"Still, Dr Turville is acutely aware of the vitriol frequently directed at people who promote COVID safety.... This both puzzles and amuses him. ...
"Then again, the differences between how the two pandemics — HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 — were managed ... are probably quite instructive, says Dr Turville. With HIV, experts and health ministers collectively built a strong public health strategy that they strove to protect from politics. 'When we look at COVID, it was political from the start and continues to be,' he says. We also now lack a 'mid to long-term plan to navigate us through' this next phase of COVID-19: 'Some argue that we are no longer in the emergency phase and need to gear down or simply stop,' he says. 'But should we stop, and if not, what do we gear down to as a longer-term plan?'..
"'I think there's a lot of patting on the back at the moment — job well done. And that's nice, but I think it's somewhat job well done, there goes the rug,' he says. 'I think it's the apathy that's the concern. And I think it's coming top-down ... I just don't understand why, like we had with HIV, there can't be a mid-term strategy'."~ from the article 'The COVID-safe strategies Australian scientists are using to protect themselves from the virus'
Wednesday 24 January 2024
"The differences between how the two pandemics — HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 — were managed are probably quite instructive"
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The article you reference ends with the notion that Governments will need to regulate, and society will need to invest in, improving indoor air quality.
Of course there is outrage from the usual opponents of all forms of regulation and of those who consider the cost to be unaffordable. But the huge gains in health in the 19th century came from building sewers and clean-water supply systems. They were indeed vastly expensive (as cities that are have let them run down are discovering). But they paid off in the reduction of diseases like cholera and typhoid, not to mention the more pleasant living conditions from stink reduction.
Once indoor clean-air systems have become universal, we will see the payoff in reduction of airborne diseases like covid and influenza, and our grandchildren will wonder how we tolerated the indoor stinks that we barely noticed until we got rid of them.
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