[ExI] covid or cold?

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 at 07:39, Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> For me personally it's far far less than 1% (I'm 29 and healthy,) for
> young healthy people it's more likely they die of a car accident or drug
> overdose.
>
> Also, why does nobody in the mainstream ever talk about obesity with
> this?  Pretty much every young person you see dying from this is obese.
> Yet of course we have this medically dubious "healthy at every size"
> movement that makes people feel good mentally at the expense of their
> physical health.  People have no issue criticizing drug addicts but
> criticizing food addition is a no-no, apparently.  Losing weight probably
> increases chances of survival more than a vax does
>

If only you could reduce the risk of obesity by 90% at the cost of $20 and
a sore arm for a day.

On Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 3:08 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 at 06:40, Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Nah, if you really get deep into internet communities you'll see even
>>> the vaxlovers are getting tired of this shit.
>>>
>>> I'm unvaxed and I still haven't gotten it.  I get enough sleep, don't
>>> stress much, and practice caloric restriction.  Same for my partner
>>>
>>
>> Most people haven’t had COVID and most people who have had COVID did not
>> get sick enough to end up in hospital. No-one denies that. But people don’t
>> like the idea that there is a 1% chance of dying from it, even though it
>> means there is a 99% chance of not dying from it. If 1% of planes crashed
>> and killed their passengers, even the healthy ones who eat well and
>> exercise, air travel would not be popular.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 12:34 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 12:05 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I keep hearing that the omicron variant looks and acts like a common
>>>>> cold.  If so, this is exactly what was predicted: eventually a killer-flu
>>>>> mutates into something more contagious and more benign.  What we still
>>>>> don’t know is if one brand of covid protects the catcher from the other
>>>>> brands.  If it does, then omicron is the end of this tragic nightmare.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ### There is immunological cross-reactivity between various Covid
>>>> variants, so an infection provides some protection against reinfection by
>>>> multiple other variants. However, the tragic nightmare is a godsend to
>>>> poseurs and power-grabbers, so I wouldn't be too optimistic that a mere
>>>> lack of lethality will end it ;(
>>>>
>>>> Rafal
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