Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 15:36:46 +0200 Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: <1008i5i$f02$2@dont-email.me> <100b891$kn2g$4@dont-email.me> <100bor2$r9u4$1@dont-email.me> <100bvqu$sehg$2@dont-email.me> <100cqr2$2qqb$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <100drik$cac$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <100envm$1uh9$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <100eo5v$1gu86$1@dont-email.me> <100fmsr$1tn9$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <100ghbi$1sbnn$7@dont-email.me> <100h2ei$20iu$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <100ipqb$1q4f$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <100jm2k$in1$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <100l3g1$2v1et$1@dont-email.me> <100ljkh$1vj9$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <100p54l$3v9a7$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net eA2kuwHzjJwVBCSc1GEwOw/aLF0Gfigd4VFTmjR0zxEE+0YiuQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:J96oUJEGGljs+3kVMOlQ+VY1p5I= sha256:hfH4CnFGtf36jgQvYg7kKkOXKigbpcIa2UtvPym+nFI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4309 On 2025-05-23 14:33, CrudeSausage wrote: > On 2025-05-23 02:38, Chris wrote: >> Marion 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.