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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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Japan proves the virus can be eradicated without descending into totalitarianism like China.

Eradication requires high social cohesion capable of social distancing properly in a society and strong institutions capable of researching and deploying vaccines quickly enough to be effective. There's a bunch of nuance inbetween on how those things are done exactly but the results speak for themselves.

Now, will Japan screw it up by becoming more relaxed too early like capitalist nations are apt to? Maybe. But the fact they got this far at all tells me it's possible to go all the way. I think realistically yes, we're looking at either a high endemicity or low endemicity scenario for the moderate future due to the current nature of global society. Yet, even barring more advanced treatments I think there is a good argument to be made that eradication of dangerous pathogens, not just the coronavirus, is a cultural problem not a technological one.

We do have the ability to organize ourselves in such a way as to sacrifice a period of time in relative social isolation that is long enough to remove pathogens from the human population. Technology would have to the enter the equation to truly solve the problem in terms of animal reservoirs, but even without it, if we had well funded properly scaled track and trace programs established it is arguable that all future pandemics and epidemics of known pathogens could be prevented.
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Health Minister Says 'Highly Transmissible' Omicron Hitting Young Children Hard in South Africa
by Julia Conley
December 3, 2021

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/ ... hard-south

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(Common Dreams) Top government health officials in South Africa briefed the press on Friday regarding the Omicron variant, warning that the country's newest wave of Covid-19 infections has included an alarmingly sharp rise in hospital admissions among young children under the age of five.

In Gauteng province—which includes Johannesburg—patients under the age of five are now the second largest group being admitted to hospitals, after patients over the age of 60, according to Dr. Waasila Jassat, a public health specialist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).

Rising hospital admissions have been seen across all age groups in South Africa since the latest wave began in mid-November, but "the trend that we're seeing now, that is different to what we've seen before, is a particular increase in hospital admissions in children under five years," Jassat told reporters.

The South African Health Ministry released a graph showing that in the first two weeks of the fourth wave in Tshwane Metro, hospitalizations of children up to age four topped 100, compared to less than 20 during the third wave.
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