesses in general. Doesn’t this latest spike in positive tests and hospitalizations in Czechia show that the public health measures like vaxxes, masking, testing and lockdowns don’t work to prevent or mitigate spread of the virus? “Virus gonna virus.” Waves of infection come and go, often seasonally, and none of the pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical interventions have done much to stop it. On the way up, authorities call for lockdowns and mass vaxxination, but then the wave eventually peaks and goes down whether such measures are implemented or not. We saw this pattern in US Southern states in August, in India in spring 2021, and in many other places. And can’t we expect this to continue indefinitely? So, how long will we consider ourselves to be in an “emergency”, and when will we finally accept that this is just the way it is – the coronavirus is endemic – and there isn’t much we can do about it? Doesn’t “there’s no cure for the common cold” seem to apply to Sars-Cov-2, too?
In recent weeks, since mid- to late October, Czechia has experienced a “fifth wave” of the Wuhan virus. This coincided with the local start of the season for respiratory illnesses in general. Doesn’t this latest spike in positive tests and hospitalizations in Czechia show that the public health measures like vaxxes, masking, testing and lockdowns don’t work to prevent or mitigate spread of the virus? “Virus gonna virus.” Waves of infection come and go, often seasonally, and none of the pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical interventions have done much to stop it. On the way up, authorities call for lockdowns and mass vaxxination, but then the wave eventually peaks and goes down whether such measures are implemented or not. We saw this pattern in US Southern states in August, in India in spring 2021, and in many other places. And can’t we expect this to continue indefinitely? So, how long will we consider ourselves to be in an “emergency”, and when will we finally accept that this is just the way it is – the coronavirus is endemic – and there isn’t much we can do about it? Doesn’t “there’s no cure for the common cold” seem to apply to Sars-Cov-2, too?
It never was about health - covid-1984 is a means to an end, and many have ideas what that end may be.
Never. Too many enjoy their new found powers over their fellows.