OK, now even you are calling me names! Wow, really Indah?
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How do you understand from my joke that I am calling you names?
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OK, now even you are calling me names! Wow, really Indah?
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How do you understand from my joke that I am calling you names?
Mmmmm....maybe I give it a pass..Thanks.You have to opt in someplace or other on the forum, then the threads in the pub will turn up. The rules seem to be like 1850s Wild West but shooting in the back is allowed.
It is mostly occupied by people too old to dive with the sort of views to match. Don’t make the mistake of being reasonable or trying to change minds with facts. The Coronavirus thread has 20k posts I think. Many of the arguments over death rate have been done fairly comprehensively and one or two people there can count. Mostly I find it interesting to see how far wishful thinking can go.
That is not what Bertoletti wrote. He talks only about SARS. Not a common cold: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.115832v1.full.pdfWhich editorial are you talking about?
The one released 2 days ago from Professor Antonio Bertoletti, an immunologist from the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, and his team? About how some people not infected with covid-19 showed signs of being as result of the common cold being from the same family and sharing same make up? I believe that some of the current vaccines being attempted are also using the common cold as a blueprint for covid-19 immunity
That is not what Bertoletti wrote. He talks only about SARS. Not a common cold: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.115832v1.full.pdf
The second study mentioned in the article reads: The results suggest “one reason that a large chunk of the population may be able to deal with the virus is that we may have some small residual immunity from our exposure to common cold viruses,” says viral immunologist Steven Varga of the University of Iowa. However, neither of the studies attempted to establish that people with crossreactivity don’t become as ill from COVID-19.
Th title of the sudy (not peer reviewed yet) mentions only SARS. Different pattern of pre-existing SARS-COV-2 specific T cell immunity in SARS-recovered and uninfected individuals. The second study to which the article refers says: The results suggest “one reason that a large chunk of the population may be able to deal with the virus is that we may have some small residual immunity from our exposure to common cold viruses,” says viral immunologist Steven Varga of the University of Iowa. However, neither of the studies attempted to establish that people with crossreactivity don’t become as ill from COVID-19.
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A virus free certificate has very limited validity!
It does not give anyone any immunity to infection!
You can pick up the cert and then get yourself infected right away!!!
Same argument for negative tested result!!!