How Covid is still changing the way we live, work and play - in five graphs
Lessons not learned from Covid five years on from lockdown, campaigners say
“The UK is less prepared for another pandemic than it was pre-Covid because “lessons have not been learnt” five years on, campaigners have warned.”
The Institutions Are Collapsing
“This is what passes for medical care these days. Medical institutions are collapsing. Public health has collapsed. The people are sick because everyone has had covid on multiple occasions by now. And covid has trashed immune systems. Specifically, it supresses for months, sometimes even years, the T-cells that help us fight infections. This is no longer particularly controversial. Immunologists who argued about this at first are beginning to agree that yeah, something has changed.”
COVID Pandemic Fatigue Has Left the U.S. Vulnerable to New Threats
“I’m concerned today with pandemic defeatism—where rather than maintain systems prepared for another pandemic or continue combating COVID-19, we might be too quickly choosing to ignore the very real risks that are out there and instead throw up our hands, suggesting that there’s perhaps nothing we can do.”
Let’s see how things are going in Mycoplasma pneumoniae land this weekend…
Compilation of pneumonia anecdote videos: