Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Maybe you should do a bit of reading of history yourself. Past pandemics strongly tended to be seasonal. Even the Black Death came and went, year by year in an environment of near constant rolling plagues in Europe, like cholera, smallpox and other "plagues" we're not sure of the type as chronicles tended to lump everything in as a "plague". The most recent big killer, the so called "Spanish" flu(more likely American in origin) lasted from 1918-1920. The pandemic of 1957 was burnt out by 1958. The Plague of Athens was another seasonal pandemic. Coming and going in different regions over a few years. The sixth century Justinian Plague lasted four years overall in the regions it affected and in an era of much less rapid travel. If we look at the individual areas by infections, they lasted about 18 months. And this was well before vaccination came along, although some Asians and Africans had developed variolation* strategies against the red plague smallpox, which Europeans later looked and thought, hmmm, they might be onto something, and found they were.

*very clever notion. Basically smallpox is a respiratory virus, not unlike covid 19 in its mechanism of action. It gets into the mucus membranes of your nose and throat and then tries its damnedest to fcuk you up as your immune system tries to catch up, while the virus fcuks your immune system itself and a third of the infected didn't survive that fight(with the nasty version). So what those early clever bastards did was noticed this and realised that maybe if they deliberately introduced the pox first in an area that wasn't the nose and mouth this might give your body time to fight the bastard. So they would get the scabs and the fluid from the "pocks" of the infected, dry them out and prick the skin and introduce this matter into the wound on the skin. Because it was in an area of the body it couldn't take over and reproduce fast enough to feck you over it gave your body's immune system time to see and recognise it and mount defenses before it took a greater hold and kick it out. And it worked. Pretty bloody well. Lowered the death rate massively. Then one Ed Jenner noticed that milk maids never caught smallpox, because they had been exposed to the very minor cowpox and vaccination was born(though he wasn't the first). Vaccination; from the latin word "Vacca" for cow. Some have considered that the trope of the pretty "farmers daughter" in literature and ribald jokes may stem from the fact that farmer's daughters were much less liekly to have suffered from smallpox so didn't have the pock marks on the face of smallpox survivors.

Musing further on this, could olde stylee variolation work today but in a more controlled, more scientific manner? By this I mean covid 19 is a respiratory virus, so what if we introduced into the skin a weakened form of the full virus, so the body mounts defenses and builds immunity that way, well before it infects the respiratory tract and causes the serious issues in some? There have been suggestions that masks, even if they don't stop infection can lower viral load coming into the respiratory tract so the body can get on top of covid before it gets a chance to get really dangerous, so maybe an updated variolation could work? An oddball thought I grant you, but the beauty of it could be that any new variant that shows up could be pretty quickly used against itself. Than again it's late so... 😁