again, seems unlikely, the spike has to remain mostly conserved as the target isn’t changing
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Ok good
Big bonus that the target and the key infective protein are one and the same.
Still, I would feel better if we don’t walk around exposing tons of vaccinated people to live virus. Hopefully we can crush this thing to get those interactions to a minimum.
Hopefully (and likely) there is no mutation that would get around the vaccine and still be nearly as effective at infection, reproduction and spread.
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Many of our older, especially male relatives, had shocking lifestyles.
- smoked
- zero excersise other than work
- drank way too much
- didnt eat vegatables
- no activities or hobbies on retiring
- no intellectual stimulation other than work.
Doing all 6 was completely standard and not even remarked upon for the older generation.
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That life expectancy thing is weird. I don’t exercise and said I was in “good” general health (I have what I consider a minor heart condition, but it should be fine as long as I monitor it) and it says I should live to 91. Even if I said “fair” health, it’s still 86.
I can add more years to my life by drinking than I can by exercise.
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Something I was thinking on for our resident medical workers. Of course with the already voluminous posts ITT and shared content elsewhere, this will be a powerful period of history to look back on. Keep records of your experiences.
Well that’s certainly good news for me.
It’s a company trying to sell retirement products claiming everyone is going to have super long life expectancies.
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for the first time since NYC, we turned people away from the ER who were requesting asymptomatic covid screening. Just too many people.
Cobb County schools (GA - as if we don’t know this by now, considering how much attention that county has gotten lately) are going all virtual Thursday and Friday because of rising COVID cases. Now, those are also early dismissal days and the last two days of the semester before winter break, so I don’t know if they would’ve done it if this was a week ago.
Cobb County is up over 500 cases per 100,000 (14-day moving average). The original threshold the district wanted to hit to go back to school was 200 earlier this school year.
Life expectancy calculators that assume the only way to be physically active is through scheduled exercise are both annoying and a sad reflection of society.
I’m hoping my dramatically better choices here have me as a healthy active 80 year old. Not expecting 97 though.
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This is a 14-day total, right? A daily average would be insane. Our district went virtual for the last few weeks of the semester, as well. Our original threshold was also 200 per 14 days. Most recent count for the school district:
953 cases per 100,000 people over the last 14 days
I just counted my work as exercise.
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Well 30 seconds of “activity” once a month doesn’t help that much.
Don’t a lot of contractor types break down kind of young, making it harder to remain active as they age? Like bad backs and stuff.
- I hoping by the time I’m old enough life becomes not worth living CA will have legally assisted suicide, regardless I’m going out in a blaze of drugs a debauchery. Plan is to not have any kids so I won’t have any considerations. If I do end up with a surprise lil one that’ll obviously change everything
Oh maybe I misread it, let me check…
EDIT: Not sure. The AJC says, “The two-week cases per 100,000 has also swelled to 521, which is up from 293 on Dec. 1 and 224 on Nov. 17,” but I’m not quite seeing that on the Dept. of Health’s site. The graphs are kind of shitty. Might be closer to 300.
I balance flinging around solar panels with a healthy restful amount of sitting around posting BS on the internet.
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