A small but vocal movement that calls for an end to blocking restrictions is gaining momentum around the world. Siouxsie Wiles explains why it would be a bad idea.
While life in Aotearoa is returning to a general type after our last Covid-19 epidemic, instances in the northern hemisphere are increasing and this puts us all at risk, because no one is until we are all at risk.
It’s a sensitive virus. We now know that it spreads well through droplets and sprays and that other people are contagious before they realize they have symptoms. And while, at most, other people will infect only one or two people, under the right conditions, a case can cause dozens, loads or even thousands of infections. These widespread occasions occurred indoors and outdoors, but more often indoors for weddings, funerals, devoted services, choirs, bars and jobs. There have even been very different occasions in the White House.
There is now a lot of evidence that this virus is more fatal than the flu, leaves many who have survived debilitating symptoms for months and would possibly cause serious long-term fitness problems. We are now reaching 40 million cases shown and more than one. millions of deaths, and we know those two figures are underestimated. We went from 100,000 cases a day internationally in April to nearly 400,000 a day six months later.
Earlier this year, many countries were forced to take drastic steps to prevent the spread of Covid-19 after discovering that their pandemic preparedness plans did not adapt to the pandemic we were experiencing. Here in New Zealand, we entered a blockade across the country “at the end of March with the aim of getting rid of the virus. Our 4-point restrictions, backed by government monetary support, have allowed the country to press a pause in transmission while offering an area to develop the ability to verify and track New Zealand’s delight has just been published in The Lancet and shows how Covid-19 can be controlled using a variety of measures , adding border closure, isolation and controlled quarantine for travelers, funded “locks”, immediate control of others. with symptoms, in-depth contact studies and isolation of close contacts.
Locks have gained a lot of bad press recently, and that’s no wonder: it’s a blunt and disruptive tool that has been used very poorly in many places, which has had a negative effect on people’s intellectual and physical health, as well as on the economy. But the same goes for Covid-19 out-of-control network transmission. WHO has made it transparent that locks deserve to be used sparingly. But one challenge is the very definition of the word block itself. If you take a look at the Covid-19 government’s rigorous reaction rate, which compares restrictions in other countries, it becomes quite transparent that the concept of “blocking” one country is “just a little limited” for another.
New Zealand had one of the strictest blockades in which many others were funded through a government wage subsidy. The time it was bought was used to speed up our touch tests and search systems. Other countries have done something much less restrictive, with little or no money in position for Americans and businesses AND instead of updating their tests and locating touches, simply playing with the edges or give huge sums of public cash to personal corporations and control experts who know nothing about public aptitude and have not provided anything suitable. The heartbreaking truth is that these countries have suffered greatly from a blockade, but they have wasted their profits. And now, for those in the northern hemisphere, winter is coming and cases are increasing. Everything was so predictable.
The annoying one comes in. In New Zealand, they take the form of the Covid B plan. Its premise is simple: the charge of “lock-outs” is too high, so we will have to protect the maximum vulnerable and be fit to “live with the virus” It is a kind of unethical eugenic model, have your Swedish cake and eat it too. It also completely minimizes the massive cost Sweden has already paid for what appears to be strangely un brave. Plan B academics have been pushing their agendas since April. I’ve already written about how they choose their evidence and how their collective immunity plan to protect other vulnerable people is unattainable.
Today, the motion has become global with the publication of Great Barrington’s statement. It is equally unethical and eugenic, yet they call it Targeted Protection. What Great Barrington’s statement and the Covid B plan have in no unusual is a small number of provocations or marginal academics, some from very prestigious universities, helped through professional public relations societies and libertarians in positions of strength and influence. It is a formula shown that has been taken from the book of the game of climate replacement mitigation and tobacco control, which leads to the misconception that they are divided into a specific topic. Big Barrington seems to have the help of existing White House occupants. It also has thousands of signatories, although they are said to come with other people like Dr. Johnny Bananas.
In other words, don’t be fooled into thinking that all of this means that “directed protection” is the way covid-19 is treated.
Using an uncontrolled infection to identify collective immunity is a dangerous, unethical, and inhumane way to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, the purpose will have to be the spread of the virus in networked paints. We have teams that paint and many examples of countries that seem to use those equipment well, New Zealand is just one of them. There is also Japan, Vietnam, Singapore and Australia. It is also transparent that the more netpaintings transmission there is, the more complicated it will be for cases. it’s not impossible. Leadership, compassion, a transparent plan and transparent communication are needed.
To counter the inconvenience of Covid, an organization of experienced foreign researchers ranging from infectious diseases, mathematical modeling, public aptitude and epidemiology to sociology, psychology, psychiatry and medicine created john Snow’s Memorandum. Yes, winter is reaching the northern hemisphere, but it is not named after Jon Snow; named after the idea of the doctor as one of the founders of epidemiology and anesthesia. In 1854, London experienced a cholera epidemic. On suspicion that the culprit bacteria was spreading in infected water, Dr. John Snow got rid of the care of a water pump in Soho, which he thought was the culprit. He then used a dot card to show how cholera cases clustered around the bomb.
John Snow Memorandum signatories strongly state that countries can control the Covid-19 pandemic without tracking collective immunity through an out-of-control infection. I’m one of the signatories. If you are a scientist, doctor, researcher, modeler, fitness or public fitness professional and would like to help in the memorandum, go to the website, enter your touch data and click on the “Sign memo” button. Your signature will be verified and added to your website.
We’re entering an alarming new phase of the pandemic. What worries me now is less about the virus and more about the misinformation crusade opposed to public aptitude responses that we know work. It is everyone’s duty to prevent the spread of misinformation.
Because no one is until we’re all Array
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