> We eradicated smallpox, and completely suppressed measles and polio in most of the world. We rid Europe and the US of malaria. We had multiple chanches to stop covid: right in the beginning of course, but also in the summer of 2020 when the incidence numbers were suppressed to single digits per 100000, at least in most of Europe.
Total nonsense. SARS-CoV-2 exists in animal reservoirs, and all the available vaccines for it (or for any coronavirus, for that matter) are decidedly non-sterilizing. It's a total non starter, even China-level control of people's movement and interpersonal behavior wasn't enough to keep up Covid Zero forever.
And yet, only in 2019 it jumped from animal to humans. There were other human coronaviruses before of course. But as far as we can tell, this specific one did not make the jump in all the years before. The reason is, as with all zoonoses, it takes close proximity to the animal, lucky mutations, and conditions for subsequent spreading to turn into a pandemic.
Pandemics are not at all inevitable. My point is we are inadvertently creating the conditions that allow diseases like this to spread in the first place.
Total nonsense. SARS-CoV-2 exists in animal reservoirs, and all the available vaccines for it (or for any coronavirus, for that matter) are decidedly non-sterilizing. It's a total non starter, even China-level control of people's movement and interpersonal behavior wasn't enough to keep up Covid Zero forever.