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> 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…

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 era…

> 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: …

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 e…

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/…

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.co…

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…

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 wro…

The article is about the US.

The article is about the US. Did you read it?

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 i…

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…

> 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 …

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…

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 eviden…

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 secon…

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 show…

Anecdotally, I spent an entire week, unmasked, in an apartment with someone sick with symptomatic Covid, and never caught it. Anecdotes are not data.

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, …

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 pe…

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 eradic…