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I dunno if we need to worry in Canada. There's been almost no deaths al associated with COVID in a while now. Worst case, people get hospitalised but that's it. We've built a pretty good social immunity thanks to vaccination.
It's the other countries who don't have our resources that are more at risk. We need to send them vaccines so the can immunize themselves properly.
I mean there's plenty to worry about besides death. I don't understand why people discount all the other potentially life altering effects of COVID.
Ah yes, you're right. There are potential lifetime effects to COVID. I forgot about those. A couple of friends of mine have been permanently affected with various problems like asthma since catching it.
You know I really wish I hadn't caught COVID at some point and lost the ability to sleep properly at some point.
That sucks :( What happened?
Welcome to long covid, where your body has adrenaline attacks at random points in the middle of the night.
Long COVID. It's one of the neurological problems left over.
1.4 of 38-odd million is absolutely not rare, it's nearly 1 in 50. The US figures are even worse. For something to be considered medically rare, it needs to be at most 1 in 10,000.
Long term symptoms aren't rare. It's at least one in ten people. And a lot of people are in denial and refuse to accept they're scewed.
The death count is low because immunity is up. If we relax on things like vaccinations or quarantine orders it will come back.
There's already an uptick from wastewater testing for the past few weeks according to CBC.
Seems like we need to be a hair more responsible for a while.
Do people even follow quarantine orders anymore? My employer stopped giving us covid sick days.
I think if we get a yearly immunization shot for influenza and covid we should be fine. And people should just quarantine if they're sick, COVID or not. I hate it when people go to work sick when they have the option to work from home. Especially in an office setting. Like haven't they learned anything? Why spread the disease to all your colleagues?
Don't we have herd immunity now? Having caught it recently is just as good as a vaccination.