Coronavirus 5 - Last Blood

[What'sinaname]

Pfizer CEO $ay$ fourth Covid-19 vaccine will be needed.

I$ anyone $urpri$ed that the CEO of the company profiting from COVID $ay$ we need another boo$ter?

Funny - their vaccine protect$ u$ but at the $ame time i$ ineffective at protecting u$.

Cha-ching.

[#26]

^ Is there any aspect of the covid response you approved of?

[stui magpie]

Getting a 4th shot is entirely predictable for those who are older or in an at risk group.

I fully expected it would happen coming up to winter and I'll be getting one (and taking mum along too) even if they aren't recommended.

Younger people who've had 3 shots and likely also had Covid won't need one unless we get a more dangerous variant.

Hopefully our more authoritarian politicians can restrain themselves from extending mandatory vaccination orders and just let people make their own choices.

[What'sinaname]

^ Is there any aspect of the covid response you approved of?

Putting the country into further debt to benefit $hareholder$ of Pfizer i$n't $omething I approve of.


Open your eyes are see who is benefitting from COVID.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/mod ... 26-million

[#26]

^ Is there any aspect of the covid response you approved of?

Putting the country into further debt to benefit $hareholder$ of Pfizer i$n't $omething I approve of.


Open your eyes are see who is benefitting from COVID.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/mod ... 26-million

Your objections are noted. But has there been any aspect of the covid response that you-'ve approved of?

[eddiesmith]

Getting a 4th shot is entirely predictable for those who are older or in an at risk group.

I fully expected it would happen coming up to winter and I'll be getting one (and taking mum along too) even if they aren't recommended.

Younger people who've had 3 shots and likely also had Covid won't need one unless we get a more dangerous variant.

Hopefully our more authoritarian politicians can restrain themselves from extending mandatory vaccination orders and just let people make their own choices.

So Victorians can expect a 4th and 5th booster mandate before the election as predicted last year…

[stui magpie]

I don't think the commissar will mandate it leading up to an election, but you never know.

[eddiesmith]

If he could he’d mandate a 6th booster to be allowed into a voting centre…

[stui magpie]

looks like the son of Omicron, the BA.2 version is soon to be the dominant strain. So far it seems to be more than 4 times more infections that Delta and more than double the original Omicron.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/how- ... 5a3vm.html

Some are suggesting it could be as contagious as measles, but the good news is there's no evidence to suggest it's more virulent, in fact the opposite with less fatalities per infection than Flu in some data.

[Pies4shaw]

^ For reasons I had already advanced in relation to Omicron v Delta, before Omicron started killing people in large numbers, that's good from the individual risk perspective for each person who catches it but likely bad in terms of the overall numbers of deaths.

The other thing, of course, is to be wary of early media reports - because of the lengthy delay between infection and death in almost all cases, they keep assessing mortality risk before a variant has time to kill people. Remember all that garbage, allegedly based on early data out of South Africa, concerning Omicron as "the end of the pandemic"? At the time, daily deaths in South Africa were averaging under 20. If the media had waited a little (or paid attention at a subsequent time), they would have reported a seven-day rolling average of 240 deaths per day in South Africa by late February 2022.

[Dave The Man]

looks like the son of Omicron, the BA.2 version is soon to be the dominant strain. So far it seems to be more than 4 times more infections that Delta and more than double the original Omicron.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/how- ... 5a3vm.html

Some are suggesting it could be as contagious as measles, but the good news is there's no evidence to suggest it's more virulent, in fact the opposite with less fatalities per infection than Flu in some data.

So everyone gets Covid

[Jezza]

So everyone gets Covid

Everyone will get Covid at some point.

It's pretty much unavoidable, but it's just a matter of when it happens.

[Dave The Man]

^ For reasons I had already advanced in relation to Omicron v Delta, before Omicron started killing people in large numbers, that's good from the individual risk perspective for each person who catches it but likely bad in terms of the overall numbers of deaths.

The other thing, of course, is to be wary of early media reports - because of the lengthy delay between infection and death in almost all cases, they keep assessing mortality risk before a variant has time to kill people. Remember all that garbage, allegedly based on early data out of South Africa, concerning Omicron as "the end of the pandemic"? At the time, daily deaths in South Africa were averaging under 20. If the media had waited a little (or paid attention at a subsequent time), they would have reported a seven-day rolling average of 240 deaths per day in South Africa by late February 2022.

IF people are Worried then they might as well put themselves into Lockdown.

We have only 6 People on Ventilators and 27 in ICU and that is getting at least 5k New Cases a Day 40k Active Cases so going by % chances of you Dying or Getting Badly Sick is Qute Small and Smaller again IF you are Fully Vaccinated

Though I still hate the Media talking like the Pandamic is over where it has no Sign of Ending any time soon

[Dave The Man]

So everyone gets Covid

Everyone will get Covid at some point.

It's pretty much unavoidable, but it's just a matter of when it happens.

I not had it yet but There is a Pretty Good Chance I most likely will get it at the Footy

[stui magpie]

^ For reasons I had already advanced in relation to Omicron v Delta, before Omicron started killing people in large numbers, that's good from the individual risk perspective for each person who catches it but likely bad in terms of the overall numbers of deaths.

The other thing, of course, is to be wary of early media reports - because of the lengthy delay between infection and death in almost all cases, they keep assessing mortality risk before a variant has time to kill people. Remember all that garbage, allegedly based on early data out of South Africa, concerning Omicron as "the end of the pandemic"? At the time, daily deaths in South Africa were averaging under 20. If the media had waited a little (or paid attention at a subsequent time), they would have reported a seven-day rolling average of 240 deaths per day in South Africa by late February 2022.

IF people are Worried then they might as well put themselves into Lockdown.

We have only 6 People on Ventilators and 27 in ICU and that is getting at least 5k New Cases a Day 40k Active Cases so going by % chances of you Dying or Getting Badly Sick is Qute Small and Smaller again IF you are Fully Vaccinated

Correct weight Dave. If Omicron keeps evolving on it's current path, becoming more infectious but not more deadly, everyone is going to catch and by virtue of sheer number of infections we're likely to have constant daily deaths with seasonal spikes.

The people who are at high risk of death from Covid will need to take their own precautions and consider every person they come in contact with as a potential carrier.

less than pleasant for them, but better than dying and better than imposed restrictions on the vast majority of us.