The spread of the Omicron variant only underscores the failure of the major Western countries, the US above all, to develop a strategy for eliminating this deadly virus worldwide. Instead, we are told we must learn to "live with COVID", i.e., to accept more than 1,000 people, 400,000 a year, dying from it, and no one knows how many contracting long Covid that will potentially affect them for the rest of their lives. If people in our neighborhood are still wearing masks outside, it is because they know so many people who died or were sickened by the virus. Please forgive them for not following your enlightened "science".
well said. imagine if we were told we must "learn to live with cancer" ... then again, there are those science-denierrs who claim that doesn't even exist, so......
But people and the world do live (and die of) cancer.
We have learned to live (and die) of it.
It's a fact of being human and being alive.
There is no real cure for cancer. Yet.
Blaming the USA or anyone for a disease is strange.
It's nature...and as yet mankind has not been able to completely control nature.
That's what COVID has proved.
But medical science has done a remarkable job to keep many diseases in check. Including COVID.
Still, nature remains more powerful than we are. Even more powerful than the USA!
And we do have to accept that. And live with it.
Cancer isn't transmissible by respiration.
(.....cancer being mostly a thousand different non-transmissible diseases with a common mechanism of uncontrolled cell replication.)
Cancer isn't amenable to sensible programs of eradication with simple public health messages and actions....
....these messages and actions which have been undermined by ignoramuses and those that take advantage of them for profit and power.
“All I can say is that on this earth there are plagues and there are victims, and as far as possible one should refuse to be on the side of the plague” - Camus
Apologizing for the willful spreader of covid misinformation is "being on the side of the plague. "
If as a culture we had a spine and a brain we could have beaten covid with 1/10th of the death we have had.
instead we have....
looks around