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   Eniko Fox (eniko@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 01:37:09 JST Eniko Fox

   Apparently paxlovid is about as effective against hospitalization now as the vaccine is against infection. Big "we have the tools" energy. None of them work very well. It's almost like forcing everyone to get infected multiple times a year was a bad move

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     eladnarra (eladnarra@disabled.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 01:37:08 JST eladnarra

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     @eniko I'm so angry that public health has just given up trying to combat evolution of new strains. It's simple math and genetics. More infections = more copies being made = more chances for mutations. Most mutations aren't advantageous, but it only requires one taking hold and spreading.

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     Eniko Fox (eniko@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 01:37:35 JST Eniko Fox

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     - highly effective (against infection)
     - highly effective (against severe disease/hospitalization)
     - highly effective (against death)

     each successive step gets less impressive but i feel like the powers that be use this language so that they can just keep claiming stuff is "highly effective" and nobody pays too much attention to the dangling qualifier