Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

Post by Nursie » Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 4:15 AM UTC

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> The best case scenario is a new less deadly highly contagious strain that become the most dominant and spreads worldwide. No, this scenario wouldn't be good news at all. Firstly, a marginally lower case fatality rate is a linear improvement, whereas much higher transmissibility is an exponential worsening. In other words, the reduced risk of an infected person getting into hospital is dwarfed by the exponential inc…

Natural immunity is the ONLY way back to a sane planet. It's time you take a step back, look at what happened for two years now, and realize we don't need this insanity anymore.

Post by stjohnswarts » Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 4:20 AM UTC

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According to reports, the original BioNTech vaccine was developed in a matter of hours: https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-biontech-vaccine-desi... Moderna's was done in two days.

Right, but the underlying tech was in development for a decade or more. I can deploy an app to Azure, tell it to allocate a server farm, databases, Redis, queues, etc... in 5 minutes too. But that's only because someone took years to do all the necessary work.

Post by stjohnswarts » Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 4:24 AM UTC

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I would imagine that a virus would eventually adapt/evolve to a point to where it co-exists harmoniously with the host organism. I've heard somewhere that herpes simplex virus used to have terrible symptoms, like genital blisters, but over the years the most common variant has no symptoms, and most people have no idea they have it.... and a huge proportion of human have it. I would imagine all viral contagions would…

There's no guarantee that it will work that way: smallpox didn't get less deadly. Only vaccination wiped it out. If the patient is contagious before developing symptoms, the virus can spread very effectively even if many patients die.

Post by icedchai » Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 4:32 AM UTC

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That was an incredibly verbose explanation for something very simple.

It's a simple concept that about 95-99% of the general population does not understand at any level. This includes most politicians, civil planners, even scientists and medical staff. When the pandemic first started, people were flabberghasted about how FAST! the numbers were going up. Faster and faster, new records broken every day! Meanwhile, on a logarithmic plot, it was a dead straight line. It wasn't changing, no…

Post by spookthesunset » Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 4:39 AM UTC

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> Why would I want a delivery person to wear a mask all day? If you support these mask mandates you support fully vaccinated employees wearing masks 8 hours a day 40 hours a week. All nothing more than security theater to make the most fearful feel “safe” and provide an easy way for lazy government to look like they are “taking this serious”

Then I must not support 'these' mandates. I support ones that make a meaningful impact on spread though. And where I live there haven't been any mandates for vaccinated people anyway.