Just after a wave of peak period
The pandemic has lasted for three years, and people's attention has fluctuated almost with the mutation of the virus. From the earliest primitive strains, to later Beta, Delta and Omexjong. The spread of the virus is also uneven, and it is rising again. Now that the Omiljung strain is in the midst of a pandemic, many countries and regions have been infected again, and the number of cases and deaths is declining. If the virus does not mutate, or if it is really becoming less and less toxic and less harmful to humans, then there may really be fewer and fewer reports in the future. But if the mutation of the virus does not go according to people's wishes, then when the next wave of peaks comes, news reports will naturally increase again.
Already lying flat, don't care
In Europe and the United States, many countries have classified the repeated new coronavirus as influenza. The statistical report of the epidemic situation has also changed from a daily report at the beginning to a weekly report, and now it is simply not a special statistics. The epidemic prevention policy has also been gradually lifted and liberalized, and restaurants and shopping, sports events, parades and rallies have been held as usual, and it seems that the only difference from before the outbreak is that there are many more people wearing masks.
There are no longer any restrictions on epidemic prevention at U.S. sporting events
At the beginning of the epidemic, many countries also had a period of prevention and control. However, the government organization is chaotic, the policies are contradictory, and the degree of public cooperation is also very low, so the prevention and control effect is very poor. Up to now, more than half of the people in some countries have been infected with the new crown, and they have long lost the significance of prevention and control.
In Europe and the United States, the vast majority of people who care about their own health have been vaccinated; People who don't care, let alone treatment after symptoms, are not even willing to do testing. In their view, the country does not care (even the propaganda is just a common cold), many people around them have passed, so everyone is numb, it does not matter.
Foreign beaches are densely packed with tourists
In the case of Denmark, a developed nordic country, according to antibody serological survey data from people aged 17 to 72 in the country, it is estimated that about 70% of the adult population in Denmark has been infected with the new crown virus since the beginning of November last year. Denmark, on the other hand, has only about 5.8 million people, but about 3 million POSITIVE cases of COVID-19 have been recorded. Excluding cases of reinfection, about 50% of the population is already infected with COVID-19.
Denmark is a high-welfare country, with all education free, public health care free, nursing homes free, and retirement pay after retirement that remains largely the same before retirement. Such high welfare is based on the background of high national taxes, high employment rates of the people and high profitability of enterprises, so a country like Denmark cannot afford to seal it. In addition, the people also have the blood of Vikings, yearning for freedom and unrestrained, and do not cooperate with the sealing control at all. Even if there are waves of peak infections after the liberalization of the epidemic policy, and some people around them continue to die of infection, it is obviously unacceptable to prevent them from participating in music festivals, sports events, and beer parties.
Copenhagen Music Festival, Denmark
Lack of reporting value
At the beginning of the epidemic, there was a medical run in many countries, hospitals could not receive patients, and there were a large number of deaths that could be collected, and even the corpses were too late to deal with. For example, in India in 2021, when Delta was raging in India, patients who had the conditions to enter the hospital could not even get life-saving oxygen, let alone a large number of people who could not enter the hospital and could only fend for themselves. At that time, the news reports were full of patients struggling on the death line, and there were scenes of cremation of corpses everywhere, and later even the wood used for cremation was not enough, such a tragic situation was simply shocking, and I could not bear to look at it directly. And for news reporting, this is just big news.
India under the epidemic
For example, in the United States, where the economy, science and technology, and medical technology are the most developed in the world, and the ancestors of human rights and democracy are called the United States, when the number of deaths of the new crown epidemic reaches 1 million, the world is reporting, and when 101, 102, and then 1.04 million now, no one may pay too much attention.
Including our own country, the epidemic occurred in Hong Kong before, and then in Shanghai and Taiwan, for a long time, there was not so much attention. But the fact is that in Taiwan, where the epidemic is still raging, for example, tens of thousands of cases of infection are still occurring every day, and the number of deaths is as high as hundreds. It can be seen that there are fewer reports, not because the epidemic is gone. It's just that people are tired and tired, and there are constantly new hot news emerging, which is more eye-catching.
Comments by Taiwanese netizens on the epidemic
There are more serious things
The epidemic has entered its third year, and the global economy has also been hit hard. It can be said that the lives of ordinary people abroad are really sad. Especially when the Russo-Ukrainian War broke out in February this year, in Europe and the United States, the new crown seemed to have suddenly disappeared. People are more concerned about the war situation, their own jobs, oil and gas prices and other issues.
At the end of 21, when the Omicron epidemic began, the United Kingdom also announced a lockdown. Of course, their lockdown is far less strict than ours. Now, even free testing has been canceled. It shows that in their view, the restoration of the economy and production is more important than the lives and health of ordinary people. In particular, the inflation brought about by the Russo-Ukrainian war, the rise in energy prices has become more and more intense, and the general savings rate of the people abroad is not high, and the high cost of living is much worse than that of the new crown.
This is still the case of the rich countries in Europe and the United States, and the economic situation in those developing countries is even worse. For example, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries. These countries have previously derived a large part of their income from tourism, and the nearly three-year lockdown has hit the local economy hard. As a last resort, we can only begin to relax immigration control and cancel the epidemic prevention policy.
Really don't care
Forbes magazine published an article titled "This is what 1 million deaths from covid-19 in the United States" pointed out that covid-19 has now become the third leading cause of death in the United States, resulting in nearly three times the number of deaths caused by influenza in 10 years, more than the total number of deaths caused by HIV in the past 40 years, and nearly twice the number of deaths in the United States in the two world wars.
At the same time, Forbes also pointed out that 1 million is likely to still underestimate the real number of deaths caused by the new crown virus in the United States. And the new crown can be repeatedly infected, even mild or asymptomatic cases of the new crown may develop a variety of sequelae. Between 10% and 30% of patients will develop "long-term COVID-19", i.e., sequelae of COVID-19, after recovery.
So far, the United States has recorded more than 80 million cases of COVID-19, and there may be 8 million to 24 million people who will experience or have experienced "long new crown".
For the European and American governments, with the latest and most authoritative information, they cannot be unaware of the harm of the new crown epidemic to their own people. But mistakes have been made, and the initial lax epidemic prevention policy has made it impossible for them to go back. Today, they can only accept this reality compared to widespread unemployment, economic recession, and relatively low mortality rates after universal vaccination. Now the government wants people to be able to return to work, travel, go out to consume, stimulate transportation, catering and other industries, and boost the economy.
Therefore, in the news of foreign countries, there are very few reports about the new crown, and monkeypox and unknown hepatitis have a lot of heat. As a community with a shared future for mankind, we can only hope that there will be no next epidemic.