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eppo said..FormulaNova said..myscreenname said..
I was just looking at the NSW charts of COVID cases and it's doing way better than bitcoin. It was steady at 200 for weeks and has gone 25x in a week.
COVID has no intrinsic value and I reckon a bubble is forming. It's a ponzi and will go to zero.
If I was to speculate on WA, I think this time next week cases will go at least 5x. I think they have Delta.
Don't tempt fate! Last time we locked down I had to wear a mask to the kitebeach, rig up, take off mask, and then go kiting for an hour or so. It was terrible! (maybe it was the time before? I think one of the other times I had to go bike riding and take of the mask. There were so many lockdowns I lost count, not just one continuous one.)
There is a new crypto currency coming out, which will be better than Bitcoin, if they can only figure out what it was about Bitcoin that was so important.
The press must be trying to mislead us:
"The man's girlfriend and four people he was living with in Girrawheen have all tested negative. They were all vaccinated."
As if! A vaccine that helped them not get it even though they were living in the same house? Incredible! Must be a conspiracy.
Come on bud you are better than that. Using one example to try and secure a point of view. This need to be data driven over as bigger sample space as possible to make any inferences. And these inferences need to be tested with aim of disproving them. That's the science process - something lacking in this entire debacle regarding masks, lockdowns, other treatment protocols and this entire experimental vaccine (we need to stop calling it a vaccine really ), let's go with pre treatment method.
Me, better than that. Nah, you must be thinking of someone else

It is an interesting example though. It makes me wonder if this guy was wandering around, with the vaccinated people around him shrugging it off, and it latching onto those that are unvaccinated.
Maybe we will see some data from this current outbreak, which won't be conclusive, but it may be interesting never-the-less. If all the people that pop up with cases are unvaccinated, it will give us a hint that the vaccine works.
I don't understand why you and others refer to it as an experimental vaccine. They are vaccines. Whether they work in practice or not is more related to the strains and the evolution of them, not the immune reaction that they are causing, which is pretty normal science. We are not trying to get the body to react to something that is not there, we are provoking a reaction with a facsimile of the virus, close enough to match the real virus.
The guy you were talking about the other day talks about not being able to catch Covid more than once. Now to me, that sounds a bit fanciful. If this were true, you would think that variants wouldn't be of any risk, but they are, both to those that have had Covid and those vaccinated. Similarly masks seem to show a contribution to reducing transmission of the virus, yet that guy seems to think it didn't. Maybe because it didn't align with his preconceived views?