在疫情疲劳症蔓延之际，新冠病毒撬开了我家的大门（观点）
Opinion: My family's COVID crisis puts our pandemic fatigue under scrutiny
来源: 大中网/096.ca 南茜(Nancy Jin)
随着加拿大卫生当局取消疫情限制规定并放松保护措施，越来越多的加国人士误认为疫情已经结束。这种误念也蔓延到我的6口之家，使我们在经过了两年极度紧张的日子之后放松了警惕。在我们的潜意识里，疫情的危险已不复存在了，那些诸如不邀客人来访，频繁洗手，公共场合戴口罩等家庭规则早被抛到九霄云外。但就在我们笑迎疫情后的新生活之际，该死的新冠病毒悄悄地潜入我家。我女儿在和她的朋友们外出旅游后，被新冠感染。
今天你也许关心的话题：
今天是多伦多抗疫第1000天，安省因COVID-19死亡病例升至5月来新高
美国开放无医生处方助听器，那加拿大呢？
统考显示，安省六年级学生数学成绩只有47%达标
The misconception that the pandemic was over has increasingly gained traction among Canadians as the public health authorities lifted restrictions and abandoned protection measures. This mentality had found its way into my home, leaving my family of six putting their guard down after spending two years in a hyper-vigilant state. We threw most of the Covid household rules that kept us from the virus out of the window– including banning visits from guests, washing hands frequently, and donning masks in public spaces. As we moved on from the pandemic holding a reduced risk perception of catching the disease, coronavirus sneaked into our home. My 23-year-old daughter tested positive after a camping trip with her friends.
社会上日益猖獗的疫情疲劳症也促使当局采取给这场疫情划上句号的政治行动。美国总统拜登就利用这种公众情绪宣布疫情已结束，这使美国公众在防疫行为上更是毫无顾忌，口罩在公众场合已荡然无存，而室内聚会也更有恃无恐。随着疫情也不再占据媒体头条，每日病例和死亡人数也在公众视野中消失。但新冠病毒却不因人的否认而消失。
The widespread pandemic fatigue has driven political incentives to act like that Covid was something of the past. Tapping into the public sentiment, US president Biden declared that the pandemic was over, encouraging Americans to adopt more careless behaviors – from abandoning wearing masks in public to gathering regularly indoors without limits. Daily cases and death tolls disappeared from the public view as the pandemic no longer grabs the media headlines. But Covid lurks behind unjustified beliefs.
尽管病例和死亡人数在下降，美国每天的新感染人数仍在上万，且平均每天死亡人数在400左右。 流行病学副教授威廉·哈纳奇 (William Hanage) 医生在就拜登的疫情结束言论发表看法时说：“这场已经结束的大流行情况仍然非常糟糕，甚至是我们通常认为非常糟糕的情况的三倍。” 在 8 月的一个星期，当加拿大人认为新冠病毒风险处于最低水平时，加拿大的因疫情死亡人数比去年同一时期增加了两倍。 Hanage医生预计秋季和冬季的 Covid 病例仍会增加。
Despite cases and death counts in decline, the daily new infections remained at tens of thousands in the US, while on average, more than 400 people died every day. "This ended pandemic is still three times as bad as something we would ordinarily consider pretty bad," said Dr. William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology, in response to Biden's remarks. In one week of Aug., when the perceived Covid risks were at the lowest level among Canadians, Canada recorded a death toll tripled the same week last summer. Dr. Hanage anticipated an uptick in Covid cases in the fall and the winter.
我们都没有把女儿的新冠确诊当会事儿。不是说Omicron不像其前任那样大的危害吗？疫苗接种和通过感染获得的混合免疫力足以让新冠的伤害减少到流感的程度，而谁没得过流感？我们都低估了新冠的严重性，在她确诊后还依然故我，生活依旧。由于隔离和保护措施不足，第二名家庭成员很快被感染，同时极度疲乏，阵阵发冷和大汗淋漓让他们两人卧床不起，一家人顿时被恐惧，犹豫和恐慌情绪笼罩。”最难受的时候可比流感痛苦多了，“我女儿在恢复之后告诉我说。”当时真是痛不欲生。“
None of us responded to my daughter's covid diagnosis on high alert. Covid – the Omicron strain seemed not to pose severe health risks to us as its predecessor did. With enough hybrid immunity from infection and vaccination, the Covid threat would reduce to that of influenza, to which we had all fallen victim. We underestimated the severity of her illness, trying to go about our daily lives as usual after her diagnosis. The minimum level of isolation and protection we practiced soon led to the second family member catching the virus. The severe fatigue, bouts of sweat, and chills kept them bedridden as fear, gloom, and panic gripped the family. "At the worst moment, it felt much more painful than flu," my daughter said after getting better."I really wanted to die.”
忽视新冠的严重性是另一个会导致可怕恶果的误念。医学界的普遍看法是新冠在传播和致死方面造成的危害远高于流感，而那些不同观点很快就不再占上风。白宫医疗顾问安东尼·佛奇医生说：“一种病毒的危害性与另一种相比要严重得多，且一种病毒的杀伤力与另一种相比也严重的多。”“在大流行的历史上，我们从未发现 COVID-19 的风险可与流感相提并论，”对新冠和流感严重性的比较进行深入研究的Al-Aly 医生说， “新冠总是具有更高的风险。”
Playing down the severity of Covid is another public myth that would cause devastating consequences. The view that Covid poses more threats than influenza in transmission and causing death is prevalent in the scientific community and has quickly drowned out those who believe otherwise. "The severity of one compared to the other is quite stark. And the potential to kill of one versus the other is really quite stark," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's medical adviser. "We've never, ever in the history of the pandemic found that COVID-19 is equally risky to the flu," said Dr. Al-Aly, who has done research comparing COVID to the flu. "It's always carried a higher risk."
我们家经历的这场新冠危机让我们亲身感受到了大流行疲劳症和对病毒的误解所造成的伤害。但尽管犯了很多错误，其他家庭成员都接受了新冠加强疫苗，使他们免遭感染。这款加强针抵御住了新冠病毒的蔓延，让我们避免了更为严重的后果，可谓不幸中的万幸。
My family's Covid crisis has provided us with firsthand experience of the harms caused by the pandemic fatigue and misconceptions about the virus. But despite all the mistakes, some of us did something right. The booster shots the rest of the family received spared us from getting infected, ending the COVID rampage that could have caused more severe outcomes.
今天你也许关心的话题：
今天是多伦多抗疫第1000天，安省因COVID-19死亡病例升至5月来新高
美国开放无医生处方助听器，那加拿大呢？
统考显示，安省六年级学生数学成绩只有47%达标
The misconception that the pandemic was over has increasingly gained traction among Canadians as the public health authorities lifted restrictions and abandoned protection measures. This mentality had found its way into my home, leaving my family of six putting their guard down after spending two years in a hyper-vigilant state. We threw most of the Covid household rules that kept us from the virus out of the window– including banning visits from guests, washing hands frequently, and donning masks in public spaces. As we moved on from the pandemic holding a reduced risk perception of catching the disease, coronavirus sneaked into our home. My 23-year-old daughter tested positive after a camping trip with her friends.
社会上日益猖獗的疫情疲劳症也促使当局采取给这场疫情划上句号的政治行动。美国总统拜登就利用这种公众情绪宣布疫情已结束，这使美国公众在防疫行为上更是毫无顾忌，口罩在公众场合已荡然无存，而室内聚会也更有恃无恐。随着疫情也不再占据媒体头条，每日病例和死亡人数也在公众视野中消失。但新冠病毒却不因人的否认而消失。
The widespread pandemic fatigue has driven political incentives to act like that Covid was something of the past. Tapping into the public sentiment, US president Biden declared that the pandemic was over, encouraging Americans to adopt more careless behaviors – from abandoning wearing masks in public to gathering regularly indoors without limits. Daily cases and death tolls disappeared from the public view as the pandemic no longer grabs the media headlines. But Covid lurks behind unjustified beliefs.
尽管病例和死亡人数在下降，美国每天的新感染人数仍在上万，且平均每天死亡人数在400左右。 流行病学副教授威廉·哈纳奇 (William Hanage) 医生在就拜登的疫情结束言论发表看法时说：“这场已经结束的大流行情况仍然非常糟糕，甚至是我们通常认为非常糟糕的情况的三倍。” 在 8 月的一个星期，当加拿大人认为新冠病毒风险处于最低水平时，加拿大的因疫情死亡人数比去年同一时期增加了两倍。 Hanage医生预计秋季和冬季的 Covid 病例仍会增加。
Despite cases and death counts in decline, the daily new infections remained at tens of thousands in the US, while on average, more than 400 people died every day. "This ended pandemic is still three times as bad as something we would ordinarily consider pretty bad," said Dr. William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology, in response to Biden's remarks. In one week of Aug., when the perceived Covid risks were at the lowest level among Canadians, Canada recorded a death toll tripled the same week last summer. Dr. Hanage anticipated an uptick in Covid cases in the fall and the winter.
我们都没有把女儿的新冠确诊当会事儿。不是说Omicron不像其前任那样大的危害吗？疫苗接种和通过感染获得的混合免疫力足以让新冠的伤害减少到流感的程度，而谁没得过流感？我们都低估了新冠的严重性，在她确诊后还依然故我，生活依旧。由于隔离和保护措施不足，第二名家庭成员很快被感染，同时极度疲乏，阵阵发冷和大汗淋漓让他们两人卧床不起，一家人顿时被恐惧，犹豫和恐慌情绪笼罩。”最难受的时候可比流感痛苦多了，“我女儿在恢复之后告诉我说。”当时真是痛不欲生。“
None of us responded to my daughter's covid diagnosis on high alert. Covid – the Omicron strain seemed not to pose severe health risks to us as its predecessor did. With enough hybrid immunity from infection and vaccination, the Covid threat would reduce to that of influenza, to which we had all fallen victim. We underestimated the severity of her illness, trying to go about our daily lives as usual after her diagnosis. The minimum level of isolation and protection we practiced soon led to the second family member catching the virus. The severe fatigue, bouts of sweat, and chills kept them bedridden as fear, gloom, and panic gripped the family. "At the worst moment, it felt much more painful than flu," my daughter said after getting better."I really wanted to die.”
忽视新冠的严重性是另一个会导致可怕恶果的误念。医学界的普遍看法是新冠在传播和致死方面造成的危害远高于流感，而那些不同观点很快就不再占上风。白宫医疗顾问安东尼·佛奇医生说：“一种病毒的危害性与另一种相比要严重得多，且一种病毒的杀伤力与另一种相比也严重的多。”“在大流行的历史上，我们从未发现 COVID-19 的风险可与流感相提并论，”对新冠和流感严重性的比较进行深入研究的Al-Aly 医生说， “新冠总是具有更高的风险。”
Playing down the severity of Covid is another public myth that would cause devastating consequences. The view that Covid poses more threats than influenza in transmission and causing death is prevalent in the scientific community and has quickly drowned out those who believe otherwise. "The severity of one compared to the other is quite stark. And the potential to kill of one versus the other is really quite stark," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's medical adviser. "We've never, ever in the history of the pandemic found that COVID-19 is equally risky to the flu," said Dr. Al-Aly, who has done research comparing COVID to the flu. "It's always carried a higher risk."
我们家经历的这场新冠危机让我们亲身感受到了大流行疲劳症和对病毒的误解所造成的伤害。但尽管犯了很多错误，其他家庭成员都接受了新冠加强疫苗，使他们免遭感染。这款加强针抵御住了新冠病毒的蔓延，让我们避免了更为严重的后果，可谓不幸中的万幸。
My family's Covid crisis has provided us with firsthand experience of the harms caused by the pandemic fatigue and misconceptions about the virus. But despite all the mistakes, some of us did something right. The booster shots the rest of the family received spared us from getting infected, ending the COVID rampage that could have caused more severe outcomes.
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