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Txt book, resorting to the default position of calling people a Tory lol
Disaster Vaccine 1 - Comrade Dave 0.
tsubaki
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You’d still be awfully reliant on people doing the right thing there though - even if you could get regular tests, one imagines the last person / people in the household who’d get tested would be the people who go out to work.
I think you’d get much better results from people actually attending the household, giving advice and speaking to all parties. Obviously if the household had its own testing kits then that would be great though.
Beginning to get some home testing kits here in California - still too pricey to use regularly but presumably the cost will come down as volume picks up and production processes streamlined.
At-home COVID-19 test arrives in the Bay Area
Grabbing a drink with friends? Take this COVID-19 test first, in the comfort of your home.
www.mercurynews.com
davek
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A combination of lockdowns + vaccine + better weather + a less densely populated nation than here will have a huge effect on lowering infection there.Obviously no vaccine is 100% but large portions of the US have both a) relatively high case numbers b) are a long way from UK lockdown restrictions and have been for months (eg Florida or Texas) yet vaccine breakthrough seems very rare, especially one that leads to severe illness/death.
As of April 20, 2021, more than 87 million people in the United States had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. During the same time, CDC received reports of vaccine breakthrough infections from 45 U.S. states and territories.COVID-19 Breakthrough Case Investigations and Reporting | CDC
Information and resources to help public health departments and laboratories investigate and report COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases.www.cdc.gov
Total number of vaccine breakthrough infections reported to CDC
*167 (34%) of the 498 hospitalizations were reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19.
Total number of vaccine breakthrough infections reported to CDC 7,157 Females 4,580 (64%) People aged ≥60 years 3,265 (46%) Asymptomatic infections 2,078 (31%) Hospitalizations* 498 (7%) Deaths† 88 (1%)
†11 (13%) of the 88 fatal cases were reported as asymptomatic or not related to COVID-19.
I think we need to be dialling down the claims for the vaccines and how much they will release us from this stranglehold. They certainly cant do the job themselves, and (as you can see on here) there's more than enough people determined to use any OTT claims for them to spin them as a panacea so they can do whatever they please and not remain disciplined.
The vaccines will help, but we are in our infancy with this and we need to have maximum caution. We certainly cant afford a full opening up of society and the economy...though that seems to be the route being taken on both sides of the Atlantic.
There's hope for the future based on the correct appliance of the science...then there's stupidity.
davek
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Because they are vaccinated and still in a lockdown mode for the most part.
davek
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If the cap fits...
He`s genuinely fuming that people are getting their lives back.
It`s bizarre and also quite disturbing in equal measure.
He`d be much happier, living in North Korea or his beloved CCP.
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davek
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davek
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^^^ These are two of the worst goads I've seen in 13 years of posting on GOT.
Take a bow.
These cuts seems incredibly shortsighted from a self interest point of view alone, even before the humanitarian aspects
We currently have 10 testing kits here, my daughter brought them home from work.
She didn't steal them, she was given them.
roydo
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There are lightweight and pretty non event safety proceedures in play now, and have been for a while now. The lab folk are testing and testing and then double checking data from around the country to evaluate what they reckoned/hoped would happen, is.
So far, so good. Lockdown ended ages ago, schools have been back for what, 6 or 8 weeks, (including Easter), zippo meaningful issues there, with millions of tests being done every day to keep tabs on infections, and types of infections.
grandjoeblue
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Beginning to get some home testing kits here in California - still too pricey to use regularly but presumably the cost will come down as volume picks up and production processes streamlined.
At-home COVID-19 test arrives in the Bay Area
Grabbing a drink with friends? Take this COVID-19 test first, in the comfort of your home.
Quite surprised they are not free for anyone who wants one in the USA. Basically nobody pays for tests in the UK. Only time you pay in the UK is for tests to go abroad I believe.
Highly doubt many people would pay here though, it might be a different mindset.
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