The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boot the Covid virus out

Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by valarauko on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:33AM (#26556208)

>I have been saying this for many years, and have been condescended to a lot (by friends, even) for saying it.

What exactly have you been saying?

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by _nalply on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:43PM (#26557073)

He maintains that he has been laughed off for his wild conspiracy theories.

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by valarauko on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:17PM (#26558290)

I'm unclear what the specific claim that he's been making for years exactly is - that coronaviruses have a morbidity profile similar to COVID, from the GP? Or that we can't believe long term dynamics for disease models because the parameters go to extremes?

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by guscost on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:26PM (#26563235)

Paraphrasing: “The academics who claim that we narrowly avoided a SARS/etc holocaust, have a fatal conflict of interest, and are completely full of shit.”

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by valarauko on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:37AM (#26567782)

I'm confused - this sounds like an entirely different claim than your original comment. Could you elaborate?

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