Delta Variant Spreads as Easily as Chickenpox

[applegrove]

Delta Variant Spreads as Easily as Chickenpox

July 29, 2021 at 9:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 58 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/07/29/delta-variant-spreads-as-easily-as-chickenpox/

"SNIP.....

An internal CDC document says “the delta variant of the coronavirus appears to cause more severe illness than earlier variants and spreads as easily as chickenpox,” the Washington Post reports.

“The document strikes an urgent note, revealing the agency knows it must revamp its public messaging to emphasize vaccination as the best defense against a variant so contagious that it acts almost like a different novel virus, leaping from target to target more swiftly than Ebola or the common cold.”

.....SNIP"

[Strelnikov_]

1. Therefore an R0 of 10-12, roughly five times the original model

So long, been good to know ya.

[applegrove]

2. Everyone used to get chicken pox over time, before the vaccine. Over years,

every single person got it.

[Strelnikov_]

4. Yep. This is a whole new shit sandwich.

Considering the refusal by the GOP to allow any kind of mitigation (masks, closures, etc.), prepare for the medical system to be overwhelmed in many areas of the country.

By early Oct. we are going to be in a world of hurt.

[Marius25]

14. I just looked it up.

That's the second highest R0 rate of major infectious diseases. The only disease more infectious is Measles.

[marybourg]

3. Hmmm. I don't remember chickenpox spreading all

that easily. Back before the vaxx, we sometimes had to work pretty hard to inoculate our kids against chickenpox by purposely exposing them to other kids with it. I had to send my daughter to sleep with her babysitter. It took 3 such sleepovers before she came down with a mild case. She then gave it to her younger sister who was allowed to play with her in hopes of innoculating her.

Now, measles, that’s a different story. I don’t remember anyone having to purposely expose their kids to measles. Everyone got measles naturally, unless you lived in a very isolated place. But if you didn’t get it as a child, you could be in big trouble as an adult. To think of what parents had to go through to protect their children from disease, and now we have malevolent nincompoops refusing life- saving vaccinations.

[applegrove]

5. It was rare for someone to make it out of childhood w/out having had chicken

pox. So over years almost every child got it. That would be 1 in 10. Which is a huge percentage every year. If Delta is that bad god help us.

[marybourg]

7. But parents had to ensure their kids got it, by taking advantage

of opportunities to expose them to it. Otherwise they might reach adulthood without having been innoculated to it.

[greenjar_01]

10. I got it first

Siblings were made to sleep in the room with me.

They had it within two days.

This was circa 1984-85.

[smirkymonkey]

9. I actually made it through childhood w/ out coming down w/ it.

All my siblings and friends had it and my parents just decided to expose me just to get the inevitable over with, but I never came down with it. I had like 2 or 3 little itchy bumps and that was it. So maybe that was CP, but it was such a mild case so as to be almost non-existent.

[applegrove]

12. You obviously had strong immunity as a kid. We did too. Plus mom being a doctor would

rarely let us stay home from school. That would not go over well these days. I can barely remember having chicken pox. I don't know how old I was.

[Withywindle]

20. Pretty much my whole elementary school class got chicken pox in '78

The school literally closed for a week because there were almost no students who didn't have it!

It was miserable. I was scratching and crying and bleeding and not sleeping at all for a whole week. AND because I had chickenpox, I'm at risk for shingles now. Fuck that.

[haele]

13. Here's the dirty secret about "chicken pox parties"

Parents would send all the kids out for chicken pox parties to try to get all the kids in the family to be sick at the same time as young as possible, so as to reduce the chance of one of them getting the pox if one hadn't gotten it yet, or if they had gotten it, they won't get shingles later on. The older siblings typically suffered worse in large families.
Subsequent kids would not go to these parties, and would often be kept out of school to ensure that "one time" run through the family would be it.

Chicken pox is worse the older you are, it could be fatal for an adult.

I had a mild case that lasted 3 days; my younger brother was down for two weeks.

If delta COVID is as contagious as chicken pox, a "COVID" party could be fatal to 1 in 20 participants.


Haele

[applegrove]

21. I had chicken pox as a kid. Then i had shingles as a teen. It was a organic

brick like rash on the side of my abdomen that hurt when I brushed my had over it lightly. So I think you can get both.

[underpants]

6. Anti-vaxx crowds hears this and thinks: oh so, COVID parties?

They’ve done that with chickenpox and measles.

[smirkymonkey]

11. I think they already came up with that one, back when it first started.

I seem to remember some idiots having "Covid parties" back in the earlier days of the pandemic. Idiots.

[crimycarny]

8. Next shoe to drop will be CDC backtracking on the need for a booster shot

I'm not surprised to hear that the Delta variant is more contagious than originally thought as well as more serious. The anecdotal stories out there of so many breakthrough infections--people talking about every member of their family getting infected even though all are vaccinated, or everyone in an office being infected, including those vaccinated--it just seems there were a lot more breakout infections than "rare". I think symptoms are more severe in both vaccinated and unvaccinated too. It's just that if you are vaccinated you will avoid the hospital, and if you aren't vaccinated then god help you.

I can guarantee you that the CDC will reverse their initial stance that booster shots aren't needed. I think they know already that booster shots are needed but are holding back out of concern that there won't be enough shots for those still unvaccinated. I say screw that...if people aren't going to get the vaccine don't punish those who did the right thing and want to remain protected.

[Strelnikov_]

16. Hope they get their head connected to their ass on this boy howdy quick

Iowa is about to throw out 200k+ doses at the end of August.

That could be a lot of booster.

[womanofthehills]

17. Israel will begin booster shots this Sunday for those over 60

Pfizer just said their vaccines last about 6 months so this is necessary.

[crimycarny]

18. I just saw that

I got my 2nd shot 2/26/2021, so I’m right at the 6 month mark. Will be 62 in August too.

[Volaris]

15. Thatll be fun in a month when we put 50 million kids back in classrooms...

[uponit7771]

19. +1

[LisaL]

22. And many won't even have masks requirements.

NT