I guess it’s the inbreeding?
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It’s called coronavirus for a reason.
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tl;dr: Probably not a big deal, vaccines work, might take measles out as most infectious disease known to man, though (@ about 1.5x BA.1). That’s the good news. The bad news is that there will be others, it’s not done with us yet.
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COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery
Giant study shows striking rise in long-term heart and vessel disease
https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-takes-serious-toll-heart-health-full-year-after-recovery
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Our local Facebook group is having one big orgasm over this. They closed the Detroit crossing so all trucks are being diverted to Port Huron. That means 2 to 3 times more truck traffic entering Canada.
That means two major freeways are slowed or stopped for several miles around here.
These people are cheering for the protestors but these trucks are not part of the protest, they are just people trying to do their job.
They keep saying these truckers don’t want the vaccine but if they are heading to Canada they are vaccinated.
85 to 90% of Canadian truck drivers have been vaccinated.
And as of yesterday there are a bunch of farmers on the 402 in Sarnia blocking the road leading to the bridge with tractors.
They’re also getting excited because there’s a rumor they are going to DC in a couple weeks.
These people sit at home on Facebook and think they’re involved in a revolution.
They couldn’t handle an actual revolution because a real revolution would involve real sacrifice and real pain. Wearing a mask is not real pain or real suffering.
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Interesting read, but this tells the tale:
(Incidentally, most here will know this, but the graph showing mild covid increases survival slightly over baseline? That would be a “statistical fallacy.” A difference that is not significant. But some covidiot will try to sell that as "See? Covid is good for you.)
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Kaplan-Meier don’t lie.
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Isn’t that a chart/paper on all-cause covid mortality, as opposed to covid-related cardiovascular morbidity?
Yes. Yes it is. We are still learning about all the ways covid can make us dead, but it does so quite effectively.
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It really is a bastard of a disease, isn’t it?
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yay for more shipping and delivery problems. more inflation! that’ll show them /s
( it does seem to be a successful action. it’s painful that it’s motivated by all the wrong reasons )
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Name names!
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Fuck. This.
Entitled antisocial arseholes.
I could go on like this, but it would probably get me suspended for a while.
I just can’t cope. Fucking role models for fucking youngsters, and they are FUCKING killing people by this.
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On a more positive note:
ETA: what, paywalled?
Damn.
Ok, it’s reporting about this:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2112524
Which comes to the conclusion that the hypothesised “rebound effect” that children who are protected against a disease will suffer more later on is (my wording) bullshit (here: in case of malaria).
The FT piece by Anjana Ahuja then connects that to the pandemic.
Some suggest that the Omicron variant, less severe than its predecessors, could act like a natural vaccine. Brodin [, a paediatric immunologist at Imperial College London,] disagrees. Vaccination, he believes, currently offers safer, more controlled exposure than infection and carries a lower risk of unintended consequences, such as the emergence of new variants.
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Good fair and balanced reporting, Financial Times.
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