I’m confused about the “less viral load” thing. Doesn’t an infection spread, so even if you only inhale one little bit of virus, it can still spread like wildfire throughout your body. Why would the amount you inhale matter?

Because it takes a certain amount of load of virus for you to get sick. The less virus you inhale the less symtoms you get.
See, it's not the same if you inhale let's say.... 50 copies of the virus, if they replicate 10 times you get 500 copies in your body. Now if you inhale 500 copies of the virus, replicate that and you get 5,000. which one do you think will be sicker?

IF you wanna know about virus loads go do some HIV research lol. It's basically the same when undetectable patitents can't transmit HIV. They don0t have enough copies of the virus to get you infected.

I thought since viruses replicate a low viral load would become a high viral load without treatment. No?

I recommend reading this in full, an article from back in August: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 01918/full

84% of the Japanese now wear masks in public (indoor and outdoor) according to polling last month. America isn't even at 50% yet according to a report I read yesterday. Mask-wearing has been normal in Japan (and East Asia) for many, many years, and I think before COVID-19 even started that over 40% of Japanese always wore a mask in public; and it's clearly helping them against this virus. Masks are helping, and even if they don't offer full protection, if enough of the public wear them, it helps on a tremendous scale.

But in addition to mask-wearing, the article explains how perception, and perceiving the virus as a serious threat and mask-wearing being perceived as a social norm when it may not necessarily be, both help motivate the public to do the same. This is where America, and many other countries, has really messed up, I believe. It's not about locking down. Japan was only on lockdown for about 6 weeks. Poor communication regarding the severity concerns and arguing/debating the usage of masks is the problem.

Perception is reality.

It's now been over a month in Japan since the government fully lifted capacity restrictions, not just at theaters, but at any small/medium venue. There are only restrictions on large venues like sporting arenas that can hold many tens of thousands of people at a time, but those are gradually being reduced as well.

Japan (pop. 126 million in a crowded space with nearly 40 million in the Tokyo area alone) is only recording a few hundred cases, sometimes up to 500+ range, a day since then. South Dakota, a state with a pop. under 900,000!, has been reporting similar daily cases, and have begun to report more daily cases than all of Japan. Nothing is closed in Japan. There are basically no capacity restrictions. They're still going out and enjoying their lives. They just wear masks and follow proper hand-washing and sanitary procedures 80/85% of the time.

Tbh.... having to wear a mask everywhere is not enjoying life. And does Japan have concerts and nightclubs? Are people wearing masks at those too?

At this point, it may be controversial to say, but I'm honestly starting to think life should just go back to normal and the ones who die die and the ones who don't don't. If you are old and have pre-existing conditions isolate yourself at home until it sweeps through the population and we have herd immunity.

Tbh.... having to wear a mask everywhere is not enjoying life. And does Japan have concerts and nightclubs? Are people wearing masks at those too?

At this point, it may be controversial to say, but I'm honestly starting to think life should just go back to normal and the ones who die die and the ones who don't don't. If you are old and have pre-existing conditions isolate yourself at home until it sweeps through the population and we have herd immunity.

Yes, concerts and nightclubs have been allowed since May/June. There was a capacity restriction placed on them from May-September (rising to a 5,000 audience limit), but those restrictions were filly lifted on September 8th (I think), aside from very large venues that can hold tens of thousands of people at a time.

And yes, mask-wearing is still common practice at them, too. It comes down to culture as well. As I said, mask-wearing has been apart of everyday normal life in Japan, and a lot of East Asia, for many years. 40% of Japanese were already wearing masks in public before COVID-19 to help prevent catching/the spread of other viruses that would affect them at work or school (or general healthy). COVID-19 has just increased this common practice to a very common practice, with 84% (according to a survey last month) now wearing a mask in public. It's sort of just like putting on a coat if it's chilly outside. It's normal. Mask-wearing isn't seen as "normal" in the Western world, and is instead being considered a "statement". How silly. Just look what that mindset is doing to them (myself, included).

You don't NEED to isolate yourself or shutdown anything (Japan is the oldest country in the world, the most at risk in age), really, as long as the vast majority of the population is following basic/common procedures. But when you have half of the population fighting it, obviously things will worsen for the whole population/country.

Once again, it's not that us don't want everyone to get sick.

We don't want them to get sick AT ONCE. What happens if your mother has a heart attack and the hospital is full of covid? She won0t get admited and die right there.

It's the oversaturation of hospitals that goverments are trying to avoid, because overcrowed hospitals mean much less quality of care and less meds to work with. That's the main difference, we can afford everyone to get sick while we wait for immunity? yes. But what happens when a hospital that has 200 beds has 195 covid patitentes? what happens to the rest of the sick patitents that need a hospital bed? they die.

That's the goal NOT TO HVE OVERSATURATED HOSPITALS. because that means mortality for ANY disease goes up.

Do hospitals even help people with COVID? Don’t ventilators have like an 80% fatality rate?

And tbh is it worth it to torpedo our society and forero our freedoms to work and gather and live for years (what’s its looking like at this pint) for the sake of 85 year olds?

What nonsense - there are no U.S. elections in Europe and the numbers are up here as well... Fall & winter are coming...

You fail to account for the entire world being in on the hoax. Hundreds of thousands of satanic baby eaters actually committed suicide just to make sure Jesus 2 doesn’t spend another term in the white house.

People with moderate/severe symptoms need supplemental oxygen. So, yes, hospital care can help them. Some COVID patients develop pneumonia and heart problems and will need hospitalization.

It’s definitely a confusing virus. My friend has it and feels like he’s been run over by a bus. His wife has it, and has the sniffles and a sore throat. He’s 22 and she’s 21. Both in excellent health.