"What this sleight of hand conceals is the fact that the social end of the pandemic was manufactured to restart the engine of capital as quickly as possible to quell a newly-radicalized society."
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Thinking of the Spanish Flu pandemic 1918-1920. Then the physical after effects called "sleeping sickness". Next the Robber Barron class inaugurated the extreme excesses of the "roaring 20's" ending with the Great Depression '29-39, then WWII.
Doesn't seem we humans handle them well.
Deaths have indeed plummeted, but deaths are by no means the only negative outcome from contracting Covid - saying this as someone with a partner who is now immunocompromised after we caught Covid for the first time last year after three rounds of annual vaccinations.
No they will not in most cases. In canada only 5 to 10% of covid deaths at most are officially recorded as covid. This has been shown by Tara Moriarty and her colleagues with Covid 19 Resources Canada
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Doesn't seem we humans handle them well.
COVID deaths were at their highest when the patient-to-nurse ratio made competent care untenable.
Also, as per the case with most viruses, later strains (omicron) did not kill hosts as frequently.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/11/23/what-is-long-covid-patients-and-doctors-still-seeking-answers/75811907007/
It’s not an effective evolutionary strategy to kill the hosts. It minimizes spread.
The viral descendants of the Spanish Flu are still around today in more benign flu strains.
It simultaneously spread more than any other strain previously encountered but had a fatality rate similar to most common respiratory diseases.