Coronavirus: COVID-19

OccultHawk · 09-26-2020, 12:08 AM

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Less than 10 percent of Americans have coronavirus antibodies, a new study finds.

Less than 10 percent of Americans have antibodies to the new coronavirus, suggesting that the nation is even further from herd immunity than had been previously estimated, according to a study published Friday in The Lancet.

The study looked at blood samples from 28,500 patients on dialysis in 46 states, the first such nationwide analysis.

The results roughly matched those of an analysis to be released next week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which found that about 10 percent of blood samples from sites across the country contained antibodies to the virus.

Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., was referring to that analysis when he told a congressional committee this week that 90 percent of all Americans were still vulnerable to the virus, a C.D.C. spokeswoman said.

An accurate estimate of the country’s immunity is important because President Trump, in collaboration with his new medical adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas, has tentatively promoted the idea of reaching herd immunity by canceling lockdowns, mask-wearing campaigns and social-distancing mandates. The plan would be to let the virus wash through the population while attempting to protect the people deemed most vulnerable.

Most public health experts say that such a policy would lead to hundreds of thousands more deaths

I seriously can’t believe I live somewhere that has openly decided not to take any precautions whatsoever. Honestly, it’s ****ing devastating.

OccultHawk · 09-26-2020, 04:37 AM

China pushes emergency use of COVID vaccine despite concerns

https://apnews.com/article/virus-out...72a1b444d3b6c6

I think it’s very likely that The Communist Party of China knows more about this virus than any other group of people on earth. They sure af don’t want it. If I knew for sure that the official party members were taking it I’d take it too.

OccultHawk · 09-26-2020, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

real talk though OH

Isn't this just overpopulation correcting itself?

Nature doesn’t have an agenda. But to address what you might be getting at it’s too soon to see how this will affect human reproduction. That’s another unknown. If you’re just being snarky because shouldn’t I love the virus if overpopulation is such a problem uh no I don’t want hundreds of thousands of people to die agonizing deaths drowning slowly in lung fluid to make a tiny dent in the world population. Do contagions pass along more easily among humans because of our absurdly dense population? Obviously yes.

OccultHawk · 09-26-2020, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

well could you argue we ought to let it maximize death to benefit the cause

No because it disproportionately affects the poor.

After I’m elected anyone who made over 45 g in 2019 will be sterilized. Poor people are fine because by the nature of their situation they can’t use too many resources.

SGR · 09-26-2020, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

No because it disproportionately affects the poor.

After I’m elected anyone who made over 45 g in 2019 will be sterilized.

Wait a minute, I thought you were an anarchist? Now you tell me you want to use the might of the state to conduct a class-based eugenics program? Up til this point, all your positions have been consistent, but now I'm starting to get a little suspicious of your good faith.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Poor people are fine because by the nature of their situation they can’t use too many resources.

They use too many of my resources.

OccultHawk · 09-26-2020, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

Wait a minute, I thought you were an anarchist? Now you tell me you want to use the might of the state to conduct a class-based eugenics program? Up til this point, all your positions have been consistent, but now I'm starting to get a little suspicious of your good faith.

I’m whatever the **** I feel like being.

SGR · 09-26-2020, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I’m whatever the **** I feel like being.

But surely you must have principles that guide how you see the world? I don't imagine you go from a communist one day to a fascist the next?

The Batlord · 09-26-2020, 04:34 PM

He's an anarchist until the state tickles his balls.

**Marie Monday** · 09-26-2020, 04:44 PM

I think you could say Hawk's attitiude to life is basically survival mode, which takes priority over his principles

SGR · 09-26-2020, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

I think you could say Hawk's attitiude to life is basically survival mode, which takes priority over his principles

And here I was thinking he was completely rational and that I was just too dense to understand.

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