OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

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  1. HailBlazers

    HailBlazers RipCity

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    Just because I hate chihuahuas doesn't mean I'm anti dog, dawg.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I think that part you bolded is sloppy writing. I'm not sure what they were trying to say.

    Consider that the delta variant originated in India at a time (December 2020) when no one there was vaccinated.

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    barfo, Jul 28, 2021
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    Too many people are sue happy and swamp some companies on frivolous lawsuits.
     
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  4. SlyPokerDog

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    lol!

    I've never said you were anti dog.

    But you better be anti cat.
     
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  5. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    You'll have to convince crandc before I'll go along with that.
     
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    Could also arise from those that got covid and recovered, then got Covid again and spread the new virus.

    I'm thinking eventually, there will be something that attacks the spike proteins produced with the mRNA vaccine
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Fox? Really, Fox?
     
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    Here's a CBS link

     
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    SlyPokerDog, Jul 28, 2021
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Yes, you are correct. I lost part of the thread and thought momentarily we were talking about vaccines specifically.
    But again, this isn't the virus 'adapting'. This is a mutation finding suitable hosts and reproducing.

    If there are a bunch kids on my lawn, and I shoot all the boys, the girls didn't survive because I shot the boys. They didn't adapt to my gun. They didn't become girls to avoid being shot by me. They randomly encountered a situation where the boys got killed and the girls didn't. The girls thrived and went on to reproduce.

    I don't know if that particular thing will happen, because as I understand it the spike proteins don't stick around very long in your body - but the more we allow the virus to reproduce, the better chance there will be of a more deadly strain.

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    Now I see where you're coming from. The girls and boys story did it for me. Yes, very technically speaking the viruses do not learn. It's more a figure of speech.
     
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    Polymerase chain reaction = PCR
     
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    Exactly - but it is an important technical point, because some people (not saying El Prez) believe that the virus is 'smarter' than the vaccine, and thus vaccination is doomed to failure. It's only doomed to failure if people don't get the vaccine.

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    For a bit of good news, new infections in the UK are down 50% over the last week, although no one seems to understand why.

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    Some data of possible interest to @jonnyboy



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    barfo, Jul 28, 2021
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    Last year around this time cases were in the 200 range if I remember correctly. In May last year People are saying it would fizzle down in the summer. Well we’re in mid summer and yesterday we had over 1000, today over 800. Another shutdown coming?
     
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