OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

It's not about the real danger.

It's all about the perception that government is there to 'protect' you....

 

800,000 deaths, just in the US. This is according to expert professional medical personnel, who are resigning in record numbers due to being overworked.

The conspiracy talk is rubbish.

 

Bro……

 

I didn't make any conspiracy claim.

Yes, Covid is real & it's taken ~800k people.... that is unfortunate.
Vaccines are available to anyone who wants them. The vaccines are effective for a few months at a time.

My post was commenting on the hysteria surrounding the Omicron variant. Yes, it is HIGHLY transmissible - but is very mild based on the available data. At this point, it's not something to be overly concerned about.

 

Except the whole "hospitals at capacity " thing... We should be concerned about any strain of covid-19 until there is ample evidence that we shouldn't.

We don't want to let our guard down only to have people dying in streets if it's as deadly as other strains... And there isn't enough evidence yet to assume it's less dangerous.

 

You clearly didn’t catch the context of the conversation, as usual.

 

Actually, what we know is that it reproduces in the lung tissue slowly compared to the other strains - but until we know how the immune system deals with it - we can not tell if it is less severe. If the immune system can not handle it - all it tells you is that it will kill you slower.

So, less severe is an assumption based on replication in human tissue - but not verified without the other half of the question.

So, if you have a virus that is 70 times more likely to spread between hosts - but only 1/10 of the speed to replicate within the host - you still get much worse death rate.

So, it is a good idea to be careful with this strain until more is known. Simple math, really.

 

Seems like a bit excessive: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A416

 

No it's not. It's all about the danger of even a small percentage of cases requiring hospitalization or resulting in serious complications and death when that percentage is applied to a huge number of cases.

Everything points to the omicron variant producing a tsunami of cases unlike anything we've seen. It's estimated to be 3X more transmissible than delta, and delta was about twice as contagious as earlier variants. From the acceleration in cases in Britain, which leads us by 3-4 weeks in the incidence of omicron, they are already estimating 200K new cases PER DAY, with the possibility of reaching a million new cases PER DAY within a week or two. Most may be very mild and some even asymptomatic, but even a half a percent of serious cases applied to such huge numbers absolutely crushes hospitals and already overtaxed medical staffs when it's applied to numbers that huge.

 

Oh The horror!

 

Having a heart attack and finding out there's no room for you at the hospital would be a pretty big horror if it's you having the heart attack.

 

I know. Referring to an earlier post. I agree with you.

 

So am I wrong to assume that if I haven’t had Covid yet, I’ll probably get this variant?

 

I saw one epidemiologist who broke it into 3 categories:

1. Naïve immune system (not vaccinated and no prior infection) - Almost certain.
2. Fully vaccinated or recent Covid infection) - Highly likely to get infected, low chance of serious disease.
3. Fully vaccinated and boosted - Unlikely to get infected, even less chance of serious disease if you get a breakthrough case.

 

Thank you.

I got vaccinated in May so it looks like I should be booking that booster shot soon.

 

Booster kicked my ass. Wasn’t expecting it. 3.5 days of feeling like shit. Still glad I did it and many people have zero side effects.

 

I was in the zero side effects category. My wife had a low grade fever with some body aches for a day. Nothing Tylenol couldn’t deal with.