Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Sagat]

What makes you think the vaccine didn't work for him? They were never intended to completely prevent a person from catching COVID, but to prevent severe illness, and possible hospitalization and death. Given the severity of his symptoms, it's entirely likely the vaccine saved his life.

Unfortunately, you very well may. There's stories on the news here every single night in the US right now of people who thought they knew better than doctors and scientists, and didn't come to realize just how foolish that mindset was until it was far too late.

Difference is I'm not taking stupid risks and trying to act out in spite of everything. I'll be fine like I have been for the past 18 months.

 

[LinekersLegs]

‘Well that evidence is conflicting with other studies, produced in this country and endorsed, that vaccinated people can carry and transmit the virus at the same rates as unvaccinated.’

The point is that there is a flaw in this argument/logic.

The likelihood of someone passing the virus onto someone else having *not* contracted it in the first place is minuscule.

The vaccine reduces the likelihood that you will contract in the first place.

So vaccinated people are much less likely to pass it onto other people purely on the basis that they are less likely to contract it in the first place.

Not sure if you saw it Mill but thought you ‘d be interested in this this tweet thread/paper with a good explanation on all the ways vaccination likely reduces transmission

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[mill]

Not sure if you saw it Mill but thought you ‘d be interested in this this tweet thread/paper with a good explanation on all the ways vaccination likely reduces transmission

I’d not actually. Thanks for this.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Does anyone have any knowledge of the requirements when you travel abroad for a day? As the wife hasn't seen the family for almost two years now, we're thinking of having a day, maybe two, in Vienna and they'll drive down. Obviously the current requirement is to have a test done two days before you return to the UK, but if we're only going for a day or two, would that mean having a test done in the UK before we go?

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[grandjoeblue]

Does anyone have any knowledge of the requirements when you travel abroad for a day? As the wife hasn't seen the family for almost two years now, we're thinking of having a day, maybe two, in Vienna and they'll drive down. Obviously the current requirement is to have a test done two days before you return to the UK, but if we're only going for a day or two, would that mean having a test done in the UK before we go?

You're definitely allowed to do the return test in the UK if the trips less than 72 hours long I believe.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Likely going to further strain nearby states resources too

 

[arminisgod]

Cases down by 12k compared to last Thursday

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You're definitely allowed to do the return test in the UK if the trips less than 72 hours long I believe.

If it's 2 days before you "return" though, that would mean either the day of departure or the day before, no? Wouldn't that kinda defeat the point of the test in the first place?

 

[LinekersLegs]

Color me skeptical that “I’d like a shot of Comirnaty to boost my Vaxzevria” is going to be a phrase used by anything approaching double figures in the whole of Canada.

 

[tsubaki]

Color me skeptical that “I’d like a shot of Comirnaty to boost my Vaxzevria” is going to be a phrase used by anything approaching double figures in the whole of Canada.

disappointing noone called their vaccine "Pentium" tbh; at least I'd have laughed

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Color me skeptical that “I’d like a shot of Comirnaty to boost my Vaxzevria” is going to be a phrase used by anything approaching double figures in the whole of Canada.

Does it give you big testicles though?