I doubt any action would have made a dent in the 4 million. A lot of those deaths were the artificially kept alive thanks to excess of resources in places like america where 400 lbs specimens don't even raise an eyebrow anymore, that's why you see much less effect in places where said people would have been dead long ago. I applaud the spirit behind the sanctity of life, but as with every policy the most important question always is: at what price? So the math would have been something like if we dont do anything 4.1 will die, if we do 4 will die but in the process we will create financial collapse of say at least a billion people, is it worth it? Obviously this is just me pulling numbers out of my ass, but no one has numbers on the effects and to me the lack of data alone is cause for pause before any rash action.
And yes, i do believe there's a seismic shift in resources thanks to covid, the past year has seen a power reshuffling i never witnessed before. When the dust settles i suspect it would be dubbed the heist of history.
And yes, i do believe there's a seismic shift in resources thanks to covid, the past year has seen a power reshuffling i never witnessed before. When the dust settles i suspect it would be dubbed the heist of history.
What are you looking at to give you that suspicion of a lack of efficacy? Not just the RCTs leading through safety and two stages of efficacy have been pretty convincing to me, but also the post-distribution studies in Israel, etc. So statistically I am getting a pretty good sense that there is definite upside in most vaccines.
Yeah, in places like the US the dead were basically people on walking life support who had their scales tipped early. But there's definitely an phenomenon of older, Global North nations experiencing variants hitting people ever younger and also the relatively young, Global South nations finally experiencing the impacts more recently ... and seemingly being the source of some of these variants that are affecting younger, theoretically healthier people.
The math is extremely complex and everything comes with tradeoffs ... whether mental health, cancer screening, social development of children, etc. But in the short term, I don't fault anyone for not wanting their critical health care systems to collapse. Beyond that, the harm/benefit analysis gets a lot muddier to me.
But when it comes to the heist of history, how much of that is the disease/virus itself ... and how much of that is the usual exploitation of change by everything from governments, businesses, con artists, social movements, and the like? It's like there's always a posse of people pouncing on change and uncertainty to wedge for exploitation and massive financial gain.
