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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4573126" data-attributes="member: 63706"><p>I'm not personally going to stop any viruses, but smallpox has been all but eliminated since the 80's, the last case of naturally transmitted polio in the US was in 1979. The chances of stopping a virus are dependent on several factors. A highly contagious and highly lethal virus is more likely to burn itself out than one that is moderately contagious with low mortality. A new virus, in particular, is pretty difficult to combat, I understand. But we have plans for dealing with viruses similar to sars-cov-2, and we threw those straight out the window.</p><p></p><p>We almost completely ignored the time tested methods, like not purposefully sending highly contagious patients into dense populations of highly susceptible people. That's a no brainer. We attempted to quarantine everyone, not just the ill or likely ill. We started pushing other preventative measures without any scientific basis, such as face covering.</p><p></p><p>You can't completely disentangle politics from just about anything these days. There are policy decisions that get made that do have an impact on the real world, and it is important to be able to analyze them, and learn from the mistakes. I don't think the finger pointing and blame game are helpful, but the idiots who keep doubling down on their terrible mistakes and lying about their effectiveness, those people need to not be in decision making positions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4573126, member: 63706"] I'm not personally going to stop any viruses, but smallpox has been all but eliminated since the 80's, the last case of naturally transmitted polio in the US was in 1979. The chances of stopping a virus are dependent on several factors. A highly contagious and highly lethal virus is more likely to burn itself out than one that is moderately contagious with low mortality. A new virus, in particular, is pretty difficult to combat, I understand. But we have plans for dealing with viruses similar to sars-cov-2, and we threw those straight out the window. We almost completely ignored the time tested methods, like not purposefully sending highly contagious patients into dense populations of highly susceptible people. That's a no brainer. We attempted to quarantine everyone, not just the ill or likely ill. We started pushing other preventative measures without any scientific basis, such as face covering. You can't completely disentangle politics from just about anything these days. There are policy decisions that get made that do have an impact on the real world, and it is important to be able to analyze them, and learn from the mistakes. I don't think the finger pointing and blame game are helpful, but the idiots who keep doubling down on their terrible mistakes and lying about their effectiveness, those people need to not be in decision making positions. [/QUOTE]
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