Three thousand people are dying every day. We can do better.
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Hospitals are overflowing and many go untreated. We can do better,
Our doctors and nurses see the worst suffering they have seen, and we aren’t holding our loved ones. We can do better.
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The vaccine rollout keeps hitting snags. We can do better.
Schools are not working, we are not protecting our children or our teachers, and We can do better.
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Long covid is hurting our friends and our family and may never stop, let’s learn the lesson, so We can do better.
The press is saying we are fighting each other, but the polls say We want to do better.
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The variants are coming and will spread more rapidly, infect more children, cause more hospitalizations, kill more people, and make our vaccinations ineffective, but We can do better.
Deceivers keep saying we should accept our fate, but we know We can do better.
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Cases are going down but if we are more careful and take precautions then We can do even better.
People isolating at home infect their families and their housemates, if we support each other We can do better.
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Australia and New Zealand are living lives with family, and growing their economics and showing We can do better.
They say the horse left the barn, but it is a fire. We can put it out and We can do better.
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The economy is suffering but we can eliminate the virus and then We can do better.
Deceivers say we can’t but we can and by knowing We can do better.
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We’ve tired of this, and step by step, We can do better.
When you hear what happened today, or might happen tomorrow, keep in mind, We can do better
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Cases in South Africa have decreased significantly since mid-January. They are now reporting less than ⅕ of their peak! Enough for them to transition from our “Needs Action” category to “Nearly There”. Congrats!
"The question is: what would you do in order to figure out what to do?..Maybe you would..try to pull on the hood or pull on the doors. Maybe you'd get a door open. But you probably might end up in the backseat just like you might end up in the front seat.
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"The purpose of complexity science, as I understand it, is to figure out what are the control variables in a problem. So if you knew that the steering wheel and the brakes and gas and the gearshift were the things that you need to control..you would know how to drive a car.
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Iceland reduced cases further in January, now averaging 3 new cases per day. Yesterday, only one domestic case was reported, which was already in quarantine. They have now delivered 5 doses of vaccine per 100 people.
"Health experts around the world are now re-evaluating their nations’ responses..as “mitigation policies” have failed to contain two waves of the pandemic — with a..wave of highly infectious variants on the way. thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/…
"By now every[one] knows what COVID mitigation looks like: imprecise lockdowns with no real targets followed by ill-timed openings that result in more exponential grief.
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"And then politicians, who look as dazed as Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, call for another round of lockdowns with no strategy and no goals.
"It’s a policy of constant déjà vu — all pain, no gain and more COVID-19.
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Brunei, with a population of 430,000, continues success with their Zero Covid strategy.
Their last local case was on 6 May 2020, 275 days ago! Well done, Brunei!
Thailand continues to battle a local outbreak which spread in a seafood market near Bangkok. Yesterday they reported 586 new cases, with many cases occurring in their migrant worker population.
Similar to Thailand, Vietnam is also battling a local outbreak, and appears to be winning.
After a spike to 110, yesterday they reported only 9 local cases, 19 today.
Vermont also reports progress, with most counties reporting less than 10 cases per day. With strong action, much of Vermont could be at zero in just a couple of weeks. Once at zero, quarantining arrivals would allow for the state to return to normalcy, similar to Australia or NZ.