“I think it’s hard to process what’s actually happening right now,” said Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, “which is most people are going to get covid.”
Woodcock pitched this as being a necessary acknowledgment when it comes to charting the path forward — recognizing that the focus now needs to be on averting the worst that widespread infections could bring in the near term.
“What we need to do is make sure the hospitals can still function, transportation, you know, other essential services are not disrupted while this happens,” she said. “I think after that will be a good time to reassess how we’re approaching this pandemic.”
Woodcock pitched this as being a necessary acknowledgment when it comes to charting the path forward — recognizing that the focus now needs to be on averting the worst that widespread infections could bring in the near term.
The Washington Post January 11, 2022 at 3:52 p.m. EST
As the Omicron variant spreads like wildfire across the United States, it’s likely just about everybody will be exposed to the strain, but vaccinated people will still fare better, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert said Tuesday.”Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Those who have been vaccinated … and boosted would get exposed. Some, maybe a lot of them, will get infected
CNN 9:04 AM ET, Wed January 12, 2022
We appear to have surrendered to the virus.
Just as a little thought experiment, imagine if omicron kills 1% of the people it infects (actually it’s higher than that). If, as the experts now seem to think, everyone in the country is going to get infected that’s an additional 3,000,000 plus deaths in the U.S. alone and that’s just from the virus. Add in the number of deaths from delays in receiving care for other non-covid health issues and who knows what kind of numbers we can put up.
Humans have lost, the virus has won, and it was almost entirely avoidable.
Maybe we deserve it.
Rather than giving up on the virus, I think they’ve given up on about a third of the American people. They know that, no matter how hard they try, somewhere around a quarter of US citizens will never take the vaccine, that they will only possibly change their minds on their deathbeds…and many of them not even then.
They know that the harder they push the public to be vaccinated, the more these people will push back; that the only way to coerce these people to do something for their own health and safety is to turn into the Police State that these idiots already think we are. So there will always be a brisk, active pool of warm hosts for the incubation of new and better variants.
As a result, they know that, despite the vaccinations, the masks, the social distancing, one’s personal safety may ultimately lie in the hands of some obese, angry bastard in a poorly-fitting Gadsden Flag T-shirt and an even-more-poorly-fitting Punisher face gaiter.
So yeah, I can understand why they might decide to concede defeat before the battle’s over. Might be a better use of their energies to plan for the mop-up… :^(