Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by throwawaylinux on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:00AM
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I said relatively minor, comparison being to something like smallpox. And certainly compared with the unfounded fearmongering you've written here. There would absolutely not have been 10% death rates! Have unvaccinated hospitalization rates ever gone above even 1%?
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Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by tsimionescu on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:04AM
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Edit: my 10% is definitely wrong, even for CFR. I messed up some numbers.
> There would absolutely not have been 10% death rates.
But that's exactly what the death rates looked like in all regions that didn't impose lockdowns soon enough. The case of Lombardia is perfect - it's one of the richest regions on Earth, and while local hospitals were overwhelmed, it was surrounded by other rich regions that could accept patients. And even so, it had ~10% death rates in the early days of the pandemic, before lockdowns.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by throwawaylinux on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:15AM
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They didn't really look like that, it was probably more like 1% and that is quite an outlier.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
A lot of places around the world have had little or no lockdowns or vaccinations and have not seen anything like 10% fatality rate over the population. This is fear mongering.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by tsimionescu on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:33AM
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Oops, you're right - I completely messed up the numbers. 10% is way too much, even for CFR. Still, 1-2% death rates is a huge number.
Re:Why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?
by throwawaylinux on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:48AM
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No problem, hope I can help you sleep a little better tonight :)