Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
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Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
Has it really been a year already? Doesn't time fly when you're having fun?
Normally one wishes "many happy returns" at a moment like this, but I'd quite like this subforum to be a shadow of its former self soon, due to lack of interest, because the problem will have gone away.
Is it too much to expect that by this time next year we will be back to a single Covid thread?
Normally one wishes "many happy returns" at a moment like this, but I'd quite like this subforum to be a shadow of its former self soon, due to lack of interest, because the problem will have gone away.
Is it too much to expect that by this time next year we will be back to a single Covid thread?
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Re: Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
Probably too optimistic.
There's new variants, new vaccines to deal with them, parts of the developing world probably won't be vaccinated at all in a year, long covid and how to treat it ...
There's new variants, new vaccines to deal with them, parts of the developing world probably won't be vaccinated at all in a year, long covid and how to treat it ...
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Re: Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
And those who'll claim, whenever it dies down in their privileged corner of the first world, that it wasn't a big deal after all.Woodchopper wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 9:16 amProbably too optimistic.
There's new variants, new vaccines to deal with them, parts of the developing world probably won't be vaccinated at all in a year, long covid and how to treat it ...
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
It's not as big a deal as some of the plagues of history. Although the number killed might eventually exceed the numbers for past plagues, most of that is due to the difference in the world's population. We should prepare for a future infection which is a much bigger deal - it will come eventually.
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Similar mortality to the Black Death seems to be a pretty high threshold for something being ‘a big deal’.Millennie Al wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 2:41 amIt's not as big a deal as some of the plagues of history. Although the number killed might eventually exceed the numbers for past plagues, most of that is due to the difference in the world's population. We should prepare for a future infection which is a much bigger deal - it will come eventually.
But yes, the next pandemic could be much worse. Or maybe the next phase of this one if variants evolve significant immune escape.
Re: Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
Meh. We've got far better treatments as well as tweakable vaccines. I'm not scared of Covid-19 which is, let's face it, predominantly a harvester of the elderly.
What I'm scared of is a pandemic that kills children and the young.
What I'm scared of is a pandemic that kills children and the young.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
If it had "only" killed that many under normal circumstances rather than killing that many despite shutting down most of the economy and activity of major parts of the world then yeah it would have been a bit less of a big deal.Millennie Al wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 2:41 amIt's not as big a deal as some of the plagues of history. Although the number killed might eventually exceed the numbers for past plagues, most of that is due to the difference in the world's population. We should prepare for a future infection which is a much bigger deal - it will come eventually.
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
Wow I missed this. What a day that was for me eh
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Re: Happy Birthday, Temporary covid subforum!
I've gotta say I'm glad we made that special section. It's nice to be able to browse something online without it all being pandemic related.
Can't quite bring myself to celebrate with a cake though
Can't quite bring myself to celebrate with a cake though
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