It is literally in the HN rules that you are supposed to assume good faith, not concoct false attributions of intent and conspiracy. I did not intend to hide anything, I was earnestly asking a question (clearly shared by plenty others in this post). It should not upset you this much. I apologize for anything triggering to you that I said, that wasn't my intent.
The question pertaining to the core of the submission does not upset me, nor do I find it in bad faith (that one I assume good faith since it's legitimate).
> Current Covid strains don’t seem all that bad, basically everyone I know has been infected now.
This, does. Because it has nothing to do with the submission but all with covid minmizing thrown in after a legitimate question.
> I apologize for anything triggering
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> Assume good faith - its in the rules friend (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
This wording (emphasis mine) tells me all there is to know about why I shouldn't explain myself to you.
Question: how low does the IFR have to be so we can call a disease "not so bad" without "minimizing" it?
No, I am singling out another comment which spreads doubts and denial by hiding them among good faith arguments. For instance:
> (that the successive COVID variants have proven less debilitating and deadly)
Doesn't mean it's not debilitating and deadly.
> basically everyone I know has been infected now.
And I haven't and neither my best friend nor my parents did. But my brother did and another friend did. Guess which one is complaining 6 months later of symptoms that are not going away ?
> As well, rather than spending your mental energy developing excuses to dismiss, why not think on the subject at hand? You should wonder why this mouse model produces broadly neutralizing antibodies in response to COVID spike proteins while the human immune system does not.
> That’s a bit interesting to the subject of COVID, isn’t it? Certainly more so than windmills and politics.
I believe Covid was and is still dangerous and not to be taken lightly because "most people I know has been infected and successive strains are less deadly" (the last one being also dodgy since it might as well be less deadly for an individual but more deadly for a population if it infects much more people, anyway...). That's as worthy to discuss as the core of the submission is.