Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Dr. John Campbell"
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Keep safe, don’t fall prey to the QAnon trolls. Continue watching Dr. John. He goes over mortality figures. Right now they look very low, like a 0.003% mortality rate. That’s three people in one hundred thousand. However, your concern is about the long term, so keep an eye on that number and see if it changes.
Give yourself a window. Tell yourself, “In six months, I’m going to weigh all the current informational from credible sources, and either get vaccinated, or set a new window.” And mark it down on you calendar! Pencil it in, you might decide to get vaccinated sooner. 😄
Above all, take care of yourself! Follow the health safety protocols.
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@mathbrown9099 The Vaccine doesn’t treat infection, it is supposed to prevent it. If your state’s death rate is going down, that’s great! But remember death rate data is a “trailing indicator”. It’s an indication that fewer people were getting sick 2-4 weeks ago.
If the infestation rates are still going up, here is the danger: your medical infrastructure becomes saturated and then overwhelmed. When this happens, your medical workers are pushed beyond their capacity, quality of care can’t be maintained, and non-Covid medical needs, even urgent ones, don’t get as rapid a response as they would normally.
An example of this latter case is someone having a stroke, and not being able to get proper care in time, because the hospital can’t move them to the head of the line. So they die, or have much more serious effects from the stroke. Remember at the beginning of the pandemic, when the talk was about “flattening the curve”? This is what they were talking about, but now it’s more like, “trying to hammer down the spikes”.
The new variants are more infectious, meaning they spread more easily. We mustn’t get frightened, but we must not let down our guard. Even if the trends improve (as they have in your neck of the woods), we need to remain vigilant. Look what has happened in Southern California (my home state). The thought they had a handle on it and got too relaxed.
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Not as “chilling” as the current polar effect of climate change we might be experiencing currently! 😫 But seriously, preparations for the next pandemic should be accompanied by a deep evaluation of how our societies operate, the flexibility of the frameworks of our politics, and the management of resources.
What do I mean by all of the above? I’m a conservative, and it’s clear in my mind that the conservative response to the pandemic has been insufficient at best, and counterproductive at worst. There is a time and place for an emphasis on individual liberty and free enterprise, but a global emergency is not it. (Not to mention that other structural weaknesses of the conservative program have been revealed by the pandemic that undermines the conservative stance.)
What is required is more social cohesion, not less. More international cooperation, not nationalism. And though it pains me to say it, more liberal redistribution of resources to insure everyone can survive disruptions to the economy.
This liberal spending has already required a near disastrous overextension of credit in my country. When the current emergency has passed, that borrowing needs to be repaid so that we can borrow again in the next emergency. (To be honest here, in my country, the more liberal of the two major parties has a better track record when it comes to deficits. I think this is more the case that the conservative party has actually gone off the rails and lost touch with the meaning of conservatism. Maybe liberals make better conservatives?)
To me, the proper response to recurrent emergencies is, you lay by a reserve during fat years so that you can draw on it during lean years. You invest in the infrastructure you will need to call on during emergencies, instead of letting it whither in between emergencies.
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