Hooray hairdressers opening in Czechia May 3rd. Been over 6 months since i got one!
Can only enter with a negative covid test though I assume proof of vaccination will work too.
Yeah whatās funny is I thought this was a reply to some stupid deplorable post and then saw who wrote it and then realized it was a dumb ass independent thought.
I give Nateās Twitter a D- grade.
Seems promising, data \ shows reinfection possible but ārare:ā
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/22/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/
Reinfection rate within 90 days of .4 percent. I wonder how many of those are people who had a really mild case first.
3 Likes
Thereās going to be some big issues with that data. People test positive for weeks to months even once symptoms resolve. Testing error is going to make up a significant portion of that percentage.
2 Likes
Yeah, I wondered that as well.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What will the derps change their argument to once they canāt use āthe vaccine isnāt FDA approvedā?
I mean, I know it wonāt take them long to regroup on something else. Iām sure weāll weāre all still alive 3 years after taking the vaccine theyāll just tell us it takes 5 years before the real side effects kick in.
2 Likes
Itās definitely based on something. I wouldnāt call it evidence-based, though. Basically the thinking is that the vaccine is inducing some sort of inflammatory response, and things like ibuprofen and aspirin ane anti-inflammatory. So if you are giving a vaccine with the goal of producing an inflammatory response, then giving something that is anti-inflammatory would seem counterproductive.
Although, the above simplified explanation kind of sounds like it makes sense, there is no evidence that things actually work this way. Iām also not sure that taking anti-inflammatory medication has been shown to reduce the effectiveness of any vaccine. Furthermore, if you get into the details, the inflammatory response that NSAIDS interfere with is probably not essential to getting an immune response to the vaccine. But everything is interconnected, so itās hard to be 100% sure. For example if taking ibuprofen caused a 2% reduction in vaccine effectiveness, we would never know and it would essentially be unprovable.
1 Like
I booked a house in MI for a month on airbnb because it was a pretty good deal and seemed nice, even though they had Fox News on in the pictures.
Then they cancelled on me today because āWe have COVIDā.
9 Likes
So they were going somewhere else then got stuck with covid?
Weāve reached the point in LA where tons of appointments are available for multiple days at the Forum drive up site. Definitely a milestone. Soon the arm-twisting public education campagins will begin for the holdouts.
1 Like
IDFK, but I gotta find somewhere else to stay now. Iām getting my 2nd shot right before I have to move and MI has turned the corner, but itās still super bad here and I really donāt want to get COVID in the next 5 weeks.
Note, these are reported deaths, almost certainly lower than the actual figure.
The gradients of these lines are terrible.
Policy re outdoor masks is tricky because itās not a one size fits all problem. There is a dose*time consideration plus the whole who is vaxxed vs who is faking.
So in public we should generally behave as in unvaxxed regardless.
Out for a walk in park- no
Beach-no
Sitting in the stands at a ballgame- yes
Crowded city sidewalk-yes
But itās a subtle message. Unless we are going to get non counterfeitable V forehead brands, then IMO itās just courteous to where them for solidarity if nothing else.
3 Likes
Generally agree but if you have to walk through crowded streets to get to the park or beach you should mask up.
Basically donāt leave home without one.
2 Likes
Iāve stopped wearing my all-for-show face covering on my 5:30AM runs where I see almost nobody. AITA?
2 Likes
No.
I havenāt been wearing a mask on my runs. I run on a 6-8 foot wide path where I might pass 3-5 people over the course of the run. It seems completely unnecessary to me if Iām literally never within 3 feet of someone and am never close to someone for more than 2 seconds, and your situation is even more conservative. Maybe Iām TA.
3 Likes
Iāve worn a mask outside maybe 1% of the time. I always give a wide berth to anyone I pass. Iād say maybe a third of the people I meet have masks on, and almost none of those people are out for exercise.