October 31, 20214 yr 50 minutes ago, lynched1 said: Double shots of espresso Sure thing Slappy. "Expresso". 🤣
October 31, 20214 yr 14 hours ago, lynched1 said: You can go by what you're told. I go by what I see. It's still a free-ish country. The stats have come from every corner of the vaccinated first world. The data is 8 months old+. 10 unvaccinated dead to every fully vaccinated. There is nothing, not one cherry picked stat you have posted in the entire time that refutes it. The jig is up man. The vaccine is the best way out of this mess, no matter where it came from. BTW, if you must know, I trust dr Faucci marginally further than I can kick him, and I only say that because he's a midget and I got good legs. But the data doesn't lie and there is zero doubt at this point that we are facing one of those moments in history, like war, where you gotta take one for the team. Is the vaccine 100% safe. Of course not. But it's what we have to do to get out of this mess, end of story. Oh, and puh-lease dude, you and I and all of our friends put 3x more poison in our systems every friday night. Man the F up dude.
October 31, 20214 yr I'm old school, "rub a little dirt on it" toxically masculine. Shot. No shot. You get it, you carry it, and maybe pass it. I do admit that I'm curious about long term effects. I'll tell you this. My wife decided to. Something happens to her there's a better than fair chance you'll read about me.
October 31, 20214 yr I’m getting pretty good at passing covid tests. 3 for 3 so far. Most likely a cold. Yea! Now I don’t have to ask anyone to go to the store for me.
October 31, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, DiPros said: I’m getting pretty good at passing covid tests. 3 for 3 so far. Most likely a cold. Yea! Now I don’t have to ask anyone to go to the store for me. We've had a rash of pretty bad colds running through Stockholm over the last several weeks. I know lots of people who were tested and everyone came up negative. That included my daughter. I had a mild case. Lasted about two days for me. No fever either.
October 31, 20214 yr 17 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: We've had a rash of pretty bad colds running through Stockholm over the last several weeks. I know lots of people who were tested and everyone came up negative. That included my daughter. I had a mild case. Lasted about two days for me. No fever either. That’s good. I am feeling better today compared to last week. Two weeks ago I was cleaning and doing windows and I always get stuffy after doing that. Hows your weather? This is the latest I remember not having turned the heat on yet. Going to wash my filter and test her out today. Going to need it next week. And get the humidifier out.
October 31, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, DiPros said: That’s good. I am feeling better today compared to last week. Two weeks ago I was cleaning and doing windows and I always get stuffy after doing that. Hows your weather? This is the latest I remember not having turned the heat on yet. Going to wash my filter and test her out today. Going to need it next week. And get the humidifier out. Our days are high 40s to mid 50s these days. Nothing cold yet but the 60+ degree days are over.
October 31, 20214 yr 11 hours ago, lynched1 said: I'm old school, "rub a little dirt on it" toxically masculine. Shot. No shot. You get it, you carry it, and maybe pass it. I do admit that I'm curious about long term effects. I'll tell you this. My wife decided to. Something happens to her there's a better than fair chance you'll read about me. So you have a little D and drive a Lifted ram truck. Got it.
October 31, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, DBW said: So you have a little D and drive a Lifted ram truck. Got it. Men dont drive Dodge Trucks. Lifted trucks are as useless as democrats.
October 31, 20214 yr 40 minutes ago, lynched1 said: Men dont drive Dodge Trucks. Lifted trucks are as useless as democrats. Don’t lie this is you.
October 31, 20214 yr On 10/30/2021 at 12:04 AM, vikas83 said: Good to see the mods continue to support racism as long as it is directed at Asians. Your avatar is of a racist stereotype, so you are just as guilty
October 31, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, Procus said: Your avatar is of a racist stereotype, so you are just as guilty These kind of idiotic takes right here are what keep me coming back to this board.
October 31, 20214 yr 17 minutes ago, Procus said: Your avatar is of a racist stereotype, so you are just as guilty I wouldn't take it too seriously. He's been taught that it's a finishing move.
November 1, 20214 yr Yah, it's the masks. That's the ticket . . . https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/mask-philadelphia-pennsylvania-mandate-covid-montgomery-chester-20211030.html Philly is less vaccinated than the suburbs, but those counties’ COVID-19 cases are higher. Does masking make the difference? by Jason Laughlin and Aseem Shukla Published Oct 30, 2021 The latest pandemic paradox in the Philadelphia region is that the city, while less vaccinated than virtually all its neighboring counties, has a lower rate of COVID-19 cases than any of them. This has continued even as the suburban counties outstrip Philadelphia’s vaccination rates. The city has fully vaccinated about 56% of its total population. Only Gloucester County has a lower vaccination rate. Bucks, Delaware, and Burlington Counties all have vaccination rates of nearly 65% or better. Yet COVID-19 is still infecting a larger percentage of their populations. The reasons for the seemingly counterintuitive trend are not clear, but the Philadelphia Department of Public Health has a theory "The only difference I see is the mask mandate,” said Cheryl Bettigole, the city’s acting health commissioner. "It’s hard to see what the difference is otherwise.” Philadelphia reinstated its indoor mask mandate in August as the delta variant drove a new surge in COVID-19 cases. The mandate remains in effect and the city said in early September that it had no intentions of ending it any time soon. There is no similar indoor mask mandate through the rest of the state. New Jersey recommends indoor masking but does not mandate it. City-gathered data from early October found about 80% of people entering and exiting shops had masks on, and the majority were wearing them correctly, said James Garrow, a health department spokesperson. "Step on the other side of City Avenue and masks disappear, so we definitely think that Philadelphians are better masked,” he said. During much of the spring and summer, COVID-19 case rates in the city and its surrounding Pennsylvania and New Jersey counties were largely similar. But according to The Inquirer’s tracker of case and vaccination data, that hasn’t been the case since September, when the city began consistently reporting lower case rates than its neighbors. "I think that for all we criticize ourselves for our behavior as sports fans and the hitchhiking robot,” Bettigole said, "we actually are a city that takes care of each other.” National trends are somewhat similar Boston, New York, City, Chicago, and Washington D.C. all have some form of indoor mask mandates, though the policies in their surrounding counties and cities vary. The pattern in the Philadelphia metro area mirrors trends in some, but not all, Northern and Northeastern metros. Suffolk County, Mass., which contains Boston, has both a lower vaccination rate and a lower case rate than surrounding suburban counties such as Norfolk, Essex, and Sussex. Massachusetts recommends indoor masking but does not mandate it. In Illinois, suburban counties have higher case rates than the Chicago metro area in Cook County, although vaccination rates vary in those suburbs. Illinois has had a statewide indoor mask mandate since August. New York City, though, lags its suburban counties in vaccination rates, but only some of its suburbs are currently posting higher COVID-19 case rates. And in the D.C. area, the pattern is inverted: again, the city has lower vaccine uptake, but it also has higher case rates than the suburbs today. Other potential factors Health experts said it’s plausible that masking makes the difference, though other factors could also be in play. "I’m inclined to think that indeed indoor masking is definitely helping in this situation,” said Thersa Sweet, associate professor in Drexel University’s department of epidemiology and biostatistics. Other possible explanations, she said, don’t seem to match the data. The divide between city and suburban case rates could be a result of more testing in the suburban counties, but Sweet said that isn’t likely because Philadelphia’s positivity rate is so low. Natural immunity among unvaccinated people who have caught COVID-19 and recovered likely wouldn’t account for it either, she said, since that protection is less effective than vaccines offer. Health officials elsewhere, though, say it is difficult to prove mask wearing is the difference maker, and there are many other factors that could account for the difference in infection rates. "The many layers of mitigation measures used to control COVID-19, combined with different community settings,” Chester County’s health department said Friday in a statement, "means that it is difficult to narrow it down to just masking in schools, masking and proof of vaccination within the workplace, or in restaurants and retail outlets.” About 61% of that county’s total population is fully vaccinated. "In general,” said Richard Lorraine, chief medical officer in Montgomery County’s Office of Public Health, "we are cautious about drawing definitive conclusions from small differences in this data.” That county, where almost 62% of people are fully vaccinated, has reported an average of about 18 cases per 100,000 a day over the past week, he said, compared to almost 13 per 100,000 in the city. The difference isn’t large, Lorraine said, and Philadelphia has a younger population than Montgomery County, which could play a factor in producing fewer symptomatic cases. Other relevant factors include whether people seek care in their own counties or elsewhere, how much people are traveling and moving about the region, employers’ vaccine requirements, and access to care and testing. » READ MORE: After a year of pandemic, wearing masks outdoors is up for debate "Overall, it is unlikely that mask policy accounts significantly for any current differences in COVID case rates between Philadelphia and Montgomery County,” Lorraine said. Montgomery and Chester County officials said the counties don’t track mask-wearing habits. "As far as I know, there has not been any direct study of masking compliance in businesses in either Philadelphia or Montgomery County, so there would be no way to judge this contribution,” Lorraine said. The challenge throughout the pandemic, Sweet said, has been gathering detailed data on a new virus that has continued changing since it swept the world in 2020. "What was first in the American population in the early time in March is a different virus than we got hit with this summer,” Sweet said. "I know the general public probably gets really frustrated with how long it takes to get these answers, but at the same time how do you rush these things?” Staff Writers Justine McDaniel, Erin McCarthy, and Laura McCrystal contributed to this story. Published Oct. 30, 2021
November 1, 20214 yr 30 minutes ago, Kz! said: More of this, please: <br> It was the wind in Dallas. Yah, that's the ticket . . .
November 1, 20214 yr procus having to choose between "vaccines bad" or "masks work" is pretty, pretty, pretty good.
November 1, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said: procus having to choose between "vaccines bad" or "masks work" is pretty, pretty, pretty good. I think the bigger takeaway should be just how little effect vaccination rates have on transmission rates. I posted this a few pages back, but it didn't generate any discussion: On 10/27/2021 at 11:14 AM, Kz! said: Hate to keep bringing up Harvard scientists, but this is worth repeating:
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