BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

Cybargs wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

https://www.health.gov.au/topics/immunisation/immunisation-services/meningococcal-immunisation-service-0

wow this vaccine is shit doesnt prevent all deaths and transmission. useless.

Completely different kind of disease and vaccine.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n … hird-death

an 18 year old has died.

there's an epidemic of strep-A in the UK at the moment that has almost killed 10 children already. scarlet fever. a properly victorian affliction, killing schoolchildren in 2022. why is that? it's because an entire cohort of children now have spent the last 3 years in an immunological bubble, without ordinary exposure to other children.

omicron on the other hand poses almost zero risk to children. like it's infinitesimal on the fatality statistics. but zero covid definitely works and has no drawbacks whatsoever. close the schools and universities! criticise the vaccines and boosters! we need to keep people apart, er ... forever!

no, it didn't work after delta and the more transmissible variants. please do stop trying to re-write the basic chronology of events, thank you, it is most annoying. i have even quoted at you the statements of jacinda arden and other national administrations who were case studies in 'zero covid', and who all unanimously abandoned this approach after delta/omicron/omicron+.

i also still find it highly amusing that you are so punctilious and empirical about me 'simply not knowing whether i have had asymptomatic covid', but you're once again taking china's self-reported, highly politically charged stats on the pandemic as prima facie true. lmao. so i need to verify that i HAVEN'T had covid, but you're happy to cite china's stats all day long on how awsm their policy was?

scientist godbrain triumphs again.

Last edited by uziq (2022-12-07 02:14:54)

no epidemiologist was advising that vaccines would 'eliminate transmission'. this was evident even during alpha covid, not delta. herd immunity was mooted in the earliest days, through mass transmission, but this was quickly scotched by the mainstream of epidemiologists, also.

where are you so consistently misrepresenting the facts and chronology? it's very odd.

nobody who advised reopening did so on the premise that 'vaccines would eradicate the disease' and achieve the same case numbers as a lockdown strategy. the point was that vaccines, plus antivirals and clinical treatments, could do the majority of the lifting work of mitigating death and serious illness.

i've pointed this out to you multiple times, but finding a vaccine for a mutative virus that will block transmission is a philosopher's stone proposition. virologists were not aiming for that, because they know it would be extremely hard to ever devise, especially when caught in an urgent emergency like a global pandemic. we don't vaccinate people with a flu jab every winter with the hope or expectation it will 'reduce transmission'. that's not how highly infectious, highly mutative diseases can be combatted, generally.

as it stands, there are B1 versions of many boosters available now which are bi- or multi-valent and can protect against multiple active strains. will they reduce transmission? only in the most perfunctory way, but it's better than nothing.

read the papers. and stop butchering the basic outline of the pandemic's progress. nobody is convinced by your bleatings.

Last edited by uziq (2022-12-07 02:49:32)

uziq wrote:

no epidemiologist was advising that vaccines would 'eliminate transmission'.

Er but they did.
COVID-19 vaccination reduces household transmission up to 97%
https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinic … ransmissio

That was how opening up was sold to the Australian public.

In fact the effect on transmission is a whole lot lower.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02328-0

Its killing a 9/11 worth of Americans and two Itaewons of Koreans every week, this doesn't strike me as "very mild".

Shutting down early on could have worked but morons wanted to carry on partying, there's no good endgame now.
I guess we'll have a wave of covid deaths to add to the flu deaths every year indefinitely, not forgetting the health impacts on the people who don't die.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Its killing a 9/11 worth of Americans and two Itaewons of Koreans every week, this doesn't strike me as "very mild".

shouldve gotten vaccinated

Dilbert_X wrote:

97% reduction is practically the same as elimination, the R value falls to nothing.

youre not very good at statistics

china is going to be gutted by omicron. positive cases are through the roof after only several days of loosened policy. a lot of immune-naive people who haven’t had an mRNA vaccine or previous exposure.

china squandered every opportunity with their hugely costly zero covid policy. their economy is tottering and they’re about to face down the most serious covid wave of any nation in the last 12 months.

uziq wrote:

china is going to be gutted by omicron. positive cases are through the roof after only several days of loosened policy. a lot of immune-naive people who haven’t had an mRNA vaccine or previous exposure.

china squandered every opportunity with their hugely costly zero covid policy. their economy is tottering and they’re about to face down the most serious covid wave of any nation in the last 12 months.

OK, so I think maybe I should get out of iron ore for a little while.

Baby whose parents refused blood from vaccinated donors undergoes lifesaving heart surgery
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/asia/bab … index.html

Full article is crazy. Absolute lunacy, these parents. Fully lost to misinformation.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Baby whose parents refused blood from vaccinated donors undergoes lifesaving heart surgery
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/asia/bab … index.html

Full article is crazy. Absolute lunacy, these parents. Fully lost to misinformation.

yeah making a splash here in aus. how cooked in the head do you have to be. "vaccine blood might kill my baby" mfw if they dont get blood they die.

Tested positive for COVID. Fatigue and lots of pressure in my head are the annoying symptoms. Lame

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Feel better.

This is not a request.