Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures

Post by trompetenaccoun » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:12 AM UTC

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> ineffective I don't think it's clear evidence of this, but you could definitely say it's not 100% effective. Whether it is useful is not something that you cannot determine from this story alone.

I think if you take the strictest possible quarantine and test paradigms and even those are failing, its certainly fair to call them ineffective.

Post by akomtu » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:18 AM UTC

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No mandates. No vaccine passbooks or apps. Return jobs to employees lost because of vaccine compliance/rebuild small businesses (If this is somehow possible but the damage is already done). No mask requirements. Covid-19 Vaccines are available and treated in the same way as flu vaccines once FDA approved. Yknow, normal.

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Post by tragictrash » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:22 AM UTC

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The CDC recently admitted as much. People can test positive for covid weeks after initially testing positive. Which implies they still are shedding the virus. https://twitter.com/abc/status/1476189028982702080?s=21

Not a native speaker. Just to clarify: shedding the virus means being infectious? Or just their body is still doing cleanup but not necessarily that the virus is still intact and contagious/infectious? (The dictionary entry for shedding doesn't feel specific enough to draw conclusions from.)

Post by nradov » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:24 AM UTC

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False. The current physician shortage is primarily caused by insufficient federal funding for medical residencies. Every year there are doctors who graduate from medical school but are never allowed to practice medicine because they can't get matched to a residency program. The AMA has been lobbying Congress to increase the supply for years. https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...

>Every year there are doctors who graduate from medical school but are never allowed to practice medicine because they can't get matched to a residency program. Aren't 99% of unmatched, graduates of sketchy overseas medical schools?

Post by rascul » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 4:31 AM UTC

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As someone who has had pneumonia, it's not an "Old Man's Friend". There's nothing "peaceful" about pneumonia. It's a very frightening strangling feeling. The only thing "peaceful" about it is that you don't have the energy express the horror.

This was related to me by my father, who had pneumonia as a teen and it nearly killed him. He was allergic to penicillin, and had to endure without it.