Pandemic 2020

[CatHedral]

Yeah but seriously why do you value the way I spell when it’s the language of Empire?

It is the language of so much more. And those of us who’ve left the Empire have coevolved other spelling, grammar and syntax.

“There’s fifty-seven ways
To build a tribal lay
And ev’ry bloody one is right!”
- Probable mutilation of R. Kipling

 

[zeddd]

It is the language of so much more. And those of us who’ve left the Empire have coevolved other spelling, grammar and syntax.

My point exactly

 

[CatHedral]

My point exactly

I think we disagree on whether non-British English is also English.

Otherwise I flatly do not understand.

 

[CunningCanuk]

I think we disagree on whether non-British English is also English.

Call it American, it’s still the language of empire. The same for Greek, Italian, French, German or Dutch, to name a few.

 

[Budley Doright]

The difference in vaxx rates for kids might offer a clue. There are many breakthrough cases and most people in the hospital are unvaxxed and almost everybody in the ICU's is unvaxxed. Hospitalizations are relatively low compared to cases, most of which are going unreported. It's the unvaxxed, as usual, who are the issue for the most part.

Possibly, I’m not sure what the rate of vaccination is for school aged kids or the actual ages as it’s not broke down. So yes possibly a clue but not really lol. The data is just not there yet IMO to draw any conclusions, other than it moves like fire through a community.

 

[CunningCanuk]

My point exactly

You do realize the US are empire builders too, don’t you?

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Possibly, I’m not sure what the rate of vaccination is for school aged kids or the actual ages as it’s not broke down. So yes possibly a clue but not really lol. The data is just not there yet IMO to draw any conclusions, other than it moves like fire through a community.

Antivaxx parents are most likely to have unvaccinated kids and the age groups who are most antivaxx are in the child bearing range. I figure the difference in the vaxx rate should give some indication about hospitalization rates at least, cases are becoming too numerous to count.

Just found out we have outbreaks at all the local hospitals, not people hospitalized because of it, but they are detecting it. We have a pretty high vaxx rate in NS.

 

[CunningCanuk]

What is 'Flurona'? Experts warn of possibility of developing flu and COVID-19 at same time - ABC7 Los Angeles

What is 'Flurona'? Developing 2 separate infections a new health risk, experts say

Although rare, experts say it is possible to develop both COVID-19 and influenza at the same time, a condition known as "flurona."

abc7.com

 

[injinji]

Personally, I'm kind of at the point of throwing up my hands. Stuff doesn't work if you don't have everyone on board. Our populace here in the US is what it is, I'm angry it's not possible for a better solution to work because people are so stupid and selfish.

The vax rate in my county is 38%. I'm just assuming I'm going to catch Omicron. I just hope if I bring it home, my wife will be alright.

 

[injinji]

Lol. . . . . . . . . . check out Lewis Hamilton bending down to get knighted by Prince Charles. . . . . .

I bet he would gladly exchange it for that late Safety Car not coming out.

 

[Budley Doright]

Interesting editorial.

Shree Paradkar: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result defines idiocy. And yet, as schools stay closed, here we are

Students not going to school might well be the right call, but could we have been spared the vacillation and be given real information?

www.thestar.com

 

[CunningCanuk]

Interesting editorial.

Shree Paradkar: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result defines idiocy. And yet, as schools stay closed, here we are

Students not going to school might well be the right call, but could we have been spared the vacillation and be given real information?

www.thestar.com

Spot on. How I feel, exactly.

 

[schuylaar]

I have a kid in school. So, yeah, I've put a moat around my castle, I stay home, work remotely, I only do what is necessary to keep the house running. But a kid has to go to school and develop. So, my castle is compromised. The drawbridge is down. Public schooling weakens my defenses but I've seen the alternative and think the risk of contracting severe Covid is less than the risk of harming my kid by pulling him out of class.

What you suggest is only possible for people who don't have to go out into the world.

and when you do you can create your own deprivation tank on the cheap..hat, hoodie pulled over hat..sunglasses..double mask..coat that zip up and over mask combo..ear buds.

you end up looking like a Ninja, but that's the whole point + you don't to talk to people.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

 

[schuylaar]

i just received an EM from a recruiter and half of it was in Cyrillic. WTF? why are the Russians investing it was for a mining company in San Jose. Weird.

Ae they trying to take over the US through business?

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Omicron makes up 95% of sequenced Covid cases in U.S. as infections hit pandemic record

The omicron variant now represents nearly every Covid case sequenced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

www.cnbc.com

KEY POINTS

• The omicron variant now represents nearly every Covid case sequenced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Omicron has displaced the once-dominant delta variant in a matter of weeks.
• The U.S. reported a pandemic record of more than 1 million new infections on Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

 

[HGCC]

 

[Fogdog]

Interesting editorial.

Shree Paradkar: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result defines idiocy. And yet, as schools stay closed, here we are

Students not going to school might well be the right call, but could we have been spared the vacillation and be given real information?

www.thestar.com

We had a fit of opening/closing/delay opening decisions last year and it really put a strain on how I feel about the officials in charge. None of the certainty asked for in that opinion piece is available or we'd have gotten it already.

I heard on NPR this morning that test results are coming back with 60% positive. Officials have to make a call about school openings and I don't envy them. My worst case scenario is my kid comes home one day and we all get infected. Odds are very good that none of us will get very ill. Then we wait about 40 years to see if this thing has long term effects that are unknowable right now.

 

[Budley Doright]

We had a fit of opening/closing/delay opening decisions last year and it really put a strain on how I feel about the officials in charge. None of the certainty asked for in that opinion piece is available or we'd have gotten it already.

I heard on NPR this morning that test results are coming back with 60% positive. Officials have to make a call about school openings and I don't envy them. My worst case scenario is my kid comes home one day and we all get infected. Odds are very good that none of us will get very ill. Then we wait about 40 years to see if this thing has long term effects that are unknowable right now.

3 of my extended family has tested positive in the last two weeks and no one has had much more than what feels like a bad cold so here’s hoping

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Here is where we stand in NS and covid is breaking out all over the place. The 11.1% who are unvaxxed include kids under 5, total pop is 1 million. We will see how it looks in a week.
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1,020 new cases of COVID-19 and new hospital outbreaks announced in Nova Scotia on Tuesday, Jan. 4 - Halifax Examiner

Jump to sections in this article: Overview of today’s cases Vaccination Testing Potential exposure advisories Nova Scotia announced 1,020 new cases of COVID-19 today, Tuesday, Jan. 4. (Coincidentally, this is the exact same number of new cases as was announced yesterday.) The new cases are...

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

There are now 40 people in hospital with the disease, five of whom are in ICU. By age, those hospitalized are 26 to 98 years old, and the average age is 70.

According to Public Health, of those in hospital:
• about 10% have had a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine
• about 61% are fully vaccinated (2 doses)
• about 3% are partially vaccinated
• about 26% are unvaccinated