Yeah.

I’m not a fan of “helping” data along though. I expect the effect is real, but not necessarily as large as shown. Future studies could follow cohorts, but best to avoid…

I would also say that this paper is more real-world in one sense. We aren’t experiencing C19 alone, and therefore the effect of compound viruses is important.

All good points. I would add that studies should also be placed in context. The context of rising opportunistic disease, other studies showing depletion of various components of the immune system etc. So it’s more of an indication of direction rather than a seminal paper showing proof.

V sensible.

And we have, within living memory, paid a very high price to win the free and reasonably fair societies that we have.

this kind of fascist thinking… because we know through direct and recent experience where it lands us… all too quickly.

Someone is saying that migration is erasing identity. Europe has been a melting pot of different ways of life and different peoples for thousands of years. It doesn’t delete the identity. There has been trouble too, of course. Many wars, genocide… but that’s why we need to do more to guard against

Which is why it is very important that we resist malignant outside influences that want to stir fear and hatred. Our future is brighter when we live in harmony.

If by some horrible error we do end up going down the same sinkhole, again, I have every confidence that we will sort it out again. It will just be very sad how many lives will be destroyed or lost along the way.

I’m not going to predetermine the future of an entire continent in a post, but I think the disappointing direction of one country should be firmly rejected by other countries that wish to maintain peaceful and prosperous populations.

Seen that most of last year and this year

Fascinating. I thought it looked like a likely candidate to do this. Technically, a significantly mutated strain that hits the north and south in one go could be thought of as a pandemic strain.

Need to keep an eye on other countries in the global south…

It is very hard. From a doctors perspective, the temptation is to try things that have little hope of working. It’s totally heart breaking.

That was exactly what happened in our school outbreak. Everyone thought it was gastro, but then the kids didn't get better. They started showing flu-like symptoms and finally someone tested (Flu A). Not before it spread tho. I know of 3 kids from one grade who spent time in hospital 😞 Very nasty.

Fascinating. I thought it looked like a likely candidate to do this. Technically, a significantly mutated strain that hits the north and south in one go could be thought of as a pandemic strain.

Oh dear…

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