First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, according to a statement. Jill Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and will stay at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., her commu…

First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, according to a statement. Jill Biden is experiencing mild symptoms and will stay at their home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., her commu…

  • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    When did we stop trying to control influenza? We didn’t. Endemic is just an epidemiological definition.

        • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          It wasn’t endemic when we could have stopped it, jackass.

          Again, “If we give up everyone will keep getting it” is not smart prediction, it is reckless indifference.

          We could have shut down and vaxxed up (at gun point) early in the plague and stopped it.

          • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            We were never going to completely eliminate this virus. No epidemiological expert ever suggested that was possible. The 1918 pandemic flu also became just another annually circulating endemic virus. That’s how it works

            • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              Because. You fuckers. Refuse to fight disease.

              Saying “it would have been impossible” doesn’t make you any less culpable in the death you contribute to by spreading that lie.

              • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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                1 year ago

                You are reading a whole lot of stuff I have never said.

                I’m a nurse who spent the entire pandemic in ICUs with patients dying of Covid. I fully advocated quarantines and mask policies (and still advocate masking). I was one of the earliest people in the entire nation to get the vaccine (two weeks after it was approved) and we were all in a queue high-fiving each other as we got our shots.

                Even if we had done all of that perfectly, Covid would not have been completely eliminated and would have become an endemic virus. Because that’s how it works.

                Endemic is not a judgement of risk. It is a factual epidemiological definition. From a public health standpoint, you don’t address an endemic infection the same way you address a novel pandemic one because those interventions will not be effective.

                We should continue masking and vaccinating when there is an increase in Covid cases the same way we should have been doing (and weren’t) for influenza for the past century.

                • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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                  1 year ago

                  Funny how “we couldn’t have wiped it out” when we eradicated an entire strain of flu during the half-assed lockdowns we did do.

                  We could have done better than we did, and fuckers screaming, “If we ignore it it will become endemic so stop fighting disease” are a huge reason why.

                  • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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                    1 year ago

                    Epidemiological experts said it would become endemic eventually no matter what we did while simultaneously saying that we should have rigorous control measures in place. Those two statements are not contradictory