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This professor is not wrong. With Omicron the majority of people are walking biohazards and you better stay away from anyone who wasn't tested negative a coupl
by sAbakumoff 5y ago
This professor is not wrong.
With Omicron the majority of people are walking biohazards and you better stay away from anyone who wasn't tested negative a couple of hours ago.
- pawsforthought 5y agoLet’s put this in perspective, walking biohazards for the professor, sure, and I wholeheartedly support his tirade. The students to each other, not so much, but he’s right that they shouldn’t go to his class.
- alexvoda 5y agoWhy do they not allow him to teach remotely? Have all the students in the classroom and have him appear on a projector screen and interact with the class that way. This would solve the Covid exposure risk for him. It would solve the various other issues the students suffer due to lockdown. It only requires someone to setup the equipment.
- t-writescode 5y agoIt'd probably just be a TA turning on a video if the college is, at all, set up for modern learning. It's actually a really good solution and I'm surprised they haven't done it - ... Banning it kinda sounds like a college being a bad college for the professors. (You can be prestigious and also bad, in fact, it seems like the industries people desperately want to work tend to have the worst work cultures, so it wouldn't surprise me, e.g. zoos (basically zero pay) or the game industry)
- necovek 5y agoThat would completely defeat the purpose of helmet during classes!
- coldtea 5y agoOn the other hand, this is life. You can die from 100 other ways, and in his age, he could die any moment anyway. At some point you soldier up and don't fuss like a baby over any danger.
- crispypotatoes 5y ago> don't fuss like a baby over any danger. It's just risk management dude Some things aren't worth fussing over, some are Taking steps to reduce your mortality risk isn't being a baby, it's really dumb to die over bravado like this too
- native_samples 5y agoOmicron isn't worth fussing over though. It's equivalent to a common cold. The South Africans have been saying that from the start and can't understand why nobody listens to them.
- crispypotatoes 5y agoWe don't live in a world where it's just an Omicron risk though, there are more deadly variants spreading right now you're forgetting about
- sAbakumoff 5y ago>> Omicron isn't worth fussing over though. Right..."they" must have been fabricated those record-high hospitalization numbers in the USA!! https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/17/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/17/health/us-coronavirus-mon...
- native_samples 5y agoAs I said above already, hospitalization stats for Omicron don't mean anything. In the UK more than half of all "hospitalized" Omicron cases caught it in hospital and of those, most are asymptomatic. Yes, people can catch infectious bugs like colds and flu-like illnesses in hospital. It's a building full of sick people, it happens. That doesn't mean there's a crisis in the population.
- nicoburns 5y ago> from anyone who wasn't tested negative a couple of hours ago A test a couple of hours ago may not count for much depending on what they've been doing in the last few days as the tests don't pick up infections for 2-10 after contact, and you may be infectious before the tests pick up the disease.
- sAbakumoff 5y agoright. we can't figure out the testing status of strangers anyways, so it's the optimal strategy to avoid contact with people as much as possible. F.e. I do the following: - do the groceries before 8a.m. - avoid public transport - don't visit crowded public places - wearing a mask everywhere except of home
- prohobo 5y agoYou're essentially trying to tank your immune system by doing this. Unless you're especially in danger from Covid (maybe like the professor in this video) you shouldn't avoid training your immune system by exposing it to the outside world unless you want to get very sick when the virus finally does find you. Obviously it should be done within reason, please don't swim in radioactive waste.
- sAbakumoff 5y agoif anything I already went through COVID and my immune system easily beat it because I took care of it all these years by eating healthy food, sleeping well, exercising a lot, etc.. but I don't want to expose it to the virus just because it can beat it again. enough is enough.
- kerneloftruth 5y agoFor many/most others, they're saying enough is enough regarding mandates.
- nicoburns 5y agoThe parent has a good point that it may not be an optimal strategy the avoid all contact. This is because - so long as it is not overwhelmed - your immune system is strengthened and immunity boosted by contact with pathogens. If you already have immunity provided by a prior infection or vaccination and you are otherwise healthy, then it may make sense to maintain that immunity by continued contact with the virus.
- podgaj 5y agoWhat have we become? This fear and alienation over less than 1% chance of dying?
- sgift 5y agoI have no idea what you've become. I've learned to understand that there are not binary outcomes dies / is perfectly fine, but a spectrum in between from "won't do well for a long time, maybe forever" up to "all well after a few days".
- beebmam 5y agoHow ironic that you say this given that the professor mocks exactly this argument
- mikewarot 5y agoYou're overlooking the somewhere between 1% and 30% chance of becoming disabled from Long Covid. I've been unable to sustain vigorous activity since March 2020, and it's dropped me from the workforce. I used to be on my feet making gears 8 hours per day. There's more to this than the risk of dying. It would be far, far better for my family, financially, if I had died.
- podgaj 5y ago> You're overlooking the somewhere between 1% and 30% chance of becoming disabled from Long Covid. As a Daoist how can I not see the good in this? Maybe now now that everyone knows they can suffer a chronic disease they will find a cure for those of us suffering with ME/CFS for all these years? This is the arrogance that amazes me. Suddenly everyone cares about chronic disease. the ME/CFS community has been crying for help for years. Am I glad this happened to you or anyone? No. But as I said, maybe some good will come out of it. By the way, if you want to get out of your situation the only answer is nutrition.
- pjc50 5y ago“You’re not wrong, Walter. You’re just an asshole.” -- Big Lebowski (for the record it's probably a bad idea to have in-person classes in the middle of Omicron unless and until everyone is vaccinated)
- fristechill 5y agoI interpret that Lebowski quote as, "You're not wrong, Walter. You're just undermining the conditions which enable future non-wrongness to prevail."