Corona thread. No politics please

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Danke42 said:
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Wait... I need Holy Water too? ***juggles pen to make a note***
 
Your Ancestors Knew Death in Ways You Never Will

^ a very good article in today's NYT if this link opens up for you guys. Eric told us about a trick before as to how to circumvent around their limited number of browsing their paper on a monthly basis, but I keep forgetting that trick. Using a different browser than your often used one may also achieve the result for you.

Anywho, the synopsis and the conclusion respectively are as follows but if you can gain access to the article, you will find it very informing about the past pestilences and plagues:

Some say we’re doomed. But science and public spending have saved us from pandemics worse than this one.

Today, Americans are facing the same choice our ancestors did: We can listen to scientists and spend money to save lives, or we can watch our neighbors die. “The people who say ‘Let her rip, let’s go for herd immunity’ — that’s just public-health nihilism,” said Dr. Joia S. Mukherjee, the chief medical office of Partners in Health, a medical charity fighting the virus. “How many deaths do we have to accept to get there?” A vaccine may be close at hand, and so may treatments like monoclonal antibodies that will cut our losses. Till then, we need not accept death as our overlord — we can simply hang on and outlast him.
 
a vaccine would be great, but there is a LARGE portion, (about 30%- the usual suspects) of the population who are too stupid to understand the value of vaccines and resulting herd immunity from widespread acceptance of them, which leaves the door open to all sorts of nasty viral surprises for everyone.

I'm feeling pretty salty about humanity these days. Just trying to keep my head down and move forward as much as possible
 
Lorien said:
a vaccine would be great, but there is a LARGE portion, (about 30%- the usual suspects) of the population who are too stupid to understand the value of vaccines and resulting herd immunity from widespread acceptance of them, which leaves the door open to all sorts of nasty viral surprises for everyone.

I'm feeling pretty salty about humanity these days. Just trying to keep my head down and move forward as much as possible
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Personally speaking, I'm very much looking forward to getting vaccinated ASAP because I have a feeling that I'll get a pleasant thrill up my leg every time when I shall get near to a new 5G tower :p
 
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