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I'm not sure thats true. Those positives often seroconvert so they were infected. Were just catching them on the long RNA fragment tail. Between March 26 and April 10, 2020, we measured SARS-CoV-2 antibody titres in 1343 people. Of the 624 participants with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who had serologies done after 4 weeks, all but three seroconverted to the SARS-CoV-2 spike https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30120-8/fulltext

Everything I've read from folks like Mina about the testing is that the high cycle threshold value for the RT PCR is fine for confirmatory medical diagnosis (covid symptoms and pcr positive) but it has little value for finding infectious people in the community. We tend to find people way too late in the illness for it to be all that useful for contract tracing. As far as I understand people who have a positive PCR are typically not false positives since they very often seroconvert (greater than 90%).

In 1918, they mandated masks in some places, closed schools, and some businesses and things didn't stay like that indefinitely. In 1905 they mandated smallpox vaccination in Massachusetts. I think we'll be alright.

I think the liquid requirement is for an acetone-peroxide type bomb. I agree its pretty silly.

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/jacobson-v-massachusetts-reiss https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts Sorry I had mentioned a mandated polio vaccine earlier. It was smallpox.

Oh okay. I'll check it out.

? Lol?

I will. Thanks.

It should be plain as freaking day. I will stake my reputation that chances of dying of covid are at least a magnitude or two if not higher than an adverse vaccine event.

Yes. But the same protocols of studies are being followed. I think of rushed as hasty. Its not.

I was making a general comment of being careful. wouldn't support restaurant restrictions after those who want it can get it.

Lol @ rushed.

They probably couldn't do it for an EUA vaccine anyway. Maybe after full approval.

Its not suddenly. Its because of things like Tuskegee.

I'm sure you got your percentage from a poll too.

It was done in mass back in the day for polio. But I doubt they'd do it now...mostly because the anti vax movement is larger than ever and will cause the idiots to revolt.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/325208/americans-willing-covid-vaccine.aspx 58 percent on latest polling. Democrats, women, college educated, and white more likely to take it than other groups.

It seems like we'd need to wear masks and try to socially distance while vaccines are being distributed during at least a portion of 2021. Doesnt sound that bad to me. Neither of those things are economically problematic.

The UK Zoe covid symptom tracker app peaked on November 4th with 608k active infections. The second UK-wide lockdown was put into place on November 5th. However, Wales had a circuit breaker more severe lockdown between October 23rd and November 9th. There was some disagreement between two groups of researchers on how fast the infections in the UK were ramping up over the past month or two. https://covid.joinzoe.com/data https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/health/coronavirus/what-is-a-circuit-breaker-lockdown-and-should-canada-consider-one-1.5175362

I got the flu shot this year. And I got it when I worked at Walgreens at a pharmacy tech. But there was a few years that I just kinda got lazy and didn't get it.

Is the flu shot good at slowing down transmission? Or does it just mostly reduce disease severity?

Thats the pcr reagent problem. Its why we need the rapid at home tests.

Yes thats correct.