Roadghost
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No man, the end is near. Cloak of death will soon be upon us. There'll be a dentist shortage for sure. Run for the hills.
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No man, the end is near. Cloak of death will soon be upon us. There'll be a dentist shortage for sure. Run for the hills.
Hm. I guess we should be nicer to the dentists on here.
They have fillings too.
They have fillings too.
You've not been paying attention. We get back to normal sooner if everyone works together.
Probably in the range of 80% of the people there are denialists to begin with, so no, they didn't "expect" anything - they think this is all a big fake nothing burger.
As for the media exxageration, well, that was handled in another response. The numbers the media was "exxagerating" months ago have been vastly exceeded already, so yeah, there's that.
Did Grandpa and Grandma in the Walmart/restaurant/bathroom/whatever that they unknowingly infected on their way home and may very well die as a result now also agree to "pay the price" so that superbiker wannabe's could show off their prowess duckwalking back and forth down main street Sturgis for a week only to load their bike back in it's trailer and head home? Or are you one of those people that think those ~175,000 dead Americans (to date) is "acceptable" like more than half of republicans seems to believe?
I actually rode my motorcycle to trailer week. Trailers are for boats.
sburns
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Where, here in Canada? I believe it has happened already in Korea and Japan.
J_F
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Hong Kong from what I've seen
www.statnews.com
First Covid-19 reinfection documented in Hong Kong, researchers say
Researchers in Hong Kong on Monday reported what appears to be the first confirmed case of Covid-19 reinfection.
www.statnews.com
15.2M cases of people recovered worldwide, and only a handful of cases re-infected.
Is the sample size still too low to draw conclusions, or are these really outliers?
Is the sample size still too low to draw conclusions, or are these really outliers?
If actual re-infection (as opposed to flukes with testing) were prevalent, we would have heard about cases long before now.
If it's a one-in-a-million event, or even one-in-a-thousand, it isn't going to make a difference to the overall pandemic.
There are sure to be people whose internal immune system response is weak or varies from the norm.
If the initial infection were weak, perhaps their internal immune system didn't have to do much initially to fight it off.
Who knows. If it's a real issue, we will be hearing more of it ... much more.
As of right now, about 1 in 60 citizens in the USA has been an official coronavirus infection case. With complete random distribution and no immunity ... ballpark 1 in 60 of those would have been infected twice. With 6 million cases, that's 100,000 such potential situations. We would have heard of it by now - it would be rampant. It isn't.
If it's a one-in-a-million event, or even one-in-a-thousand, it isn't going to make a difference to the overall pandemic.
There are sure to be people whose internal immune system response is weak or varies from the norm.
If the initial infection were weak, perhaps their internal immune system didn't have to do much initially to fight it off.
Who knows. If it's a real issue, we will be hearing more of it ... much more.
As of right now, about 1 in 60 citizens in the USA has been an official coronavirus infection case. With complete random distribution and no immunity ... ballpark 1 in 60 of those would have been infected twice. With 6 million cases, that's 100,000 such potential situations. We would have heard of it by now - it would be rampant. It isn't.
When you read fully into the reinfection story it's not terrible news beyond the headlines. Reinfection, at least for the person infected, seems to be asymptomatic, so zero risk for the person at hand. How much they still spread infection is still being investigated but from what I've seen it's drastically lower.
Yep. Lots of freaking out about this when in reality it's still being investigated. Just like how we know exponentially more about Covid19 in general now versus what we did 6 months ago, 6 months from now we'll know exponentially more about reinfection. It's premature to freak out about this.
Going to be interesting come fall when seasonal colds and coughs start arriving. My workplace is pretty adamant that a cough or anything like that is grounds for banishment right now. All fine and dandy until my typical dry hacky winter cough that I typically have on and off every winter makes a reappearance this year. I get 3 federal sick days beyond which I'm on my own dime. I doubt our short term disability will be eager to pay once that's exhausted, but I guess that's a bridge to cross when the time comes.
JT is funding sick/isolation days at 500/week but I'm not sure what the threshold is (or if you can do days at a time). Is work kicking you out sufficient or do you need a health unit to declare you eligible?
First covid-19 death linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally reported in Minnesota
Depending on how people want to spin it, 1 death and 260 cases out of 400,000 attendees isn't that bad. Probably more died or got hurt in wrecks during the pilgrimage.
On January 20th of this year, there was only 1 confirmed case of COVID in the US.
1 out of 330M people wasn't that bad at the time...
Over half a year later, 6M+ confirmed cases and 185K deaths.
It's almost like the disease was... infectious or something...
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