TacoMac
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Georgia is dead last in vaccine distribution. I'm 53. At our present rate, I'll not get vaccinated until late August.
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garybo
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That's me, "good-by cruel world".
captainmorgan
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Michigan just announced that 50 year olds and up with disabilities or health problems will be eligible starting Monday and everyone 50+ can get it starting March 22.
Unclebaldrick
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Time for a calculated risk. I need to get back to Chicago, get some weed, spend a few hours looking at art, buy some groceries (good eastern european bread, more spices, little french cornichons, homemade sausages and smoked piggy tenderloins, good veggies [baby bok choy, broccoli rabe, maybe some fresh figs if I am lucky], good feta and olives, mung bean cakes, proper bagels, farfel, some of them kringles, cypriot grilling cheese, some deep dish pizzas, good beer, fresh tortillas,, etc) and meet up with my friends at a heavy metal burger joint where I can spend $17 on a damn burger while freezing my ass off on a patio after getting my temperature taken by a goth nurse in latex. In other words, a normal life.
God I hate it here.
I leave in 11 hours.
Not much of a risk considering the fact that I work with a bunch of mouth-breathing retards who take no precautions and the positivity rate here is 16% compared to Chicago's 4%.
God I hate it here.
I leave in 11 hours.
Not much of a risk considering the fact that I work with a bunch of mouth-breathing retards who take no precautions and the positivity rate here is 16% compared to Chicago's 4%.
DIY-HP-LED
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Is this where you live, do the bars have chicken wire? Long for some Chicago Blues? America hasn't changed much in 40 years!
Unclebaldrick
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Both kinds.
My late friend owned a record store in Chicago and had a divider (you know, one of those label/divider things) for C&W labelled "Both Kinds".
CunningCanuk
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I’d trade one of my toes for a Lou Malnati’s pizza right now.
Unclebaldrick
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Going to have to settle for frozen. I never really feel like sitting down and eating one when travelling.
captainmorgan
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So many unknowns still, are the anti mask and anti vaccine morons driving the infections or is immunity from infection and or vaccine that short lived. Hospitalizations and deaths are down but infections continue, herd immunity may not happen, one positive I've read was that the vaccine seems to help covid long haulers. It's looking like this thing is not going away anytime soon.
captainmorgan
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If the bodies immune response from natural infection and the vaccine are weak and short lived, herd immunity will never happen. If that's the case we have to hope that the virus evolves into a weaker form, problem is, the virus seems to be going in the opposite direction and becoming more infectious and deadly.
injinji
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There are lots of mutations. The weak ones die off, so we don't hear about them.
injinji
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All that is keeping Africa from crashing and burning right now is the fact most of the folks there are real young. After this the average age will be even younger.
Fogdog
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That does not seem to be the case.
DIY-HP-LED
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The rate of flu and other respiratory illnesses is very low this season, the covid prevention measures work for them too as they did in Australia.
It appears that either the vaccine or an infection will confer at least 18 months of immunity in most people and that this immunity is partly effective against the new emerging variants. Modifications to the mRNA vaccines have already been made to deal with variants too. Our body's immune system targets more than the spike proteins and so do other antiviral therapeutics in development. We may indeed require annual booster shots along with our flu vaccine to deal with this pandemic. I believe once you've had covid or have been vaccinated and get a variant case, it will most likely be a mild one, vaccines reduce hospitalizations and ICU bed usage dramatically, even with the new variants.
It appears that either the vaccine or an infection will confer at least 18 months of immunity in most people and that this immunity is partly effective against the new emerging variants. Modifications to the mRNA vaccines have already been made to deal with variants too. Our body's immune system targets more than the spike proteins and so do other antiviral therapeutics in development. We may indeed require annual booster shots along with our flu vaccine to deal with this pandemic. I believe once you've had covid or have been vaccinated and get a variant case, it will most likely be a mild one, vaccines reduce hospitalizations and ICU bed usage dramatically, even with the new variants.
captainmorgan
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Front line health workers have been saying many of them were getting reinfected after 3 to 4 months right from the start and many of the reinfections were worse than the first.
Fogdog
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Oh, so we are back to repeating anecdotes and non-peer reviewed studies again.
I guess I can do the same.
www.nature.com
Most people who catch and recover from COVID-19 are likely to be immune for several months afterwards, a study of more than 20,000 health-care workers in the United Kingdom has found.
The study — called SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) and published on the preprint server medRxiv on 15 January1 — concluded that immune responses from past infection reduce the risk of catching the virus again by 83% for at least 5 months.
I guess I can do the same.
COVID reinfections are unusual — but could still help the virus to spread
Large study of UK health-care workers suggests that most people are immune for months after catching COVID-19 for the first time.
www.nature.com
Most people who catch and recover from COVID-19 are likely to be immune for several months afterwards, a study of more than 20,000 health-care workers in the United Kingdom has found.
The study — called SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection Evaluation (SIREN) and published on the preprint server medRxiv on 15 January1 — concluded that immune responses from past infection reduce the risk of catching the virus again by 83% for at least 5 months.
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