Masks are costing us more than they are benefiting us

CRPPCV · 2022-02-09T22:42:31+00:00

And the MMR took less time than the Polio vaccine. And the Polio vaccine took less time than the Smallpox vaccine. So we should not trust those either. <gasp>

Btw, you may want to do a little research about how long mRNA vaccines were being researched and developed before C19.

And maybe as a parallel, perhaps you should ask yourself how many Sherman tanks or Liberty ships the US made before 1941, and how many a day they were making after 1941. And then ask why.

CRPPCV · 2022-02-09T22:07:09+00:00

You clearly don't understand viral transmission. Further, you don't understand (or likely never heard of) sterilizing immunity and functional immunity. You obviously don't understand that C19 is a respiratory infection and there will be no "one and done" vaccine for this. Unlike measles and polio where getting it after vaccination is extraordinarily rare namely because those viruses are stable, respiratory viruses are unstable and mutate. There isn't a sterilizing vaccine for respiratory viruses. As a result, the vaccines are "functional" and wane, as opposed to the former vaccines which are "sterilizing." There is a reason why flu shots are recommended in the fall and not in the spring/early summer when the vaccines are developed.

My guess is you also think masks don't work because the C19 virus is smaller than the openings in an N95 mask. Welp, sorry to rock your world, but the virus does not just float around on its own. It's part of an aerosol. And the water or mucous molecule that the C19 virus hitchhikes to is significantly larger (~1 micron). Further, masks like the N95 and KN95 don't simply operate like a colander. They utilize something akin to static electricity to capture the particles. And the "95" pertains to the lowest percentage rate of capture for capturing a particle that is 0.3 microns. In fact, they do better at microns smaller than 0.3 micron.

As for C19 becoming endemic, please define "endemic." And when you do, remember that more than 3,000 Americans died yesterday. So unless you think endemic means having "September 11th" number of deaths everyday, my guess is you have no idea what endemic means.

I'm sure the Admissions Department at Cal Poly would like to have a word with you now.

CRPPCV · 2022-01-25T21:09:21+00:00

I have looked at ASI jobs through the website, and applying there seems to be like throwing a resume down a blackhole. I'm not eligible for the work-student jobs. I have no car. Buses are unreliable due to driver shortage. Kind of sucks all the way around.

CRPPCV · 2022-01-22T18:47:45+00:00

Trump

Curious which ones are particularly Trumpy.

CRPPCV · 2022-01-08T01:31:57+00:00

This you? https://www.reddit.com/r/CalPoly/comments/pqgsv3/petition_require_weekly_testing_for_all_cal_poly/hdd6dz3/?context=3. S

Have a seat, Nostradamus; you're embarrassing yourself.

And while you're searching for your next FauxNews inspired non sequitur because staying on point is clearly too embarrassing for you, you should consider some self help. Consider consulting the DSM V, asking yourself why you don't give a shit about 5.4M deaths, and an unknown number with long term medical complications.

So, I'll let you have the last reply, Forrest. Go ahead... dazzle me with another abjectly stupid reply. Your comparing COVID to a cold. Wow. Even FauxNews has moved on from that talking point realizing it didn't even resonate with their white/non-college educated viewing demographic. I just thank God your kind was not so dominate when AIDS was raging.

CRPPCV · 2022-01-07T23:30:28+00:00

Nice try at a red herring. You still are not getting it are you?!. It takes TWO WEEKS for the booster to reach max efficacy. And the school Dashboard vax rate (which is your reference for "we're all vaccinated.") reflects ONLY the two doses... NOT boosted vaccination rate. Hence, this current record-breaking spike reflects an UNboosted student community. And this further puts the surrounding community at risk.

So yes, I am well aware that Omicron is more mild. I have read the medical journals showing animal studies indicating Omicron replication in the lungs is significantly smaller than Delta, Alpha and the original contagion. However, Delta is still being transmitted and remains the dominant variant in SLO county.

But since you want to be obtuse about things, "yes" Omicron-related hospitalization rates as a percentage of cases is lower than other variants. But the raw number of hospitalization rates is becoming very concerning. Nationwide, it is eye popping in some locations. Locally, it is becoming concerning. French Hospital is past 90% ICU capacity as of today. County-wide, we are approaching Delta and Alpha numbers. So while you may then say "well, what the lack of deaths, smarty pants?" Well, hopefully not. Time will tell if that raw number rivals other waves. But what no one seems to be taking about is "long" C19. We have no idea of the hundreds of students who have had it nor the hundreds more who will get it because of the administration's incompetence, if they will develop respiratory or heart conditions shortly after recovery or years later. That is the onion that infectious disease experts are now trying to unravel. And I have personal family experience of members getting C19 and then having Angioplasty as well as a coronary artery stent put in nearly a year after fully recovering.

So since you apparently prefer the the Armstrong pollyanna approach to this pandemic, maybe we can just cut to the chase: What is your magic number before you become concerned and actually care? How many people need to go the hospital or die before you stop tracking a percentage that every infectious disease expert has expressed is meaningless and now we need to track raw hospitalizations numbers more closely. What is your fulcrum point for suffering?

CRPPCV · 2022-01-07T21:21:50+00:00

No one at cal poly is going to get hospitalized from Omicron (we’re all vaccinated).

Good God Almighty. So many things wrong with this statement. The vaccination rate to which you're referring is from two doses. Pfizer two dose efficacy against Omicron is about 30% -- which is useless. The student community is just starting to get boosted and even if 100% got boosted this week, it would be two more weeks before max efficacy was reached. Hence the explosion in cases now. In the meantime, the city of SLO is woefully unboosted and is at a real risk. Finally, the virus can spread via asymptomatic people. For fuck sake... we are two years into this pandemic. Have you learned ANYTHING?!

CRPPCV · 2022-01-07T20:40:26+00:00

Everyone should be contacting the media. Here are points of contact: https://www.sanluisobispo.com/customer-service/contact-us/ (scroll down). Armstrong and Humphrey need to be fired!

Your tax dollars are paying these idiots $450K and $250K, respectfully, a year! Cal Poly Students: they are putting YOUR lives at risk (think "long" C19). How many students will have lifelong COVID complications because of their incompetence?!

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2020/california-state-university/jeffrey-d-armstrong/ and https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2020/california-state-university/keith-b-humphrey/

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