The Coronavirus Thread

[NineBerry]

There now a voc from Brittany....

[Tero]

Dutch clots are the best clots! Much less harmful than Danish clots!

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/health/a ... index.html

[Brian Peacock]

The clots are interesting. These kinds of thrombotic episodes are vanishingly rare in the general population - around 10-15 per million annually. The rate in the recently vaccinated is about the same, but of course they've all come within a couple of months. Now, is a 1 in 100,000 chance of being unlucky worth avoiding the vaccines for, particularly when countries like the UK have seen Covid deaths at around 50 per 100,000?

I won't be turning mine down when the call comes anyway.

[JimC]

The clots are interesting. These kinds of thrombotic episodes are vanishingly rare in the general population - around 10-15 per million annually. The rate in the recently vaccinated is about the same, but of course they've all come within a couple of months. Now, is a 1 in 100,000 chance if being unlucky worth avoiding the vaccines for, particularly when countries like the UK have seen Covid deaths at around 50 per 100,000?

I won't be turning mine down when the call comes anyway.

I agree. The Australian authorities have chosen not to pause the vaccine roll-out here. I'll happily take my shot when it comes.

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-17/ ... e/13238680

Variants of the virus are spreading quickly across the US, sparking fears among exhausted frontline doctors and nurses that another wave of infections is on its way

"It's a race. It's a race between the virus and getting ourselves vaccinated," doctor Haytham Adada says as he walks through his intensive care ward in rural south-west Virginia.

[NineBerry]

Young and with no underlying health conditions, Amy Durant thought she was low risk for Covid-19. Now Sophie Gallagher speaks to her 12 months after she first became ill.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 17508.html

Interesting read

[BarnettNewman]

Fuck Sleepy Joe and Cameltoe, I'll do what the fuck I want when the fuck I want and he can suck my goddamn white redneck dick. I live in the Free State of Florida (for now, anyway), and we already pulled our National Guard out of the Banana Republic military Joe is using to occupy our capital city. They're at our borders, ready to repel the Damn Yankee Carpetbaggers.

(That should get Hermie up and moving).

FREEDUM!!

Yes, lak will exercise his god given right to hate fellow humans and not be around them no matter what. Sleepy Joe can’t make him be around others on July 4th and I’d like to see him try.


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[NineBerry]

Tanzania’s main opposition leader has said President John Magufuli, an avowed coronavirus sceptic out of public view for nearly two weeks, is in India receiving medical treatment for COVID-19 and is in a serious condition.

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Magufuli has played down the threat from COVID-19, saying God and remedies such as steam inhalation would protect Tanzanians. He has mocked coronavirus tests, denounced vaccines as part of a Western conspiracy to take Africa’s wealth, and opposed mask-wearing and social distancing.


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https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021 ... h-covid-19


That is the guy who claimed tests were positive for motor oil and papayas.

He's dead. They claim it was a heart attack. But I believe it was Corona

[pErvinalia]

Darwinism strikes again.

[Brian Peacock]

The COVID Class War Heats Up

The bitter debate over lockdowns and mask mandates in America is not just another polarizing culture war between left and right. It also has elements of a class war. But it’s not the class war you might think it is.

Some on the populist right and anti-capitalist left interpret the prolonged state lockdowns as a conspiracy by big business against small business. It is easy to see how people could reach this conclusion. Many small firms have been destroyed during the pandemic by government-mandated bans and social distancing rules, while some bigger firms have had an easier time. According to Inequality.org, between mid-March 2020 and February 2021, the wealth of U.S. billionaires grew by $1.3 trillion. But the wealth gains for the rich have come mostly from their disproportionate representation in the stock market, not from their ability to steal customers from small companies that have gone under.

The major debate over lockdowns has been between small-business owners, who form the political base of the Republican Party, and professionals, particularly in the educational, government, and nonprofit sectors, who provide the political base of the Democrats. Compared to the multiracial working-class majority of the United States, both small-business owners and professionals are in fact elite minorities—though clearly less elite and much more numerous than billionaires and the executives of major multinational corporations and banks and media companies and foundations.

As Christopher Caldwell noted in a recent article, the three occupations with the greatest proportion of donors to the Democrats in 2020 were professors, librarians, and therapists, joined by nurses and teachers. Call them the book people. In contrast, Republicans rely on small-business owners, including many of the “boat people” who took part in the local boat parades in favor of Trump in the summer of 2020. The COVID class war is an intra-elite power struggle between progressive professionals and conservative small-business owners—a clash between the book people and the boat people.

In early 2020, the debates over the appropriate responses to the global pandemic did not fall along partisan lines. Lockdowns were initially justified as temporary measures that would last only a few weeks, until hospitals could obtain enough equipment and were safe from overcrowding. The lockdowns would end as soon as state and local governments set up contact tracing programs. But contact tracing proved unwieldly, and the lockdowns became a preferred policy instrument looking forward to the development of vaccines. Lockdowns then became a partisan issue, with Democrats and progressives favoring extended lockdowns, stringent social distancing, and mask mandates that were resisted by many though not all Republicans and conservatives.... (continues)

[JimC]

Some similarities with that here in Oz, although a much higher proportion of the population fully supported lockdowns (even though often moaning about them), mask wearing etc. This broad compliance is reflected in polls showing increased support for existing governments at both state and federal levels, basically down to approval of how we handled the pandemic, with much less human damage than most of the world. The opponents were fairly small in number, and included crazed conspiracy theorists, whose obvious idiocy was perceived by most...

[NineBerry]

South ParQ - Vaccination Special

https://www.southpark.de/en/episodes/0n ... on-24-ep-2

[Hermit]

South ParQ - Vaccination Special

https://www.southpark.de/en/episodes/0n ... on-24-ep-2

404 Page not found

[NineBerry]

Yeah. Region restrictions. You have to find out how to watch it in your country. It should be available for free in all of the civilized world, and the US

[Hermit]

Yeah. Region restrictions. You have to find out how to watch it in your country. It should be available for free in all of the civilized world, and the US

I revved up my VPN and tried half a dozen links. None were cooperative. Not when set to the US, the UK or DE. Some sites, including one in Australia, say you can watch the episode after you pay for a subscription.