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Agreed that they had a plan, which did not involve extended lockdowns or school closures, and threw it out the window. But we should stop asking public health to do impossible things.
If you legitimately have a decent vaccine that works, I don’t give a damn if they force everybody to take it. I suppose I would feel the same about other measures if they worked in a short amount of time.
Oh, sure.
Maybe not a SINGLE person, but that happens today too, with flu etc. But it’s not like they’re going around coughing and sneezing in peoples’ faces which would be closer to what Mary was doing.
At that time, if they were washing their hands etc – which Mary apparently refused to do – that might be about the best that could be expected.
***Public health needs to say “no” on things that obviously don’t work or make everything worse.*** I never dreamed in a million years those guys would screw up so badly. Some of these people don’t even have any decent level of professional qualifications.
So we should ban the sale or use of alcohol and sugar? That would do a lot to cure obesity.
As my Twitter bio says, we invented DayQuil (TM) for a reason.
When people demand that you do impossible things, you’ll try anything in the hope that it might work. Hail mary passes are a case in point.
Those aren’t the same as a contagion.
I’m not talking about impossible things. I’m also not talking about the way public health behaved in this last contagion.
Who cares? If public officials are tasked with stopping diseases, and there’s no limit to what they can force someone to do, why not ban alcohol and sugar? No one needs these to survive, and it would greatly improve public health.
Stopping a respiratory outbreak like SARS-CoV2 is impossible. Measles and polio aren’t similar illnesses at all. We have never developed a remotely effective vaccine for flu or a coronavirus. It was insane to think we would do the impossible with our current technology, in a matter of months.
We have a different understanding of the technical role of public health. We are done discussing this.
There are some situations that can only be stopped with government force.