COVID-19 statistics

[Doctor X]

Or gather indoors.

So that whole "shelter in place" and "do not go outside" was never going to work.

Why I found Fauci's claim that one could go on a cruise unethically ignorant.

To remove the negative from the tone, there is a human need to "do something" along with the very emotional desire to pretend what is happening which is bad is not actually happening which is bad since both are bad, even とても悪いだよ.

Masks became a talisman: something to wave around and pretend the evil spirits will stay away. With the politics involved, they became a way of showing that you "agreed with" one view and condemned another. The irony of that is neither "side" bothered to understand the issue and degenerated into screaming at one another.

The further irony we eventually arrived at a Mask = Vaccine = No Mean Tweets! I be Woke Build Large Mansions equation: so that, frankly, opposition to the vaccines is as mindless as opposition to masks because "they" wear them, and they are "inconvenient."

Irrationality cuts both ways and ascends and descends and sideways slides many levels.

In the rain.

– J.D.

[robinson]

SCIENCE!

[robinson]

This might explain why primitive tropical countries have almost no deaths from Covid

While warm climate countries that have wealth are suffering along with the rest of the advanced civilizations

What if AC AND CLIMATE CONTROL creates a breeding ground for an easy to transmit virus?

[robinson]

Based on the Israel data, they actually made things worse

The latest data shows a high level of vaccination made things much worse

[robinson]

This can be shown the data

Anyone can see it for themself

[Tommy Palven]

Is Covid Mania dying?

According to Alex Berenson, Covid Mania, like the Wicked Witch of the West, Isn't merely nearly dead, but clearly most sincerely dead:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the ... lready?s=r

What will they think of next?

[robinson2]

The chickens eventually come home to roost

[Pyrrho]

Twit: https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1545515528097304577

[robinson]

Israel, one of the most vaccinated countries on earth, has had over 3 million new cases this year. The unvaccinated population (which may include people with only two jabs so far), is a fuzzy figure, but it's way less than enough people to keep claiming it's a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

For perspective, the number of cases up until 2022 was 1.4 million. Since Jan 1 2022, 3 million new cases. Of course with such a huge increase in illness for Covid, the daily death numbers also have been higher than ever before.

[robinson]

Portugal, the other most vaccinated country in the world, is suffering a similar fate. But with a much higher death rate. (before the current disaster, the claim was there wasn't anyone left in Portugal to vaccinate)

To compare a country with a population much like Israel or Portugal, the UAE has a much lower vaccination rate, but one tenth the deaths of the most vaccinated countries.

Of course the "woke as fuck" idiots won't let reality get in the way of their complete insanity. Once you buy the poisonous idea that cutting off a bulls dick makes it a female (a cow), anything is possible.

[Pyrrho]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/nati ... b/3096942/

According to the University of California Davis Health, the reported symptoms of BA.5 are similar to previous COVID variants: fever, runny nose, coughing, sore throat, headaches, muscle pain and fatigue. At this point, there doesn't appear to be a difference in the symptoms seen in BA.4 or BA.5 cases, compared to earlier omicron strains.

Francois Balloux, the director of the University College London Genetics Institute, said while BA.1 and BA.2 are "pretty different...BA.2, BA.4 and B.5 from a neutralizing antibody perspective are essentially interchangeable."

Because of that, people who had BA.2 infections may have some protection from the latest subvariants, he said. While they spread quicker than any others, BA.4 and BA.5 haven’t been found to cause more severe disease, according to doctors.

"There’s really no clear evidence that they’re more or less likely to make people sick and cause severe illness and death," stated Montefiori.

[Pyrrho]

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/976640

The fast-spreading BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages of Omicron are estimated to make up a combined 70.1% of the coronavirus variants in the United States as of July 2, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.

[Pyrrho]

Twit: https://twitter.com/ScienceTM/status/1550202160582991872

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sci ... ed.abn4338

[robinson]

“In contrast to vaccine-induced immunity, there was no increased risk for re-infection with Beta, Gamma or Delta variants relative to Alpha variant in individuals with infection-induced immunity.”

[Pyrrho]

Yeah that's great as long as you don't end up in ICU after getting COVID and your blood clots up like what happened to my aunt.

[asthmatic camel]

That's the real problem, pyrrho: Covid is very unpredictable. I got vaccinated last year, Mrs. Camel did not, (largely due to unsubstantiated internet bullshit that there was something in it designed to kill black people.) So, we both get Covid a couple of weeks ago. Mrs. Camel wouldn't have known she had it had she not been told to test by a colleague who became quite ill. I had mild cold symptoms for a few days.

The virus almost certainly won't kill you if you're otherwise in good health but it most certainly can. When you start coughing, that can is a wee bit scary.

I was roundly condemned on Facebook recently for saying pretty much what Doctor X posted above. Oh well.

[Doctor X]

It is the way you say it. . . .

– J.D.

[Pyrrho]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamane ... le/2796649

Association of SARS-CoV-2 Infection With New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Among Pediatric Patients From 2020 to 2021

In this study, new T1D diagnoses were more likely to occur among pediatric patients with prior COVID-19 than among those with other respiratory infections (or with other encounters with health systems).

I cannot evaluate the methodology; that would require intelligence that I do not possess.

[Ben Trovado]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamane ... le/2796649

Association of SARS-CoV-2 Infection With New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Among Pediatric Patients From 2020 to 2021

In this study, new T1D diagnoses were more likely to occur among pediatric patients with prior COVID-19 than among those with other respiratory infections (or with other encounters with health systems).

I cannot evaluate the methodology; that would require intelligence that I do not possess.

I haven't looked at it yet but will try later.

Since Vitamin D seemed important to the disease spread or resistance to it, and Diabetes impacts Vitamin D, there may be a correlation through things other than the infection itself.

[Pyrrho]

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.112 ... ce.abd9149

Article about airborne transmission of respiratory viruses.

[robinson]

There is absolute evidence gathered from the SARS virus about how it actually spread.

During the entire pandemic you never ever heard anything about it.

[Pyrrho]

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2211314

A Covid-19 Milestone Attained — A Correlate of Protection for Vaccines

[robinson]

I will take a pass on George Carlin's expertise in virology.

He was better at prediction than Fauci

[Pyrrho]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 4322008221

COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Risk of a Traffic Crash

[robinson]

I can believe that. I just wish "vaccine hesitancy" was associated with dying from Covid. Less assholes on the road.

These data suggest that COVID vaccine hesitancy is associated with significant increased risks of a traffic crash. An awareness of these risks might help to encourage more COVID vaccination.

Yeah, it's like you know absolutely nothing about the assholes that cause accidents.

[Ben Trovado]

I don't see in the summary that they confirmed these people were even drivers, much less at fault for the accident.

What's the theory - just not getting vaccinated draws fast cars toward you, even if you are a passenger?


ETA: Going to the actual article and seeing what they say there.

[Ben Trovado]

They say this:

We identified serious traffic crashes during the subsequent month based on emergency care throughout the region (178 individual hospitals).45 This definition reflected incidents sending a patient to an emergency department as a driver, passenger, or pedestrian (codes V00-V69)

I went through to the graphs. I don't see where, despite stating the codes included passengers and pedestrian, they excluded anyone but drivers. Shouldn't they expressly state that the were excluding passengers?

And how do they determine that the driver was at fault for the accident? If they are not insinuating that, then what is their alleged study showing - that God hates the unvaccinated and punishes them while driving (instead of with COVID) just like he sends hurricanes to sinning cities?

[robinson]

MiniTrue would not lie to you!

[Pyrrho]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35638-y

Transcriptional reprogramming from innate immune functions to a pro-thrombotic signature by monocytes in COVID-19

Discussion on Twitter FWIW

https://twitter.com/mrmickme/status/1608334841338269696