China is leading the world for a covid-19 vaccine, they have multiple vaccines
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China is leading the world for a covid-19 vaccine, they have multiple vaccines
This entire affair is well beyond the point of being ridiculous. Lots of interesting perspectives in this thread.
Two questions, if wearing masks is effective, why does it continue to spread and how is China held to account?
Yes, it's been posted already. The BMJ (British Medical Journal) is one of the world's top medical journals with a rigorous & transparent peer review process
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There's numerous studies from the Netherlands, Singapore, USA etc. And from the top immunologists of the world
Its pretty easy to argue both sides of the COVID-19 response. None of these arguments will change the response. If you want to effect change, you'll need to do it at the ballot box next time you get the opportunity. Until then this is our reality, whether we agree with it or not.
China handled covid-19 very well. Their economy and way of life has been a great success. Perhaps people can take a page out of their book
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it simply indicates the Chinese see more merit in suppression.
Australia's covid-19 strategy is suppression also, not elimination
Elimination requires a vaccine
Even with a vaccine Australia will not change to elimination strategy
The chief medical officer and the Prime Minister said the virus isn't going away, it's here to stay, and we can't live in a risk free society
You might need your immunisation book with your passport, but if you've every returned from South America you have that anyway.
Quote them on it, but until there are multiple vaccines and longer term efficacy studies, they are only committing to reality. You cannot eliminate a mutating virus, but if the S-Spike vaccine works like the inventors suggest it should, the mutations are irrelevant because the virus cannot latch. Its new technology, they just don't have the long-term knowledge to be definitive and what they say gets held against them forever.
If the RNA vaccine is the go, there will likely be an annual shot to pick up the mutations. Just like the flu shot, the virus has not gone away, we live with it, its a really significant killer, but the shots are available. It'd be interesting to see where the current reproduction rates are, but seasonal influenza is R2 and SARS-COV-2 was R4, so an annual one-shot combined vaccine for $20 would accept the virus is here to stay but completely mitigate its effects so that the new normal for life includes random, last-minute travel. You might need your immunisation book with your passport, but if you've every returned from South America you have that anyway.