I think flu numbers were undereported and that COVID is much more contagious than the seasonal flu and doesn’t have a typical “Dead season” like the flu.
Masks, distancing, and better hygeine all helped reduce transmission. Pretty telling when folks dispute that very basic foundational fact.
Masks dont help.
Distancing it really depends on what you mean. But lockdowns do not work, because most transmissions happen at work or home. Being 2 meters away from someone outside wont work as well.
Better hygiene, again depends on your perception, but taking showers more often wont help for example, nor washing your hands.
This depends on whether you are breathing in enough water to drown while partaking in the above activities. Drowning is a very effective way to prevent yourself from catching any version of The Rona.
Wait, omicron, come back, I haven’t gotten my booster yet…
If the US Army’s vaccine gets approved, I’ll take that so I can be part of the matrix.
Otherwise, I’m done with new variant, new shot, new normal.
Also, with the approval of the new Pfizer pill, doesn’t that negate the don’t overcrowd the ICUs argument? Nevertheless, I’m confident in the lockdown crowd’s ability to find a new reason.
Hail every new variant.
(add, since no one will read: The updated statistics agree with data released earlier on Wednesday from South Africa and from England, also in advance of peer review.)
What do you mean “done with?” It must be nice to be able to delude yourself into believing you can choose to be “done with” the deadliest plague in human history. I’ll stick with my vax-a-day, bubble-and-mask policy that has kept me safe through this PANDEMIC(*edited for emphasis, and to convey fear of and respect for The Rona).
I’m sure maybe one person read my post waaay back; but I was about to be a “good boy” and get the booster, until I heard about a high level medical researcher acquaintance who was not getting it (lucky because he doesn’t see patients, otherwise he would’ve gotten the scarlet letter treatment) because, basically, BS medical science.
Huh, inaccurate, false positives you don’t say.
BUT I am sure they are working on a super duper accurate one. Perhaps BIll Gates will be involved….
It is not about money and control though.
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/news/post/cdc-withdraws-support-for-pcr-tests/
Again: Anyone still playing COVID is not worth spending time on(or with, if you happen to know one personally).
Pills, shots, boosters forever. How will this be spun into a positive?
Again for sure not about money and control.
To the people who kept talking about Pfizer’s new pill is this what you had in mind?
“The FDA emphasized that Paxlovid is not authorized to be given to prevent infection or right after an exposure, nor is it for those who already require hospitalization. It is also, the agency said, not a substitute for vaccination or a booster shot.”
The U.S. government will pay drugmaker Pfizer nearly $ 5.3 billion for 10 million treatments of its potential COVID-19 treatment if regulators approve it.
Government paid huh?..OK
The price of Pfizer’s potential treatment is approximately $ 529 per course
Not about money
I read most of what is posted. And the one you just posted suggests getting a booster.
This is what I read: “For now, the same SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antigen is used for the vaccine and the boosters.”
When that is no longer true, I will take the next shot.
Increasing dosage of course makes something more “effective”, but increasing dosage against something that is weakening is illogical imo.
NBA players, 97% vaccinated, catching 'da new great covid strain everywhere you look. NBA has now decided to shorten quarantine period from 10 to 6 days.
Meanwhile, the NFL has de facto decided to stop testing vaccinated players with no symptoms.
The CDC…oh, wait, that’s not a pro sports organization.
We have already authorized vaccinations at a lower dose for 5-11 year olds over her. They are soon going as far as to go to individual schools to jab kids with parental consent so their parents don’t have to take time off work to bring them to dedicated facilities.
On a separate note, I had a booster shot like a good boy because they politely “invited me” to get one through sms (seriously, they used the term “invited”) yesterday and I’m only experiencing a bit of PIP and mild inflammation at the injection site a little over 24 hours later. I wanted a Moderna jab because my last 2 jabs were from Pfizer but I went to the wrong facility yesterday because I’m an idiot and they only had Pfizer there lol.
The voters get what they voted for
Winner winner chicken dinner: omicron is an anagram for moronic, “they” are mocking you. LOL.
Oh well, Omicron has made it over here which means I’m gonna have to start making changes to business activities again since I can almost literally smell what the government is about to do.
We’re mostly Chinese and Chinese people are generally a lot more afraid of covid than you colonizers (lol). It’s not only the fear of our own health, it’s because we remain in close contact, with some leaving their kids with their parents or grandparents, or live with them (on the father’s side) so we’re afraid of spreading it to them. Lots of people WANT lockdowns again.
