How will the Covid pills change the pandemic?

[Tomconroy]

Well, I see that what one of them might do is going to make wing nut heads spin. Enjoy:

https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/how-will-the-covid-pills-change-the-pandemic

Some of the mavens are thinking endemic sometime in the first quarter of 2022. Even Dr. Faucci thinks it's possible.

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. THey can hide a lot more microchips inside a pill.

[Hugin]

2. In some cases a whole teevee camera.

OMG... TH' DERP STAET IZ FILM'N MUH INSIDES!!11i! FREEDUMB!!i!!1

[Klaralven]

3. I've thought since the beginning that we were not spending enough to find therapuetics

All the government money went to vaccines.

[Phoenix61]

4. I don't think anyone anticipated people refusing

to take a vaccine. I know I didn’t.

[Klaralven]

6. The anti-vax movement is decades old and includes "celebrities" like RFK Jr.

[Phoenix61]

7. And is much much smaller than the group

refusing to get the Covid vaccine. If it was just the original anti-vaxer group most of the country would be vaccinated.

[Klaralven]

8. I think the anti-vax movement was larger than that

And it was an organized, motivated core group with lots of social media history and skills to build on.

[Tomconroy]

5. The drug companies have proven to be the true heros of

This crisis. One of these pills is already approved in the UK. Come on FDA, shake a leg!

[FoxNewsSucks]

9. Well, it's a lot cheaper and better

to prevent a disease than to let people get sick, risk death, and then treat them. Not to mention being less disruptive to work and the economy to avoid getting sick in the first place.

[Hugin]

10. I agree.

In some ways therapeutics are an admission of defeat. They mean a disease is still spreading. Since they do nothing to slow or stop the spread of infection.

Therapeutics are completely necessary for diseases where developing an effective vaccine is problematic like HIV/AIDS. Which is due to it's attacking the mechanisms of immunity which are used by vaccination.

Vaccines are the best tool to control or even eliminate a disease. No spread, no disease.

Without vaccines, lockdowns would become a permanent fixture of a responsible society.