If only we had a way to slow down or stop the spread of disease.
Someday, far onto the future, scientists will figure it out!
Around the world, a post-Covid reality is beginning to sink in: Everyone, everywhere, really is sick a lot more often.
At least 13 communicable diseases, from the common cold to measles and tuberculosis, are surging past their pre-pandemic levels in many regions, and often by significant margins, according to analysis by Bloomberg News and London-based disease forecasting firm Airfinity Ltd.
The resulting research, based on data collected from more than 60 organizations and public health agencies, shows that 44 countries and territories have reported at least one infectious disease resurgence that’s at least ten times worse than the pre-pandemic baseline.
The post-Covid global surge of illnesses — viral and bacterial, common and historically rare — is a mystery that researchers and scientists are still trying to definitively explain. The way Covid lockdowns shifted baseline immunities is a piece of the puzzle, as is the pandemic’s hit to overall vaccine administration and compliance. Climate change, rising social inequality and wrung-out health-care services are contributing in ways that are hard to measure.
We can explain it, covid takes a toll on our immune system, and we are constantly exposed to it and can catch it multiple times a year. No one in public office wants to acknowledge it because that would mean putting money and effort into infection control.
Also it just feels like the anti-vax movement has gained way more momentum “post”-Covid. Like hasn’t the rise in measles cases been mainly in school children who haven’t been vaccinated due to anti-vax parents?
In order to normalize ending lockdowns and masking and whatnot, corporate media platformed so many anti-science folk to the point that I don’t think we’re ever gonna get that genie back in the bottle.
I gotta be honest I genuinely don’t know what any future looks like under these conditions. There is nothing like the confluence of what we are going through in any history book I know, and I get extremely anxious about that.
I mean, the future isn’t great, but the struggle is the same. We still have the same enemy, we’ve just gotta fight them while wearing N95s and using nasal sprays now. I don’t know if it’ll make you feel any better, but I read The Grapes of Wraith a few months back and it still very much resonates with the struggles we’re facing today. Capitalists are fucking us over and they’ve infected the minds of our fellow workers with a debilitating belief that the way things are, are the way the things always have to be. The big challenge I’ve found is freeing your own brain to be able to see possibilities of a different world and what we might have to do to get there. The brightside is since you’re here at least you recognize that “Back to Normal” is a lie, so hopefully you’re also picking apart at all the other related mental chains that keep your inner revolutionary arrested.
The anti vax campaigns people and governments have been running are doing damage, for sure.
In the UK at least, vaccination rates are at a 10 year low. With something as infectious as measles that might be enough to see the huge outbreaks we are seeing.
Then you have Dtap vaccines, which are down a couple percent in the UK over the last few years, but is that enough to explain things like this:
And we are also seeing a rise in rare cancers and other diseases that are usually only associated with immune disorders like AIDS.
