Coronavirus is one mutation away from infecting millions

[DarrinS]

he suggested it wasn't dangerous. when was the last time the common cold killed 1 million Americans in a little over two years?

Omicron variants aren't the OG strains. Thankfully

[Winehole23]

Because we have robust science to develop vaccines and treatments for COVID (which afaik we do not for the common cold) it makes sense to hinder transmission until that protection is a bit more robust, to spare people the worst effects of a novel pathogen. Precisely so that getting infected repeatedly carries less danger. Technology is a factor evolutionary biology too, one that has been wielded to great effect already, sparing a lot of lives. Given a bit of time and effort, technology might provide vaccines and treatments with sterilizing efficacy.

[Winehole23]

Omicron variants aren't the OG strains. Thankfully

fingers crossed, Omicron is already evading vaccination.

[Winehole23]

Attenuation of virulence isn't a given. Omicron has killed 200,000 people and counting in the US since December. What it may lack in deadliness it makes up for in transmissibility.

[Winehole23]

A handful of US states declared crisis standards of care because COVID overwhelmed hospital systems. That could happen again, given the years long strain COVID has put -- is putting -- on health care delivery.

[Winehole23]

You can't really say that about the common cold.

[DarrinS]

fingers crossed, Omicron is already evading vaccination.

Attenuation of virulence isn't a given. Omicron has killed 200,000 people and counting in the US since December. What it may lack in deadliness it makes up for in transmissibility.

A handful of US states declared crisis standards of care because COVID overwhelmed hospital systems. That could happen again, given the years long strain COVID has put -- is putting -- on health care delivery.

You can't really say that about the common cold.

Must be really stressful waiting tables in your n95.

[Winehole23]

Must be really stressful waiting tables in your n95.

Not at all, I'm used to it. COVID free so far.

[DarrinS]

Not at all, I'm used to it. COVID free so far.

You do you.

[Winehole23]

You do you.

How magnanimous. I will.

[Winehole23]

Do you wash your hands before eating or after taking a ?

Do you sanitize food preparation surfaces?

COVID is airborne, the principle isn't much different.

[DarrinS]

Its a common cold

[Winehole23]

Its a common cold

Not really, that's wishcasting.

[Winehole23]

The common cold doesn't kill millions of people a year. Nor does it disable millions. Nor does it cause pervasive vascular damage.

[Winehole23]

Related to the common cold, yes.

[ElNono]

He's dying

Your President looking good

[Thread]

Boiled down:::
1,052,000 Americans dead in the ground.
& counting...
as
"I will shut it down." Biden
squats in the White House.

7.22.2022
~~~~~~~~~
& the beat goes on!!!

[hater]

Your President looking good

If thats looking good to you I cant imagine what ur wife looks like nig

[hater]

[ElNono]

If thats looking good to you I cant imagine what ur wife looks like nig

Let's see what you look like at 102 years old, COVID laced mummy...

[boutons_deux]

A ny vaccinated person traveled to hungary and Poland and came back with polio, first American polio case in 10 years.

The victim has trouble walking, AKA partially crippled

Will be hilarious if it was a Catholic making some kind of Catholic pilgrimage

[Winehole23]

Do you wash your hands before eating or after taking a ?

Do you sanitize food preparation surfaces?

COVID is airborne, the principle isn't much different.

[Thread]

Boiled down:::
1,053,000 Americans dead in the ground.
& counting...
as
"I will shut it down." Biden
squats in the White House.

7.22.2022
~~~~~~~~~
& the beat goes on!!!

[Winehole23]

Sit on a fork and spin in the death plane, Cully. Been done with you a long time since.

[Thread]

Sit on a fork and spin in the death plane, Cully. Been done with you a long time since.

That was your choice, not mine.