[lugged]

Sure if you don't think permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem.

The severity of mild covid is still potentially long lasting and I'm willing to guess elderly aren't going to handle it well.

Letting covid become endemic could reduce our life expecty considerably.

[version_five]

> Sure if you don't think permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem.

I'm confused by this comment. I do think they are a problem, that's why I am encouraged by a vaccine that reduces covid to something that is not life threatening and that we can stop freaking out about.

[throwawayboise]

It always was that for the vast majority of people.

[audiometry]

3mn Indian souls would disagree

[55555]

That's a terrible loss, practically a genocide, but to be fair the parent said "the vast majority of people" and there's 1.4 billion people in India. In India, 151,000 people die every year just from car accidents, and ~4 million die each year from heart disease.

[kadoban]

Isn't covid already endemic?

[lugged]

Some claim it can still be irradicated. But those people get banned on YouTube for saying bad words so you probably won't believe me.

[kadoban]

Do they say how? Doesn't seem like it even makes sense anymore. I'm going to guess based on your youtube wording that their answer is not vaccines?

[RalfWausE]

"Do they say how?"

I am relatively certain this is the reason they are banned from youtube... i have seen a (now removed) video from a crank on youtube who suggested saturation bombing of high incidence areas might be the solution...

[rolleiflex]

I chuckled at this. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1217/

[lugged]

Vaccines + ivermectin. The numbers seem to work but only if you accept the Mexico City study. Or the numbers coming out of India.

[bsdetector]

Bret Weinstein has been citing studies he claims show that ivermectin reduces spread such that even close family members are unlikely to be infected from a person with covid.

edit: curious how hn readers feel they will be able to correct misguided beliefs if they don't even know what those beliefs are.

[Izkata]

It's also how India got their insane case rate two months ago under control.

[pas]

> permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem.

It's a problem, but we can manage it better than overflowing morgues. Frequent tests, rapid antigen testing (let's say at the entrance of restaurants, clubs, festivals), encouraging people who feel ill to stay the fuck away from others, and so on.