FormulaNova said..
Yeah, the info I was reading suggests that viruses do not always turn into more contagious and less deadly variants. I can see how this could happen if the host passes on the virus early on before getting deathly ill. Its quite conceivable. Spread for a week or two, and then die.
I think the media wouldn't know the difference between any strains other than what they get told about the spread of them. I am still not sure what the death rate for the Delta strain would be as no one seems to have the data compared do they? If Delta is much lower, I think we would agree that we would hear about it eventually...
The Japan/Asia mask thing is interesting. I have seen Asian people wearing masks when they were sick before, which shows you that they have been conditioned to do this as a normal thing to protect others. Here, I was surprised when our politicians said not to wear masks as it promoted a false sense of security, but they seemingly changed their mind when it was shown to be very effective.
Are there many people alive from the days of the Spanish Flu? You can't really just say that it was 'just H1N1' as we know lots of people died from it. I wonder if 'we' have effective immunity to it because we catch it when we are younger and fitter and are then immune to it? I do agree with you though that health care and the understanding of disease is much better now, leading to better outcomes.
Remember at the start of this pandemic where the issue seemed to be supply of ventilators, where now the treatment methods themselves have evolved as different doctors and hospitals reported different/better ways to treat people. This in itself is promising.
Ugh, media. Yech.
Look at the statistics. Positive tests are up, but deaths are low and unchanged.
I'd say maybe 30% of people wore masks before. Dunno if it's connected to protecting others though.
"Very effective"...where's the data on that? There's been a sudden proliferation of tests touting the effectiveness of masks since COVID which I'm very skeptical of... but if you look at older studies, there's a lot less enthusiasm and a lot more equivocation. The problem with masks is that nobody wears them correctly, and it's become a virtual signal in the medical theater. Thank god everyone keeps their Karen-ing to themselves here.
Enough still alive to do studies
32 in the study I'm aware of. It's literally a variant of H1N1 (or vice versa) and as I said, people died because living conditions were ****, they got bacterial infections and developed pneumonia, there was no penicillin and medical care was crap. The more you get exposed at lower doses of a virus, the more likely you are to have some resistance to it. Which is why the Santa Clara study found 50 to 100 times more people actually had antibodies for SARS2 and yet didn't have notable symptoms.
Yes. So many people died in the beginning because the treatments were inappropriate, as were contact practices. The Swedish guy acknowledges that, and look at the change in their data now they've adapted. Funny how we never here the same level of condemnation of Sweden that we used any more eh...
Yes it's promising -- look at the data. IMHO we've passed the threshold where lockdowns cause more harm than good -- what's going on in Australia at the moment is a real piss-take, just unbelievable.
