COVID-19 is not going away soon or ever

[scammed 1,765]

6 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

Yes..but the poster and sundry others get told that ad nauseam-only to briefly pause and then continue their perseverative ways.

 

Please note that I am using the word perseverative not repetition as their posts are not amenable to reason and,therefore,the perseverative statements cannot stop short of inter- galactic intervention.

 

Gawd..I hope the Alpha Centaurans turn up soon..

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-29/sweden-s-economy-posts-surprise-upside-amid-lax-covid-19-plan

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/coronavirus-swedens-gdp-actually-grew-in-the-first-quarter.html

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53664354

Edited October 17, 2020 by scammed

[elliss 3,007]

20 minutes ago, PatrickC said:

 

Sorry but it is not massively infectious and it is not going to cause that many deaths in the scheme of things. There might be some excess deaths this year, but as a percentage of total deaths it won't be significant. I also expect deaths to be under the usual tally in coming years since some people who might have otherwise died next year and the next were taken out this year.

 

It is just the normal cycle of life and death. Get over it and move on. There is no "cull the herd" agenda so stop being a drama queen. No one is actively trying to kill anyone or reduce the population. Many of us simply want to move on and live a normal life, and are over all this fear mongering.

 

    A valid opinion ..

[RoadWarrior371 1,140]

39 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Classic diversionary what about-ism. The issue here is this pandemic which is about a massively infectious virus that if left to run unchecked as seems to be the current radical fascist political agenda (cull the herd) will indeed cause many millions of unneccesary deaths. If you want to talk about diabetes, start a new topic elsewhere.

Tread lightly, not all the evidence is on your side.  Likely that even with lock-down policies of violent socialist Democrats we would still endure unnecessary deaths, and also wreck the economy.  Europe anyone? 

 

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”  

[DavisH 4,026]

On 10/16/2020 at 5:29 PM, roquefort said:

Ready and waiting. The problem is the sheeple have no capacity to analyse, rationalise or question any of the garbage their governments and the MSM feed them.

Because the really smart people, like Trump, know the truth, right? So the vast majority of the world's scientists are sheeple too?

[Jingthing 69,798]

2 hours ago, RoadWarrior371 said:

Tread lightly, not all the evidence is on your side.  Likely that even with lock-down policies of violent socialist Democrats we would still endure unnecessary deaths, and also wreck the economy.  Europe anyone? 

 

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”  

Nobody is saying that all pandemic deaths can be avoided. 

[Jingthing 69,798]

3 hours ago, PatrickC said:

 

Sorry but it is not massively infectious and it is not going to cause that many deaths in the scheme of things. There might be some excess deaths this year, but as a percentage of total deaths it won't be significant. I also expect deaths to be under the usual tally in coming years since some people who might have otherwise died next year and the next were taken out this year.

 

It is just the normal cycle of life and death. Get over it and move on. There is no "cull the herd" agenda so stop being a drama queen. No one is actively trying to kill anyone or reduce the population. Many of us simply want to move on and live a normal life, and are over all this fear mongering.

Its hard to take anyone seriously that asserts that this virus is not massively infectious. You're just wrong.

 

On the non vaccine herd immunity thing its a mass murderous and idiotic policy choice but guess who's for it?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/14/herd-immunity-barrington-declaration/

Edited October 17, 2020 by Jingthing

[Don Chance 917]

It could go away sooner than you think, look on the bright side:

 

1) Mass testing, a cheap test is being developed in India. If we can test everyone at home by themselves every few days we can eliminate and arrest the virus in no time.

 

2) China already has a vaccine.

 

3) A cure or treatment may come soon.

 

"Dr. McCullough’s team of experts recommend cheap, safe, FDA-approved medicines—hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) with azithromycin or doxycycline, possibly ivermectin or colchicine, inhaled budesonide or the more potent oral prednisone, anticoagulants, supplemental zinc, vitamin C and vitamin D, and home oxygen concentrators."

[Nout 1,433]

On 10/16/2020 at 6:44 AM, Jingthing said:

No. Not permanent. You're making that up. Another year or two is not permanent. 

Flu is permanent. It hasn't gone away.  Covid will never go away.  TB hasn't gone away neither will Covid.

[Nout 1,433]

9 minutes ago, Don Chance said:

It could go away sooner than you think, look on the bright side:

 

1) Mass testing, a cheap test is being developed in India. If we can test everyone at home by themselves every few days we can eliminate and arrest the virus in no time.

 

2) China already has a vaccine.

 

3) A cure or treatment may come soon.

 

"Dr. McCullough’s team of experts recommend cheap, safe, FDA-approved medicines—hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) with azithromycin or doxycycline, possibly ivermectin or colchicine, inhaled budesonide or the more potent oral prednisone, anticoagulants, supplemental zinc, vitamin C and vitamin D, and home oxygen concentrators."

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[Credo 10,189]

4 hours ago, PatrickC said:

 

And public health measures can't cut down diabetes? Or cancers? Governments could ban sugary or oily foods if they wanted. Yet they don't. And how about alcohol related deaths? Also could easily be reduced by banning booze. Yet governments don't.

 

Sorry but what you wrote is not true. The reason we've reacted so strongly to this is because of a primal fear response. Over coming years, as people start to die from all the cancers not diagnosed during lockdowns, there needs to be a reckoning - Nuremberg type trials where leaders are brought to account for this.

Public health measures are in place to help control diabetes, but diabetes is not contagious.   Next time you want to know how much sugar is in something, just check the label.   Alcohol is also controlled, but again, alcoholism is not contagious.   The amount of alcohol in a beverage is listed and the rules around drinking and driving are quite stringent.   Get caught and you will not be behind the wheel for a time.   

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So, your comparisons are false.   Now go ahead and test positive for HIV and have sex with someone and find out how it is handled.  You will face arrest and prosecution and that can go all the way up to attempted murder.   

Do you see the difference between what happens with self-inflicted behavior and behavior that endangers the public?   Contagious diseases affect others who have no way of easily avoiding or even knowing if a person is contagious.   

 

[placnx 168]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Its hard to take anyone seriously that asserts that this virus is not massively infectious. You're just wrong.

 

On the non vaccine herd immunity thing its a mass murderous and idiotic policy choice but guess who's for it?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/14/herd-immunity-barrington-declaration/

I saw a BBC World News Global Questions discussion last weekend in which two experts, one - chief scientist of WHO, the other - Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford epidemiologist and an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, debated the concept proposed by the latter - to isolate vulnerable people and let the young go about their lives.

 

In light of emerging evidence that, after infection, immunity may not be long lasting and that we are still discovering the long-term debilitating complications of Covid, even on the young, it is extremely irresponsible of Gupta to present "herd immunity" by mass infection as a viable solution and to suggest that lockdown is the only alternative. Obviously there are many possibilities short of lockdown, as has been demonstrated very well where rapid testing was deployed early on.

 

FYI This is the Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/

 

[Jingthing 69,798]

1 hour ago, Nout said:

Flu is permanent. It hasn't gone away.  Covid will never go away.  TB hasn't gone away neither will Covid.

Your post has nothing to do with what I was replying to with my post. My post was about masks and distancing being needed. I estimate about two years for that.

[Jingthing 69,798]

11 minutes ago, placnx said:

I saw a BBC World News Global Questions discussion last weekend in which two experts, one - chief scientist of WHO, the other - Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford epidemiologist and an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, debated the concept proposed by the latter - to isolate vulnerable people and let the young go about their lives.

 

In light of emerging evidence that, after infection, immunity may not be long lasting and that we are still discovering the long-term debilitating complications of Covid, even on the young, it is extremely irresponsible of Gupta to present "herd immunity" by mass infection as a viable solution and to suggest that lockdown is the only alternative. Obviously there are many possibilities short of lockdown, as has been demonstrated very well where rapid testing was deployed early on.

 

FYI This is the Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/

 

Yes I certainly agree that there other approaches other than "total lockdown forever" and letting the virus run through the population unchecked. This entire herd immunity without a vaccine needs to be totally crushed. Its basically mass murder,  it would be impossible to effectively shield the high risk population, and it also won't work as well as the vaccine path.

Edited October 17, 2020 by Jingthing

[TeaMonkey 492]

Immunity may not be long lasting?

 

This has been going on since the start of the year. More than 38 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, and so far five of those cases have been confirmed by scientists to be reinfections.

A recent study showed antibodies had provided at least 7 months immunity in the individuals tested and the scientists thought they would provide at least 2 years protection.

And thats even if your body needs to produce antibodies. For most people this virus is so harmless their innate immune system can deal with it.  

[AndrewMciver 970]

On 10/15/2020 at 11:31 PM, scammed said:

eventually, everyone will copy sweden and move on

as it was a year ago, but its bitter and humiliating

for politicians around the world to admit they committed high treason on their own country, so its going to take quite some time yet

 

SWEDEN - needleslyy killed more people than it's neighbouring countries like Norway, Denmark by a country mile.

 

SWEDEN - one of the highest death rates in the world. 

 

SWEDEN - whose economy is wrecked, a fall of GDP by 10% on par with the worst hit countries because people are too afraid too come out and low consumer confidence. 

 

SWEDEN - who has one big city with a population of 900,000 but a huge land mass. Compared to London with a population close to 10 million. 

 

SWEDEN - who government has massive low approval ratings and have no chance of staying in power. 

 

SWEDEN - where it is estimated only 25% of their population have the virus and thus no herd immunity.

 

SWEDEN - who believed in herd immunity, but the WHO are now saying immunity may only last 6 months to a year. Will Sweden repeat the herd immunity concept next year?

 

SWEDEN - who closed down schools, shut down bars, and many shops voluntarily closed as people were not coming.

 

DON'T BE LIKE SWEDEN.