Notices by ZeroCovidColin (zerocovidcolin@zeroes.ca)

@jimcarroll @maxleibman

This is the rest of my life. No one else gets to decide how that goes for me. In the past I've tolerated this because it was about minor inconveniences. I will not tolerate it with my life being put at risk for no reason. I won't tolerate it with my health and happiness at risk despite my being more productive at home.

I'm not going back because management is lazy and want to spend all day talking in person instead of working. #RemoteWork

Just FYI, there's still a lot of resistance out there to returning to the office.

We're going to find out just how much these CEOs want to destroy their companies.

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #RemoteWork

I work harder & better #Remote . Forcing me into the office is stupid for your productivity and stupid for my health and happiness.

How is your culture going to be improved by my hating every one of you until I find something else? ?

@amcglothin

@darnell @neroden

You are extrapolating from the lowest deaths per day we have had over 365 days to get 100k. It is HIGHLY unlikely to be anywhere close to the actual death numbers. It'll be months before we know the final COVID death toll for the US, but we're already over 260k for 2022. We've never had less.

Your post is a mixture of accurate information and minimization. COVID is not endemic.

@darnell

@neroden

What area is your area? Because what you shared are hospitilizations nationwide. Just because it isn't as bad as the worst it's ever been doesn't make it not a problem.

You're taking a few extreme points and discounting the damage being done, which isn't entirely in hospitilization and deaths.

@darnell

There's a lot of things in what you're saying that people have incorrectly passed to one another to minimize illnesses & COVID in particular.

1) Sars2 mutates at a higher rate than influenza, by a lot. This happens because of two reasons, it's size is much larger, making it error-prone. The second being coronaviruses are naturally resistant to many antivirals because of their error correction process called proofreading. Influenza doesnt have this. This allows better propagation.

@darnell

2) The 1918 flu was spread via close quarters on ships because of a war. That war ended and the virus stopped spreading as travel by boat between countries stopped happening. As I'm sure you've noticed, massive COVID outbreaks have happened on Cruise ships.

If influenza of 1918 was as infectious as COVID is now, we would've had to develop a better vaccine for it than we have. In addition, that better vaccine would've wiped the flu out in a way current vax/immunity can't with COVID.

@darnell

Lets look at the reasons why the situation is different.

Many use the argument that influenza was so deadly in 1918 that it had to become more infectious and milder just to keep spreading. If this were the case, you'd expect influenza to currently have very high levels of transmission in these 'mild' variants we would have today.

This never happened. Influenza has a very low transmission rate of r0 of 1.5 to 3. Sars2 is now r0 > 12 at minimum and higher than measles (18) at maximum.

@darnell

Finally, Sars2 causes immunity damage. It kills needed T-cells and damages the immune systems capability to respond to new infections. Sars2 uses ACE2 receptors found in most cells in your body to enter cells and can spread throughout your body to brain, heart, and in your circulatory system to other organs. Influenza cannot and does not do this, as it only binds to cells within the respiratory tract & lungs.

Influenza immunity also lasts > 3yrs. Sars2 immunity is gone in < 1yr.

If you're expecting 2023 to be the year you get to live 'normally'; this thought is one foot in the door to delusion.

Please don't fall into the thought or expectation that there's a time limit to the #COVID #pandemic and that it is almost over.

The pandemic continues to rage on because other people decided to believe 'normal' was coming and the pandemic would end because it went too long.

China is about to unleash a tsunami of new #Sars2 variants. #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks

There's so much misinfirmation in the media and from the admin on #COVID I am a bit overwhelmed along with holiday/work stuff trying to collect together info and post about it.

I guess that is intentional.

Vaccines help, but please #WearAMask this winter instead of relying on something that can't be proven effective anymore. They can't eliminate confounders in studies. Most of the time they only use antibody levels, which doesnt tell you how well they work on new variants.

#BringBackMasks