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In a population with Canada's vaccination rate, Omicron is ballpark twice as contagious and half as deadly. Thanks to the wonders of exponential growth, that means it'll kill a lot more people unless we increase the amount of precautions taken.
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get your boosters and enjoy the chud-free future
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So uh, did we fix that whole long term care homes thing from last year? You know the one where a bunch of old people died.
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yes, precautions have been taken and the odds of those people dying again this year are extremely low
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Dec 9, 2021 02:37
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Hot take: boycotting the olympics is cool and good.
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:yes, precautions have been taken and the odds of those people dying again this year are extremely low technically the dead can't die again unless we could somehow raise them from the dead factcheck: true, zero pinocchios
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Hot take: boycotting the olympics is cool and good. It's not a boycott if our athletes are still competing.
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Wait the vaccines don't work for Omicron? gently caress.
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they do, at around the same efficacy as a seasonal flu shot is against the flu. breakthrough cases are mild and a booster kicks the efficacy way the gently caress back up
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the mRNA vaccines having an initial two-dose efficacy in the high 90s percentage seems to have broken people's brains. the seasonal flu shot varies between 30 and 40% efficacy based on which strains were guessed correctly, and that's enough to make getting the flu a much less common experience, and reducing severity of symptoms in breakthrough cases
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Dec 9, 2021 03:34
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wait the vaccines don't work for Omicron? i would hold off on taking third hand supposition from unpublished medical studies as gospel. also, as Kazinsal noted, context is important regardless.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wait the vaccines don't work for Omicron? that is correct. there is currently a misinformation campaign right now about "mild" symptoms but that is hopium bullshit and we won't start seeing mass death for at least a week. that just how covid symptoms develop, they are always mild to start omicron is infecting younger people
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Dec 9, 2021 03:56
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Rutibex posted:I'm an idiot who spends too much time online and uses words like 'hopium' unironically. ftfy
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Rutibex posted:we won't start seeing mass death for at least a week. is this like the doomsday cults where if there are no mass deaths in a week and we ask you about it, you'll double down on the next one?
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Rutibex posted:that is correct. there is currently a misinformation campaign right now about "mild" symptoms but that is hopium bullshit and we won't start seeing mass death for at least a week. that just how covid symptoms develop, they are always mild to start also two doses of vaccine is much less effective against omicron you need a booster you know that thing we are being very slow about Canadas omicron response is to close our eyes and hope the storm wont hit us but its already broken through the windows I dont want to die
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Dec 9, 2021 04:04
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infernal machines posted:is this like the doomsday cults where if there are no mass deaths in a week and we ask you about it, you'll double down on the next one?  south africa went from 560 new covid cases per day to 13,000 covid cases per day in two weeks. i'll take that bet
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infernal machines posted:is this like the doomsday cults where if there are no mass deaths in a week and we ask you about it, you'll double down on the next one? 1,000 people died of Omicron in South Africa last week. The US will see daily 9/11s in February, although Canada has an outside chance of preventing things from becoming too bad.
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Chamale posted:Canada has an outside chance of preventing things. uh oh our track record!!
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Chamale posted:although Canada has an outside chance of preventing things from becoming too bad. oh?
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Chamale posted:although Canada has an outside chance of preventing things from becoming too bad.  Manitoba is making sure to keep things from getting bad don't worry!
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Step 1: make a deal with a US hospital network to handle a number of surgeries to ease backlog Step 2: allow US hospital network to set up temporary private surgery centers in Manitoba to ease backlog Step 3: private surgery centers become a permanent part of the Manitoba healthcare system Step 4: They did so well with surgeries, we're selling them the hospitals
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https://twitter.com/liv_agar/status/1468464024698429441?s=21
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Anyone who says they know what is happening with Omicron is lying. We don't know yet, that's how science works. Digging our head in the sand isn't helpful but neither is fear-mongering. Just wait, and no open mouth kissing strangers.... Unless they are pretty and consenting.
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Rutibex posted:that is correct. there is currently a misinformation campaign right now about "mild" symptoms but that is hopium bullshit and we won't start seeing mass death for at least a week. that just how covid symptoms develop, they are always mild to start Lmao calm down
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Dec 9, 2021 05:31
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Pretty sure I can't get a booster shot yet.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Lmao calm down a+ handle/post combo goons have been claiming covid is the end of the world since about february 2020, every new development is interpreted with greater bombast and hyperbole. i mean, maybe it is the end of the world this time, but it hasn't been yet. infernal machines has issued a correction as of 05:52 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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infernal machines posted:a+ handle/post combo only have to be right once
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oh definitely, that's the doomsayer's advantage
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infernal machines posted:a+ handle/post combo The thread viewpoint is that it's going to be a bunch of extra suffering and mass death, but not enough to fundamentally change anything. With a small probability that covid kills us all before climate change-induced crop failures do
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infernal machines posted:a+ handle/post combo takes time for civilization to fall
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A Russian troll farm posted:I'm getting my CERB clawed back. Every red penny, even though I paid taxes on it. All loyalty I may have once had towards this country is now severed, and I will from now until the end of my life, at any opportunity, act contrary to the interests of this devil nation. My sympathies dude. My resolve to hate this country for what it did to poor essential workers has not faded since march, join me comrade.
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It's just a disease that has upended the entire world for 2 years with no end in sight and is getting worse calm down nbd
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You keep saying things are bad, but I haven't died yet! So things must be fine.
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Fall and decline of the Roman Empire famously happened over a weekend
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I got a thing on the 18th we better not get another lockdown till after then. I still expect lockdowns just won't be a thing ever again Stefanson would rather let the province collapse.
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EvilJoven posted:lockdown 
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Everything is fine! I say as my kid brings home 5 rapid tests provided by their school and the feds are considering doing the same for every canadian
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skewetoo posted:Everything is fine! I say as my kid brings home 5 rapid tests provided by their school and the feds are considering doing the same for every canadian free tests? you know what that will cost?! thats crazy why not just laugh at us and offer reimbursement if we can prove the test was ordered by a doctor
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given that testing is at best reactive, it seems a like maybe we should close schools again for a bit if this is a concern. re: popular reporting of claims re: vaccine efficacy  i'm seeing a bit of distance between those two headlines also 
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skewetoo posted:It's just a disease that has upended the entire world for 2 years with no end in sight and is getting worse calm down nbd Post your gas mask thingy you wear whenever you leave your place to get the mail please
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