• Welcome to OGBoards 10.0, keep in mind that we will be making LOTS of changes to smooth out the experience here and make it as close as possible functionally to the old software, but feel free to drop suggestions or requests in the Tech Support subforum!

Non-Political Coronavirus Thread

It’s a special kind of awful to mock efforts to mitigate the impacts of a pandemic.
 
Looking at the amount of mutations and deletions in the omicron variant in comparison to the delta variant you can make some hypothesis without knowing too much. One being that amount of mutations usually would result in a less virulent virus which would mean increased transmission and decreased severity. Second, it either mutated over and over in an immunocompromised individual as a long term carrier, talking timeline of months or it went back into a zoonotic vector, mutated to bind better to their receptor and then jumped back into humans. Most of that though really doesn’t have much impact on the here and now but is the continued problem with high transmission levels here and through out the world.
 
Isn’t that one of the good possible outcomes, that at some point we get a mild variant that’s so transmissible it overtakes the deadly versions and remains dominant?
 
Looking at the amount of mutations and deletions in the omicron variant in comparison to the delta variant you can make some hypothesis without knowing too much. One being that amount of mutations usually would result in a less virulent virus which would mean increased transmission and decreased severity. Second, it either mutated over and over in an immunocompromised individual as a long term carrier, talking timeline of months or it went back into a zoonotic vector, mutated to bind better to their receptor and then jumped back into humans. Most of that though really doesn’t have much impact on the here and now but is the continued problem with high transmission levels here and through out the world.

If it's true the variant is accounting for 90% of the cases in SA in such a short period of time, that would also lead one to think increased transmission and decreased severity.
 
It’s deceptive because SA has pretty good sequencing but it’s not that good. So the narrative that it skyrocketed overnight is pretty bullshit because what really happened was you do a tri-plex PCR and with three targets one target is deleted in certain mutants so that’s used as a screening assay. That mutation has been seen in variants of interest before, especially in SA, so you want to know if you found it. So in SA they screen for it, they find it those automatically go for sequencing. You aren’t sequencing everything, so they found a cluster with their initial screening, so selective bias for Omicron when doing conformational sequencing. The actual rate of spread is unknown right now, if you go by the media it would have been everywhere by now as the dominant variant based off the initial report, we know that’s not true.
 
That won't stop the Eric Feigl Ding's of the world from peddling horrific fear porn.
 
Looking at the amount of mutations and deletions in the omicron variant in comparison to the delta variant you can make some hypothesis without knowing too much. One being that amount of mutations usually would result in a less virulent virus which would mean increased transmission and decreased severity. Second, it either mutated over and over in an immunocompromised individual as a long term carrier, talking timeline of months or it went back into a zoonotic vector, mutated to bind better to their receptor and then jumped back into humans. Most of that though really doesn’t have much impact on the here and now but is the continued problem with high transmission levels here and through out the world.

Also a problem with things like deer having very high infection rates.
 
It’s a special kind of awful to mock efforts to mitigate the impacts of a pandemic.

Ha. Just like it takes a special kind of awful to criticize a war that our soldiers are fighting and dying in, right?

This fiasco moved past the "boots on the ground" aspect of a pandemic months ago. It is now mostly an orchestrated boon for the media and the puppetmasters profiting from the fallout. Years from now, this farce will go down as the next Iraq/Afghanistan. The poor bastards like you constantly having to deal with it are just the stooges caught in the crossfire. PTSD claims incoming in a few years. Nonpolitically, of course.
 
Who is orchestrating it and who are the puppet masters? How am I dealing with it any different than you?
 
2&2 just upset he isn’t a global elite and instead just a sad suburban sack of shit.
 
It’s deceptive because SA has pretty good sequencing but it’s not that good. So the narrative that it skyrocketed overnight is pretty bullshit because what really happened was you do a tri-plex PCR and with three targets one target is deleted in certain mutants so that’s used as a screening assay. That mutation has been seen in variants of interest before, especially in SA, so you want to know if you found it. So in SA they screen for it, they find it those automatically go for sequencing. You aren’t sequencing everything, so they found a cluster with their initial screening, so selective bias for Omicron when doing conformational sequencing. The actual rate of spread is unknown right now, if you go by the media it would have been everywhere by now as the dominant variant based off the initial report, we know that’s not true.

Since I only consult this thread occasionally and have been in a beer haze since Wednesday, can you please translate this into English?
 
Who is orchestrating it and who are the puppet masters?

PuppetMasterTitle.jpg
 
much more than the US it would seem, then -- they're at about 1/4 vaccinated

what a fucking mess

Wonder how much, if any, of this is the work of US conservatives (similar to how the anti-gay laws in places like Uganda were encouraged and supported by people in the US).
 
once we are done with the greek alphabet on variants, we will start in with the 2022 hurricane name list.
 
Back
Top