The Virus Outbreak Thread

Welp. About 6 more weeks until I can get boosted (had my last shot in July.)

Malaysia’s government no longer allows walk-ins, due to complaints about overcrowding and people skipping queues. It replaces it with queue appointments, with elderly people being first.

This is a backwards attitude!

Anti vax Chicago Protest.

Gods how I wish each and every one of them end up sick. That level of human stupidity needs to be punished.

It turns out that Betty White died a few days after getting a booster. The usual suspects are likely going to claim that the booster killed her.

@Goku Black
And they are going to ignore that she was what, 99?

She was like 99 years and 11 months old. I don’t know if a booster shot could’ve overloaded her system, but I’m pretty sure age definitely had more to do with it than the vaccine.

@Goku Black
Bullshit…

@Zincy
Whising someone get sick over a protest you not agree with is vile and inhuman thing.

And if the vaccine truly protects you then while we need to take booster shots? A real normal vaccine should work after 1-2 shot and many doesn’t even need to be repeated after but COVID needs 3+ shots. It’s just proves that these anti-covidvax protesters have a good point and the COVID vaccine is not so effective. Or at least not yet.

@Background Pony #4355
It’s due to viruses mutating over time. It’s the same reason you have to take a flu shot every year. A shot for a virus that you only have to take once is either a miracle or a scam.

And things got worse in my country once again. Yay…

@Meanlucario
There are vaccines that protect you for a lifetime. For example the vaccines against measles, smallpox.
All of them needed 70+ year to perfected thou.
I think that COVID vaccines need more time to get as effective as the above mentioned vaccines.

Don’t try to lecture about science when you clearly don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground.

No vaccine is 100% effective, and very few vaccines last a full lifetime without efficiency loss. Slow mutation viruses like Hep B are one in done, but loses upwards to 30-40% of its efficacy over ones lifetime. Others like tetanus have to be done on a rolling basis. Meanwhile, rapid mutators like the flu and coronaviruses have to be taken seasonally or more due to both a higher r0 leading to more rapid infections (compared to things like hep) and their already elevated mutation levels.

@Dustcan
Agreed.

It also helps that very aggressive vaccination back in the day rendered smallpox, measles, polio etc effectively eradicated. We don’t need new vaccines against them because they are never got the chance to mutate (even assuming they were capable in the first place).

@Dustcan
Yeah, but in the present, that can be problematic.

@Background Pony #E86B
Howso?

@Meanlucario
The arguments that it’s against their freedom and so on.

@Background Pony #E86B
To me, it’s in the same vein as “murder being illegal is restricting my freedom.”

Of course, anti-vaxxers are using Betty White’s death for their disgusting rumors about the vaccines.

Agreed.

Another new strain has apparently emerged in France.

Article about it.
And it has the same proteins that allows Omni to evade the vaccine.
And someone in Israel has contracted “Flurona” , a combination of the flu and Covid.