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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced (feddit.org)
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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know about the US, but here in Germany covid is just part of life now, like the flu. My neighbor is an intensive care nurse and she says there are no covid patients anymore or if there are, they're on the same level as influenca.

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If you have been vaccinated, then the current strains are about as deadly as the flu. We still need to keep ready for new strains and for sudden surges that can quickly overwhelm a single location's health care capacity. This is true of influenza as well, a new strain hitting a small contained community can cause issues.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago

Absolutely. That's what I was talking about. We keep on monitoring covid like the flu-variants, but we don't change our lives for covid any more than we do for the common flu.