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We're fucked: Covid edition

We're fucked. There should be no uncertainty or ambiguity. We're hooped. We're over a barrel. We're fucked, six ways to sundown. The evidence is both in the numbers and should be clear anecdotally as well.

Just in case you don't know the numbers, a Covid infection has a 1% minimum death rate in the acute phase and 15% disability rate in the long-term. It takes 2-years to recover from a long Covid infection but Covid infections can infect an entire population's worth of people over the course of a year, if not faster, which means the likelihood is people will become sicker before they get better if we're doing nothing to mitigate transmission. Oh, Covid can also mutate faster than we can build immunity to it.

What this means is over the course of five years, if not faster, we'll have at least 50% of the population disabled. (I think we're already there.)

Moreover, since Covid's introduction into the population, other diseases have grown in numbers by 40%. 40% more heart attacks, strokes, and other vascular dysfunctions. 40% more diabetes. 40% more everything including a growth of about 40% in deaths from these other diseases. We're fucked!

Another thing, Covid attacks the brain. We're seeing a major rise in early onset Alzheimer's and Dementia. Brain scans are showing us Covid can have the same impact on the brain as a severe concussion. We're seeing a spike in accidents by similar numbers: 40%.

Returning to the number of disabled people there will be. That's pretty much starting right now. We can see it in services, whether government or private. Understaffed departments. Understaffed stores and restaurants. Everywhere, service has dropped in quality and quantity. And expect this problem to double in scope after the coming wave. Places will become as ghost towns because there's going to be a huge swath of people that can't fucking work for one malady or another.

And then it'll double again if the same care-free, non-mitigation lack of strategy is pursued.

We're fucked.

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