What?I think the people you should be asking would tell you that your number is madeup horseshit, and, even if it were true, is far from enough information to make that decision.
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What?I think the people you should be asking would tell you that your number is madeup horseshit, and, even if it were true, is far from enough information to make that decision.
Speaking for myself...I never started. I took appropriate precautions..obeyed the law...and have now moved on--vaxxed and feeling reasonably safe.Any chance we can stop living in fear of COVId since there is a 99.4% survival rate?
..Or...you can observe that it's not a binary solution--and that individual choice MUST also be respected. I would point out..as many have..that to the best of our knowledge..no one has died of the Omicron variant--and that the suspicion that it is being overplayed to herd people into vaxxing is pretty strong, for me. The very name, Omicron, seems designed to be ominous...i mean, why not Epsilon..or Gamma? I think we, the people..are being handled..and I resent it.Well unless you have a magical source of divine information from the future, your choices are to do nothing or do something based on what you DO know.
And unless you also have a magical fairy that can guarantee what we do based on incomplete info is perfect, then it will not be perfect.
I already do. So does everyone. Red herring.Or...you can observe that it's not a binary solution--and that individual choice MUST also be respected.
Wish others would follow your lead.Speaking for myself...I never started. I took appropriate precautions..obeyed the law...and have now moved on--vaxxed and feeling reasonably safe.
The rest is up to fate..and I don't really worry over fate.
We need a Covid Porn subforumI found this article cogent:
We won’t know how bad omicron is for another month
Gene sequencing gave an early alert about the latest covid variant. But we'll only know if omicron is a problem by watching it spread.www.technologyreview.com
Will the vaccines still work?
The worry: The head of Moderna, Stéphane Bancel, sent tremors through the stock market when he told the Financial Times that vaccines would take a hit from the variant. He anticipates a “material drop” in their effectiveness, adding that scientists were telling him: “This is not good.”
The experiment: To actually find out how well current vaccines will work, researchers around the world are already racing to isolate omicron from the bodies of infected travelers. They will grow the germ in laboratory cells and then expose it to blood plasma from vaccinated people. They can then measure how well that person’s antibodies block the virus. Other labs will use genetic information about omicron to create “pseudoviruses” that harbor just the variant’s spike gene, to carry out similar tests.
“This is important to find the answer we need: Do the antibodies still neutralize [the virus]?” says Volker Thiel, a virologist at the University of Bern. “Depending on the degree of blocking, you can say this is still working, or not as well.”
How soon: These types of tests usually take a couple of weeks to perform. For past variants, like alpha, companies like Moderna and BioNTech published answers from their laboratory tests within the month.
What’s next: If omicron evades vaccines, it could mean that companies like Moderna and BioNTech will need to re-engineer their messenger RNA products for the first time to reflect the changed genetic makeup of the new variant. That could be a common occurrence as the years go by. In the future, expect to get an annual booster before winter sets in, just as you do for the flu.
Does omicron cause more severe disease?
The worry: Initially, some South African doctors said the symptoms caused by the new variant seemed milder, but then came reports of more hospital beds filling up. Right now, no one knows whether omicron causes worse symptoms or not.
The issue is that omicron is so new that most cases are only a week or two old, while it often takes several weeks for covid-19 to cause severe problems or death. “It’s too early to say something about disease severity. So far, we can’t really say anything,” says Christian Althaus, an epidemiologist in Bern.
Baby---you can't stop the spread. You could have slowed the Delta and the other strains---but you aren't going to slow or stop Omicron. This one moves to fast. Fingers and toes crossed that after everyone catches this cold version that everyone gets immunity from the more deadly strains...is the only thing anyone can do.Of course there is. We can take measures to slow transmission, or not.
Or we could start living again and stop worrying about a disease with a 99% survival rate. Omicron's is 100%.Of course there is. We can take measures to slow transmission, or not.
The best thing you can do is to let everyone get this weaker strain and gain acquired immunities... This pandemic is almost over despite the lefts attempt to make it last forever..Baby---you can't stop the spread. You could have slowed the Delta and the other strains---but you aren't going to slow or stop Omicron. This one moves to fast. Fingers and toes crossed that after everyone catches this cold version that everyone gets immunity from the more deadly strains...is the only thing anyone can do.
I found this article cogent:
We won’t know how bad omicron is for another month
Gene sequencing gave an early alert about the latest covid variant. But we'll only know if omicron is a problem by watching it spread.www.technologyreview.com
Will the vaccines still work?
The worry: The head of Moderna, Stéphane Bancel, sent tremors through the stock market when he told the Financial Times that vaccines would take a hit from the variant. He anticipates a “material drop” in their effectiveness, adding that scientists were telling him: “This is not good.”
The experiment: To actually find out how well current vaccines will work, researchers around the world are already racing to isolate omicron from the bodies of infected travelers. They will grow the germ in laboratory cells and then expose it to blood plasma from vaccinated people. They can then measure how well that person’s antibodies block the virus. Other labs will use genetic information about omicron to create “pseudoviruses” that harbor just the variant’s spike gene, to carry out similar tests.
“This is important to find the answer we need: Do the antibodies still neutralize [the virus]?” says Volker Thiel, a virologist at the University of Bern. “Depending on the degree of blocking, you can say this is still working, or not as well.”
How soon: These types of tests usually take a couple of weeks to perform. For past variants, like alpha, companies like Moderna and BioNTech published answers from their laboratory tests within the month.
What’s next: If omicron evades vaccines, it could mean that companies like Moderna and BioNTech will need to re-engineer their messenger RNA products for the first time to reflect the changed genetic makeup of the new variant. That could be a common occurrence as the years go by. In the future, expect to get an annual booster before winter sets in, just as you do for the flu.
Does omicron cause more severe disease?
The worry: Initially, some South African doctors said the symptoms caused by the new variant seemed milder, but then came reports of more hospital beds filling up. Right now, no one knows whether omicron causes worse symptoms or not.
The issue is that omicron is so new that most cases are only a week or two old, while it often takes several weeks for covid-19 to cause severe problems or death. “It’s too early to say something about disease severity. So far, we can’t really say anything,” says Christian Althaus, an epidemiologist in Bern.
If...and only against the variant. In most cases of Covid... 40%+ of any of the variants..the cases have been asymptomatic---and natural immunity or resistance gained. That does not always maintain for new variants. Time degrades our resistance anyway.
Truth is..we don't know shit yet...and the over-reacting/under-reacting people are just dancing to their own knee-jerks, for the most part.
I think the people you should be asking would tell you that your number is madeup horseshit, and, even if it were true, is far from enough information to make that decision.
Yeah let's do that. Keep it around longer.Of course there is. We can take measures to slow transmission, or not.
Yet every Lefty had his talking points in line saying from Day One that Aye Corona was going to result in "THE NEW NORMAL" or as I like to say The Image of a Boot Stomping on a Human Face Forever.I found this article cogent:
We won’t know how bad omicron is for another month
Gene sequencing gave an early alert about the latest covid variant. But we'll only know if omicron is a problem by watching it spread.www.technologyreview.com
Will the vaccines still work?
The worry: The head of Moderna, Stéphane Bancel, sent tremors through the stock market when he told the Financial Times that vaccines would take a hit from the variant. He anticipates a “material drop” in their effectiveness, adding that scientists were telling him: “This is not good.”
The experiment: To actually find out how well current vaccines will work, researchers around the world are already racing to isolate omicron from the bodies of infected travelers. They will grow the germ in laboratory cells and then expose it to blood plasma from vaccinated people. They can then measure how well that person’s antibodies block the virus. Other labs will use genetic information about omicron to create “pseudoviruses” that harbor just the variant’s spike gene, to carry out similar tests.
“This is important to find the answer we need: Do the antibodies still neutralize [the virus]?” says Volker Thiel, a virologist at the University of Bern. “Depending on the degree of blocking, you can say this is still working, or not as well.”
How soon: These types of tests usually take a couple of weeks to perform. For past variants, like alpha, companies like Moderna and BioNTech published answers from their laboratory tests within the month.
What’s next: If omicron evades vaccines, it could mean that companies like Moderna and BioNTech will need to re-engineer their messenger RNA products for the first time to reflect the changed genetic makeup of the new variant. That could be a common occurrence as the years go by. In the future, expect to get an annual booster before winter sets in, just as you do for the flu.
Does omicron cause more severe disease?
The worry: Initially, some South African doctors said the symptoms caused by the new variant seemed milder, but then came reports of more hospital beds filling up. Right now, no one knows whether omicron causes worse symptoms or not.
The issue is that omicron is so new that most cases are only a week or two old, while it often takes several weeks for covid-19 to cause severe problems or death. “It’s too early to say something about disease severity. So far, we can’t really say anything,” says Christian Althaus, an epidemiologist in Bern.