tkdguy Posted January 31, 2021 Report Share Posted January 31, 2021 This one is more serious matter: Anti-vaccine protest briefly shuts down Dodger Stadium vaccination site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 31, 2021 Report Share Posted January 31, 2021 America has 450,000 dead from the virus. But on the upside 75 million people globally have recovered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 1, 2021 Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 And water is wet... Narcissism and COVID-19: new study finds narcissists are less willing to self-isolate Pariah and Chris Goodwin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 1, 2021 Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 23 hours ago, tkdguy said: This one is more serious matter: Anti-vaccine protest briefly shuts down Dodger Stadium vaccination site You're just making sure my blood pressure rises, aren't you? And in LA County...where they've completely filled ICUs, where they've had over 16,000 deaths. WHO THE HOLY MOTHER OF MORONS ARE THESE PEOPLE? <sigh> The NYT Daily Briefing had some numbers I've tried to find without success: Quote By those measures, all five of the vaccines — from Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Novavax and Johnson & Johnson — look extremely good. Of the roughly 75,000 people who have received one of the five in a research trial, not a single person has died from Covid, and only a few people appear to have been hospitalized. None have remained hospitalized 28 days after receiving a shot. To put that in perspective, it helps to think about what Covid has done so far to a representative group of 75,000 American adults: It has killed roughly 150 of them and sent several hundred more to the hospital. The vaccines reduce those numbers to zero and nearly zero, based on the research trials. Zero isn’t even the most relevant benchmark. A typical U.S. flu season kills between five and 15 out of every 75,000 adults and hospitalizes more than 100 of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 1, 2021 Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 Captain Tom is in hospital with Covid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted February 1, 2021 Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 3 minutes ago, death tribble said: Captain Tom is in hospital with Covid ???? One of our Toms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 1, 2021 Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 Tom Moore, a 100-year-old WW2 veteran whose daily walks made him a superstar fundraiser for health-related charities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted February 1, 2021 Report Share Posted February 1, 2021 6 minutes ago, Michael Hopcroft said: Tom Moore, a 100-year-old WW2 veteran whose daily walks made him a superstar fundraiser for health-related charities. Got it. At that age, it's not good... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 2, 2021 Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 23 hours ago, TrickstaPriest said: Got it. At that age, it's not good... And, he's gone. RIP Capt. Sir Tom Moore, you fought bravely. Matt the Bruins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 2, 2021 Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 And here is what the BBC had to say about it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-55881753 The British now have a face and story for the virus. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 3, 2021 Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 BarretWallace and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 3, 2021 Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 Some people people looking to scam for Covid aid... https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2021/02/03/feds-charge-family-who-formed-dozens-of-fake-farming-companies-in-northeast-ohio-to-get-74-million-in-coronavirus-aid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted February 3, 2021 Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 I didn't realize this reaction was news. All three of us had this side effect and I'm the one of us who almost never gets anything like this. My wife gets this kind of effect from her allergy shots as well. https://www.the-sun.com/news/2262521/moderna-vaccine-causing-covid-arm-rash-side-effects/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 4, 2021 Report Share Posted February 4, 2021 Czechia has 1 million cases The Netherlands will follow in a day or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 5, 2021 Report Share Posted February 5, 2021 Turkey has 2.5 million cases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 5, 2021 Report Share Posted February 5, 2021 New variant seems to be more lethal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 5, 2021 Report Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Cancer said: New variant seems to be more lethal That article does raise the possibility that more frequent deaths due to the variant strain may reflect greater lethality, but points out that it could also be because it's just more contagious. And the author takes pains to state that evidence is still at a very preliminary stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Bad news: we're still at about 20,000 deaths a week in the US. Good news: that's actually down about 10%. Good, if early, trend: active cases have plateaued and actually started to drop a bit. WorldOMeters doesn't report # in hospitals but it would seem reasonable to expect that tends to follow the other two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 How the turn tables!: Lawnmower Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 The Netherlands has over 1 million cases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 NFL offers Biden all 30 football stadiums as mass Covid vaccination sites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 4 hours ago, Pariah said: NFL offers Biden all 30 football stadiums as mass Covid vaccination sites I hope other sports can do the same. MLS uses some of the same fields as the NFL (the size is roughly similar) but the current paradigm is for soccer-specific stadiums where fans can get closer to the action. I can see Providence Park being used ads a vaccine site for the Portland area. Hockey and Basketball are in season, so they can only open them on nights where there are no games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 6, 2021 Report Share Posted February 6, 2021 Add major and minor league baseball to the equation, and you can effectively triple the number of sites I expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted February 7, 2021 Report Share Posted February 7, 2021 4 hours ago, Pariah said: Add major and minor league baseball to the equation, and you can effectively triple the number of sites I expect. Might as well use the minor league sites for something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 7, 2021 Report Share Posted February 7, 2021 Minor league baseball sites, possibly...but any single-use NFL stadium will be empty and unused for the next 5 months easily. That means you can keep your vaccination sites up and running, and dedicate nearby storage and the like, without concern for another event causing disruption. That won't be true of a major league baseball park for that long. How about major college football stadiums? With some, it wouldn't work *that* well; with an on-campus stadium, adjacent parking can be limited. But there's a lot of them around. And you'll often have the same advantage of extensive, covered areas with storage nearby...and, conceivably, facilities to offer reasonable-cost beverages or simple food like fruit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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