COVID-19: Chapter 9 - OMGicron

[otatop]

@otatop

You may have already run afoul of Tilted’s warning about this so silencings/bans may be in the cards once someone has time to go back through the thread.

I had time, and guess what

@Tilted

@Churchill knock off this continuous shitting on USA’s testing and not finding a case.

@Churchill

seems like ‘dozens’ of ROW countries made you guys find a faster way. Congrats, it’s a big club you’re joining. North Korea and Uzbekistan next to find it.

See you in 2 weeks.

[ChrisV]

@suzzer99

Is this true (about the Spanish flu being the parent of all flus today)?

lol, no. Amazing how people can just post shit like this without being like “maybe I should skim a Wikipedia article first”.

[Trolly]

@suzzer99

Is this true (about the Spanish flu being the parent of all flus today)?

Yeah, but I think the parallels aren’t great. The flu mutates way faster than COVID.

[Danspartan]

Thanks for posting, though I wish they had shown the data. Exactly what we discussed itt early in 2020. This is the type of experiment they should turn the filter on and off a few cycles and then take repeated air samples to show that x time after the filters run Y % of the airborne virus is removed.

If you get a data link please post that as well.

[Danspartan]

I’ve been trying to do selective ignore on the “debate” topics. Lots of rapid scrolling past those posts.

[Danspartan]

Is there data from the filtration work?

At this point I would assume that a simple particle count size analyzer would suffice. Get down the counts of the small droplets and probably eliminate large amounts of microrganisms.

[Danspartan]

I’m getting on a plane to Germany. It can wait.

[Rugby]

My understanding is that nobody knows what Spanish flu was. They dont have samples. Just records of symptoms.

[Danspartan]

I don’t have time to reread this before my flight, but here is the link

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/1918flupandemic.htm

[Rugby]

This is good.

Theres a more detailed article linked in yours.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html#discovering

I must have read something based on very old info.

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

I think it’s been thought for quite a while that delaying the second dose increases the immune response and makes it longer lasting. That doesn’t mean you should delay the second dose though if you can avoid it. The utility of getting that second does sooner and getting more protection faster during a COVId spike probably outweighs waiting, especially if boosters are going to be available.

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

@JohnnyTruant

Depends on a lot of factors, I’d say. First and foremost community spread in your area.

Are there any areas anywhewre that aren’t extremely high community spread right now? Maybe the Far East and Australia/NZ but that’s about it.

[otatop]

@goofyballer

On behalf of everyone who likes this thread to be readable and not about interpersonal grudges, please take this complaint to the correct thread

This goes for any complaints about moderation in this thread. Violators will eat a ban.

[suzzer99]

I would like to compliment the moderation in this thread.

[Formula72]

Do we have any idea/guesses on the succuss rate of our vaccines right now on omgcron?

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

@Formula72

Do we have any idea/guesses on the succuss rate of our vaccines right now on omgcron?

Somewhere between 20 percent and 95 percent based upon the range of articles posted in this thread.

[Trolly]

Almost certainly worse against Omicron than Delta. How much worse is anyone’s guess at this point.

[QuantGamble]

Counterpoint: if you have problems with passing out from shots, tensing actually helps.