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Yes, because several times a year, our ICUs are overwhelmed with common cold patients on ventilators, to the point of breaking the system.
Covid is a common cold. Enough with the bellyaching.
Yes, because several times a year, our ICUs are overwhelmed with common cold patients on ventilators, to the point of breaking the system.
Not entirely true....however, the new Omicron variant's symptoms that's running its course right now is quite similar to the common cold.
I must have missed when the common cold was pushing our hospitals to triage standards.
Have you seen x-ray images of common cold patients vs Covid? Maybe you should before making an idiotic remark.
Probably since it's a recent occurrence....seriously, I'm not arguing that covid = the common cold...but, it's a fact that the Omicron variant is much less severe than previous strains and it's symptoms are almost identical to the common cold.
You're arguing Omicron is the common cold which is bull . The common cold isn't filling our hospitals.
Omicron isn't filling our hospitals either....
walk us through your logic parmenides
Doesn't matter if it has a bit lower hospitalization rate than other strains if it's infecting everyone at once, which it is right now. Yesterday had the most new cases of COVID in the US confirmed in the entire pandemic. Every time someone tries to write this pandemic off they look like an ass a week or two later.
i'm hoping for sufficiently 'milder' strains of covid that outcompete the deadlier ones so that eventually covid becomes indistinguishable from the common cold
that would be the balls
the alternative is arguing with mouthbreathers (mah mask too tight for my mouth ahhh) and the overlapping population of antivaxxers (not mah dna ahh) for infinity
Yes it spreads like wildfire but, the symptoms are so minor that this variant isn't nearly the problem that the previous ones were. It's basically giving everyone antibodies without severe symptoms. If you're gonna get c19 (and everyone is at some point) then this is the one you want...with common cold symptoms and antibodies to protect against future strains....
I'm not writing it off....c19 is endemic at this point....it's something we will live with the rest of our lives...so if we have to live with it then it's better to have minor common cold symptoms...
yes, supposedly it actually picked up a piece of the common cold virus while mutating its e protein to be the most transmissible human virus in the history our pathogenic disease. the common cold is actually a corona virus too. but that said, this thing is still, even with genetic material from the common cold, far from the common cold because it's still overwhelmingly a novel virus to humans and our immune system hasn't encountered it previously.
572,000 cases today, when even at the height of the alpha wave (our previous highest levels) we had 306,000 cases on our worst day. It was 476,000 cases yesterday. There is little doubt this wave is going to overflow our hospitals.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
Lots of people are getting it...butvthe symptoms aren't severe enough to kill in numbers like previous variants. Ultimately, this variant will help us move past Covid because there will be so many people with better immunity due to catching a version of this that isn't very severe
Yes but if even it it leads to half the hospitalizations as our previous peaks the hospitals will be overrun by sheer numbers. Less people dying of COVID, maybe, but less people able to be treated for anything else.
That's simply not what has been happening with this variant in other countries that have experienced it so far. The hysteria simply isn't warranted.
LOL as if the US isn't one of the countries that has handled the pandemic worst.
You know what's worse than out handling of the pandemic? Our healthcare system.
Well yeah that's kind of what I meant. Our healthcare system is trash under the best of times.
I can't argue with that....we agree there...
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