Alberta ending vaccine passport today and all other restrictions march 1.
See you at the next variant.
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āLowest since late Decemberā is pretty good. Thatās like 5 weeks ago. In late December you could get odds on bets that we wouldnāt hit 250k cases/day!
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I agree with this. Shoot me. At this point I truly donāt give a fuck about unvaccinated idiots.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1491231868926464001?s=21
Well sure hope you or one of your loved ones donāt need medical care, because itās going to suck.
Iām pretty disconnected right now but thereās a ton of interactions with paxlovid is all Iāve heard. I can get it though.
What do you recommend, seriously? Iām worried about it but obviously vaccine mandates at a no go in America, unless we want to fight a civil war over it.
I think we should pass a law that people with covid who havenāt had a vaccine shot in the last year go to the back of the line for medical care, but that might cause a civil war too. Iām happy to give them all the ivermectin and hydroxychloriquine and human piss they want, though.
But I donāt see a solution that allows the country to function without either seasonal hospital overload or mass civil unrest (or worse).
I think thereās a much better chance that we ban masks in public in this country in the next five years than that we get a real vaccine mandate. So basically covid is going to do work.
My buddy had a bad ānon-severeā case of covid before the vaccines, then developed long covid including serious heart problems. He just caught covid again and canāt have Paxlovid because itāll mess with his heart meds.
I feel terrible for him. He had a growing small business and around $200K net worth in 2018, and played poker for a living too. His mom had major medical problems that her insurance didnāt cover, so he went broke paying for the care she needed to have a chance to survive. Then the pandemic killed his small business, and shut down casinos. He started driving Uber to stay afloat, but thatās how he caught covidā¦ He was finally turning the corner medically recently after basically getting by with help from friends and family, so he jumped back in the Uber and caught it againā¦
The American healthcare system chewed him up and spit him out, and he started from a pretty āsafeā place.
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It looks like having a baseline of spring two dose vax plus a third exposure (breakthrough Delta or a booster) was the best infection protection for Omicron. It was certainly the best for serious disease. But even the āstaleā spring vaccination was highly effective against serious disease (about 1/10 vs unvaxxed).
The primary function of vaccination is disease prevention. Lack of spread is bonus. Especially for a virus actively spinning out mutants that are constantly being selected for in a population of vaccinateds and previously infecteds.
I donāt know enough specific immunology but if you look at coronovirus and rhinovirus involved in the common cold, itās clear that either there isnāt lasting immunity and/or there enough variants that itās possible to get a 1-2 colds per year, year after year. Itās not an unheard of, omg phenomenon. Itās really not that surprising for a Coronavirus to not generate strong lasting immunity.
This thing is making it clear itās going to be around quite awhile and with the great serious disease prevention of vaccination, serious illness is largely for the ignorant, the immune compromised, and the 3rd world. And of course, the huge population that allows easy replication just keeps it in circulation, generating mutant after mutant.
That rate is 912,000 per year. Now if we accept that and >>90% are anti-vaxxers? Hmmmm
Free access to all of these that want it. Tents next to cemeteries for field hospitals. Good business selling plots and headstones to the nearby departed.
Running out of fucks to give.
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Vax story is a little more complicated unfortunately. I donāt really feel comfortable yet just saying fuck the the unvaccinated even though there are a significant portion of gaping assholes they are part of that group. The unvaccinated are disproportionately poor and minority.
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Not sure there is a recommend once we are through this wave, just a reasonable chance that availability of healthcare and life expectancy give back decades of gains.
Access to vaccines is not the reason for hesitancy though.
Fuck dude I dunno. I got no answer for that question WAAF
Youāre so close to figuring it out.
Iām good, thanks.
Right, there are very few policy decisions worth fighting a war over.
Covid certificates are officially invalid within the country as of today though I think they still apply to traveling out of the country. I mean almost nobody was checking them anyway.
Looks like mandatory work quarantines are coming to an end in the CR on February 19th. Mandatory testing for employees will be limited to the unvaccinated and those who havenāt had covid in the past 6 months. I guess 30,000 new cases per day and 40% of tests coming back positive is acceptable. Makes me wonder if employees willl be expected to work if they test positive for covid but are asymptomatic.
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Pretty much all over the world. Turns out the Donald was right. Gotta keep going. No cases if we donāt test.
Remember when they built the Panama Canal and their were two conveyors?
1 for dirt
1 for yellow fever victims. The dead and nearly dead.
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You guys donāt have that over there yet?