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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on May 06, 2021, 09:01:59 pm
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Why COVID-19 May Be the Last Pandemic
https://reason.com/video/2021/05/06/why-covid-19-may-be-the-last-pandemic/ (https://reason.com/video/2021/05/06/why-covid-19-may-be-the-last-pandemic/)
Since the novel coronavirus first showed up in America in January 2020, the U.S. government has routinely impeded scientists, public health officials, and citizens from coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Early on, the surgeon general admonished Americans for buying masks. As late as last August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was downplaying broad-based testing among asymptomatic people. It wasn't until this April—more than a year into the pandemic—that the agency finally acknowledged what had become clear only a few months in: COVID-19 is rarely spread by surface contact. It's primarily an airborne disease.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stood in the way as independent labs worked to quickly develop COVID-19 tests that would allow individuals to know if they were infected and should self-quarantine, and it wasn't until this spring that the agency finally approved an at-home test you could get without a prescription. The FDA also temporarily pulled Johnson & Johnson's vaccine from the U.S. market because one out of every 1.13 million recipients developed blood clots. Those are the same odds of being struck by lightning.
The one clear policy victory—Operation Warp Speed, which promised payments to developers of coronavirus vaccines—was based on biomedical innovations such as "messenger RNA" vaccines—that were already underway before the novel coronavirus appeared. "The horrors of the last year have spurred humanity to quickly develop an unprecedentedly flexible and powerful toolkit that may well make COVID-19 the last true pandemic," writes Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey in the May cover story for the magazine.
"The amazing thing is that we'll be able to forestall any further pandemics in the future because so many great advancements in vaccine treatments…have come out of that," he tells Reason TV. "Now you can just slip any piece of genetic information into that lipid and now you have a vaccine."
Safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines were produced far faster than any expert expected. Yet almost all of the time that it took to bring the vaccines to market was due to safety testing and other governmental mandates that could have been sped up without endangering anyone. ...
Monoclonal antibody treatments, virus vector vaccine technology, and mRNA vaccine technology all are significant progress, but "Last Pandemic"? I'd love to be wrong, but I think that's very overly optimistic.
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The word "Pandemic" is becoming problematic because it's another word distorted by the Leftists to the point nobody is buying it. Like "Rayciss."
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It will be the last pandemic because everybody will eventually realize that they've been duped and that this "pandemic", though it has killed many, has been overplayed and above all purposefully inflicted upon us. We should have NEVER been made to shut down and stay inside. People lost loved ones. their life savings, businesses and many couldn't get the routine healthcare that they needed that may have been life saving.
Yes, in that respect, this is the last pandemic; or it could eventually wipe us all out. Who knows what the long term vaccine effects are. I saw a video clip of a nurse warning people not to be around anyone who had been vaccinated as it would be detrimental.
Who knows??
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"The Last Pandemic" sounds about as reasoned-out as did Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History".
As in, "not very much at all..."