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[FrozenLVFan]

I don't quite see what this debate about socialism has to do with coronavirus.

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[FrozenLVFan]

Army general apologizes for ‘miscommunication’ over vaccine shipments

[Luuuc]

When people blame Trump for the severity of Covid in the US they should specify which one
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/ivanka-trump-cdc-guidelines

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[FrozenLVFan]

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When you want COVID info, there's only one place to go...

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/conspiracy-theorists-share-schematic-for-5g-chip-they-claim-is-implanted-in-covid-19-vaccines-only-its-actually-for-the-boss-metal-zone

[FrozenLVFan]

I've read several articles today quoting various "experts" who are proposing the second round of vaccines be delayed so more people can get their first injections, citing logistical delays and distribution bottlenecks OR that we cut the amount of the doses in half.

WTF? I am so angry at this that I could spit nails. We've got good studies from 2 manufacturers showing their vaccines are 94-95% effective without significant side effects if 2 doses are given a month apart, and now a bunch of flipping morons want to change dose amounts and schedules out of convenience with zero knowledge of how this will alter the effectiveness of the vaccine. Just a glaring example of the politicization and lack of regard for science that we've been inflicted with during this whole pandemic.

[StevenHW]

https://www.insideedition.com/lisa-guerrero-interviews-anti-mask-protest-organizer-who-believes-wearing-masks-is-a-satanic-ritual

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[FrozenLVFan]

In VT, a conspiracy theorist with weapons, body armor, ammo, and anti-govt and anti-vax notes was arrested by the ATF.

[tfan]

There is an encouraging study that find people with immunity to COVID-19 8 months after they contracted it. There have been people who got COVID-19, and then got it again, but I just heard a guy say in an interview that that was not common. And this article says:

[tfan]

At 24:23 a doctor with some expertise in the field discusses the idea of giving one vaccine dose and waiting a lot longer for the second, in order to maximize coverage of the population immediately. He refers to the UK's approach as a "pretty extreme decision".

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[tfan]

This made the TV news in the San Francisco Bay Area. A hospital staff member decided to spread some Christmas cheer in a hospital on Christmas day and it turned into a super spreader event. She was pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic and was in a Christmas tree costume that was air-inflated and had a battery-operated fan inside which blew air out. One woman thinks she was infected from the costumed-employee despite being six feet away during a brief contact, and wearing a mask and face shield. Which sounds like an "aerosol" (fine particles that float in the air for a while) event.

[tfan]

Most Covid-19 survivors 'still suffer symptoms 6 months later' new study shows

[tfan]

A Troubling New Pattern Among the Coronavirus Variants

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How Coronavirus Affects the Brain

[jammerbirdi]

While Great Britain announced that it’s nowhere near lifting restrictions that are just now beginning to show some progress, we do not even hear that kind of language in California. It’s as if we’re talking about two different things entirely. The anchors on KTLA, the city’s most staid and reliable news resource, we’re saying things like ‘thank god’ at the following news from Sacramento.

I think this piece, as you get deeper into it, does do a great but subtle and unemotional job of listing some of the maddening inconsistencies in much of what the state of California has been doing. But, IMO, nothing tops this latest change in plans which is sheer lunacy.

There is something shifting, quite dramatically, but very hit and miss in terms of what and where, that suggests the political winds themselves are changing in how some state and local governments and even the Biden administration want to position themselves on the virus vs the economic impact of shutdowns.

This is madness. It’s not science. It’s politics. LA Times tonight:

Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected on Monday to lift regional coronavirus stay-at-home orders across California, a change that could allow restaurants and gyms in many counties to reopen outdoor dining and services.

All counties will return to the colored tier system that assigns local risk levels based on case numbers and rates of positive test results for COVID-19 infections, according to sources briefed on the plan by the governor’s office.

Most counties will go into the “widespread” risk tier, which permits hair salons to offer limited services indoors but restricts many other nonessential indoor business operations. The change is expected to take effect immediately after Newsom’s announcement on Monday.

It’s far from clear whether the decision will lead to easing of stay-at-home rules in Los Angeles County, which has become a national epicenter of the coronavirus with hospitals overwhelmed by patients. In less than one month, more than 5,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the county alone.

Still, the outdoor dining ban has been highly controversial, with some elected officials and the restaurant industry fighting in court and out to overturn it. Officials in some other Southern California counties have been even more critical of the state-imposed rules and had urged Newsom to give them more local control.

The governor announced the regional stay-at-home orders on Dec. 3 in an effort to reduce the strain on hospitals as case numbers surged. While state data show hospital systems in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley remain strained, the Newsom administration told officials Sunday that models project ICU capacity in those areas will exceed 15% — a threshold for lifting the regional shutdowns — over the next four weeks.

State officials never released the full details of how the four-week ICU calculations were being made. And while services were allowed to reopen in the Sacramento region on Dec. 13, daily reports of available intensive care beds never approached the 15% threshold deemed necessary to cancel the restrictions. ICU capacity in the Northern California region, which is not under the stay-at-home order, has continued to remain above the state’s shutdown benchmarks.

The Bay Area, which reported 23.4% capacity, had remained under the stay-at-home order due to a four-week projection of a decrease in hospital bed availability. Southern California showed no ICU capacity and the San Joaquin Valley region reported 1.3%, according to state data as of Saturday.

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

[jammerbirdi]

Not good news from the WAPO: Coronavirus variant sweeps South Africa, exhibiting ‘terrifying’ dominance

CAPE TOWN — South Africa was already one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus, but in the six weeks since a new, more transmissible variant was first publicly announced here, an enormous spike of new cases and deaths has far surpassed previous waves of the pandemic.


The variant is thought to have emerged in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province but has now been found in at least 32 countries, sparking fears its unmitigated spread to new parts of the world could usher in new waves of contagion just as the long slog of global vaccine rollout gets underway.


The variant identified in South Africa is not yet proved to be more lethal than others, including similarly highly transmissible variants recently detected in Britain and Brazil, but mutations that make it around 50 percent easier to catch have allowed it to stage a takeover of what was already out-of-control community transmission in South Africa.


“Of the cases we’ve [DNA-]sequenced in South Africa, more than 90 percent are the new variant,” said Richard Lessells, a lead researcher at the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform, or KRISP, which has played a pathbreaking role in identifying coronavirus variants in South Africa and elsewhere.

“It’s amazing and terrifying how quickly it came to dominate, and it does feel like we’re in the beginning stages of watching this variant, and the other new ones, become more dominant around the world.”

South African studies have also documented dozens of instances of people who contracted earlier strains of the coronavirus being infected with the new variant, suggesting that those who had contracted mild cases or otherwise had low antibody counts might be prone to reinfection.

In South Africa, despite a return to a stricter lockdown and curfew, many hospitals are overwhelmed, especially in Eastern Cape, which has become the epicenter of the new variant’s spread. Harrowing statistics released this week by the South African Medical Research Council show excess mortality numbers shooting nearly straight up in all of the country’s nine provinces.



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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

[jammerbirdi]

Some things happening I don’t understand. Why is New York not experiencing, maybe not an identical cataclysm like they did last spring, but something commensurate with it? I mean, what has changed that would slow severe illnesses and deaths down to this extent at a time when there are so many new more transmissible variants on the rise? This is a mystery to me.

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Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17

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[Queenie]

It would make Cuomo look good, which he's very concerned about.

Anecdotally, New Yorkers seem to be good at wearing masks, and at staying the hell away from people who aren't. But, I mean. We're not exactly known for being warm and cuddly. And the wail of ambulances isn't as constant as it was last year (last spring, they were going by so much that I heard the sirens all the time but was no longer sure whether they were real or just in my head).

I mean, there's also the possibility that the more contagious variants haven't gotten here. It's a small possibility, I admit. Or you can insert your own jokes about why even a virus can't survive New York City.

Or the other shoe's gonna drop. I don't know. I don't have data. I only have what I see and hear.

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[tfan]

Virus variant from South Africa detected in US for 1st time

[jammerbirdi]