LuckyNumber7
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Agreed, I’m not trying to dismiss your take, I just want to proceed with caution despite being hopeful. If we can still poke holes in the argument, we aren’t out of the woods yet.
Oh the Twitter virologists haven't chimed in yet. My bad
Sorry to hear that.
Hope it's a mild to no symptoms case.
My thought was that he has Covid and won't admit it publicly.
But who knows? Absence just adds to his resume.
https://twitter.com/fastbreconomics/status/1477839890716971022
https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/corona...irginia/covid-19-cases-by-vaccination-status/
--twice the number of positive cases
--small increase in total hospitalizations
--huge decrease in hospitalization rate
--huge drop in total deaths
--gigantic drop in death rate
it may just be an ordinary spring around the corner.
Key piece of info is "among fully vaxxed", the unvaxxed are going to continue to help perpetuate this thing long after we run out of letters in the Greek Alphabet.
Key piece of info is "among fully vaxxed", the unvaxxed are going to continue to help perpetuate this thing long after we run out of letters in the Greek Alphabet.
[emoji817]I'd agree that we are quickly approaching the point where the major hurdle to something approximating normalcy is cultural rather than medical. It seems more and more that Covid paranoia has become entrenched in the politics of the left. I'm not sure how easily that can be changed.
yes and no.
this isn't as bad for unvaxxed anymore, either. it's milder for everyone. and the next variant to take over will be even milder - it's not going to go the other way.
the overwhelming number of people who are hospitalized or dying are unvaxxed. but those numbers are lower than where they were previously.
it's time to start putting this thing behind us and not treating every new variant as if it's march 2020 again.
I'd agree that we are quickly approaching the point where the major hurdle to something approximating normalcy is cultural rather than medical. It seems more and more that Covid paranoia has become entrenched in the politics of the left. I'm not sure how easily that can be changed.
Let’s get on with our lives.
You'd think that at this point people would understand that pandemics are really about collective and not individual choice. It doesn't matter really at this point if people are in the hospital because of incidental COVID, or mild symptoms that require hydration rather than respirators. If you need dialysis, or if you have appendicitis, or if you are a homeless person who tested positive and are looking for a shelter that accepts COVID patients, you are screwed irrespective of your vaccination status, because hospitals can't cope with volume, and social services are not set up for this. Exponential growth is ruthless like that. "Let's go live our lives" is great if you don't fall into one of those unfortunate categories.