Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

A friend of mine was doing some DIY recently, he had misplaced his dust mask but had a pack of disposable covid masks to hand so he tried one, needless to say it was less than useless.

Dust particles are between 100 and 1000 times the size of a virus and even if you want to introduce aerosol carriers for the virus, the dust paritcles are still at least 10 times the size, especially construction dust.

The fact is that an N95 mask used properly can be effective in reducing transmission but a massive proportion of the mask shaped objects being worn on faces in the name of covid precautions are doing very little. About the only positive you could say for the cloth masks is that they're less likely to become litter and even though they'll end up in landfill eventually, they'll significantly reduce the amount of disposable masks in landfill.

That said, I wear a mask where ever required because it's not a big burden on me but I don't want my children to have their development stunted even more than it had been to date by covid restrictions. Masking children will have little benefit and create lots of problems.

Literally all your posts are some vaccine misinformation talking point that you must have found on facebook or some other random anti-vax site, you've been shown up for this time after time.

If you want to talk about children sanely, then actually do that without the misinformation.

The risk from the disease is much greater than the risk from the virus, agree or disagree, bring facts (the risk/benefit has been posted here multiple times before).

What does the vaccine have to do with their education other than giving them the chance to be in school rather than out sick with COVID?

What about their development is under threat? Do other vaccines also put their development under threat?

What is the correct trial sample for medicine to establish safety? These are industry standard trials with the COVID-19 vaccine trials being larger than normal, but if you say it's too small, point at literature that shows otherwise.

And whose children are you pretending to be concerned about?

Ah Jaysus. This rhetoric brings me back to Q2 2020.

This is just one shot, literally barely a week ago or just days in most cases. This is not data - real world or otherwise.

Now to force boosters - NPHET want to expand Covid passes.

FT have published a chart shows spread of each variant *relative to other variants in the country at that time*. In each case conditions in the country are fixed, so that’s implicitly controlled for. e.g red line is spread of B.1.1.529 with X restrictions relative to Delta also with X restrictions.

B.1.1.529 beats Delta using these controlled conditions.

I’m not on Facebook, nice try. You are good at asking pointless questions - you didn’t provide a source to back up your claim re real world data from the US and children with Covid vaccines - how can real world data exist in the US when children have not yet received their two shots there.

Capacity has increased. This time last year capacity was 100,000 tests a week. And that sounded huge.

Now it's over 200,000 Covid tests A WEEK. From nothing 21 months ago. I don't think you realise the work that goes into constantly trying to do more with less.

Swabs are processed 24/7. ON TOP of other routine laboratory testing which is only ever increasing with chronic staff shortages and burnout.

Q498R mutation in B.1.1.529 could lead to a variant with higher infectivity & immune evasion ...

Unfortunately its probably too late.

Its already got to Hong Kong. Its just impossible to stop a disease likevacovid as NZ have found out.

What I will say is nothing is definitively known about this variant. The headlines I'm seeing and reading were all the same headlines when MU first came on the scene. Now time will tell what way this one goes. The headlines regarding effectiveness against vaccines are clickbait at the moment, it's an unknown question, it'll take 2-3 weeks to grow in lab and test. MU also was the worst seen yet, will escape vaccines etc, after some investigation that wasn't the case. We've been here time and time again, minks just to name one.

It also doesn't help that SA has vaccine coverage in the 20% range, that in itself is a failure of both SA for the god awful studies they published on vaccines along with the developed countries and vaccine equality.

Let's see how this plays out. I wouldn't be surprised to see MHQ rolled out for anyone coming in from SA but there wouldn't be many anyway

Literally no data on whether this variant is more lethal? Maybe it’s a watered down version. Might be a good thing.