I’m a cpa
I’m qualified to say your sister should get the vaccine.
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I understand your feeling here
But millions have died already. Millions more will die. Every one of them is sad.
I found a Twitter thread critical of this.
Some of this is over my head but the criticisms amount to: they used the wrong cell culture line for investigating SARS-CoV-2 infectivity, and (relatedly) cell culture work doesn’t really cut it for bold claims like “poised for complete vaccine escape” and “vaccinated sera cause ADE”. For example, in this paper, they got the same result as the Osaka guys in finding that some antibodies targeting NTD epitopes were enhancing rather than neutralizing. However, when they introduced these antibodies into mice and macaques and challenged them with the virus, the predicted ADE failed to materialize. It turns out that shit is complicated.
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Apparently it did matter back in Jan 2021 though. Yet people are saying they knew more than doctors did back then. It is really bizarre.
I can’t believe that Australia and New Zealand lagged so badly on vaccination.
It does go to show what lockdowns can do in emergency conditions. But lol the UK or US locking down like NZ.
Delta is really a different beast. R of 3 is bad. R of 6 or higher is Godzilla. There are still roughly 5 billion people completely unvaccinated. I’m actually worried more about an even faster spreader w higher morbidity vs a strain with morbidity associated vaccine evasion.
Thanks for the update. Much appreciated.
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I think it exposes the sort of neoliberal-poisoned ideology of the national governments, trying to do it on the cheap. What I mean is that they basically regard their job as being to save money, without regard to long term consequences. The UK realised that time was of the essence and bought 500 million doses from 9 different manufacturers. Australia tried to do it on the cheap, buying inexpensive vaccines that could theoretically be manufactured in Australia. Leaders here earlier this year were actually running with slogans like “it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon”. The thing is, if it were free, you would have available as many vaccines as you could as quickly as you could, the reason that you don’t is that it costs money. So “It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon” is selling to the public the idea that we can save money by investing time - meaning inadequate availability of vaccines.
Similar thing with having quarantine hotels rather than cheap, purpose built accommodation. Several states were begging the feds to build such a facility on their soil, they were like just give us the money (as what to do with quarantining overseas arrivals is a national problem) and we’ll sort the rest out, we have a site. And the feds were like “nah we’re good”. Just no vision to actually accomplish anything, instead a myopic focus on getting the best possible price.
Edit: I don’t know that I really blame New Zealand though, they had kept the virus out for so long and felt that they were able to eliminate in case of an outbreak, and they were probably correct if Delta wasn’t so incredibly contagious. They did everything right in terms of locking down immediately as soon as they found the virus, in fact around the time of the original NSW outbreak they locked the capital of Wellington down with zero known cases, just because, I don’t remember but I think it was because an infected person had flown there. So they take it really seriously and thought they could keep it out, but Delta is just so tough to contain.
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It’s actually a great tweet if you change the first “of” to “could”.
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New Zealand locked down early enough they might get back to zero, but they either need real ongoing mitigation (masks everywhere indoors, no large indoor gatherings, wfh if possible, etc) or they need to get serious about the border (almost no one in for basically any reason, including citizens abroad, and the rare ones that do come in need a better quarantine system) or the alternatives are going to be really bad (either lockdown for an extended period of time well into ‘22 while vaccines roll out or delta burns through a population with very little immunity)
Still worse to be USA, but the zero COVID places now in a very tough spot as well.
What happened with New Zealand vaccine rollout? Last I heard they had bought enough for the entire country plus small surrounding poorer islands? They get big dicked by the big countries and get their vaccines super late, or just a botched roll out? Seems like they were doing legit everything right during the pandemic and just listening to scientists.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said President Biden has failed to “end covid” and should follow his state’s lead, even as Florida experiences record-breaking cases, deaths and hospitalizations.
apology incoming any day now
https://www.rawstory.com/caleb-wallace/
X anti mask and vax
X didn’t want to get tested to add to stats
X self treated with ivermectin plus others
X leaves behind wife and 3 kids plus one on the way
X 30 freaking years old
X DNR recommended by doctors
0 prevented family from taking precautions. So he at least didn’t stop his wife from masking (unclear if she is vaxxed)
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wait, how can dnr be recommended for a 30yo with a family? like wth?
looks like they approached the wife asking if she would consent. sounds like it may not be a recommendation per se. just a grim prognosis
Medical futility. Let’s say that you have someone on maxed out ventilator settings but their O2 sat is 80%. There’s not much reason to do CPR if their heart stops, you can’t change the reason they were coding.
I refused to do CPR for more than 5 minutes on this type of patient… and if we got them back briefly would not do a second round during the NYC peak. I’d feel obligated to do more now but I’d still have a quick trigger to stop.
yeah what a shitty situation to be in.
feel for the kids but fuck this guy, hopefully he wins the award soon. Also says he was part of some militia group
says he organized anti mask rallies
I’m for Cole Beasley getting a good scare. Not hospitalized but a few days in the low 90s O2 might do his humility some good. And soon.
It’s funny that people want everyone to respect their privacy and personal choices and then insist on publicly screaming nobody should wear masks or get vaxxed. Fuck ALL those people and their nonsense.
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