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All I know is that I'm starting graduate school in the fall, and I've found out most of my classes are going to be online, even though all students are required

All I know is that I'm starting graduate school in the fall, and I've found out most of my classes are going to be online, even though all students are required to be vaccinated. And I'm really freaking pissed off about it. We just can't do this forever. If you're vaccinated, you're more likely to die in a car crash than from COVID. So why aren't we shutting down the roads?

ksaj 5y ago
I would say "because roads don't spread incessantly," but they kinda do these days. The problem people aren't thinking about too much, but should be, is that the longer it circulates, the more it can evolve to something far more dangerous. Delta is already a little worse than what we started with, and there's still a lot of leeway. It's going to be a lot harder to get the numbers down low enough that our hospitals aren't constantly full of people dying from Covid than a lot of people keep pretending. It didn't affect kids much before. Now Delta is here, and the hospitals are filled with kids suffering in ways we thought they wouldn't be a year ago. People are already being turned away from hospitals for non-Covid emergencies like cancer treatments because the beds are full of people with severe Covid. It isn't personal. It affects the masses. That's why we need to be strict about getting this out of the general global population. It's not a good time to be wishy-washy about whether it affects you personally or not.
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- nradov 5y ago
  SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic in the worldwide human population, plus some animal reservoirs. It will never get out of the general population no matter what we do. The most likely scenario is that the majority of us will eventually be infected. It's time to face reality and stop pretending there we can get rid of it. Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths.
  - ksaj 5y ago
    Regardless of what one believes, we have to slow it down enough that our hospitals aren't so overrun that other emergencies take a back seat. That is already happening in a lot of places. Every time Covid peaks, for that matter. And just giving in, saying "it's endemic, get used to it" just allows for further mutation.

ksaj 5y ago

I would say "because roads don't spread incessantly," but they kinda do these days. The problem people aren't thinking about too much, but should be, is that the longer it circulates, the more it can evolve to something far more dangerous. Delta is already a little worse than what we started with, and there's still a lot of leeway. It's going to be a lot harder to get the numbers down low enough that our hospitals aren't constantly full of people dying from Covid than a lot of people keep pretending. It didn't affect kids much before. Now Delta is here, and the hospitals are filled with kids suffering in ways we thought they wouldn't be a year ago. People are already being turned away from hospitals for non-Covid emergencies like cancer treatments because the beds are full of people with severe Covid. It isn't personal. It affects the masses. That's why we need to be strict about getting this out of the general global population. It's not a good time to be wishy-washy about whether it affects you personally or not.

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nradov 5y ago
SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic in the worldwide human population, plus some animal reservoirs. It will never get out of the general population no matter what we do. The most likely scenario is that the majority of us will eventually be infected. It's time to face reality and stop pretending there we can get rid of it. Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths.
- ksaj 5y ago
  Regardless of what one believes, we have to slow it down enough that our hospitals aren't so overrun that other emergencies take a back seat. That is already happening in a lot of places. Every time Covid peaks, for that matter. And just giving in, saying "it's endemic, get used to it" just allows for further mutation.