Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Quote:So...how does one tell the difference between a fully vaccinated person and a not vaccinated person?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:SIX is in deep denial about this. But he's pretty reality-based about most other things, unlike SECONDRATE.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Covid did a lot of things...
Except for kill anybody.
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Ask them who won the election.
www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/04/05/more-than-half-of-republi
cans-believe-voter-fraud-claims-and-most-still-support-trump-poll-finds/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
So...how does one tell the difference between a fully vaccinated person and a not vaccinated person?
Not true at all. My Grandma's vaxxed and she knows who won the election.
It also sounds to me like Kiki and Sigs are vaxxed and they don't share your viewpoints on the outcome of the election either.
And I don't talk politics with people IRL. Especially strangers.
If somebody I don't know comes up to me out of the blue and asks me who won the election, that's how I know that person isn't worth ever talking to again, and I appreciate them letting me know that up front.
I'll give them a smile. Maybe a little chuckle. Then I'll walk away from them and never give them a second glance.
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Quote:Who does your Grandma "know" won? Unvaccinated Texas Trumptards "know" that Trump "won," but Biden "stole" the election and Trump will be inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
So...how does one tell the difference between a fully vaccinated person and a not vaccinated person?
Not true at all. My Grandma's vaxxed and she knows who won the election.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Just imagine where we would be today if effective vaccines had not been developed. Our current strategy of moderate social distancing, intermittent partial lockdowns, and economic assistance for businesses and the unemployed would not have been sustainable for another 1 or 2 years as the covid virus slowly burned its way through an unvaccinated population. We would inevitably have shifted to a different approach – very likely a de facto “herd immunity” strategy that lets the virus rip. Perhaps we would have offered some additional protections to the most vulnerable, but I doubt it.
An alternative strategy of mass testing, contact tracing, careful and humane isolation of infected people, widespread availability of high-quality masks, and improved treatments would have been far preferable, but we did not do the necessary preparation to implement it, even though quick development of an effective vaccine was considered unlikely by many experts, and the value of increasing testing capacity and mask production was understood by many academics, policymakers, and practitioners.
The value of an aggressive, multi-pronged approach to virus suppression and treatment would have been even higher if covid had been more transmissible or had a higher infection fatality rate.
https://angrybearblog.com/2021/05/grading-the-u-s-response-to-the-pand
emic
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Who does your Grandma "know" won? Unvaccinated Texas Trumptards "know" that Trump "won," but Biden "stole" the election and Trump will be inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
So...how does one tell the difference between a fully vaccinated person and a not vaccinated person?
Not true at all. My Grandma's vaxxed and she knows who won the election.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
The answer to your question is self evident given the context of the post.
I'll let you think about it for a while.
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Originally posted by second:
Just imagine where we would be today if effective vaccines had not been developed. Our current strategy of moderate social distancing, intermittent partial lockdowns, and economic assistance for businesses and the unemployed would not have been sustainable for another 1 or 2 years as the covid virus slowly burned its way through an unvaccinated population. We would inevitably have shifted to a different approach – very likely a de facto “herd immunity” strategy that lets the virus rip. Perhaps we would have offered some additional protections to the most vulnerable, but I doubt it.
An alternative strategy of mass testing, contact tracing, careful and humane isolation of infected people, widespread availability of high-quality masks, and improved treatments would have been far preferable, but we did not do the necessary preparation to implement it, even though quick development of an effective vaccine was considered unlikely by many experts, and the value of increasing testing capacity and mask production was understood by many academics, policymakers, and practitioners.
The value of an aggressive, multi-pronged approach to virus suppression and treatment would have been even higher if covid had been more transmissible or had a higher infection fatality rate.
https://angrybearblog.com/2021/05/grading-the-u-s-response-to-the-pand
emic
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Or maybe we'd say fuck fear and stop living like cowards.
Even with the artificially hyper-inflated numbers, hardly anybody died.
Or to put it another way, there are A LOT more human beings living on this earth today than there were on the day the US Funded Chinese Lab let this thing out.
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Quote:The devastation of the past year has come with one big silver lining: a massive leap forward in vaccine development.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Even with the artificially hyper-inflated numbers, hardly anybody died.
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The Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines were made possible by recent innovations in vaccine platform technology. Vaccines, which generally required the use of dead or inactive viruses, used to take years to develop. The new generation of mRNA vaccines (in the case of Pfizer and Moderna) and adenovirus vaccines (in the case of Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca) has simplified the process of developing vaccines for new diseases.
What used to take months and years can now take weeks — or less. In the case of the Moderna vaccine, for instance, it took three days. The “recipe” for the Moderna vaccine was developed in January 2020, before Covid-19 even flared up in the US.
But it’s one thing to come up with a vaccine, and entirely something else to manufacture it on a mass scale. That’s where the world has stumbled and where concerted planning now can make sure we’re prepared for the future. If we’re to have a better chance to fight the next pandemic — and there will be a next one — the US needs to build on these vaccine tech innovations and make investments to establish permanent facilities producing mRNA and adenovirus vaccines.
Vaccine facilities that are up and running 365 days a year — and that could be redirected to pump out different vaccines depending on the outbreak — would be a tremendous weapon for global public health.
And the cost would be well worth it. More than 3.4 million people around the world have died from Covid-19. The cost to the world economy totals $22 trillion.
www.vox.com/future-perfect/22397914/vaccine-mrna-adenovirus-manufactur
ing-process-investment
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3.4 million people died of other things and were going to die anyhow.
The overreaction and the lies led to the loss of $22 Trillion.
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No, Texas Has Not Had Zero COVID-19 Deaths Since It Lifted Its Mask Mandate
Author Kevin Drum Published on May 20, 2021 – 3:43 pm
Rep. Lauren Boebert went on TV—well, Real America's Voice, anyway—to claim that Texas hasn't had a single COVID-19 death since it lifted its mask mandate on March 2. Needless to say, it takes about 60 seconds to get the real data from the CDC:
Texas was heading steadily downward, but within 30 days of ending its mask mandate deaths from COVID-19 went back up. Total deaths since March 2 amount to a bit less than 4,000. And how is Texas doing now?
Texas is currently one of the worst states for COVID-19 mortality.
So why would Boebert say something so ridiculous? The best answer, I suppose, is that it's Lauren Boebert. What do you expect? But the other answer is that this is an example of Republicans literally being able to say anything. They know their audience will believe them, and they'll never be fact checked in any sense that will hurt them. So if you're going to make stuff up, why not go whole hog?
https://jabberwocking.com/no-texas-has-not-had-zero-covid-19-deaths-si
nce-it-lifted-its-mask-mandate/
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Lies, lies.
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