What an effective zero covid policy looks like - aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/2/… and how you keep deaths to less than 5 per 1M rather than 2,000+ per 1M whilst recovering the economy and restoring "normality".
"Strict controls have been astonishingly effective so far" - theguardian.com/world/2022/jan… ... but the question is always how long can such a system be maintained? Long enough to create effective mitigation through vaccines? Longer?
In a country (UK) which seems to be aiming to be "the first major economy in the world to transition from pandemic to endemic" - standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-… i.e. COVID to be a continual state of affair with re-occuring outbreaks of variants ...
... counteracted with constant vaccine development whilst our own Gov looks to sell our own vaccine manufacturing and innovation centre to the private sector - theguardian.com/society/2021/d… ...
... I have to wonder whose needs are our own Government focused on?
As Mike Ryan warned (in reference to vaccine manufacture) "If it’s purely left to be a commercial decision, I’m not so sure that decision will necessarily be the best one" - statnews.com/2022/01/03/a-w… ... it matters whose long term needs are we considering.
X : I like the idea that the virus behaviour is up to us
Me : See everthing from ozone to coastal defences to climate change. Human interventions alter the course of many natural systems. No different with pursuing an approach of zero covid or one of herd immunity.
Me : See everthing from ozone to coastal defences to climate change. Human interventions alter the course of many natural systems. No different with pursuing an approach of zero covid or one of herd immunity.
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