I really don’t want to do this again

  • MHLoppy@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    I worry that if mass graves due to covid weren’t enough to jolt near-unanimous support for protective measures, little else will. Would of course love to be proven wrong :(

    edit: for the sake of clarity / not accidentally misrepresenting things, graves would be dug up there (as per the article) with/without covid, but the number of bodies being buried in that manner went to ~7x the amount during non-covid according to the article.

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      5 months ago

      There were even those temporary structures/tents outside of hospitals in Australia. Saw them locally, none of the behaviours changed though.

      I really really hope that this virus doesn’t also jump to humans and force us to deal with strollouts and noncompliant people again…

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      It feels like our public health systems have gone backwards since covid. Not because we don’t have the skills and resources, but because of ideology.

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      5 months ago

      I think the frequency of deaths after infection would need to be an order of magnitude higher to move the needle on preventative measures. People just assume it won’t effect them when 199 out of 200 people survive.

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          This measure of 199 out of 200 is the US population equivalent of 1,650,000 people.

          So, roughly in the ballpark of how many COVID has killed thus far (best estimate I could find was a little over 1.2 million). Even that didn’t really motivate people, unfortunately.

          • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
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            The excess death metrics is a solid track of what people don’t want to talk about and forget as it’s painful, but I guess is human nature to bury these hard things rather than push them to get fixed.