I know almost everyone has one of these stories but a coworker went to Italy mid/late February 2020 and joked first dat back in the office that if the trip was any later they would’ve had to cancel. He proceeded to get sick that night and missed two weeks of work with fever, cough, and diarrhea. He tested negative for the flu. Over the next few weeks over half my floor got sick and it got so bad on another office floor that they had to shut it down and deep clean it and send everyone home for a week. This was well before the first documented case in Alabama. I got sick with whatever it was beginning of March for about a week. Felt bad especially in the evenings with a low fever. Culminated in the final night with me waking up with a horrible cough, hot as shit and covered in sweat. Weirdly enough I was fine the next day
Damn, I can’t recall the last time JStew was so fucking far off-base. He rarely has bad takes but this is pathetic.
^ We were giving major funding to keeping anthrax vaccine in the nat'l stockpile, as opposed to N95s, gowns, vents, etc.
I don’t think anyone did. I didn’t make the connection until later and the antibody test I found was $75 and not 100% reliable and just said whatever. I did find out recently one of my coworkers got so sick they were contemplating trying to find him a test if he got any worse. Again this was very early in the pandemic (no confirmed cases here), tests weren’t readily accessible and I don’t think anyone knew what they were doing. That guy also tested negative for the flu.
Yes it is but honestly NYC has been open for a couple months now and cases are staying low which is good to see
I mean it’s a PR stunt (which I fell for) to draw positive attention his way for getting rid of all restrictions. Him and Newsome have been the poster childs for the right on ‘draconian measures’
He didn’t say fully vaccinated. Since most people show up for shot #2, don’t think it is a crazy thing to say. Especially since you do get some protection after your first shot
my point is people who are still not at their 2nd shot are now more fucked than if they waited seems like "if you have half of your vaccine" is a weird barometer
He’s saying that since all the unvaxxed no longer have any restrictions and the halfvaxxed are at perhaps 60% efficacy at preventing serious illness/hospitalization/death, this endangers those that are nearly there and have made the (late) right choice.
I am really skeptical of most "I had it in December" stories but this could have legitimately been covid
This. It just feels like those people who are close to being fully vaxed now have to deal with more shit just so the governor can tweet out a headline.
The was also a wicked non-flu around the Midwest that February that also wasn't covid. I think OneTwo probable did have covid, but I attribute that bug to most of the "I had it in February" stories.
I can’t remember another cold/flu season where so many people got sick in my office. We were joking as coworkers disappeared and called in sick “who was next.” The Italy connection with the mid 60 year old coworker “patient zero” plus the symptoms and (much later disclosure) that he tested negative for flu has me wondering.
Lol. No There have been hundreds, if not thousands of crowds larger than that since the pandemic began back in early 2019. It might be the largest crowd since we started taking the pandemic seriously.
Yes, 2020 but yes it was claiming to be the largest crowd since the pandemic began. It literally says that.
WHO didn’t declare a pandemic until 3/11/20 and it’s the largest since that time. edit: I stand corrected but there has by no means been thousands of larger us pro sports events.
130k at the Indy 500 70k at the Canelo Alvarez fight 67k at an India-England cricket match 60k at the Kentucky Derby
Told my wife the other day that ironically I think this is the longest I've ever gone without getting sick
I mean how made qualifiers do the Dodgers need to go down before it fits the achievement they desperately want... ATLANTA - Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta hosted what is believed to be the largest post-pandemic soccer crowd for an international match between Mexico and Honduras on Saturday night. Saturday's match between Mexico and Honduras reported a crowd of 70,072
bro i am sorry that the tweet about your team's attendance was wrong please stop being weird about it
*that isn't motorsports, fighting, and the game has to count so it's not just an exhibition. congrats dodgers.
Eric Clapton Says He's Lost Friends Over His COVID Theories By Andrew Magnotta @AndrewMagnotta June 15, 2021 Eric Clapton's embrace of discredited COVID-19 theories have caused a major strain on his relationships with friends and family, he says. Speaking to a filmmaking group called Oracle Films (which has produced several videos critical of pandemic-related lockdowns), Clapton traces his path to disillusionment — the same process by which people come to believe the Earth is flat. Slowhand admits he became deeply frustrated with the U.K. government during Brexit. After his world tour in 2020 was canceled due to COVID, he turned to the YouTube algorithm for "alternative data." There, he found videos by groups promoting the widely-criticized, implausible theory of "focused protection" from the virus, which would essentially impose lockdowns only on vulnerable groups (like Clapton, a 76-year-old with emphysema), leaving COVID free to spread among the rest of the population. After being critically misinformed by YouTube, Clapton turned to other skeptic channels, like the embattled, encrypted chat app Telegram. But as he waded deeper into the COVID conspiracy waters, his friends distanced themselves from him, he says. “I would try to reach out to fellow musicians and sometimes I just don’t hear from them anymore,” Clapton said. “My phone doesn’t ring very often. I don’t get that many texts and emails any more. It’s quite noticeable.” Clapton says his outspokenness on the lockdowns got him "labelled a Trump supporter" and caused friction in his household. But lockdowns aren't Clapton's only gripe. His bad reaction to Astra-Zeneca COVID vaccine on account of his peripheral neuropathy has turned him against the vaccines as well. He tried to push the vaccine theories on his daughters, but they rejected the evidence-less claim that the vaccines adversely affect fertility. In December, Clapton launched an ongoing collaboration with Van Morrison with a widely-criticized anti-lockdown song called "Stand and Deliver" in which the duo compared the lockdowns to a form of slavery. Clapton has been on the wrong side of history before. In 1976, he famously launched into a racist tirade during a concert in Birmingham, England, urging his countrymen to "Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white" by voting for a conservative candidate. He later apologized, blaming his drinking and drug use, but the incident still dogs him. With regards to the COVID vaccine, COVID infection rates have plunged in nations in which the vaccines have been widely administered. More than 2.39 billion shots have been administered worldwide, including more than 311 million doses in the U.S. Severe side effects remain extremely rare.
The framing of this article is fantastic. It’s downright refreshing to see it reported correctly and factually.