Thread: Covid Mk ll

Originally Posted by 4bee

Thanks A, a sobering thought eh?

I'll say.

And they went into a 20 year war for a fraction that many deaths.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

821,000, up from 620,000 since early August.

DL

United States COVID: 51,136,442 Cases and 821,335 Deaths - Worldometer

The New York Times gives it as 798,945:


Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count - The New York Times

Hence their headline this morning that the US was about to pass 800,000 deaths

This is a really interesting read:


Tracking Omicron and Other Coronavirus Variants - The New York Times

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Originally Posted by 4bee

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I think if he made it to ICU he would certainly be convinced that he backed the wrong horse.
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I realise that common sense and logic would suggest that you are right, but you have seriously underestimated his determination to maintain his opinion.

He can't even see that many of the things he says are contradictory. Even though he insists that the virus is only killing the old and infirm or that all the deaths were caused by something else, he spent $100 importing some Ivermectin from India to protect himself from a virus that doesn't exist and wouldn't` affect him even if it did exist.

Unless you have had a long conversation with someone who is really committed to the opinion he has, then you really couldn't understand how far he would go to continue to believe that this whole thing is a hoax designed to take our freedoms away from us.

Originally Posted by vnx205

I know one anti vaxxer who won't change his mind no matter what happens.
He declared early last year that the whole thing was a hoax, that since he hadn't personally seen anyone drop dead from COVID that there must be no-one dying from COVID.
Having committed to that view, he now misinterprets almost every piece of information that comes out. Anything he can't twist to suit his position, he simply dismisses as government lies.
Nothing will change his mind. If he was in ICU, he would find some way to deny that he had fallen victim to a pandemic.
I suspect that quite a few of the AV bunch are just as determined to maintain their attitude.

91 % in ICU here in VIC are those types. One who happily lived, was on the phone with me yesterday- I am amazed with my non medical ignorance that the hospital let them out!!! That said more than a few with low impact Delta feel I told you it was a hoax are about. Reinfections inbound data is now the hoax apparently


What I am watching is oddly not here any more. The UK, South Africa, USA, EU.... are all well underway with the Big O. It has snuck in to China now. Viruses have no respect and the BIG O is clearly with its reinfection going to be a huge issue for the vaccinated. China like Australia managed to tame all Covid prior to Delta version. I suspect covid Zero in China will be a Dodo shortly.

On other news a pfizer pill is showing strong signs of been a possible treatment option.

Off for my Covid/Flu vax guinea pig testing. Come in Spinner

Your reference to omicron as " the Big O" is somewhat amusing, considering that the word "omicron" literally means "small O" in Greek (it is the name of a Greek letter ο, almost indistinguishable from o).

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Your reference to omicron as " the Big O" is somewhat amusing, considering that the word "omicron" literally means "small O" in Greek (it is the name of a Greek letter ο, almost indistinguishable from o).

And I thought he was referring to something else!!