There were reports of people taking off their masks in flight the second they found out
Porky is going to sacrifice these people for the line and they're happy about it.
There were reports of people taking off their masks in flight the second they found out
Porky is going to sacrifice these people for the line and they're happy about it.
I think we're going to get lucky with covid variants becoming more contagious but less deadly. Already the daily mortality is half what it was in the beginning.
But we will not stay lucky with every epidemic to come. Probably within the next 10 years we will see something that makes Covid-19 seem like child's play.
Death rates are down because most people are vaccinated now, or have already had it and survived. That doesn’t mean it’s less deadly, and there’s no reason to believe it won’t become even deadlier later on. Plus the huge percentage of people who are disabled by it.
Exactly. Even the much-touted "mild" Omicron has the same mortality risk as the original strain on those unvaccinated. People forget that Delta was worse than the original virus, and Omicron simply reverted to our previous level of deadliness. We are unfortunately seeing no signs of an true lessening of lethality.
There's no lasting immunity. Maybe we get more-contagious-same-mortality for five years, then in year six we hit the jackpot mutation that gives us a double digit death rate. We won't know until people start dying because there'll be no precautions or monitoring anymore. This is a ticking time bomb we've let out into society. It might tick for longer than we expect but it's not gonna defuse itself.
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Because it's largely a function of how many CAFOs we have. Industrial agriculture provides both a breeding ground for contagious and/or deadly livestock diseases and a substantial interface to jump to humans.
With meat demand worldwide going up, and CAFOs meeting most of that demand, pandemics are only going to become more frequent. Covid is related to SARS. It's not a fluke- or rather, the sort of thing that used to be a fluke is now a regularity.
The best-case scenario is that the countries that pulled off zero-covid take a small hit and everyone else collapses.