Comments by "thomas grabkowski" (@thomasgrabkowski8283) on "Can we get rid of Covid-19 forever?" video.

  1. We've also pretty much eradicated the plague, among humans-rats still carry it, and there is the occasional case of someone getting it after being bitten by a rat
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  2.  @jcr2408  Plus, infrastructure is poor in large parts of the country, with country having mountainous terrain, so delivery is hard
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  3. Other countries are failing to contain and eliminate too-most countries in the world actually
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  4. Other countries were hit hard too. They don't have Trump as president
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  5. I guess you confused smallpox with chickenpox, which is still common
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  6. Don't forget the disease is spreading in 200 countries. USA is just 1 country. Trump was only in charge of 1 country. Unless all 200 countries get rid of it, we can't say that we got rid of it,
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  7. Uncounted infections
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  8. Are you older, have health condition or essential worker
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  9. and then there are poor countries where they can't afford vaccines
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  10.  @mysteriousquestions6145  We never locked down for flu even before vaccines(virus existed long before vaccines), or any other disease back then. Then again, there were all kinds of deadly infectious diseases back then, including plague, smallpox, TB, polio. People just tolerated dying young
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  11.  @mysteriousquestions6145  People prior to the mid 20th century pretty much took dying of infectious diseases as a way of life. As the human races evolves, we increasingly value preserving lives and living long
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  12. what about other countries. They don't really care about Trump there
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  13. It wouldn't affect the other countries-only 1 country
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