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Why it’s time to move on from Covid – spiked

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8 pointsmrfusion5 comments

Covid is really a sad situation for the whole world. The disease itself, so many dead and so many people (including myself) missing our loved ones who are gone. And the state of the world as a result, the anxiety, fear, the loss of liberties, the loss of economic potential, the depression and isolation and distrust of other people, all of it, the world is a worse place as a result of covid.

I think the article is right, much as I wish it weren't. We have lost the war against the illness, it was not eradicated in time and it cannot be eradicated now. But we don't have to lose everything, we just have to accept that covid is here to stay. It's not the fight against the virus anymore, it is the fight against ourselves that is our refusal to acknowledge our failure. We lost, it is here to stay. But it was one hell of a fight for sure, the world can look at this and say that we united, however inefficiently and haphazardly, and sacrificed greatly, only that we were not victorious. That to me is very beautiful, and if we can accept our failure with grace and genuine acknowledgement of the truth we are faced with, even more so.

There are so many more serious and preventable diseases that kill many many more people than covid each and every year, year after year after year. We have bent ourselves over backwards for covid that will cause damage to societies worldwide for decades. It is a tragedy of modern stupidity when media can make money off of fear and there are no leaders with integrity and backbone who are willing to stand up to it.

One line in this article completely sums up the Covid experience:

"This goal was probably never very realistic."

Wow. This article aged badly in the span of hours.

From the article, published this week:

"...bringing back social restrictions is pointless so long as there is no danger of hospitals being overwhelmed."

Also from this week (https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/us/dallas-county-no-pediatric...):

"Your child will wait for another child to die.' Amid Covid-19 surge, Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left, county judge says"

This is the worst kind of article. It lays on the fear porn thick:

"Your child will just not get on the ventilator, your child will be CareFlighted to Temple or Oklahoma City or wherever we can find them a bed, but they won't be getting one here unless one clears"

The article falsely makes it seem like children are dying of covid, when their hospitalized and the actual claim being made is that if you're in a car crash your kid won't get the treatment it needs.

It states 11,000 hospitalizations in the state, and then berries at the end that there's 323 open ICU beds. Elsewhere talk to this article is the gem that it's summer and people are going on vacation, nurses and doctors, and so this is actually a managed shortage, and doctors and nurses can come back from vacation early if there's actually a problem.

Nowhere does it State how many unstaffed beds are available.

And all from a judge.

I'll give it a d plus, just because it provided most of the relevant facts even if it totally misconstrued everything else

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