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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it
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Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:36:46 +0200
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On 2025-05-23 14:33, CrudeSausage wrote:
> On 2025-05-23 02:38, Chris wrote:
>> Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 21 May 2025 17:45:38 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote :
>>>
>>>
>>>>> I studied the coronaviruses way back in the sixties and seventies.
>>>>> They haven't changed since then. There are only 7 known to infect man.
>>>>
>>>> Lol. "Studied". At least three new species have been identified in 
>>>> the last
>>>> 20 years or so. SARS-CoV-1, MERS and SARS-CoV-2 which cause 
>>>> significant and
>>>> deadly disease in humans. That's an important change.
>>>
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> My point was that the coronaviridea were and are well known to science,
>>> well before the general public heard about them only recently.
>>>
>>> Again, everything people know is wrong if they think they're new.
>>>
>>> I forgot more about coronaviruses than you will ever know, so be careful
>>> when you ridicule scientific statements simply because you don't like 
>>> them.
>>
>> Get over yourself. You think reading books is equivalent to obtaining a
>> degree. You wouldn't know a scientific statement if it smacked you around
>> the chops.
>>
>>> What stands SARS-COV-2 apart (other than the multiple attachment 
>>> sites) is
>>> the specificities of the resulting cytokine storm - which isn't well 
>>> known
>>> why it hits certain people so hard. But what's a fact is 
>>> comorbidities are
>>> over the 90% mark - so it usually isn't Covid alone that kills people.
>>>
>>> At my age, perhaps being twice that of yours,
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>>> the risks are high enough
>>> that boosters are still recommended but they're not going to be 
>>> recommended
>>> for people under about the age of 60 it seems, based on recent USA data.
>>>
>>> However, since immunity is not long lasting (the average is about 2 
>>> years
>>> even when people get the disease versus the thing they call a vaccine),
>>> we're all destined to get Covid about once every 2 years moving forward.
>>
>> Not me. At least not to the point where my viral load is detectable. I
>> tested almost daily during the pandemic and had a case twice in the
>> household. Never even a hint of being positive. Never had covid-19.
> 
> How would you even know? In most cases, COVID-19 was little more than a 
> flu. _Some_ people got seriously hurt by it, but most had existing 
> health troubles. Most people got seriously injured by the "vaccine," not 
> the virus.

LOL!  False, of course. And offtopic.


-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.