A Mississippi town welcomed students back to school last week. Now 116 are home in quarantine.

[danielpalos]

A Mississippi town welcomed students back to school last week. Now 116 are home in quarantine.

“Just because you begin to have positive cases, that is not a reason for closing school." That sounds suspiciously like Southern Republican for "it is what it is."

Only right wingers allege the pandemic is a hoax. Why should we confide in their sincerity?

 

[bluesmoke]

This is all wrong. Flu is short for influenza. COVID is cause by a coronavirus, not even the same family of virus. The vaccine isn't even going to be the same type of vaccine that is used each year for the flu, we may get an mRNA vaccine in humans for the first time, ever. If you're going to go around correcting people, at least give them accurate info.

Thanks for the correction. The point remains the same. They are both a virus but one is of a new and far more deadly nature than the poster pretended it to be as no more a threat than the common flu. Though there has never been a vaccine for corona virus/SARS, should one be found it will/should be included with the common flu vaccine. Or, do you disagree with my point?

 

[fireflygmf]

Thanks for the correction. The point remains the same. They are both a virus but one is of a new and far more deadly nature than the poster pretended it to be as no more a threat than the common flu. Though there has never been a vaccine for corona virus/SARS, should one be found it will/should be included with the common flu vaccine. Or, do you disagree with my point?

I agree that SARS-CoV-2 is far more serious than the average flu though, if viewed as individual risk, depends on your age, and as a societal risk, it's quite severe due to hospital resources being overwhelmed. If that's what you are looking for, then yes I agree.

I don't know whether we will need ongoing vaccination for COVID, it depends how long lasting the immunity is, which remains to be seen. This coronavirus (as with other coronavirus) mutates very slowly as compared to influenza, so it is much more likely that a single vaccine will do, so long as immunity lasts. The reason we have new vaccines every year for the flu is because of how aggressively influenza mutates. These are all questions yet to be answered conclusively so I can't give an informed opinion.

 

[fireflygmf]

#1.

Yeah but I don't like this game. What one means is presumably exactly what was said, no more, no less. By substituting alternative meaning to what was said constitutes the assignment of ill motive, IMO. That's your decision to hear what you want, not a representation of the speaker's intent in any way. I'd be onboard to dismiss this type of rebuttal instantly, on principle alone.

 

[bluesmoke]

Because it's just like the flu, but fewer people die from it.

You get infected, you may or may not have symptoms, you suffer at home if you do have symptoms, some require hospitalization like with the flu, and then it's over. Few people die from it.

So, not only do you not get that COVID is not just "the flu", you also don't get that it is a pandemic. That if people don't self-quarantine, socially distance, wear mask and wash hands then more people die and can only get worse than the 166K dead more than we had 5 mos ago. You know, the "few people" that "die from it." And now that schools are reopening in the Red States willy-nilly, that have few guidelines, the "immune" children, as Trump calls them, are contracting the virus and bringing it home. But it'll probably be just a "few" more that die added to the 166K few that have died so far that one day will be 300K few and then...because people like you believe we should treat it like nothing more than "the flu" and just carry on...to the next level of ???,000 "few" dead.

 

[bluesmoke]

I agree that SARS-CoV-2 is far more serious than the average flu though, if viewed as individual risk, depends on your age, and as a societal risk, it's quite severe due to hospital resources being overwhelmed. If that's what you are looking for, then yes I agree.

I don't know whether we will need ongoing vaccination for COVID, it depends how long lasting the immunity is, which remains to be seen. This coronavirus (as with other coronavirus) mutates very slowly as compared to influenza, so it is much more likely that a single vaccine will do, so long as immunity lasts. The reason we have new vaccines every year for the flu is because of how aggressively influenza mutates. These are all questions yet to be answered conclusively so I can't give an informed opinion.

Yeah. The flu vaccine, though given per person every two yrs, is changed based on mutation about twice a yr and vaccinates against 4 diff flu virus.

As far as an informed opinion, science still has little handle on SARS-CoV-2 to know as much as we need to know. As we learn more, it's not good.