Over 90% of those deaths are Americans.

  • UnequalExchange@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Wait a minute, you say that covid will be with us for ever but didnt a number of covid AND influenza species actually go completely extinct back in the end of 2020 or 2021 because of how well the lockdowns were implemented snd adhered to?

    WHo is to say that such a lockdown cant be reimplemented and surprisingly extincts certain species of respiratory transmissible illnesses …like ALL covid species?

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      5 days ago

      Lockdowns didn’t work even when there was global news coverage of a pandemic happenening. What makes you think they would work now?

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        Our flu shots are still quadrivalent, but two of the strains they protect against haven’t been detected since 2019, since so many people were masking in 2020. The lockdowns worked reasonably well IMO, you can’t expect perfection.

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          1 day ago

          thats similarr to what I said

          I just dont get it. Did I miisinterpret their reply?

          I said that a certain number of species of Influenza and COVID went extinct BECAUSE of lockdowns.

          Their reply was : ‘Lockdowns dont work’ …

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