Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[TN Toffee]

There’s a big disparity in the US between red and blue states in terms of vaccination take up. I think in the states were vaccine take up has been low, it’s a lot more prevalent and a lot more dangerous.

The overall figures wouldn’t pick that dynamic up necessarily (fallacy of composition).

I imagine there’s also a “birds of a feather” element to it as well. Parents who don’t believe in vaccines (or COVID altogether) are more likely to run in the same social circles. So you’ve got lots of entirely unvaccinated families allowing the virus to spread completely unchecked because they continue to interact socially as if it’s 2019, full of play dates and dinners in packed restaurants. Social distancing simply isn’t a concept you can make a 5 year old adhere to.

Also probably doesn’t help that most red state governors have effectively outlawed masks in schools, and removed most options for remote learning, so then you’ve got these disease vectors going to school each day and likely infecting even the children whose families are taking precautions.

 

[degsy]

Obviously the US population is much larger than in 1918 but still a grim milestone given how our healthcare has advanced

US population in 1919 was 110 Million

 

[carolinablue232]

Not a surprise that this

leads to this


Tucker Carlson initially was one of the few Fox anchors to take Covid seriously, don‘t know what happened but he changed tack and (despite being likely vaccinated himself) has promoted a lot of disinformation since.

He says what his followers want to hear because that’s how he makes his money. Same as the rest of them.

 

[LinekersLegs]

My boys preschool class has been closed. All of us have been told to quarantine our kids for 14 days. One kid has covid and apparently is in bad shape. They are all between 3 and 4 years of age.

The kid is one of my boys best friends the teachers say they are inseparable in class.

Now we are keeping a close eye on him while praying his little friend pulls through.

Three other toddlers around the area have also been hospitalized because of COVID-19.

Just so many dishonest and selfish folk around here.

Oh on a side note: That idiot who thinks because Moderna hasn't had a public product they can't be trusted. Go do your research when you see this with your alternate account. Moderna have six products awaiting permission after successfully passing trials.

They are a lab startup. Which is quite common nowadays. Not all lab based companies are dishonest like that crackpot lady in silicon Valley was. Her dishonesty was claims about a machine not an actual solution to anything significant.

Moderna's lab is one of the most advanced in America and they had the MRA virus on hand for testing for other things.

Wishing all the best to your son and his friend Steve x

 

[TN Toffee]

He says what his followers want to hear because that’s how he makes his money. Same as the rest of them.

Exactly. There’s a particular cretin based in Nashville who has made a fortune the past few years doing precisely this. In college he worked Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign. He really rose to prominence with a college football radio show and running a college football blog. Somewhere along the way he figured out that (obviously) SEC football fans tend to be pretty Trumpy, and has since started to lean all of his content that way, to the point that if you went to the website now you’d just think it was Fox News with a few sports sprinkled in. This past summer he got Rush Limbaugh’s old radio show.

I wonder how many of those listeners realize that this guy they’re taking anti-vax, anti-mask advice from, often with deadly consequences, is actually nothing more than a character he’s playing for a payday.

 

[LinekersLegs]

In Early October it will be 6 months since my one and only JNJ shot so interested to see if this data means a booster is authorized. However the significant differences between results in US and elsewhere likely to lead to some questions.

Johnson & Johnson says additional dose boosts Covid vaccine efficacy

Johnson & Johnson said a large, global study showed its Covid-19 vaccine is more effective when given as a two-dose regimen, and that other data indicate the efficacy of the vaccine does not wane.

www.statnews.com

Giving two doses instead of one increased antibody levels four- to six-fold. But the increase in antibody levels was much higher when the doses were spaced much further, and a booster was given at six months, J&J said. At six months, antibody levels increased nine-fold after one week and were 12-fold higher four weeks after the booster.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Interesting thread - tl/dr the delta wave is much less bad than previous waves, but it's still not *great*

 

[Billy Dean]

Imagine getting into such a fume about a little face mask

Petrol station worker killed in Germany after face mask row

Concerns raised over radicalisation of anti-lockdown movement as man held over fatal shooting

www.theguardian.com

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Imagine getting into such a fume about a little face mask

Petrol station worker killed in Germany after face mask row

Concerns raised over radicalisation of anti-lockdown movement as man held over fatal shooting

www.theguardian.com

And to come back two hours later - don’t know what rules are there but presume that would class as “premeditated“ rather than “crime of passion” so much longer prison time.

Not going to bring the poor 20 year old back though, so senseless

 

[grandjoeblue]

Crazy scenes in Australia. Their totalitarian approach with the forever lockdown now seems to be facing some resistance.

 

[roydo]

Crazy scenes in Australia. Their totalitarian approach with the forever lockdown now seems to be facing some resistance.

Meanwhile, cases are collapsing down here. Like 75% down. Even Bristol, which for weeks was a ghastly dark purple on the Covid map, shows signs of light blue and even green in places.

 

[mill]

Meanwhile, cases are collapsing down here. Like 75% down. Even Bristol, which for weeks was a ghastly dark purple on the Covid map, shows signs of light blue and even green in places.

Hopefully it’s starting to burn itself out!

 

[roydo]

Hopefully it’s starting to burn itself out!

Not gonna lie, I was astonished.

 

[SteveSC]

Are you in the UK or US?

My daughters class (ages 10) has had 4 kids go down with Covid this weekend. The school say carry on as normal. Not even requiring kids to be tested or anything. I think thats wrong attitude to have currently.

US.

California to be exact.