The virus changed, now get to zero or face catastrophe

With the new variants immunity doesn't last as long as it takes to vaccinate the population, we will be in an endless cycle of half measures until we take it seriously and drive it to zero cases.

Canadian analysis but it's on point'

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/01/28/Virus-Changed-Get-To-Zero-Face-Catastrophe/

TEXT OF ARTICLE:

Half measures haven’t worked. It’s time to beat the virus the way other places have done.

Are you tired of COVID?

I fucking am.

But as a longtime science writer and the author of two books on pandemics, I have to report what you probably don’t want to hear. We have entered the grimmest phase of this pandemic.

And contrary to what our politicians say, there is only one way to deal with a rapidly mutating virus that demonstrates the real power of exponential growth: Go hard. Act early. And go to zero.

Last January, one strain of this novel virus began its assured global conquest, and since then our leaders have hardly learned a goddamn thing.


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