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Not good, of course, but I was a little worried the decline cause by covid was a lot worse.
by hollerith 3y ago
Not good, of course, but I was a little worried the decline cause by covid was a lot worse.
- tehjoker 3y agoHard to say how this will evolve with constant re-infections. My guess: not good. Also, persistent immune activation / persistent infection will wear people down for those that get it. Stay tuned for the next few years!
- rjzzleep 3y agoThat is the exact opposite of how the immune system is designed.
- TheOtherHobbes 3y agoNo. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/07/COVID-Reinfections-And-Immunity/ https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/07/COVID-Reinfections-An...
- pigeonhole123 3y agoStrange how the long term sickness was at a low in April 2021 and then rose sharply. I wonder what happened in early 2021 that didn't happen in 2020.
- Conasg 3y agoPossibly the B.1.617.2/Delta variant? I think the timing would match up for that.
- pigeonhole123 3y agoThere are many possibilities I guess. There are other events where the timing also matches up really well. Does the disability curve have another inflection point around the time the Delta wave disappeared?
- rjzzleep 3y agoThis is an opinion piece. > Dr. Anthony Leonardi is a lightning rod for debate. If he’s right, this pandemic poses a greater threat than widely assumed. Almost a year after this article, given what we see in the population, I'd say the results speak for themselves. Unless you're going to tell me that there is a massive coverup happening globally that is hiding the morgue trucks and cooling wagons we saw in the early pandemic.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoI mean it's not preposterous to hold the "soft" conspiracy view here. All cause excess mortality is up like 8-10% compared to pre-covid. There are powerful economic and political incentives to not attribute that to covid, even if it is the cause. And the conclusion he's drawing can't be dismissed after merely one year, we'll see what's up after a decade of infections. We're still very early in this shit actually and caution is warranted confidence is not.
- jacquesm 3y agoIt wasn't designed.
- nradov 3y agoOur immune systems are constantly being activated by some of the hundreds of different endemic respiratory viruses. There's nothing special about SARS-CoV-2 in that regard. It's just one more.
- Earw0rm 3y agoThe trend started before COVID, but it hasn't been normalised for demographics. The average 60 year old is inevitably sicker than the average 20 year old, and there's an increasing proportion of the former in the UK workforce. Not to say there isn't a real problem here - the UK isn't doing a great job either on healthcare or, to my mind even more importantly, preventative medicine and public health, but you need to control variables to get a robust conclusion.