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The irony of being confined to my house during one of the best summers my country has ever known, to "fight" a disease that is well-known to be worse for vit-D deficient people....…

That is basically what has happened anyway, at least to health services in the UK (and more specifically, in Wales where I live). Covid cases make up a very small proportion of tot…

A car crash has lots of nasty pointy bits.

What feature of the virus does the anitgen test detect? If this one has so many mutations, it's not a ridiculous question.

We don't even know what it does - bit early to say things like this. FWIW, coronaviruses have been around for a very long time. 30% of common colds are coronaviruses.

House arrest isn't the punishment it used to be!

Refugees? Is France that bad now?

Could not agree more. I also strongly disagree with the use of highly emotive words like "horrific" mutations. Exactly how are they horrific, given how little anyone knows about th…

I particularly liked how the mutations were described as "horrific". How are they? Do they have terrible claws and sharp pointy teeth?

- Patches on patches and old bugs resurfacing with new ones will cause sysadmins to prematurely age and drop out of the profession - Despite ever-more sophisticated designs and cap…

Odd timing for releasing stories like this, as the pressure is being put on the last few vaccine holdouts. Or is it preparation for some other Covid precautions?

The age-related effects of Covid most definitely are significant. If we've decided Covid is worth curtailing the essential liberties of select groups of people, surely it would be …

According to a recent UK Government report, cases are higher among many age groups of vaccinated people, than among unvaccinated people. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/go…

Indeed. I hear that over half of people have a cough for weeks afterwards.

So why are the unvaccinated having their liberties curtailed in several countries?

Only those who would benefit from systematic injustice, could possibly oppose this proposal. /s, or is it??

>they are also going to be affected negatively No. "they" are going to lead fine lives, revered as warriors against social injustice, and living in the most exclusive corners of th…

Interesting. Apparently Texas has some incredibly unhealthy people, as the unvaccinated death rate there is significantly higher than the unvaccinated death rate in the UK.

It's not much use if the data isn't broken down by age, as that is an enormous risk factor with Covid. Here's some better data, from the UK: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u…

What is a "blended household"? I was only allowed my regular household, so just the 3 (then 4) of us confined inside our own walls for months. >lockdowns prevented our healthcare s…

Months of house arrest, especially for those of us with young children, was not a "mild inconvenience".

I feel sorry for those in the US. You have made a miserable new normal for yourselves (and, as you say, despite everyone dutifully wearing masks and getting vaccinated, and now hav…

It's been a year since that article, so I assume the "mounting evidence" didn't come to much. On the other hand, recent reports show some much more disturbing possible side effects…

Only flagged this time. Progress, I suppose. Tell me - if mask wearing at 40% adherence produced some positive results, why are case rates across the Western world so high? Looking…

Downvoted and flagged. An excellent rebuttal!