https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/01/11/Revolution-Clean-Indoor-Air/
"In this, the fourth year of the pandemic, one question is on everyone’s lips.
How the hell will this thing ever end?
Many in the medical establishment have a ready (if dubious) answer. According
to them COVID is declining as a threat. Thanks to vaccines, drugs and immune
systems boosted by repeated reinfections, the number of dead or ailing will
become just another manageable nuisance.
Already we’re shifting from pandemic to endemic. And then to roughly “normal.”
But the past tells us plagues generally end messily; conclude at different
times for different classes and regions; and don’t fade into obscurity until
something dramatically changes in the ecology of the pathogen’s transmission or
how people live alongside the disease.
Charles Forsberg, an MIT nuclear engineer, laid out this truth in a rousing
article in
Mechanical Engineering magazine.
“Historical amnesia” is what Forsberg called the general assumption that
plagues are short-term events conquered by vaccines and drugs.
History, he wrote, “has shown that most diseases are stopped by shutting down
disease transmission, not late-arriving vaccines or hospital treatments, and
that the most enduring way to stop transmission is via engineered public health
systems such as water treatment plants and mosquito control districts.”
In other words, plagues don’t tend to end until their human hosts re-engineer
the environment that allows them to thrive."
This is an excellent article.
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: January 12, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-77129446
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
