How Lefties View Science
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Fitting image considering their predictions have been about as reliable and trustworthy as a random carnival fortune teller.
Everything they've described about this new wave, (more widespread, weaker) is exactly how virus propogation works. It either gets weaker but more virulent to ensure survival or it gets hardier and deadlier but has trouble spreading.
This is nothing new. If anything it's good. Almost like it's from the same family as a common cold....
Does it happen that it gets deadlier for the individual? Some people argued that doesn't really happen.
The only way it's going to be deadlier for individuals is if they have some other comorbidity that contributes to a worsening of their situation. Old age, obesity, weakened immune system, etc, can all make an infection with a lesser variant of a virus more problematic. But the media aren't going to tell you if the person that dies from it weighs in at 450 and has asthma and diabeetus, they'll just report it as a COVID death and pump their statistics.
So it doesn't become deadlier, really, if I understand you correctly.
Correct. As the life cycle of a virus progress typically each generation of it gets weaker in its effects on the host, but as such it becomes easier for it to spread around because people can be carrying it for longer periods of time without realizing it. The comorbidities are usually the deciding factor at that point - it's like how a person with AIDS usually doesn't die from AIDS itself, they die from stuff like pneumonia or cancers that the body would normally be able to fight off if their immune system wasn't weakened. In the case of COVID, if the person didn't already have trouble breathing (asthma) and they didn't already have a weakened immune system (unhealthy lifestyle or old age), then they're likely going to survive any case of it they come down with.
Thanks, but by "usually" you mean it can regularly also mutate to become more deadly? Or that it stays the same, at least from this aspect?
The survival-optimized form of a virus is just dangerous enough to make you contagious, without making you ill enough to avoid spreading it (which would include anything even remotely lethal).
Actually they said "no reason to believe [Omicron] causes more severe disease".
Not that it's weaker.
They do this on purpose to keep the fear alive and the questions away. Reality is at worst it's 2x a normal flu, really more like a common cold.
How there are people who still get hysterical over covid or listen to Fauci is beyond me
I remember a poll from last year that huge amounts of people, something like a third of the people polled, believed that if you got Covid you had a 50% chance of being hospitalized. Compared to the real world chance of about 2-3% that was listed at the time. Then they will talk about things like "long Covid," etc.
If you read how these people talk they truly believe that hundreds of thousands of people have died from it and are terrified of getting it. That's how they are still hysterical. If I thought it was a 50/50 shot end up in the hospital I'd probably be hysterical too, or well at least extremely cautious. Being hysterical about anything is an immature response.
Good points. I guess I can see it at the beginning but once you saw who were most affected and saw how covid didnโt seem to matter when you are protesting the approved causes I didnโt understand how people still took it seriously. But like you said if you watch a lot of mainstream news itโs understandable why you would see covid as the Black Death
As a religion with no way of having sins forgiven
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I hate that I have to consider that this might actually be an accurate analysis of the situation.
Leftists have no consistent position on science. Sometimes they "fucking love" science and encourage you to "trust the science". Other times it's an evil colonial construct.
Yes, and what they mean by science is, whatever an authority figure tells them, rather than the actual method.
When I was in school, science was the method of independent discovery. Not something where you got all the facts in a book, much less a newspaper. And then they started to take experimentation out of science. To protect us, of course.
It never ended for them. I'm the only one in my family who didn't fall into the vax and mask hysteria and they're still all onboard.
I guess a Magic 8 Ball would've been too demeaning to readers.
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"The Atlantic" ...
Never was there a more leftist, jewy rag.
Anything I ever see in that trash-heap I always ignore.