Quote (NetflixAdaptationWidow @ 15 Sep 2021 21:03)
That's interesting. I didn't know that the mink incident had been confirmed to reinfect humans.
Lockdowns were never needed if we had a competent response early on. Mass mask distribution, sanitizer production, and basic distancing would have all but wiped out Covid in a few months and likely would have contained it to the point we wouldn't have significant variants.
We failed as a species. These aren't "hard" in the sense that they likely would have saved us more money than shutdowns cost us, but they were "hard" in that it requires cooperation and good faith. We failed on that front.
I absolutely cannot see how you arrive at this assessment. Can you point me to a single example of a country that got to zero community transmission after an outbreak with contact tracing, masking and some mild forms of distancing alone? Not even South Korea, a de facto island which did all these things as good as you can, got to an average lower than 6 cases per day (in early May 2020). From that point on, despite all their efforts, cases rose again to 30- to 40-ish cases per day.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-korea/If isolated South Korea was not able to stamp out the virus with these tools in spite of using contact tracing technology which would be unconstitutional (and wholly unacceptable to the people) in NA and EU, I don't see how that's supposed to work on a global scale.
The only chance we imho had to eradicate the virus was before it spread out of China on a large scale. Once it reached places like India, Africa or Latin America, it was game over for the idea of eradicating the virus.