The single best thing written on endemicity & #COVID is by @ariskatzourakis from last January.
"Thinking that endemicity is both mild and inevitable is more than wrong, it is dangerous: it sets humanity up for many more years of disease, including unpredictable waves of outbreaks. It is more productive to consider how bad things could get if we keep giving the virus opportunities to outwit us. Then we might do more to ensure that this does not happen."
@gregggonsalves Thank you Gregg! I appreciate the kind words, and circulating this piece here also.
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Excellent article!! I also believe that the main vulnerability to covid is poor metabolic health as they share the same cellular pathways. Dr Robert Lustig has explained these vulnerabilities well.
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I honestly thought this was the way we thought of it already and the world just went political with Covid.
@gregggonsalves @ariskatzourakis So true. Yet instead of doing the work to educate the public on an effort akin to a world war that every citizen needed to get behind, bad faith pols & their enablers used the opportunity to stoke ignorance and division, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths. In my mind, this should be considered criminal.
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I’m so tired of American idiocy and the fact that so many of us think we know better than the experts that have devoted their lives to the study of disease and how we can protect ourselves. If they could only read beyond a fourth grade level.
(1/2) @gregggonsalves In the United States at least it appears that capitalism has decided that the cost per life is ‘acceptable’, I see no other way to look at it. We have all the resources necessary to take firm control of Covid, and have since early in the pandemic, but have clearly decided it’s not worth the effort.
(2/2) @gregggonsalves Despite over 1 million confirmed deaths directly related to Covid, a number that is certainly underreported (perhaps grossly underreported…) due to the politics involved, we as a country are no longer taking any official precautions that I’m aware of.
@gregggonsalves @ariskatzourakis Excellent article! Thank you!