You can mitigate, but never eliminate risk. The world is not just, or fair & sometimes people can simply be unlucky: Someone out there right now is having the worst day of their life that will de… (View Post)

You get some aerosols from simply breathing. Speaking creates quite a few & singing creates a lot of them, hence the superspreader events in certain US choirs. Sneezing & coughing are of cour… (View Post)

Firstly, the fatality rate of alpha was more like 1-2%. & no, even a desease with a 5% fatality rate doesn’t justify locking down the country by itself. What justifies that is the combination of … (View Post)

Quite. To take just one example: through the magic of moden medicine, someone with diabetes is no longer consigned to a guaranteed early & painful death but can live a full, productive and happy … (View Post)

Delta had a 0.2% case fatality rate in a vaccinated & partially previously infected population. Alpha, infecting a naive population had a much, much higher fatality rate. (Wikipedia claims 2.88% … (View Post)