Comment on Australia detects the first case of the highly transmissible COVID-19 strain dubbed XEC

maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• jonne@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t see it going away anytime soon, so this will probably end up being like the annual flu shot, or even rolled into one shot eventually.

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• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My impression from predictions was that covid would get weaker over time, but more persistent, and become an extra thing aside influenza.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Remember when we thought people would realize the dangers of a global pandemic, and through a shared responsibility, we could do to COVID what we’ve done to smallpox and measles, and it would blow over in a few months?

    Fuck you, humans.

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• NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are we meant to get annual boosters forever?

  Realistically the best case scenario is it mellows out to something like the flu that kills a few hundred people a year. So yes, like the flu you should be getting vaccinated.

  We don’t have a good grasp over what repeat viral exposure does though, SARS-2 appears to cause cumulative heart and brain damage, someone mitigated by vaccination, so the likely outcome is probably worse than the flu.

  I keep an eye on infection rates and get more wary about indoor spaces when it’s rising again. I live on the periphery of the city though which makes it easier to limit exposure. Urbanites can probably just embrace early onset dementia. Welcome to the world eating animals hath wrought, worse awaits us :)

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are we meant to get annual boosters forever?

  1. How often do you get a flu shot?
  2. How often does COVID mutate?
  3. Didn’t we finally kill polio, almost?
  4. You like being healthy?

  The answer to those questions should answer your question.

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m meant to be on a waiting list at my local clinic. Maybe I should just pop in elsewhere.

  I got a jab recently at Chemist Warehouse. Other chemists will do it too.

  Booked online in the morning, and got it in the afternoon. Free. No dramas.

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