Its almost like the US isn’t a monolith since there are absolutely states experiencing a new wave of cases. Oregon and Washington state currently waving right now, same with Michigan. Lower population base hiding the waves relative to the bigger states seeing declines.
Just ran into a convenient store to grab a bag of chips and a water. There were 12 people inside the store (counting me) and I was the only person wearing a mask. I fucking hate it here.
It was the CDC that paused J&J right? Not the FDA. Either way whoever did it are fucking idiots. Likely has lead to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people not getting vaccinated. All for a one in a million chance of getting something that covid also gives you at a much higher rate.
Why should government health organizations base their decisions on how irrational people will handle the news and assess the associated risks? If we’re catering to these people, should all vaccine risks be hidden from the public then? Should vaccine effectiveness reports be artificially inflated to encourage people to take these people to take the vaccine? I guess I don’t understand how on one hand it’s trust the scientific processes but on the other hand it’s don’t do that because of dumb people. I do get the overall frustration though (I was initially saying the same things when AZ starting being paused) but I’ve changed my stance in hindsight.
I'm not a doctor or scientist but it just seems like it was a massive jump to pause them. 1 in 6 million is just not a risk. Also, anyone with half a brain or has interacted at all with these people would have known that this was the very predictable outcome. It just all feels so frustrating and in this case avoidable.
I don’t think there’s a great solution. IMO it usually comes back to how information is presented, but even that is hard to master nowadays since there’s so many ways to get news, it’s easy to just read a click bait headline and run with it, or just people not believing what news may say.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-h...ectiveness-against-india-strain-is-uncertain/ Top Israeli health official: Not clear if vaccine effective against India strain Sharon Alroy-Preis urges air travel restrictions; fumes over government’s ‘disgraceful’ refusal to curb Lag B’Omer festivities at Meron, expected to draw hundreds of thousands A top health official on Wednesday said it was not clear that COVID-19 vaccines offer protection against the so-called Indian variant of the disease, and cited this concern as a key reason why Israel must ban travel to countries with high coronavirus infection rates. “We don’t know about the Indian variant, we don’t know enough,” Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health services at the Health Ministry, said of the strain of the disease ravaging India. Asked about claims and indications that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is effective against the Indian strain, she said: “I didn’t see any research on this.”
Trying to manipulate people for their own "benefit" backfires 100 percent of the time. Tell people the truth and let the chips fall where they may.
Lol take THAT, teachers! More on the ongoing horrors in india made all the worse by their leadership https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...umanity-arundhati-roy-india-covid-catastrophe
The US isn't a monolith? No shit. Teach me more, sensei. The original claim was that the US, as a whole, was on the verge of a 4th wave when the daily average went from 54,000 to 70,000. I called bullshit. Guess what? It's now down to 54,000 again. Since then, people ITT have tried to play gotcha with me over rising cases across the world, in Canada, or in pockets of the US. I also called bullshit when people, ITT and IRL, melted down over the removal of the Texas mask mandate. Daily average the day it was announced: 7200. Daily average today: 3100. It's almost like some people believe being a good citizen is interpreting every piece of news as pessimistically as possible no matter the evidence.
Why should I let it go when I'm right? Also, the only time I bring it up is when people come at me with shit I never said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.na...enacts-covid-19-business-liability-shield?amp Fl Desantis signed a liability shield for businesses who kill their employees or their families
Yeah right, we need proof. And not just one example, we need every example since you started your little disinformation crusade. Spoiler that oughta keep him busy for a while
Surprisingly, Foghorn has handled Covid about as well as you could with such little info. He was cautious (relatively speaking for a southern governor) but didn't completely wreck most of the local businesses. Fauci actually praised him and South Carolina publicly on how he handled it. My wife is a teacher, and they've had surprisingly very few issues, no shutdowns, etc. I'm not sure elementary kids spread this stuff a ton, which is weird and makes no sense to me. Also, everyone in SC who wishes to be vaxed, is fully vaxed, so his comments don't seem crazy to me. It's super easy here, because you had a group of people who were all about the vaccine and another group who staunchly against it. Teachers have been vaxed since the first of March.
Just found out one of my Indian employees is on a plane back to India at the moment. Both of his parents have COVID and have tried to get into a hospital but been denied for lack of space. He had been distraught about it yesterday, and this morning decided he couldn't stay away any longer and headed to the airport. Kind of like rushing into a burning building.
Looks like we all but eliminated the flu https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-worldwide-during-the-covid-pandemic/
Aw come the fuck on, man https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8587(21)00089-9/fulltext Now people with BMI >23 considered higher risk.
My mom got it from a school in SC because they didn't take it seriously and didn't care about taking precautions after following the lead of the government
She was lucky and was asymptomatic. Found out when she and my dad did an antibody test for an MUSC study. My dad had covid over Christmas but me and my mom both tested negative after 10 days quarantining. We expected him to get positive results on the antibody test for my dad but were surprised to see my mom did. Schools reopened and she had to be there every day after the holidays. Sounds like lots of teachers thought the pandemic was fake and they had classrooms and support staff quarantined consistently.
We still had 770 Americans die yesterday. The 7 day avg is still almost 800 a day. Yes that's good news, but a long way to go
It’s insane to think about how bad this would be under the past regime. The variants are horrible and we would be wide open with a much smaller percentage vaccinated.
I doubt any plans for vaccine proof hinged upon that dumb card. Mine, from a FEMA site, doesn't even have the batch number. Just says Janssen, my name, the date, and location
Saw some insane graphs about the hospitalizations of people below 64 skyrocketing. Can anyone confirm or deny?
don’t agree w what Texas did despite individual behavior but I will agree that there is this trauma that some have that don’t trust believing normal life is really on the way. I just hope anti vaxxers don’t fuck up the progress
Right it's going to be easy to get a fake, but I'm talking about doing anything that requires proof of vaccination one way or another. Maybe a handful of blue states will implement measures but I'm going to be shocked if any major domestic airlines require proof at any point.
just look at Brazil and Bolsonaro. He copies everything from Trump and it is a disaster. He definitely wouldn’t have done the Fema sites which were critical in getting Seniors vaccinated faster and helped lower the stress on retailers in the first few months
Cruises will have to require them. Think it was like they have to prove 95% of guests are vaccinated and like 98% of crew The military is going to mandate it to deploy, just like they have with other vaccines. Chuds like desantis will try and fight it and lose
The good thing is that a small number of public colleges are going to require it, although probably not near enough. My friend works at NJIT and said they'll be requiring it for the fall semester. I'm not holding out for cruises, Royal Caribbean did but someone itt pointed out that Carnival is the MAGA inbred cruise and they aren't requiring anything.