Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Over the past few weeks, we have recorded about 40% more deaths than we normally would.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Falsehoods like Biden* won the election and half a million Americans died of Covid.
https://jabberwocking.com/how-much-is-500000-extra-deaths/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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It doesn't matter how many times you post the lies, Ted.
They're still lies.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nope. Not important.
I already told you before the fixed election results came in that it would be a pleasure to vote for him a 3rd time. Now that your second fake impeachment failed chances are looking good.
Biden is going to be a1 termHALF TERM president.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.
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California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous: ‘The devil is already here’
The Los Angeles Times reports:
A coronavirus variant that emerged in mid-2020 and surged to become the dominant strain in California not only spreads more readily than its predecessors, but also evades antibodies generated by COVID-19 vaccines or prior infection and is associated with severe illness and death, researchers said.
In a study that helps explain the state’s dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths — and portends further trouble ahead — scientists at UC San Francisco said the cluster of mutations that characterizes the homegrown strain should mark it as a “variant of concern” on par with those from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil.
“The devil is already here,” said Dr. Charles Chiu, who led the UCSF team of geneticists, epidemiologists, statisticians and other scientists in a wide-ranging analysis of the new variant, which they call B.1.427/B.1.429. “I wish it were different. But the science is the science.”
Californians, along with the rest of the country, have been bracing for the rise of a more transmissible coronavirus variant from the U.K. known as B.1.1.7. But they should know that a rival strain that is probably just as worrisome has already settled in, and will probably account for 90% of the state’s infections by the end of next month, said Chiu, an infectious diseases researcher and physician.
The U.K. and California variants are each armed with enhanced capabilities, and the likelihood that they could circulate in the same population raises the specter of a return to spiking infections and deaths, Chiu said. It also opens the door to a “nightmare scenario”: That the two viruses will meet in a single person, swap their mutations, and create an even more dangerous strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The new evidence that the California variant could make people sicker, and vaccines less effective, should spur more intensive efforts to drive down infections, Chiu said. Those should include both public health measures, such as masking and limits on public activities, and a campaign of rapid vaccinations, he added.
More at https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-02-23/california-homegrown-
coronavirus-strain-looks-increasingly-transmissible-and-dangerous
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Since the LATimes is behind a paywall, the story may be read at either YAHOO or MSN.
California's coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous: 'The devil is already here'
https://news.yahoo.com/californias-coronavirus-strain-looks-increasing
ly-130055544.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/californias-coronavirus-strai
n-looks-increasingly-dangerous-the-devil-is-already-here/ar-BB1dWmbA
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-02-23/california-homegrown-
coronavirus-strain-looks-increasingly-transmissible-and-dangerous
Thanks for the post. I'll x-post this in the 'deadly new coronavirus' thread.
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Originally posted by second:
A coronavirus variant that emerged in mid-2020 and surged to become the dominant strain in California not only spreads more readily than its predecessors, but also evades antibodies generated by COVID-19 vaccines or prior infection and is associated with severe illness and death, researchers said.
Yup. Because it came from fuckin Mars.
Still not getting the vaccine, ever, fucktard.
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Deaths
515,138
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Quote:Dr. Peter Hotez's battle against the 'anti-science confederacy' is a lifetime in the making
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Still not getting the vaccine, ever, fucktard.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 8:03 a.m.
The antivaccine movement taught vaccine researcher Peter Hotez not to ignore conspiracy theories, no matter how scientifically unfounded. But in late spring of 2020, the virulence of the made-up stories he began hearing about COVID-19 astounded him.
One hoax held that Bill Gates had created the new coronavirus to force all Americans to be vaccinated with eensy devices that would create a sci-fi global-surveillance network. Another said that the launch of a 5G network in Wuhan, China, had spawned the virus. Some people claimed, falsely, that Gates, Hotez and Dr. Anthony Fauci stood to get rich off patents related to the COVID vaccine.
Hotez watched as the anti-vaxx movement — with its hippie roots in liberal distrust of chemicals and Big Pharma — connected with groups on the far right. “Vaccine choice” became an issue at protests that opposed mask requirements and business shutdowns. He was particularly alarmed that in Michigan, in late April and early May, supporters of President Donald Trump, wearing camouflage and carrying guns, protested on the steps of the state’s capitol.
Worse, some of the disinformation was coming from the White House: that COVID-19 was no more dangerous than a seasonal flu; that masks weren’t necessary; that the U.S. could have a safe vaccine by October. Hotez worried that the White House might wreck the public faith in vaccines with its impossible promises. He couldn’t imagine why a president wouldn’t at least acknowledge the hundreds of thousands who’d died.
But should he say anything about that? The pandemic had made Hotez a constant presence in the media, particularly on cable-TV news shows. He has a talent for conveying science to regular people, and as a top vaccine scientist with experience with coronaviruses, his credentials are impeccable. “He’s got tremendous credibility,” says investigative journalist Brian Rice, “because he’s done a huge amount to draw attention to potentially vaccine-preventable diseases that are less of an issue in the highly developed countries of North America and Europe: diseases that are often less likely to be profitable to the drug industry but nevertheless kill a lot of people.”
On TV, his appearance is a bonus: Forever rumpled and bow-tied, he looks like a scientist from central casting. But unlike a stereotypical scientist, his emotions are on surprising display. When a grim subject transforms his usual smiley warmth into anger or dismay, the effect is potent. He doesn’t come across as a normal talking head, auto-furious about the topic du jour. He looks like a teddy bear forced into battle.
Now, Hotez was wondering just how much battle he should take on, how frankly he should speak. He worried that he’d alienate Fox viewers, leaving them with one less source of credible scientific information. He worried, too, that scientists who criticized the Trump administration might be targeted — maybe just on social media but maybe in the real world as well.
He asked his wife, Ann, what he should do. Speak out, she said. “You don’t want to wake up in a year and see the body count and know that you didn’t do all you could to prevent it.”
More at https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Peter-Hotez-fight-for-sc
ience-COVID-houston-texas-15982489.php
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It doesn't have to be for any of those reasons.
You're a guinea pig. I'm not. I'm also not at any risk.
Have fun with your shots. And go follow your science right up your asshole.
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Weird...
https://apnews.com/article/technology-santiago-chile-diplomacy-coronav
irus-pandemic-0382aefa52c75b834fbaf6d869808f51
You've got to be EXTREMELY scared and desperate if you're putting Chinese manufactured vaccines in your arm.
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