When Will Covid End? We Must Start Planning For a Permanent Pandemic

[H B Lowrey]

On 5/6/2021 at 4:25 PM, Right To Left said:

Should be simple: you lock down for real; test and trace those who might have been exposed; prevent those who have the disease from spreading it to others, and you don't end mask mandates and other protective measures until the disease is eradicated! 

If those procedures were followed elsewhere besides the Far East, we wouldn't have a global pandemic today! 

And those idiots who want to downplay Covid-19 need to consider that death rates are many times higher than official statistics provided...even over here, let alone in India or African countries where they have no idea whether Covid-19 is spreading or not in some of the poor and more isolated corners of the Congo and West Africa. 

CBC was just running a story on the 12:00 news about a relatively young mother who has cancer, but can't get in and have an operation in the near term because emergency wards are full of Covid cases again! How do we factor in the people who are dying because our decrepit and declining health care systems are putting the lives of non-Covid cases at risk?

In the States too.  People with other conditions are having care put off/rationed because of too many cases of COVID swamping the healthcare system/facilities in various locations.  Trump flat out said hey, if we don't test, we won't find it.  Like it wouldn't exist if no one tested.  He's that fucking dumb,