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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:01AM (#32947890)
When there's new pathogen, transmission mechanism(s) unknown, and no moral way to test for "natural immunity", you don't go around saying hand wavy shit like "some people won't need it", because you have no idea who does and who doesn't.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by switch007 on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:23AM (#32948041)
Are you saying coronaviruses were completely unknown to us in 2020? Have some balance.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:34AM (#32948100)
Nope. I'm saying there was no way to know who had any level of natural immunity to SARS-COV-2.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by origin_path on Friday September 23, 2022 @04:11AM (#32949238)
The topic was never explored so we don't know if there was no way to know. Instead, epidemiologists just assumed 100% susceptibility, droplet transmission and no seasonality, i.e. that everyone would get infected all at once in one giant wave. This was wrong and also, in contradiction with all pre-existing knowledge of both how coronaviruses work and how SARS-1 worked (SARS-1 was airborne over long distances).
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