covid-19

[JoeWeber 2,294]

1 minute ago, BIGUN said:

Fuck me. All I said was, "Bourbon" and this turned into the drunken skydiver page. 

It was never anything but. Best I can tell all the rest was simply a momentary diversion occasioned by flights of fancy. 

[wmw999 2,114]

3 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

Fuck me. All I said was, "Bourbon" and this turned into the drunken skydiver page. 

I'm sorry; I'm not sure I see the issue here...

Wendy P.

[billvon 2,379]

53 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

Fuck me. All I said was, "Bourbon" and this turned into the drunken skydiver page. 

Try saying "margarita."

[JoeWeber 2,294]

1 hour ago, wmw999 said:

I'm sorry; I'm not sure I see the issue here...

Wendy P.

At the minimum he should get a warning.

[billvon 2,379]

1 hour ago, nwt said:

Ooh, that sounds nice and I haven't had it yet. I can bring this https://www.thebruery.com/products/so-happens-its-tuesday-2020-750-ml

A nice low alcohol beer for the lighter drinkers!  Good idea.

[JerryBaumchen 1,046]

Hi folks,

Then, I say, just do not get the shot:  Church And COVID-19: Bishops Express Moral Concerns Over Johnson & Johnson Shot : NPR

More for those who want it.

Jerry Baumchen

[billvon 2,379]

This just in from Abbott:  

"The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.  The Biden Admin. must IMMEDIATELY end this callous act that exposes Texans & Americans to COVID."

But at least they don't have to wear masks, eh?

[Phil1111 905]

49 minutes ago, billvon said:

This just in from Abbott:  

"The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.  The Biden Admin. must IMMEDIATELY end this callous act that exposes Texans & Americans to COVID."

But at least they don't have to wear masks, eh?

One thing about republicans they have truly learnt the art of distraction from trump.No power, no safe drinking water, just throw some red meat to the masses. No masks, a new wave of immigrants. Next there will be something about guns.

[billvon 2,379]

2 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

One thing about republicans they have truly learnt the art of distraction from trump.No power, no safe drinking water, just throw some red meat to the masses. No masks, a new wave of immigrants. Next there will be something about guns.

"Welcome to Texas!  No socialist gun laws, no socialist masks, no socialist electrical power, no socialist water, no socialist natural gas."

[JoeWeber 2,294]

3 minutes ago, billvon said:

"Welcome to Texas!  No socialist gun laws, no socialist masks, no socialist electrical power, no socialist water, no socialist natural gas."

Oh, but they'll scream like smashed armadillo's if they don't get a fair share of that socialist warp speed medicine.

[billvon 2,379]

15 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Oh, but they'll scream like smashed armadillo's if they don't get a fair share of that socialist warp speed medicine.

Yep.  "What?  Our rugged independent power system failed us?  The invisible hand of the free market gave us the finger?  BAIL US OUT!  Give us disaster funding and generators and blankets and food!  Send us federal dollars!  I'm going on vacation; make sure that check is here when I get back so I can complain about federal waste."

[JoeWeber 2,294]

10 minutes ago, billvon said:

The invisible hand of the free market gave us the finger? 

Consider this line stolen. Pure gold.

[JerryBaumchen 1,046]

Hi folks,

CDC update:  New US guidance says fully vaccinated people can meet without masks - BBC News

Jerry Baumchen

[Westerly 61]

2 hours ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi folks,

CDC update:  New US guidance says fully vaccinated people can meet without masks - BBC News

Jerry Baumchen

Just putting out what I said 2 months ago. Big surprise, people who cant get infected are not very likely to infect others. Not exactly NASA-level genius here. At this point the pandemic is over and it's now endemic. Covid is never going way, not ever. We cant keep pretending like we just need to hold out a little longer and it's almost over. Just wear your masks a bit longer, social distance a bit longer, we're almost there! No it's not almost over and it never will be. There is no end to this. We need to start looking at abandoning temporary measures and integrating permanent ones.

Edited March 9, 2021 by Westerly

[Baksteen 84]

8 hours ago, Westerly said:

 people who cant get infected are not very likely to infect others. 

I'm aware that you say "not very likely" as opposed to "impossible", but I would like to point out that the risk could still be significant.

You can be fully immune for a disease like Polio, but still 'shed'  the virus into the environment (sewage). Subsequent improper treatment of this sewage can then lead to infection of non-vaccinated people.

Not much of a risk in the Western world, maybe, but a very real one for developing countries.

 

Now vaccine protection against Covid on the other hand is something completely new. I would advise caution in abandoning all safety measures based on having had the shot, or being in contact with someone who did.

[ryoder 1,380]

Oh, for chrissake!

The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs

[gowlerk 1,901]

7 hours ago, ryoder said:

Oh, for chrissake!

The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs

They are going to keep it in a big warehouse right beside the toilet paper. You can never have enough.

[JoeWeber 2,294]

18 hours ago, ryoder said:

Oh, for chrissake!

The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs

Right. And if the Astra-Zeneca jab doesn't cause blood clots, autism or an irrational affection for Po-Boy Sandwiches but instead is effective against the Brazilian strain, the South African strain, the UK strain, groin strain and is ideal as the perfect thing to mix with the Johnson and Johnson vaccine or Ovaltine for the ultimate Covid immunity jab then maybe we'll be glad we didn't send it off to somewhere where, like in the USA, people are idiots and won't use it as intended because it's a bad dog like Major.

[gowlerk 1,901]

I have an old skydiving friend in North Dakota he is 70 years old. I asked him if he’s going to get vaccinated soon. He said no because he heard that a woman in Arizona died four days after getting vaccinated. I pointed out that half a million Americans have died from Covid. He told me the Hospitals just made up those numbers to get more funding.

[JoeWeber 2,294]

1 minute ago, gowlerk said:

I have an old skydiving friend in North Dakota he is 70 years old. I asked him if he’s going to get vaccinated soon. He said no because he heard that a woman in Arizona died four days after getting vaccinated. I pointed out that half a million Americans have died from Covid. He told me the Hospitals just made up those numbers to get more funding.

Your old skydiving friend is a goddamn moron. Maybe take a chance on him never talking to you again and tell him the truth in an unambiguous way. You cannot always walk the line, Ken. 

[gowlerk 1,901]

50 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Your old skydiving friend is a goddamn moron. Maybe take a chance on him never talking to you again and tell him the truth in an unambiguous way. You cannot always walk the line, Ken. 

 I told him to think again and that he has friends and people who care about him. He said it was duly noted. I didn’t bother telling him he’s a moron, that seldom does any good.

 

[billvon 2,379]

44 minutes ago, gowlerk said:

I have an old skydiving friend in North Dakota he is 70 years old. I asked him if he’s going to get vaccinated soon. He said no because he heard that a woman in Arizona died four days after getting vaccinated.

Tell him he just made that up because he doesn't like vaccines.

[ryoder 1,380]

1 hour ago, gowlerk said:

I have an old skydiving friend in North Dakota he is 70 years old. I asked him if he’s going to get vaccinated soon. He said no because he heard that a woman in Arizona died four days after getting vaccinated. I pointed out that half a million Americans have died from Covid. He told me the Hospitals just made up those numbers to get more funding.

2019 US population: 328M

2019 US annual death rate: 8.7 people per 1,000

  => 2.855,340 fatalities/year => 7823/day

 

2020-03-11:  33,863,127 fully vaccinated people*

33,863,127 / 328.2 million = ~10%

7823 * 0.10 = ~782/day expected fatalities from the pool of fully vaccinated people

 

*) The number of shots given is ~2X times the number fully vaccinated.

[JoeWeber 2,294]

2 hours ago, gowlerk said:

 I told him to think again and that he has friends and people who care about him. He said it was duly noted. I didn’t bother telling him he’s a moron, that seldom does any good.

 

Namby pamby non-confrontational non-talk. I didn't say tell him he's a moron, I said be unambiguous. Frankly, brother, what you said to him did him zero good. 

[gowlerk 1,901]

45 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Frankly, brother, what you said to him did him zero good. 

He is also Trumpy and watches FOX. I can only have so much influence. Especially as a furrener.