Nov
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On The Pandemic · 2:36pm Nov 1st, 2021
Masks are sort-of, kind-of protective against Covid-19. The vaccine is, well, talk to a medical doctor before ye get it to make sure you are able to as it's not for everyone.
HOWEVER, there is nothing that is going to protect you from the next Hell virus to escape the Orient like proper nutrition. If you want the best kind of protection, eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, honey and drink teas and coffee. (Caffeine is anti-viral). Avoid alcohol and soft drinks. The body is the vessel for the soul so take care of it!
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RoyalBardofCanterlot · 218 views
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It's not a pandemic anymore, the virus is now endemic, like the flu. Although it should be noted that all types of influenza vira (the correct plural of virus given that it is Latin neuter fourth declension) belong to the coronavirus family.
Also the mask don't a thing, the virus is much smaller than the holes in the mask so that air can pass through them.
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Eh. Imagine the masks as two people pissing them selves. If one person is wearing pants less likely to splash the other. If both wearing pants, much, much less likely to splash the other.
It's more to prevent water droplets carrying it in their out of the throat and nose. Yes, one to one, the holes are bigger, but vapours and viruses move in clumps.
And it's not like the flu yet. Flu is delt with, witj seasonal vaccines we churn out every 12 months and give out, but this is more deadly. Infection rate is still too high, it's not an epidemic it's still a pandemic.
Think of it this way. A health care worker who catches it, can't treat anyone for two weeks or so.
Now recall the patient/ healthcare workers ratio.
If flu was spreading the rate covid was, we would be a national lock down more firm then this. In the UK we know this, because we did a flu readiness study way back in 2018. Results were not good.
Masks, and vaccines, and isolation are the only answer I'm afraid. And we know this, because you can see it. Look at New Zealand, Norway etc. Their strategies compared to the UK, US, Brazil.
Isolate when symptomatic, send off for a test, get vaccinated, wear mask in shops, public transport, don't mingle.
Everyone doing all of these, will control it.
Once the infection rate, hospitalization rate and death rate are all low enough and enough people has the vaccine, 'Then', we can treat it like a regular flu, and 'live with the virus'. But until then, as someone working in healthcare, who uses public transport and who is working in a hospital aproahing the levels of last lock down, with winter pressures approaching? I'm not expecting a fun Christmas. And people's growing apathy to this, the growing defeatism is getting... disturbing.
Some people call it Folk Medicine. Some people call it nonsense. Call it whatever you like, but it’s done a lot more good for me than prayers and thoughts.
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Thousands of years of ancestral wisdom has some points.
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This isn't about masks or not, it's about people needing to have better nutrition.
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It's endemic at this point. All masks will do is encourage it to evolve to be even less systematic and likely more contagious. It's not going away until it has burnt through its potential host population, which grows as the least contagious and most systemic original variant was not given the chance to burn itself out.
As to your analogy. The piss will still spread allover the place
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Best of luck with that.
Frankly, I'm sick and tired of hearing about this stupid virus. It's November 2021. The fad is over. It's time for the world to strap on big boy pants and move on. Commitment to living in fear forever doesn't make a person look like they care about others. It makes them look like a joke.