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by irq11 5y ago
> But what if they're never over? They’re over. The only people clinging to them are either playing political games, or are completely uninformed about the scientific evidence (and yes, I include the CDC and LA county’s public healt
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by irq11 5y ago
Oh stop it. Smallpox has exactly one host (us), had an amazingly effective vaccine, the virus doesn’t mutate quickly or spread as readily, and it still took almost 200 years to eradicate it. Polio is NOT eradicated, it spreads only thro
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by irq11 5y ago
> Delta, so far, seems to infect whole households with ease in a way that we didn't see. According to the latest data out of the UK, Delta is approximately as contagious as Alpha: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk&
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by irq11 5y ago
It is endemic. What you think of that fact is irrelevant. It’s a contagious respiratory virus with multiple animal reservoirs. Even if you could somehow vaccinate every person on earth tomorrow, the virus would still be here. This virus i
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by irq11 5y ago
Those are called “trade schools” in the US, and most community colleges have programs for trades. For example, a lot of community colleges have programs in auto repair and heating/cooling. It gets more complicated in the US because of
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by irq11 5y ago
Please, stop with the social justice posturing. You can literally walk into just about any major pharmacy in the US and get a shot. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.newsobserver.com/news/coron...
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by irq11 5y ago
No, it’s a scientific term. It has a definition. Not just something you’ve made up based on your feelings. Herd immunity is when Rt = 1, or 1 - 1/R0 It is the point when infections begin to decline due to acquired immunity. https:&#x2
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by irq11 5y ago
So, I made a comment about how vaccines are widely available in the US, on an article about the US, and you’re nitpicking it because you have an ideological problem with what I wrote.
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by irq11 5y ago
The article is about the US.
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by irq11 5y ago
The article is about the US. Did you read it?
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by irq11 5y ago
Herd immunity is not a fixed vaccination percentage pulled from Anthony Fauci’s latest media appearance. It’s the immunity level at which cases stabilize and begin to decline. It is defined by observation. Cases are at all-time lows in the
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by irq11 5y ago
Vaccines have been readily available to anyone who wants them (in the US) since mid April, even in the highest demand parts of the country. If you are not vaccinated, at this point, there is no excuse. (edit: obviously, I’m assuming the art
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by irq11 5y ago
> as far as the "human cost" of wearing a mask... grow up. Asian societies like China/Japan/Korea have been wearing masks forever and they're fine This is a racist meme that needs to die. You would see some peo
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by irq11 5y ago
You will not be protected from influenza and common cold. All prior literature on masks and these viruses have found little/no effect. Moreover: “mask-wearing countries” like Japan, Korea and China have plenty of cold and flu to go aro
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by irq11 5y ago
This isn’t a paper, it’s an editorial, and it’s utter trash, printed in a bad “journal” (New Scientist is essentially a mass-market magazine, on par with Discover). The only evidence advanced for the claim is this: https://www.me
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by irq11 5y ago
No, the point is, you probably don’t. Most anecdotal “reinfections” are from people who think they were infected, but never had it confirmed. These stories are also typically second- or third-hand, and resemble whatever story was most rec
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by irq11 5y ago
That is a joke of a “review”, and should never have been published. Consider that it doesn’t mention the only randomized controlled trial of masks and Covid ever performed (it showed no significant protective effect), which was conducted
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by irq11 5y ago
Anecdotally, I spent an entire week, unmasked, in an apartment with someone sick with symptomatic Covid, and never caught it. Anecdotes are not data.
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by irq11 5y ago
That is not “very much yes”, that is “an anecdote suggests yes”. The statistical illiteracy here is astounding from professional scientists. ”0% of ths sick passengers wore masks, compared to 47% of the healthy passengers. Another way to l
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by irq11 5y ago
The “logistical” and “political” problems being that they’re endemic in countries with major political and economic instability, where the locals have a bad tendency to kill the people doing the vaccinations. It isn’t a trivial problem. A
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by irq11 5y ago
For all the reasons I cited above, we are not going to “stop this strain”. Covid is endemic. It is not going away. It doesn’t meet any of the standards set up by the WHO for eradication, and even if it did , it would take decades of intens
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by irq11 5y ago
You’re making the claim. Prove it. Don’t give me an editorial. Don’t give me a wikipedia page. Link to the controlled studies, showing the widespread damage that you’ve claimed. You can’t, because they don’t exist. You linked to the best th
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by irq11 5y ago
Are there? This is an opinion piece . This is your evidence? Really? The OP linked to an uncontrolled, self-reported survey of those who claim to have long covid, and the most that showed is that a small (<13%) number of people show a
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by irq11 5y ago
So your best evidence of this phenomenon is an uncontrolled survey of people who knew they had covid, asking them if they feel bad? And the most commonly reported symptom is hypertension , at 13%? I’ll let the researchers do the talking he
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by irq11 5y ago
It is not possible to stop all strains. SARS-CoV2 has multiple zoonotic reservoirs, transmits easily, and persists in the population via asymptomatic infection. We have eradicated one human virus in all of history, and it took a highly ef
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by irq11 5y ago
Here’s the problem: you cite anecdotes of second- and third-hand stories that are exceptional at best, implausible at worst, then you claim these to be representative of the common case. They are not. There have now been hundreds of milli
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by irq11 6y ago
That’s great for tiny New Zealand, but the suggestion was that this path will lead to eradication . It will not.
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by irq11 6y ago
> Fortunately, it turns out that they were never essential. HN user doesn’t see the need for something, therefore it must not be essential.
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by irq11 6y ago
Until they open their borders.
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by irq11 6y ago
The micrograph shown in that link was taken from this NEJM article, which clearly says that the patients in the study died from Covid : https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2015432 Dying from Covid is

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