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

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  1. BigGameDamian

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  3. barfo

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    "The next Covid variant could kill up to one in THREE people: SAGE warns doomsday scenario is 'realistic possibility' and UK's vaccine roll-out may even speed up mutant strain's emergence"

    I think the headline writer went off the reservation (that's an Indian Delta variant joke right there) with the bolded part.
    There is nothing in the article to suggest that the vaccines speed up the emergence of mutants; in fact the article says the opposite.

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    "US house prices could drop by 33%!"
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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  6. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I don't know if any fully vaccinated people have died from Covid-19 and if they have I'm sure it's a tiny percentage.
    Also, the vaccine works best in the younger adults so the elderly vaccinated adults make up the majority of those that contract the disease. Lucky for the elderly that the vaccine mostly protects the lungs and not so much the upper respiratory. Death mostly occurs from lung complications.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    The vaccines slow down the emergence of variant via Darwinism. The less there are of them the less likely of variants some of which will potentially thrive due to their abundance and lay waste to the rest of us and most importantly, me, God Damn it.
     
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    Hey man, I got a sweet deal on a bridge. You interested?
     
  9. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    There's a ton of unvaccinated who are easily gullible and very interested.
     
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    Listen, I’m fully on board for anti vaxxers to get it And just go away. But the amount of infected impacts everyone - schools being open or not, businesses and the economy, sporting events. If an anti vax person is too scared and they get it and die or go to the ICU, so be it. But the rest of us would like to move on
     
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    Kids needing to wear mask for long school days, is tough on those with anxiety and/or respiratory issues. There still needs to be online offered for those that need it. Just my opinion
     
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    In normal circumstances, I'm very much against home-schooling. I have yet to see very many cases where it works out better than the worst of public education. Most parents simply aren't capable (and, unfortunately, they often tend to be the ones who think they are). There are exceptions, of course.

    But, if I had a school aged kid now (one of my own, I mean, not the ones I pick up in the Free Candy van), I would not want him/her to attend school in person. I'd want Zoom school, but if that wasn't available I'd skip the whole thing and make them a deckhand on the pirate ship.

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    My three are in school- elementary, middle and high school. I was totally fine with remote learning. And then in like March everything changed. Not just for us but for a lot of families we know. Kids checked out. Not all, but it was a total waste of time. They should have just said - here’s a list of 100 books. Read two a month and write a report. Done. Watching my 9,12.15 year old boys looking at a computer screen all day was torture. They learned very little. And teachers were hit or miss. A lot of them checked out too.
     
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    My theory is that a variant infects a vaccinated person. The virus adjusts to the vaccinated person or finds a way to bypass the free spike proteins, and then the infected spreads the new, more deadly variant.
     
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    Yeah, but just for parents who insist on it. I'm really for kids being with other kids of all other types. You gotta learn to get along together.
     
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    Can we see a photo of you? I'll bet you've got small beady eyes.
     
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    A variant is a mutation when the virus replicates. It has no idea who is or isn't vaccinated. It's not going to seek out vaccinated people. It's not an intelligent being. You're confusing viruses with Aliens.

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    Doesn’t make a lot of sense does it?
     

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