This site is wearing me down this past week.
edit: I am more worn down. Shouldn't have posted this thread. Feeling awful about my future.
This site is wearing me down this past week.
edit: I am more worn down. Shouldn't have posted this thread. Feeling awful about my future.
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Have you checked America's excess deaths for 2022?
Looks pretty in line with expectation considering the amount of Covid infections. I don't see anything that would indicate people's immune system's collapsing en masse.
So even after killing off all the most vulnerable people, it's managing to maintain that.
As much log is burning now as kindling when the fire started.
I'm guessing you think the surges of flu and RSV above any previous year was due to immunity debt, a thing that was made up entirely by covid deniers?
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Yes, you're describing immunity debt, which has no basis in reality and was made up by covid deniers.
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You're repeating misinformation. The evidence for what you're claiming is incredibly shaky.
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We know covid weakens peoples immune systems not based on inference taken from how diseases propagate. We know it damages the immune system from counting T-cells in people with infections.
THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH SPECULATION GOING ON IN THIS THREAD
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The science isn't whatever you want it to be. I encourage you to leave your mind palace and actually look, since it sounds like you haven't since the Omicron wave.
And yes, a lot more people did die.
What are you even disputing? Do you believe in herd immunity now as much as chuds did in 2020?
I'm disputing the general sentiment here that a healthy person getting Covid (maybe even more than once) necessarily implies doom and gloom for that person for the rest of their lives.
Someone is either ignorant of or indifferent to the observed percentage of people who get long covid. It's high.
And you're performing extreme cope if rhetorically your open ended let 'er rip campaign ends for each individual the second time they get it.
Getting real "it's not going to happen to me" vibes from this conversation
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I'm going to disengage now and I'd like you to know I stopped reading your comment when you led off with a personal anecdote wrapped in two tortillas of snark
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"As long as I can find one industry paid scientist that says what I want to hear, the vast majority of science is just cherrypicking"
Look. I picked up a snowball. My personal experience is that you're wrong. Way more rational to believe what I can see, n'est pas?
Except I know of about a 100 cases of Covid from friends family and acquaintances, and many more from second or third hand stories so again unless I'm living among genetically superior ubermen or just people that are very very extremely lucky I think I have a halfway decent sample. If it was THAT bad I think I'd be seeing it a bit more death and long term illness around me. I still heard stories of death and my friends that worked in hospitals told a bunch of horror stories and that's awful but it's also not the apocalypse you're making it out to be. It doesn't have to be either the common cold or the doomsday virus, it's somewhere in between.
The problem with anecdotal evidence is not the sample size. It is the sampling method.
Yes I must be mistaken, everybody around me is secretly suffering from long Covid without telling me anything about it.
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