Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Wed, 21 May 2025 17:45:38 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote :

I studied the coronaviruses way back in the sixties and seventies.
They haven't changed since then. There are only 7 known to infect man.

 
Lol. "Studied". At least three new species have been identified in the last
20 years or so. SARS-CoV-1, MERS and SARS-CoV-2 which cause significant and
deadly disease in humans. That's an important change.

Chris,

My point was that the coronaviridea were and are well known to science,
well before the general public heard about them only recently.

Again, everything people know is wrong if they think they're new.

I forgot more about coronaviruses than you will ever know, so be careful
when you ridicule scientific statements simply because you don't like them.

What stands SARS-COV-2 apart (other than the multiple attachment sites) is
the specificities of the resulting cytokine storm - which isn't well known
why it hits certain people so hard. But what's a fact is comorbidities are
over the 90% mark - so it usually isn't Covid alone that kills people.

At my age, perhaps being twice that of yours, the risks are high enough
that boosters are still recommended but they're not going to be recommended
for people under about the age of 60 it seems, based on recent USA data.

However, since immunity is not long lasting (the average is about 2 years
even when people get the disease versus the thing they call a vaccine),
we're all destined to get Covid about once every 2 years moving forward.

It's part of life, and death, Chris.