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Not painful, but certainly intense. A little brain tickle, some watering eyes and on with my day.
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The industrial group that makes the syringe that will be used for the Covid-19 vaccine believes it will be difficult to meet government requests. They say that the increase in demand in the world and limitations of the national production chain should make syringes more expensive.
But for some people this is not a problem. According to an opinion poll, 22% of Brazilians do not want to be vaccinated against covid-19.
The number of people who do not want to be vaccinated against Covid-19 grows, and most of the interviewees discard the Coronavac vaccine, which despite being developed by a Chinese company, is being manufactured in São Paulo.
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I’m glad to hear you’re in the clear.
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The #@$k, man.
New employee at an org my wife volunteers with has it, as well as a step-sister-in-law who lives in town. Both are sick, not sure how bad at the moment.
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Congratulations. Very happy for you.
That’s the only way they can accurately implant the nanochip in the prefrontal cortex.
I felt as if I was about to have a nosebleed for about 5 minutes after. No big deal.
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As i was testing negative, we had another nurse and provider test positive. Here, like elsewhere, HCW’s are dropping like flies. Put on your damn masks! It did not have to be this way!
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Exercise for the student: design a proposal for a monument at the National Mall… 
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I know it’s not a coronavirus (that’s the common cold sometimes!) But seasonal flu is down around the world. There is no flu reported in Ireland this year. Yet. Christmas is coming…
Figures from the same time last year show that there were two deaths and 107 new confirmed cases of the flu reported during the same week in 2019, with 143 patients in hospital with the illness on 8 December.
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There is no flu reported in Ireland this year
It appears to be similar in Canada, but the numbers are not quite zero. It’s going to make for an interesting case study for comparative epidemiology.
To date, there is no evidence of community circulation of influenza; however, influenza testing continues at elevated levels. Seven laboratory detections of influenza were reported in week 49.
Flu vaccination in Ontario hit a snag, though. Between 4 and 5 times more people showed up in the first month of availability. The provincial Conservative government, operating at their usual tragic level of incompetence, had failed to anticipate demand and the 5.1 million doses were gone pretty quickly in this province of 13.6 million people. Various reasons meant I couldn’t get my dose in that first week of November, then only managed to get the vaccine last week as supplies trickled in.
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Yes, but not on the Mall.
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Influenza numbers are also quite low in Finland, at least so far.
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Get your hate on.
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On? It hasn’t been off for quite some time now.
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Our mitigation measures are not enough to squash COVID but more than adequate for the ordinary flu?
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Potentially says something about the contagiousness of covid, no?
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Thought:
Islamic Fundamentalist are killing 3000 Americans a day…but I’m just burned out by all these security measures, so fuck it.
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Wonder if our generation will keep wearing masks every winter even after we don’t “have to” anymore
I’ve also wondered about the suburbanization of America in the mid-twentieth century—I never saw anybody attribute it to memories of 1918, but it seems pretty obvious now—that could happen again
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