Quote Originally Posted by BBatesokc View Post
The problem is, we've also heard "you don't need masks - ooops, nope now you do." "There's going to be 240,000 - 1,000,000 deaths - oooops, now maybe just 60,000 - 80,000." Then there's all the nutty conspiracy theories. We were also told it would just disappear like a miracle. There's even talk the virus is mutating so it's going to come back 10x worse. There is just no telling what should or shouldn't be believed and we've just about heard it all by now. Who knows.

I can't imagine we will be done and rid of CV-19 for the foreseeable future. Unless we discover a vaccine, this will most likely pop up here and there for years to come.

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All you can do is follow the latest qualified medical advice .... not politicians, not wannabee experts, not social commentators. These days with everybody making up their own "truth" it is hard to effectively manage these things. People choose what they want to believe based on their politics or theism.

I think the medical community has a pretty good record of developing vaccines and mitigation strategies. That said, fast tracking and doing real testing probably is a 12-18 month time frame based on history. If we can mitigate with sensible and effective social activity, and at the same time keep learning about how to better treat it, and as more build up antibodies and resistance, we can buy time for the real solutions.

Then, we can reinstate the pandemic team that was crippled a couple of years ago, fund real healthcare initiatives, ramp up critical medical and protective device production, and do a better job of recognizing and reacting quickly, then we might be in much better shape next time. As long as health care is political, we will continue to be subject to these kinds of situations. At some point we have to agree we are all better served by better health care that is affordable to more of our whole society.