I really don’t want to do this again
I worry that if mass graves due to covid weren’t enough to jolt near-unanimous support for protective measures, little else will. Would of course love to be proven wrong :(
edit: for the sake of clarity / not accidentally misrepresenting things, graves would be dug up there (as per the article) with/without covid, but the number of bodies being buried in that manner went to ~7x the amount during non-covid according to the article.
There were even those temporary structures/tents outside of hospitals in Australia. Saw them locally, none of the behaviours changed though.
I really really hope that this virus doesn’t also jump to humans and force us to deal with strollouts and noncompliant people again…
Bit late to worry about it jumping to humans.
I think the frequency of deaths after infection would need to be an order of magnitude higher to move the needle on preventative measures. People just assume it won’t effect them when 199 out of 200 people survive.
This measure of 199 out of 200 is the US population equivalent of 1,650,000 people.
Guess is time to start investing in the business of death and funerals.
This measure of 199 out of 200 is the US population equivalent of 1,650,000 people.
So, roughly in the ballpark of how many COVID has killed thus far (best estimate I could find was a little over 1.2 million). Even that didn’t really motivate people, unfortunately.
I hate to say it but I think they will attempt to shut the gate after the horse has bolted. I hope it’s just my GenX cynicism talking. I don’t want to do this again either. The last time didn’t exactly fill me with confidence, with all the politicking and social and mainstream media misinformation, and people just openly breaching the guidelines because they didn’t care enough, the antimaskers and antivaxers and sovereign citizens. After all we went through, I still see people not washing their hands when they should and coughing all over people in public places. It wasn’t that long ago, not long enough to have forgotten so easily, and it makes me angry and sad.
Narrator: In fact the human race did not take an preventive measures
Unless the human mortality rate is much higher than COVID, this is just going to be the same thing all over again. Vaccines take time to prepare and even though this is a flu strain (which should give us a headstart), there doesn’t seem to be much happening with this yet (even the US has only just started getting organised with an order of 4.8 million doses, which is a drop in the ocean if their burgeoning outbreak amongst livestock manages to jump to humans). Waiting until we have rampant human-to-human transmission to order vaccines will be too late.
Time to sit at home again and watch humanity cull itself by millions… 🤦
