Generally everywhere I've seen it reported, a dose is a shot and you need two shots, so yes half the number of doses in terms of that many people getting vaccinated assuming everyone comes back a month later for their second shot.
From the local “parents in favor of in person learning” Separating us... They are now separating us from our kids & family members (no fans in the stands for sports. No visitors in the hospitals or on one's death bed in the retirement homes) They have separated us from the schools & classrooms (remote learning & no kids in the schools) They have separated us from our neighbors (lockdowns & masks and no Thanksgiving w/ neighbors) They have separated us from the community businesses (we all use Amazon online & DoorDash). They have separated us from our churches (ilquor stores are open while churches are closed) They separated us from our political leaders.(Topeka & Wash DC seem farther away, distant and disconnected from Mainstreet USA than ever) They have separated us from our spouses (Divorce rates over 50% in USA and of course the socialist countries have the highest divorce rates in the world). THEY have become greater & stronger than We. Have we become so accustomed to being separated such that we accept the incrementalism and are becoming too weak to stand up, show up and to fight back. Are our children, spouses, grandchildren not worth fighting for? Is love not worth fighting for? Is life not worth fighting for? When will enough of us come together to really fight to save ourselves, our families, our friends, our schools, our communities, our State and our country? We don't even come together for funerals anymore. If even one person stands up and fights this separation then we get a chance at another day. When hundreds of us show up, we can slow the separation down. When thousands of us rise up, we can halt the injustice. And when millions of us step up...maybe just maybe we save our souls and the future. Go to local school board meetings. Go to County Commissioners meetings. Call, email, write, stand up, shout out, show up. Show your kids you love them because nothing is promised tomorrow.
They should start showing on local news what it looks like to get ventilated. Maybe scaring these idiots will work.
I hate to think where that number is going to be later in the month. I think the new projection is 470,000 dead by February.
Staten Island is a huge Guido Chudzone right? NYC should just expel them as 1 of the 5 boroughs. They don't even send the subway there to begin with.
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.iri...gh-risk-for-spreading-covid-19-ecdc-1.4425595 Air passengers should not automatically be considered high-risk for spreading Covid-19 and should be treated like members of the local population who have not had any direct contact with an infected person, according to new European guidelines for air travel. The Guidelines for Covid-19 Testing and Quarantine of Air Travellers, published jointly by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), have, however, been described as “really dangerous” and “insane” by a leading public health expert in Ireland. Interesting, doesn’t consider increased inter generational gatherings though.
Hopefully Europe is past its peak. Places who locked down hard first time out and didn’t get much of a hit the first time have been hit very badly - Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Austria, Czech Republic. Even Germany who had a small first wave are seeing quite a few deaths, though their excellent testing, tracing and general public health measures are having an impact. The US is probably two weeks behind.
the US is nowhere near a peak though because we are not actually doing anything but inviting more cases/deaths. We are practicing your preferred method of dealing with the virus-herd immunity.
Great video going after all of the dumbass politicians who have broken their own rules/asks of people.
Sigh There is now a pretty broad range of restrictions across Europe now. Switzerland have limited restrictions now and the case numbers have been dropping with hospitalisations falling. FYI their rise was also attached to the “idiots” in the population celebrating mass weddings and Oktoberfest. Please also stop misrepresenting my view on this, I have always simply pointed out that the narrative on this thread on “Europe” was simplistic, you once again proving that here. I never advocated for herd immunity, what I said was that we saw from Lockdowns 1.0 was that in many cases they came too late, with behaviour having adapted beforehand to drive R below 1. In cases where they came early and you avoided a big death curve, the risk was always there for a huge second wave. That has been borne out by the likes of the Czech Republic. They were about 100 in the world for deaths per million in September with just over 400 deaths, they now have well over 8,000 and are in the top 20 in the world. They were held out as an example of a country doing well first time in locking down early, and masks were cited as part of their success latterly, unfortunately that is not happening now. My position was that perpetual lockdowns could not work long term with the likelihood of no vaccine within a year. I advocated for mass testing, aggressive tracing and targeted restrictions along with strong communications campaigns around social distancing, with putting the brake on if needed for only a short period. I think both Europe and the US have busted it here. The last great hope to me are the Danes, who have their economy mostly still open but have targeted restrictions, aggressive tracing and are using mass testing. It’s rising still though so we’ll see. Now that the circumstances have changed with a vaccine within touching distance, I have no problem with hard restrictions that might damage the economy more over the next two months. They do have to be proportioned though, for example after our latest half lockdown we have just reopened indoor dining. The logic is that people will just go to one another’s homes anyway and our tracing data shows that. Better to try at least be in a controlled environment! And yes, the US has done a bad job, but it goes beyond lockdowns!
This person should be committed. All that the past 4 years have taught me is we have SERIOUS mental health issues in this country and millions people are clinically insane and I wish that was fucking hyperbole.
Wiping Staten Island off the map would be the best thing to happen from Covid, given it failed to eliminate Trump.
The Qanon shit blows my mind. Every cult and group of conspiracy theorists have crazy things they accept as truth but Qanon people are on another level.
it’s surprising how many gullible people are out there that have a distrust of any type of expert. People that can be swayed by a YouTube video or Facebook groupthink. Fuel to the fire was having a president that recklessly legitimized them. Literally the worst thing that could’ve happened after Trump was elected was a global crisis. And it happened
"Deaths nationwide were 19 percent higher than normal from March 15 to Nov. 14. Altogether, the analysis shows that 345,000 more people than normal have died in the United States during that period, a number that may be an undercount since recent death statistics are still being updated." https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-death-toll-us.html
Fb moms with nothing else to do during covid have fueled this stuff. You can pick out the worst parts of "influencer culture" from the Fyrefest documentary and tie that to "save the children" and how covid is all hoax/masks don't work.