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People avoiding COVID as best they can are correct to do so
Never before is there a virus so transmissible with such a high R value and using ACE2 (broad entry factor).
Going to be a nightmare of long COVID effects.
Remember, you are correct and everybody else is wrong.
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This is the game in case it's not clear:
Do not get infected.
Because in a year when everybody's getting reinfected and we realize this was a really bad idea, you want to have avoided as many infections as you can.
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So we just get sick each year until we die in 5 to 10 years? That the official plan?
Asking for tons of people but primarily, well, me.
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There are literally no restrictions on what anyone can do right now and yet the anti-mask etc. comments continue.
This just proves it is not about restrictions, it arises from the fear of seeing others taking risk seriously.
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Translation: it's already in humans
FDA chief says feds are preparing for low probability of bird flu moving to humans
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Oh and just anecdotally, absolutely everybody is getting on planes while sick.
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[A novel virus appears]
Hmm this could be a problem
. It doesn't transmit human to human
It looks like it does
. It doesn't do it well
Uh, it looks like it does
. Well it definitely doesn't transmit asymptomatically because that would be a problem.
I think it does
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Please tell someone around you they can re-use N95s until straps don't work or dirty. Too many aren't using because they think too expensive.
And gov should be providing to everyone, since they bungled this so badly but that's a whole other issue.
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If you've caught COVID-19 in the past you better not mention it in any job interviews.
Just telling you what's coming.
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For those of you new to the game of viral transmission and denying airborne, this is how it works
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Ebola transmits by air
Believe me (and others) or not, at your peril.
Just the main posts from the main thread. No time.
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Oh yeah I haven't said it in a while but the reason they don't want you carrying a CO2 monitor is because it could serve as evidence later
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- At beginning when there were thousands of cases in China and China was reacting with speed, people said, "no human to human spread". WHO's own lead rep on the ground noted you could draw conclusions from how firmly China was responding.
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Facebook is down.
We have three hours. Maybe four. To eradicate SARS-CoV-2.
Let's do this.
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More anecdotal stories of people dropping dead of heart attacks after COVID some months ago.
A few more stories of people dying of liver failure.
These people not going to show in any statistics about COVID. Government will never admit so.
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AIRBORNE REVIEW STUDIES
I was fed up with not having these in one place. so I set aside 30 minutes and, voila. I present this to you.
Entirely free. No Patreon required.
This is not all of the reviews, just the top ones. I likely missed some.
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I don't even want to catch the flu never mind COVID.
Aside from all the health considerations I just have tons of things to do!
Who are these people who have all the time in the world and are fine to get sick and take a week off??
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You know, I've read what i thought were pretty unbelievable stories about surgeries where the patient's wrong leg was amputated.
Now, after listening to (some) doctors during this pandemic, these stories suddenly all make sense.
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I know everyone is focussed on viruses rn but if climate change pushes funguses to adapt to grow at higher than 37 we're all in big trouble.
Anyway, happy weekend!
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WHO gets ventilation
Davos gets ventilation
Governments get ventilation
Private schools for rich peoples' kids get ventilation
The rich get COVID therapies and ventilation
We get told we can't have ventilation because...equity
Honestly we're the suckers
#COVIDIsAirborne
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I keep posting this so I'll just post it once.
1. Gov says COVID-19 is safe and kids can go back to school etc. And we can throw off mitigations.
2. COVID turns out not to be safe.
3. Gov will deny as long as humanly possible. Then say "it's new how could we have known"
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gov: "You do you"
me: Can I have air upgrades?
gov: No
me: far UV?
gov: No, regulatory issues
me: rapid tests?
gov: we don't cover
me: another booster?
gov: COVID is over
me: Bit of COVID data?
gov: don't collect
me: So by "you do you", you really mean "you do nothing"
gov: yes
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908 cases of monkeypox now.
Gov should start the messaging to prep people back to masks now.
Of course we won't. We're not even looking for it in the right way. And not isolating suspecteds.
Reminder: novel virus. Who knows how bad it'll get.
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A drowning person will, in their panic, drag underwater the person trying to save them.
In the same way, a denialist, in their panic, will attempt to convince you to remove your mask, because doing so confirms to them their belief the risk is low.
Be firm in your conviction.
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Their response is fear and denial and yours is rational. And it does not matter how many there are,
You
Are
Right.
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Me: hi, I'd like a cov1d booster
Gov: You aren't eligible
Me: Why not?
Gov: we're only giving boosters to immunocompromised right now
Me: You said immunity debt kicked in from lockdowns. So I stayed in my house for 2 weeks. I'm immune compromised. You said so. Booster please
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Friend tells me a friend's family now doing third round of COVID. For everyone in the household.
Good times everyone. This is clearly 100% sustainable.
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I just want to remind everybody that the beginning when people were losing their sense of smell, many minimizers said it was just inflammation.
Well, it wasn't. It can be the nerves being destroyed. And that's why people don't have their smell back 3 years later.
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So, what else is mysterious?
Well, long COVID. Very mysterious.
Kids need liver transplants. Also very mysterious.
How kids catch COVID-19 in schools. Mystery!
We have inflation and supply chain issues. Very mysterious.
If only we could solve this mystery.
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THIS IS AN EMERGENCY AND I WOULD LIKE THE RESPONSE TO HAPPEN NOW.
Do NOT believe the STD line. Do NOT believe the "gay men" line.
This is a very contagious airborne transmitted disease.
The first symptoms are non-specific, like cold/flu.
GET N95s now.
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Zombie movies are basically pandemic movies.
Except they're missing a bunch of people who just sit there denying the existence of the zombies, even while people next to them are getting bitten by zombies.
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I don't say this often enough but businesses who invest in air mitigations are leaders and will have a competitive advantage going forward.
It will pay back multiples of what you spend.
#COVIDisAirborne
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It's been about two full years plus a little bit, and I think the shock is starting to wear off for people.
They're seeing how incompetent this has been handled.
Wait until we look back and wonder why it wasn't engineering solutions like air purifiers from the start.
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People get quite emotionally bothered by idea of ZeroCOVID
So I am hereby starting the VeryFewCOVID movement. It aims to reduce COVID to Very Few
If that's objectionable, add a few more viruses to Very Few. When it reaches a number you consider reasonable, that's VeryFewCOVID
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Ah we do everything again, and again, and again.
This from 1948.
"It's not as bad a whopping cough, stop freaking out"
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So we want to ignore 50 years of coronaviruses causing difficulty in animal herds because we think we're not animals.
Now we learn the hard way what we knew 50 years ago, which is vaccines do not sterilize against respiratory transmission only systemic effects.
Congrats us.
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Everybody ready for our now-endemic, ten-times-worse-than-flu-by-any-metric winter?
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Well looks like all those people who said to me "don't be silly you won't die of COVID" might turn out to be right, haha hi monkeypox 😅
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So how long does denial in this sort of pandemic situation usually last? Four years? Five?
Just planning my decade.
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Sad part of this pandemic is I can never enjoy a zombie movie again.
Unrealistic.
I'll just keep picturing WaPo editorials and ex-Stanford profs telling us everybody's gonna end up a zombie anyway so back to work.
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Them: Why are you wearing a respirator? The chances of you catching COVID are small.
Me: Perhaps. but wearing this, they are infinitesimal.
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Getting very tired of the nonsense.
1. This virus is serious.
2. Vaccines provide immune boost.
3. That reduces severity of result, but virus is still much worse than flu. Also for long term outcomes.
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So the droplet people said viruses travel in droplets only. Two metres.
But ... How would that work? And nobody could cite support.
I got suspicious.
A thread.
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If you wear anything less than N95 you are risking your health.
Period.
Full stop.
I know it sucks, but this is the way.
#COVIDisAirborne
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You know if the human race were to be devoured to extinction by a virus I feel the last 2 humans on earth would still be standing by the fire arguing about whether the virus was mild or not.
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#COVIDisAirborne
. It always has been.
120 years we should have known this. Be generous say 80). We should have been prepared for it, but experts mangled the science so we aren't ventilating.
Short thread of threads.
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Instead of believing we are invincible and not taking precautions, perhaps it would be wise to listen to those who now have Long COVID, who say it stinks.
Nobody goes out in the morning thinking "today's the day I catch COVID and end up with Long COVID"
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Health is a crown worn by the well that only the sick can see
- Egyptian proverb
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I'm still hearing that hospitals are making people take off N95s and put on surgical.
Total negligence and if you catch COVID doing this and are hurt, go talk to a lawyer.
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Outbreak at Quebec gym now up to 171 people (not all at gym I am guessing) per CBC News At Six last night.
So that plexiglas and 6 feet did ... as everyone who knows aerosols said.
Filter the air. Ventilate. 6 feet not magic.
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If I could sum my point up:
If
You
Wait
For
Perfect
Proof
You
Are
Too
Late.*
*Also, learn from the past, please. So much of this was actually known.
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This piece says SARS-CoV-2 will evolve to be more like a cold.
That is categorically false.
I am tired of this. I have to assume this is an intentional lie at this point.
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Look I do not have the time to do this.
DR. RAO STUDIED SMALLPOX HIS WHOLE LIFE. HE IS A HERO.
Portal of entry is BREATHING not fomites or skin unless broken.
Elsewhere he concludes fomites rare.
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Reminder: A non-zero nunber of people who caught COVID-19 WANT you to catch it.
That is a fact.
I am staring especially at some Twitter accounts right now, who I strongly suspect are of this mind.
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I'll be blunt throwing this idea out there:
Carry a CO2 monitor if you can. That way if you catch COVID on a trip, etc. you have the readings to review/and sue with, if need be.
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If you catch this virus, or are reinfected, there is a significant chance your life can be irrevocably changed for the worse.
Wear a good fitting N95 everywhere. Do not hang out in enclosed spaces where smoke would accumulate.
#COVIDisAirborne
Do not catch if you can.
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Translation time.
1. When they say:
"why are you wearing that mask?"
2. Translate in your mind into:
"why are you wearing that mask because it scares the living hell out of me and I'd like you to stop to make me feel better"
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This is literally the only "we never could have predicted" moment of this pandemic.
THE ONLY.
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Might be sooner, actually.
A Chinese business consultant in a Ted-style talk justified zero-Covid policy by saying that in 10 years the West will be brought to its knees b/c long-Covid, which will decimate most of its labor force.
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You know, when "they" said everybody would get it, I said that's not mathematically how virus spreads.
But now I understand they meant THEY would literally do nothing and intentionally promote infecting, disabling, and killing us all.
My bad.
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Wow they buried the lead.
COVID might be up to an R0 of 24, eating measles for breakfast.
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Hey, CDC. Stop testing the milk.
Start testing every single farmworker.
I dare you.
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Just a note about how much of a rapid test is waste plastic.
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You know in Africa when they're trying to stamp out chains of monkeypox transmission they go door to door to find the virus.
In the West we let the virus go door to door.
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This is odd.
Normally when you can't manage the tutorial the game makes you replay it and doesn't throw you into level one w the monkey pox
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Dear all,
On low traffic days can you please not wear your seatbelt?
We want to save them for the high traffic days.
If we wear seat belts all the time people will get tired, stop listening, and not wear them at all.
🙃
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Hey, just a reminder that if you fall in the shower because of cov1d you're not getting in front of the line treatment at the hospital. You're going to get in the queue and probably be seen in 16 hours. Enjoy.
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Reminder there is not a single study proving droplet transmission. Not one.
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I'll just add that the common denominator is that we tend to downplay the _possible_ severity of whatever issue is presented to us.
This of course means
1. we do not respond properly/quickly
2. people under-estimate their risk
This is not helpful.
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There's probably a more accurate way to express that. It's not so much caught, but more to do with Long COVID. And there will be dancing around language.
But for now this is fine.
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Look it's very simple.
The debate is not do masks work.
Masks work.
They are not a panacea and do not stop all transmission. But they slow spread (remember flatten curve?)
The debate is do we (as society) want to implement them now or not.
That's it. Debate away.
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All kinds of viruses transmit asymptomatically in the literature. SARS cousins transmit the talking about
. Anyway even if it does transmit a symptomatically at least it's not airborne because that would be a problem
It damn well is airborne
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. Okay maybe it does a little tiny bit but not much because that would be a problem
I think maybe it does it a lot
. Let's not jump to conclusions
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Who made this because it is very funny.
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Congratulations. The CDC has done it.
They've made monkeypox endemic!
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Yup both 6 feet and 15 minutes are nonsense.
6 foot appear to come from late 1500s. Length of plague stick. Not joking.
15 minutes is made up. Nobody can even find the origin of that one.
It was all cognitively to support droplet, which was Chapin's guess in 1912.
A _guess_
Most docs wear N95s when seeing potential COVID patients and remove them after they leave room. The virus hovers in rooms for hours. This notion of 6ft and 15 min near an infected individual to call close contact is ludicrous and leading to the continuing propagation of COVID-19.
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Oh and I should have posted this long ago but apply for insurance now.
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Hoo boy it just struck me that lots of spouses coming back from conference with COVID.
But when they come back with the monkeypox, which the
@WHO
says spreads by sex at parties (but also not just sex at parties, but really sex at parties), there's gonna be some tough questions
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No matter what study they show you, and no matter what numbers they quote,
People have basically no knowledge about the long-term effects of this virus.
Full stop.
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The droplets are nonsense
. You're not an expert
So we're gatekeeping and not on a hunt for the truth?
. Be polite.
Anyway, listen, we can use HEPA filters
. Those don't even work
What?! They were invented in the 40s. They're used in clean rooms to make computer chips
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Just a reminder but by the time we're ~12 years old we've been vaccinated against about 10 to 14 diseases
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- Later, when people said if we let it spread it might mutate and get worse, officials said "viruses grow milder". This is entirely made up much has been written on this topic, including a book.
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Reminder N95s are only rated for 95% protection, although that's closer to 98-99% real world. That's still 1% getting through. It wasn't necessarily eyes.
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3. From 1910 to 1980/1985, measles, TB and chickenpox started off as "droplet" and were ultimately accepted to be "airborne"
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@_mbdr_
Visible sign of taking precautions causes cognitive dissonance in a person who is trying to convince themself there is no danger.
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Just a reminder that the psychology is against people admitting that they have Long COVID symptoms.
So it's going to be hard to judge whether you're getting an accurate picture by looking around at your acquaintances.
That on top of delayed onset etc.
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GOVERNMENT PLAN
Step 1. Do Nothing
Step 2. Say There's Nothing To Be Done Because There's Too Much Virus To Do Anything
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Denial in a crisis.
It's a maladaptive response trying to reimpose order on a world that to the person has lost sense.
I keep sayng we need psychologists to weigh in.
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Sure looks like when it infects 60 people at an event it is airborne
. Well they didn't sample live virus
Yes they have
.well it's not an RCT
That's the wrong tool for the job
. It's the only real evidence
We can use physics
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I mean come on just imagine the difference between I caught it on a plane
And
I caught it on a plane and the CO2 was 2500 parts per million
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- Officials said kids cannot catch it. This was always totally made up.
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. No it has an R0 of 2
AR values are never correctly calculated and by the way it's closer to 6
. Six?! You're a fear monger
What on Earth would I telling people it's in the air and they need to wear a mask or other air mitigation
. Well it's not proven to be in the air
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Now all those droplet excuses like "catch virus touching mask" (untrue) and "people can't wear an N95 properly" (untrue) and "N95 must be thrown out after each use" (untrue) are going to bite us, because gov wont send them to every person bc of these false issues
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Listen airplanes losing parts is like excess mortality.
Once we get about 5 years in, the new numbers are going to seem normal and there's no more excess lost plane parts.
At that point we say plane mishaps have become endemic.
Capiche?
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I mean lets cut to the chase right? Who has the time to mess around. Flakeballs can get stuffed.
This is well beyond flu.
We're clearly getting more than one infection a year.
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And we're lucky to get out of an infection without Long COVID. Ballpark twenty to fifty percent chance. It doesn't matter exactly because more variants on the way.
People who think they're fine now are most certainly not.
Who knows about the kids.
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So exposure to viruses throughout your life renders them mild.
BUT, if you so much as pause for a few months, as for example during a lockdown, FORGET IT ALL THE BENEFIT IS GONE YOUR IMMUNITY IS RUINED. RUINED I SAY!
Makes perfect sense. And nobody can cite sources. Perfect 🤡
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- Later, when people raised that the virus might transmit asymptomatically, officials said "no proof of asymptomatic spread", even though there are articles about SARS and MERS spreading asymptomatically.
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- Officials said "no spread in schools" but this is not true. There are countless articles written outside this pandemic about the importance of school spread to pandemics.
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