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by ya_throw 5y ago
We know about "soft lockdowns" too (in fact, it's now just standard practice around here). It's why our kids get less age-appropriate care - for example, they can't mix with the groups who share the same sleeping pa
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Yep. Sometimes when I air opinions like these, I get the response "but attitudes like that will keep the pandemic and shutdowns going for longer!". It's surprisingly hard to explain that I also don't want my nursery to s
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Where have you heard those figures from? (I assume you are telling me that 5% of pre-schoolers, in your experience, have had chronic outcomes from Covid). Yes, I have seen many preliminary studies linking Covid to many different long-term h
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by ya_throw 5y ago
We had RSV do the rounds (twice) where I live, and all of us in our house were quite ill, fatigued, and snotty/coughy for about a month. Our friend's 6 month-old caught it and ended up in hospital. Our youngest also had Croup last
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Interesting. Here in the UK, Delta wasn't too much of a concern. I suspect because the public messaging was much more focused on getting everyone vaccinated.
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Of course hospitals are incapable of keeping you safe from an airbourne respiratory virus. Nothing can, short of a respirator. The follow-up question is - if we can't stop infection in hospital buildings, where the most vulnerable are
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Are you saying that until young kids can get vaccinated, it is not safe enough to remove shutdown protocols for preschools? Parent of 2 very young kids here btw - it's been brutal, I feel your pain. Frankly, our kids get enough other d
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by ya_throw 5y ago
How can you simultaneously say that Covid will become endemic, and also that we need to try to control its mutation rate? Ongoing mutation is a fact of (viral) life.
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by ya_throw 5y ago
It seems we have forgotten that ultimately, "basic survival needs" for humans (and especially vulnerable humans) includes social contact. You can't call infrequent visits from a staff member while covered from head to toe in
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by ya_throw 5y ago
What's the difference between the two? Especially when the product in question requires the co-ordination of 10s (probably 100s) of thousands of engineers, designers, and operatives, as well as a mass-market able to make the initial in
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Does this mean that "things that have survived for 10 years are more durable than average", or "in the last 10 years, we have become unable to make useful, durable laptops"? If it's the latter, then I can hear the f
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Your implication is that the "full staffing" makes up for the fact that inmates can't leave nor have anyone visit. In which case, there is little difference between a care facility under lockdown, and a prison. A friend'
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by ya_throw 5y ago
>If we were rational and serious about making the biggest impact, we would reduce car dependency I've spoken to a subset of EV proponents who would strongly disagree with this. They say that it's not feasible or even possible,
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by ya_throw 5y ago
False.
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by ya_throw 5y ago
>It has been one of the deadliest pandemics in history. By percentage of global population, I beg to differ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics It also overwhelmingly killed the very elderly, an age cat
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by ya_throw 5y ago
By your same description, prison is a "fully staffed assisted living facility".
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by ya_throw 5y ago
I'm so glad to see someone else saying this. It absolutely will be remembered as a Mass Hysteria. It also has overtones of the worst that state religion has to offer. Ironically, W. Bernstein published a book in 2021 called "The D
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by ya_throw 5y ago
We also have data here in the UK, that somewhere near 35% of cases were contracted in hospital .
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by ya_throw 5y ago
Parents who were also trying to hold down jobs . At the time, my partner and I had a 1 year old and were both working. It was incredibly difficult, stressful, and 100% not sustainable. We cracked after a few weeks. We also strongly believe
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by ya_throw 5y ago
I had great-grandparents and grandparents die as a kid. It's probably happened to most people.