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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
ICUs are always full. Literally. ICUs and ERs are on divert more often than not. At least in the USA, hospitals have a fiduciary responsibility to keep beds filled. We will just take the sicker ones now.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
How do you explain countries that have had stricter, longer lockdowns than the USA having a hire mortality rate? It is almost as if lockdowns do fuckall
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
We didn't conquer those two diseases by locking down entire economies, damn the consequences. We accepted deaths as we do any cause and worked diligently to create a vaccine. Ebola is different as it is far, far deadlier than COVID-19.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I do not think the numbers are cooked. I think you are interpreting them incorrectly, or disingenuously. We have had 399,857 deaths over the average expectation, and 328k over the upper bound. Are you saying that every single one of those e
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I will need proof that 5% of people would die if they didn't receive care. The hospitalization rate is not at 5% in my state, so on the face of it that number is bunk. And I doubt anyone would seriously contend that every hospitalizati
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Don't be so sanctimonious. People also die from loneliness, isolation, lack of exercise, depression, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, malnutrition. Do you even fucking realize how much our response to COVID has impacted food programs worldwi
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I find it absolutely terrifying that anyone would consider something as draconian as what happened in Wuhan to be a reasonable response to SARS-CoV-2. We are talking about a disease that has an IFR of .59%, with a vast majority of those dea
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I've said it many times, Australia and New Zealand are both islands, this makes restricting ingress far easier than land borders controlled by many different authorities. Furthermore, many countries have laws that prohibit house arrest
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Let's not forget that being on a ventilator and under heavy sedatives can cause lingering neurological symptoms as well. Some hospitals have been using an obscene amount of sedatives as they aren't staffed enough to keep an eye o
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Thank you so much for saying this! I am beyond upset at my state for fucking this up so badly. We can't open schools but we can take time off and worry about equity over expediency? This is how my state views the vaccine: "OHA con
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Our working conditions are inclusive and fair How does one define "inclusive and fair". Who decides what is inclusive? The Union? I don't want to apply the fallacy of inclusion, but if someone wears a crucifix and that make
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I wonder how much of this, if any, is due to the fact that a lot of children may have faced the death of an animal, perhaps a dog but maybe a hamster etc. and have yet to live through the death of a close human. If so, animals dying is visc
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
You are assuming that the creator of the OnlyFans site is not under duress in any way. You are also assuming that the creator and maintainer of the site is the same person who is featured on the site. Exploitation of women (and men) can hap
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I want to preface this by saying in no way am I minimizing the stress, strain and pain that goes along with treating COVID patients. But I believe articles like this one do not serve a positive purpose beyond spreading FUD. Let me explain.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
If I may, what is mad about my response? I declined to give an opinion due to a lack of data. I am not a decision maker in Iowa, or anywhere. Whereas in the past I made more reckless proclamations about lockdowns and responses, I am trying
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I am not familiar enough with the data of hospital availability in Iowa to make a determination. A quick search seems to indicate that the authorities in Iowa are keeping exact data private. Whether to hide reality or avoid causing a panic,
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I want to be very clear from the outset, I do not deny the risks of COVID. I've never done so, not in my comment history or in my own mind. It is very dangerous, and it needs to be treated as such. People who claim it is as dangerous a
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
My opinions have changed. I think that the t-cell immunity buzz we had in the Summer is not as impactful as I first thought, though it still has an impact. I have always thought that COVID-19 is a dangerous infection, especially to the elde
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
It is also a problem of scale. New Zealand has really 2 truly international airports (Auckland and Christchurch). The United States has over 50. In 2017, the United States saw over ~70,000,000, tourists through her ports of entry, while New
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Mask usage is generally targeted at indoor spaces. There has been a great deal of research on outdoor spread, and it is nearly non-existent. Mask use outside is like wearing a condom after a vasectomy. Yeah, it might give you a bit more pea
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
The way China controlled the virus is legally impossible in the United States. You simply can't confine someone to their home without due process. New Zealand is an island that, for all intents and purposes, closed their ports to human
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I've posted this elsewhere, but mask compliance in the United States is ~80%. This is of course subject to error, but both where I live and in my travels, most everyone wears a mask. This includes urban and rural areas, some with manda
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Neither is measles. Or flu. Or fucking mumps. What exactly is your point? Even if immunity lasts six months, additional infections should be less serious (as is the case for other coronaviruses)
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I think you need to do some research before being so flippant. You should have understood that the United States is in the middle of the pack with mask wearing at nearly 80%. That's higher than Britain, Germany and Denmark and just bel
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Well again, not _really_. We were also ventilating people who didn't need it. You don't need an ICU bed if you aren't vented. Furthermore, the mortality rate of being on an ventilator is non-negligible. I would be interested
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
I think it wouldn't have been as big of a deal. Most people had their minds made up about severity in early 2020 after seeing Wuhan and Italy. No amount of new data pointing to the fact that _those_ were in fact the outliers, and that
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Some UK woman did research causing a WhatsApp group in South Africa to question the vaccine, and this is the fault of the president of the US? That is quite the stretch considering none of the players are citizens of the US.
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
Seriously? In my big city, people are generally behaving as if the disease doesn't exist, at least on weekends. Restaurants are pretty full, stores are busy. The only time it feels different is during weekdays, when the city is empty f
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
That is not true on two fronts. First, doctors were not choosing who lives and who dies. They were deciding who would have the higher chance of survival if they were treated. There is no certainty that a) the selected treatment group would
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by salmon30salmon 6y ago
No. Vietnam is the _exception_. We don't know why yet. Countries who locked down as strict are seeing more cases right now. You can't ignore all of the other examples of countries that locked down and saw additional waves and deat

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