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> The Leger survey, conducted for the Association of Canadian Studies, found that more than three in four respondents hold negative views of those who are not immunized.

Divide et impera


Sounds bad, but imagine the warehouse manager would've helped the guy and gotten COVID-19! Can't risk that!


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> Sounds bad, but imagine the warehouse manager would've helped the guy and gotten COVID-19!

Isn't Amazon testing warehouse employees for COVID-19 whenever they enter their premises?

Nevertheless, unless Amazon treats their employees like utter crap, showing any symptom of COVID-19 would be grounds to just let them go on sick leave no questions asked. Instead, the newspiece states that the manager of the deceased was making him run laps.


Sure, but with the new Delta Plus® variant (+ false-negative tests + asymptomatic transmission) it's better to play it safe & keep your distance from other human resources.


> Sure, but with the new Delta Plus® (...)

Nonsense. All it takes is checking temperature or self-reporting symptoms.


> S.V. Subramanian, the Harvard professor of population health and geography behind the paper [Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States], says the vaccine doubters are completely wrong.

> “That conclusion is misleading and inaccurate,” Subramanian told me of Horowitz’s Blaze column over email. “This paper supports vaccination as an important strategy for reducing infection and transmission, along with hand-washing, mask-wearing, and physical distancing.”


> Centner called COVID-19 vaccines "experimental," despite the fact that they have been under development for decades

Attenuated vaccines have been under development for centuries. Do they even need trials?


TLDR;

Immunologist isn't convinced of risk. Cites not peer reviewed laboratory evidence.


NPR accordingly and responsibly titled it "might not be", yes.


Not sure if it’s reasonable. My gut interpretation (before reading the article) was “breakthrough infections are overblown”.

I prefer their alternative headline “What the latest COVID research says about breakthrough cases and transmission”


That's the correct interpretation, should the preprints survive peer review and further research support the early indications.


From the study you cited:

> We note that almost 43% of patients after influenza had at least one long-COVID feature recorded (Table 1) including 29.7% during the 90- to 180-day period. In this regard, we suggest researchers take a broad and balanced view as to the nature and specificity of long-COVID.


Yes, "long flu" is also a thing.


> Let’s start with what we do know about the unvaccinated

> Some key research on the unvaccinated

> It may well be that some of the unvaccinated are a bit like cats stuck in a tree

What a silly bunch, the unvaccinated


> All I can hope for is to become happy with a life that now tortures me. One that cages me, pens me in, puts up walls all around me. One that makes me smaller, misshapen, that boxes my heart and spirit inside of me. But that’s no hope at all, no challenge at all. As if one could say, “You will be enslaved from now on with no chance of escape. Your owner will use your wife and daughters as he pleases, for his pleasure. If you do not work you will be whipped and tortured and it will be the same for your family. Your hope in life, and your challenge, is to become happy with this.”


Sure, but can you imagine what 1968 would have looked like with cellphone alerts?

http://web.archive.org/web/20180115194946/https://www.nytime...


What's the point of life? When's the line of death? And whase hitched to the hop in his tayle?


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