The biggest bit of bullshit ever about Covid has been "The Hunt For Patient Zero"

Any time where there was a new 'breakout' of covid as the virus mutated and started appearing in a population group, the authorities went on this "Hunt For Patient Zero" to try and 'target' and 'identify' the source by which either a mutated version of the virus first was conveyed into a population or was *the* person in which the virus did mutate into a new permutation...

This became the genesis of the contact-tracing push which eventually was abandoned because by and large it did not work since people resisted being forced to use government apps to allow either automatic logging of position relative to 'identified cases' or resisted the checking-in mantra.

So what came of the "Hunt For Patient Zero"? Nothing. It was quietly dropped and replaced with the push to get everyone to get jabbed, then jabbed again, then jabbed repeatedly every 3 months. And we know what happened with that.

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Elessar · 26-30, M

Contract tracing would've worked if it wasn't implemented 3 months too late. That's exactly how SARS-1, the virus closest to COVID's (SARS-2), was eliminated back in the early 2000s.

zonavar68 · 51-55, M

@Elessar I have no idea what was done about sars here (in Australia) and there were definitely no negatively-pushed drug jabs for it (here), but you're probably right.

It also didn't help that our federal goverment created a smartphone app that almost everyone rejected (called 'covidsafe') and then when the sheer scale of artificial money required to 'fund' the weaponisation of covid response became clear the federal goverment at the time (under Scomo the Aussie acolyte of Trump) passed the buck to the states for 'frontline management'.

One by one the states/territories implemented their own contact tracing regimes that were completely incompatible with one another and which had no data sharing/exchange for wider-scale tracing of transmission and potential mutagen pathing.

The central issue was the way the 'we are all in this together' mantra was used early on and pretty much everyone was smart enough to realise that was a sham (since we were NEVER all in this together).

Elessar · 26-30, M

@zonavar68 Contact tracing done seriously and above all fast. Which means the great majority of us haven't been affected or even realized it was happening, because only a few thousand people worldwide managed to get infected before all cases were traced and the spread was ultimately stopped.

With COVID, we went through 3 months of absolute total paralisis and denialism ("it's probably just a flu, please come in to work even if you feel seek, the quarter profits are more at risk than your health!", while in China they were amassing corpses), and this before the right-wing globally decided to take the side of the pathogen to "own the libs".

zonavar68 · 51-55, M

@Elessar Covid is/was basically a 'flu' - that part is true. It is just a different type. I can't comment about the USA experience (except on how Trump behaved about it).

Elessar · 26-30, M

@zonavar68 No, it's a completely different virus, it has absolutely nothing to do with influenza which makes their claim even more asinine. The only virus that was similar to SARS-2 was (as the name suggests) SARS-1, which was successfully eradicated by tracing and isolating the (few) cases there were, without wasting 3+ months doing absolutely nothing or having to quarantine the entire world not to quarantine a grand total of a few hundreds/thousands people *worldwide* at the very beginning

Also even if it were similar to flu, the most deadly pandemic happened in recent times was caused by a certain influenza virus in 1918 (Spanish flu). So "just a flu" is absolutely a ridiculous statement in terms of pandemic comparisons. It's like saying "just the plague, yo".