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Strongly agree. It’s been frustrating to deal with this at work. I’m at a FAANG, and we’re required to come in 3 days a week. Coworkers came in visibly sick cou
by galoisscobi 4y ago
Strongly agree. It’s been frustrating to deal with this at work. I’m at a FAANG, and we’re required to come in 3 days a week. Coworkers came in visibly sick coughing away without wearing a mask. I wrote to people support and they say they can’t do anything about it, just recommend that I wear a mask and that’s about it.
- nikolay 4y agoMillions if not billions get sick every year, because sick people don't want to stay home. This irresponsible behavior should be regulated somehow otherwise people won't change!
- ETH_start 4y agoOr people can just acquire immunity through exposure.
- nikolay 4y agoYou can't acquire meaningful immunity against such a highly contagious and rapidly mutating RNA virus! After measures were removed and people stopped wearing face masks, the phylogenic tree went bonkers [0]! [0]: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m
- ETH_start 4y agoYes you can, that's why elderly people who get influenza strains that they were exposed to as children are much less likely to succumb to it than those who didn't. Lack of full lasting immunity doesn't mean zero immunity. You can't avoid exposure to a highly contagious respiratory virus. You can't spend the rest of your life masked. And evolution would have make us capable of adapting to being able to handle such viruses. It's not like COVID-19 would be the end of the human race without indefinite masking/social-distancing. Viruses like COVID-19 have emerged innumerable times in the past. Without an innate ability to acquire some level of immunity to such viruses, we wouldn't exist. COVID-19 was only different in that in 2019, at risk demographics like the elderly population, had no prior exposure to it.
- nikolay 4y agoRefer to the phylogeny of SARS-CoV-2 and compare it to the influenza virus! Thanks!
- ETH_start 4y agoYou're mythologizing SARS-CoV-2.
- nikolay 4y agoI am not - it's the fact being the most contagious virus known to science.
- ETH_start 4y agoOn what are you basing this on?
- nikolay 4y agoOn the scientific evidence of the basic reproduction number of XBB1.5, which is 15 to 18, and measles, the previous #1, is 12 to 18!
- ETH_start 4y agoComparing reproductive rates without normalizing for prior exposure does not tell us how transmissive it inherently is.
- nikolay 4y agoYou get COVID-19 every couple of months - with or without prior illness or vaccination! This is not the case with measles, which has a proven vaccine with few and minor side effects!