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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

      If there is a second wave of Covid, the Swedish approach will have been right all along

      Not going into lockdown was described as “a mad experiment” at the time, but Sweden can look to the winter with less trepidation than most

      how could there not be - really, only way - to stay locked down until there is a vaccine, and then require everyone to get it.

      Will any vaccine be expected to be possible now that they are showing that even getting the disease itself only gives you months of immunity?

      Maybe if we get vaccines all the time, like every two months?

      Literally the first I've heard of zero or basically near zero immunity - damn that sucks!

      New study this week.

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      • ObsolesceO
        Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

        @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

        @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

        Maybe if we get vaccines all the time

        Then, that would be a vaccine similar to the flu shot. Not all vaccines are a full efficacy forever.

        Flu is like annually, though. This would be a lot more.

        It's a big if still, nothing is solid.

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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

          @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

          Maybe if we get vaccines all the time

          Then, that would be a vaccine similar to the flu shot. Not all vaccines are a full efficacy forever.

          Flu is like annually, though. This would be a lot more.

          The Flu itself does not provide long term immunity. People can get the flu multiple times in the season.

          The vaccine for the flu, while not always highly effective depending on the yearly mutations, does generally, confer longer improved defense against the virus for the season.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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            @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

            @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

            Maybe if we get vaccines all the time

            Then, that would be a vaccine similar to the flu shot. Not all vaccines are a full efficacy forever.

            Flu is like annually, though. This would be a lot more.

            The Flu itself does not provide long term immunity. People can get the flu multiple times in the season.

            The vaccine for the flu, while not always highly effective depending on the yearly mutations, does generally, confer longer improved defense against the virus for the season.

            True, but it seems to do a lot. Or so people say. I've never had it and am not sure if I've ever had the flu either.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

              not sure if I've ever had the flu

              As you are almost never in an infectious environment, this would be no surprise.

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                Maybe if we get vaccines all the time

                Then, that would be a vaccine similar to the flu shot. Not all vaccines are a full efficacy forever.

                Flu is like annually, though. This would be a lot more.

                Is it though? You get the shot normally in what November? and it lasts until March, maybe April? I mean I just don't know - but it doesn't need to last the whole year for normal flu because the heat of summer really dampens it.
                Now, of course, that said - Covid-19 has clearly shown to not give a shit about heat. So quarterly inoculations could become a normal thing - damn, someone's making a mint.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                  last edited by

                  @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  Maybe if we get vaccines all the time

                  Then, that would be a vaccine similar to the flu shot. Not all vaccines are a full efficacy forever.

                  Flu is like annually, though. This would be a lot more.

                  Is it though? You get the shot normally in what November? and it lasts until March, maybe April? I mean I just don't know - but it doesn't need to last the whole year for normal flu because the heat of summer really dampens it.
                  Now, of course, that said - Covid-19 has clearly shown to not give a shit about heat. So quarterly inoculations could become a normal thing - damn, someone's making a mint.

                  Just guessing, but it feels like COVID is on a different schedule. The flu shot is based on a combination of new strains and new vaccines. COVID we are still talking about basically one strain and one vaccine, but over and over.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    Maybe if we get vaccines all the time

                    Then, that would be a vaccine similar to the flu shot. Not all vaccines are a full efficacy forever.

                    Flu is like annually, though. This would be a lot more.

                    Is it though? You get the shot normally in what November? and it lasts until March, maybe April? I mean I just don't know - but it doesn't need to last the whole year for normal flu because the heat of summer really dampens it.
                    Now, of course, that said - Covid-19 has clearly shown to not give a shit about heat. So quarterly inoculations could become a normal thing - damn, someone's making a mint.

                    Just guessing, but it feels like COVID is on a different schedule. The flu shot is based on a combination of new strains and new vaccines. COVID we are still talking about basically one strain and one vaccine, but over and over.

                    yeah, I don't know how the whole flu strain thing works - some rando told me there are like 4-5 different general strains of the flu, and that when they make vaccines for the next year - they are basically guessing at which strain will be bad the next year and vaccinate for that one. of course that information could be completely inaccurate - I don't really know.

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                    • GreyG
                      Grey @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      @JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      Maybe if we get vaccines all the time

                      Then, that would be a vaccine similar to the flu shot. Not all vaccines are a full efficacy forever.

                      Flu is like annually, though. This would be a lot more.

                      Is it though? You get the shot normally in what November? and it lasts until March, maybe April? I mean I just don't know - but it doesn't need to last the whole year for normal flu because the heat of summer really dampens it.
                      Now, of course, that said - Covid-19 has clearly shown to not give a shit about heat. So quarterly inoculations could become a normal thing - damn, someone's making a mint.

                      The goal is to eliminate the virus, just like smallpox. I suppose the cost of that is greater than a funeral, but then, what's the cost of losing a child? After all, it was only alive for months, maybe a couple years? You couldn't have invested more than a hundred grand in that time. Compared to the cost of a vaccine, and the 7 billion already spent, that's nothing.

                      Are you just as heartless as our narcissistic moron of a president who'd rather divide the country than lead it, who'd rather claim that the world is out to get him personally because he listens to conspiracies from qanon, and who's golfed more in his first term than any other first term president while also having been critical of those same previous presidents' time off? I don't understand why anyone would listen to an administration that is saying, "some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

                      The government is run by the very people that he's allowing to die by his inaction, his stupidity, and plain attitude. It's gross negligence. If you want to really listen, look at his actions: everyone coming in to contact with him is contact checked and covid tested. The administration knows how to combat the virus; they just don't fucking care.

                      Science has already given us the answers. No one is listening. You'd rather join the army of Karens and carry a card from a fake company, claiming you have ADA issues that prevent you from wearing the same mask that you'd demand that your surgeon wear for that 8 hour operation to remove your head from your ass. If everyone did that in the beginning, if Dear Leader had actually required it, then you'd be looking at a much different US economy, and the country might not be banned from EU travel.

                      But, yes, let's talk about cost and economy. Let's discuss convenience of a vaccine. I'll be over here checking out the receipts from my father's 2004 burial so I can compare to the current supply/demand economy for half my family that's over 60 years old. You know, the present rate of death is more than 9/11 every day? I'd think scump would know that, considering he had some experience cleaning up at ground zero. right?

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                      • ObsolesceO
                        Obsolesce @Grey
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                        @Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

                        The goal is to eliminate the virus

                        No.

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                        • ObsolesceO
                          Obsolesce @Grey
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                          @Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          what's the cost of losing a child?

                          Outlier / fringe cases?

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                            mlnews
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                            Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail in Epstein sex trafficking case

                            Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and ex-girlfriend of the late US convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been denied bail in a high-profile sex case.
                            At a hearing via video link, a New York judge said she would remain in custody while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking minors for Epstein. Ms Maxwell, who pleaded not guilty, will go on trial in July 2021. Her lawyers had said she was at risk of contracting coronavirus in prison. Epstein died in prison on 10 August 2019 as he awaited his trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was determined to be suicide.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Holy cow California is screwed...

                              https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/us/california-orange-county-reopen-school-no-masks-trnd/index.html

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                              • ObsolesceO
                                Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                Holy cow California is screwed...

                                https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/us/california-orange-county-reopen-school-no-masks-trnd/index.html

                                Looks like Sweden did it right again, in regards to keeping smaller children in school.

                                https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/children-unlikely-to-transmit-coronavirus-says-study-cited-in-pms-push-to-reopen-schools

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                                  @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  Holy cow California is screwed...

                                  https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/us/california-orange-county-reopen-school-no-masks-trnd/index.html

                                  Looks like Sweden did it right again, in regards to keeping smaller children in school.

                                  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/children-unlikely-to-transmit-coronavirus-says-study-cited-in-pms-push-to-reopen-schools

                                  That's an old article and goes against everything we've been hearing about the spread of the virus. So much so, that in fact that group has now been identified as a new, even higher risk, because new diseases in young children have been identified coming from COVID infected groups.

                                  Do you have any information on a report that upholds that claim? It goes against all logic (that we know of) because it basically claims that children's bodies can't spread something that we know is spread in the air, on surfaces, etc. But they are claiming that children's bodies kill it on contact, to the point that they make it safer than having no contact at all?

                                  At some point, we have to say, that just sounds insane.

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                                  • ObsolesceO
                                    Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    Holy cow California is screwed...

                                    https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/us/california-orange-county-reopen-school-no-masks-trnd/index.html

                                    Looks like Sweden did it right again, in regards to keeping smaller children in school.

                                    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/children-unlikely-to-transmit-coronavirus-says-study-cited-in-pms-push-to-reopen-schools

                                    That's an old article and goes against everything we've been hearing about the spread of the virus. So much so, that in fact that group has now been identified as a new, even higher risk, because new diseases in young children have been identified coming from COVID infected groups.

                                    Do you have any information on a report that upholds that claim? It goes against all logic (that we know of) because it basically claims that children's bodies can't spread something that we know is spread in the air, on surfaces, etc. But they are claiming that children's bodies kill it on contact, to the point that they make it safer than having no contact at all?

                                    At some point, we have to say, that just sounds insane.

                                    I've only seen other articles claiming very low numbers in young children, younger than 10 for example, and even those are questionable given that so many of the U.S. COVID-19 "confirmed" cases are fake. I've yet to see anything different.

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                                    • ObsolesceO
                                      Obsolesce
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                                      https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-kids-arent-the-germbags-and-grownups-are/

                                      https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/08/cdc-director-says-theres-no-data-children-drive-coronavirus-spread-but-the-us-isnt-testing-many-kids.html

                                      There's also a lot of articles and some studies on how bad this is for children, keeping them home and out of school, etc.

                                      https://globalnews.ca/news/7156857/coronavirus-physical-emotional-impact-children/

                                      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/18/french-minister-tells-of-risks-of-missing-school-as-more-pupils-return-covid-19

                                      This may be news to the U.S., but has long been known here how bad this whole situation has been for the kids.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                                        @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                        @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                        Holy cow California is screwed...

                                        https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/us/california-orange-county-reopen-school-no-masks-trnd/index.html

                                        Looks like Sweden did it right again, in regards to keeping smaller children in school.

                                        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/26/children-unlikely-to-transmit-coronavirus-says-study-cited-in-pms-push-to-reopen-schools

                                        That's an old article and goes against everything we've been hearing about the spread of the virus. So much so, that in fact that group has now been identified as a new, even higher risk, because new diseases in young children have been identified coming from COVID infected groups.

                                        Do you have any information on a report that upholds that claim? It goes against all logic (that we know of) because it basically claims that children's bodies can't spread something that we know is spread in the air, on surfaces, etc. But they are claiming that children's bodies kill it on contact, to the point that they make it safer than having no contact at all?

                                        At some point, we have to say, that just sounds insane.

                                        I've only seen other articles claiming very low numbers in young children, younger than 10 for example, and even those are questionable given that so many of the U.S. COVID-19 "confirmed" cases are fake. I've yet to see anything different.

                                        Um, what?

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                                        • popesterP
                                          popester @Grey
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                                          @Grey Wow, so much hate. It's not good for the mind nor body. Not saying you are right or wrong. Doesn't matter. Seriously. Examine where it is coming from. Your family will love you for it. They deserve it.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
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                                            @Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                            There's also a lot of articles and some studies on how bad this is for children, keeping them home and out of school, etc.

                                            Keeping them home, yes. However, how much of that is parental issues? When people homeschool we talk about the opposite, how it is so healthy for them. Now suddenly people having to homeschool is mentally hard on kids? Something doesn't add up. It's not the lack of school, it's how badly families are handling it or what the schools are doing as alternatives or whatever.

                                            That doesn't mean that school isn't the blanket "we give up" option, but it's obviously not having kids at home that's the issue. It's lots of kids with bad environments, or as we've seen from lots of parents, schools finding ways to torture families instead of giving them healthy ways to be at home.

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