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Do you think a sense of crisis among the public over the coronavirus is waning as the pandemic persists?

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Presently, many may agree, we are all have ‘a sense of crisis’ trying to understand how this is worded and what is intended by such statements: “the coronavirus is waning as the pandemic persists”.

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We can ALL agree, as the weather warms, we ALL want ‘to let our guard down’, drop the masks and ‘return to normal’. So tired of the “untruths’ and manipulations.

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Thank You @Reckless 9:45a for clarifying the “*‘sense of conflict’ among the public over the ‘possible, waning coronavirus’ *while ‘*efforts to control**’ the pandemic ‘continues’?” Agreed - a very ‘simple choice of words’ : “ new normal “. Yes, maybe we should wait for the vaccinations to begin for the majority *of the populace before we lighten up our vigilance.

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Well, the pharma industry via their mouthpieces in the media are doing their bit to maintain the sense of crisis. Harder to push the shots on everyone if they're not frightened.

Don;t misunderstand, I'm not against voluntary vaccination. Go ahead and get one if it makes you feel safer. But it must not be a condition for going about daily life or travel, work etc unless you work in healthcare.

This virus is not dangerous to the vast majority of the population, so why the push?

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Well, the pharma industry via their mouthpieces in the media are doing their bit to maintain the sense of crisis. Harder to push the shots on everyone if they're not frightened.

There is no need to "push" anything, the disease is dangerous, control is highly desirable to avoid the predictable increase of the danger by new escape mutant variants. Vaccines are a safe and effective way to control the danger, and it is much more attractive than the alternative (economic and social interventions that have great costs)

If a supposed conspiracy is based on "pushing" something that is already considered very advantageous according to the scientific consensus and you have no proof whatsoever that this is not true, then there is no realistic possibility for the conspiracy to be real.

The virus is dangerous for everybody, just in more or less degree, and interventions that protect from the infection reduce the risk for everybody. Even for people that only care about themselves (so they feel ok with letting anybody with a precondition die unnecessarily) the negligible risk from vaccines is still much lower than the risk from the infection. Objective scientific knowledge prove vaccines reduce the risk for everybody, that is why vaccination can be promoted and even required.

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No for some people it's obviously not dangerous at all, like the millions that have had it and didn't notice. I thought you'd be a proponent of 'asymptomatic transmission'... so deadly you don't know you have it!

There is a huge difference between saying it was not dangerous and saying it is not dangerous. There is no segment of the population that is completely immune to complications or even death, so everybody have some risk from the infection. Many people have got involved in traffic accidents without getting any injury, your faulty reasoning would mean that traffic accidents are not dangerous either.

For anybody for whom the vaccine is indicated the risk of a complication from the infection is higher than the risk of a negative side effect of the vaccine. That includes people with preexisting conditions but also young healthy people as well.

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Not really. The looming Olympics and Japan's stumbles over vaccines are keeping people concerned.

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Speaking personally my own sense of crisis has tended to ebb and flow considerably depending on how well things seem to be going.

A couple of months ago I did have a real sense of crisis, watching the daily totals in Japan growing at an alarming rate. I was quite worried about where this was going, especially looking at the US where more than 3,000 people a day were dying from it.

Today with those totals way down, and the vaccine finally starting to arrive (albeit slowly) my sense of crisis is much lower and I'm nowhere near as worried as a I was in January. I'm even cautiously optimistic that things might get back to normal sometime this year.

But of course I'm also aware that we aren't out of this yet and something really bad, like some dangerous new variant, could suddenly pop up and screw everything up. So I still have a little bit of that sense of crisis left.

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I believe so, we have been under quarantine control measures for a little over a year already and it doesn't seem like we can go back to not wearing masks and no longer need to practice social distancing anytime soon. You can't maintain 100% vigilance and readiness for long periods, we're just human and we tend to drop our guard eventually. Depending on who you're asking, that sense of crisis would likely vary from people on how badly affected or under threat they feel from the virus.

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Presently, many may agree, we are all have ‘a sense of crisis’ trying to understand how this is worded and what is intended by such statements: “the coronavirus is waning as the pandemic persists”.

I take it English is not your first language....

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Like myself and my family, many of my friends are now working from home and it is getting to the point of untenable.

None of us have 2, 3 or 4 office spaces in our small Japanese homes.

I am sort of lucky as I do have a dedicated workshop but my wife and my 2 recent university grad children don't So tiny bedrooms now double as offices and it feels like one is permanently at work.

My friends are in the same situation with one using the bedroom the other the kitchen table everyone having to take care the others are not on a zoom meeting, etc...

This is not just Japan my siblings back home with both parents working from home their university aged children doing online classes has gotten near impossible to function with all the zoom, etc...

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Last night a delivery guy delivered some food and told me with a heavy heart that his restaurant is closing the end of this month, due to the effects of this "pandemic."

Panic?

To watch people suffer as the result of their livelihoods being destroyed, is very sad.

I have never felt a sense of anything but disgust, with the loud, daily messages, the endless ambulance sirens, the masks that were used for cedar pollen allergies, now required to be worn for a virus.

Experimental vaccines, futile masks, control over our way of life, stolen, for what?

Safety?

Cheap, effective drugs that can treat covid-19, like HCQ, Ivermectin, along with Zinc and Azithromycin, are not prescribed.

But an experimental vaccine, that will not cure, remedy or prevent this virus, is.

The Olympics will go on.

And P.S.

There was no flu, this year...

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I find very concerning the downvoting of Virusrex for trying to educate and explain the flaws of the conspiracy theories. Very sad!

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Experimental vaccines, futile masks, control over our way of life, stolen, for what?

The approved vaccines have stopped being experimental from months ago, the mask do work and have shown efficacy, you do keep control over your life, and the reason is easy, to control and avoid huge lots of unnecessary deaths and long term problems because of the infection.

Cheap, effective drugs that can treat covid-19, like HCQ, Ivermectin, along with Zinc and Azithromycin, are not prescribed.

None of those drugs are effective, and most have been even proved useless, there is nothing wrong with not using things that are worthless.

But an experimental vaccine, that will not cure, remedy or prevent this virus, is.

Vaccines are not meant to cure, but the approved vaccines do prevent the disease, their complications and death, they are showing that they prevent transmission. So they work as well as all the previous vaccines being used

There was no flu, this year...

Well duh! influenza is much more sensible to all the measures being used against COVID, it was predicted since last year that anything that worked to control the pandemic would have a huge effort against influenza, the lack of seasonal flu this winter season surprised exactly zero of the experts.

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Cheap, effective drugs that can treat covid-19, like HCQ, Ivermectin, along with Zinc and Azithromycin, are not prescribed.

None of those drugs are effective, and most have been even proved useless, there is nothing wrong with not using things that are worthless.

There are hundreds of studies showing the effectiveness of these safe treatments. Interestingly, Raoult has demonstrated that those studies that have shown no effect have been carried out by researchers with conflicts of interest (linked to big pharma). So it is not surprising that you only trust those big pharma-linked studies. Big pharma needed those negative results to get special emergency use approval for their rushed experimental vaccines; that approval would not have been given if an effective treatment was available.

@ Open Minded

Some of us do not appreciate being given long condescending lectures that do nothing but provide the big pharma narrative. Her views are generally wrong, and her references rarely support her claims.

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There are hundreds of studies showing the effectiveness of these safe treatments

No, there are hundreds of limited or deficient studies that appear to show an effect, up until they are corrected and replaced with much better designed and conducted studies that show the opposite, Proper meta-analysis studies prove above any reasonable doubt that at least HCQ, Zinc and Azithromycin are useless for COVID.

Raoult have not shown anything of the source (of course you will refuse to reference where he supposedly showed the conflicts of interests, somehow thinking that we are supposed to just trust you).

He himself has been found making invalid and unethical modifications on his own trials to get the results he wanted, even if they were too obviously false, even for him. Unfortunately for him science is not a secret enterprise he could fake and get away with it and the rest of the scientific community quickly found out the problems. At this point those manipulations have become so clear that he himself has begun to recognize that HCQ do not reduce the death rates of COVID because it is useless to keep pretending it is not.

The false argument against vaccines is also easy to disprove, because there are dirt cheap and easily available treatments agaiinst the infection, but a vaccine is much more effective than any of it (and specially much more than HCQ even in the worst studies where it appear to have a very humble effect).

It is understandable people do not appreciate being proved wrong, and to be asked for evidence when they know perfectly well they are using mistaken information, but anybody that is intellectually honest, and that is interested in public health should be grateful for this.

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What crisis? The only crisis I see people around me talking about is that they can't cram into restaurants quite yet to use their accumulated GoTo Eat points because they "Just missed out" when the last wave hit.

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