Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
by jacquesm on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:46PM
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I fear you are right.
The interesting thing to me is not what happened during COVID-19, but during the previous pandemic, the one that wasn't and that was nipped in the bud due to some very fortuitous circumstances and the speedy action of authorities and health care officials in many countries collaborating with unprecedented efficiency:
COVID-19 had some parameters slightly different, for instance the incubation time was a bit longer allowing it to spread undetected.
There is no reason to make any assumptions about the various parameters of the next pandemic but they could very well be worse than COVID-19 and the way we've dealt with this one makes me quite skeptical about our ability to come through this sort of thing unscathed, especially not if every Tom, Dick & Harry are going to run interference.
The interesting thing to me is not what happened during COVID-19, but during the previous pandemic, the one that wasn't and that was nipped in the bud due to some very fortuitous circumstances and the speedy action of authorities and health care officials in many countries collaborating with unprecedented efficiency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS
COVID-19 had some parameters slightly different, for instance the incubation time was a bit longer allowing it to spread undetected.
There is no reason to make any assumptions about the various parameters of the next pandemic but they could very well be worse than COVID-19 and the way we've dealt with this one makes me quite skeptical about our ability to come through this sort of thing unscathed, especially not if every Tom, Dick & Harry are going to run interference.
We got lucky, twice.