Well this is certainly going to do wonders for the world economy at the moment
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And so would yet another major outbreak of covid.
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My teevee talker just said the omicron vaccine will be out in a couple of days.
Iām going to be first in line!
Edit:
Maybe this yearās flu vaccine at the same time.
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Amen. Me too! None too soon.
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āThe nearly one-year decline from 2020 to 76.1 years marked the largest two-year drop in life expectancy at birth in close to a century, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found.
Disparity in life expectancy between men and women also widened last year to the highest in over two decades, with men now expected to live 73.2 years, nearly six fewer years than women.ā
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Thatās good for the pension fund industry. 
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But but but the updated vaccine has only been tested on mice.
Does that mean those of us lining up are the trial subjects?
Weāre in but I can see my local Facebook groups now. Itās going to be a hard sell.
We wonāt be doing any Christmas stuff but we have to work a large indoor trade show set up in January so we may wait until December for the shot. We did just get the 4th shot in July so I think weāre good for a bit.
Weāll get it sooner if things start to get ugly.
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Iād love to have got that but I got the Jahnssen one and when I was eligible for the āboosterā (by which stage the damn thing didnāt work - seven months later) was the day I started showing symptoms. I thought it was just the vaccine but it didnāt go away and it was a real fucker of a dose over Christmas. Not bad in the acute sense, but it lingered. I couldnāt walk the dog for a month or talk without coughing for six weeks. My watch shows a gradual upward curve in the last few months but Iām still ābelow averageā it tells me. I walk, cycle to work, and run, and do yoga and shit.
My next āboosterā became available last week so I took it straight away rather than wait. I thought I had to jump at it as I canāt afford to gamble.
ETA the recent upward curve has me hopeful but I felt for most of this year that I now have a āpre-existing conditionā caused solely by Covid which was depressing/worrying.
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Sorry to hear. Choosing whether to wait is a difficult decision. There were no guarantees this would be available when it now looks like it might be.
Upping your protection is always a good thing.
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I hate to be that guy, but things are already ugly and will get much worse with the kids back in school. The dashboard numbers are pretty useless these days, as testing has fallen of a cliff. I will be getting it as soon as I can.
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Yeah sorry it was TMI but I just wanted to describe why someone wouldnāt be getting this. I finally feel like Iām actually vaccinated (the Christmas round of getting sick here apparently gave no immunity and I have no idea what being vaccinated for the first time effectively does when you are already asymptomatically infected) after all that. Next time out Iāll get the good stuff!
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It wasnāt. At all. Thanks.
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Does that go for the hospitalization rate as well? Iāve assumed that the overall infection rate has been extremely unreliable for some time now, but are hospitals still required to report serious cases?
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Pfizer and Moderna - over 12 & 18 respectively.
ā * The new boosters are expected to roll out to the public after Labor Day weekend.ā
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Itās a reportable illness, so yes, but I wonāt put it past certain political actors to be screwing with the data. They are kinda known to do so.
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And thatās despite the worst maternal death rate in the industrialized world.
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