Johns Hopkins ?

[jcb]

We are 8 months from the mid-term elections and there are a whole lot of seats up...........and a whole lot of those are in places that are not doing very well.

Lo and behold, the mandates are no longer needed.

convenient.

The Dems are absolutely doomed except in the most blue of blueish states b/c of mandate resentment.

I'll also say, and I have absolutely nothing to back this up with, that I think it's also possible the CDC and other decision makers looked at Omicron and said "here's a highly transmissible, not as lethal variant" and thought it might be a good idea to remove the mandates, overcome the anti-vaxxers and nudge us toward herd immunity. The next variant could be much worse.

[Moveon]

The Dems are absolutely doomed except in the most blue of blueish states b/c of mandate resentment.

I'll also say, and I have absolutely nothing to back this up with, that I think it's also possible the CDC and other decision makers looked at Omicron and said "here's a highly transmissible, not as lethal variant" and thought it might be a good idea to remove the mandates, overcome the anti-vaxxers and nudge us toward herd immunity. The next variant could be much worse.

Did you ever think that since so many people are fully vaccinated these days that Omicron won't make as many people sick as before everyone got vaccinated? Maybe Omicron is as lethal as the original SARS CoV-2 virus but can't make vaccinated people as sick as before they were all vaccinated.

[jcb]

Did you ever think that since so many people are fully vaccinated these days that Omicron won't make as many people sick as before everyone got vaccinated? Maybe Omicron is as lethal as the original SARS CoV-2 virus but can't make vaccinated people as sick as before they were all vaccinated.

The CDC released a study in January that said reductions in disease severity associated with Omicron were equally clear in unvaccinated patients.

[GeoFisher]

The Dems are absolutely doomed except in the most blue of blueish states b/c of mandate resentment.

I'll also say, and I have absolutely nothing to back this up with, that I think it's also possible the CDC and other decision makers looked at Omicron and said "here's a highly transmissible, not as lethal variant" and thought it might be a good idea to remove the mandates, overcome the anti-vaxxers and nudge us toward herd immunity. The next variant could be much worse.

I have heard the herd immunity argument.......could be quite legitimate. WE will never know.

AND the next variant could be much worse. Imagine the variants where animals might "really" be involved. Of course some on this board think it came from bats, and unicorns. There is not a SINGLE bat or unicorn that has been tracked, and they have tested over 80k animals in China looking for such a unicorn.

Imagine the animal borne version that jumps from us to White Tail Deer, and then back to human. IMAGINE all the "****" that might be associated with that, and the potential hazards. THAT is what I fear.

Later,

Geo

[Moveon]

I have heard the herd immunity argument.......could be quite legitimate. WE will never know.

AND the next variant could be much worse. Imagine the variants where animals might "really" be involved. Of course some on this board think it came from bats, and unicorns. There is not a SINGLE bat or unicorn that has been tracked, and they have tested over 80k animals in China looking for such a unicorn.

Imagine the animal borne version that jumps from us to White Tail Deer, and then back to human. IMAGINE all the "****" that might be associated with that, and the potential hazards. THAT is what I fear.

Later,

Geo

Tell me where did MERS come from Geo.

I'm waiting for your answer.

You do know that the virus in bats is 98% similar to the virus in humans called SARS CoV-2?