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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to make the Covid / Flu comparison... [View all]argyl
(3,064 posts)If we can get it down to " the flu but worse " stage with annual vaccines lessening the lethality that may be as good as we can do.
It's a virus, " a piece of bad news wrapped up in a protein" as Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar described them.
If we can damp down its spread that may be the best we can do. And be vigilant in its mutations.
And pray the hell that if, more like when really, another viral strain as or more lethal than Covid rears its ugly head we'll have a President who doesn't think he can wish the problem away.
The whole world could have done better but that orange idiot pulled us out of something we've always led at.
We're back to doing one of the things the world has looked to us for, battling this pandemic with all our considerable knowledge and influence at the front.
But for one whole year that despicable bastard stuck his thumb up his ass and sidelined us.