Clyde_Style wrote:Covid is stage one of a coming massive die-off in humanity.
If society can’t cooperate now, then a more virulent strain will wipe out much larger portions of the population, particulary the unvaccinated, in the future.
Obama basically saved us from a global Ebola outbreak. If he had not marshaled the aid and manpower and pushed the international effort to combat Ebola in Africa it would have surely spread. We should consider ourselves fortunate that our dry run was covid and not ebola. There will be something stronger than the current covid variants and based on how incapable our civilization is on reaching consensus I expect the consequences next time to be way more dire than at present.
If humans can’t work together then we may see a large population reduction in the future.
Not to diminish the containment effort but Ebola was always very containable because it never had the contagion avenues that COVID does. You kind of had to work to spread it quickly. You're right that COVID will continue to present issues globally for a long time. Something as virulent as the original SARS and as contagious as COVID will make the gap between the haves and the have nots for the vaccines even more stark. The upshot is that the vaccines will almost certainly improve.