Narz
keeping it real
Dunno for sure but I've been exposed to all 3 variants
Do you think future pandemics are going to be worse?Neither natural immunity nor the vaccines do sufficiently well against the contagiousness of Omicron. We have evolved a strain that's resistant to the immunity we've already generated, just like the antivaxxed predicted. Of course, the same strain was possible in societies with 'natural immunity' and the vaccinated didn't suffer Delta nearly as bad as the unvaccinated. So, AFAICT, the antivax rhetoric didn't buy any progress against their threat (a future penetrative strain) but did allow people to suffer from Delta more than necessary.
I will point out that we weren't able to handle a simple step-change in contagiousness. If Omicron had been the original strain, the entire globe would be crying under the strain in ways we just cannot imagine.
This is still potentially our last pandemic on 'easy mode'.
Do you think future pandemics are going to be worse?
It is either a coronavirus or an antiship mine. In any case you are screwed.View attachment 619079
Damn I caught a coronavirus
254 people in my age group died from covid as opposed to people dying with covid
Picked up covid somewhere after not bothering to get third vaccine dose. About a day of mild feverish discomort and a sore throat.
Interestingly, learned that covid can result in herpetiform ulcerations even in the absence of HSV infection. (And in my case, this particular symptom preceded any of the others by nearly a full day.) Review of oral ulcerative lesions in COVID-19 patients: A comprehensive study of 51 cases
“A death where covid-19 is the only cause” is not synonymous with “dying from covid as opposed to dying with covid”.
The papers echo previous research—including studies in Germany, South Africa and the U.K.—indicating available vaccines are less effective against omicron than earlier versions of the coronavirus, but also that boosters doses rev up virus-fighting antibodies to increase the chance of avoiding symptomatic infection.