I feel the same way
Can I move to Canada or New Zealand, where the leaders make sense even if I don’t agree with them?
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Carlisle United’s league opener with Cambridge will now be played behind closed doors after a pilot event for the return of fans was cancelled.
It was originally intended that home fans could watch Saturday’s game at the Abbey Stadium as a test event for the safe return to supporters to league grounds.
Cambridge, though, said they have shelved the plan after last night’s new Government guidance over Covid-19, and after consultation with health authorities.
Good.
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Since transverse myelitis is an immune dysregulation problem associated with a number of viral illnesses, measles most commonly but there are others, the possibility of it being vaccine related is not small. That is as opposed to having a heart attack or some such “normal” malady. When a rare complication that is known to be associated with viral infections occurs in a trial like this, you have to assume vaccine association until proven otherwise, This would be why everyone talking timeframe always adds an “if everything goes perfectly” caveat. And things very rarely go perfectly.
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6-0…
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International Flights Return to Philly
Philly to be Vaccine Transport Nexus
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So much this:
Any nonchalance about the potential for loss of life due to reopening underscores what we already knew about the restaurant industry: it’s an abusive, overextended, antiquated system rooted in slavery that survives by treating employees as disposable.
The couple of times I mentioned that we haven’t gotten restaurant food since March, the reaction from family or coworkers has been this really annoying, holier than thou, “well, we’re doing our part to support the local economy…”
It just seems off to boast about supporting low-wage jobs, mainly factory farms, and meat processing plants that are infection clusters.
I like the authors approach to truly supporting restaurant workers.
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Yep. But that also makes me wonder how much you can really ever hope to accelerate any vaccine testing timeframe when some types of virus-associated complications can take many months or even years to manifest themselves. When you’re up against a pandemic that’s killing hundreds of thousands of people then at a certain point that becomes a risk worth taking. What makes this so worrisome is that, in the past, when a vaccine was rolled out and then later shown to have problems it would usually only affect a certain cohort of the population before being recalled. In this case they’re aiming for near universal uptake of the vaccine, so if any long-term adverse reactions were to be discovered down the line it would be too late to do anything about it.
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It is always risk/benefit analysis, but with this thing not only do we not know the risks of the vaccine (of course) but we cannot really assess the long term risks of the disease. We can guess, but 9 months is not “long term” and the persistent effects of relatively mild infections skew the analysis in a way we just cannot yet compute.
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This is great news. They were ticking back up again last week - good numbers.
Philadelphia is averaging just 66 new cases/day, down 51% from a week ago. That’s out of about 2,450 daily tests. The 7-day average positivity rate dropped to 2.7%, two full points lower than a week ago when the Temple outbreak spiked the city’s metrics. Philly has recorded 34.9k cases out of 344k residents tested. [phila.gov]
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It’s funny, because it’s true. 
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Today we remember when 3000 Americans dying was an unthinkable national tragedy, instead of just a weekend.
Also, because I am filled with seething hatred.
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As long as rich people are happy and stonks are up, Republicans don’t give a fuck. “We” tried to tell them…
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I had to look it up - that’s just over 20% (based on 1.6 million in Philly).
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Back again to my definition of “essential employees.” People who we don’t really care if they die. Just don’t make it too inconvenient, eh?
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