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Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid

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Re: Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid

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Post by kyruzic »

ceejayoz wrote: post #264
kyruzic wrote: post #173

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Learning to over come loss is something people have always had to deal with. Forced isolation is not.

Any culture with nasty winters has dealt with months worth of "forced isolation" for millennia. No FaceTime calls, either.

I live in a Calgary, which has some of the worst winters on Earth. People always gathered during winter. Yea, they didn't do it daily but they did it as often as possible. Precisely because social isolation is literally the worst possible punishment for humans.

Why do you think northern countries all celebrate Christmas?

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Post by jlokier »

throwaway55421 wrote: post #250
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #114

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I agree that in most countries this is the underlying disagreement. I wonder if we thought this through at a global community though. Imagine if China didn’t or couldn’t pursue a zero covid policy. What happens when the world’s manufacturer closes? We’ve already seen huge supply chain issues.

It's not the case that they would need to close. Across the Western world the vast majority of the economic and social issues have been caused by legalities rather than pandemic reality. For example, for better or worse, if the 10 day isolation and testing regime did not exist in the UK then staff shortages would not either. People aren't actually getting ill en masse - we've just recalibrated what ill means.

> staff shortages would not either

That's just hilarious.

There are so many reasons for staff shortages in the UK right now. Covid isn't even the main one.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

donkarma wrote: post #153
pavel_lishin wrote: post #91

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> everyone is fine Except the people who aren't. > the hospitals aren't overwhelmed Except the ones that are. > forcing your experimental medications on the entire planet No more experimental than any other vaccine; due to how quickly COVID spread, we were able to do the same level of testing on the vaccine as for any other medication. It's as safe as anything else you take.

vaccine trials usually last 2 years alone from a quick glance

Because most vaccines are for diseases that aren't as prevalent in the population as COVID has been; we've had significantly more people to run the trials on!

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Post by tibyat »

johnchristopher wrote: post #273
parkingrift wrote: post #221

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>I wonder if people would be OK with less restrictions, no vaccine mandates but perma n95 in public indoor and outdoor spaces ? The second and third most populous states in the nation have banned Covid restrictions. I think the answer to your question is… absolutely not.

I think you wanted to say the answer to my question is `yes`.

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Post by tibyat »

johnchristopher wrote: post #272
josephcsible wrote: post #222

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> Because whether we like it or not the virus is still going to be around and kill people and saturate hospitals. Still be around and kill people? Sure, but that's true of the seasonal flu, and even the common cold in rare cases. Saturate hospitals? No.

> Still be around and kill people? Sure, but that's true of the seasonal flu, I wish people would stop comparing it to the flu, it's highly misleading. 1. With restrictions in place covid killed more. 2. One in ten people still experience illness 12 weeks after the infection. Covid gets into the nervous system by crossing the neural-mucosal interface. Way more people that wouldn't have ended up in hospitals with a fl…

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