Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Unless they think that there is a 30x increase in hospitalizations and deaths that are somehow being kept off the books, wouldn’t that argue that this is far less deadly than before?

 

Was just coming here to post that, Dixie. In theory, isn't it a good thing that there is no matching hospitalization spike to go with this massive undercount of cases?

 

I think part of it is that this current variant is milder, but more infectious. After nearly 2 1/2 years, we just got it, but it seemed like a mild cold.

 

Just got one of those ominous someone-who-was-near-you-for-an-extended-period-has-tested-positive alerts on my iPhone. It’s a great idea, just scary AF. At least the first rapid test came back negative.

 

Can I get that to warn me when imbecile Republicans are near me?

 

You going to fight them?

 

Here's a potential Algonquin round table.

 

Depends. If the variant in these cases still produces long-range negative impacts (Long COVID), there's a problem. It's not the public health crisis that we see when hospitals are overrun, but it is something to consider.

 

downupdown

 

exactly

But “we’re not at a place where we can confidently say that each of these new variant surges is not going to result in a surge of deaths”, Nash said.

Hospitalization and death are also not the only negative outcomes of cases. “The long Covid threat is going to be something that’s with us for a while, even after hospitalizations and deaths become less of an issue,” Nash said.

Long Covid can occur in an estimated 10 to 30% of cases, and each infection – and reinfection – seems to be “a roll of the dice” for developing long-term health issues, he said.

“It’s very poorly understood, in my view, given how important a public health issue it could be. But it is absolutely high on the list of reasons to avoid Covid infection right now. It’s tragic that this is not something that is discussed as a reason to prevent the impact of a surge.”

Vaccines protect against long Covid by about 15%, new research suggests, underscoring the need for other precautions to prevent infections.

“This idea that we need to return to normal and that’s the most important thing, rather than just actually using mitigation measures to save lives – it’s actually not that hard, and if it were normalized, we could do it,” Jirmanus said.

“To just decide that it’s perfectly fine for everyone to be infected three to four times a year in the future with a new virus whose effects we don’t fully understand is a huge, huge gamble,” she continued. “We just don’t know what Covid could lead to in the future… We’re playing with fire.”

 

Covid, monkeypox, extreme weather conditions that are killing people be it from intense storms to severe drought.... I think earth is finished with us and wants us gone.