Coronavirus (crime, school, college)

[goodheathen]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Africa may have reached the pandemic's holy grail

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...ics-holy-grail

https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-hit...025228110.html

Also interesting and irrelevant.

Many African populations are extremely different from California's. More people probably get badly sick here in a month from the virus than people do in a year in some of those nations.

Move to Miami if young, healthy, and wealthy and tired of restrictions?

Catalina Island isolate itself from the mainland to exit the pandemic? That eventually would fail and it wouldn't even start unless the government or rich benefactors decided to make up for the tourism shortfall.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by goodheathen

https://www.yahoo.com/news/covid-hit...025228110.html

Also interesting and irrelevant.

Many African populations are extremely different from California's. More people probably get badly sick here in a month from the virus than people do in a year in some of those nations.

Move to Miami if young, healthy, and wealthy and tired of restrictions?

Catalina Island isolate itself from the mainland to exit the pandemic? That eventually would fail and it wouldn't even start unless the government or rich benefactors decided to make up for the tourism shortfall.

Lol … as if you have the slightest clue about the nature and similarities / differences of Africans and Americans or how many get sick here vs there.

… continue with your babbling though … heh

[wac_432]

Haha. Pandemic of the unvaxxed totally over for the vaxxed. Can't get a test. Can't get an n95 mask. What a joke. Have fun dying unvaxxed.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by goodheathen

If the wrong variant comes to be, vaccinated people will suffer maybe as much as the unvaccinated. A caution flag must be waved for a long time.

This is like earthquakes, and worrying about the big one hitting this state. If you're going to put everything on hold because the "wrong variant" might arise, you're going to be waving your caution flag for all eternity. Also, all evidence points to continued lessening of virulence when it comes to mutations. As I've said before, we didn't see super-polio evolve after we developed vaccines.


Being cautious is fine. But plenty of caution is being exercised already. I'll stick to what CDC/WHO is saying instead of wildly speculating maybes.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Have you paid attention to what college students have been through who live--or have lived--on campus since March of 2020?

Was going to say the same thing, but really, the boarding school thing was such a dumb idea anyway it's not like anyone would ever get behind it.



The fact we're detecting more cases in K-12 schools doesn't mean they're the source of outbreaks. Positive cases are only being detected because testing has ramped up after winter break. Campuses are one of the few places protocols even exist and get enforced right now. It's naive to think schools are the genesis of community spread. It's the other way around. Cases come into the schools and are caught and weeded out of the system and dealt with. Nothing else is doing that.

[joosoon]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

Chicken pox shots weren't generally available until the mid-1990's. Most adults are older than 26. Most adults, like myself, have had chickenpox.

Yep. Had it when I was like four and entered the bonus round with shingles four decades or so later.

[goodheathen]

The boarding school idea I thought up myself, but if you Google at least one major newspaper has talked about it as a way around the virus.

Schools so far might not be sources of outbreaks in this state, but Omicron clearly transmits easily between everyone and to bet against major spread if children are unmasked with few other restrictions would be a bad bet.

[Soujouner]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Africa may have reached the pandemic's holy grail

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...ics-holy-grail

NPR is not a reliable source. Vaccines is the reason lives are being saved, not heard immunity through natural infection. I wouldn’t trust some non-peer reviewed study out of Africa. The CDC is the gold standard of science who has been clear that the vaccine provides better protection than being naturally infected. Even Dr Fauci who is science has stated no matter if previously infected, we need to be vaccinated and boosted as per CDC guidelines. This is the only way to stop covid. Period!

[Soujouner]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

Lol … as if you have the slightest clue about the nature and similarities / differences of Africans and Americans or how many get sick here vs there.

… continue with your babbling though … heh

What is your science degree in? Goodheathen knows what they are talking about. NPR should stick with their LGBTQ and gender neutral nonsense. Let the real science be left to the adults.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Soujouner

What is your science degree in? Goodheathen knows what they are talking about. NPR should stick with their LGBTQ and gender neutral nonsense. Let the real science be left to the adults.

IP check on aisle 4. Real science. The science that says masks don't work? That science? I agree then.