Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)

Phead128

Phead128

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My prediction is once they develop a booster specifically targeting Delta, the dominant strain, and once the most vulnerable/at-risk get this booster, then we will begin to trend towards normalcy.

Rinse and repeat for any other dominant infectious strain. Just like the seasonal influenza vaccine.
 
solarz

solarz

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B.I.B. said:
Why... is it a new political/economic environment it's going to create Can you please elaborate? We do not get very much news about Canada.
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We're basically going from bad to worse, dumb to dumber. It's a federal election, and none of the parties even talk about how to end the covid crisis. The politicians, the media, and the public all delude themselves into believing covid will somehow go away on its own, even though vaccination clearly is not enough to stop it. Canadian daily new case numbers are skyrocketing and we are preparing to open our borders to everyone.

It's like living in a madhouse where you're the only sane person.
 
DarkStar

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AssassinsMace said:
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And I bet they still think they can sue China for it.
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There's actually more grounds to sue India for negligence than China; assuming COVID was natural and not an american bioweapon, China was simply the first nation to identify it; India simply allowed COVID infected travellers to infect the rest of the world, even forging COVID certificates that resulted in outbreaks in australia and PNG.
 
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KYli

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AssassinsMace

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I saw this on Fareed Zakaria's show mentioning an Economist article linking COVID-19 deaths in a country with inequity in a country. The more inequity, the more deaths and it also mentions more spent on health care for the rich had little effect but more money spent on the poor did affect the numbers. I can't see the article because of the paywall. Not sure if China was studied because they said 80 countries were involved. So are they saying China has lesser inequity since it's handled COVID-19 better than most? We always hear charged there's lot of inequity in China but this studies' logic seems to counter it if that's the case.
 
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AndrewS

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AssassinsMace said:
I saw this on Fareed Zakaria's show mentioning an Economist article linking COVID-19 deaths in a country with inequity in a country. The more inequity, the more deaths and it also mentions more spent on health care for the rich had little effect but more money spent on the poor did affect the numbers. I can't see the article because of the paywall. Not sure if China was studied because they said 80 countries were involved. So are they saying China has lesser inequity since it's handled COVID-19 better than most? We always hear charged there's lot of inequity in China but this studies' logic seems to counter it if that's the case.
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A few years back, the Economist did a piece which found higher inequality = worse health outcomes and worse happiness levels

China can't really be compared in terms of [COVID deaths versus inequality] because China never had a widespread COVID outbreak where more than 1% of the overall population has been infected.

So there usually are overwhelming health resources available in China to the small minority who end up in hospital due to COVID
 
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