Oh great, cheery news:
12 Likes
Not even halfway through, I was wondering if the author has ever met Americans. This isnât new, because folks have been acting out since the beginning of the pandemic.
Culture dictates how people behave.
Really? Too bad we canât put conscience and common sense way ahead of that. Donât blame Omicron, this is just the latest in a long line of symptoms caused by a disease called corporate greed. The pressure from employers pushing people to do things that not only put their own health at risk, but also the health of others, is a major factor in this.
The other immoral and inappropriate actions came from disease deniers, grifters, and scofflaws. Now theyâve successfully muted public health warnings and removed restrictions so that they can pretend there is no pandemic (to profit from misinformation and quackery). The changing rules also led some to believe that the risk of contracting the virus was low. Look at how and why TPTB reduced the number of days involved in self-quarantine. Based on the reaction to masks as an inconvenience, itâs not much of a stretch to figure out some folks wonât quarantine at all. 
14 Likes
15 Likes
16 Likes
10 Likes
11 Likes
Not that this is shocking or anything, but it really needs more press:
It never was a viable option. Herd immunity (sans immunization) has never been effective. Ever. And is not with this one either.
26 Likes
9 Likes
I remember several politicians promoting this idea during the year 2020. All of them were in one way or another affiliated with the right/far right and until recently they made fun of vaccines.
I just had the 4th dose of covid vaccine. I dodged the vĂrus like Neo in Matrix and I expect to keep this score.
There were some elderlies taking the shots this morning too and they seemed happy and Grateful because they survived the pandemic.
Thanks Heavens the antivaxx fad isnât popular here.
15 Likes
Seen by a friend on a King Soopers cashier terminal. His salient point: âIt is one thing to give employees the option to not wear a mask. It is very much another to tell them they may not when interacting with customers.â
16 Likes
thatâs confusing. the summaries it the article donât seem to track with the description of the study in the article:
Researchers then tracked SARS-CoV-2 infections among households by taking nasal swabs of participants every two weeks and filling out weekly surveys. If a participant developed symptoms of Covid-19, more nasal swabs and blood samples were taken, a statement explains. The team found that household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was lower in homes with individuals with food allergies, according to the study.
risk of transmission within a household doesnât seem like it would track with individual risk in the world necessarily.
for one, it seems theyâd have to have a control disease like the flu or something to compare against. like maybe families with a person who have food allergies are just more cautious about hygiene. maybe they donât eat together at restaurants as much. etc.
especially because it sounds like theyâre saying the household as a whole was protected, not just the individual with allergies. weird
7 Likes
Does the general condition or the specific allergic reaction provide the partial immunity? In other words, should I be prescribing to myself ragweed?
8 Likes
In my case I should eat more shrimps.
10 Likes
Sigh, so many things I have to do in order to stay healthy. Pass the crab legs!
12 Likes
This new vaccine uses a more traditional strategy, a strategy thatâs been used for decades to make other vaccines. Hereâs Dr. Gregory Glenn from Novavax.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
GREGORY GLENN: What makes us different is that we actually make the spike protein itself as an almost perfect replica of what youâd find on the surface of the virus.
STEIN: And inject that factory-made protein into the body, along with a substance designed to rev up the immune system even more, known as an adjuvant. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine uses a virus to carry a viral protein into the body, but thatâs been restricted because of a blood clotting problem. Yesterday, the FDA released an analysis of Novavax research that concluded that vaccine looks like itâs about 90% effective at preventing mild, moderate and severe COVID-19.
11 Likes
Today, the number of new cases in Japan fell below 10,000 for the first time since early January. Meanwhile, 59.8% of the population is now fully boosted, and several municipalities are rolling out their fourth round of vaccines for at-risk people.
12 Likes
14 Likes
12 Likes
10 Likes
