Last time I was at the doc, we were discussing this, and she mentioned that she'd read all the care we've been taking may have driven some flu strains to extinction. So, I hadda look it up.
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Same here. I didn't need to take a single day of sick leave this year and most of last year.
Yeah that sounds pretty nice
I wish that facts like this could be used to convince mask skeptics, but they'll just claim that all the flu cases are being intentionally reported as COVID.
Add Missouri to the list (if you didn't have it on there already).
arstechnica.com
gizmodo.com
...of "other causes," I'm sure.
Also consider that this is from the party that wants us to believe that asbestos doesn't cause cancer, and that businesses need to continue mining it and using it.
A bit ironically, because Taiwan has virtually no COVID these days and thus masks and other restrictions are relatively lax, I ended up catching a cold last week.
This is fake. A real military doctor would prescribe Motrin.
Good in some ways, not in others. If this just leads to apathy in fighting the pandemic, then we could reach a point where the world just accepts a perpetual coronavirus like we accept influenza constantly going around. It might seem less scary to have a not horribly lethal virus, but it's also a highly contagious virus, and the more people who get that, the more it will mutate, and eventually older immunities will be less effective, and... well, people keep dying. A smaller percentage dying is still people dying.
Sorry to be That Guy, but pretty much all virologists, epidemicists and biostatisticians have long ago said we'll be moving to endemic Corona presence, not total eradication. it's just not feasible with the current reactions. Vaccine rollout should have been far more drastic, especially with regards to Africa and central Asia, and Delta reactions should have been much faster and stronger. There's no political will left for a global 3-month lockdown which is what it would probably take to really hurt Covid.
Well, yes and no. The numbers so far indicate (but you know, early and unclear etc) that while Omikron IS much less deadly, it is also much MORE likely to infect vaccinated people. In the unvaccinated, getting Omikron is definitely better than getting Delta - in the vaccinated population, the reverse might be true as far as mortality goes. If there are 5x more breakthrough cases, and Omikron causes half as many deaths, that still means 2.5 times MORE people end up dead.
Being unsure about yourself is a clear sign of weakness, this person obviously doesn't know shit.
I wonder what the per-capita rates are but I suspect they are still worse today than in 1952. Of course, the debilitating effects on survivors of polio is another matter. Long-covid is real and not to be trivialized. The paralyzing effects of polio were pretty extreme, though. All that said, it is the people dying from Covid that refuse to believe it is Covid that really sends home the message about how different misinformation is today compared to 70 years ago.
If things had gone a bit differently and antivax sentiment was mainly pushed by, say, black people having higher amounts of serious side-effects while white people died more due to the virus, you can bet they'd all be screaming their heads off about forced vaccinations and ungrateful/disrespectful/etc people refusing to vaccinate.
Local health agencies in Missouri are just giving up.
Schmitt also happens to be running for US Senate in 2022, apparently on a platform of overturning mask mandates.
