With the rollout of the vaccine now actually happening the CDC has changed their page to now say that the vaccine+ masks+ social distancing are needed. New ads are going out on the radio stating the same. This is not about a virus.
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Masks are only going to make things worse in the long run. The virus that permeates the flimsy fabric barrier are going to be selected for survival on smaller and smaller aerosolized moisture particles, meaning what survives will be far more transmissible than what we started with. It’s the same reason we don’t wantonly prescribe antibiotics for every minor disease. Every time I read about some “new strain” I’m all but certain it’s a problem we created.
Based on what I've read this just seems to be a 'new' strain that is predicted to be more infectious. Which should be taken with the same grain of salt that the 2 million deaths in the US prediction was. Newer viral strains often adapt to poorly managed treatments, which is common in social healthcare countries, the most blatant example of this is malaria in the Pacific and Africa. However, what is not noted, is that these newer covid strains tend to be far milder in symptoms and impact. What is troubling is that again the posturing is doomsaying which is also going to have a massive placebo effect on most people. I've seen numerous patients who magically worsened severely when told they tested positive, despite their charts improving and ones who self described symptoms went from dying to just a cold when they tested negative.
Oh hell, I know so many people who have a cough, are convinced they’re dying, get a test, test negative, and suddenly they never really felt that bad to start with. Media hype is killing anyone’s ability to accurately assess their own risks.
Most people I know who got tested were over whatever they had before the results came back.