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Originally Posted by Esaias
This is incorrect. A certain segment that stands to make billions wants to spread fear, and a few people want to spread some common sense.
"Trump wingnuts"?
This has very little to do with Trump (who is pushing for a vaccine, and who claims Biden is an "anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist").
The same people who are telling you all about the COVID are the same people who were telling you all about the bird flu and the swine flu and how HIV was going to wipe out half the planet. And on and on it goes.
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I never heard that a virus was going to “wipe out half the planet”.
This is what I do know:
MERS killed 35% of everyone it infected. It was like the death angel itself. That one I remember because we had outbreaks every spring.
SARS killed 10%
COV-19? Looks like it’s running 1-2%, with some outliers but that’s global average.
That’s not a “planet wipeout” but it is a very, very large number of graves
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18450-4
Studies of compiled studies going back to when volunteers were deliberately infected with coronavirus (one causes the common cold) indicate that antibodies disappear between 11 weeks and 2 years after infection. Think a vaccine will work? Science is not “anti-vaxx” friend. Some viruses - lifetime immunity. Others, you fight off and next time it comes around you get sick again.
Coronavirus exposure has never conveyed immunity like chicken pox. So outbreaks? They’re stamped out.
Stamp out process: Reduce person to person exposure to a factor of less than one. That means fewer than one additional person is infected per person exposed. Do this: the transmission cycle breaks cases fall to zero, and that virus does not come back unless it jumps from the original host.
Masking up and distancing, which was started in Taiwan in JANUARY, has proven there, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Korea, and other regional countries to be highly effective.
Once transmission/spread is driven to zero that original host is far, far away.
12 weeks of this would have been all it would take. No shutdowns. Not even much of a slowdown. Masks and distancing.
Instead we are still arguing about this while the rest of the world is laughing at us and we’re chasing a vaccine that to be effective we have to take over and over and over as long as this germ is spreading.
Which is better? What approach does the SCIENCE not political parties suggest?
At 200,000 and counting by the way deliberately spreading is to me no different from deliberately killing. Defiantly continuing to do it in the face of public health orders after a church member died and the lawyer defending it ended up sucking oxygen in the ICU means you premeditate it. That isn’t christian. It isn’t even human. It’s criminal. That’s why this dude is looking at jail.
That is the word from that area. Those folks want him locked up. Not “the state”. Not “the debbil”. The neighbors.
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