"15 days to slow the spread" has now reached Day 520

You sound like a loser. Are you always this annoying?

If this is Rojo

Wouldn't you be REGISTERED?

Asking for a friend.....

I also think it's funny, how all of the propaganda to get people behind it was to 'slow the spread'... Sure, I can get behind that. But when it became months and months and there was no end in sight, it became tough to play the game any longer. It's not going away, and it's really not that severe of a virus. The vast majority of people will never get it, and those who are unlucky and get it, the vast majority of them don't have a severe case of it. Less than 15% of Americans (38 million cases out of 330 million people) have even gotten it in a year and a half, and only a few percent of that 15% has a really bad experience with it. And now with the Delta variant, even fewer people are having severe cases than before since the delta variant isn't as strong. In time covid isn't going to go away, but as a majority of people get it or get vaccinated the body's reaction to it will continue to be less and less. We need to agree on a deaths per day that is acceptable to be back to normal. The flu kills an average of about 150 people per day in the United States and we never did weird stuff for that... What number of deaths per day for Covid will make people feel comfortable to live life normally? Apparently 600 isn't that number since people still freak out today. And we were down to 250 at one point this year and people were still weird about it. My opinion is we're already at a good number where it's not really a big issue. It's something to keep in mind if you're a generally unhealthy or old person but most of the population it isn't a concern. Even old and unhealthy people are mostly going to be fine if they got it, and again it's unlikely any individual person will even get it.

We'll play it until dopes like you take the basic public heath measures necessary to escape a pandemic.

Its not that hard.

I, The Delta Variant, do not care about your politics, your religion, your gender, your job, your life philosophy. I don't care. I will simply spread and cause mayhem. Pretending I don not exist is fine too.... at your peril.

+1 Spot on analysis. And I really don't care if Blue States want to lock their people down and issue mandate after mandate and issue VAXX passports to allow people to go the store or move around their progressive states. Knock yourself out!

Just leave me alone. I opt out!

The Delta Variant wrote:

We'll play it until dopes like you take the basic public heath measures necessary to escape a pandemic.

Its not that hard.

I, The Delta Variant, do not care about your politics, your religion, your gender, your job, your life philosophy. I don't care. I will simply spread and cause mayhem. Pretending I don not exist is fine too.... at your peril.

Pick me next! Please I have actually been trying to get this disease to see what the hype is about. I travelled out of country(to South Africa, no less, isn’t it like really bad there?), one of my close friends “got it” and had to quarantine for two weeks, and I went over there and hung out with him for 6 of the days. Up until earlier this year I worked in food service and shared smokes, vapes, joints, and drinks with my coworkers on a daily basis. Where is my illness? I want to get paid to not be at work please?

Yes Yes this DEADLY disease that has killed exactly ZERO people that I know and no one that I know can tell me anyone they know that has died from COVID.

Who cares thought right? Let's LOCK everyone down and ISSUE some mandates!

You know,........ for CONTROL

It would have been worse if we didn’t mitigate efforts early on and simply let it run through people as fast as it could.

While this is just the same stupid COVIDiots BS trolling, there is a kernel of truth here. The initial strategy of "flattening the curve" was actually a big compromise and a caving of public health officials to private business interests. Many in the ID community knew from the outset that a strategy to contain the virus would essentially be futile and that the only option was elimination. But as soon as anything close to an elimination strategy came to becoming public policy in the US, business interests lined up to get a long list of exceptions and exemptions. Even the most restrictive "lockdowns" in the US had very long lists of exempt businesses. And lockdowns were left entirely to state and local authorities, meaning that one state's efforts could be completely negated by another state's refusal to act. We could have quite easily eliminated COVID if we really wanted to (especially when you compare the very short term pain of very restrictive lockdowns, testing, masks, etc. to the very long term pain of constant waves of infection, full hospitals and hundreds of thousands dying). But business interests vetoed these efforts and we let the virus gain a permanent foothold in the US.

disclaimer : I'm a radiologist in a french hospital

what you're saying about old and unhealthy were true in the first waves

now, most of our patients, and even those who end up in ICU, are in the 30-50 yo range

nearly all of them are unvaccinated, and immigrants from eastern europe or north africa

I have no idea what explains this beside low vaccination, weither they have poor living conditions, poor hygiene, or if they're genetically more fragile to COVID than us

Question: Are you taking the booster shot?

U.S. health officials Wednesday recommended all Americans get COVID-19 booster shots to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and evidence that the vaccines' effectiveness is falling.

The plan, as outlined by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other top authorities, calls for an extra dose eight months after people get their second shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. The doses could begin the week of Sept. 20.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/virus-outbreak/2021/08/18/id/1032855/?dkt_nbr=6F0112jheot9

I live in California and I’ve been working since summer 2020. So idk where you get off claiming this is day 520.

I don’t wear a mask anywhere either, but even if I did, that hardly meets the definition of a lockdown does it?

In the spirit of bipartisanship I say we defer to a politically neutral, national medical entity. Somewhere where rank is determined by education and status in the fields of medicine and virology, not in politics. Ideally led by someone who’s dedicated 40 years of his life to studying virology. And in case he somehow managed to be a totalitarian communist implant in the field of virology, let’s make sure the whole medical community agrees with him, so we can be sure he’s not making stuff up for political purposes. And if somehow him and the rest of our doctors are all communist implants in the field of virology, let’s look at every other country in the world, both our allies and enemies, to see what the true world wide medical consensus is, that way we know it’s not American politics.

Now it could be that the medical community of every single developed country in the world are in fact closet communist dictators who are feeding us bad science, and the only truely science based approaches have been the Taliban and Sweden in the beginning. That could be true, but if it is, we’re honestly already doomed.

Vaccines are "safe and effective".

But you need a booster already and the virus is again surging.

It's all fear mongering BS by the elites.

Why?

Same as always.

Psychopathic need for more power, more money, more control.

And they will continue to succeed as long as the majority still believes the lies the pols and MSM tell us

deleted123 wrote:

disclaimer : I'm a radiologist in a french hospital

what you're saying about old and unhealthy were true in the first waves

now, most of our patients, and even those who end up in ICU, are in the 30-50 yo range

nearly all of them are unvaccinated, and immigrants from eastern europe or north africa

I have no idea what explains this beside low vaccination, weither they have poor living conditions, poor hygiene, or if they're genetically more fragile to COVID than us

Why then is there so little Covid In Africa?

Almost universally in the infectious disease community and beyond, no one believed or believes elimination of COVID was possible with the level of spread by January 2020. When there were sufficient serious COVID cases to be noticeable on a regional level, there must already have been 1000s of sub-clinical cases. Smallpox is the only disease ever eliminated. That was a huge effort. Smallpox has every "advantage" for elimination. Quarantine and isolation are effective (direct contact and droplet spread, rarely aerosol). No asymptomatic cases. As far as we know, there is no animal reservoir for smallpox. Smallpox vaccine produces immunity to infection, blocking acquisition and transmission. There was supreme motivation: 30% mortality, high probability of scarring for life among survivors.

Do you and Unkle sleep in the same bed?

The Unkle wrote:

deleted123 wrote:

disclaimer : I'm a radiologist in a french hospital

what you're saying about old and unhealthy were true in the first waves

now, most of our patients, and even those who end up in ICU, are in the 30-50 yo range

nearly all of them are unvaccinated, and immigrants from eastern europe or north africa

I have no idea what explains this beside low vaccination, weither they have poor living conditions, poor hygiene, or if they're genetically more fragile to COVID than us

Why then is there so little Covid In Africa?

These covid tests are about $100 each, a lot of people get 'free' ones from either their insurance paying it or the government picking up the bill, but they aren't cheap tests. You not only need the materials for it, but then you need people transporting them to testing sites and people who know how to perform the tests. All of this costs money. Most African countries are very poor, and have quite a few people. They aren't able to pay for a bunch of Covid tests. Most people who have it there are never a confirmed covid case, you can only estimate how many people got it. Just like India. On paper it looks like India has had 32 million positive cases but it's estimated they've had over 10 times that amount, but most people never get tested. Even in the United States probably twice as many people have actually had it but never got tested because they didn't feel like they needed to go get tested.

deleted123 wrote:

disclaimer : I'm a radiologist in a french hospital

what you're saying about old and unhealthy were true in the first waves

now, most of our patients, and even those who end up in ICU, are in the 30-50 yo range

nearly all of them are unvaccinated, and immigrants from eastern europe or north africa

I have no idea what explains this beside low vaccination, weither they have poor living conditions, poor hygiene, or if they're genetically more fragile to COVID than us

+1 30-50 yo range in poor health with other conditions or healthy just with COVID?

Since you're obviously in the know of how we should be handling a Pandemic more efficiently, Please do share how we should operate as a country to rid ourselves of Covid? Also, please address the hospitals that are filling or are full. Since you've got this thing figured out we all want to hear our exit strategy for Covid. Thanks for saving us all!