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Saying it now - we'll call this the Covid games. These variants ripping through the world, elevating cases to near records, will decimate teams and audiences.

The denialism and utter contempt to what Covid can and will do to athletes should be criminal. Only 2 weeks ago the Tour de France belatedly introduced measures to protect riders.

Enraging: ''but I need to emphasize we are treating Covid no different to other bugs like flu'

and while we watch Covid rip through the Olympics, it continues to rip through our health systems - Nanaimo hospital is in a constant mess, LTCs are seeing staff drop in record numbers again, calling people back from holidays

If we keep 'treating it like the flu' as the Australian Olympic Committee unbelievably publicly stated, the fall and winter waves will be an absolute crisis

Bring back health masking, make it permanent

bc.ctvnews.ca/metro-vancouver-

British Columbia · Metro Vancouver hospital turned away patients at emergency departmentPatients who went to Mission Memorial Hospital’s emergency department on Tuesday evening were told to go to Abbotsford General or Maple Ridge hospitals, the first time a Metro Vancouver acute care facility has turned away patients due to critical staffing shortages.

and finally, to underscore the utter normalization and serious malfeasance of public health everywhere - San Francisco wastewater signal is at or actually over a record, The Netherlands reporting a 14 fold increase of cases, not seen since Delta took hold in 2021, Greece advising tourists of a major wave and that health care may be limited

None are bringing back actual community measures, no major pressers or warning from governments - it's all a big yawn

@MatWright absolutely nothing that happens from now on will trigger a public health response. Zombies? Carry on. Brain eating amoeba? It’s fine. Raging killbots? No one lives forever - enjoy the concert.

@andymoose literally the conversation I was having when H5N1 crossed into dairy and a few people - the suppression of info began immediately - absolutely nothing will move the needle now

BenderIsGreat34

@MatWright they floated the idea of doing nothing for Covid after the first year passed, and realized that the vast majority were ok with it. This encouraged them. If this worked for Covid can it work for other pathogens and public health emergencies? Yes. Yes it will. And that was the end of 200 years of advancements in public health education and mitigation.