2019 Novel Coronavirus Covid-19 Discussion

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#2968738 15-Sep-2022 17:28

quickymart:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/14/health/pandemic-end-in-sight-who/index.html

Let's hope the WHO is right on this.

Also - to the jerks who hassle you for still wearing a mask (I'm going to keep doing it on a bus/train/aeroplane, at least for now), try some of the lines in here: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2022/09/reddit-s-best-responses-to-you-know-you-don-t-have-to-wear-a-mask-anymore-right.html

Ha they were good.

Personally I like that it’s not mandated and I can choose. I continue to wear them in enclosed places that could be risky because of tight crowds and will still wear on busses and definitely on planes. In part having had Covid already makes me less frightened but still cautious.

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#2968760 15-Sep-2022 18:55

My response: "It's a sexual thing!"

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#2968831 15-Sep-2022 21:29

Was at t he doctors yesterday. most people hanging around were wearing masks, those coming in to make future appointments or to get a script were not.

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#2968839 15-Sep-2022 22:11

Should this be something of concern?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/09/coronavirus-new-omicron-variant-ba-4-6-spreading-overseas-here-s-what-we-know.html

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#2968852 15-Sep-2022 22:49

We are going the way of the dinosaurs at this rate but from an invisible meteor.

*This mutation, R346T, has been seen in other variants and is associated with immune evasion, meaning it helps the virus to escape antibodies acquired from vaccination and prior infection.*

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#2968854 15-Sep-2022 23:08

But it's OK. It can tell time and most countries are over it now and it's finished or have set dates to end!

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#2968914 16-Sep-2022 09:20

Perspective is important, and current data suggests that it is similarly less deadly, and has lesser effects on people than the older Delta Alpha and Beta strains.

Its important to recognise the only way this ever goes away is by infection and vaccination. Slowing the spread will not cease the spread. We are not trying to flatten any curves any longer.

The world is not going to back into the hermit closet, unless a variant forces it to. IE. mortality spikes due to a new variant. At this point it is up to individuals to protect themselves. So you should N95 up if you want the best protection possible, and opt to mitigate visiting locations that are more risky (Indoor eateries, Bars, night clubs etc.)

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#2969018 16-Sep-2022 10:41

Eva888: I’ve asked my grandchild to wear one on her flight over as would hate her to catch something on the plane and bring it home so she spends her holiday sick. I still don’t trust planes as past experience before covid is that I would often get sick within a week after a flight, so when I fly out will be inclined to wear a mask so as not to ruin a holiday.

The planes themselves (when you are sitting) are very low risk.

The papers have reported extensively about how the airflow is changed changed/filtered every few minutes.

It's the common areas in airports & queueing where a lot of people have caught it.

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#2969060 16-Sep-2022 11:11

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/16-09-2022/new-zealand-is-now-as-it-was-but-nothing-is-the-same

The Spinoff takes a look at the last 2.5 years of the pandemic and how things aren't quite "back to normal" - not as in early 2020 "normal", anyway.

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#2969421 17-Sep-2022 12:04

sudo:

The planes themselves (when you are sitting) are very low risk.

The papers have reported extensively about how the airflow is changed changed/filtered every few minutes.

It's the common areas in airports & queueing where a lot of people have caught it.

Yep that's my understanding too. I have to go to Singapore for a few days soon, I'll be wearing a mask in the airport, while boarding, and until airborne. Same at the other end. May still catch covid but would rather not bring it home to my kids and in particular pregnant wife, could be rough for her.

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#2969423 17-Sep-2022 12:08

quickymart:

Should this be something of concern?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/09/coronavirus-new-omicron-variant-ba-4-6-spreading-overseas-here-s-what-we-know.html

Waves of covid will be unpredictable and driven by new variants until the mutations settle down. Then perhaps we can expect some kind of seasonality like regular colds, flu, etc.

Also the most recent ESR variant dashboard (08/09) shows that BA.4.6 makes up 4% of sequenced cases. Two weeks earlier it was 1%. In another week or two we'll see whether it's driving a new wave or not.

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#2969467 17-Sep-2022 17:37

Popped out today, masks are rarer than hens teeth

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#2969573 17-Sep-2022 22:48

Imagining COVID is 'like the flu' is cutting thousands of lives short. It's time to wake up (theconversation.com)

In the past 75 years, only the second world war has had a greater demographic impact on Australia than COVID in 2022.

As of September 12, Australia had reported more than 10 million cases of COVID. Of those, 96% were reported in 2022, coinciding with a succession of various Omicron sub-variants and the removal of most protective measures. What’s more, the number of reported cases is probably an underestimate.

While the midsummer wave of Omicron led to the highest number of reported cases since the pandemic began, the subsequent winter waves have killed thousands more people.

Between January 5 and March 16 this year, 3,341 Australians died with COVID, compared with 8,034 between April 4 and September 16, with August being the most deadly month of the pandemic for Australia. One often forgotten impact of these deaths is that an estimated 2,000 Australian children have lost at least one parent as a result of the COVID pandemic.

How did we come to this point? A key reason we have become so complacent is the common narrative comparing COVID to influenza – in the sense that we should live with COVID in the same way we do with the flu.

The statistics demonstrate a different picture. From the start of this year to August 28, there had been just under 218,000 reported cases of flu and 288 deaths this year. There have been 44 times as many COVID cases and 42 times as many related deaths. (It is worth noting here authorities are urging caution when comparing this flu season to previous years, given COVID measures and changes in health behaviour.)

Around 1,700 people have been hospitalised with the flu this year. Yet on just one day in July, 5,429 COVID patients were in hospital.

This has been a devastating year for older Australians. More than 3,000 residents of aged care facilities have died of COVID, triple the combined number who died in 2020 and 2021. As things stand, these lives appear invisible and expendable.

COVID is nothing at all like the flu. It is causing a vastly worse scale of damage.

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#2972303 23-Sep-2022 20:11

testing for immunity to covid

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/covid-19-test-kit-immunity-blood-test-antibodies-serology-2956811

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#2972519 24-Sep-2022 17:49

BQ.1.1 ramping up in the UK (the border case type detected here before we scrapped checks)

They're dooming the expected autumn comeback as the 4 hook mutations evade immunity even more

It ain't done with us yet by any measure.

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