I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control

Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by fredgrott on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:51PM (#29858521)

Look folks, yes I know I flunked out of BS Molecular degree but..

It will be a pandemic of 5 to ten years in total.

In short words like you were 5, two factors converged to make this a reality: 1. World for the most part failed to lead like China an stop it cold fast and yes places like the USA gets fair blame for that.

2. Speed of mutations.

Only have one of those factors then it would be far less years of a pandemic.

That is not to say that there is not hope on the near future where we take either a booster or one pill per year to contain it however.

But, 30 years ago a lady wrote a very famous book called.. the Coming Plaque..

She pointed out that it was not Science failing us towards facing the next pandemic but governments putting public health on a diet.

and that books is at archive org

https://archive.org/details/comingplaguenew000garr

Public health should be a number one Military spending budget as with 9 billion or more it is no longer something that is optional

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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by zepto on Sunday January 09, 2022 @11:14AM (#29864526)

> 1. World for the most part failed to lead like China an stop it cold fast and yes places like the USA gets fair blame for that.

The virus had spread too widely for that to be possible. If you blame the USA, you also have to blame China for suppressing and destroying early information about the contagion.

I would prefer to blame nobody, since everyone’s systems played a part in the outcome.

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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by nyolfen on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:54PM (#29858998)

i think it would be fair to say that science failed us if this is due to a lab leak, which appears to be the case. science made by possible by public health funding, in fact.

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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by olliej on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:16PM (#29859192)

It's not a lab leak. Seriously shut up with this conspiracy nonsense.

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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by nyolfen on Sunday January 09, 2022 @09:27AM (#29863483)

reasonable people can disagree: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by gremlinsinc on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:34PM (#29860140)

Playing devil's advocate...It could be a lab leak (I've seen conflicting stories, some seemingly reputable), but I agree it doesn't matter if it is or isn't...and it leans (more into conspiracy territory than not) what matters is there's this cat, and it's out of the bag, and vaccines protect against it, Ivermectin does jack shit and other 'cures' are bullshit unless sanctioned by the broader medical community (Pfizer's new pill as an example).

Just TRUST your doctors, there's not a conspiracy to make everyone baren or something crazy, the vaccines are safer than going to a bar and having a few drinks.

ironically Covid itself probably has a better chance of making one sterile than the vaccine as ACE receptors are in the testes, and other reproductive organs, so it could sterilize people who get bad infections.

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Re:I am a New York City public high school student. The situ... by astrange on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:41AM (#29861181)

Ivermectin, being very effective against worms, is helpful if you have both worms and covid - that's the reason some studies saw it working and some didn't.

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