Seasonal stupidity!
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Awesome! Weâre in south Dakota now. Thankfully weâre self contained in our camper.
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Dying for Freedom.
The NYT video is sad. Especially the kicker.
Looks like a crisis actor to me. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!!
What type of pharmacy test are you referencing? A PCR test? Or are we talking an over the counter self administered one?
Gonna drive over to the local pharmacy to take pictures of the long linesâŚ.
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It was a human-administered brain-tickler antigen test.
A responsible Texan from the other side of the aisle. Thankfully the adults were already vaxxed. Any updates on how the Latin population is with vaccine adoption?
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-senator-granddaughter/
Looks like baby was the vector. Yikes at his breakthrough symptoms.
That is very weird. Did they say why it didnât work?
And it ainât just America either. Vaccination is basically a trickle right now in the Czech Republic
The vaccination rate in each of the Czech regions ranges from 41 to 52%. Guess what Prague is?
73.7%
If that doesnât symbolize the difference between rural and urban, then what does?
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I donât know if this article was posted earlier. It was new to me:
One disappointing piece (for someone with a kid <12, like me):
As we get closer to that amorphous deadline, you can keep an eye out for signs of progress. The first milestone will come when the clinical trials in vaccines for kids stop accepting new participants. Once that happens, the companyâs researchers can put all their effort into evaluating the trial itself. (For context, Pfizer finished enrolling 12-to-15-year-olds on January 22 and submitted its application to the FDA on April 9.) As of today, both the Pfizer and Moderna trials are still listed as ârecruitingâ in the National Library of Medicineâs clinical-trial database; you can check their status here and here, respectively.
The disappointing piece is that both the Pfizer and Moderna trials are still listed as ârecruitingâ as of right now.
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South Dakota is a footnote right now; itâs still like 20% of its previous peak. The south is where everything is spiraling right now, with most southern states vastly above SD in cases per capita.
Louisiana is probably something of a bellweather here, for a balls hot/unvaxxed/unhealthy state that gets hit early every time. It appears to be peaking right now, in both hospitalizations and new cases. Hopefully the rest of the south follows soon.
Unfortunately, I think most or the Southeast will have at or near their worst waves yet re: deaths. Florida and Louisiana are leading the way, and everything in SEC territory seems destined to follow. Almost entirely preventable. Truly idiotic.
The big outstanding questions in my mind right now:
- Whether or not we see the small spikes in the Midwest and Northeast fade away in late summer (last summer no such spikes existed in these states)âmy guess is âsortaâ
- Whether or not we see a big fall seasonal surge in the Midwest and Northeastâmy guess is, sadly, âyes,â but much less lethal than the southern surge right now due to way higher vax rates.
- The big, big one: whether the Southeast will gain enough immunity (whether through unvaxxed infections, vaccinations, and breakthrough infections) to avoid a fall spike entirely. We need to watch the southern caseload closely in November and December. The lack of a big surge could be an early sign that we may be truly coming out of this thing.
Curious what the penalty will be for forged test results.
Massive outbreaks? If itâs one thing that big time college athletics know how to do, it is cheating.
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FL looks like itâs topping off?
Maybe? Hopefully? I looked at their positivity rate, though, and itâs nearly 20%. Seems like a good chance that thereâs a lot of undercounting due to an overwhelming case volume.
getting tested down here right now is kind of a nightmare. 3-4 hour waits again, Iâm certain there are heaps of people not getting tested just for that reason.
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