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@kid-chocolate said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kiwiwomble said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@broughie said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@gt12 The chances are slim to none that the little ones will pay a price. That’s what the stats show. All three of my kids had Covid and recovered. The kids that have problems are immunocompromised. My kids basically felt blah for about three days and that’s how they described it to me.
They lost taste for a week or so. But other than that it was a non-event which it is pretty much the story of covid and kids. According to my daughter the flu is worse as she is congested, can’t sleep and feels miserable. Just some perspective.isn't delta proving to be different? or did your kids have delta? i thought delta was hitting kids just as hard as adult, making up a decent percent of the hospitalisations currently
Could be mistaken, but most of the reports I’ve read — and they’re presumably “official” ‘cos no self-righteous mainstream media org would ever dare printing click-baity “fake news” would they? — say the Delta is much-much-more more transmissible than earlier variants, but that the effect and fatality is no worse than the others. But it sounds super-scary, and that’s at least half the point.
i think thats what i was meaning, where as Kids seemed to be able to avoid the previous strains they are catching delta as easily as anyone else and that includes the associated hospitalisations
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What’s the fatality rate for Delta on kids under 12? I don’t doubt kids get it. They get tonsillitis too, and that is sometimes fatal.
Does Covid kill more kids than, say, drowning? If not, then I want a mandatory ban on all water sport activities, because their welfare needs protected.
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@kid-chocolate no idea overall, a graphic from a link above, this relates to California (I think this is COvid deaths, no specific to Delta)
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@kid-chocolate i really didn;t want to bite but you do know there is a different between dying due to something you've done... like swimming, and therefor accepting the consequences of your actions...and dying of COVID which you caught from doing nothing special other than being in a supermarket or something...theyre not apple and apples
i realise eventually we'll have to accept living with it but i dont think trivialising it is necessary
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kid-chocolate no idea overall, a graphic from a link above, this relates to California (I think this is COvid deaths, no specific to Delta)
Gee percent died for groups under 17 cant even get to 0.1% of cases.
So the only argument for vaccinating those under 17 must be vaccination makes them less likely to transmit to transmit Corona to more vulnerable groups?
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@kiwiwomble I don’t think so but let me talk to my friend who is an ER doc. What he told me a couple weeks ago is that they are seeing a slightly younger population but same kind of health issues. In general even though there are more cases they have better treatments and people are not dying as often. It is still nasty to a specific population. My dive buddy contracted the Rona about 10 days ago while in Honduras. He is in his early forties, a little tubby Texan cop and he is okay after several days. He was not vaccinated either and believes in his own immune system. Doubt the kids have the delta and my understanding is the tests usually don’t determine it’s delta but assumed as it is a new strain. So my kids had it in February and gave it to me so not delta?
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@frank That’s generous. Try 0.000054545454545 and remember that only takes into account kids that have been tested. Add my three kids to that list and all the other untested kids who’ve had Covid. That’s how insignificant the death rate is for kids.
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‘New York’ variant is the next cab off the rank apparently
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@kiwiwomble My friend says no.
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@frank I guess they are constantly developing/updating the vaccine so ultimately could end up like the normal flu and become an annual Vax, and could they end up having a single one for both covid and normal flu, like MMR vaccine?
Will people eventually build up an immunity to a point it ends up being no more than the normal flu (that some claimed it was already)
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@frank I guess they are constantly developing/updating the vaccine so ultimately could end up like the normal flu and become an annual Vax, and could they end up having a single one for both covid and normal flu, like MMR vaccine?
Will people eventually build up an immunity to a point it ends up being no more than the normal flu (that some claimed it was already)
thats pretty much exactly what im expecting/hoping
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@frank I guess they are constantly developing/updating the vaccine so ultimately could end up like the normal flu and become an annual Vax, and could they end up having a single one for both covid and normal flu, like MMR vaccine?
Will people eventually build up an immunity to a point it ends up being no more than the normal flu (that some claimed it was already)
I assume that's what will happen. It happened with influenza, after the disease killed millions of people first only the survivors were left
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@canefan said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@frank I guess they are constantly developing/updating the vaccine so ultimately could end up like the normal flu and become an annual Vax, and could they end up having a single one for both covid and normal flu, like MMR vaccine?
Will people eventually build up an immunity to a point it ends up being no more than the normal flu (that some claimed it was already)
I assume that's what will happen. It happened with influenza, after the disease killed millions of people first only the survivors were left
That’s usually the way it works 😀
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@frank I guess they are constantly developing/updating the vaccine so ultimately could end up like the normal flu and become an annual Vax, and could they end up having a single one for both covid and normal flu, like MMR vaccine?
Will people eventually build up an immunity to a point it ends up being no more than the normal flu (that some claimed it was already)
That'll take fucken years and years.
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@frank said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@frank I guess they are constantly developing/updating the vaccine so ultimately could end up like the normal flu and become an annual Vax, and could they end up having a single one for both covid and normal flu, like MMR vaccine?
Will people eventually build up an immunity to a point it ends up being no more than the normal flu (that some claimed it was already)
That'll take fucken years and years.
didn't they say that at first about COVID vaccines, you might be right but you never know if it stay at the front of people minds
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@tewaio said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@frank speaking of which
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_and_Years_(TV_series)
this was a great watch for future dystopian societal decay, and that was pre covid!
Oooh, never heard of this, worth a watch?
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