It’s a question of normalization. 2900 a day is meh. One day in a year of 2900 is a national emergency.
CNN just had another story on the two people who had an allergic reaction to the vaccine. Then 15 minutes later a 10 minute panel on why so few people report they will get the vaccine!
Mother fuck the fucking media so fucking hard.
A tiny chance of an issue with the vaccine is VERY problematic. But a small chance of dying from the ghina virus aint no thang, dontchaknow.
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It’s not just that, it’s that a couple people having a reaction isn’t news. It was 100% going to happen. It’s like running several days of stories on the sun coming up.
Or it might even be comparable to running a breaking story on how the media sensationalizes everything they can!
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Yeah the GOP is never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever making businesses pay for that stuff. If you give a business tax credit that’s bigger than the cost, maybe. We have to pay the rich for bothering with that stuff if we want them to.
My roommates attended their sister’s wedding the Saturday after Thanksgiving and surprise surprise, someone else at the wedding tested positive. So fucking dumb.
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Even without help, the real the break even point in reduced sick days in a non covid environment is probably max in the couple of years timeframe.
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In the Pfizer trial, the infection rates in the placebo group were:
1.307% for those who had never been infected before (n=19,818)
1.343% for those who had a prior COVID-19 infection (n=670)
So not a great sign for herd immunity.
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I’m so far behind on this thread I think I need to wait for the next one to start
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Is it even possible that a real infection offers no lasting immunity while a vaccine does?
Absolutely
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No shit. Seems so unlikely to me.
I’d be very curious to see the severe case rate among previously infected, as well as how long ago they were infected.
The vaccines are designed to prod your immune system as much as possible. You usually get more immunity from them than from getting infected with the real deal.
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It seems like too big of a coincidence for the data to land on 1.3% like that. I think it’s very likely that prior infection does not prevent future infection, but it’s also likely that the cases weren’t severe or were perhaps even asymptomatic.
In other news, somebody I know just told me they have chills and body aches and all they’ve done recently is go out to dinner one night and play in their men’s hockey league. Unlucky imo.
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Well, we lasted exactly one week at level 3 on the 5 level anti-epidemic system here in the Czech Republic.
20 of the 76 districts in the country are at level 5, 19 (including Prague) are at level 3 while the remaining 37 are at level 4. Prague is by far the safest part of the country covid wise. Not too long ago we were the worst and it wasn’t even close.
Looks like they’re gonna extend Christmas break by calling the 21st and 22nd holidays meaning that I won’t be missing any class!!
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clovis, maybe you should watch CNN ever harder to see if they’re going to keep airing sensationalist bullshit that outrages you.
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part of me really envies these people. to be so blissfully ignorant and without fear of an ever-present danger must be so liberating
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