Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

It was slow starting up here in Canada, but Quebec has now reached 50% of the population with a single dose (a little over 60% of the adult population) and we should hit 75% by mid-june based on vaccination appointments already taken. Adolescents 12-17 will get their first dose in schools starting in june and prior to the end of the school year. Second doses are already done for those in assisted living situations and the plan is to have over 75% double-dosed by mid-August. Case loads are dropping fast as well and things will begin gradually de-confining early June. Fingers crossed everything holds while we're all waiting for dose 2.

That said, we don't have politicization issues as in the US.
 
bother said:
Also, posting a tweet from David Hogg and talking about HoW DuMb Is ThIs KiD LOL only makes you look like a very awful person.
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school isn't far from here. I knew kids that went there when I was in high school.

Mocking a kid for being a kid and saying things in a less than fully formed way is awful and cruel and gauche as fuck.
 
bother said:
Why do you keep coming in this thread with your weird libertarian/right "le masterful troll" stuff and act so surprised when people get annoyed?

Folks can wear their masks whenever they want. It's not against CDC guidance to do so. It doesn't hurt anyone and it might actually continue to help. It's like as soon as politics or "freedom" come into the discussion, empathy disappears.

Also, posting a tweet from David Hogg and talking about HoW DuMb Is ThIs KiD LOL only makes you look like a very awful person.
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You’re extrapolating a whole lot of bad and incorrect takes from my interactions with one specific person with whom there is a history.

I know my views run counter to the mainstream here. I’m open to and expect pushback. Sometimes I express them in artfully and have to clarify myself. It is what it is.

As far as empathy disappearing, it isn’t when freedom enters the picture that it departs. It’s when folks attempt to use empathy as a method of legislating or regulating freedom away we develop a problem. You don’t get to use your feelings to make me accept the boot of the state on my neck.

Hogg used the terrible events that happened to him to move into a space of being a public figure. So much so that some of other kids who suffered that tragedy have distanced themselves from him and his publicity seeking behavior. I may greatly disagree with what some of those kids are trying to do wrt gun laws, but I’ll only attack their ideas. Hogg is an idiot, and a public one. He is open to mocking the same as any other public figure.
 
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RenegadeMonster said:
Don't know if this has come up here yet, but apparently the expected baby boom was a big baby bust.

apnews.com

AP analysis: The expected COVID baby boom may be a baby bust

When most of the U.S. went into lockdown over a year ago, some speculated that confining couples to their homes would lead to a lot of baby-making.
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Only one of my friends got pregnant during the pandemic and it was previously planned. On the other hand multiple married couples I know got a divorce.
 
This is an excerpt from the morning NYT email I get. This is the most encouraging thing I've read in a very long time.

I want to end this week by showing you two Covid-19 charts. They contain the same message: The pandemic is in retreat.​
In the United States, there is now an excellent chance that the retreat is permanent. Victory over Covid has not yet arrived, but it is growing close. After almost a year and a half of sickness, death, grieving and isolation, the progress is cause for genuine joy.​
More than 60 percent of American adults have received at least one vaccine shot, and the share is growing by about two percentage points per week. Among unvaccinated people, a substantial number have already had Covid and therefore have some natural immunity. “The virus is running out of places to be communicable,” Andy Slavitt, one of President Biden’s top Covid advisers, told me.​
The share of Covid tests coming back positive has fallen below 3 percent for the first time since widespread testing began, and the number of hospitalized patients has fallen to the lowest point in 11 months, Dr. Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Translational Institute noted. For the first time since March 5 of last year, San Francisco General Hospital yesterday had no Covid patients — “a truly momentous day,” Dr. Vivek Jain said.​
There are still important caveats. Covid remains especially dangerous in communities with low vaccination rates, as Slavitt noted, including much of the Southeast; these communities may suffer through future outbreaks. And about 600 Americans continue to die from the disease every day.​
But the sharp decline in cases over the past month virtually guarantees that deaths will fall over the next month. The pandemic appears to be in an exponential-decay phase, as this helpful Times essay by Zoë McLaren explains. “Every case of Covid-19 that is prevented cuts off transmission chains, which prevents many more cases down the line,” she writes.​
This isn’t merely a theoretical prediction. In Britain, one of the few countries to have given a shot to a greater share of the population than the U.S., deaths are down more than 99 percent from their peak.​
 


Public health field sees 'mass exodus' with local officials​

The Lead

Covid-19 has pushed the public health system to its brink, and public health officials are leaving the field -- some stressed and others fired, like former Riverside County, California public health officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser. CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen investigates.
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In a time where we need public health officials the most, we are seeing mass exodus of them. Whether they resigned, retired early due to the stress of COVID-19 and threats to themselves or their family, or were fired over their mask mandates and stay at home orders.

Across the country public health officials have also seen diminished responsibility and limits to their power imposed to prevent future lockdowns in GOP controlled states.
 
My mother, who is a school nurse in her late age retirement, and was a nurse for 15 years here in the US and a doctor outside the US, who has refused to vaccinate, just called from the hospital where she's been admitted from urgent care because she's got covid.
 
RenegadeMonster said:





In a time where we need public health officials the most, we are seeing mass exodus of them. Whether they resigned, retired early due to the stress of COVID-19 and threats to themselves or their family, or were fired over their mask mandates and stay at home orders.

Across the country public health officials have also seen diminished responsibility and limits to their power imposed to prevent future lockdowns in GOP controlled states.
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As a former public health professional, I have so much to say. But basically, it doesn't help that most of the jobs in public health are actually contractor jobs that don't pay anything, but you also don't get the state pension or great health care benefits--so you get the low pay, the HDHP, and a 401K that you get to meagerly feed with your meager contractor salary. But it gets better because all your data systems are built by contractors who don't want to become obsolete, so they lock it behind "proprietary" data structures so you can't get at your raw data to do anything of consequence.

All it took for me to leave public health was a higher salary and no commute. If I were being threatened with physical harm, the job is just not worth that.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
www.cnn.com

Georgia governor bans Covid-19 vaccine passports in state government

The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. Meanwhile, vaccinations have already started in some countries as cases continue to rise.
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SMH
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Meanwhile, Chris Christie is bitching that we won't at least open the Canadian border for discretional travel by fully vaccinated Americans (this is in response to a request that the US share more vaccine)... Chris, Chris, Chris... how the fuck are we supposed to know who's fully vaccinated if you won't emit vaccination passports?
 
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