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God damned filler arcs... is it really that hard to do a filler arc that actually makes sense and is good?

@izaya
Yeah, I've looked a bit into it a while ago, but I don't think they're being sold in my country.

@coyote @TheMadPirate

If disease A kills 10 out of 100 people infected, that's a mortality rate of 10%.
If disease B kills 1 out of 100 people, that's a mortality rate of 1%.

Disease A has a higher mortality rate. It doesn't matter that disease A only infects 100 people and disease B infects 10000 people, we still say disease A has a higher mortality rate.

This is why you're a moron and why you're not worth taking seriously.

@TheMadPirate
Well.. we weren't ready for the Indian delta variant either, so I doubt we'll be ready for the future ones.

@coyote @TheMadPirate
There are more people who have died because there are far more people who are getting infected now, because the strain mutated to be much more infectious.

I've said nothing about the strain itself inherently more deadly, but dishonest people like yourself do nothing but put words in people's mouth.
I have no interest in any further conversation, because it would be pointless to talk to someone who does nothing but throw anything you can the wall, hoping something sticks. Your entire post is nothing but gish gallop and I have no interest in it.

@TheMadPirate
It's amazing how much of people's fears of these vaccines is because of a misunderstanding of how these things work and even the process of evolution by natural selection works.

The mRNA vaccine itself can't interact with covid itself. mRNA can only interact with your cells. And what it does, is it tells your regular cells to create some of the proteins of the covid virus, which then the immune system notices in your body, detect them as foreign/dangerous, and begin fighting them, creating antibodies. This entire process is limited by the amount of RNA in the vaccine, at RNA is inherently fragile and has a limited lifetime.

I've also heard claims that the vaccines will trigger covid to mutate into vaccine resistant strains. That's somewhat true, but also a very poor understanding of the evolutionary process.
The virus will always mutate, with or without a vaccine. As long as there's someone that is susceptible to infection (not immune), then the virus can infect them and has a chance of mutating in them. If by random chance, a mutated strain is now resistant to existing vaccines, then it will be able to infect a larger selection of people and thus has more chances at mutating again. The effect is that a new strain has appeared that is now infecting vaccinated people, and it appears as if you've made the virus mutate in this way. The reality is the new strain would have appeared irrespective of the vaccine, but because of the vaccine it's the only strain that can still survive and infect any person, while the original strain is limited to only people who are not immune, so it will slowly die out.
It's a massive cat and mouse game, which you win by trying to limit through every means possible how fast people get infected, by trying to get them cured as fast as possible, and by trying to give them immunity as fast as possible, including with updated vaccines. The real fight is not against the virus, the real fight is against it's mutating potential.

@TheMadPirate @VikingKong
No. He's completely deluded. If anybody count was harmful in those ways, you'd be more concerned about the yearly flu shots or even just getting a cold on a regular basis.

@VikingKong @TheMadPirate
>doesn't mean that immunity has ceased
Yes, actually that's exactly what it means. Sorry, I don't talk to complete and utter morons. Goodbye.

@TheMadPirate
Covid and the flu are very different viruses, despise what the "it's just like the flu" crowd wants you to believe. There's no guarantee that what works for the flu would work for covid.

@shark @FloatingGhost
It's not even a joke. It's a pun. And either you like puns, in which case this was a cleverly crafted one, or you hate puns.

@TheMadPirate
Not necessarily, depends a lot on the mutations themselves. The real problem though is only a small percentage of the population had the actual disease, and developed natural immunity. And even for those, we already know that antibody number go down in time. In any case, relying on people developing natural immunity could translate to the pandemic lasting decades.

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