COVID 19 is a virus and like any virus, it needs a host to survive and multiply. It can not exist all on its own without a host. It's not a human being; it's a parasite. So how do you kill a parasite without spending lots of money and without needing a vaccine? Medical asepsis, unity and cooperation among those infected and uninfected -- a practice of practical hygiene and measures to curb and stop vector transmission.
If you look at SARS and MERS; they didn't require us to get the vaccine did they, but they helped us with the immense progress of our current COVID vaccines. What about the 1918 Flu pandemic where in those days, they didn't have much in terms of medical technology and medicines nor even a vaccine. And yet 100 years ago, they stopped the virus and humanity just move along.
The virus most feared enemy is NOT the vaccine. The virus most feared enemy is our UNITY and COOPERATION to starve it off any potential host. Remove the host by stopping vector transmission at its source and allowing the host to recover and kill the virus from within, then you would have stopped the transmission. However, you need the person be rational and also believe in unity, team player, empathy and have a sense of social awareness that doing this is a betterment of all man kind. In fact, early on in the pandemic, all it would take is simply masking, social distancing and staying at home. And the government would do the rest by providing government stimulus, rent moratoriums and anything possible to keep people at home or reduce contact and let the pandemic ride out. If we the people of the world would corporate and unite together, we wouldn't even be talking about a vaccine. It never happened with SARS and MERS, because back then, people were more united. Today, many nations have people that are MORE DIVIDED than ever, which is fertile ground for the virus to spread and multiply. In fact, the more division the more the virus finds potential vectors to mutate and spread and keep spreading. It's that simple. We are doing most of the virus' work and if the virus has a personality -- it would have all laughed at our division and dis-unity. And all we can talk now is like developing countermeasures in a divided world by using vaccines to counter a solution which could be easily solved by us seeing why are we so divided as a world, as a nation.
I look at the spread of the virus in many nations and the ones that had the most spread and the most deaths seemed to come from countries run by an autocratic regime, which included the United States in the past, which is surprising when it holds the world's reserve currency.
The purpose of masking and social distancing is simply to starve out the virus' potential vector of transmission and masking and social distancing work. It worked in the past; in 1918 flu without plasma, Remdesivir, Invermectin, the vaccine and so on and so forth. All it took was some unity and cooperation in 1918 even during and after WW1. But now, it seemed like division is a well championed narrative.
So what does it take for all of us to unite; to combat the virus and let it die? For some event in the near future that will push us; literally force us to unite. There are already some signs of this by mandating vaccines; but I think it will take more than that. Our economy right now is held only by the stimulus drug; it's on an IV line and right now, people are doing what they are doing to resist vaccination, because they do not see how it would affect the economy. What if the economy plunges 50-80% and then all of sudden, there is a pressing need to jump start the economy. The solution is to restore the economy to its pre-pandemic condition; meaning helping all countries not just the modern democracies reach full vaccination and I suspect the government requirements that all people who receive further government assistance will have to have full vaccination status. I will see this coming.
Look -- we had gotten rid of smoking indoors where ones that was the right of many smokers. Today if you want to smoke; you need to step outside and smoke elsewhere because the community wants that. I suspect moving forward, the majority of people in the world are going to get fed up with the unvaccinated and, just like smokers, simply put an ultimatum to them and say; want to belong to our community? Simple; get the vax. It didn't have to come to this, because we could have solved it in 2020 simply by wearing a mask and social distance. But that's not what happened for many people and so the COVID virus only finest point is showed us we are as people in the world and in nations that had the most infections that we expertly hid that division. The virus simply removed the veil for us to see that division.
Vaccine alone is not the only answer. It is unity among us as citizens in a nation and as people in the world. We must start to become more emphatic, more socially aware that we as 7 billion people living in this world must unite together to rid this virus. Or else; you will keep fighting this virus, deplete whatever resources we have in monetary stimulus and eventually will cause the economy of the world to collapse all in the attempt to teach us to accept the lessons in unity and cooperation.
I used to work in health care, in mental health nursing and while I had semi-retired from that profession, I always ride my back past my former work place and that hospital I worked in had never have an outbreak. It wasn't a surprise to me because when I worked there at the time, we all work together as a team, practice medical asepsis as a team and vaccinate as a team. If you can't for any reason vaccinate, then wear a mask which a few of us did. There was unity and cooperation. The only times we lost the ball was because someone didn't practice medical asepsis and allowed the infection to spread. Someone who decided to adopt a rugged individualism mindset that it's all about me and no one else. I found it disturbing to even here that from medical professionals in the United States which so a high level of division; high level of lack of cooperation. No wonder the virus thrives in the USA.
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