COVID-19

[robbiestoupe]

*New user enters
5AF: IT HAS TO BE GRUNTY, GODRIC, OR EPP!!!!1!1!111! REPENT SINNER!!!11!1!

There's a reason we get like one new face a year.

So true. When I first joined I made some joke and immediately got 2-3 EPP accusations.

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

spanish Richard

[faftorial]

One reason is disproportionate numbers of people who are themselves or in a household with Dreamers. They aren't likely to inject themselves into the healthcare system, generally, because of fears of exposing themselves to authorities. It isn't strictly a vaccine thing.

That makes sense.

[Troy Loney]

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

This is because Florida is testing more people, I’m sure.

[NTP66]

DeSantis will save them.

[King Colby]

I have a bad feeling

[Troy Loney]

I have a bad feeling

100% chance we are wearing masks by october

[willeyeam]

I just want to tailgate and watch Pitt break my heart with 35k other dummies. And I'd like to see the Pens in a full arena without a mask. And if these dumb **** that didn't get their shot ruin this then **** you you dumb ****

[King Colby]

It goes well beyond the unvaccinated. I know several double vaccinated individuals who are pretty sick currently.

[Troy Loney]

It goes well beyond the unvaccinated. I know several double vaccinated individuals who are pretty sick currently.

Our exposure would be lower without all the idiot vectors

[willeyeam]

Yes. And the more people vaccinated, the less variants

[skullman80]

It goes well beyond the unvaccinated. I know several double vaccinated individuals who are pretty sick currently.

Yeah but the statistical likelyhood of getting very sick IE...needing to go to the hospital or ER if you are fully vaccinated is slim to none.

It's way more likely if you aren't vaccinated. So it really doesn't go beyond the unvaccinated. They are the problem. Period.

[King Colby]

Yes. And the more people vaccinated, the less variants

The unvaccinated population in the USA has minimal impact on variants

[King Colby]

It goes well beyond the unvaccinated. I know several double vaccinated individuals who are pretty sick currently.

Yeah but the statistical likelyhood of getting very sick IE...needing to go to the hospital or ER if you are fully vaccinated is slim to none.

It's way more likely if you aren't vaccinated. So it really doesn't go beyond the unvaccinated. They are the problem. Period.

Aren't they considering canceling an Olympics full of vaccinated people who are getting covid

[Troy Loney]

Oof

[King Colby]

Idc, blame or no blame things are not looking good.

[Troy Loney]

Idc, blame or no blame things are not looking good.

Yeah. We had like a month window where things looked great, government was like we need to be vigilant, everyone was like “lol”.

And now this

[DigitalGypsy66]

I've heard some prominent right-wing political figures asking people to get vaccinated: Hannity, Ben Shapiro (soft of lol), Moscow Mitch. That's a good sign.

[Freddy Rumsen]

Moscow Mitch was saying that in March.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/29/politics ... index.html

[count2infinity]

Yes. And the more people vaccinated, the less variants

The unvaccinated population in the USA has minimal impact on variants

In terms of quantity of different variants? sure. In terms of the quantity of those sick with a new variant? Unvaccinated have a big impact on spread.

[Shyster]

Yes. And the more people vaccinated, the less variants

The unvaccinated population in the USA has minimal impact on variants

COVID-19 vaccines dampen genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2: Unvaccinated patients exhibit more antigenic mutational variance
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... XeBIm5Nfqo

We report that unvaccinated patients share significantly more genomic mutational similarity (particularly B-cell epitope mutations) to the variants of concern than the breakthrough infection patients. This study demonstrates that mass vaccination may serve as an antigenic impediment to the evolution of fitter and more transmissive SARS-CoV-2 variants, emphasizing the urgent need to stem vaccine hesitancy as a key step to mitigate the global burden of COVID-19.
. . .
This study presents the first known evidence that COVID19 vaccines are fundamentally restricting the evolutionary and antigenic escape pathways accessible to SARS-CoV-2. The societal benefit of mass vaccination may consequently go far beyond the widely reported mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 infection risk and amelioration of community transmission, to include stemming of rampant viral evolution.

This study concluded that even when vaccinated people get breakthrough infections, the Covid viruses they are putting out are significantly less genetically diverse than the viruses produced by an infection in an unvaccinated person. The lower mutation level means that a vaccinated person is much less likely than an unvaccinated person to be coughing out a new mutant that may be more virulent or "escape" the current vaccines. Vaccination reduces the potential for new variants, and therefore vaccination absolutely has an impact on variants.

[willeyeam]

He said in the USA though. We're stronger

[AuthorTony]

All of the recent reports of "breakthrough" are the worst possible thing that could happen. Unvaxxed folks already don't think covid is a big deal, and now they see double vaxxed folks getting covid. There's no way they're getting vaccinated after this. I understand the media has an obligation to report this news, but this it's pretty much ruined vaccination efforts.

[Nuge]

Oof

Damnit

[count2infinity]

I didn’t even bother putting my name in for psu football tickets at work. By the time the fall rolls around we’ll likely be under mask mandates and semi lockdowns again.