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Covid, the "lockdowns" etc.
FelixGamingX1:
Just don’t feel Omicron to be a catchy name for a variant. It’s not even scary. Assuming they’re saving Omega for the real deal.
Pat
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--- Quote from: Neoplatonist1 on November 27, 2021, 09:39:50 PM ---The one thing that would seriously hamper the virus's transmission rates would be stopping air travel. The virus doesn't have legs or wings, it only goes where humans go. Shutting down air travel would be the best way to stop the variants from spreading.
Lockdowns worked for parts of Australia, from what I've read, but, lockdowns appear to lose us more life-years than they save. https://www.revolver.news/2020/08/study-covid-19-lockdowns-deadlier-than-pandemic-itself/
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The only measure that's worked in slowing the spread is locking down borders followed by aggressive contract tracing. But that only worked with island countries. It's not feasible for the rest of the world.
Grounding airplanes might slow the spread of new strains, but wouldn't solve the fundamental problem: The US, and probably much of the world, had widespread community spread in late 2019, long before the pandemic was recognized as a pandemic. Border controls don't work when you have invisible networks of people spreading the disease, and contact tracing only works when there are a very limited number of cases. Once you have community spread (cases popping up that you can't trace back to previous known cases), contact tracing is pointless except as a monitoring tool.
And curiously, there have been no superspreader events on airplanes. While airplanes have been a vector to bring infected people into new areas where they can start spreading the disease once they debark, they haven't been spreading the disease to other people on the airplanes. The ventilation systems and directed air really seem to work.
Shasarak:
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--- Quote from: Kiero on November 27, 2021, 12:54:35 PM ---Our nationwide mask mandate is back on again, announced today. I'll be ignoring it as usual, still haven't worn one and don't own one.
I'll be out every single day, maskless, as is normal. I might taunt the muzzled drones in the shops by whistling as I go.
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What's your solution to the pandemic, Kiero? Just let it rage?
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Has there been any solution to the pandemic, Neoplastonist1?
Lockdown has not worked.
Masks have not worked.
"Vaccines" have not worked.
Maybe it is time for 2 weeks of letting it rage to flatten the curve?
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The one thing that would seriously hamper the virus's transmission rates would be stopping air travel. The virus doesn't have legs or wings, it only goes where humans go. Shutting down air travel would be the best way to stop the variants from spreading.
Lockdowns worked for parts of Australia, from what I've read, but, lockdowns appear to lose us more life-years than they save. https://www.revolver.news/2020/08/study-covid-19-lockdowns-deadlier-than-pandemic-itself/
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I was under the impression that they tried to stop air travel already but gave up because of the inherent racism.
Kiero:
The case of the Diamond Princess right at the start of the "pandemic" burst the notion that this is some hyper-virulent plague we should be terrified of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_Diamond_Princess
Long before jabs or any so-called infection control measures, hardly anyone was infected, a tiny number died and most weren't even that ill.
Mistwell:
By the way, good news. The new variant, Omicron or whatever it's called, may present with mild symptoms including so far no known loss of taste and smell. Most common symptoms with this strain appear to be rapid heart beat, a fever, both of which seem to go away in a few days.
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