“It’s just another flu”
I’m sure many have heard this about covid. And we are watching a new variant spread like wildfire right now with more intense symptoms and higher rates of sudden respiratory failure.
But let’s talk about the flu.
This is, ultimately, what took my dad. This is why I fucking hate this ideology.
“It’s just the flu” fuck off with that.
Wear a fucking mask. Get vaxed. It’s not hard.
I used to think that if people could SEE the deadly #COVID particles come out of people's mouths & everyone could SEE how they went into another person & then that person quickly got visibly sick (eg blood coming out of their nose, coughing, collapsing then dying) while the person who shot the #COVID19 particles out of their mouth was standing there, people would change their behavior.
LAWS would be passed & enforced to save lives.
But I don't think that anymore, at least not in America.
Welp.
In response to my question about vaccine availability for Kiwis, NZ Ministry of Health publicly stated that Pfizer hadn't applied to Medsafe for updated booster approval, but this was not true. Records show Pfizer applied in June.
Adding the chain of Eric Crampton's responses to my questions about NZ vaccine access (Chief Economist at the NZ Initiative). He explains how to apply pressure.
For those interested, I asked Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora about updated covid vaccine access for New Zealand. This is MIH's response.
A COVID-19 wave is sweeping the country, causing the virus surge to its highest infection levels since summer of 2022, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s wastewater dashboard. Deaths and hospitalizations are also up, but not as much as infections. The CDC says currently about four out of 100,000 people are hospitalized, up from the pandemic low of one in 100,000 in May. Read more from CNN.
COVID isn’t over and I don’t know what it’s gonna take to convince people but we have to keep trying.
