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13. Not at the rate we're going.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Wed Sep 8, 2021, 10:11 AM

Sep 2021

Parts of the country are doing the exact opposite of what needs to be done to get rid of this thing once and for all. Until that changes, we're stuck with this thing. Fuck those idiots.

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Will the Covid-19 ever go away? [View all] kentuck Sep 2021 OP

Is the worst yet to come? twodogsbarking Sep 2021 #1

Yes, but it will go away. Delta is so virulent that it will get everyone who is not vaccinated. Scrivener7 Sep 2021 #2

But everyone has had the flu and it keeps returning every year. Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #3

H1N1 does not return every year, and when it does return it is in a vastly reduced Scrivener7 Sep 2021 #6

People may not die from the flu in big numbers, but we still don't want to get sick every winter. Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #7

Yes, but what we experience as the flu now bears no resemblance to the pandemic version. Scrivener7 Sep 2021 #9

Probably going to be a tough winter but not as bad as last Tomconroy Sep 2021 #4

Not if people don't mask like they should Blues Heron Sep 2021 #5

Not for a long time. America has a population where "22% self-identify as anti-vaxxers." Botany Sep 2021 #8

The best we can hope is that it spreads hard and fast among the unvaxxed, and burns itself out. Scrivener7 Sep 2021 #10

I am all for making "tent cities" for the unvaccianted who get the disease and just giving them ... Botany Sep 2021 #11

No, I agree with every bit of your rant. And the tent city idea is one whose time Scrivener7 Sep 2021 #12

Knowing that we are turning away people who really need hospital/ICU space because ... Botany Sep 2021 #14

Not at the rate we're going. GoCubsGo Sep 2021 #13