International India Facing Healthcare and Economic Disaster from Second Wave of COVID

[rearnakedchoke]

Is that worst than the Mumbai squirts?

Nothing is worse than that.

 

[scoopj]

Measles still exists. I think around 2k people got it in 2019


measles cant tolerate any mutations to the proteins that are recognized by the human immune system, making it very unlike influenza.

Very unsatisfying explanation after you made the claim, “All vaccines do is speed up the evolutionary process of viruses”.

 

[Sano]

India and Brazil is getting hit badly and has been for some time. I dont think their variants were worse than the latest UK one, but I've only taken a cursory glance. Seems like it's mismanagement and overconfidence, combined with the mutation, that got them.

 

[Diogenes of Sinope]

Very unsatisfying explanation after you made the claim, “All vaccines do is speed up the evolutionary process of viruses”.

They do. it just speeds up heard immunity.
Natural selection. Although they aren't considered organic beings, Viruses behave like parasites; they need to to embed themselves into a hosts cell to access the proteins and replicate.

 

[Oeshon]

quick. everyone be scared and stay home

 

[scoopj]

They do. it just speeds up heard immunity.
Natural selection. Although they aren't considered organic beings, Viruses behave like parasites; they need to to embed themselves into a hosts cell to access the proteins and replicate.

You went from vaccines speeding up the evolutionary process of viruses to speeding up “heard” immunity. Why the equivocation?

 

[Diogenes of Sinope]

You went from vaccines speeding up the evolutionary process of viruses to speeding up “heard” immunity. Why the equivocation?

Vaccination CAUSES heard immunity faster than the natural route.

 

[fedoriswar37]

This time of year, Delhi is very hot and humid. Does this impact the spread at all?

No but it will exasperate symptoms. Imagine having a fever of 103 in a climate that reaches excess of 130 and its so humid your body can't use its main source of cooling (evaporation) to cool down. Add in malnutrition and lack of medicine and you have a disaster on your hands

 

[monster zero]

quick. everyone be scared and stay home

Every time they mention a new variant I lock myself indoors for about 2 weeks out of fear. Attach a countries name to Corona and say the NEW version is spreading and I cower. Please take the unproven vax into your body, I am barely holding on.

 

[shankmcgank]

Good thing Toronto Canada is letting in hundreds of flights a month from India!

Even though the city is locked-down!

Some smart guy @4daLuLZ told me that it's all good because people have to take covid tests and quarantine when they arrive here.

Because that one infected person on a plane who just breathed the same air as everyone else and touched everything hasn't possibly infected anyone.

I also learned that quarantined people stop breathing, don't touch things and that the hotel rooms they quarantine in magically clean themselves.

Amazing isn't it?

There is no possible way the Indian variant will make it here, Sherbro, don't worry about it. 4dalulz is an expert on Covid and assured me we have nothing to worry about.

 

[fedoriswar37]

Some smart guy @4daLuLZ told me that it's all good because people have to take covid tests and quarantine when they arrive here.

Because that one infected person on a plane who just breathed the same air as everyone else and touched everything hasn't possibly infected anyone.

I also learned that quarantined people stop breathing, don't touch things and that the hotel rooms they quarantine in magically clean themselves.

Amazing isn't it?

There is no possible way the Indian variant will make it here, Sherbro, don't worry about it. 4dalulz is an expert on Covid and assured me we have nothing to worry about.

Lmao. People are taking the fines and walking.

 

[Otto!]

Canada stopped flights from India and Pakistan, but only after we have confirmed cases. Need to pull the trigger faster on those things.

 

[Sketch]

Canada stopped flights from India and Pakistan, but only after we have confirmed cases. Need to pull the trigger faster on those things.

Nah can’t be racist dude

 

[Fluffernutter]

No but it will exasperate symptoms. Imagine having a fever of 103 in a climate that reaches excess of 130 and its so humid your body can't use its main source of cooling (evaporation) to cool down. Add in malnutrition and lack of medicine and you have a disaster on your hands

Add to that, the humidity keeps the pollutants from dispersing within the air. Add a respiratory illness....

 

[HockeyBjj]

They have a point. We didn’t know better early on and didn’t stop global travel.

now we do know better and can stop global travel but won’t. The new mutations will come back to America and fuck us up. And we will be back at square one.

why would those in charge allow that? Maybe, just maybe, that’s the Intention.

there is no going back.

So are you now saying we should have, and always should have had, much much tighter restrictions and shutdowns to prevent this "seeding"?

 

[scoopj]

This time of year, Delhi is very hot and humid. Does this impact the spread at all?

Yes, humidity is supposed to be bad for the virus. But you wouldn’t know it looking at India and Brazil.

 

[ufc_vs_pride]

Yes, humidity is supposed to be bad for the virus. But you wouldn’t know it looking at India and Brazil.

Not only that but people in India don’t care about covid when they don’t have protocol

 

[PhitePhan]

Vaccination CAUSES heard immunity faster than the natural route.

The trade off with vaccination is that immunity often wanes faster than natural infection... which makes achieving herd immunity a tricky task... in a perfect world, healthy low susceptibility individuals should get natural infection (which is often stable and long lasting) and only vulnerable populations should get vaccinated (which is less stable and prone to failure and waning).

 

[scoopj]

Not only that but people in India don’t care about covid when they don’t have protocol

It practically disappeared over winter which made no sense, so the people got complacent.

 

[Ophydian]

The trade off with vaccination is that immunity often wanes faster than natural infection... which makes achieving herd immunity a tricky task... in a perfect world, healthy low susceptibility individuals should get natural infection (which is often stable and long lasting) and only vulnerable populations should get vaccinated (which is less stable and prone to failure and waning).

See, this is what I thought. I told my work that I wanted to not take the vaccine since I’ve got antibodies still (verified through blood work) and that if I needed to take the vaccine to be able to go on job sites I would. My boss came back and said they’ve been consulting with lawyers and health professionals who claim vaccine immunity last longer which I don’t believe to be true.