Posted on 12/30/2021 11:41:08 PM PST by blueplum
The U.S. reported nearly half a million new COVID infections in a single day, marking the largest daily total of any country during the pandemic. More than 486,000 new cases were reported in a 24-hour period, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Fifteen states reported a record-high number of average daily infections: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington. Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., are also averaging more daily cases than ever.
With COVID-19 cases rising so fast, fueled by the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, it's estimated that more than three Americans are testing positive every second...
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Egg-zackly.
You have as much chance of catching a unicorn as you do of stopping the phantom menace that is “COVID”.
In the first place, anyone can write for Yahoo. Yahoo pays its scribblers one-quarter of a penny for every click on their garbage site. So the scam writers produce sensational lies and propaganda by the truck load to get clicks from brainwashed fools.
The commies who write Yahoo garbage use the money they get from clicks to pay rent, buy food and purchase drugs. So this presents a real opportunity to starve a commie by not clicking on any Yahoo article.
My wife contracted Covid in December ‘20 after a family trip to Tennessee. She had the real symptoms... strong headache, loss of smell, taste, etc. And pink eye. All before getting tested.
I had a headache and “pink eye” at the same time as her symptoms presented, which both cleared up for me within a day of taking over-the-counter drops and Motrin.
This was a few weeks after she gave birth, and while I was also on extended vacation and paternity leave. Said to myself, now’s the best time for me to get it too. Didn’t do anything to avoid it while around her.
During my annual physical last month, I asked if they could test my labs for Covid antibodies. Test came back negative.
My tin foil hat says... She was the only one tested last December, when the pharma/govt incentive was to find more cases (legitimate in her case). In my case, the pharma/govt incentive was to find I have no antibodies so that I need the vax.
But the pink eye for both of us leads me to suspect we both had it. Her sense of smell and taste has still not recovered. She had a constant headache for months. I may have had a mild case or been more naturally resistant. I don’t trust the tests, either, at this point.
“The good news is, we actually can test 1/2 a million in a day”
As sjeann points out, 1/2 million positives means many more total tests (five or ten times as many, with test positivity rates now surging to around 10-20% in different places).
At some point (probably soon) this explosive growth in infections might (likely, at least locally) exceed testing capacity, and an increasing percentage of infections will go unconfirmed/unreported.
When reported new case growth does top out, we will need to consider if the infections have actually crested, or if the capacity of testing to record them has been reached.
Test positivity rate increases might be an early indicator of that, while hospitalization or death rate increases might be trailing indicators.
You also contributed to the likelihood of variants.
Every time the virus enters a host and begins to copy itself, it increases the likelihood of variants—variants that may or may not recognize you immunity.
Huge GP lie.
Happens / could happen every time a person contracts the Common Cold.
What are you proposing?
Regards,
“Vaccinated people can still spread the virus.”
of course, just outlining the totally absurd positions of those demanding that EVERYBODY get jabbed 3 or more times
Same with my family - only with reversed roles.
I (60 years old) definitely got the Covid - classic symptoms. Our family physician came to our house and stood in our front yard to administer the tests. The findings came back to reveal that I was positive, while my wife (44) and son (12) were not.
How can it NOT be transmitted when you sleep in the same bed, drink out of the same water glass, or enjoy "conjugal relations" with someone?
Regards,
Well, I’ll start by proposing that this is not the common cold.
Despite a very high rate of survival among those infected, the medical community is documenting a lot of long-term/permanent organ damage (lung, heart, kidney, even brain) among COVID survivors.
You misunderstand: What concrete action are you proposing.
Despite a very high rate of survival among those infected, the medical community is documenting a lot of long-term/permanent organ damage (lung, heart, kidney, even brain) among COVID survivors.
So?
Regards,
Q: Is anyone dead?
A: Of course not.
Lots of mitigation proposals are out there.
So, you don’t see any national health implications or national economic implications involved with people behaving like walking incubators for variants? What happens in 5 or 10 years when a high percentage of COVID survivors are clogging up hospitals with long-term/permanent organ damage? What happens when a high percentage of people go on disability when they can’t work anymore?
I get your argument about herd immunity, but the immunity is failing as more variants develop.
EVENTUALLY the immunity will catch up... maybe decades or so from now, if the virus is left un-checked.
EVERY single case of COVID is a chance for the virus to mutate.
Yes, indeed: Lots of conflicting mitigation proposals are out there.
I'm asking you to "show your colors" and make it clear on what side you are.
Are you, e.g., in favor of vaxx-mandates?
Would you favor multiple boosters?
Do you think that therapeutic treatments (catchword: Ivermectin) should be looked into more closely?
Do you think that more-draconian quarantines and masking requirements are the answer?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
enjoy your old anxiety. It’s the only anxiety your gonna get!
Having observed covid from the beginning I have to say that business closures, mask requirements and the like have been bs from the start.
IF we really had a devastating plague I can’t imagine it would be handled this way.
There has never been a time I couldn’t freely shop in every box store and supermarket, restaurants have been open most of the time.
I got vaccinated and never had covid a far as I know.
And at this point while there is a huge spread of cases, people are tired of restrictions, everything is open and about half the people don’t wear masks.
Just saying except for vaccines (if they work) there was never a real shutdown like you’d do if there was any hope of stopping a plague.
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What a load of B.S.
Nobody needs to be afraid, unless they believe the manipulative crap spewed forth from that rectangular thing in their dens.
Uh, no we haven’t. Show proof or shut up.
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