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It could be possible if we got our shit together and had real planning. The army could be mobilised in hazmat suits to provide public services during lockdowns if they really wanted. Sanitation points could be set up. Planners employed to manage it in the best way. Food and supply deliveries. Inform people why these things are nessisary and emphasise how fucking serious this situation is. Arrest and shame people who don't take it seriously like the selfish murderers they are. Bring the best minds together and fucking devise an efficient method to make it work.
If taken seriously it could be eradicated in a year or two.
I refuse to believe same society that landed on the moon over 50 years ago can't eradicate a virus.
I'm not sure Zero Covid was as far as China was willing to go. Keep in mind it made little sense for China to go all in on eradicating COVID if everyone else was gonna play plague rat.
If the world had been on board the result might have looked very different.
We are never going to eradicate it with current science. This is an airborne, highly contagious, and sometimes asymptomatic virus. Once it spread to the general population, it was
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Even more reason to hate that they let it spread
It was over before it began. Yes, millions of people died due to mismanagement, but once it took root there was no stopping it from becoming endemic globally.
We don’t even need hazmat suits, just for everyone to agree to wear n95s. We got lucky with the severity of this virus. Imagine if it was the Spanish flu again, or something worse.