Re: mask mandate

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, JAB wrote:

On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 22:40:31 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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Not talking mortality

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Genetics and immunity has to be evaluated, for instances
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Japanese researchers identify genetic quirk linked to severe COVID-19
- Despite intensive research since the pandemic began, much remains
unknown about COVID-19, particularly why it can be so severe in some
cases and relatively mild in others. Now, researchers from Japan have
identified a genetic quirk that could make some patients more likely
to experience severer forms of COVID-19.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230725/Japanese-researchers-identify-genetic-quirk-linked-to-severe-COVID-19.aspx
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"When European colonists arrived in the Americas, they brought
diseases like smallpox, which devastated Native American populations
due to their lack of immunity, leading to massive death tolls and
significantly impacting the demographics of the continent; this is
considered one of the primary factors in the decline of Native
American populations during colonization."
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Picking a data point and generalizing from it is not being
scientific...
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Also, there are four ignored coronaviruses that circulate in humans,
and it was suggested those who had a cold coronavirus within previous
year may have a better immune response with Covid-19.
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Your hypothesis lacks rigor...considering lots of people with "bad
germs" visit Sweden, then some portion of Sweden's population may have
a better immune response for this/that virus..
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Regardless, wearing a mask can make a difference
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Results
There were 17521 COVID-19 deaths in Sweden and 4272 in Norway in the
study period.

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A mask can reduce the "mother load" expelled towards a person.  If a
person with a working immune system was going to get "hit" with
Covid-19, it's much better to get a small dose than a big dose of it.

Due to the inexact definition of covid death, and the lack of post mortems, excess mortality is the measurement used when trying to understand how countries handled corona. It was discovered that many cases of death due to corona was misrepresented, some countries used 2 weeks, some 4 weeks etc. So instead, looking at excess mortality and compare it with pre-corona levels, a better measurement is excess mortality since it is not as susceptible to arbitrary corona measurements.