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originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Which member was that?
Oh I see, you don't know what Covid-19 is or where it came from, how unobservant of me. Covid-19 came from SARS-CoV-2, both being virus. Now perhaps we can have an intelligent discussion?
Herd immunity now seems impossible. Welcome to the age of Covid reinfection. The virus is now embedded in our world. But there are steps we can take to keep it at bay while we continue to live our lives
Yes, I'm starting to notice that basic information is being blatantly ignored...
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Itisnowagain
That's right.
But the Spanish flu was the dominate strain between 1920 and 1931, H1N1, it became the seasonal flu and it worried the US military to the point they spread headed the vaccine programs, and then H1N1 took a sharp decline.
As I said in one of my last posts only the children of those directly descended from the survivors of the Spanish flu really have a good immunity to H1N1, hence why in 2009 the majority of people who caught swine flu were people jn my age group, mellenials.
Theb timeline suggests the Spanish flu lingered between 1919 and 1931, about... a decade.
My main point is that viruses just don't go away because we declared a pandemic over. History isn't set in stone events, it's transitory, it flows, just like biology.
Spanish flu took almost a decade to stop its spread, and it only stopped because of vaccines.
When technology works for humanity, its not profit, its just working.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Putting words in my mouth, go back snd you'll see that I fully admitted that herd immunity via vaccines has passed.
But using vaccines to achieve heed immunity in general is possible. We have done it dozens of times and are still doing it.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: strongfp
Do you have a link that backs up this statement?
Spanish flu took almost a decade to stop its spread, and it only stopped because of vaccines.
Yes, I'm starting to notice that basic information is being blatantly ignored..
Spanish flu took almost a decade to stop its spread, and it only stopped because of vaccines.
Even after that virus died out, it would be years before scientists better understood what happened, and some mystery still remains. Here’s what we do know: in order for a pandemic to end, the disease in question has to reach a point at which it is unable to successfully find enough hosts to catch it and then spread it.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Itisnowagain
Well, I guess it was just a coincidence that once the flu vaccine was made h1n1 basically went away.
Do you think covid is still in pandemic status?
We've learned a lot about viruses since the Spanish flu, that they do linger and they don't just go away because we decide it's over. Why is the Spanish flu any different?
Spanish flu took almost a decade to stop its spread, and it only stopped because of vaccines.
When technology works for humanity, its not profit, its just working.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Itisnowagain
Well, I guess it was just a coincidence that once the flu vaccine was made h1n1 basically went away.
Do you think covid is still in pandemic status?
We've learned a lot about viruses since the Spanish flu, that they do linger and they don't just go away because we decide it's over. Why is the Spanish flu any different?
Covid-19 came from SARS-CoV-2, both being virus.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: M5xaz
Just because you come out guns a blazing and yelling doesn't mean you're right.
The Spanish flu caused the world to look for more alternatives and not rely on viruses to just rip through populations killing millions of people to gain immunity.
It promoted us, humans, people, to work towards a vaccine program to fight agaisnt influenza, and it's worked so far.
Also, why not work towards a vaccine during a pandemic? We isolated covid within weeks in dozens of different places around the world, hell, a hospital down the road from where I work did it alone. Get down to reality, just because YOU don't agree with medical science, doesn't mean they're wrong.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: MaxxAction
Except they were finding that people getting the flu leading up to 1931 weren't developing antibodies... prompting the panic to create vaccines. Viruses are strange things.
Do you agree with what another member said yesterday which I have linked above
Covid-19 came from SARS-CoV-2, both being virus.
As of April 2021, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19, accounted for more than 143 million infections and more than three million deaths worldwide.
Basically, a sylvatic cycle means that once a virus is widespread in wildlife, it will spread to humans and non-wild domestic animals. As a result, pathogen transmission then involves spread from domestic animals to other domestic animals and to humans, and human to human, referred to as the urban cycle. This is exactly where we are now with regard to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There is no herd immunity where there is a sylvatic cycle, the virus will always find a susceptible human from an animal and begin the cycle of human-to-human spread, as the virus continues to evolve and mutate in the wildlife population. Considering the level of infection already among the wildlife population, as Quammen states, “then there is no end to COVID-19.”
originally posted by: quintessentone
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Do you agree with what another member said yesterday which I have linked above
Covid-19 came from SARS-CoV-2, both being virus.
I don't get why you can't understand this concept. Read this paper and it will explain it for you.
As of April 2021, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19, accounted for more than 143 million infections and more than three million deaths worldwide.
www.nature.com...
As for herd immunity, you and I are both right and here's why.
Further investigation reveals that herd immunity can not be reached if the community is in a 'sylvatic cycle' with wildlife and with certain types of domestic animals that can contract the virus from wild animals then transmit it to humans, but the study below does not show common farm and domesticated animals as being able to transmit the virus to humans.
Recent studies on domesticated animals show that some get it and some don't, the ones that get it seem to only infect species to species, not animal to human, so this relationship/community would not be considered to be in a 'sylvatic cycle' so then it would be possible to attain herd immunity along with other factors taken into consideration, such as vaccination percentage of population, hygiene, masking and low population density, to name a few.
Basically, a sylvatic cycle means that once a virus is widespread in wildlife, it will spread to humans and non-wild domestic animals. As a result, pathogen transmission then involves spread from domestic animals to other domestic animals and to humans, and human to human, referred to as the urban cycle. This is exactly where we are now with regard to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There is no herd immunity where there is a sylvatic cycle, the virus will always find a susceptible human from an animal and begin the cycle of human-to-human spread, as the virus continues to evolve and mutate in the wildlife population. Considering the level of infection already among the wildlife population, as Quammen states, “then there is no end to COVID-19.”
www.nature.com...
www.yahoo.com...
Study on animals and coronovirus transmission.
modernfarmer.com...
Covid-19 came from SARS-CoV-2, both being virus.
Herd immunity now seems impossible. Welcome to the age of Covid reinfection. The virus is now embedded in our world. But there are steps we can take to keep it at bay while we continue to live our lives
Professor Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh