Causes 2-4 days of flu-like symptoms per WHO
Oh no! Its as strong as any other coronavirus aka “common cold” prior to covid-19

Coronaviruses mutate too quickly thats why vaccines haven’t been made for the prior ones. So expect 1-2 boosters every year for the rest of your lives no matter how “deadly”

This post was edited by KRR on Nov 27 2021 01:02am

I think you meant Rhinovirus which is different from coronavirus.

Also, this increase in government control seems a bit overblown. Just look at what happened to Michigan with Governor overreach, it got limited pretty quickly. There is already precedent now and would get quashed pretty quickly even if the mandates are welcomed.
As for overall federal control, you have enough small government people and right wingers across the country that have influenced the uneducated and disenfranchised that we won't ever see as successful vaccination as we saw with Polio.

This post was edited by Dranor on Nov 27 2021 01:15am

Maybe it’ll be the one to thin out the dumb and not just the old.

multiple viruses are known as the “common cold”

Coronaviruses prior to covid-19 were the “common cold” these included Coronavirus 229E, HKU1, NL63, OC43 and more

Still has yet to acknowledge anything I quoted them in >_>

and what's your point? Boosters are a ridiculously low effort and low risk for the vast majority of the population. We should be doing universal flu vaccines and we can just add Covid on top of it once it's reached that point.

BTW, the difficulty in adapting to quickly mutating strains is one of the reasons why the mRNA tech is being used in the first place. Once mRNA vaccines become routine they can be quickly changed as new mutations occur.

You aren't wrong when it comes to Coronavirus as the RNA virus group umbrella. But what I don't think you are differentiating is that its a spectrum from the Rhinovirus (Typical Common cold) to the COVID-19/SARS viruses.
Currently when the average person says Coronavirus, they typically refer to COVID-19 rather than a common cold.

It seems a bit disingenuous to simply basket them and generally refer to them as all "common cold" style viruses. Yes, their lethality may vary but Covid variants are still more deadly than a rhinovirius "Common Cold" (Both of which can still kill people)

New York already issued a state of emergency

Seems like a reasonable action to take considering the population concentrations and the amount of medical resources that are overtaxed.

Covid has been more like an 'uncommon cold'. Its the first time since we've had detailed global contagion tracking that we've had a disease deadly enough to raise death rates by a significant margin. Its probable the world experienced waves of such events every few decades, not as noticeable as a true pandemic like the spanish flu. A bug could sweep through the country and kill old people and mildly influence most people, and it wouldnt be in any history book