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re: Coach got the Rona
Posted on 8/22/21 at 8:46 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
Posted on 8/22/21 at 8:46 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
Somewhat off topic, but I’d hate to see how the world today would react to something as deadly as smallpox was back in the 18th century.
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Posted on 8/22/21 at 9:02 pm to jangalang
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serious question.........how is being "cooped up in a room", with other people who have been "cooped up in the same room", the perfect environment for getting the flu?
Go on a cruise and let us know.
two very different things.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 9:07 pm to Rig
It would be a shite show of epic proportions.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 9:08 pm to Rig
quote:From: (wiki) Population history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Somewhat off topic, but I’d hate to see how the world today would react to something as deadly as smallpox was back in the 18th century.
Per Noble David Cook in 'Born To Die'
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The scope of the epidemics over the years was tremendous, killing millions of people—possibly in excess of 90% of the population in the hardest-hit areas—and creating one of "the greatest human catastrophe in history, far exceeding even the disaster of the Black Death of medieval Europe", which had killed up to one-third of the people in Europe and Asia between 1347 and 1351.
Posted on 8/22/21 at 9:55 pm to Rig
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but I’d hate to see how the world today would react to something as deadly as smallpox was back in the 18th century.
we have had things pop up that could have been just as deadly. covid for one. Aids for another. Medicine has just come a long way since then.
ETA In 1910 the male life expectancy was 48 and 51 for women.
This post was edited on 8/22/21 at 10:11 pm
Posted on 8/23/21 at 4:09 am to MrAUTigers
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ETA In 1910 the male life expectancy was 48 and 51 for women.
Yep. Penicillin wasn't even discovered until the late 1920s.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 6:03 am to Rhino5
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Studies show
This post was edited on 8/23/21 at 6:10 am
Posted on 8/23/21 at 8:42 am to NewbornBabyPolarBear
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NewbornBabyPolarBear
I'm happy to take you at your word but any guesses as to why this is happening? It's been kind of put out there that Delta is more contagious but less serious. If that were true and 94% of admissions are unvaccinated, how did things operate at all last summer when 0% of people were vaccinated?
Posted on 8/23/21 at 8:49 am to Rig
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Somewhat off topic, but I’d hate to see how the world today would react to something as deadly as smallpox was back in the 18th century.
Reason seems to have been suspended on both sides of this issue for the last year and a half and it doesn't seem to be getting any better.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:15 am to MrAUTigers
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we have had things pop up that could have been just as deadly. covid for one. Aids for another. Medicine has just come a long way since then.
I think you’re kind of missing the point.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:55 am to GoCrazyAuburn
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but I’d hate to see how the world today would react to something as deadly as smallpox was back in the 18th century.
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I think you’re kind of missing the point.
I think you missed the point.
We have seen exactly how people would react. Most were petrified of Aids. Many, like yourself, are cavalier about covid.
Who knows how deadly each would be without the advancement in medicine?
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:15 am to MrAUTigers
Rig, correct me if i'm wrong, but he is asking how would the world react if something came along that our medical expertise was able to do as much as theirs was back in the 1800's against smallpox. So, something that is beyond our ability to fight it, and it kills that many people.
He isn't saying we haven't seen a disease that could kill as many as smallpox if it was around in the 1800's.
Excuse me? Did someone wake up on the condescending side of the bed this morning?
He isn't saying we haven't seen a disease that could kill as many as smallpox if it was around in the 1800's.
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Many, like yourself, are cavalier about covid.
Excuse me? Did someone wake up on the condescending side of the bed this morning?
This post was edited on 8/23/21 at 10:24 am
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:18 am to MrAUTigers
There has always been heavy pushback by people that don’t want to accept the jab. Even during the deadly pandemics. In 1908 or 1906 people were even fined for not getting jabbed. There are court cases and plenty of legal basis from previous pandemics pondering the issue of individual liberty vs greater good. More often than not, if the government can prove the jab is the most effective pandemic response while also the least invasive alternative to individual liberty the guvmint is going to win.
This post was edited on 8/23/21 at 10:19 am
Posted on 8/23/21 at 9:32 pm to jangalang
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There has always been heavy pushback by people that don’t want to accept the jab.
Ignorance is always an option. The current choice to not vaccinate might be correct but every metric available says otherwise so I doubt it.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:02 pm to Tigerman97
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The current choice to not vaccinate might be correct but every metric available says otherwise so I doubt it.
For a young healthy person, name one metric that favors the vaccine?
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:11 pm to RandySavage
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For a young healthy person, name one metric that favors the vaccine?
I've got two:
1) not feeling like shite for a week.
2) not having to quarantine away from the team.
3) less chance of transmission to others.
I added one.
This post was edited on 8/23/21 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 8/23/21 at 10:21 pm to borotiger
Interesting. I didn’t know people with the vaccine didn’t have to quarantine or feel like shite with Covid.
Also, #3 is wrong.
Also, #3 is wrong.
This post was edited on 8/23/21 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 8/24/21 at 3:05 am to GoCrazyAuburn
Honestly just open everything up. If you haven't gotten the vaccine by now and get sick, tough shite
This post was edited on 8/24/21 at 3:06 am
Posted on 8/24/21 at 6:24 am to TemperdTiger
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Honestly just open everything up. If you haven't gotten the vaccine by now and get sick, tough shite
Agree 100%.
Posted on 8/24/21 at 6:27 am to borotiger
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not feeling like shite for a week.
Everyone's got their anecdotal evidence but I know more people who got sick from the vaccine than from COVID.
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not having to quarantine away from the team.
I'm not talking about football and following made up protocols with no reason or logical backing.
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less chance of transmission to others.
You sure about that?
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