https://www.thelocal.de/20210218/vaccine-poor-germans-shunning-astrazeneca-jab
My bubbles are foaming (pun intended), because several of them are < 60, high risk group (including transplant recipients), high-contact people (some teachers, some parents, some medical professionals who are not prioritised). They would volunteer for the jab, instead, doses actually go to the bin.
Am I a bad person for laughing at the thought of a wee little man who is incredibly round?
I don’t take it personally.
6.2 cm BMI 28,000? Is he make of neutronium? Impending black hole? One would think there should be a “This is not possible” stop on the system, but I guess not.
Meanwhile, both Toronto’s and Mississauga’s top doctors are pleading with the right-wing government of “Day Late” Doug Ford to keep the lockdown in place. The main editorial in The Star was nothing short of scathing.
In an interesting N=1 data point, only 3 students were present today “in-person” for my child’s high school class, said child also not being one of them. Parental concern has spread, it seems. The school board reset its COVID tracker, but 20 of 296 schools are reporting COVID cases only 3 days into the re-opening.
That’s what I was thinking, but still… tiny little fat man…
I’m thinking he’s shaped like a pancake, maybe 10’ diameter. Sort of like one of those faces from Dr. Who that’s fallen on its side.
It is left as a problem for the student to calculate his girth (assume typical human tissue density)
ETA solution: about 470cm, or 185 inches of a waist
That, sir, is the kind of scut I would slough off on a resident or med student who has displeased me! (insert evil laugh here)
This is great news.
Also, this is:
From the NYT Morning Briefing this morning:
About one-third of members of the U.S. military have declined vaccine shots. When shots first became available to Ohio nursing-home workers, about 60 percent said no. Some N.B.A. stars are wary of appearing in public-services ads encouraging vaccination.
Nationwide, nearly half of Americans would refuse a shot if offered one immediately, polls suggest. Vaccination skepticism is even higher among Black and Hispanic people, white people without a college degree, registered Republicans and lower-income households.
I’m not super surprised at the skepticism among military members. After the Anthrax fiasco and the PB tablets debacle during the first Gulf War there’s be some hesitancy. Add to that the growth of radicalism and conservatism at the command level leads to a constant stream of disinformation.
Human pancake.
ETA: beat by @Ratel
