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Originally Posted by westopher
A lot of people seem to be banking on a vaccine while ignoring that we don't have vaccines for every fucking illness on the planet. Like, we are 40 years into HIV/AIDS and don't have a vaccine.
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This is why I have long advocated about a comprehensive track and tracing.
A safe massive scale vaccine could be years away. The supposed vaccine from both China and Russia have tested less than a thousand people, and that's "according" to what they said. God knows how many they actually tested and how many of those develop things that weren't supposed to happen.
Having PPE is also NOT a long term solution. It's a disease so powerful at spreading that it only takes a few small oversights to get one and every person he/she encounters with infected.
Taiwan is arguably the ONLY advance economy that had successful suppressed the virus with no resurgence. We are talking full scale economic activities with no major change in them (a retail location hosting a restaurant that were originally designed to have 120ppl in there paid its rents accordingly. You drop it to 30 because of social distancing, that restaurant goes bankrupt) and having tens of cases for the last couple of months.
Taiwan's success is still not complete. It's working on proposals to allow foreign visitors to come in just like before. But the base is still the same, precaution+track and tracing.
The sooner our gov't realize that we need to start making long term preparations, the better. They are avoiding like a taboo. I get it... we have a liberal party in power and god are they incompetent. But as SARS and Covid showed us, these kind of pandemic can come back at any time. Developing a system in place that you can start using it at any given moment to control a pandemic is not a waste of resources.
Out of those hundred of billions of debt we took on to combat the Covid... if even a percent or two can be spared to this, we'd have made so much progress already.
Instead what do we have? Daily new figures that doesn't show a slowdown any time soon and public is worry that any day we can go back to full lockdown.
Fucking pathetic.