Dumaguete has zero covid for a month now

I'd like to add my vote to the "Dumaguete's been lucky" group. We seemed to have avoided the clusters that ran rampant in Cebu, Manila, i think even Bacolod got hit. Everybody (or enuf) that was infected got caught early, even quarantined. Masks/SocDis/Wash, hardly perfect, has worked well enough to prevent clusters. If we stop now, it easily can explode again. I have a feeling that once an area reaches a critical cluster, that cases shoot up.

And only an opinion, but i also believe that if the world had really stayed at home for 4 weeks, this thing would have been beaten quick and economies reopened.

 

But it is correct that not everyone died - that would be a 100% fatality rate for a very contagious disease (untreated rabies is also 100% but it has limited spread) and the world would be gone by now.

 

so dear GZ. may i offer a different perspective please. you and i are composed of about one hundred trillion cells. we are each host to around one hundred trillion (much smaller) bacteria and also to around one thousand trillion (even smaller) viruses. some bacteria live on our surface, some inside, some are symbiotic, some just want in out of the rain. a virus is sort of the transexual in this microsopic world (do they or don't they, can they or not)

we have all developed together over a million plus years. "modern" scientific medicine has existed barely more than a hundred years. can we really be so impressed with the human brain to think that after a million plus years we have developed the ability to understand nature and even more the ability to manipulate it?

i agree that we have learned to head off some threats for the benefit of that/those individual(s), but what does that have to do with the adaptive nature of our species? nothing except perhaps in some teeny tiny way to marginalize it a bit

go outside tonight and count the stars. each is a sun, many with their own planets. the biggest contribution of the hubble telescope was to quadruple the number of known stars. the universe just goes on and on. we are less than one virus on the body of the universe.

the apparent fact that so many people will submit their lives to the opinions of "scientist" dr fauci is as laughable to me as submitting to stumpy the pig farmer. its ludicris. if you want to vaccinate and try to live a little longer, fine. just remember that the universe does not even know you exist.

your own body is the miracle here. your body has processes to deal with bacteria and virus(es?) and yeast and falling trees. let it do its work. if i die its not a tragedy. someone else will replace my drivel here! collectively our adaptations provide the greatist protection for us all, and more importantly for the future of our species.

 

Be carefull flu season coming and if the 2 virus's decide to get married watch out!!!!

 

The asymptomatics as they call them— some of them will experience symptoms later and some of them may have really strong immune systems that their bodies are able to fight the virus but nevertheless infect others. They won’t remain as such though. That is why we need to wear masks in order to protect ourselves and others. We could be asymptomatic too —-so let’s continue to observe health protocols by treating everyone as asymptomatic.

 

Immunity—yes, I agree. Just get out there, with all health protocols on hand, and let our body adapt to the new normal. The virus is here to stay. I am for accepting this fact but in a non-complacent way.