https://independentsage.substack.com/p/just-the-flu-hampers-our-response
"The phrase “just the flu” has enraged me since COVID began as it pays neither
SARS-CoV2, nor influenza virus, the respect they deserve.
This phrase, clearly aimed at normalising pandemic harms, effectively
benchmarks flu, which causes 1000s of UK deaths annually, as “normal”. This is
despite available vaccines, drugs, and hard-earned population immunity against
the flu virus. Sadly, familiarity breeds contempt, or in this case,
complacency.
The UK “living with” COVID response relies entirely on this premise of flu as a
“normal” illness, crowbarring a COVID peg into an influenza-shaped hole. The
result: an overstretched NHS enduring additional health burden with little
extra resource.
SARS-CoV2 has made “winter pressures” perennial. As a result, more people are
dying, hundreds of thousands more people are unable to work, and support for
Long Covid patients is dwindling. This “new normal” is NOT befitting of a
country with (historically) advanced health and social care."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: October 31, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-115042386
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
