Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Thursday he tested positive for COVID-19, amid a nationwide spike in infections. The 82-year-old Sanders, said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, he was ex…
Yes, but those variety of viruses are rhinoviruses and COVID is a coronavirus. Just because they’re both viruses doesn’t mean they’re the same illness.
I have the same issue with COVID deniers (I do not think @YoBuckStopsHere is a COVID denier) calling it the flu. It’s silly to treat all viruses as the same even if they cause similar symptoms with an infection.
Agreed but the quality coming out of .world seems to be lower than most other instances. Not saying it’s excusable and I am already starting to get a bias when I see anything coming from the instance.
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This is bullshit. COVID-19 hospitalizations are spiking right now, something that doesn’t happen with colds.
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Yes, but those variety of viruses are rhinoviruses and COVID is a coronavirus. Just because they’re both viruses doesn’t mean they’re the same illness.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/rhinoviruses-common-cold.html
They’re vastly different species. It’s like saying a coral snake and a zebra are the same animal because they both have stripes.
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I have the same issue with COVID deniers (I do not think @YoBuckStopsHere is a COVID denier) calling it the flu. It’s silly to treat all viruses as the same even if they cause similar symptoms with an infection.
Two young women I know with no health issues were wrecked from covid
You mean YOU call it the cold, no “we”
This attitude is so fucked. Jesus Christ.
That’s the kind of mods this community has?
On c/politics of all things
Edit: the mod tried removing this for being “”“uncivil”“” and it got reinstated by an admin
It’s a politics sub on the largest instance. Not that I condone it but what do you expect?
Better?
Agreed but the quality coming out of .world seems to be lower than most other instances. Not saying it’s excusable and I am already starting to get a bias when I see anything coming from the instance.
They got banned for mod abuse
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&userId=297128
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It’s still a deadly virus, just not as contagious as it first was
Ummm it’s only behind measles on how contagious it is. These omicron strains are insanely contagious. Way more than OG, alpha, delta etc.
Even though measles is more contagious, the time from infection to contagious is much longer, so covid will spread much faster than measles as well.
We’ve never had to deal with something with this combination before.
It’s still the most deadly disease out there excepting AIDS (in terms of raw numbers), even though we’re doing our best to ignore it.
The deadliness of the infection has gone down but the transmissibility is actually up, for what that’s worth.