Well, this sucks. Lots of confounding variables and very preliminary data, but taken with other early info, I’m not liking this direction.
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Got mine in October, and my COVID booster is scheduled for Tuesday.
This was my first “megadose” flu shot. I don’t know if it really makes a big difference or not; I haven’t caught the flu in the 20+ years I’ve been getting vaccinated, but I’m not an immunologist, nor do I play one on TV, and I haven’t stayed at a Holiday Inn Express lately, so I take the advice of people who (theoretically, at least) know what they’re talking about.
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So I manage the website for a local charitable organization and provide tech support for a few of the members. Been doing it for years for free. They made me an honorary member or something a while ago so I get invited to all the parties. I’ve never gone to any because those things are just not my cup of tea.
The average age of members are like 110. I’ve been invited by a couple members to the Christmas party.
Nope, not goin’. Our county is at 25% positivity and less than 50% vaccinated and there is a brandon flag on every corner.
I think the next person that asks is going to get an earful about the safety of the community.
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ETA: This has been an ongoing problem (no surprise there), but it gets little coverage until a situation like the one above.
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Here’s your wtf moment number 4,347.
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If I had to guess where the omicron variant would pop up next, this would be my best guess
“We just walked through, they have not done a bag check, they have not checked anything. They’ve not checked COVID passes and at the minute they have not even checked our ticket. They just let everyone run through the entrance,” Neneh says worriedly.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been mocked after she criticized COVID-19 restrictions and said that “not a single school has closed” because of cancer.
“Every single year more than 600,000 people in the US die from cancer. The country has never once shut down. Not a single school has closed. And every year, over 600,000 people, of all ages and all races will continue to die from cancer,” Greene wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
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My kid and her husband flew out to LA to see one of those shows. They both take masking and vaccine very seriously but they also have no concept of there will be other concerts.
I just asked her about this, she says they checked vaccine cards and searched her purse. She tells me she knows a lot of people that were there and they were all searched and checked vaccine cards. She said everyone she knows at different gates said they very strict.
Like I said, she’s very diligent about mask wearing, she said she felt very safe and most people were double masked like her.
Not saying that video didn’t happen but she doesn’t think it was wide spread if that’s what really happened.
I tried talking her out of going but kids, whatcha gonna do? And when I say kids I mean 30s and 40s.
They’re also both working from home and are staying in for 10 days and getting tested before seeing anyone in person.
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“Celebrating my 29th birthday for the 15th time”
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proof that she’s a devil?
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HPV causes cancer, and is infectious, but in this case, it’s not the cancer that is infectious…
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Nice little charts explaining death rates (and Chile seems to ndicate that boosters are important).
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They’re warning americans to expect more racial profiling than usual because of the new travel bans
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COVID: How Europe’s prisons have fared in the pandemic
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“Never send to know for whom the bell tolls,” eh. Seems the leading theory on the omicron variant is that it evolved in an un-treated HIV patient.
In other words, while scientists can tell that this variant evolved from a strain that was circulating in mid-2020, in the intervening months there has been no trace of all the intermediate versions that scientists would have expected to find as it morphed into its current form.
(You’ve got to love the way NPR has coloured the picture of the virus.)
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Clearly anything can happen at this point and this trend may not hold as more data comes in, but, so far, there is some room for optimism on this variant when it comes to the death toll:
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