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

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

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Post by endisneigh »

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 concur. It’s amazing how well anti vaxxers have taken over the narrative.

Literally all data has shown that omicron is a non-issue for triple vaxxed individuals, with a baseline being the standard flu.

If someone has data showing that triple vaxxed people are dying at rates similar to March 2020 I’d love to see.

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

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Post by forgotmyoldacc »

executive wrote: post #16
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.

Cloudflare DNS blocks

The website blocks Cloudflare DNS, not the other way around.

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

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Post by jffry »

executive wrote: post #16
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.

Cloudflare DNS blocks

That's untrue, you can see Cloudflare's explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Short version: The Archive.is authoritative DNS servers do not give correct addresses to Cloudflare when Cloudflare asks for them

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

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Post by [deleted] »

executive wrote: post #16
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.

Cloudflare DNS blocks

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

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Post by GDC7 »

catillac wrote: post #28
alliao wrote: post #10

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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.

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

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Post by ricardobeat »

majkinetor wrote: post #23
executive wrote: post #16

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Cloudflare DNS blocks

Why would it do that FFS ?

Cloudflare doesn't block them, Archive.is intentionally refuses to resolve DNS queries from 1.1.1.1 due to lack of geo information. See explanation here: https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/

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

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Post by willhinsa »

mdoms wrote: post #20
executive wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare DNS blocks

Huh. Any idea why?

You can read about their reasoning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Posted by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eastdakota, whose profile reads:

> A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer and former ski instructor. CEO & co-founder of CloudFlare. [ my public key: https://keybase.io/eastdakota; my proof: https://keybase.io/eastdakota/sigs/_uDY0ZsLTEWaNu5daRtuwzZtJ... ]

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

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Post by jmnicolas »

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...

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

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Post by nostromo »

fiter wrote: post #22
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?

I added the original source so you can explore in more detail. You can see that in previous spikes there was a short delay, but in general they rose in tandem. All evidence points to Omicron as far less lethal than Delta.
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