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Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by bleuchase »

bratwurst3000 wrote: post #646
bleuchase wrote: post #592

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> Now I have covid. Everything is fine, feels like the least ill i ever was from anything. But I wanted to state that omnicron is a beast. So you’re the least ill you’ve ever been from anything but it’s also “a beast”?

The beast part was more for how contagious it is. As a malady it is fine with me but I am still having an eye on long covid…hoping for the best.

> The beast part was more for how contagious it is.

A beast compared to what? Common colds in previous years? Previous influenza strains?

> As a malady it is fine with me but I am still having an eye on long covid…hoping for the best.

You got 3 shots, wear a mask (it sounds like outside), lord knows what else. And you’re still worried about long term side effects from a cold? Can you quantify your risk of serious side effects from this illness?

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by bratwurst3000 »

bleuchase wrote: post #681
bratwurst3000 wrote: post #646

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The beast part was more for how contagious it is. As a malady it is fine with me but I am still having an eye on long covid…hoping for the best.

> The beast part was more for how contagious it is. A beast compared to what? Common colds in previous years? Previous influenza strains? > As a malady it is fine with me but I am still having an eye on long covid…hoping for the best. You got 3 shots, wear a mask (it sounds like outside), lord knows what else. And you’re still worried about long term side effects from a cold? Can you quantify your risk of serious sid…

????? Long covid and post covid syndrom are a known thing. The vaccines dont reduce the risk of those two as good as the the other factors …. And wtf a cold… dude stop trolling its covid.

And fucking wearing mask doesnt have anything to do with long covid… Are you straight out of telegram or what ???

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by potatochup »

paganel wrote: post #560
henrikschroder wrote: post #444

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What effective containment strategies? Pretty much every country's strategies have completely collapsed due to Omicron. Australia currently has a wildly exponential growth of cases and twice the number of daily cases/capita compared to Sweden, to take two countries at each end of the "containment" spectrum. And that's despite Australia being in the middle of summer, despite Australia being isolated in the middle of t…

> What effective containment strategies? I think NZ and especially China are the only ones left. I think NZ has relaxed its restrictions about 2-3 months ago and to be honest I'm a little surprised they haven't yet followed Australia's path with the exponential number of Omicron cases, but imo the very big question remains China, I have no idea how they plan to handle this going forward.

Yeah, NZ is going to get Omicron at some point and then we'll catch up with the rest of the world. We had <20 cases the other day, but there are hundreds in quarantine who've arrived from other countries that will bring in Omicron. 2020 and 2021 was mostly totally covid free, so having normal life back again was a real blessing. But it's just a matter of time before we catch up to the rest of the world

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by bleuchase »

bratwurst3000 wrote: post #682
bleuchase wrote: post #681

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The beast part was more for how contagious it is. A beast compared to what? Common colds in previous years? Previous influenza strains? > As a malady it is fine with me but I am still having an eye on long covid…hoping for the best. You got 3 shots, wear a mask (it sounds like outside), lord knows what else. And you’re still worried about long term side effects from a cold? Can you quantify your risk of serious sid…

????? Long covid and post covid syndrom are a known thing. The vaccines dont reduce the risk of those two as good as the the other factors …. And wtf a cold… dude stop trolling its covid. And fucking wearing mask doesnt have anything to do with long covid… Are you straight out of telegram or what ???

> ????? Long covid and post covid syndrom are a known thing.

Okay let’s see your evidence of long term side effects and syndromes caused by Omicron. The variant was discovered Dec 20. Whatever you’re claiming is based on previous variants which are not in circulation.

> The vaccines dont reduce the risk of those two as good as the the other factors ….

Okay, how much do the shots reduce your risk of “long COVID”? Looking for quantifiable results from research, not your opinion.

> And wtf a cold… dude stop trolling its covid.

Uh literally quoting “the science”:

> Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses and enteroviruses being the most common.[

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold

> And fucking wearing mask doesnt have anything to do with long covid…

Not my point, if you read more carefully. Can you quantify your risk of long term complications from a mild infection? How’s that compare to risk of car accident, sports injuries, cancer?

> Are you straight out of telegram or what ???

Is this supposed to be some kind of ad hominem attack? Yawn. I can’t pretend to care about your opinion of me. If you’re going to respond please focus on answering my questions.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by bratwurst3000 »

bleuchase wrote: post #684
bratwurst3000 wrote: post #682

Earlier quoted context omitted.

????? Long covid and post covid syndrom are a known thing. The vaccines dont reduce the risk of those two as good as the the other factors …. And wtf a cold… dude stop trolling its covid. And fucking wearing mask doesnt have anything to do with long covid… Are you straight out of telegram or what ???

> ????? Long covid and post covid syndrom are a known thing. Okay let’s see your evidence of long term side effects and syndromes caused by Omicron. The variant was discovered Dec 20. Whatever you’re claiming is based on previous variants which are not in circulation. > The vaccines dont reduce the risk of those two as good as the the other factors …. Okay, how much do the shots reduce your risk of “long COVID”? Look…

Dude first learn reading. How do you get from „ i have an eye on long covid … wishing for the best“ to „ i am fucking stating everything you seem to interprete into my one sentence“ And omnicron was detected november

If you are reading between the lines… congrats there is blank space. Btw aint you afraid that some cold could mix with hiv and go viral via telegram and sudenly you have covidaids?

And a cold aint covid … covid is the malady geniuos. Different strais of viruses. Are you for real ? I talked with many of you and can never figure out if you rly cant understand( apparantly you can read and write ..congrats first step to be a human) or if you are just trolling ?

And if this is a cold pleaaaasee get it :)

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by bratwurst3000 »

bleuchase wrote: post #684
bratwurst3000 wrote: post #682

Earlier quoted context omitted.

????? Long covid and post covid syndrom are a known thing. The vaccines dont reduce the risk of those two as good as the the other factors …. And wtf a cold… dude stop trolling its covid. And fucking wearing mask doesnt have anything to do with long covid… Are you straight out of telegram or what ???

> ????? Long covid and post covid syndrom are a known thing. Okay let’s see your evidence of long term side effects and syndromes caused by Omicron. The variant was discovered Dec 20. Whatever you’re claiming is based on previous variants which are not in circulation. > The vaccines dont reduce the risk of those two as good as the the other factors …. Okay, how much do the shots reduce your risk of “long COVID”? Look…

> Okay, how much do the shots reduce your risk of “long COVID”? Looking for quantifiable results from research, not your opinion

Use google… its not my job to do it for you

> Not my point, if you read more carefully. Can you quantify your risk of long term complications from a mild infection? How’s that compare to risk of car accident, sports injuries, cancer?

I read carefully and it was your point. And again usw google . Not my job

> Is this supposed to be some kind of ad hominem attack? Yawn. I can’t pretend to care about your opinion of me. If you’re going to respond please focus on answering my questions.

Yes it is. People like you aint indivuals. You are all the same bunch with exact the same opinion and the same way of misunderstanding things. Dude you are totaly transparent

> Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses and enteroviruses being the most common.[

Nice you can usw gooogle … do it again

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by spurgu »

phonypc wrote: post #180
spurgu wrote: post #166

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I have omicron right now (4-5 months after 2nd jab, so pretty much no effect from that) and it's just like a common cold (certainly wouldn't call it "battling omicron"). I have zero problems with getting this each year.

Hmmm... mild symptoms after being vaccinated. It's almost like the vaccine worked or something. How weird.

Have a look here:

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/vaccine-effectivenes...

tl;dr Vaccine effectiveness around 15% for me at this point. So it was the natural immune response (gasp!), combined hospitalization rates across the world reflects this.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by spurgu »

dwaltrip wrote: post #542
jaywalk wrote: post #194

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Plenty of unvaccinated (the vast majority, in fact) also experience mild symptoms. It's almost like you've got an unfalsifiable way to always say "it worked!"

For crying out loud… Go look up the frickin statistics. The vaccines are very effective.

Really?

See https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/vaccine-effectivenes...

Those "frickin" statistics? Or which ones?

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by josephcsible »

gilbetron wrote: post #535
technothrasher wrote: post #499

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My 15 yo son got Covid about three weeks ago, symptoms matched what the parent poster described, including feeling "wiped out". Oh wait, no he didn't. Testing all came back negative. Diagnosis from his pediatrician: common cold.

Ah, yeah, you're right. It was probably just the cold that myself, my son, and my wife got after being exposed to someone that had symptomatic, PCR tested Covid. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that we then all three tested positive for covid.

technothrasher wasn't doubting that you had COVID, but rather making the point that the common cold and COVID now have the same symptoms and severity, and that getting a test is now the only way to tell which one you have.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by ptaipale »

henrikschroder wrote: post #605
camdat wrote: post #594

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There have been independent studies showing their numbers are, while not perfectly accurate, within the margin of error for extrapolated excess mortality[0]. As I've said in other threads on this issue, it is very difficult to hide deaths on even a small scale. Bodies do not simply disappear, and even small numbers of deaths are easily discoverable by measuring economic output (and even air quality!) of the region. C…

I'm not suggesting China has been hiding bodies, but with a demographic where diabetes and obesity is almost non-existant, the mortality of covid-19 is very low. You shouldn't see any excess mortality, which means you can hide the true number of cases by lying about cause of death instead. > An effective containment strategy _is_ possible Not at any cost I'm comfortable with.

Diabetes and obesity are not "almost non-existant" in China.

According to National Health Commission report, more than 50% of adults are classified as overweight, and 16.4% are obese. [1]

Prevalence of diabetes is also over 10 %. [2]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55428530

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m997#:~:text=The%20preva....

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