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Senate Pandemics in the Age of Globalization: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion: See OP Warning

Discussion in 'Community' started by Darth Punk , Jan 21, 2020.

  1. Vaderize03

    Vaderize03 Manager Emeritus star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Nah, they’ll just shoot it with their AR-15‘s. We’ll be back to that soon enough.
     
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  2. jcgoble3

    jcgoble3 Chosen One star 6

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    And this is part of the problem. We need vaccines that not only prevent you from getting sick, but also prevent you from spreading it. As long as every single person is a potential Typhoid Mary, can we ever truly achieve herd immunity? Or am I missing something here?
     
  3. Jedi Knight Fett

    Jedi Knight Fett Chosen One star 10

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    Are you less likely to spread it compared to those unvaccinated or does it not matter?
     
  4. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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    It's still worth remembering that all data we have is that vaccination significantly reduces the infection rate. Even going with every single person is a potential Typhoid Mary, they're all significantly less likely to be one than the unvaccinated are. Transmission doesn't have to be set to 0, it just has to be reduced such that 1000 infected people infect less than 1000 new people, and making it so most of those people are less likely to get infected will drive things downward.
     
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  5. Jedi Knight Fett

    Jedi Knight Fett Chosen One star 10

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    The real problem is still the dumbasses who won’t get vaccinated
     
  6. Lordban

    Lordban Isildur's Bane star 7

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    Congratulations to you and to your wife, @DarkGingerJedi ! Many happy returns of your little boy's day :)
     
  7. black_saber

    black_saber Force Ghost star 5

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    Why is South Africa having problems vaccinated it’s population and when will Africa get vaccinated since only 10 percent of the population has received only one does?
     
  8. Jedi Knight Fett

    Jedi Knight Fett Chosen One star 10

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    Whenever either A.) they open up the patents.

    B.) when we start shipping vaccines over there in mass quantities
     
  9. Jedi_Sith_Smuggler_Droid

    Jedi_Sith_Smuggler_Droid Force Ghost star 6

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    When every deer in North America is a possible Typhoid Mary we may already be sunk on herd immunity.
     
  10. jcgoble3

    jcgoble3 Chosen One star 6

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    Oh deer.
     
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  11. DarthPhilosopher

    DarthPhilosopher Chosen One star 6

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    That’s not really how herd immunity works as far as I’m aware, and I don’t think these vaccines protect against transmission enough to attain such a thing in any case. That’s what I’ve read on the subject at least.
     
  12. VexedAtVohai

    VexedAtVohai Jedi Grand Master star 4

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    Omicron detected in Australia
     
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  13. KnightWriter

    KnightWriter Administrator Emeritus star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Reads like a snippet of Star Trek dialogue.
     
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  14. black_saber

    black_saber Force Ghost star 5

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    Is it know yet that the booster shot can fight of the omicron variant if tested positive?

    I got my booster shot last month
     
  15. Lowbacca_1977

    Lowbacca_1977 Chosen One star 7

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  16. DarthPhilosopher

    DarthPhilosopher Chosen One star 6

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  17. PCCViking

    PCCViking Chosen One star 10

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    Or the bigger ones who want to punish businesses for having mask mandates.

    I'm surprised the Guardians of Plague actually haven't tried stopping the distribution of vaccines yet. We've only seen at least one school here in Florida which banned teachers from getting the vaccine and/or forcing students to quarantine if they did.
     
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  18. The Regular Mustache

    The Regular Mustache Force Ghost star 6

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    “I killed that guy with my AR-15 because I was defending myself from COVID” is totally an excuse we’ll hear soon.
     
  19. PCCViking

    PCCViking Chosen One star 10

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    More like "I killed that guy with my AR-15 because I was defending myself from the vaccinated."
     
  20. JEDI-RISING

    JEDI-RISING Chosen One star 6

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    i just read on the fox propaganda network this morning their hosts, none of which are or have ever been reporters, said the new variant is made up by democrats and every two years we'll get one.
     
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  21. DarkGingerJedi

    DarkGingerJedi Chosen One star 6

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    Democrats are both completely incompetent, and also capable of creating and updating a global fake virus and plandemic every couple of months for the sole purpose of targeting Republicans.

    And Republicans assume this, because its what they themselves would do if they could in their darkest fantasies...and continue to do with programs such as gerrymandering and voter fraud audits and storming the Capitol to overthrow the government
     
  22. I Are The Internets

    I Are The Internets Shelf of Shame Host star 9 VIP - Game Host

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    Creating a virus to target people you don't like is basically the plot of No Time to Die. Nice try, Fox News.
     
  23. LAJ_FETT

    LAJ_FETT Tech Admin (2007-2023) - She Held Us Together star 10 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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  24. Jedi Knight Fett

    Jedi Knight Fett Chosen One star 10

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    Is fox trying to explain away the fact that overwhelming amounts of the people who end up in hospital due to the virus are republican by saying it’s because it’s all manufactured by the democrats and not because said people don’t take the vaccine
     
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  25. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    Planning their next whataboutism to try to deflect from their commentary about being glad that Kylo Rittenhouse killed “leftists” and defend their “right” to kill people they don’t like by claiming that “Democrats are doing it by manufacturing viruses!”