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Old January 14th, 2022 (2:52 AM).
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Great to hear you're feeling better Pikaboo :)

Also, I didn't know they could lower the time gap required for boosters. Is it because of all the spikes in cases recently? (Or maybe that's just for my place bcs we've completely ignored restrictions here since December)
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Old January 14th, 2022 (6:06 AM).
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It just seems that boosters really are crucial in order to keep the protection high! The more chances you get to be exposed to the vaccine, the more time your body has to "survey" what's attacking it (in this case, Spike by itself, but it works the same way for the whole Covid virus) and find new ways to block it ^^
That's what I can gather from uni notes and all that~
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Old January 15th, 2022 (1:57 PM).
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I studied a bit of immunology during my PhD (before immunology became a topic lol) but I don't remember much ^^"
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Old January 15th, 2022 (8:22 PM).
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The booster's effectiveness against Omicron starts waning after 8-10 weeks apparently :/

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Old January 15th, 2022 (9:29 PM).
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A lot of conflicting information is currently out there. Omicron spreads faster but is apparently not as dangerous as Delta. So there's a chance that future variants aren't going to be as much of a problem and things might slowly turn back to normal over the course of the year.

A booster is supposed to increase resistance against the newest variant. But the time frame between the second and the kinda keeps changing. Like, so far I've heard three months, five months and six months. If it is indeed ok to get it after three months then I would be able to get it (still need to look into it more). If it's five months then I'll still have to wait a month.
Doesn't help that apparently some doctors also stopped giving the shots. So I also need to check if mine has, too.

I've not heard about its effect waning after 8-10 months, though.
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Studied immunology last year for uni yay! But even then... let's just say that this virus has no interest in damaging us. If a virus doesn't make us ill, then we will still go to work as normal, we'll meet other people as normal, and we'll pass it on - but if the virus forces us to stay in bed (or worse) then that won't happen... so it should be the norm for any new virus (especially this one, who "jumped" to humans from a different animal) to adapt to the new environment and become relatively harmless. I guess this is what we're seeing with Omicron, which - apparently - was caused by Covid "borrowing" some information from a different, human Coronavirus that already causes a mild cold.

We can hope this happens as quickly as possible, but at the same time... doing that would mean continuing to spread the virus among us to begin with! Not an easy decision. But I'm already starting to feel as if... some people aren't really worried anymore? Maybe we reached the point where we have resigned and have decided to let the virus do its thing until it does become harmless? Or at least, where we stop talking about it so much? Not sure honestly :o
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Old January 16th, 2022 (9:45 PM).
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I mean the people who think we should allow it to run rampant have always existed. The reason why we put all this effort into containing the virus in the first place was that we didn't have enough information back then and even with it there are still people who do get affected severely when coming in contact with the virus (mostly people with severe autoimmune diseases).

Like, sure we could just take it and continue doing things as per usual. But can we really call ourselves moral human beings if we doom a small group of people in the process because we didn't even try to support them and their needs?
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If everyone had shut down for a couple of weeks immediately then it would have had nowhere to go. Millions have died since then, it completely breaks my heart ;(
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I don't think that strategy would have worked. Those viruses are very resillient and a couple of weeks of total standstill wouldn't have stopped them, just delayed things a little.
But I do agree that we were way too slow and especially politicians didn't take it serious enough which then lead to way more casualties than should have ever happened. All the while the industry kept making profit and benefitted a lot from bailouts and whatnot.
And I'm so very tired of this stupid "oh now the economy didn't grow as fast as the years before". Stupid obsession with productivity...
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I feel like the Economy is taking more damage from Covid being dragged out this long than if they would've just not half assed the measures in the first place lol
Well hindsight is 20/20 I guess, but they should've just been more firm about covid measures from the start.
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If everyone had shut down for a couple of weeks immediately then it would have had nowhere to go. Millions have died since then, it completely breaks my heart ;(
Exactly what I was thinking when we started talking about the virus and governments were still undecided on what to do ^^
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I mean, while I absolutely do agree that the government took too long to take an effective stance and that lockdowns would definitely have helped, we as a society don't really have the structure to do a full lockdown right now, much less when this all began.

Infectiology is hard, predicting social ripples is even harder and getting a politician do to the right thing when it'd be unpopular is harder still.
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The longer things take the more the vocal minority will complain and the more the silent majority will lose their patience. At least there's some light at the end of the tunnel right now...
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Well, we sure did make some progress in science, and it allowed us to get vaccines quickly, study the virus more...
But the way this pandemic is going is still not too different from the ones of the past, uh? Spanish flu, the plague, the other plague... yeah, it's not that different

I'd also think that being able to halt a virus like this completely would be very hard regardless. It can easily be mistaken for something else that's not threatening, it can even be passed on by people with no symptoms, and... people are people. There's no 100% sure way that we can stop a virus imo, especially if we weren't ready for it - remember when masks were sold for €5/10 each?

I guess with covid... we also got unlucky. That's a pretty complicated virus to handle and track down, perhaps even worse than Ebola...
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Please let's talk about something else than this damn virus ^^"

Are you hyped by Pokémon Legends Arceus?
I don't have a Switch so I'm not going to buy it, but I'm curious about the new Pokémons and new forms :D

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It looks fun. I always welcome something different with this franchise.
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I have to see. Thing is: when I got New Pokemon Snap I really wanted to play it. But I never actually really got into it and I just stopped after playing the first course once. I've developed a strange relationship with gaming over the last year. :(
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Awww, it's fun! But it is also slow and not everyone's cup of tea because of that. Hopefully you can try more of it later down the line, even if you don't enjoy it a ton at least you would have (kinda) got your money's worth from playing? <3
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Games can be a bit hit or miss and some games that would like you'd love them can be a bit ... weird.
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I have to see. Thing is: when I got New Pokemon Snap I really wanted to play it. But I never actually really got into it and I just stopped after playing the first course once. I've developed a strange relationship with gaming over the last year. :(
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Oh right there was an update for New Snap.
I've yet to get around to it lol
The update that is.
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I haven't played a Pokémon game since Pokémon Blakc and White, and I haven't played any Nintendo game since then either ^^"
And yet I love Pokémons (the creatures) so I regularly come back and play a new fangame ^^
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I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of people who like the franchise for the fan stuff is on a steady rise. It's those places that actually add something where Nintendo and GF are rather hesitant.
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I haven't played a Pokémon game since Pokémon Blakc and White, and I haven't played any Nintendo game since then either ^^"
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Does BDSP not tempt you? It's Gen 4 so you will be familiar with it :)

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This is basically the problem ^^
They give me the feeling that I grew up, but Pokémon didn't :(
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