S.NCE, we all listened to respect for what epidemiologists said. We have in the vaccine queue for the vaccine, the observation construction lines, and we asked for the confidence of the unconvincing passengers in public transportation to cover their faces. Ruling on the tyrant virus on us, and we did everything we can to limit its woes.
Five years of a permit From the Covid-19 pandemic, the virtual passenger is the suspect, no one notices the abstract construction lines and confidence in the vaccines has taken a Stumbling. It was invaded by a different conversation novel: It was not the virus that destroyed our lives, but the response.
This novel was always present, but for a long time it remained on the sidelines. It is now prevalent, the turbine was shipped with the recent successes of its political heroes who are usually attracted to the populist right. Watch public health experts with a feeling of gathering from destruction. They know how to respond to the next epidemic depends on how we understand the other, and that the next device may be closer than most people think. Perfume to the mind, many of them are concerned that Covid-19 has left us more, not less, vulnerable to it.
These experts say that the response was far from perfection, but the new narrative suppliers have chosen the wrong goal: science. Millions of millions of deaths prevented millions of deaths. Soon the technology of building new and effective vaccines came in leaps and limits. masks a job. As with every pandemic in modern history, subsequent reviews have Find The advice to go early and difficult with containment was correct. Did scientists make mistakes? Of course, but they were working in high uncertainty conditions. But they are often ignored or confronted by the politicians who advised him, as well as by others in the influence sites – however these people are not the bad guys in this piece.
Anyone who doubts the power of narration only needs to take a look at this modern icarus, Anthony Fushi. Five years ago, he was the experienced and prominent personal epidemiological warrior in the American Covid-19 response (he was the chief medical advisor of the president, 2021-22) Wiped “The most trusted Corona virus expert” in the country and “the voice of the scientific mind”. Then the heat of white public opinion melted in its wings. After he accepted the pardon of Joe Biden, he had to do so Scrutinize He did not commit any crime. Although he was subjected to repeated death threats, Donald Trump has withdraw Federal security details.
Their British counterparts in Photoshi, Chris White and Patrick Vallas have also received death threats. But by allowing these scholars to treat them severely, we undermine ourselves in the long run. Who will take over this flawless task now, if you hit a new pandemic? Fauci et al is just the visual face of intellectual response. Behind the scenes, infectious diseases researchers a report Their money dries, making them less able to predict and prevent the next epidemic. The Trump administration planted chaos at the medical research agency and the National Health Institutes (NIH), and ordered the American withdrawal from the only World Public Health Agency, the World Health Organization. Negotiations have stopped on a pandemic treaty, which would improve diseases monitoring and access to vaccine worldwide.
He talks about the national health institutes in late 2023, the Minister of Health in Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, According to what he said, he said: “We will give infectious diseases a break for approximately eight years.” Unfortunately, it does not give we A break, because our various crises are linked. ZOONOSES rate – human infections of animal origin – is AccelerationDue to factors, including the removal of the forests and the climate changed by the human being. When viruses are concerned, the coalition CEO of epidemiological alert innovations, Richard Hachtit, books Recently, “The world is burning“.
A teenage survivor from influenza in 1918 can expect not to face any pandemic again in their lives. The same is not right for teenagers today. The most imminent threat is likely to be “bird flu”, which are the H5N1 A strains that are circulated nowadays in cows and poultry. They have not become acceptable among humans yet and they may never do so, but they have spread from animals to humans dozens of times on several continents, causing the disease and at least at least One death. If someone raises a pandemic, then this epidemic will be at least fatal like Covid-19, which is estimated The cause of more than 27 million excessive deaths so far.
It is difficult to know which microbe will cause the next epidemic, because for all the advanced modeling of scientists, they cannot predict a change in the context that will stimulate one from a relatively benign path to one more dangerous. Besides studying the reasons for the standard threat, the best hope for protecting adolescents tomorrow is to make our societies more flexible. We have seen this clearly at the height of the emergency, but we have Forget it. Remember short calls to reduce inequality in the gap, support our health systems and work forces, and “and” “Build again better“?
Conducting interviews with people from 70 countries in a Global listening project It was launched in 2021, a team led by the anthropologist Heidi Larson found that many of them felt their lack of daily challenges in talking about issues and “uncomfortable curves”. The patient’s patient case was symbolic: many could not stay at home when they suffer from a disease. Their desire to help others also have, through – among other things – the catastrophic insistence on social distance. This has become an acronym for physical disposal, which is necessary, but it has undermined efforts towards social cohesion, which is also vital in a pandemic.
“In a real crisis, the state cannot take care of you,” the psychologist Stephen Recycray of St. Andrews University. “Food cannot be placed on your table, or walking your dog. We do it for each other.” Up to 14 million Britons partner In mutual relief groups at the peak of Covid-19, Larson’s notes indicate that the number would be higher if the government supported those efforts.
Five years after the worst health crisis in the living memory, there is a national conversation waiting to be about the roles of the individual, society and the state in such a crisis. What is my responsibility towards myself and my community, and what is the responsibility of the state towards us? At each level, there is an area for improvement, but we do not address it. Let’s hope that we can take this conversation before we test again, but first whenever the most stringent – and misleading sounds – should decrease.
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