This, forever. Chains of transmission do not magically infect everyone, and even if lots seroconvert we have no clue how much is with clinical illness or no clinical illness at all.
Did you know there were about 9000 cases of SARS identified around the world.
Yet, when they tested animal handlers in the region from which SARS originated, 16% of them had antibodies?
ISNT THAT WEIRD EH?
The comments about everyone getting this disease are probably founded on nonsense (because nobody ever explains), but let's assume they are not, they are probably based on high seroconversion percentages in populations.
These are not an indication of clinical illness.
Anyway you may look for the CDC study of animal handlers. And if that was closely related virus but not SARS causing that, then infection with this to reach everyone will take years and years. Over that time immunity wanes. So how exactly does that help?
1. So in about a year long before we have reached everyone, the transmission-blocking immunity in the first people will be wearing off 2. Reinfections show that we will still experience serious disease with this disease 3. So we never reach a useful state infecting everyone
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Maybe medical officers of health (MOHs) need to be reminded of what the Ontario Medical Association thinks their role is:
"Guarding the Health of Citizens".
Hmm.
And all I'm doing is clearing out old PDFs. Imagine I started making a case for their abdication of their duty?
It's almost comical
This report is entertaining to me because it's the OMA lobbying for more jobs. They encouraged the maintenance of all the local community boards and that there needed to be an MOH (who are very well paid) in each one. The opposite of what SARS Commission said was needed.
Apparently I ended up quoted. As always, some comments get left on the cutting room floor.
I think Canadians are routinely ripped off
I think the price we pay for rapid tests (~10 to 15 per) is far too high
I think the people who most could use them, cannot afford them
Side note but not one we discussed was I think we will find huge waste in the system, tests gone missing etc. Sold on black market etc
Glad they gave them to school children to at least try something to blunt spread for returning kids.
And one clarification: I don't think paying 15 per kit in Oct is "a bargain". You can pay 15 now.
I think Canadians get ripped off routinely because companies know we are a wealthy country. And 15 is far more than rapid tests cost elsewhere (1.1 USD in bulk)