Virus Expert Just Said These States in Trouble

John Mercier · 11-26-2021, 07:24 PM

If you think about it, it really isn't a dead horse.
Our society has the technology to change to a format that has less human interaction and travel... but just never seems to really go there.

I compare it to all the decades that I have heard we are going to become a paperless society... yet I am still surrounded by paper.

We just don't change. Many expected that this would simply be over with, they wouldn't need to do anything, and life would go back to what it was.

With any luck, more will come to realize... that is never going to happen.

SailinAway · 11-26-2021, 10:35 PM

A new variant, Omicron, worse than Delta, was announced today. So no, Covid isn't a dead horse. People in New Hampshire are ACTING LIKE we're not in a state of emergency, including the governor, who is contemplating calling out the National Guard to work in overwhelmed hospitals but is not thinking of going back to mandates for masks, vaccines, or social distancing or a lockdown. In other words, the governor sees the emergency and is trying to stop it on the outcome end (hospitals, where people are sick and dying) rather than the cause end (unvaccinated people spreading the virus). He's acting like we no longer have the emergency we had when he issued emergency orders in 2020, when in fact the emergency is far greater today than it was at that time.

There is no relationship between being tired of hearing about Covid and the actual size of the threat. As long as the threat continues unabated, as long is it's actually increasing, people will want to discuss it.

We've all been hoping silently that there would be no variants. I've always thought that seemed unlikely. Then we hope silently that our current vaccinations will be effective against the new variant. Then the question becomes, what happens to our immune system and the virus when we load up on vaccines every 6 months? All pressing issues, not dead horses, sadly.

John Mercier · 11-26-2021, 11:46 PM

Not really... we get a flu vaccine every year just before medical science suggests that we will have a wave of infection.

Flu actually changed our society, but since we have been with it from birth... we just don't notice the change.

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11-26-2021, 07:24 PM	#1
John Mercier Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 3,988 Thanks: 3 Thanked 680 Times in 562 Posts	If you think about it, it really isn't a dead horse. Our society has the technology to change to a format that has less human interaction and travel... but just never seems to really go there. I compare it to all the decades that I have heard we are going to become a paperless society... yet I am still surrounded by paper. We just don't change. Many expected that this would simply be over with, they wouldn't need to do anything, and life would go back to what it was. With any luck, more will come to realize... that is never going to happen.

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11-26-2021, 10:35 PM	#2
SailinAway Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 991 Thanks: 256 Thanked 280 Times in 169 Posts	A new variant, Omicron, worse than Delta, was announced today. So no, Covid isn't a dead horse. People in New Hampshire are ACTING LIKE we're not in a state of emergency, including the governor, who is contemplating calling out the National Guard to work in overwhelmed hospitals but is not thinking of going back to mandates for masks, vaccines, or social distancing or a lockdown. In other words, the governor sees the emergency and is trying to stop it on the outcome end (hospitals, where people are sick and dying) rather than the cause end (unvaccinated people spreading the virus). He's acting like we no longer have the emergency we had when he issued emergency orders in 2020, when in fact the emergency is far greater today than it was at that time. There is no relationship between being tired of hearing about Covid and the actual size of the threat. As long as the threat continues unabated, as long is it's actually increasing, people will want to discuss it. We've all been hoping silently that there would be no variants. I've always thought that seemed unlikely. Then we hope silently that our current vaccinations will be effective against the new variant. Then the question becomes, what happens to our immune system and the virus when we load up on vaccines every 6 months? All pressing issues, not dead horses, sadly.

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11-26-2021, 11:46 PM	#3
John Mercier Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 3,988 Thanks: 3 Thanked 680 Times in 562 Posts	Not really... we get a flu vaccine every year just before medical science suggests that we will have a wave of infection. Flu actually changed our society, but since we have been with it from birth... we just don't notice the change.