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It simply couldn't be we're just letting everyone be constantly reinfected, could it?
I know that neoliberals are totally against the federal government doing anything besides protect private property, but the lengths the media has been going to undermine any sort of prevention has part me thinking that the rich fucks and their political lap dogs actually believe in bullshit malthusian overpopulation.
But then they’ll complain that people aren’t having kids in the next breath. Probably they all subconsciously buy into the great replacement theory or the idiocracy variant.
That's because they are both stupid and arguing in bad faith.
they want you constantly spitting out kids (to be worked & maimed to uselessness from the age of 12)
but also dying as soon as you aren't able-bodied enough to procreate/work/spend
like if you ever need to know what capitalists actually want its literally just the 1840s again.
The Biden administration’s monomaniacal focus on vaccines over new treatments
Which new treatments lol, what magical cure are you expecting to spring forth out of Biden's sheer will
The virus has evolved to make a lot of treatments like monoclonal lineffective. We've got antivirals like paxlovid that still work, but that's it.
The world has collectively decided to let one of the most infectous viruses we've ever seen spread uncontrolled. 8 billion potential hosts, several times a year, means constant and rapid evolution.
We're fucked until we lower the reproduction rate, and for that we need multiple prevention strategies, like masks, widespread vaccinations of everyone possible, staying home until testing negative, air filtration... but wsj is almost certainly against all of them.
Ya, paxlo works and will continue to work, but there's a big caveat you probably haven't heard of in that paxlo isn't usually prescribed to old people because the damage to kidneys and liver may be worse than covid damage.
It also doesn’t interact well with some common and necessary medications.
A bivalent booster only slightly increased antibodies against XBB. Experts nevertheless claim that boosters improve protection against XBB. That’s disinformation, to use their favored term.
Lol lmao even
they claim product A performs X function, but product A actually only slightly performs X function. classic dezinformatsiya
HOLY SHIT, i guess it can be argued that vaccines provide a false sense of security but that is clearly not what they meant.
I mean, they are, that's what happens when you have a large portion of society vaccinated, but a large enough portion of society unvaccinated that it doesn't stop transmission. You've introduced a selective pressure that selects for variants that evade vaccine conferred immunity. Like when you kill roaches but don't get all of them and the survivors are more likely to have a genetic resistance to that poison. As soon as a variant mutates in a way that helps it infect the vaccinated, it'll start doing that, and over time it's basically inevitable eventually.
I'm not saying the take in the article lines up with that, I assume it's some "so let's not take the vaccine" idiocy, just that technically the statement is accurate. Or more that our (lack of a) vaccination policy is driving new variants, at least
In my opinion, China had by far the best handling out of any large nation with resources to handle COVID.
We'll see what happens now that they're loosening public health measures with more recent, more mild strains circulating. Every country has different capacity for delivering care but I would expect they still come out in a far better position as it relates to casualties.
I still don't have good data on long COVID by individuals' infection/vaccination history. I could give my opinions based on the data I do have but it wouldn't be popular here. Personally I err on the side of caution with long COVID concerns because its effects will always disproportionately fall on poorer/disadvantaged groups.
Thank you for this comrade! I work in the bowels of the engine room of biotech beast processing clinical samples, so its always nice to see someone higher up with giving out real info on whats going on, even if it's not great.
Thank you for posting this.
Hypothetically, could we have collectively "starved" Covid early on through coordinated lockdowns, etc.?
I hate that people like this are allowed to speculate on scientific matters. It makes it much harder for scientists to question established knowledge. A good society wouldn't let something like this be written. This article should be considered a crime that will lead to countless deaths.
Technically. Same way seatbelts save the lives of murders. It isn't worth the price in lives to see no proportional benefits
