Lord Liaden Posted December 24, 2020 Report Share Posted December 24, 2020 Limbaugh should remember, that's what we said about 2020 back in 2019. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 Got news that the assisted living home the grandmother of my husband is at had an outbreak -- and she tested positive. BarretWallace, unclevlad, TrickstaPriest and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 Sorry to hear that, Cygnia! Hoping for the best. archer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 New mutant strain of COVID in Nigeria which is unrelated to the new mutations detected in South Africa or the UK. https://apnews.com/article/international-news-public-health-coronavirus-pandemic-africa-south-africa-58c20bb87f1208c932654f03fbfb2b20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 Just when we've developed a vaccine, a new strain appears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 With this many people infected, significant mutations were inevitable. It was just a matter of time. On 12/23/2020 at 2:54 PM, archer said: Former actor (and current preacher) Kirk Cameron is facing criticism for organizing at least two events in Southern California in recent weeks, where dozens of mask-less people stood shoulder-to-shoulder to sing Christmas carols in protest of state and local stay-at-home mandates. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/23/entertainment/kirk-cameron-protests/index.html The Addams Family had the best response to this sort of thing.https://youtu.be/-ssFIdAd3_M?t=30 Hotspur and TrickstaPriest 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 Fauci is now saying that we could need to reach 90% in order to reach herd immunity threshold. He acknowledges that he's intentionally moving the goalposts. So now he's saying what I was saying in March. (Where's the honor in my own country? Or even the profit?) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9085761/Fauci-claims-90-herd-immunity-COVID-deaths-57k-month.html TrickstaPriest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 12 hours ago, tkdguy said: Just when we've developed a vaccine, a new strain appears. Not necessarily a problem. From what I've read, coronavirus doesn't mutate as rapidly as influenza, and would need to mutate pretty radically to affect how these vaccines target it. Infectious disease experts still sound confident that vaccines will be as effective against these new strains. Of course whether that confidence is justified remains to be proven, but it would be premature to worry overmuch over the prospect. Old Man, tkdguy and pinecone 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 12 hours ago, tkdguy said: Just when we've developed a vaccine, a new strain appears. I’ve been following these developments. I’m not up to speed on the Nigerian mutant, but the other two are not thought to have mutated in a way that would reduce the effectiveness of the vaccines. That’s based on the genetics and proteins of course, there is no actual evidence for or against it yet. Zombie apocalypse cannot be completely ruled out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 Yes. The two new strains previously identified are suspected of being more contagious, just from how they're configured, although that's not proven yet. The Nigerian one doesn't look to be more infectious. I've also read research suggesting coronavirus contagiousness may be inversely proportional to lethality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 25, 2020 Report Share Posted December 25, 2020 America now has 19 million cases, there are 80 million cases worldwide and over 1.75 million deaths Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted December 26, 2020 Report Share Posted December 26, 2020 The Duke women's basketball team has had a long, sustained run of success...but not this year. The team voted to not play due to the stress of the Covid-19 protocols, the first such basketball program to do so after trying to start. (The Ivy League shut down winter sports before the season.) I don't expect they'll be the last such. A little fact from the Buffalo vs. Marshall bowl game...local regulations covering Marshall's campus have meant they haven't been home since May. For college kids? Ugh, that's got to be brutal for some of em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 Matt the Bruins, Cancer and unclevlad 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 Russia through 3 million cases, France through 2.5 million, Germany, Argentina and Colombia through 1.5 million cases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 We need those nanomachines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 19 minutes ago, Ragitsu said: We need those nanomachines. We have what we need. We just can't get it out to the public as fast as we'd like. But these vaccines are an outstanding example of what scientific research can produce with extraordinary speed, when there's enough will and public support behind it. If we'd devoted the same focus to global warming when the alarms were first raised, climate change would be coming over centuries instead of decades. Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted December 27, 2020 Report Share Posted December 27, 2020 20 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: We have what we need. We just can't get it out to the public as fast as we'd like. But these vaccines are an outstanding example of what scientific research can produce with extraordinary speed, when there's enough will and public support behind it. If we'd devoted the same focus to global warming when the alarms were first raised, climate change would be coming over centuries instead of decades. <optimisitic>If we focused on environmental remediation as much as we do war, we may be able to reverse some or even all of that anthropogenic climate change; forget carbon neutral...I'm thinking carbon negative.</optimistic> Still, if we could perfect even basic medical nanomachines, we could clamp down on communicable diseases at an astoundingly quick rate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 29, 2020 Report Share Posted December 29, 2020 Ranxerox 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 29, 2020 Report Share Posted December 29, 2020 'Toxic Individualism': Pandemic Politics Driving Health Care Workers From Small Towns pinecone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 29, 2020 Report Share Posted December 29, 2020 South Africa now has 1 million plus cases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cowan Posted December 29, 2020 Report Share Posted December 29, 2020 Well... kind of puts them in 4th place https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-s-covid-19-death-toll-could-be-3-times-n1252461 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 29, 2020 Report Share Posted December 29, 2020 Colorado identifies first known case of UK Covid-19 variant in the US Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 30, 2020 Report Share Posted December 30, 2020 Today's 3200-death spike puts 350000 deaths within reach by the end of the year. Come on America, you can do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted December 30, 2020 Report Share Posted December 30, 2020 There is no doubt, tho, that we will surpass 20,000,000 total cases. That should happen before noon Pacific time. 18 different countries have recorded 1M+ cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted December 30, 2020 Report Share Posted December 30, 2020 Louisiana congressman-elect dies of Covid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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