Jesus christ, that comment makes me want to cough in that person's face until they curl up in the fetal position and ree to make it stop.
First off, there are only four flu viruses that circulate through the US each year, and while they do mutate some over time, it's not enough to drastically change the impact of the virus. It's still the fucking flu. The vaccines each year are just the best guesses as to which specific variant is going to be most widespread, but it's not perfect. That said, if the currently spreading virus has antigenic similarity to the vaccine virus, then it should still work to confer immunity. So while research does need to be done to be aware of what's out there, even a slight miscalculation won't be the end of the world.
Second, as has been said countless times already, the real world isn't like Pandemic 2 or Plague Inc., especially since Madagascar has airports. A virus is not some cold and calculating killing machine that's plotting to determine how to kill the most people possible, it's a bundle of RNA and proteins that's just looking to propagate. The deadlier a virus is, the
worse it is at passing itself from one person to the next. Either a person will self-isolate due to being sick, or they'll get killed off before they can pass it on to someone else. Thus, viruses have an evolutionary pressure to become less deadly and more transmissible because these traits are more likely to allow them to continue to reproduce. Viruses have mutated "out of our control" since the dawn of time, and in case you haven't noticed, we don't have a million different superAIDS viruses rolling around. Wonder if this moron even realizes the Spanish flu still exists today, just in a much more neutered form.
Third, this idiot seriously doesn't understand the problems with our own country's statistics and others'. We've run more tests than pretty much every other country on earth, so of course we're gonna have a bunch of big scary numbers, particularly since the media couldn't help but do a running tally every day to hurt the Bad Orange Man's reelection chances. And there have probably been a lot of false positives due to running those PCR tests far too much, as well as the already-admitted practice of treating deaths
with the coof as deaths
of the coof. Since the government's been handing out fat checks for every case, there's a financial incentive for hospitals to lie as much as possible and get as much money as they can.
Despite all this, I'd say we probably have the best overall picture of how the coof played out in our country, and while our response could have been better (by just fucking ignoring it), I'd still rather be here than most any other country. Lots of industry and infrastructure was mobilized in the early stages, even if most of it went unused (like Cuomo's murderboner making him abandon the hospital ship and field hospital to kill off more oldies). We haven't lived under prison state rules like the dumbfucks in Australia, New Zealand, or much of Europe, and states are increasingly relaxing restrictions while much of the rest of the world remains locked down. Although I continue to have qualms about their unknown long-term effects, we developed multiple vaccines in under a year and rolled them out nationwide, while many other nations have struggled to do the same. And all in all, our cases and deaths are not that bad, especially considering a nation of this size, and they continue to decline without keeping our whole population on lockdown. Even if you assume that every one of the 500k deaths are actually
of the coof, that's still 0.1% of the population. With the true number likely being lower, it's tragic, but nothing worth the gross destruction of civil liberties and the economic hardships inflicted on the populace.
And sure, there have been countries with double digit deaths...y'know, countries with barely a few thousand people in 'em. I'll bet this moron actually believes that China's lockdowns actually did help them keep it below 100k cases, in a country with three times the population of the US crammed into a much smaller area.
Lastly, Fauci is a complete failure. He should go down in history as a totally incompetent buffoon that failed at handling
four pandemics, but now that he's protected, that won't happen. Good on Rand Paul for holding him accountable.
