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Nate148
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And nothing of value was lost.
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3ngag3
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Small nitpick here, but why do you refer to COVID as "the new coronavirus disease" in your articles? It's been around for a good long while now. You don't need to keep referring it as such.
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DranzerX13
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Omicron variant is what they meant in this article. They should have said :"due to the new COVID variant, Omicron." The Omicron variant isn't much of a threat. Omicron so mild, only a few have died from it. Look at Japan, they're not cancelling as many events as the United States is. I think our politicians, and governors are blowing this way out of proportion. IMHO, I feel with careful planning, the organizers of E3 can still hold an in-person event without any problems. This isn't March 2020 where people were dying all over the place. The deaths aren't as bad as they used to be. If this stuff keeps happening, the video game industry won't be able to hype up their latest games and consoles each year. The hype is a lot better in person than virtually, especially with demos.
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Blanchimont
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Good decision. While omicron might be somewhat milder, the contagiousness of it and ballooning case numbers make every reasonable precaution advisable.
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AJ (LordNikon)
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Don't expect answer to that. I have asking this six months after COVID shut down the world to date, ANN appears to have no interest to update style guide. To non-native speakers like myself, reading "New Coronavirus" in articles is alarming; sounds like there is anther different virus! Even my college educated native english speakers say this is not correct proper reporting. I spent decades working at Kyodo as editor, and ANN's wording makes no sense. Any case, here is linage list of COVID-19 variants.I stopped counting at fifty (five are currently variants of concern US-CDC). https://cov-lineages.org/lineage_list.html so there is nothing new about covid-19. The main variants are: Alpha, Beta, Gama, Delta, Eta, Episode, Iota, Epsilon, Omicron, Kapa, Zeta, Mu, and if a nu-type, Double Zeta, with more expect evolve thanks antivaxxers, deniers, and etc. BOT: Funny E3 cancels but CES did not, oh well. Back to watching American Netflix. thank you for VPN. |
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DranzerX13
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Yes, safety is number one. I could get more into it, but I still think this covid stuff has been blown way out of proportion. This isn't the place to be talking politics much, this is an anime news website and I want to avoid talking politics here as much as possible.
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Egan Loo
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As noted last year, "new" is relative, especially in biology. The issue with calling the virus just "coronavirus" or the disease just "COVID" (as done above) is that COVID-19 is just one of countless coronavirus diseases in all of human history. The first indentified SARS disease from 2002 was also a coronavirus disease. The common cold is a coronavirus disease (albeit a much less severe one). For what it is worth, Kyodo still refers to COVID-19 as the "new coronavirus disease": https://www.kyodo.co.jp/pol-news/2021-07-30_3626368/ Even the Japanese government's task force on COVID-19 is officially called in English the "Novel Coronavirus Response Headquarters." https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/covid-19/seifunotorikumi_00003.html#1-2 |
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Egan Loo
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According to IGN's sources, the ESA had decided against an in-person event as early as last fall, months before the Omicron variant was identified. https://sea.ign.com/news/180560/e3-2022-cancels-in-person-event-while-digital-show-remains-uncertain ESA itself does not specify the Omicron variant in its announcement: https://www.theesa.com/news/esa-announces-that-e3-2022-will-not-be-held-in-person/
As the medical community emphasizes, the Delta variant is still a major threat, and Omicron should not be categorised as "mild," https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-07/who-says-delta-is-still-dominant-globally-and-omicron-isnt-mild/100743788 |
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veemonjosh
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COVID ja nai |
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DranzerX13
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Either way, this virus needs to go away.
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ranran-001
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As long as omicron is around, it gives the virus ample opportunity to change into another variant. |
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Top Gun
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*looks around at hospitals across the country currently getting overwhelmed by the massive uptick in cases* Gee it must be nice to live in a magical fantasy world where this disease is no big deal. |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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BTW your earlier posts sound like you're the anime and video game representative from the Trump Conspiracy Theory Center 
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enurtsol
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Historically, deaths have lagged a few weeks behind peak infection levels. But it's not about deaths anyways - it's about hospitalizations. Omicron is less deadly than Delta, but more contagious. So it's all about numbers: let's say only 1% need hospitalization - with 10,000 infections daily, that's only 100 people occupying hospital beds. But Omicron shot up infections to over 1 million daily - so even at only 1% hospitalization, that's a whopping 10,000 new people needing hospital beds everyday! (Actually in the US, it's higher - their average daily hospitalization is 93,281 over the last 2 weeks.)
It's when hospitals start getting full when local governments consider lockdowns. We don't like lockdowns, but the only way to avoid that is to prevent hospitals from getting full. For example, if unvaccinated people sign a waiver that if they ever get Covid-infected and require hospitalization, that instead they'd remain in their house for recovery rather than the hospital, that may actually be a fair trade-off. They're free to take their chances, but take their chances at home instead of at the hospitals. I know someone who needs surgery to remove a slow but growing brain tumor. She was told last year that it needed to be removed by the end of the year to avoid possible pinching other parts of her brain that can lead to loss of body functions. It's a new year now, and she still can't get her surgery because the hospital is currently full of Covid patients (about 80% of whom are unvaccinated). That's not fair to her that she has to live in fear of brain damage while she waits indefinitely (they'll only admit her if it's an emergency - in other words, when she's already losing some brain-related function, which she has to constantly monitor herself.) Now imagine those lot of other people who also need their surgeries but can't. They didn't take chances, so it's not fair to them neither. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Ummmmm pretty sure they’re aren’t any people who want others to stay home permanently nor are they cheering. But in the grand scheme of things with the virus being highly transmissible, there being people still willing to gather in one place despite the risk of infection, The here still being people who think the virus isn’t real two years going on, and not willing to get the vaccine even if they’re not allergic to it. Pray tell how these alleged people are more problematic than the people I’ve mentioned? |
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