[ExI] covid or cold?

[Max More]

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

You can reduce the risk of obesity at a cost of zero. Actually, the cost is negative, since it involves buying less food.

The difficulty is not the cost, it's the mindfulness and incentive to do it.

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