Hoping to change my username to 75769023
Actually, there is. Whether they ran the genome on it or still could run the genome on it, we don't know.
Yet if there's an outbreak at the school and the kid definitely catches it and the dad then catches it afterward ... well, you don't need a Mystery Machine and a talking dog to solve that one.
Last edited by M2; 12-15-2021 at 06:58 PM.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
SteelSD (12-15-2021)
The parents not only sent their son to the school fully aware of the lack of covid mitigation, but they paid money for the privilege to do so. Good luck making that a winner in court.
It wasn't until years later that they discovered that temporary immunity from covid could be obtained by listening to Last Christmas by Wham.
Some found the cure to be worse than the illness.
After Day 3 of non-stop Last Christmas, playing on repeat, seemingly in every direction at times, many people refused to listen any longer. Anti-Whammers, they were called. Public PA Systems, setup to provide protection by playing the song on a loop, were found anonymously but thouroughly destroyed.
Then people stopped playing the song entirely. "Wham Fatigue". It gets everyone eventually.
So the covid numbers began to climb again. Some dedicated their lives to finding the next musical cure, even if temporary. Others forged ahead, not blindly, but rather, with earplugs. "Never again, Wham. Never, again."
"Lemonade requires a significant amount of sugar. Otherwise, you've just made lemon juice."
We live in a country where people with horrible judgment routinely sue others for not protecting them from their bad judgment, and they frequently win those cases. The school in this case failed to provide a safe environment in the middle of pandemic. Doesn't mean the family is guaranteed to win, but the "hey, you knew this wasn't a safe back alley plastic surgery clinic" might not be the optimal argument to make when trying to evade culpability.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
The school could be proved reckless. Or it could not. I'm not going to argue about lawsuits on the Internet, but I can tell you none of the elements of a tort action for negligence would be easy for the family (well, other than damages, because that's pretty obvious here).
Boston Red (12-15-2021),M2 (12-15-2021),Revering4Blue (12-16-2021),westofyou (12-15-2021)
The discovery in the hypothetical lawsuits is what is likely stopping them, in the majority of cases, from being filed. The guy who's kid got it at the school that seems to deny Covid exists likely open up the entire family, including the deceased, to have to account for their last week prior to him catching Covid -- and from the sound of it, the defendants would be able to show enough places that he or others in the family went to make it difficult to get a verdict worth much.
The best case would be someone who hasn't really left home, and doesn't have any kids, but got it from someone who said they were vaxxed but wasn't. That's a dream case for Lionel Hutz.
757690 (12-15-2021)
I look at facts, and I don't make up numbers. Right now the covid death rate is sitting around 240/100000. The unvaccinated make up about 99% of those deaths. I'll take those chances.
So yeah, since I've done everything I was supposed to do, and the numbers tell me I'm good to go, I'll follow the science and enjoy my life with not a shred of concern about it. I'm more likely to fall down the stairs and break my neck tonight, but that doesn't mean I'm going to sleep on the sofa.
Bob Sheed (12-15-2021)
A tantalizing clue to why omicron is spreading so quickly
Why is omicron such a superspreading variant?
Preliminary data, published online Wednesday, gives us the first look at how omicron may behave inside the respiratory tract — and the data offers a tantalizing clue as to why this heavily mutated variant is spreading so fast and even outcompeting delta.
The omicron variant multiplies about 70 times faster inside human respiratory tract tissue than the delta variant does, scientists at the University of Hong Kong report. The variant reaches also higher levels in the tissue, compared to delta, 48 hours after infection.But how this finding, from tissue studied in the lab, relates to viral loads inside an actual person's respiratory tract is still unknown, he emphasizes.
These findings from the University of Hong Kong haven't been peer reviewed — and the experiments occurred entirely inside cell tissue. Nonetheless, the research supports another study, published online Tuesday, from Garcia-Beltran and his colleagues that also suggests omicron is more infectious than delta.So it looks like there's preliminary science to back up the anecdotal evidence about omicron's severity. Good news.Then the researchers looked to see how fast each variant spread through the respiratory tissue. Within 24 hours, omicron had infected the tissue at 70 times the level observed with the delta variant.
Chan and his colleagues also ran the experiments with lung tissue. Interestingly, inside that tissue, omicron was less efficient at infecting cells than delta or the original version of the virus.
"The infection is more focused on the bronchia than the lungs and very fast," wrote Marc Veldhoen on Twitter. He's an immunologist at the University of Lisbon.
This focus on the respiratory tract, instead of the lungs, may suggest that omicron could cause less severe disease compared with delta or the original version of the virus. But many scientists, including Veldhoen, say it's too soon to draw that conclusion.
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