February 4, 20214 yr 9 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said: @toolg, dude, this is insane. I really hope he's ok and that this doesn't permanently damage his voice. Luckily I got to catch them in Philly last November. I was supposed to see them again in May, but then COVID happened. I knew he got COVID early last year. I was bummed the spring tour cancelled and my tickets were refunded. Yeah, makes me wonder when we'll see another Tool tour, of if they can tour again. Maybe none of those years long tours anymore... Who knows if he can do it anymore? Anecdotally, I also know of several people who got sick in the spring. They are still dealing with residual effects, coughing fits, lung damage, arthritis, inflammation.... it brings on strange, unusual medical issues they didn't have to deal with before. It's really tough on the age 50+ population, that's him. Stay home. Stay distanced. Wear your mask if you go out. We've come too far, we're too close to getting the masses vaccinated to ruin it now.
February 4, 20214 yr 34 minutes ago, Kz! said: Oh no, there were people at the grocery store not wearing masks in Florida! This story is so big it belongs on the national news! I guess this is what networks have been reduced to now that they can't whine about Trump for hours on end. Pathetic. Three months later and still struggling with taking the L on that whole election thing, eh?
February 4, 20214 yr https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/02/reopening-schools-covid-safe-unions-distance-learning.html?__twitter_impression=true Quote This week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on findings that confirm the city’s Black, Asian American, and Latino children are suffering enormous academic setbacks by relying on remote learning. Presented with this harrowing data, the city’s school school-board president, Gabriela Lopez, blithely waved it off. "They are learning more about their families and their cultures, spending more time with each other,” Lopez told the Chronicle. "They’re just having different learning experiences than the ones we currently measure, and the loss is a comparison to a time when we were in a different space.” It’s just a different kind of educational experience, you see, no better or worse. If you are a parent of one of these children, you might see it more starkly. The "learning experiences” that we "currently measure” are the teaching of skills like reading, writing, and math. The "different learning experiences” children are getting instead are not just different but — at the risk of making a nonrelativistic judgment — worse.
February 4, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, NOTW said: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/02/reopening-schools-covid-safe-unions-distance-learning.html?__twitter_impression=true LOL. They can't read, write or do math. But they're good. They're learning other stuff. Youngest generation to get in the game. Kindergartners on the corner slinging fentanyl laced heroin. What a time to be alive.
February 4, 20214 yr Quote Epidemiologist compares Covid-19 variant to a "Category 5 hurricane" brewing off the US coast From CNN's Adrienne Vogt Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm compared a UK coronavirus variant to a "Category 5 hurricane” churning off the coast, saying some strains could cause a "major surge” in new cases in the US. "It’s going to take much more than vaccine to keep this variant at bay and not to have potentially a major surge in just the weeks ahead,” said Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. A mutation that could allow Covid-19 to escape antibody protection has now been found in samples of a rapidly spreading strain in the UK, according to a report. Experts say it's too early to predict whether this development will impact the trajectory of Covid-19 around the world. "I think amongst my colleagues, they would agree that this variant from the United Kingdom, which is now beginning to circulate much more widely in the United States, poses a huge challenge to us. And that in just a few weeks, we could be seeing case numbers increase very dramatically,” Osterholm said on CNN’s "New Day.”
February 4, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Is he referring to b1.1.7 or a new one? If the former, we already have trial data that shows vaccines protect against that variant.
February 4, 20214 yr 47 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: Is he referring to b1.1.7 or a new one? If the former, we already have trial data that shows vaccines protect against that variant. I believe the new one.
February 4, 20214 yr Warning came out in Sweden today regarding this variant. Our borders are closed now as well. Given the way we've managed this thing so far I'd tend to trust the possibility of a real problem. Of course it might just be a political move here to offset some of the past negative international press (and fake news).
February 4, 20214 yr Two of my neighbors are JnJ employees. One claims that their vaccine, while its efficacy lags behind Pfizer and Moderna, extends to even the South African variant and that it was included in the trials. That BS?
February 4, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Two of my neighbors are JnJ employees. One claims that their vaccine, while its efficacy lags behind Pfizer and Moderna, extends to even the South African variant and that it was included in the trials. That BS? S.A. was included in the trials but the efficacy was significantly lower. It still provided decent protection against severe disease, though.
February 4, 20214 yr 19 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Two of my neighbors are JnJ employees. One claims that their vaccine, while its efficacy lags behind Pfizer and Moderna, extends to even the South African variant and that it was included in the trials. That BS? As far as I know, there have been two trials in SA where b1.351 is predominant, J&J's and Novavax's. Both had reduced efficacy of ~60% in their trials there. No other trials have been run where b1.351 was predominant. I'd be curious to see how either of the mRNA candidates fare against it.
February 4, 20214 yr 4 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said: S.A. was included in the trials but the efficacy was significantly lower. It still provided decent protection against severe disease, though. Yeah 95% protection is what I SAW
February 4, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, Gannan said: Domestic terrorists engaged in attempted mass murder is a major news story. Yeah not quite, irresponsible ok, domestic terrorists? no that is absurd
February 4, 20214 yr 23 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said: Yeah 95% protection is what I SAW I think it was actually somewhere it the mid-80s for severe disease.
February 4, 20214 yr 5 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: I think it was actually somewhere it the mid-80s for severe disease. Yes but "85% Effective Overall in Preventing Severe Disease and Demonstrated Complete Protection Against COVID-19 related Hospitalization and Death as of Day 28"
February 5, 20214 yr My wife’s coworker lost her brother (60s) and his son/her nephew (mid 40s) to covid within 2 days of each other this week. Both were relatively healthy no known underlying conditions.
February 5, 20214 yr https://news.yahoo.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-house-cotes-to-strip-committee-234457090.html House removes GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from committeesThe resolution to strip Greene from her seats on the budget and the education and labor committees passed 230-199, with 11 House Republicans joining Democrats in voting for Greene’s removal.
February 5, 20214 yr Man, was just reading about this new Canadian strain of covid now. They say people are showing up to the hospital eh-symptomatic
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