The Coronavirus Thread

[Tero]

County (pop 300 000) reports
Total vaccine doses administered: 97,494

First doses: 60,253
Second doses: 37,241

[Cunt]

Is coronavirus sexist against Italian men? Is that why Cuomo is in such trouble?

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/arti ... italy-says

All of Italy’s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.

[Cunt]

Does this mean Cosmo is trying to deliberately...oh, nevermind.

[JimC]

A bit of a worry:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-11/ ... k/13235734

British researchers say one of the latest UK coronavirus variants is up to 100 per cent deadlier than previous strains.

The B.1.1.7 variant is also up to 70 per cent more transmissible, according to the study.

[Cunt]

You know, if someone who was overweight or obese had trouble fixing it, I would help. Have helped. Mostly failed, as do most who offer to help.


Of course, it is probably easier to get people to wear double or triple masks, than to get them to eat a bit less. Or maybe they don't trust the science on it.

[Tero]

NY Times

Public discussion of “herd immunity” often treats it like an on-off switch: When the U.S. reaches herd immunity, the crisis will be over; until then, the country has little immunity from Covid-19.

But that’s not right.

Herd immunity is more like a light dimmer. The more people develop immunity — either from having been infected or from being vaccinated — the less easily the virus will spread.

Nearly 30 percent of Americans have now had the virus, according to Youyang Gu, a data scientist. (That includes many people who have never taken a Covid test.) About 18 percent have received at least one vaccine shot. There is some overlap between these two groups, which means that about 40 percent of Americans now have some protection from Covid.

Had these people been exposed to the virus a year ago, they could have become infected — and then spread Covid to others. Today, many are protected.

“This level of population immunity slows down transmission,” Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in The Washington Post. “After millions of infections and the start of a vaccination campaign, the virus is finally, slowly, starting to run out of new people to infect.”

The overall evidence on the variants has been more encouraging so far than many people expected. The vaccines are virtually eliminating hospitalizations and death in people who contract a variant. Reinfection does not seem to be widespread. And even if the variants are more contagious, they have not caused the kind of surges that seemed possible a couple of weeks ago.

In Florida, where B.1.1.7 has spread widely, “there’s no sign of any increase in cases,” Dr. Eric Topol of Scripps Research wrote. In South Africa, where the B.1.351 variant was first detected, cases are nonetheless plunging.

It’s a remarkable decline, given the variant. What explains it? Growing natural immunity appears to be part of the reason, The Financial Times has reported. Rising vaccinations are also helping. So did the restrictions that South Africa imposed in late December and January, including “a ban on alcohol sales, the closing of all land borders and most beaches, and an extended curfew,” Bloomberg explained.

[Cunt]

The skeptics are suspicious of the changed definition of 'herd immunity', and the timing of the change.



I'm not in doubt enough to avoid my vaccine (9 days to shot 2!!) but it sure does look like there is a lot of politics going in in what is presented as science.

[Tero]

Yeah but what about the Wuhan lab?

[Cunt]

What about it?

[Tero]

What about it?

It was supposed to explain the whole conspiracy. Where do we pay the ransom to the Chinese to be rid of this?

[Cunt]

You have a weird take on things, Tero.

[Tero]

I'm just trying to follow your conspiracy logic.

[JimC]

I'm just trying to follow your conspiracy logic.

You'd have to smoke a shit load of the good stuff first, Tero...

[Cunt]

With your population being so highly compliant, you won't find any.

It takes a bit of lawlessness to get as far ahead of the curve as Canada has, on weed.

I'm sorry you are stuck with only gin and koala-poop.

[Joe]

Canada?

Hold my bong!