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> First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S [ 21 jan 2020 ] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873 her
by throwaway71271 2y ago
> First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S [ 21 jan 2020 ]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110873
here we go again
poor millennials and zoomers living through their 7th once in a lifetime global crisis :)
i got ptsd like flashbacks from reading the article, does anyone know more about the virus and can eli5 how bad this is?
- adzm 2y agoWe already have effective vaccines. The virus is spread through close contact, contaminated clothing, sheets or surfaces, consumption of contaminated meat and sexual contact. It's not going to be like COVID.
- throwaway71271 2y agothank you very much!
- freitzkriesler2 2y agoThe biggest vector is going to be sexual contact and those that have rampant sexual activity between other partners in the West.
- bee_rider 2y ago[flagged]
- freitzkriesler2 2y ago[flagged]
- bee_rider 2y agoI think you’ve read some not intended deeper meaning into my simple and common sense post.
- freitzkriesler2 2y agoIt was the antivax that got me mate.
- dang 2y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 2y agoPlease don't do this here.
- threeseed 2y agoHaving a vaccine at all is a huge start over COVID. But if this does rapidly spread the challenge will be making more quickly enough.
- palisade 2y agoOr, the challenge will be convincing anyone to take it now that distrust of vaccines is at an all time high, due to the reckless speed at which we implemented the covid vaccines; and admittedly the very real myocarditis and autoimmune disorders it causes. Combined with increased political polarization. And, the misinformation surrounding the link to autism that turned out to be fabricated by a scientist who just wanted to be famous. Or, that time a company 'accidentally' sent the hpv vaccines to South America that included the highly undesirable side effect of sterilization that had already caused the vaccine to be banned from use state-side. Or, that time we weaponized the distribution of vaccines in Pakistan to find Bin Laden more quickly. Note: I'm not a vaccine denier or avoider, but I think we need to be honest with ourselves with what the actual challenges are and why they exist.
- marcuskane2 2y ago> due to the reckless speed at which we implemented the covid vaccines There was nothing "reckless" about the speed of the vaccine development. That's just a fear-based reactionary thing, with no basis in any sort of fact or objective measure. > the very real myocarditis and autoimmune disorders it causes Both of which are far lower risk than the risk of myocarditis or long-term immune system damage caused by Covid infection. The anti-vaccine arguments are the same as when seatbelts and airbags were new, and there was a vocal cohort highlighting the injuries caused by seatbelts, ignoring the fact that the injuries would have been 10x without them. If 10,000 unvaxxed people get Covid and 1,000 of them get heart damage from the disease or 10,000 people get vaccinated and 1 of them gets heart damage from the vaccine, it's still obviously better to have gotten the vaccine for the general population.
- amy-petrik-214 2y ago[flagged]