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Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by yosito » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #13

The panic surrounding Omicron is absurd. Take a look at these two charts. Omicron cases spiked in SA. Deaths didn't budge. At all. https://i.imgur.com/TgRmz4F.png [1] Omicron is a good thing, if your baseline is Delta. But I'm still waiting for the US media stop hyperventilating about it. 1. https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...

I saw some charts out of South Africa today showing that deaths are starting to rise with a three week delay. I'm optimistic that Omicron is less severe, but it's also possible that it's just taking a little longer than expected to start killing people.

Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by fiter » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #13

The panic surrounding Omicron is absurd. Take a look at these two charts. Omicron cases spiked in SA. Deaths didn't budge. At all. https://i.imgur.com/TgRmz4F.png [1] Omicron is a good thing, if your baseline is Delta. But I'm still waiting for the US media stop hyperventilating about it. 1. https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...

Since deaths lag cases, have you seen a graph that has peaks labeled on the time axis?

Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by majkinetor » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

executive wrote: post #16

mdoms wrote: post #11

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Ok I know it's off topic but I have got to ask, what is up with archive.md links? I have never in my life successfully loaded an archive.md URL. I either get straight up DNS errors or very occasionally I see a spinner that never finishes loading. Yet they must work for others because they're constantly being posted here.

Cloudflare DNS blocks

Why would it do that FFS ?

Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by mdoms » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

benjiweber wrote: post #18

mdoms wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok I know it's off topic but I have got to ask, what is up with archive.md links? I have never in my life successfully loaded an archive.md URL. I either get straight up DNS errors or very occasionally I see a spinner that never finishes loading. Yet they must work for others because they're constantly being posted here.

Maybe you're using cloudflare dns? https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...

I am, on all of my devices. Interesting.

Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by yosito » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

mdoms wrote: post #11

phnofive wrote: post #2

https://archive.md/WJXml

Ok I know it's off topic but I have got to ask, what is up with archive.md links? I have never in my life successfully loaded an archive.md URL. I either get straight up DNS errors or very occasionally I see a spinner that never finishes loading. Yet they must work for others because they're constantly being posted here.

They usually help with sites that go down under a heavy traffic load, or that have a paywall.

Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by alliao » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

randomopining wrote: post #7

TaylorSwift wrote: post #3

Does anyone have insights/thoughts as to the implications of this variant growing as fast as it subsides? Does that mean a new variant will emerge which will be more/less infectious or more/less deadly?

Virus just wants to replicate and spread as much as possible. Sometimes the side effect of this is death etc. If this one spreads super fast, has generally more mild effects... it will ramp up faster, infect all, and may get more severe so that it can last longer in the host and spread more. But the combo of high infectiousness and more mild side effects might be a net negative for this one. If we get a good amount o…

super fast spread even with milder effects will still meant overwhelming healthcare capacity let's not even go near the notion that more infection means brewing more variants we've never entertained herd immunity for polio, why covid..

Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

mdoms wrote: post #11

phnofive wrote: post #2

https://archive.md/WJXml

Ok I know it's off topic but I have got to ask, what is up with archive.md links? I have never in my life successfully loaded an archive.md URL. I either get straight up DNS errors or very occasionally I see a spinner that never finishes loading. Yet they must work for others because they're constantly being posted here.

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Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by catillac » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

alliao wrote: post #10

GDC7 wrote: post #8

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people who have families working in healthcare would beg otherwise

More than five million probable died from Covid, the vast majority since summer 2020. The pandemic isn’t over because someone decided it was. This person’s comment is asinine.

Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by hourislate » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:16 PM UTC

I was at Costco this morning (DFW) buying a big hunk of Prime Rib for Christmas Day dinner. No one either knows or cares anymore. I'm still wearing a mask for facial recognition purposes but I'm starting to feel weird considering no one else is wearing a mask anymore, not even the folks who look like they got one foot in the grave already.

Omicron is already so yesterday it isn't even a memory.

Re: South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as fast as it grew

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Post by ricardobeat » Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 8:17 PM UTC

mdoms wrote: post #11

phnofive wrote: post #2

https://archive.md/WJXml

Ok I know it's off topic but I have got to ask, what is up with archive.md links? I have never in my life successfully loaded an archive.md URL. I either get straight up DNS errors or very occasionally I see a spinner that never finishes loading. Yet they must work for others because they're constantly being posted here.

Are you using Cloudflare DNS? The archive.is owners intentionally block it. It's occasionally blocked at the ISP level too.