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  1. Lesh

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    Lesh, Oct 22, 2020
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    Herd immunity is coming any day now!

    Another 3 million deaths we may find out in COVID confers immunity and then America will be truly safe from those Commies!
     
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    Ya sure gotta hope that there is immunity that lasts for at least a year.

    We don't even know if that's true
     
    Lesh, Oct 23, 2020
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    I suggest that you remain indoors all masked up. No politician can stop the virus from doing what it's going to do. But, you can and should take charge of your own life and shelter in place with mask on.
     
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    Certainly not if they don't TRY

    And that's the current Administration policy
     
    Lesh, Oct 23, 2020
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    allow me to repeat

    NO POLITICIAN including and I shudder to say, a Democrat politician. Sorry to burst your bubble

    No govt policy can eradicate a virus and I don't care if that includes turning off utilities, no knock entry into homes, both due to not masking at home. Oh wait, leftists have already done that.

    It always comes down to people exercising common sense. That would be taking supplements, exercising, even if it's walking 1 mile total per day, keeping your hands clean and not touching your face or eyes without first cleaning your hands, keeping hydrated and getting rest.

    For those of you who suffer from unfounded fear, simply remain in your homes with masks affixed to your faces.
     
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    EIGHTY THOUSAND virus infections today and another 900 deaths

    And Trump hasn't attended a Covid briefing in MONTHS
     
    Lesh, Oct 23, 2020
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    We can slow the virus to a crawl. Many countries have done that, while we are setting records.

    What you said is a lethal lie.
     
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    Lesh, Oct 24, 2020
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    Well, with each infection, the mutation should weaken(as it changes to accomodate the different individuals.). So that's a 'bright' spot in a terrible situation.
     
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    You’re making that up

    There’s no evidence that the virus is weakening at all
     
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    Did you hear Trump or some other right wing apologist say that rubbish? Where do you think this strain of virus came from?
     
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    COVID can infect the young and the healthy and has done so

    It can, in fact, be eliminated, New Zealand has no cases and no lockdowns in effect right now. I don't know if they even require masks. How they accomplished this is no great secret, and we could have and still can do the same.
    They will, no doubt, all take the vaccine in April. They will have suffered deaths overall in the hundreds at the most. We will have probably exceeded a million by then.
     
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    And winter is just coming. Living on a farm has its advantage. You have to go outside, feed livestock, haul water, plow and so on.

    But than I have a business intown. That will be interesting.
    Next week I will install UV-C in the heaters. I already flood the 5000 sf at night with UV-C.
    Biggest danger will be recycled air and so a saturation with the virus could happen.
    Thats how the outbreaks in the packing plants happened.

    That will be a interesting problem to solve.
     
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    Well, a whole lot of people on this forum predict it will be completely gone in 10 days. Fingers crossed they are right and the virus understands the US election system.
     
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    Wow!

    I haven't heard the "if monkeys had evolved into Man, there would be no monkeys!" excuse since parochial school!

    I guess the kids who were homes schooled got to skipped Biology.
     
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    My guess is the other kids never took classes on cohesive thought, grammar, sentence structure nor verb conjugation.
     
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    There is some suggestion that it may be mutating to be able to spread faster, but none that it is strengthening. However, the two strains we are mostly dealing with are just as likely to have been weaker strains that strengthened. Adaption is an interesting thing. It is why we will all become crabs one day. ( Fun Aside link )
     
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    There's no indication that it is mutating in any significantly different way.

    It has always been extremely virulent and the only reason less people are dying is that we are somewhat better at treating it.

    That said we still suffer 800-1000 deaths a day and with infections increasing that will likely get worse
     
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    We are not the only place on the planet and yes there is some indication that it may be becoming more communicable than it was previously.

    https://112.international/society/n...-is-transmitted-at-large-distances-55794.html

    In Norway, the new mutation of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is found; it has never been observed in the country before – it is easier to get infected with it than with the usual form as Verdens Gang reported citing Senior Medical Officer at City of Trondheim Tove Røsstad.

    “Preliminary, it is a new variant of the virus that the Ministry of Health and Care Services has never seen before in Norway,” Røsstad said.

    The outbreak in Trondheim is tied with the new mutation of the virus. The new type of coronavirus was observed from October 16 up to October 18 as eight locals infected.

    According to scientists, the mutated virus is called M439K and belongs to the genetic subgroup of the coronavirus B.1.5. The surface of this protein differs from the common SARS-CoV-2. It has shorter spikes that help the virus to attach to the cell and infect it. The new type of coronavirus can easily bind with the cells in the body.

    The peculiarity of this mutation of the virus is that it has a higher level of transmission: people should not stay in close contact to infect with it."
     
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    80,000 infections today and another 1,000 dead
     
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