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Sure if you don't think permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem. The severity of mild covid is still potentially long lasting and I'm wil

by lugged 5y ago

Sure if you don't think permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem. The severity of mild covid is still potentially long lasting and I'm willing to guess elderly aren't going to handle it well. Letting covid become endemic could reduce our life expecty considerably.

version_five 5y ago
> Sure if you don't think permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem. I'm confused by this comment. I do think they are a problem, that's why I am encouraged by a vaccine that reduces covid to something that is not life threatening and that we can stop freaking out about.
- throwawayboise 5y ago
  It always was that for the vast majority of people.
  - audiometry 5y ago
    3mn Indian souls would disagree
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    - 55555 5y ago
      That's a terrible loss, practically a genocide, but to be fair the parent said "the vast majority of people" and there's 1.4 billion people in India. In India, 151,000 people die every year just from car accidents, and ~4 million die each year from heart disease.
kadoban 5y ago
Isn't covid already endemic?
- lugged 5y ago
  Some claim it can still be irradicated. But those people get banned on YouTube for saying bad words so you probably won't believe me.
  - kadoban 5y ago
    Do they say how? Doesn't seem like it even makes sense anymore. I'm going to guess based on your youtube wording that their answer is not vaccines?
    - RalfWausE 5y ago
      "Do they say how?" I am relatively certain this is the reason they are banned from youtube... i have seen a (now removed) video from a crank on youtube who suggested saturation bombing of high incidence areas might be the solution...
      - rolleiflex 5y ago
        I chuckled at this. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1217/ https://xkcd.com/1217/
    - bsdetector 5y ago
      Bret Weinstein has been citing studies he claims show that ivermectin reduces spread such that even close family members are unlikely to be infected from a person with covid. edit: curious how hn readers feel they will be able to correct misguided beliefs if they don't even know what those beliefs are.
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      - Izkata 5y ago
        It's also how India got their insane case rate two months ago under control.
pas 5y ago
> permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem. It's a problem, but we can manage it better than overflowing morgues. Frequent tests, rapid antigen testing (let's say at the entrance of restaurants, clubs, festivals), encouraging people who feel ill to stay the fuck away from others, and so on.

by lugged 5y ago

version_five 5y ago

> Sure if you don't think permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem. I'm confused by this comment. I do think they are a problem, that's why I am encouraged by a vaccine that reduces covid to something that is not life threatening and that we can stop freaking out about.

throwawayboise 5y ago
It always was that for the vast majority of people.
- audiometry 5y ago
  3mn Indian souls would disagree
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    [deleted]
  - 55555 5y ago
    That's a terrible loss, practically a genocide, but to be fair the parent said "the vast majority of people" and there's 1.4 billion people in India. In India, 151,000 people die every year just from car accidents, and ~4 million die each year from heart disease.

kadoban 5y ago

Isn't covid already endemic?

lugged 5y ago
Some claim it can still be irradicated. But those people get banned on YouTube for saying bad words so you probably won't believe me.
- kadoban 5y ago
  Do they say how? Doesn't seem like it even makes sense anymore. I'm going to guess based on your youtube wording that their answer is not vaccines?
  - RalfWausE 5y ago
    "Do they say how?" I am relatively certain this is the reason they are banned from youtube... i have seen a (now removed) video from a crank on youtube who suggested saturation bombing of high incidence areas might be the solution...
    - rolleiflex 5y ago
      I chuckled at this. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1217/ https://xkcd.com/1217/
  - bsdetector 5y ago
    Bret Weinstein has been citing studies he claims show that ivermectin reduces spread such that even close family members are unlikely to be infected from a person with covid. edit: curious how hn readers feel they will be able to correct misguided beliefs if they don't even know what those beliefs are.
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      [deleted]
    - Izkata 5y ago
      It's also how India got their insane case rate two months ago under control.

pas 5y ago

> permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem. It's a problem, but we can manage it better than overflowing morgues. Frequent tests, rapid antigen testing (let's say at the entrance of restaurants, clubs, festivals), encouraging people who feel ill to stay the fuck away from others, and so on.