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The coronavirus is much deadlier than the flu
You keep lying. Surgical masks reduce aerosolized coronavirus from positive people. P=0.02, which means 2% probability it was by chance. This link was in post #60.
You're projecting your motivations onto other people, and it reveals who you are. The economy is in the shitter and people are dying. Some people ask what they can do to help fix the problem. Wearing the mask is likely to help and is pretty easy. Some people refuse to be helpful, because FREEDOM!
I'm not particularly worried about myself as a health individual under 50. But wearing a mask is an easy way to help, and I'm not a selfish douche bucket.
WookieMan saysAnd this is where you are wrong. A bad flu year can kill 80k people WITH a "vaccine"
Look up infection fatality rate for flu and coronavirus. Coronavirus IFR estimates are much higher than for the flu, so if the average person gets Corona, they are much more likely to die than if they get the flu. Therefore, it is much more deadly.
A vaccine is available for the flu and if more healthy people took it, it would slow the spread and save lives. Most healthy people don't bother with the flu vaccine, because the risk to them personally is small. However, if everybody took the flu vaccine, the flu would spread more slowly, and less people would die. It's pretty simple, but most people don't bother thinking about that. Every year, loads of healthy young people get the flu and pass it on to some geezer in line at the grocery store. The healthy young person recovers just fine and...
WookieMan saysYou just keep ignoring the fact we have more cases with mask mandates and most everything shut downThat's a single correlation with no control and obvious flaws. It is only convincing to someone who is desperately hoping to find a cause and who is willing to ignore all of the more compelling evidence pointing in the other direction.
WookieMan saysAll you have to say is we're testing more, but that checks a positive box for Trump and you don't want to.Jesus Christ, I already wrote that. That's one of the obvious flaws that I referenced in your single correlation. You are correlating measured cases instead of actual cases, and the measured cases are now a higher percentage of actual cases. This can be inferred from the positivity and death rates. But that's not the only reason. Other reasons that ...
mell saysBy your logic everybody not interesting in driving a car or without drivers license should be able to mandate that all people stop driving cars to reduce their risk of killing them. That's the height of selfishness.
I'm not suggesting that flu vaccine should be compulsory, and frankly hadn't considered the benefit of a real flu once in a while versus yearly vaccine. But, getting a vaccine that has very minimal risk (if that is the case) is a very minor imposition. That is not like not driving, which is a huge imposition. I would say it's more like not driving drunk, which does seem like a huge imposition to a subset of the population.
I've seen people arguing that the infection rates of 20-25% or so may be enough for herd immunity. I believe it's enough for to lower Ro below 1 when most people are social distancing. I don't think many epidemiologists think it's enough for peo...
enough hospital beds
I do miss reading AF's unhinged comments in real time.
If he would promise to stop talking about sodomizing Trump with barbed wire, OK.
If he would promise to stop talking about sodomizing Trump with barbed wire, OK.
I'm hearing rumblings about Covid-21 coming up.
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And on and on, many scientific papers.