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^^^ Fucktarded Flock alert!!!!
That's Microbrainiac for "nice ad lib team troll" ain't it?
Actually its short for "Fucking retarded flock of sheep".
Close but no cigar. I'm a seagull, not a sheep.
Vaccinate or be Outcast
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Close but no cigar. I'm a seagull, not a sheep.
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^^^ Fucktarded Flock alert!!!!
That's Microbrainiac for "nice ad lib team troll" ain't it?
Actually its short for "Fucking retarded flock of sheep".
Maybe we should refer to them as "The Legion of Lemmings"
That is pretty close. I mean, soon as the mainstream media starts playing that flute, they follow it right off the cliff!
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No no, you're a deformed pants pissing creeper who jerks off to movies of 12 year old girls
Yer welcum
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^^^ Fucktarded Flock alert!!!!
That's Microbrainiac for "nice ad lib team troll" ain't it?
Actually its short for "Fucking retarded flock of sheep".
Close but no cigar. I'm a seagull, not a sheep.
Dont try to swallow it all at once lol.
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Last September, India was confirming . It was on track to overtake the United States to become the country with the highest reported COVID-19 caseload in the world. Hospitals were full. The Indian economy nosedived into an recession.
But four months later, India's coronavirus numbers have plummeted. Late last month, on Jan. 26, the country's Health Ministry confirmed a record low of — in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. It was India's lowest daily tally in eight months. On Monday, India about 11,000 cases.
"It's not that India is testing less or things are going underreported," says , a health economist at Georgetown University. "It's been rising, rising — and now suddenly, it's vanished! I mean, hospital ICU utilization has gone down. Every indicator says the numbers are down."
Scientists say it's a mystery. They're probing why India's coronavirus numbers have declined so dramatically — and so suddenly, in September and October, months before any vaccinations began.
They're trying to figure out what Indians may be doing right and how to mimic that in other countries that are still suffering.
"It's the million-dollar question. Obviously, the classic public health measures are working: Testing has increased, people are going to hospitals earlier and deaths have dropped," says , a public health researcher with the Global Health Governance Programme at the University of Edinburgh. "But it's really still a mystery. It's very easy to get complacent, especially because many parts of the world are going through second and third waves. We need to be on our guard."
Scholars are examining India's mask mandates and public compliance, as well as its climate, its demographics and patterns of diseases that typically circulate in the country.
Mask and mandates
India is one of several countries — — that have mandated masks in public spaces. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on TV wearing a mask very early in the coronavirus pandemic. The messaging was clear.
In many Indian municipalities, including the megacity Mumbai, police hand out tickets — fines of 200 rupees ($2.75) — to violators. Mumbai's mask mandate even applies outdoors, to joggers on the beach and passengers in open-air rickshaws.
"Every time they fine a person 200 rupees, they also give them a mask to wear," explains Fernandes, a Mumbai native. "Very stereotypically, we [Indians] are known to break rules! You see traffic rules being broken all the time," she says, laughing.
But in the pandemic, when it comes to masks, "the police, the monitoring, enforcement — all that was ramped up," she says.
Authorities collected the equivalent of $37,000 in mask fines in Mumbai on New Year's Eve alone.
But the fines and mandates appear to have worked: In a , 95% of respondents said they wore a mask the last time they went out. The survey was conducted by phone in June by the , India's biggest independent economic policy group.
Awareness is widespread. Whenever you make a phone call in India — on landlines and mobiles — instead of a ring tone, you hear government-sponsored messages warning you to wash your hands and wear a mask. One message was recorded by Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, 78, who .
The mask and hand-washing messages have now been replaced with new ones urging people to get vaccinated; India began vaccinations on Jan. 16.
Heat and humidity
Aside from mask compliance, there's also India's climate: Most of the country is hot and humid. That too has deepened the mystery. There's some evidence that India's climate may help reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. But there's also some evidence to the contrary.
A review of hundreds of scientific articles, , found that warm and wet climates seem to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Heat and humidity combine to render coronaviruses less active — though the certainty of that conclusion, the review says, is low. that droplets of the virus may stay afloat longer in air that's cold and dry.
"When the air is humid and warm, [the droplets] fall to the ground more quickly, and it makes transmission harder," Elizabeth McGraw, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Pennsylvania State University, . (However, the science of transmission is still evolving.)
In a , Das, the health economist at Georgetown, found that 76% of patients there did not infect a single other person — though it's unclear why. He and his colleagues examined data collected from contact tracing and found that most patients who did infect others infected only a few other people, while a few patients infected many. Overall, 10% of cases accounted for 80% of infections. One implication, which Das says he's investigating further, is the possibility of making contact tracing more efficient by first testing a patient's immediate family members. If no one at all is infected, the process can end there.
"The temperature, of course, is in our favor. We do not have too cold of a climate," says Dr. Daksha Shah, an epidemiologist and deputy executive health officer for the city of Mumbai. "So many viruses are known to multiply more in colder regions."
But there's also some scientific evidence to the contrary, that India might actually be more conducive to the coronavirus: Research says that urban India's severe air pollution might exacerbate COVID-19. Not only does pollution weaken the body's immune system, but when air is thick with pollutants, those particles may help buoy the virus, allowing it to stay airborne longer.
A paper says extreme heat may also force people indoors, into air-conditioned spaces — and thus might contribute to the virus's spread. The Natural Resources Defense Council that extreme heat can lead to a spike in other illnesses — dehydration, diarrhea — that might lead to overcrowding in hospitals and clinics already struggling to treat victims of COVID-19.
Prevalence of other diseases
Another point to consider about India is : malaria, dengue fever, typhoid, hepatitis, cholera. Millions of Indians also lack access to clean drinking water, sanitation and hygienic food. Some experts speculate that people with robust immune systems may be more likely to survive in India in the first place.
"All of us have pretty good immunity! Look at the average Indian: He or she has probably had malaria at some point in his life or typhoid or dengue," says , an urban policy expert at the Observer Research Foundation in Mumbai. "You end up with basic immunity toward grave diseases."
Two new scientific papers support that thesis, though they have yet to be peer-reviewed: One study by Indian scientists from Chennai and Pune,, found that low- and lower-middle-income countries with less access to health care facilities, hygiene and sanitation actually have lower numbers of COVID-19 deaths per capita. Another study by scientists at India's Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, , found that COVID-19 deaths per capita are lower in countries where people are exposed to a diverse range of microbes and bacteria.
But experts warn that these two studies are preliminary and should serve only as a springboard for more investigation.
"They're not based on any biological data. So they're good for generating a hypothesis, but now we really need to do the studies that will result in explanations," says Dr. , an infectious diseases researcher at the Christian Medical College in Vellore. "I hope scientists work more on this soon. We need deeper dives into India's immune responses."
According to , the coronavirus has killed 154,392 people in India as of Feb. 1. That's a mortality rate of 1.44% — much lower than that of the United States or many European countries. (But Brazil's death rate is higher than India's, and Brazil and India are both lower-middle-income countries.)
Demographics
India is a very young country as well. Only . More than . Those who are young are less likely to die of COVID-19 and are more likely to show no symptoms if infected.
A study of nearly 85,000 coronavirus cases in India, , found that the COVID-19 mortality rate actually decreases there after age 65 — possibly because Indians who live past that age are such outliers. There are so few of them.
"Those Indians who do live that long tend to be more healthy than average or more wealthy — or both," says health economist Das.
Serological surveys — random testing for antibodies — show that a majority of people in certain areas of India may have already been exposed to the coronavirus, without developing symptoms. Last week, from a fifth serological study of 28,000 people in India's capital showed that 56% of residents already have antibodies, though a final report has not yet been published. The figures were higher in more crowded areas. Last summer, by Mumbai's health department and a government think tank found that 57% of Mumbai slum-dwellers and 16% of people living in other areas had antibodies suggesting prior exposure to the coronavirus.
But many experts caution that herd immunity — a controversial term, they say — would only begin to be achieved if at least 60% to 80% of the population had antibodies. It's also unclear whether antibodies convey lasting immunity and, if so, for how long. More serological surveys are needed, they say.
Timing
India's climate and demographics have not changed during the pandemic. And the drop in India's COVID-19 caseload has been recent. It hit a peak in September and has declined inexplicably since then.
In fact, India's numbers went down exactly when experts predicted they would spike: in October, when millions of people gathered for the Hindu festivals of Diwali and Durga Puja. It's when air pollution is also worst, and experts feared too.
Cases have also declined despite what many thought would be a superspreader event: tens of thousands of Indian farmers for months.
Shah, the epidemiologist, wonders if, just like more infectious variants of the coronavirus have been discovered in the U.K. and elsewhere, perhaps a milder variant may have started mutating in India.
"Some processes must have happened. This is an evolution of the virus itself. In some places there are mutations happening," she says. "We need some more deeper evidence and deeper studies."
The truth is, scientists just don't know.
"Three options: One is that it's gone because of the way people behaved, so we need to continue that behavior. Or it's gone because it's gone and it's never going to come back — great!" says Das, from Georgetown. "Or it's gone, but we don't know why it's gone — and it may come back."
That last option is what keeps scientists and public health experts up at night.
So for now, Indians are kind of holding their breath — just doing what they're doing — until they get vaccinated.
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Oh look, it's Captain Colon Sweat here to show us how funny incestuous outcomes look when their faces are pressed up against a window.
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Is that your new way of saying you're too gay to read?
.I know it was a lot of words in any case, and actually trying to read them would interfere with your binge drinking.
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No, it’s my way of saying you’re a shit contributor and your brain function is barely measurable
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...but you are too gay to read though.
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So basically you're saying LGBTQ people are illiterate
Does your husband know you think so poorly of his intellect, you faggot?
Does your husband know you think so poorly of his intellect, you faggot?
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That you are too gay to read is the statement that you made.
To quote you: "Too Gay;DR"
I read the entire article - I know you didn't, and why. (You're too gay to read)
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See the guy on the stage to the left of Lux in the light and dark patterned dress?
. I thought that might be Bigly,
but then realized he's too tall.
. I thought that might be Bigly,
but then realized he's too tall.
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Ur still face down in the toilet, homoday
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Are you smarter than a 4th mutation virus?
What I want to know is why are they not up in arms about being forced to wear clothes.
What's with the clothing mandate for fuck sakes?
Is this not a violation of civil liberties?
LMAO
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Thanks dems, for paying our enemies to develop this virus!!!
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Are you referring to the modest funds given to the Bat Virus Creators, by the Trump Administation?
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talkin bout your nigger president and your current brain dead fake one.
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Never assume, because it's such a frequent experience for you, that others have also done it.
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You could have just said "no you" and been done with it like the other two stooges in your pity pack you disgusting looking freak
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You really take this corporate media shit seriously?
You understand they hate you and are out for their own interests and are a propaganda arm for the elites? These media sources are literally waging psychological warfare on Americans and even other countries know this?
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Dumb Vaccinated Tik Tok Influencer Has Severe Reaction, No Longer The Beauty She Was!!
Did she died?
I went for a motorcycle ride with a buddy earlier this week and we stopped for a beer and a bite to eat.
His wife got "the jab". She now has a rash all over her body. The doctor says it is not from "the jab", yet it came on within days of getting it and she's never had skin problems before. Now she is on medication and prescription ointments to try to deal with the full-body rash.
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No, that is not what it means.
When it says "at least 43 were fully vaccinated" it means "43 or more were full vaccinated".
Holy fuck. Basic. Fuckin'. English.
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It’s elevator doesn’t reach the penthouse!
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Holiday is without question the dumbest person on this forum
followed closely by seamajor the child raping degenerate
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You are a retard.
Look at the "Daily New Deaths" chart on this page:
Look at the "Daily New Cases" chart. They were getting over 400,000 new cases some days in May.
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Holiday thinks he’s with smarts. That is somewhat comical in itself if we weren’t so vagued out with his droll retorts. Imagine if the cunt was married to blown_arse @LotusBud ...the world can be a cruel mistress!
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Am I the only one thinks English isn't his first language?
Either that or he's just an incoherent, illiterate retard.