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I know that if it is 5 times less likely to put people in hospitals but 10 times more transmissible then there will be 2 times more people in hospitals, but are there more arguments?
Finally some glimmers of hope in moving past Covid.. if Omicron continues on its current track of highly infectious but less serious —- and infection confers reactive immunity to a variety of strains, we could be closer to the endemic but manageable end game. Good vaccines + mild severity illness are basically the best case. What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nig…
There's no moving past covid until an exit plan is announced. If there isn't one, the only hope of moving past covid is resistance. If people stopped rushing for the latest vaccine, stopped getting tested regularly, even without symptoms, we would be past covid already.
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This is complete nonsense. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785v... In Israel (I use them because they have a fantastic dashboard) not a single individual under the age of 19 has died of covid. Stop fear mongering.
Finally some glimmers of hope in moving past Covid.. if Omicron continues on its current track of highly infectious but less serious —- and infection confers reactive immunity to a variety of strains, we could be closer to the endemic but manageable end game. Good vaccines + mild severity illness are basically the best case. What a stroke of luck that we are here vs a more infectious strain of Delta or some other nig…
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Is there any reason to assume that initial infection with Covid can't cause both immunity against subsequent infection AND long Covid symptoms? Think about how chicken pox works. You get infected, you deal with (usually but not always) mild symptoms, and then you don't get chicken pox again. But you are susceptible to shingles later in life.
Chicken pox is caused by varicella, a herpes virus which remains permanently in most infected people. It is in no way comparable to COVID-19.
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We sacrificed the mental health of the young for the physical health of the old.
But hey, grandma gets to live another year now. Who cares if the poor family never recovers after financial crisis.
Edit after being downvoted: Sure, downvote me and don’t respond over my dead grandmother, coward.
We're going to look back on our treatment of children these past 2 years as one of the greatest blunders in the history of public health policy.
Is it a blunder when malice is involved?
We're going to look back on our treatment of children these past 2 years as one of the greatest blunders in the history of public health policy.
We sacrificed the mental health of the young for the physical health of the old.
A pretty large number of kids are raised by "the old", too. https://www.prb.org/resources/more-u-s-children-raised-by-gr...
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This is complete nonsense. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785v... In Israel (I use them because they have a fantastic dashboard) not a single individual under the age of 19 has died of covid. Stop fear mongering.