YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days

Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by nradov on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @02:57PM (#28146146)

How long are you expecting people to wear masks? What are the exit criteria? It obviously isn't sustainable for most people. The virus is now endemic in the worldwide human population, plus some animal species. It can't be eradicated even with high vaccination rates. It's inevitable that eventually all of us will be exposed. The only question is when.

Wearing masks and other non-pharmaceutical interventions can be useful under some limited circumstances to avoid overwhelming healthcare systems. But we need to think longer term than just the next few weeks.

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Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by Bud on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @06:36PM (#28148785)

How would you know whether the virus can be eradicated with high vaccination rates? We haven't achieved high rates. Anywhere. At all. Ever.

And of course, we have a century of history of viruses that now do not exist anymore because we eradicated them. With vaccines.

So what are you even talking about?

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Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days by nradov on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:06PM (#28149189)

Smallpox was eradicated with a sterilizing vaccine. We don't have one of those for SARS-CoV-2, and there's no prospect of one any time soon. We also know that other mammals can get infected and pass the virus to humans. The bats or pangolins or whatever originally transmitted the virus to humans are still out there somewhere. It is impossible to vaccinate or cull all those animals. Thus it is impossible to eradicate the virus. We need to be realistic and accept that it's here to stay.

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