A virus isn't endemic just cos a govt minister says it is and just cos people want it to be.
The current pattern of waning vax, new immune evasive variants, and minimal public health response seem set to doom us to massive surges once or twice a year. 1\5
The current pattern of waning vax, new immune evasive variants, and minimal public health response seem set to doom us to massive surges once or twice a year. 1\5
If that continues we'll keep picking off the vulnerable, keep stressing a weakening NHS, create more chronic illness & mass disruption through people off sick every time. Lower quality of life for all of us.
Uncertainty in being able to plan months ahead cos of variants 2\5
Uncertainty in being able to plan months ahead cos of variants 2\5
And when the next pandemic comes, do we just add that disease to our repertoire after a period of mass death?
What when diseases like malaria move north through climate change?
What about rest of the world?
We're moving backwards. 3\5
What when diseases like malaria move north through climate change?
What about rest of the world?
We're moving backwards. 3\5
We've spent 150+ years trying (mostly successfully) to suppress disease. In Europe, we have massively reduced or eliminated cholera, scarlet fever, measles, TB, polio, smallpox, whooping cough, typhoid, mumps, rubella.
We've also *greatly* reduced flu in last 25 years. 4\5
We've also *greatly* reduced flu in last 25 years. 4\5
We did it through mass programmes to bring clean water to people, to improve housing & working conditions, mass vaccination. We invested in enabling better health for everyone.
And now we're giving up cos we're bored & it's hard?
Bodes ill for climate change & our future. 5\5
And now we're giving up cos we're bored & it's hard?
Bodes ill for climate change & our future. 5\5
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