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CurrentBias,
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Don't claim there is proof that it wasn't without providing said proof

As far as I'm aware, it is far from settled when cases first appeared in the US

erikalyn, to random
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People need to stop saying that the vaccines are not meant to prevent illness, only to prevent hospitalization and death. Most people don't think they're at risk to be hospitalized, so why should they get it if that's the case?

Because it does reduce chances of getting sick at all. It does reduce the severity of illness if you do. It does reduce transmission. It does reduce your chances of getting long covid or long-term health problems. It's far from perfect, but the benefit is significant.

CurrentBias,
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@erikalyn I've never met a "swing" vaxxer, or anyone on the fence about getting a vaccine, personally. It's ridiculously polarizing. But if I did meet such a person, I would advocate for going above and beyond just vaccination -- we need to filter the virus from the air as well, either as it enters our lungs (by wearing respirators) or before it enters our lungs (by using air purifiers)

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LOL: AC inadvertently revealed how Dvorak survived Covid: zero traveling, no plane boarding never ever again

CurrentBias,
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@Nazareno catching covid does not "build" your immune system. Infection-based immunity is extraordinarily fleeting and does not pay dividends on the damage the virus has already done, even in asymptomatic infections (which you may have had). Symptoms are not the same as underlying disease. HIV is famous for starting as a cold and then doing all of its damage silently

Furthermore, the immune system is not analogous to a muscle that needs to be used to be kept in shape, and the complete opposite is true -- there is no material benefit to any amount of viral infections. The immune system stays stronger the less it is activated, because it is ultimately a finite resource

With SARS-CoV-2 in particular, there is evidence that it sticks around and causes chronic T cell activation. There are only so many naive/undifferentiated T cells the thymus can supply before it shrinks (it normally shrinks with age)

CurrentBias,
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@jessecoynelson I'm so sorry for making a kbin.social account and then linking my mastodon account in my bio, how egregious

CurrentBias,
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@jessecoynelson you seem a little obsessed with me

majorlinux, to random
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Anything catch your eye?

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CurrentBias,
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@mousey isn't it awesome that people love to play masked characters in games but can't be bothered to wear one themselves

CurrentBias,
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@majorlinux if someone is forced to wear a mask, "can't be bothered" no longer applies -- the phrasing implies a choice

CurrentBias,
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From September 2022:

The number of reported Covid cases is currently a quarter of what it was at its peak last winter. But Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, estimates that only 4% to 5% of infections are being reported, because so many are uncovered through at-home tests and aren't reported to public health departments, or they aren't being detected at all.

The decline in PRC testing and a shift to at-home tests also leaves public health officials increasingly flying blind with regard to the spread of infections because few at-home test results are reported to public health departments, unlike with laboratory tests.

CurrentBias,
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Yet disabilities keep climbing, right in step with warnings about covid's long-term effects: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU00074597

CurrentBias, (edited )
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One of the smartest ways to win in the game Plague Inc is to make your virus have mild acute symptoms that are easy to dismiss or confuse as other things, and then really fucked up chronic symptoms later on. Symptom severity is not the same as underlying disease severity. The immune system doesn't always enter the panic mode entailed by a fever, in some cases because the virus has outsmarted it. HIV is a virus that starts as a cold, and then does all its damage silently. Judging a virus by its acute symptoms is one way to fuck around and find out

CurrentBias,
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You missed that it was about the efficacy of mask mandates, not masks themselves

CurrentBias,
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Covid spreads pre-symptomatically and asymptomatically, and spreading it does harm people, so good luck with that logic

CurrentBias,
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Not to speak for @jerome, but they were originally talking about the topics appearing in the trending news, which implies that they are referring to firefish.social's federation/lack of defederation from problematic instances, not the software itself

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