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LETTERS: We must learn to live with COVID – Byron Shire News
Readers have their say on learning to live with COVID-19, the search for a vaccine, and whether we should lock up kids on drugs.
NOW that Queensland has had its own COVID outbreak (C-M, Aug 24), hopefully our Premier and Chief Health Officer will stop banging on about “eradication” and “zero community transfer”.
Both are a pipedream at this point.
Eradication is impossible without a working vaccine, and unlikely even if we had one; the virus is here to stay.
As for zero community transfer, we have never had it (nor has anyone else).
Community transfer continues via asymptomatic people.
Even our much-vaunted, “X days …
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