Aristides

Who says attention has been diverted from providing effective treatments other than internet warriors. Do you think people are being put on ventilators for kicks and giggles?

Covid killed ten times as many Americans in 2020/21 than a bad flu year, in spite of all the precautions taken against it.

What truth, yours? You would rather try and treat people than prevent them from getting sick in the first place. There is far more money in treating sickness than preventing it. That is a truth. My doctor often recommends different things to help prevent illness but he never claims they will prevent it.

I got a question. Almost everyone has had multiple colds during their lives. Why has Covid made millions sick and die?

Hopefully.

I have, studies have been done on all those things so they haven't been ignored. Most have mixed results, some have promise and none are a silver bullet.

None of those are proven for Covid although they may help. Monoclonal antibody treatments and some of the others you list cost thousands of dollars. Dexamethasone prevents swelling of the brain and is used for cancer patients with brain tumours. It also has long term side effects and has to be used with other special meds or it will eat your stomach lining. Aspirin? Give me a friggin break. Why don't you hang out your shingle, call yourself a doctor and join the other quacks if you are such an expert.

Instead we have vaccines that while not preventing infections from some variants are still very good at preventing severe illness and hospitalization. What a bitch. We also now know that infection with a previous variant won't keep you from getting Omricon but will it protect you from severe illness or hospitalization? It looks like it may not so getting vaccinated is still important. Rather than being thankful for what we have you want a perfection we aren't going to get. Measurable antibodies do decline with time that doesn't take into account B and T cell immunity because they only produce antibodies when they actually detect the virus. The beauty of mRNA vaccines is they can be tailored for new variants in a very short time compared to conventional vaccines and new variants come from places with low vaccination rates.

No, but I know when I need to defer to the professionals who specialize in their fields. I don't just assume they are lying just because I don't understand how they come to their conclusions.

The new variant with 46 mutations discovered in France originated in Cameroon.

Guess we will have to wait and see. Someone more suspicious might think you don't want them to work at all.

Ya, the medical profession knows nothing about disease, how many are in hospitals, what they are suffering from or what treatments work, we need more experts like you to tell us. You're hilarious. When you are on an aircraft do you also tell the pilot he doesn't know what he is doing and you should be flying?

Maybe but as long as there are huge numbers of unvaccinated in the rest of the world we will continue to see more variants and there is no guarantee they will be milder. I'm not trying to be a messenger of doom and gloom because I hope for better like everyone else but one has to be realistic. Our future is not guaranteed, it never has been.

Good for you. Why do you want to make your job more dangerous?

They are still people who need treatment by a system that is even more short staffed because of infected health care workers. Yes, we will be able to lift restrictions at some time, hopefully in the not too distant future. But don't let that stop you from moving. BTW, the same article said ICU cases were up by 47 from the previous day.

Today's news.

Whatever. We still aren't qualified and you are not being objective if you just choose examples to reinforce what you have already decided. That isn't analysis.

Unless you have lost your job or business, it is an inconvenience. I'm not a hermit, I like to do stuff too.

You cherry picked one number to make a point and I cherry picked one for Canada that said exactly the opposite. Neither of us is qualified to digest all the meaningful data and draw intelligent conclusions from it. So no. I would not agree.

I don't, I just don't have shit fits over inconveniences that will not be in place forever. Right now protecting our health care system has to be the #1 priority. Complain about our health care system all you want but it is the one we are stuck with for at least the near future.

So? Why don't you tell us.

The vaccinated outnumber the unvaccinated by almost six to one.

So you would uproot your family and move to another country to avoid restrictions in Canada that will not remain forever to move to a country where the rules could change at any time. No we never had a Battle of Britain and that's why Canadians don't know WTF they are talking about when it comes to living with restrictions. My father was in the RCAF and my mother was an English war bride.

That could change tomorrow.