I had to do a net search to find out who susan rosenberg is.
all the refs I found were troll sites (far right 'research' sites.. uh yeah, right)
you can see that they tell one side but not the other. the fact that a sentence like that normally gets 5 years and she got many times that - that fact is conveniently left out of the troll sites. and that she did her time (MORE than she should) and she's now out and living a life. isn't that the point of prison? or, do you want to condem people for the rest of their lives?
I can't condone what she did - I don't know enough about it - but if you did your time and did MORE than you should - shouldn't you get a chance to restart your life and not always be crucified for your past?
seems its the christian way, right? the deep south seems to really lack the christian spirit. they talk a good game, but its all hot air with so many of the racists, there.
I found accurate info about her on Wikipedia.
Not neccessarily "more deadly". I doubt Kazakhstan has healthcare standards of first world.
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@dfwatt quoted Rachel Maddow: put a pin in it and check back later. We have evidence the virus has mutated significantly at least once since jumping to humans. It is possible it's done it again, but it's also possible it hasn't and this is a red herring story.
I also don't see any use in comparing covid to other forms of death. just not sure how, at all, that's relevant.
creeping whataboutism, is what that is.
we could compare a country or a region's response to covid - to another country/region. that's a same-to-same playing field. we could sort of compare covid to the 1918 pandemic. but to bring in other noise issues seems either intellectually dishonest or uninformed.
(oblig: "why not both?")
Human's learn by comparing what we already know to something new. But we can also use the same mechanism to rationalize away things we should be learning. Wisdom is knowing which a person is doing.
I wonder if the distancing measures adopted worldwide (well, almost worldwide) have also resulted in a lot less influenza deaths. It should have drastically reduced the chances of infection. Or maybe it was too late in the influenza season.
Kinsa medical who makes an internet connected thermometer has been collecting data on Americans over the last few years. They built a model that predicts seasonal fevers that was pretty accurate in predicting the early COVID outbreaks in the US. At the time the flu season was still ongoing and the extra fevers showed up pretty easily. Their data then became inaccurate because the yearly flu cases fell off a cliff when lock down started.
Click to view the map here to see how the "health weather" has changed in the US this year
US HealthWeather™ Map by Kinsa
Covid-19 reinfection 3 months later and with worse symptoms.
Vox article:
My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes.
I have wondered if those who were basically asymptomatic would be compromised afterwards. Sure would make all those Gen X & Y people on here arguing against masks for them and their Gen Z kids seen in a different light. The other aspect of the article of course reliability of any immunity from surviving it first go round.
It is concerning, but different individuals have different reactions to different diseases. Statistical patterns need to be used to track if this is really a big thing or a few isolated cases. COVID is one of the strangest infectious diseases medicine has ever encountered, which makes diagnosis and treatment difficult.
With flu viruses some people get whatever is going around as a kid and then never have it as an adult. That's the pattern in my family. I got the flu every year as a kid and even my sister who is 10 years older never got sick. Neither of my parents ever had anything. As an adult I almost came down with the flu once about 7 years ago, but nipped it in the bud. That's the only time I've actually come close as an adult.
Other people, even as adults, get the flu almost every year.
It appears some people don't get immunity, or very good immunity when they get COVID and we don't know if others are one and done or not. The number of reports of people getting it twice are only a scattering thus far, and at least some of those cases are so close to the original it might be a relapse.
It's something we just don't know yet. If the immunity turns out to be very short (like a couple of months) or non-existent, then we will never have a vaccine. If it turns out that only a relative few people get it more than once, then there may be a chance for a vaccine to work, or alternatively most people who have had it can be confident they're safe. We just don't have enough data yet and accurate data collection is not easy.
Covid-19 Dementia in Orlando, FL
Why do these trumpers think they have a right to endanger others ?
Who is going to pay when they are infected ?
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She made a mistake on that sign, the "or" should be "and".
