Coronavirus Impact III
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ahalpert
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Fortunately, Americans have the strongest ideological filters in the world, so my upper estimate for the number of minds this will change is zero.
And honestly, I dont think these emails tell us anything we didn't already know or could have inferred. Hardly revelatory. Just a little clearer.
Lastly - officials' performance is measured in relative terms. If one guy is vocally taking your problems seriously and the other guy is shrugging them off, that makes the first guy look good. Only later when the second guy is out of the picture and you find out how the first guy was manipulating you...
I mean, look at Cuomo in NY. Many people appreciated his in-depth press briefings. Then you find out he was soylent greening grandma with liability waivers for his nursing home donors. Which all sounds like what people accused the other side of wanting to do. And contributed to the abysmal covid numbers in NY. But amazingly, people I talk to at work etc still support him. That one I can't figure out.
I saw this old post from PBS News Hour from 2008 about people still having native immunity to the 1918 Spanish flu 90 years later : https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/science-july-dec08-influenza_08-22
Apparently survivors from Sars-1 outbreak still have native immunity to the Sars-1 virus 18 years later.
Apparently survivors from Sars-1 outbreak still have native immunity to the Sars-1 virus 18 years later.
another preliminary study suggesting convalescence is at least as good as vaccination:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2
mothmachine
Active member
There's an article about the Spanish flu I read a couple of years ago that was interesting -- I think maybe it was in the Smithsonian magazine. Apparently a disproportionate number people who died from it were teenagers, and the reason for that had to do with their contracting an earlier version of Influenza when they were very young. It seems to have prepped their systems in the wrong way. I'll try to find that article if anyone cares, but that shows you that just getting an early version of a similar virus doesn't always mean something good.
And as for Sars-1, that's great that apparently people have immunity to Sars-2 but if I remember correctly, the death rate for that one was like 80-90% so that might mean something different for any Sars-3 that comes up. Not trying to be doomey for its own sake, just to say this stuff is complicated and anyone who tells you otherwise is just wrong.
And as for Sars-1, that's great that apparently people have immunity to Sars-2 but if I remember correctly, the death rate for that one was like 80-90% so that might mean something different for any Sars-3 that comes up. Not trying to be doomey for its own sake, just to say this stuff is complicated and anyone who tells you otherwise is just wrong.
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Dr. Sam Bailey from NWZ made a fascinating video about how in 1918, doctors were trying to see how the Spanish flu was spread. It's very surprising how far they went to try to test for the infection, and the results from this...
