BA.2 surge hitting US in April/May

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll need too dead bodies in the bread aisle of Giant before I go back to wearing a mask. Omicron wasn’t sht when I caught it.

+1 LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Midterms > variants. It is what it is.

So you seem to acknowledge that Covid is an acceptable risk for most people.

At this point it appears to be. Dr F has faded. UMC normies are ... doing what they do. Things are being memory holed. For now.

What are you suggesting?

After 2 years, people are finally beginning to treat Covid like a chronic, known risk as opposed to a new risk. It has been well-studied that people tend to exaggerate and overreact to new risks. Most people have moved on, recognizing that Covid isn't a uniquely severe risk to them.

If numbers go up again, people will react accordingly.

Perhaps, but more people are going to be looking at hospitalization/deaths than cases. At least compared to before. Omicron showed us that we don’t need to fear high case counts- not even extraordinarily high case counts.

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Anonymous wrote:The delusional twitter doctor who was peddling his book about how mask policies had failed and was arguing that masks were ineffective? Yeah that one is off the rails.

No, the Twitter epidemiologists and doctors who built their social media profiles off of Covid hysteria. They fear losing relevancy and have a vested interest in pushing doom and gloom.

Right, Covid is no big deal despite killing mil,ions around the world. Must be nice to have your privilege.

It was reported that Maryland has crossed the 14,000 deaths from COVID benchmark recently. It did make me pause because it seems like a very low number relative to what we went through in the last two years. There are more than 6,000,000 Marylanders, and the 14k deaths were heavily concentrated among the elderly with health issues. I'm sure a decent percentage would have likely died by now from something else had they never gotten infected from COVID.

When I see the cold hard numbers in front of me, it does make me realize how much of what we went through in the last two years was driven by little more than hysteria and fear far more than what was needed. We'd have been much better off with a very different approach to COVID targeted to the high risk demographics.

This. Also compare the numbers to other causes of death. Can you imagine how much better off if we had instead focused on reducing obesity across the country?

Are you crazy? Do you know how many more people would have died if we had just let it rip? Not to mention collateral damage from hospitals being constantly overwhelmed. The numbers you are looking at resulted from the policy you’re pooh poohing.

It was clear as day by May 2020 that we needed to focus on locking down nursing homes and that the old/ill needed protection—so they should have stayed home and worn N95s when out and the rest of us (especially kids) should have lived life normallly.

THIS. It was very obvious from the cruise ships in spring 2020 that this mainly affects the elderly.

And the obese. My SIL works in a hospital that had an early COVID patient who was young 20s, and the media went wild. She said that what they weren't mentioning was that he was about 500lbs. We know and have known for years now who is at high risk. Nothing has changed.

Many many serious cases of COVID, including death, with people who were not obese or had any underlying issues. Stop deluding yourself abour how this works.

There, there. I see you are still in a deluded fog. You may or may not ever eat the crow you so richly deserve. But you will be left behind.

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Anonymous wrote:The delusional twitter doctor who was peddling his book about how mask policies had failed and was arguing that masks were ineffective? Yeah that one is off the rails.

No, the Twitter epidemiologists and doctors who built their social media profiles off of Covid hysteria. They fear losing relevancy and have a vested interest in pushing doom and gloom.

Right, Covid is no big deal despite killing mil,ions around the world. Must be nice to have your privilege.

It was reported that Maryland has crossed the 14,000 deaths from COVID benchmark recently. It did make me pause because it seems like a very low number relative to what we went through in the last two years. There are more than 6,000,000 Marylanders, and the 14k deaths were heavily concentrated among the elderly with health issues. I'm sure a decent percentage would have likely died by now from something else had they never gotten infected from COVID.

When I see the cold hard numbers in front of me, it does make me realize how much of what we went through in the last two years was driven by little more than hysteria and fear far more than what was needed. We'd have been much better off with a very different approach to COVID targeted to the high risk demographics.

This. Also compare the numbers to other causes of death. Can you imagine how much better off if we had instead focused on reducing obesity across the country?

Are you crazy? Do you know how many more people would have died if we had just let it rip? Not to mention collateral damage from hospitals being constantly overwhelmed. The numbers you are looking at resulted from the policy you’re pooh poohing.

It was clear as day by May 2020 that we needed to focus on locking down nursing homes and that the old/ill needed protection—so they should have stayed home and worn N95s when out and the rest of us (especially kids) should have lived life normallly.

THIS. It was very obvious from the cruise ships in spring 2020 that this mainly affects the elderly.

And the obese. My SIL works in a hospital that had an early COVID patient who was young 20s, and the media went wild. She said that what they weren't mentioning was that he was about 500lbs. We know and have known for years now who is at high risk. Nothing has changed.

Many many serious cases of COVID, including death, with people who were not obese or had any underlying issues. Stop deluding yourself abour how this works.

There, there. I see you are still in a deluded fog. You may or may not ever eat the crow you so richly deserve. But you will be left behind.

I don’t care either way but pp is attempting to sound clever but is pretty dull.

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Anonymous wrote:The delusional twitter doctor who was peddling his book about how mask policies had failed and was arguing that masks were ineffective? Yeah that one is off the rails.

No, the Twitter epidemiologists and doctors who built their social media profiles off of Covid hysteria. They fear losing relevancy and have a vested interest in pushing doom and gloom.

Right, Covid is no big deal despite killing mil,ions around the world. Must be nice to have your privilege.

It was reported that Maryland has crossed the 14,000 deaths from COVID benchmark recently. It did make me pause because it seems like a very low number relative to what we went through in the last two years. There are more than 6,000,000 Marylanders, and the 14k deaths were heavily concentrated among the elderly with health issues. I'm sure a decent percentage would have likely died by now from something else had they never gotten infected from COVID.

When I see the cold hard numbers in front of me, it does make me realize how much of what we went through in the last two years was driven by little more than hysteria and fear far more than what was needed. We'd have been much better off with a very different approach to COVID targeted to the high risk demographics.

This. Also compare the numbers to other causes of death. Can you imagine how much better off if we had instead focused on reducing obesity across the country?

Are you crazy? Do you know how many more people would have died if we had just let it rip? Not to mention collateral damage from hospitals being constantly overwhelmed. The numbers you are looking at resulted from the policy you’re pooh poohing.

It was clear as day by May 2020 that we needed to focus on locking down nursing homes and that the old/ill needed protection—so they should have stayed home and worn N95s when out and the rest of us (especially kids) should have lived life normallly.

THIS. It was very obvious from the cruise ships in spring 2020 that this mainly affects the elderly.

And the obese. My SIL works in a hospital that had an early COVID patient who was young 20s, and the media went wild. She said that what they weren't mentioning was that he was about 500lbs. We know and have known for years now who is at high risk. Nothing has changed.

Many many serious cases of COVID, including death, with people who were not obese or had any underlying issues. Stop deluding yourself abour how this works.

There, there. I see you are still in a deluded fog. You may or may not ever eat the crow you so richly deserve. But you will be left behind.

I don’t care either way but pp is attempting to sound clever but is pretty dull.

Doesn't care either way but makes a post about it.

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Anonymous wrote:The delusional twitter doctor who was peddling his book about how mask policies had failed and was arguing that masks were ineffective? Yeah that one is off the rails.

No, the Twitter epidemiologists and doctors who built their social media profiles off of Covid hysteria. They fear losing relevancy and have a vested interest in pushing doom and gloom.

Right, Covid is no big deal despite killing mil,ions around the world. Must be nice to have your privilege.

It was reported that Maryland has crossed the 14,000 deaths from COVID benchmark recently. It did make me pause because it seems like a very low number relative to what we went through in the last two years. There are more than 6,000,000 Marylanders, and the 14k deaths were heavily concentrated among the elderly with health issues. I'm sure a decent percentage would have likely died by now from something else had they never gotten infected from COVID.

When I see the cold hard numbers in front of me, it does make me realize how much of what we went through in the last two years was driven by little more than hysteria and fear far more than what was needed. We'd have been much better off with a very different approach to COVID targeted to the high risk demographics.

This. Also compare the numbers to other causes of death. Can you imagine how much better off if we had instead focused on reducing obesity across the country?

Are you crazy? Do you know how many more people would have died if we had just let it rip? Not to mention collateral damage from hospitals being constantly overwhelmed. The numbers you are looking at resulted from the policy you’re pooh poohing.

It was clear as day by May 2020 that we needed to focus on locking down nursing homes and that the old/ill needed protection—so they should have stayed home and worn N95s when out and the rest of us (especially kids) should have lived life normallly.

THIS. It was very obvious from the cruise ships in spring 2020 that this mainly affects the elderly.

And the obese. My SIL works in a hospital that had an early COVID patient who was young 20s, and the media went wild. She said that what they weren't mentioning was that he was about 500lbs. We know and have known for years now who is at high risk. Nothing has changed.

Many many serious cases of COVID, including death, with people who were not obese or had any underlying issues. Stop deluding yourself abour how this works.

There, there. I see you are still in a deluded fog. You may or may not ever eat the crow you so richly deserve. But you will be left behind.

I don’t care either way but pp is attempting to sound clever but is pretty dull.

Doesn't care either way but makes a post about it.

Ahhh, you were the dull one who posted the the comment trying to sound clever. Better luck next time.

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Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS!

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Anonymous wrote:The delusional twitter doctor who was peddling his book about how mask policies had failed and was arguing that masks were ineffective? Yeah that one is off the rails.

No, the Twitter epidemiologists and doctors who built their social media profiles off of Covid hysteria. They fear losing relevancy and have a vested interest in pushing doom and gloom.

Right, Covid is no big deal despite killing mil,ions around the world. Must be nice to have your privilege.

It was reported that Maryland has crossed the 14,000 deaths from COVID benchmark recently. It did make me pause because it seems like a very low number relative to what we went through in the last two years. There are more than 6,000,000 Marylanders, and the 14k deaths were heavily concentrated among the elderly with health issues. I'm sure a decent percentage would have likely died by now from something else had they never gotten infected from COVID.

When I see the cold hard numbers in front of me, it does make me realize how much of what we went through in the last two years was driven by little more than hysteria and fear far more than what was needed. We'd have been much better off with a very different approach to COVID targeted to the high risk demographics.

This. Also compare the numbers to other causes of death. Can you imagine how much better off if we had instead focused on reducing obesity across the country?

14,000 includes the unvaccinated. Only about 1400 vaccinated individuals have died from covid in Maryland.

"only?"

Yes, that’s a small number. Annually 12,000 people in Maryland of heart disease, and another 3,000 from stroke. 10,000 die of cancer. 3,000 die in accidents. 2800 die of drug overdoses.

1400 Covid deaths in vaccinated people is low in the context of other risks and deaths.

The 1409 was deaths for unvaccinated!

In Maryland, 14,029 deaths from Covid total, of which 1434 were vaccinated.

Now do number of covid deaths in unvaccinated *after vaccines were widely available. I.E. After May 2021, when they opened availability to all adults.

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Anonymous wrote:Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS!

And most of them were already extremely ill or morbidly obese.

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Anonymous wrote:Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS!

How many were vaccinated and boosted? Please provide the number.

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Anonymous wrote:The delusional twitter doctor who was peddling his book about how mask policies had failed and was arguing that masks were ineffective? Yeah that one is off the rails.

No, the Twitter epidemiologists and doctors who built their social media profiles off of Covid hysteria. They fear losing relevancy and have a vested interest in pushing doom and gloom.

Right, Covid is no big deal despite killing mil,ions around the world. Must be nice to have your privilege.

It was reported that Maryland has crossed the 14,000 deaths from COVID benchmark recently. It did make me pause because it seems like a very low number relative to what we went through in the last two years. There are more than 6,000,000 Marylanders, and the 14k deaths were heavily concentrated among the elderly with health issues. I'm sure a decent percentage would have likely died by now from something else had they never gotten infected from COVID.

When I see the cold hard numbers in front of me, it does make me realize how much of what we went through in the last two years was driven by little more than hysteria and fear far more than what was needed. We'd have been much better off with a very different approach to COVID targeted to the high risk demographics.

This. Also compare the numbers to other causes of death. Can you imagine how much better off if we had instead focused on reducing obesity across the country?

14,000 includes the unvaccinated. Only about 1400 vaccinated individuals have died from covid in Maryland.

"only?"

Yes, that’s a small number. Annually 12,000 people in Maryland of heart disease, and another 3,000 from stroke. 10,000 die of cancer. 3,000 die in accidents. 2800 die of drug overdoses.

1400 Covid deaths in vaccinated people is low in the context of other risks and deaths.

The 1409 was deaths for unvaccinated!

In Maryland, 14,029 deaths from Covid total, of which 1434 were vaccinated.

Now do number of covid deaths in unvaccinated *after vaccines were widely available. I.E. After May 2021, when they opened availability to all adults.

Ok? I’m not sure what point you’re making. I’m just saying the risk to vaccinated people is very low, given that only 1400 vaccinated people have died from Covid.

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Anonymous wrote:The delusional twitter doctor who was peddling his book about how mask policies had failed and was arguing that masks were ineffective? Yeah that one is off the rails.

No, the Twitter epidemiologists and doctors who built their social media profiles off of Covid hysteria. They fear losing relevancy and have a vested interest in pushing doom and gloom.

Right, Covid is no big deal despite killing mil,ions around the world. Must be nice to have your privilege.

It was reported that Maryland has crossed the 14,000 deaths from COVID benchmark recently. It did make me pause because it seems like a very low number relative to what we went through in the last two years. There are more than 6,000,000 Marylanders, and the 14k deaths were heavily concentrated among the elderly with health issues. I'm sure a decent percentage would have likely died by now from something else had they never gotten infected from COVID.

When I see the cold hard numbers in front of me, it does make me realize how much of what we went through in the last two years was driven by little more than hysteria and fear far more than what was needed. We'd have been much better off with a very different approach to COVID targeted to the high risk demographics.

This. Also compare the numbers to other causes of death. Can you imagine how much better off if we had instead focused on reducing obesity across the country?

14,000 includes the unvaccinated. Only about 1400 vaccinated individuals have died from covid in Maryland.

"only?"

Yes, that’s a small number. Annually 12,000 people in Maryland of heart disease, and another 3,000 from stroke. 10,000 die of cancer. 3,000 die in accidents. 2800 die of drug overdoses.

1400 Covid deaths in vaccinated people is low in the context of other risks and deaths.

The 1409 was deaths for unvaccinated!

In Maryland, 14,029 deaths from Covid total, of which 1434 were vaccinated.

Now do number of covid deaths in unvaccinated *after vaccines were widely available. I.E. After May 2021, when they opened availability to all adults.

Ok? I’m not sure what point you’re making. I’m just saying the risk to vaccinated people is very low, given that only 1400 vaccinated people have died from Covid.

So how many unvaccinated died in that same time frame (after vaccines were available to all adults in Md. The number of vaccinated deaths must be compared with unvaccinated deaths in *the same time frame*.

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Anonymous wrote:Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS!

That happened a little bit in the DMV- with one common theme: the people dying or in the ICU were overwhelmingly unvaccinated. The rest were almost always old.

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Anonymous wrote:Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS!

And most of them were already extremely ill or morbidly obese.

Nope, deluded one.

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Anonymous wrote:The delusional twitter doctor who was peddling his book about how mask policies had failed and was arguing that masks were ineffective? Yeah that one is off the rails.

No, the Twitter epidemiologists and doctors who built their social media profiles off of Covid hysteria. They fear losing relevancy and have a vested interest in pushing doom and gloom.

Right, Covid is no big deal despite killing mil,ions around the world. Must be nice to have your privilege.

It was reported that Maryland has crossed the 14,000 deaths from COVID benchmark recently. It did make me pause because it seems like a very low number relative to what we went through in the last two years. There are more than 6,000,000 Marylanders, and the 14k deaths were heavily concentrated among the elderly with health issues. I'm sure a decent percentage would have likely died by now from something else had they never gotten infected from COVID.

When I see the cold hard numbers in front of me, it does make me realize how much of what we went through in the last two years was driven by little more than hysteria and fear far more than what was needed. We'd have been much better off with a very different approach to COVID targeted to the high risk demographics.

This. Also compare the numbers to other causes of death. Can you imagine how much better off if we had instead focused on reducing obesity across the country?

14,000 includes the unvaccinated. Only about 1400 vaccinated individuals have died from covid in Maryland.

"only?"

Yes, that’s a small number. Annually 12,000 people in Maryland of heart disease, and another 3,000 from stroke. 10,000 die of cancer. 3,000 die in accidents. 2800 die of drug overdoses.

1400 Covid deaths in vaccinated people is low in the context of other risks and deaths.

The 1409 was deaths for unvaccinated!

In Maryland, 14,029 deaths from Covid total, of which 1434 were vaccinated.

Now do number of covid deaths in unvaccinated *after vaccines were widely available. I.E. After May 2021, when they opened availability to all adults.

Ok? I’m not sure what point you’re making. I’m just saying the risk to vaccinated people is very low, given that only 1400 vaccinated people have died from Covid.

So how many unvaccinated died in that same time frame (after vaccines were available to all adults in Md. The number of vaccinated deaths must be compared with unvaccinated deaths in *the same time frame*.

Again, what point do you think I’m making? I’m just saying the risk is low.

I don’t think it is an apt comparison, but since broad availability of the vaccine we’ve about 5500 Covid deaths, of which 1400 were vaccinated.

My point is 1400 is a low number. I don’t care about the unvaccinated number.