Regular season can't get here soon enough

China mutated it to covid to cut the worlds pop in half Thanos style.

I don't know if you know this, but wearing masks and socially distancing is also effective against the regular flu! Who would have thought of that?

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not even remotely true, nor is it logical. Soaking germs in alcohol(the biproduct of them) is breeding drug resistance & mutation hence the current pandemic. Not only is the flu a scam but all viruses are deflection for virosa or parasitic yeast. Most people who see a bunch of white goop infecting them will think they have a "virus" because they were told to think that way when in actuality it is a parasitic organism:
https://www.aaas.org/news/hospital-superbug-becoming-resistant-alcohol-disinfectants
https://www.biospace.com/article/data-supports-use-of-anti-parasitic-drug-ivermectin-in-covid-19-patients-study-shows/
https://www.livescience.com/superbug-fungus-spread-covid19-hospitals.html


The same paradigm that use to persecute and lock people up for being overly germ focused about drug resistance, deadly plagues, & cleanliness are now telling people to do just that & in the wrong way. How quickly it contradicts itself.
Logic says the whole thing is a war on rationality & consciousness to see who is third eye blind and who isnt.

This post was edited by lodd222 on Aug 27 2021 05:04pm

What do you mean what happened to the flu?

We took steps to prevent it. We did social distancing, masking, and sanitizing. What is only enough to slow down Covid is enough to virtually eliminate diseases with slower transmission.

For the flu the wild spread rate is almost always between 1 and 2. So if you cut it in half you get it below 1, which means you don't have exponential spread, and if it's below 1 you have declining spread. Covid had a wild spread rate of >2, meaning cutting that in half by masking, distancing, and sanitizing still lead to exponential spread, but far slower than if we had let the natural spread rate go unimpeded.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Aug 28 2021 12:50am

I think mitigations from COVID were part.. but I think this article touches on it..
It also applies to COVID itself. IE why is Delta 99% now? And not the 1st version where id it go? etc. One virus seems to cancel out others by rate of transmission??
Seems like its not 100% understood yet.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/22/opinion/viral-mystery-does-one-infection-prevent-another/

Interesting. I know that if you are infected by one virus you will go into a high alert state, where you secrete chemokines to activate your immune system. That would explain why one virus could stop another. Additionally, if they infect the same cells then the first cells are going to be churning out the first virus and not leave as many for the second to impact.

I'm tempted to dismiss direct interference from one virus to another, since viruse genomes are very simple it would be easy to identify a protein that is supposed to degrade other viruses, or produce a product that does so. So it's likely secondary effects from co-infection.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Aug 28 2021 12:55am

1. I learned that the people on the football forum are smarter than a lot of PaRDians
2. I think the more interesting question is if we've truly reduced the prevalence of a disease by 98% and we can link it to masking and what not then shouldn't a mask mandate be mandatory to save tens of thousands annually?

You are literally never allowed to talk down to anybody about math ever again.

Seriously...




A really bad year for the flu results in one person infecting two people. That's a wild spread rate of 2. Covid has a wild spread rate of more than 2. After 10 generations thats 2 + 2^9 + 2^8..... infected. If you cut the spread rate by 30% that means it's 1.4 + 1.4^9 + 1.4^8..... and 1.4 is only 28 people. In total the spread rate for a 30% reduction after 10 generations will be 68, and the unimpeded spread will be 2048.

So by cutting the spread rate by even 30% results in a 95+% reduction in total infections, and that's for the worst strains of the flu.

Now let's start with a more typical flu, spread rate 1.5. That's 170 after 10 generations. Cut by 30% and that's only 13. Again, more than 90% reduction.


It's truly baffling that you went this entire pandemic without being exposed to this kind of math. I think it really speaks to how you purposefully isolate yourself from good sources.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Aug 28 2021 01:21am