Not entirely news, at least when it comes to this thread, but I thought it was a useful summary of whatâs going on.
This also isnât exactly news to anyone here, but wow, do they lay it all out there.
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, David Michaels, Rick Bright and Michael T. Osterholm
The authors were members of President Bidenâs advisory board on Covid-19, which counseled him during the presidential transition period on how to respond to the pandemic.
âGiftâ articleâi.e., no paywall if you use this link:
As excited as some people are to receive the new bivalent booster, itâs best to maintain realistic expectations on its efficacy. Dr Walensky received her updated booster in late September, so itâs definitely not a panacea.
In poring over The Pandemic Diary âa magisterial work of hundreds of pages of text and photographsâwhat I quickly realized was that this was not my pandemic, especially in that first year, where Camilo showed an evolving streetscape of New Yorkers in poorer communities in the city, out and about in masks, trying to survive a plague as best they could. Meanwhile, many of us stayed home in the early months of Covid-19, ordering groceries and other essential online, while some decamped out of the cities all together. Of course, the âmany of usâ are the professional class who could opt out of the most dangerous circumstances over the past two and a half years, in the comfort that our class afforded. Camiloâs photographs are for me essentially a tale of two pandemics, in which social and economic class, along with race, are the dividing lines.
Continuing the theme of ongoing astonishment in this thread at the apparent delusion of an entire society as to the state of the pandemicâŚ
The plot that stood out for me was this one, it hasnât even once been âbetterâ in 
this entire year, if we go by hospitalizations:
And the most brutal indicator, death rate (here for Ontario ) shows our high numbers for the summer, total deaths in 2022 are tracking 2021 closely, and youâve got to hate this weekâs uptick. You can see why the epidemiologists are worried. The only bright spot is the spring wave, which seems to be attenuated in 2021 and 2022.
Convincing people to get vaccinated will be more difficult if they are uninsured and it hits them directly in the wallet:
Sure, a bunch of people unable to afford the vaccination led to a wave of mass deaths once a variant emerged with an incredibly high death rate⌠but hey⌠we sure produced value for shareholders!!! /s
Weâll, except for that whole mild symptoms thingy.
I wish they would push that as the reason to get vaccinated.
Think this will finally put it to bed?
Nope.
A friendâs crazy Q-nut ex-husband is still badgering her with verbal and text rants about how ivermectin cures Covid. He is in an incandescent rage that she is having their young child get a booster shot (she has authority over medical and educational decisions in the custody agreement), alternately begging her to wait until next year because there will be some sort of big reveal about ⌠something ⌠and making threats about dire consequences if she does that are just vague enough to avoid action.
That shit runs deep.
No.
Yeah. I fully expect a lot of Qnut kids to be named âIverâ - short for Ivermectin.
I hope your friend stays safe, that guy sounds worrisome and possibly even dangerous.
Good.
