New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by kaba0 on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:38PM (#29354975)

You can’t infer that from the graph. Yeah, they will go back to pre-pandemic levels, but they won’t increase exponentially from then on - which is not the case for COVID with no restrictions, which will only plateau at ridiculously high amount of infected (and dead).

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by bavell on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:47PM (#29355531)

> COVID with no restrictions, which will only plateau at ridiculously high amount of infected (and dead).

I'm curious what you think of Florida, which has had almost no restrictions for a majority of the pandemic and yet is actually doing better than some other states. Seems to disprove your assertion?

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by kaba0 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @01:29AM (#29358029)

Airborne transmission being heavily climate-dependent? We can’t make everything into Florida (and that would be a much bigger problem than any virus in itself :D)

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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by bavell on Saturday November 27, 2021 @11:09AM (#29361165)

I'd imagine we'd have studies on this by now if that were actually the case though, right? It's been almost 2 years... so it seems like there's something else going on.

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