:blob-on-fire: Other models predict 1,000,000 daily cases by Christmas :this-is-fine:

      • fayyhana [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Binding trout? Hmm no that doesn't seem right either, I mean I feel like they'd just wriggle out anyways. Ah well probably not important.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Close, finding gout. Known causes of gout are eating too many processed meats and fucking around.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I'm not convinced herd immunity is possible for this virus. Also it's gonna be a hell of a ride watching the fatality rate quadruple:

      From a clinical point of view, SARS-CoV-2 infection is highly heterogeneous. In a report including over 40 thousand cases diagnosed in China [4], mild disease was reported in approximately 80% of patients, severe signs or symptoms including dyspnea, hypoxia or lung infiltrates involving >50% of the parenchyma occurred in 14% of patients, while signs indicative of critical disease such as shock, respiratory failure or multiorgan dysfunction were reported in 5% of cases. Of note, mortality was 2.3% in the entire cohort.

      Basically the fatality rate is 2% when unmasked and freely spreading
      But only 0.5% with masks (due to decreased viral load)

      • machiabelly [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        so basically the more of the virus that you're exposed to during infection the worse you're medical outcomes are. Meaning not only is the contagiousness highly exponential but so are the symptoms?

        • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Yes, it seems that way.

          When I was reinfected, all my symptoms were mostly the same, but milder.

          You could say, that they were milder BECAUSE it was my 2nd infection and my body had some type of immunity. However, if that was the case, why did I even get reinfected? Why did I even get symptoms?

          I think what happened is that I have no immunity to this virus, and the reinfection was milder because I was wearing a mask this time around (nobody wore them in March 2020)

          • spectre [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Could be that you had some immunity built up, but were exposed to different amounts of virus in each case. I think that there are too many variables to draw a clear conclusion from when it comes down to it though.

            This whole thing has had me most interested in the research and analysis that comes out 5 or 10 years from now. We barely know shit about covid right now it seems like even after 2 years, not to mention reviewing how it was actually handled on a social level beyond the biology of the virus itself.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The Disney vacation experience must continue. The restaurant treats must flow. If you don't allow covidiots to barge into a hospital unmasked and visit their fellow covidiot while they are intubated, the communists have already won. :amerikkka-clap:

    • spectre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Can either country even test that many people per day?

      Two years in and we are still stuck without complete testing infrastructure and protocol, so we can't make effective decisions since we are in the dark all the time. Not to say that liberal governments are even capable of making effective decisions even when the data is available.

  • Mike_Penis [any]
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    3 years ago

    well at least ill probably get to go back to online classes again.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Right as I'm set to take a greenhouse management class that I need. The university stays open to collect in-person tuition fees, then closes two weeks into the semester because its students become superspreader events wherever they go. :amerikkka:

      • Multihedra [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        My gf loved her greenhouse classes, I hope you get to take yours / also don’t get Covid/whatever I’m supposed to hope

        Such a surreal experience to just watch “the adults” just let Covid run wild

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I thought about going to get coffee and fig bars at the grocery store but decided against it, even with a mask. Feels like the right call.