Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Ruairi77]

not sure if this goes here or in the general US politics thread.
NYPD and FD organized a big antivax protest across the Brooklyn bridge today.
It's the same around Boston. My nephew is a firefighter, refuses to get vaccinated.
This stuff is being sponged up by the far right. It's dangerous.
Also, I'm not vouching for that twitter a/c. It seems to lean a bit far the other way but does provide on hand coverage in this case.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 51 deaths were announced today, nothing to compare from yesterday but it is up 14 on last Monday. 25 deaths were in English hospitals, again nothing to compare from yesterday but it is up 14 on last week. The 7 day rolling average rises to 117.29

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 38 deaths were announced today, down 34 on yesterday and down 7 on last Monday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 134.57

For the 60 day cut off, 42 deaths were announced today, down 39 on yesterday’s late revealed total of 81 and down 6 on last Monday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 163.57

 

[wm02]

not sure if this goes here or in the general US politics thread.
NYPD and FD organized a big antivax protest across the Brooklyn bridge today.
It's the same around Boston. My nephew is a firefighter, refuses to get vaccinated.
This stuff is being sponged up by the far right. It's dangerous.
Also, I'm not vouching for that twitter a/c. It seems to lean a bit far the other way but does provide on hand coverage in this case.

What an absolute disaster de Blasio is.
Easily the worst mayor of NYC in my lifetime

 

[TN Toffee]

With respect, it doesn’t really help having different rules in differing countries, when I’m in England I still wear a mask as it’s my personal choice but ( and I’m not having a pop here) a lot of non welsh people are coming into wales and not wearing them, I understand they argue that they don’t need to wear them when not in wales but it’s still a rule here.

Similar issues have plagued the US with our differing patchwork of state responses. Obviously mask rules still differ from state to state, but last year, with different levels of "lockdown" you literally had situations where all businesses on one side of a street were open with no restrictions and all the businesses 50 feet across the road were forced to close because they happened to be on different sides of an invisible state line.

 

[Billy Dean]

So does that say that previous infection is the best?

 

[cooperman]

So does that say that previous infection is the best?

Better than astraZ, but phizer looking very good on that data

 

[cooperman]

I've had 2x astra z doses, plus two actual infections 18 months apart. I'm hoping that's me in the infinitesimals on that chart

 

[JimmyJeffers]

With respect, it doesn’t really help having different rules in differing countries, when I’m in England I still wear a mask as it’s my personal choice but ( and I’m not having a pop here) a lot of non welsh people are coming into wales and not wearing them, I understand they argue that they don’t need to wear them when not in wales but it’s still a rule here.

I was told by a friend in Greenwich that it’s about 50/50 on the tube there for mask wearing. Not sure how true that is across the board. Honestly don’t know how people can’t just wear a mask in public transport. Not the hardest thing to do.
I was on a train the other day and when the conductor left the lad in front not only pulled down his mask but purposely pulled down his girlfriends also. Not sure if people think they’re rebelling or something. Was tempted to have a word with him but he looked pretty hard so I just festered then posted about it on here. I win I reckon.

 

[TN Toffee]

I was told by a friend in Greenwich that it’s about 50/50 on the tube there for mask wearing. Not sure how true that is across the board. Honestly don’t know how people can’t just wear a mask in public transport. Not the hardest thing to do.
I was on a train the other day and when the conductor left the lad in front not only pulled down his mask but purposely pulled down his girlfriends also. Not sure if people think they’re rebelling or something. Was tempted to have a word with him but he looked pretty hard so I just festered then posted about it on here. I win I reckon.

 

[Deckard2049]

Coronavirus ‘Plan B’ would cost UK up to £18B, documents warn

Government assessments seen by POLITICO show internal thinking on mandatory mask wearing, COVID certification and work-from-home guidance.

www.politico.eu

 

[summerisle]

Haven't heard about this new variant.

 

[cronullasharks]

I was told by a friend in Greenwich that it’s about 50/50 on the tube there for mask wearing. Not sure how true that is across the board. Honestly don’t know how people can’t just wear a mask in public transport. Not the hardest thing to do.
I was on a train the other day and when the conductor left the lad in front not only pulled down his mask but purposely pulled down his girlfriends also. Not sure if people think they’re rebelling or something. Was tempted to have a word with him but he looked pretty hard so I just festered then posted about it on here. I win I reckon.

If you'd have yelled I'm a zulu at him he would have gone to water

 

[cronullasharks]

Haven't heard about this new variant.

Judy Smith with a no nonsense waggle of the finger

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Why the trial data supports covid-19 vaccines for children

With vaccines for 5-to-11-year-olds likely to be approved, data suggests that safe rollout could affect the overall course of the pandemic in the US.

www.technologyreview.com

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Facebook, YouTube take down Bolsonaro video over false vaccine claim

Facebook and YouTube have removed from their platforms a video by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in which the far-right leader made a false claim that COVID-19 vaccines were linked with developing AIDS.

www.reuters.com

Facebook (FB.O)and YouTube have removed from their platforms a video by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in which the far-right leader made a false claim that COVID-19 vaccines were linked with developing AIDS.

Danger to humanity this one. Needs locked up for everyone’s sake