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Ok. this is from wsj.com "Omicron mortality is likely around 0.2%, roughly in line with seasonal flu." https://www.wsj.com/articles/omicron-variant-may-end-up-savi... Pretty close to my back of the napkin calculations.
You can look up actual Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for Omicron: https://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/omicron-and-wani...
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I’m mostly curious about why the maturity period was prolonged by 5-10 years from what the human race had 100 or 1000 years ago. I’m not talking about education but the transition from youths to adulthood.
Science seems to be pointed hard towards 25 being the age of majority rather than 18. We are unlikely to see the age move in our lifetimes due to the military needing its recruits but it probably should. Do you really think the average 14-15 year old should be considered in the same maturity bracket as the average 35 or 45 year old? I was incapable of making good decisions at that age. The things I thought were cool,…
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How so? I grew up with kids whose entire childhood was in the same trailer park. They were homeless?
Yes, unless you consider a trailer a home but then where do you draw the line? One could go as far as considering a tent as a home but come on, we all know what we mean by home. A trailer is just a trailer.
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Why?? This is normal and natural.
No, it's not normal and it's not natural. I remember being treated like this by the same people I heard spread fear and misinformation about COVID throughout the year before I got COVID. It's incredibly dehumanizing, isolating, and fractures any sense of community. My relationship with those people will never be the same.
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We can't exactly ask teachers to get covid can we?
Devil's advocate: We were fine asking grocery store clerks, baristas, and cashiers to get covid
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Hate to tell you this, but this is not a good article on the subject. It was as performative as the mask wearing it complains about, and is oddly disconnected from reality considering how many deaths of people the author's age have happened in Michigan (Where he lives). Sure the teens might be fine with Omicron (earlier variants had much higher chances of lasting health impact it appears), but not necessarily their p…
My parents are from Michigan and I'm visiting them here. People get covid all over the place but people just don't care about it. That's really how it is here.
One would like to believe they, at a minimum, responsibly dispose of the remains of the departed.
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Most facts are incomplete, it's almost impossible to give all the context to any given data point unless you just give people a URL and tell people to read for themselves. For example, it's an incomplete fact to say that "if you live in a trailer park, you are considered homeless", but thankfully you provided the link to the complete fact! From your source, a little more completeness for your fact: "living in ...trai…
> living in ...trailer parks... due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations Wouldn't this be most people living in trailer parks?
This does not refer to people who's only economic choice generally is trailer parks.
Freddie de Boer just wrote something on his Substack about this - https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/many-kids-dont-have-a-w... The quick takeaway is that school is that for the most vulnerable kids, school is about a lot more than education. Taking school away from those kids can be much more damaging than many people realize. It seems to me like that right strategy would be to just say something like: We encourag…
It will be year 3 of covid and this is 100% the fault of the same people who have created every other problem in the education system: the administrators. There is no perfect way to open schools, that much is certain after looking at other countries. But looking at the state of things, it doesn’t even seem like people are trying. Japan has students come in on alternate days, so that the school can operate at 50% capa…
It will be a pandemic of 5 to ten years in total.
In short words like you were 5, two factors converged to make this a reality: 1. World for the most part failed to lead like China an stop it cold fast and yes places like the USA gets fair blame for that.
2. Speed of mutations.
Only have one of those factors then it would be far less years of a pandemic.
That is not to say that there is not hope on the near future where we take either a booster or one pill per year to contain it however.
But, 30 years ago a lady wrote a very famous book called.. the Coming Plaque..
She pointed out that it was not Science failing us towards facing the next pandemic but governments putting public health on a diet.
and that books is at archive org
https://archive.org/details/comingplaguenew000garr
Public health should be a number one Military spending budget as with 9 billion or more it is no longer something that is optional
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How so? I grew up with kids whose entire childhood was in the same trailer park. They were homeless?
Yes, unless you consider a trailer a home but then where do you draw the line? One could go as far as considering a tent as a home but come on, we all know what we mean by home. A trailer is just a trailer.
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Why?? This is normal and natural.
No, it's not normal and it's not natural. I remember being treated like this by the same people I heard spread fear and misinformation about COVID throughout the year before I got COVID. It's incredibly dehumanizing, isolating, and fractures any sense of community. My relationship with those people will never be the same.