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

    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

        • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          no matter what we did

          And there we go. “It’s going to become endemic no matter what” as an excuse to do nothing.

            • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              While simultaneously spreading the lie that was used to justify (and is still being used to justify) inaction.

              We could have prevented the situation we are in now.
              We collectively chose to actively make things worse and the lies you are spreading were the exact ones used to justify that course of active inaction.

              • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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                1 year ago

                Epidemiological facts are not lies. How people react and what they choose to do with those facts doesn’t change the facts