Plague Update: Logic Fails

There’s a cartoon showing how many people still think that COVID-19 is just like chicken pox, and you aren’t likely to get a symptomatic infection another time while healthy, so they magically think a COVID infection will build herd immunity and eventually end the disease. It’s going to be just like the 1918 pandemic, right? No one will have heard of it in 100 years because it was left in the past generations ago. No.

Her: "Can you turn off the fans (air filters)? We're worried the old people will catch a chill from the draft."

Me: "You don't catch a chill from a draft, you catch a chill from viruses. These are filters that filter out viruses from the air."

— tern (@1goodtern) December 20, 2022

And I encountered someone who thought COVIDzero was a bad thing.

He deleted explanation. pic.twitter.com/phjvvIVP61

— Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) December 21, 2022

And China’s COVIDzero strategy is beginning to fall apart, with million of lives at stake. A disruption to global supply chains will inevitably follow, but in what ways? Can’t wait to see (grits teeth).

10/ Regardless, the sheer number of infections that will occur over the next two to three months will obviously cause four ongoing negative population health effects for China.

(a) There will be millions of cases of Long Covid.

— Conor Browne (@brownecfm) December 20, 2022