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Well, covid has like a case fatality rate of 0.01% atm, at least in the Netherlands. We are averaging almost 100k cases per day versus <10 deaths per day. Even the antivaxxers will have immunity by now (actually blood research showed that 97% of people have antibodies atm).
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wb the chances of becoming disabled from long covid? i don’t think shit just all sweet
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important news: the pandemic is over
I got the booster
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looks like ww3 will start next week folks

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Cometk wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 20:50
wb the chances of becoming disabled from long covid? i don’t think shit just all sweet
Those are also probably pretty low tbh
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Horsemen wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 21:27
looks like ww3 will start next week folks

it was nice knowing you all
There's no point in ever predicting mass catastrophe, because even if you're right you won't have the chance to say "I told you so" since everyone will be dead/busy with the aforementioned catastrophe. Better to just predict that things will generally stay the same week to week and you'll be right the vast majority of the time
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fightinfrenchman wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 22:17
Horsemen wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 21:27
looks like ww3 will start next week folks

it was nice knowing you all
There's no point in ever predicting mass catastrophe, because even if you're right you won't have the chance to say "I told you so" since everyone will be dead/busy with the aforementioned catastrophe. Better to just predict that things will generally stay the same week to week and you'll be right the vast majority of the time
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fightinfrenchman wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 22:15
Cometk wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 20:50
wb the chances of becoming disabled from long covid? i don’t think shit just all sweet
Those are also probably pretty low tbh
At this point I have stopped believing I can even catch covid tbh. The vaccine just works for me. Ive been working at a high school, seeing like 150 different kids every week with no masks or social distancing. A bunch of them ended up being positive and Im still testing negative. My girlfriend was in direct contact with a covid positive person, no masks or distancing, for 3 hours in an unventilated room while singing, at the point in time where the positive person was supposedly the most contagious. She tested negative for 5 consecutive days after that. So its over, at least for me. Its less of a worry than catching the flu at this point.
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Same. I'm talking to people in closed spaces every day, without mask. They have the vax, I don't.
And I didn't get the virus, or I didn't notice if I got it.
Not even sure there's any point in getting the vax now.
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Dolan wrote:
12 Feb 2022, 00:22
Same. I'm talking to people in closed spaces every day, without mask. They have the vax, I don't.
And I didn't get the virus, or I didn't notice if I got it.
Not even sure there's any point in getting the vax now.
it'll be funny when all your friends drop dead of 'natural causes' in 12 months and you're the only person left standing

just had my 17th jab yesterday btw. my left arm looks like a heroin addicts
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RefluxSemantic wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 20:10
Well, covid has like a case fatality rate of 0.01% atm, at least in the Netherlands. We are averaging almost 100k cases per day versus <10 deaths per day. Even the antivaxxers will have immunity by now (actually blood research showed that 97% of people have antibodies atm).
Wait till the next variant comes
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RefluxSemantic wrote:
12 Feb 2022, 00:00
fightinfrenchman wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 22:15
Cometk wrote:
11 Feb 2022, 20:50
wb the chances of becoming disabled from long covid? i don’t think shit just all sweet
Those are also probably pretty low tbh
At this point I have stopped believing I can even catch covid tbh. The vaccine just works for me. Ive been working at a high school, seeing like 150 different kids every week with no masks or social distancing. A bunch of them ended up being positive and Im still testing negative. My girlfriend was in direct contact with a covid positive person, no masks or distancing, for 3 hours in an unventilated room while singing, at the point in time where the positive person was supposedly the most contagious. She tested negative for 5 consecutive days after that. So its over, at least for me. Its less of a worry than catching the flu at this point.
I think many people have gotten omicron and not noticed it. And many of these self tests have really abhorent rates of false negatives, which is finally being talked about in my country. On the upside it seems like covid will be fully over by the time summer comes around.
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The self tests I have been using supposedly have only a few percent false negative rate. The instruction manual usually tells you how it holds up against the pcr tests. Ive been doing about 3 self tests every week atm.
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They are upto 85% accurate and that depends on viral loads. Someone who has a low viral load would be a false negative.
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Apperantly India is getting B grade tests. Mine are 97% accurate according to the instruction manual.
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They all are going to be accurate according to their own instructions.
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POC wrote:Also as an objective third party, and near 100% accuracy of giving correct information, I would say my opinions are more reliable than yours.
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How gullible can you be Jermiah
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princeofcarthage wrote:
12 Feb 2022, 18:42
How gullible can you be Jermiah
I have quite a bit of trust in the medical information printed on the instructions of these tests. Its a reasonable trust given the extensive European legislation.
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Honestly, the only way in which I can understand not having caught the virus is that the vaccines actually work. There's been a lot of anecdotal evidence about breakthrough infections, but most recent data suggests that vaccines still offer 70% protection. Maybe that protection is closer to 100% for certain individuals that meet certain conditions (ie young, healthy, naturally less susceptible to covid). Thats the only way in which I can understand how my girlfriend (who spent 2 hours standing next to someone who was covid positive in an unventilated room, while singing) did not catch covid last week.
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RefluxSemantic wrote:
12 Feb 2022, 21:28
Honestly, the only way in which I can understand not having caught the virus is that the vaccines actually work. There's been a lot of anecdotal evidence about breakthrough infections, but most recent data suggests that vaccines still offer 70% protection. Maybe that protection is closer to 100% for certain individuals that meet certain conditions (ie young, healthy, naturally less susceptible to covid). Thats the only way in which I can understand how my girlfriend (who spent 2 hours standing next to someone who was covid positive in an unventilated room, while singing) did not catch covid last week.
What kind of restrictions do you have to deal with at the moment
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RefluxSemantic wrote:
12 Feb 2022, 21:16
princeofcarthage wrote:
12 Feb 2022, 18:42
How gullible can you be Jermiah
I have quite a bit of trust in the medical information printed on the instructions of these tests. Its a reasonable trust given the extensive European legislation.
And I don't deny that, we also get tests which say they are 95% accurate but real world testing just shows that it is not possible. I agree that in ideal world in laboratory testing they could give 97% or whatever they print on it. But real world research shows that it is not possible. There are too many factors and human intervention at work. As a result on average they are 85% accurate based on data gathered. Say you are doing everything it is possible in your individual case it could be more. I am almost certain the packaging would read "upto 97%".
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7 day average is now below pre-omicron levels
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