Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[SvennoJ]

LurkerJ said:

This whole thing with the vaccines make me feel uneasy. The richer get it first, the poorer get it last, all because of where we were born or where we live. We're not even sure what the hell they're getting with these Chinese vaccines with questionable data.

What a sad sad world we live in, a world that a year later, still can't muster a unified response to a pandemic that's affecting us all. No universal stimulus package, no well-planned lockdowns, no basic understanding of why the lockdowns are failing and how we can make them work, not. This is gonna go on and on and on and on and on, front-line workers re-infection rates are alarming only 6 months after the first infection, and those are the ones who were heavily exposed and generated a strong immune response to the first infection. Vaccines aren't promising you an infection free world, they're being sold on the premise of preventing the severer form of the disease. 

We're not taking this seriously enough and the price to be paid is yet to be known.

Yeah it's rather depressing. The WHO already warned that the effects will be felt for decades. Here they already said the effects on youth will last for at least a decade. And more urgently https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/doctors-fear-an-impending-wave-of-cancer-patients-after-covid-19-delays-1.5295867

All because we couldn't simply shut the border last Februari in fear of all the issues that our botched response is causing now. And it's still not taken as seriously as it should be taken. If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you have it made. Here we'll continue to dance around the issue and only make it worse trying to please everyone short term. Schools back open next week, likely too soon. Last time we had to wait until cases dropped below 1/5th of what they are currently. But ehh. It's like trying to put out a forest fire, then leave when the flames are a bit lower, to then wonder why it flared back up again. Repeat.