I’ve been trying to find an exact answer to your question. It’s part of the annual flu vaccine so it’s a bit more preventable. But it appears to still be a very nasty strain of the flu. I think you may be correct that covid will follow a similar path.
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I already made my position quite clear. I won’t go back to WDW while they have a mask rule in place. Whether I think it’s a good idea to have a mask rule or not is irrelevant. Disney has established the rule as a condition for re-opening so if I want to visit I need to wear a mask. Period. Coming up with ways try to circumvent the rules is just petty. Thinking you are going to walk around with a food item in your hand and no mask because you are “dining” is not following the rules. There are people who are willing to accept the rules that Disney is laying out and want to go and try to have a good time. More power to them. Don’t ruin it for those people, if you don’t like it just wait until the rule is gone. If that’s being extreme then so be it.
Creating a new flu vaccine as is done every year is not the same.
Because the Hong Kong flu retained the antigen N2, persons that had be exposed to the 1957 virus apparently retained immune protection through the 1968 one. That would explain the mildness of it compared to 1918. Covid is a whole different beast. And the second wave was much worse.
I’m not attacking you personally... just growing extremely tired of this same old argument. And since we live here, I believe we have some say on the matter. If you listen to the briefings, we were literally told to expect this from the media after the reopening. Why? MUCH higher testing; including a mobile lab that does onsite testing and results the same day for entire long-term care facilities and nursing homes (including staff) all at once. So yes, our numbers have not surprisingly, gone up just as we were told they would. It’s not exactly shocking that the media likes to exclude context and important facts to meet a headline objective. It’s also nearly impossible for the reopening to have had a negative impact on our totals just yet. Could it be coming? Sure. That’s what we’re all waiting to see. As someone else mentioned above, it would seem we must sadly watch the death rate along with all of the other numbers. Again, not picking on you personally but it’s something that seems to be getting leveraged across the country and I wanted to give a different perspective. I even have my direct family calling me crazy for visiting city walk. Meanwhile, I felt 10 times better there vs Walmart or Lowe’s!Hmmm who would have thought? May 17th, the end of the week after reopening lots of business in Florida, they have the largest number of reported cases EVER for the state listed at 1,541 cases. Let's just go ahead and open up WDW in a few weeks. There seem to be no issues...
It certainly is getting better.
The difference can be seen in what type of coronavirus vaccines are being pushed and heralded as "having early signs that it's safe and may even be effective in prevention". (Note they slip in that they don't have evidence yet that it prevents someone from getting infected.) What methods are they using? In one of the leading vaccines they are using unproven, cutting-edge technologies that have no record of safety behind them, namely gene-editing. The only other vaccine in history to use this was the Ebola vaccine they just made a couple of years ago, and it wasn't as major of an technique in the development. (Not that it wasn't careless, but that's another story.) It's interesting that the same techniques of gene-editing were condemned for use in humans as reckless due to it's unknown long-term affects. A Chinese scientist was jailed for 3 years for editing genes in babies. Additionally, the world has largely embraced non-GMO food and showed a preference in non-GMO eating with their purchasing power after decades of being told that genetically modified food would be the solution to mankind's food chain problems. What is GMO? Genetically modified organism. Their use in crops was promised to reduce pesticide use, increase crop yields, and provide the same nutritional value. Instead more pesticides are needed, they have led to the rise of "superweeds" that do not die when sprayed with herbicides (genetic mutation driven by it's growth in dirt containing decaying plant matter of modified crops), large numbers of people who grew up eating them have developed allergies or intolerances to these foods, and the nutritional value is often much lower including the amount of vital nutrients, minerals, and vitamins they contain.
Could We Have A COVID-19 Vaccine In Four Months? Scientists At Oxford Say It's Possible.
A vaccine usually takes years to make.
Testing in FL has gone up which is a good thing and with it the number positive has gone up. It makes it hard to gain an appreciation for whether there are more actual cases or just more testing. The good news is the amount of testing seems to be flattening out so if the ramp up in testing levels out then the number of new cases becomes more statistically relevant. Here’s the number of tests per week from the FL dashboard:
You conveniently ignored my post about deaths. You can't argue deaths. Florida had almost as many die in their state as all of the United States had fatalities from car accidents. Is this the time to stop wearing seatbelts, not look when we change lanes, or drive unsafe cars? No, it's not. Why remove safety restraints during a public health crisis? Makes just as much sense.
