I agree. I’m not saying that the new variants aren’t a problem anymore. I’m just saying that it might not be as big of a problem as the fear mongers might make it seem
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Here we go again…
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Massively dense crushes of humanity mixed with drastically different public sanitation ideas, combined with incredible amounts of widespread poverty, and shaken over a couple billion people… What could go wrong?
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Damn. I thought I could rely on Asians to believe the science and wear face masks.
Do you have a reason to think they don’t? I know in past decades I have heard references to some parts of Asia where a lot of people commonly wear masks. I thought it may have been to reduce larger particulate matter from pollution, they have some high population cities with bad smog, but I wonder if they are already clued into high population density making it a good idea to use them for disease control. It doesn’t completely solve the issue, but maybe reduces speed of transmission.
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So Nick, to be emasikinated or not?
The main person in this story claims a medical exemption to wearing a mask because of claustrophobia, I wonder how likely that is. Still, in the picture you can see a group of anti masker protestors who are close and unmasked. Why is it so important to skirt the masking rules?
yes. Those parts of Asia are places where Covid-19 has basically no community spread now
Japan is struggling a bit for other reasons
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Coronavirus spreading.
Many places do. Japan notably, as well as China (they’d have to regardless with the government, but their attitude is such that they generally would).
No doubt in China a significant part of that is particulate pollution these days, but also disease control.
Besides which, the other factors I mentioned kinda sorta play a part in disease transmission (not to mention no real safety net, so poor sole breadwinners work or their family starves if sick).
Nick trolls this subject hard and it about gets on my last nerve. Nobody ever claimed it would eliminate the virus entirely.
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It may just be me, but “fast engulfing” sounds a bit more than just not entirely eliminating. “The flame from my gas stove is fast engulfing my house.” “Turning the knob on my gas stove decreased the flame but didn’t eliminate it entirely.” I picture different scenarios.
I really don’t follow you. Fast engulfing would indicate that any slowing of the flames allows your house to last longer and possibly be saved. In a gas stove the flame is controlled from the start. A brand new virus by definition is not controlled.
Obviously. The flame would have to touch something flammable to spread. I didn’t think it necessary to say, “The flame from my gas stove touched a dish towel which enabled the flame to spread to my walls.”
It’s been a year, and “new waves of infections are fast engulfing a growing number of nations across South and Southeast Asia – with some grappling with their worst outbreaks since the pandemic began.” It just doesn’t sound like COVID is barely hanging on there, in a land filled with science-believing mask wearers.
I think COVID is worse when people don’t wear masks; but it may be just as bad when people do wear masks, because other people don’t wear masks. And, sometimes, it’s just as bad when everyone wears masks, because masks aren’t supposed to entirely eliminate it. But if everyone would just comply and wear masks, COVID would be eliminated.
It’s part of thinking it’s “cool” to be a selfish asshole 100% of the time. “That library sign says quiet please. No one tells me what to do I’m going to scream loudly at the top of my lungs.”
It’s not that doing something would be difficult. It’s that their identity is wrapped up in never doing anything that others are doing. Doesn’t matter if it might help people or not. That thought doesn’t cross their minds.
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I don’t know, if you are referencing the news story, if it is people who want to break the rules. It is in an area where people think their idea of the rules doesn’t come from the public health authority. They might not cheat you out of your savings, that is a plus.
Fortunately, librarians are as scary as nuns.
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I’m vaccinated. I won’t put a mask on again. Either you believe the science of the vaccine or you don’t. If you do believe in the vaccine there is zero reason to wear a mask. I’m not going to wear one just to make some pearl-clutching wiener feel better.
This is a new strain that’s not only much more contagious, it has shown to be able to infect vaccinated people and cause them to be contagious. 1/2 of the new cases found here yesterday were fully vaccinated with either Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
I can’t even tell if this is sarcasm or not.
Why would COVID be eliminated if everyone wore masks? Has anyone ever made that claim? The objective is to REDUCE the R0, which was accomplished in countries where mask wearing is mandatory and compliance is high. In fact, the Japanese did it without any legal mandate and their numbers have been under control. Then we had that that new strain from the UK, and now India.
I don’t even understand how one could come to this conclusion. Why would we have done lock downs while losing billions of dollars and millions of jobs at the same time if it were that easy? For the lolz?
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Da fuck. I was just watching “scary nun pranks” on youtube last night lol. Another guy posted something about air purifiers just when my new air purifier arrived the other day. I’ve got to buy a lottery ticket later.
“They’re a different breed of Asian.”
-Crash (2004)
Shit, you sound exactly like that dumbass from Crash lol. The quote was from his almost equally dumb friend.
Brief context for people who haven’t seen the movie:
Dumbass unintentionally “saves” a group of Cambodian illegal immigrants when he steals a truck but drives them to Chinatown and leaves them there thinking they’ll feel at home “with their own kind” and everyone ends up lost because none of them even speaks the language.
His friend tells him he’s a dumbass after he does this.
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Damn, bro. This shit is like Super COVID-19.1.
That’s crazy. Able to defeat the most tested vaccine in history.
It needs hosts, does it not?
Good point!
Nah, couldn’t be.
I haven’t seen the movie. Do Indians not believe all science or something?
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