SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

The article doesn’t say it “doesn’t work”.

CDC Unveils List Of Twitter Accounts You Can Follow To Piece Together Vaccine Information

My bp just went up 40 points. For a minute.

10 points from Gryffindor! 10 points from Gryffindor!

I live in one of the wealthier areas of Canada and our COVID infection rates per 100,000 are literally one-third that of the City of Toronto (Canada's largest city, and North America's fourth largest). Clearly, income and a good education are huge factors when it comes to the effectiveness of lockdowns and COVID infection rates.

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Ah, of course, Twitter.

23 deaths in Norway from the vaccine.

I can't find any stats about deaths elsewhere......
Another article I saw suggested delay in the reporting of these deaths in Norway....

https://nypost.com/2021/01/15/23-die-in-norway-after-receiving-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/

Twenty-three people died in Norway within days of receiving their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, with 13 of those deaths — all nursing home patients — apparently related to the side effects of the shots, health officials said.

Common reactions to the vaccine, including fever and nausea, “may have contributed to a fatal outcome in some frail patients,” Sigurd Hortemo, chief physician at the Norwegian Medicines Agency, said in a Friday statement.

All 13 were nursing home patients and at least 80 years old. While officials aren’t expressing serious concern, they are adjusting their guidance on who should receive the vaccine.

.....more in article

This is a neat idea, but I don't trust the Italians to do it right.

Italians and aerospace do just fine.

What about Italians and refrigeration? IME, they're not great with electronics, so...

Bertazzoni, Smeg and Fulgor Milano are well respected. Not to mention Zamboni.

Zamboni's a 'Merkin company. My eldest brother works for Icee, the guy who invented Icees, Slushpuppies, and Slurpees (same guy invented all three) was an Italian, not a one of them uses Italian made machines.

that's why I said "not to mention." Don't mention it.

Obviously there's a pool of Italian refrigeration specialists if they have so many over here in critical cooling applications.

If you ever had gelato you'd know.

https://botolino.com/blog/post/a-brief-history-of-gelato

FTFY

And yet you did mention them. I worked for a company that nearly went bankrupt because they decided to buy an automation system from an Italian company. It was as reliable as any Fiat or Ferrari (ie not very). So forgive me if I'm going to be more than a wee bit skeptical of Italian gear. It certainly can look pretty, but I'm not inclined to bet my life on it.

Clues as to why some folks get long covid.

Update. She’s contracted COVID.

I'm not prone to conspiracy theories, but given the verifiable actions of the cunts in charge in Florida, I would not be surprised to find she was deliberately infected.

Fauci: Current crop of vaccines are robust enough that they really ought to work on the much reported new strains with "limited" impact to efficacy.

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-said-uss-covid-19-034500633.html

This comes AFTER the Republicans had a moment of silence for the Trump administration.

This is odd:


This Year's Flu Numbers Are Kind of Stunning
Almost nobody is getting it amid the pandemic

Or maybe the things we ought to have been doing like hand-washing, masking up when sick and employers allowing people to stay home when sick help to cut the spread of regular flu and COVID was the push for people to take flu shots seriously.

I had to get it while in the military and I was pretty lazy about it once I got out. I went to my local CVS and got it on day one this season.

It ain't a mystery.

Yeah, flu numbers are way down here and there haven't been enough Covid cases for any connected flu immunity to be the cause.

The measures necessary to get COVID's R to wherever it is are enough to get flu's well below 1, because flu is much less contagious. It has very large non-human reservoirs though, so it'll never completely disappear.

Surprisingly, the US is in the lead of people vaccinated

Still seems like an awfully low number of people to have gotten the shot(s). Based on the information from my state's website, I'll be lucky if I can get the jab by April.

That graph makes it seem that India's plateauing at 150,000 deaths, wow.
I'm sure we can adjust upward for underreporting, but still, I'm impressed.