Pandora wrote: minewalker wrote: Your view is, in part, correct... but, subjugated sycophantic politics will go, when the part-time arts shool teacher gets tossed out.
Sadly, because of the big pharma and lobbiests, Canada's position could have been on the front line, when it comes to the roll out and effectiveness of a COVID vaccine.
Weak kneed, mumble words, resulting in bad timing and failures, does not make for good leadership. Tru-( what fashion trend should I wear today )-dough is an embarrassment, who cost many Canadian's their lives.
I still say the fact that development of a good effective therapeutic was thrown into the back seat in the fight against Covid was/is a tragedy. Here we are 15 months into the fight and everyday we keep getting the news data as to how many more people have died from Covid. They are dying because there is no effective therapeutic - you know - that old word "medicine". No one in 15 months has been able to produce a good effective medicine that will prevent people from dying once they contract this virus.
Why is that? Where is the effort? Warp Speed and billions of dollars were poured into vaccines. There are hundreds of vaccines under development in all parts of the world. Everybody trying to get a piece of the dollar pie. In the meantime, day after day after day, people keep going to the hospital, to the ICU, and then far too many get reported as having died.
As a senior, although I have no underlying conditions or commorbidities, I find this fact to be the biggest single fear factor in the whole pandemic scare scene. I live in a cocoon for fear that by some small chance if I was to contract Covid I would be shipped into a hospital where they have no effective means of fixing the problem and their main battle is to keep a person as comfortable as possible as they can -- and give them tylenol and dexamethasone in hopes that it will 'work' and I could come out the other end in one piece.
I think it's a total failure and a complete unmitigated failure of our medical establishment. Just imagine what the world would look like if the covid virus had the case fatality rate that Sars and Mers had. It would be a disaster.
SARS-CoV emerged about two decades ago in China and spread rapidly to other countries. Fortunately, it was successfully contained and no new cases have been reported since the initial outbreak. MERS-CoV emerged in 2012 in Saudi Arabia and circulated throughout the Middle East and was carried by travelers to other parts of the world including the United States, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The rate of new infections has since dropped significantly.
More recently, late in 2019, a third member of the coronavirus family capable of causing severe disease arose. The new virus, emerging in Wuhan, China, is called
SARS-CoV-2 and is responsible for the disease known as
COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2 spread quickly around the globe. Unlike SARS-CoV or MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 was not able to be controlled, resulting in a worldwide pandemic.
At this time, there are no approved vaccines or specific treatments for SARS or MERS. However, several vaccines and treatments are in development.
On a much smaller scale, the MERS outbreak foreshadowed the subsequent SARS-CoV-2 outbreak by exacting an economic and political toll within South Korea, as schools and businesses were shuttered, and people were fearful of visiting public places. This also illustrates the importance of remaining vigilant in order to quickly identify the agent of infection and enact immediate infection control measures,
such as restricting contact with infected individuals. (Quarantine, isolation, masking?)
No proven Ebola virus-specific treatment presently exists;
[347][348] however, measures can be taken to improve a patient's chances of survival
Bottom line -- since the Sars outbreak in 2003, the Mers outbreak in 2012, the Ebola outbreak in 2013 and the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 there has virtually been very little research or relatively little research into a sound effective therapeutic into fighting the outcomes of any of these Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome viruses. The whole emphasis has been on developing a vaccine and god help you if you happen to contract one of these diseases regardless of the vaccine program because they seem to think there is no importance for having a therapeutic/medicine available.
Sadly another 9,751 people died yesterday worldwide.