JK2006 wrote:
Yesterday I had predicted 800 deaths "with" Covid. It was 799.
It's the next one that worries me. The one as lethal as Ebola; as infectious as flu. As hard to find vaccines or remedies as the Common Cold or AIDS or other deadly diseases.
We see outbreaks of ebola on and off in Africa. It is a lethal and highly infectious virus, as opposed to just highly infectious (covid). Another outbreak is occuring now that requires a modified vaccine:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56060728
I agree with you that one outcome of our response to Covid is that millions can't tell the difference between the two types of threat.
So many would now resist a lockdown for ebola if it arrived here (ignoring rules en masse next time) because of our gross over reaction to Covid, when a lockdown would be required or millions would actually die and rotting, pestilential corpses disgrace the streets of London.
(Forgive my Dickensian flourishes at breakfast time...!)
Also we have now ruined our country economically for Covid. What capacity do we have for a hypothetical ebola lockdown? What resources have we left to acquire an ebola vaccine. What ignorant resistance will there be to taking one?
We have been
so irresponsible in reacting to Covid like this.