Re:Two Years Is Long Enough
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:02AM
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The policies and interventions have been fairly uniform in developed countries, with fairly uniform results. The only conclusion we can make is that barring very authoritarian zero COVID polices (like in China) or being a literal and figurative island (New Zealand), we can’t stop the pandemic with just vaccines and masking.
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"Fairly uniform" is covering a lot of ground. On the other hand, there has been a ton of ink spilled and screaming on Twitter threads over Sweden or Florida versus other countries and states. And very obviously different outcomes in the US/Europe vs. many other areas of the world that aren't China or New Zealand.
But we probably mostly agree. A lot of differences in policies and behaviors (that many have and do feel very strongly about) are probably in the noise relative to other random factors.
Re:Two Years Is Long Enough
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:15PM
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If the developed countries just said "Let it go", the developed world would be a much different spot than we are today. Definitely we would have been at a greater risk of being much worse. I am not unsatisfied with how we've handled it.
I don't really disagree. Even if a lot of it ended up being mostly about pushing back the number of cases until a lot of people got vaccinated. Certainly Australia at the moment sure suggests that you can delay things but it's pretty difficult to delay cases of all degrees of severity indefinitely.
Re:Two Years Is Long Enough
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:51PM
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We can't stop the pandemic just with masking, vaccines, and the level of quarantining that people are willing to put up with.