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CDC ditches 5-day COVID isolation, argues COVID is becoming flu-like
(arstechnica.com)
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That's not what people got shouted at for. It was for conflating it with a common cold.
People got shouted at for both things.
No they literally didn't, stop lying. This scenario has been laid out by experts a long time ago because this behavior has been seen a lot of times in previous pandemics where once very severe pathogens end up becoming much less severe but also more contagious in the process. There's even a freaking Wikipedia article about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_COVID-19
I'm missing the OP's first message as context, but just a note that diseases don't really have any particular trend toward less severe forms. That they would naturally do that was a debunked theory from the 1800s. They can't simply kill or disable their hosts before they get a chance to spread, but most illnesses have plenty of room to transmit before symptoms get to that level and viruses frequent evolve into more deadly forms.
What changes is the population's resistance. Omicron wasn't necessarily less deadly than the original variant that killed so many people, it was just better resisted.
People were shouted at for pointing that out.
People also shouted at the morons saying it was like the common cold.
Both things are true.
No. That literally did not happen. Stop spreading disinformation.
No, I remember when people who said it was the flu got told that they were idiots because influenza is, a) a totally different family of viruses than coronaviruses and b) really fucking deadly.
So yeah, if you say that, you're as much of an idiot as someone who says that people shouldn't be worried about all those wolf attacks when there are leopards on the loose.
I remember conservatives complaining about their oppression happening, but I've never heard of it happening in real life.
You got shouted down for saying that covid WAS already like the flu. Stop arguing in bad faith and spread disinformation.
No, but I do remember almost everyone agreeing with that. The part they disagreed with was how long "eventually" would be.
Facts do not matter to many (most?) people, it seems, more's the pity:-(.
Fucking hell. I can't believe that it is 2024 and I still have to tag people as Covidiots. Edit: From a Star Trek instance no less. Make it make sense. I thought Trekkies were all science nerds.
There are a lot of Star Trek fans that liked it "before it became all woke", and "wokeness" is a much more integral feature of Star Trek than science.
Different type of "woke". Kirk wasn't a whining moron and they still had money, not weird non specific on details space communism.