colechristensen

colechristensen t1_jedtxri wrote

I read papers, I evaluate them based on my knowledge and experience. Do that yourself or go find a few people with credentials you value and compare their responses and decide for yourself.

Or just google “covid” and “endemic” and find plenty of papers and articles.

Or try (and fail) to find any serious scientist taking about eradication or just think what the game plan for avoiding infection long term actually could be. (Nothing but how often you get it seems even remotely reasonable)

EDIT: the pattern of people blocking somebody so they can get the final word is a bit sad.

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colechristensen t1_jedssn0 wrote

More or less the entire human population has had it now. It’s happened. People always got sick, people always got degenerative diseases, people always died. We have a significant new cause of death and some people are going to have those things happen sooner. The world will continue turning. There will be a bit of a shock while the new more dangerous rates catch up, then things will settle down.

Maybe we’ll get more research and understanding to the “long” versions of infections which have always been a thing for many different infections. They’re rare and often mild but still always have been present and poorly understood.

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colechristensen t1_jedsa6r wrote

Yes. We did. There’s nothing left to be done. It’s no longer about if you’re going to get it, everyone is, quite nearly everyone has. You’re just going to get it regularly and when you do the effects will generally be small, but considerably larger than cooronaviruses have been in the past.

We have a new disease which over the long term is going to be about as bad as the flu. Being human got a little more dangerous, but unavoidably so. Spending your whole life trying to avoid all diseases has its own dangers too.

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colechristensen t1_jdu0nhw wrote

Tolkien was working on a lord of the rings sequel but he found all of the story lines he could come up with really depressing so he dropped it.

Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman got buried by her because she hated it but when she died her heirs published it because money. It was awful and if you don’t realize the author didn’t like it either you’d like her a lot less after reading it.

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colechristensen t1_jdguod4 wrote

Don’t share your trauma with internet strangers, you’re just as likely to get validated as you are to get trolled. Especially when it’s related to a thing with “fans”. Fanatics are indeed irritating.

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