April 5, 20214 yr 12 hours ago, paco said: One of our local breweries got around that by selling beef jerky There is a brewery near me that opened their first tap room right after the pandemic started. They had no kitchen setup, so they brought in a microwave and started selling a few things they could cook in it, along with bowls of cereal. 🤣
April 5, 20214 yr Just found my sister and her husband, 2 big Trump supporters that frequently socialize with strangers without masks, both have their 2nd shots scheduled - my sister gets hers this week. Will be so nice to be able to be around them again just as it was so nice to be able to be around my mom and brother this weekend without masks or distancing.
April 5, 20214 yr 46 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said: They announced grocery workers are next! Step aside mother effers! What state are you in? PA opened it up to everyone last week or two weeks ago I believe
April 5, 20214 yr 5 minutes ago, mikemack8 said: What state are you in? PA opened it up to everyone last week or two weeks ago I believe I'm in PA and I only saw it on the news the other day.
April 5, 20214 yr 56 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said: They announced grocery workers are next! Step aside mother effers! us grocery eaters already got ours!
April 5, 20214 yr Just now, mr_hunt said: us grocery eaters already got ours! Lol I just tried to make an appointment and they gave me an appointment for a hospital 2 hrs away.... Nope!
April 5, 20214 yr 9 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said: Lol I just tried to make an appointment and they gave me an appointment for a hospital 2 hrs away.... Nope! yeah...that's a little too far. keep checking! they're giving vaccines at a high school right across the street from my work & we just sent 6 people over because they had cancellations.
April 5, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, DiPros said: First shot done! Glad to hear it! Which one did you get, Di?
April 5, 20214 yr 14 hours ago, DBW said: The survival rate is not that of a common cold. A cold is much much much much less severe. Most people have 3-4 colds a year, see what your survival chances are if you catch covid 3-4 times a year and get back to us. The death rate of covid is 3%. If I put 100 of your friends and family in a room, gave them covid, 3 of them arent coming home. Do you want to pick the 3, or should I? Stop being such an ass, man. You don’t want a vaccine, don’t get it, but you’re doing nothing here but pulling crap out of your ass. And you wanna talk about misinformation....sheesh There's a lot wrong with your rambling. First of all, the coronavirus for years has been known at the common cold. Secondly, you need to research Rockefeller Medicine and Germ Theory to understand how and why the US has a pitiful health care system......it's all about money, health care providers don't make money on healthy people, that want repeat customers. If you research those topics you'll learn that you don't "catch" anything, what the clowns think are virus' are exosomes which are created by your body inside your cells. Whenever you come down with cold or flu symptoms, that's your body detoxifying itself by way of releasing exosomes that clean out foreign material from you body, the last thing you want to do is take Rockefeller medicine to suppress those symptoms, let it run it's course........your sense of smell will return. Lastly, you can't throw out a death rate of 3%, it's broken down by age, here are the numbers representing your chances of surviving COVID-19 with no treatment at all 00 to 20, 99.997% 21 to 49, 99.98% 50 to 69, 99.50% 70+ 95% The numbers are actually higher than above because of the practice of attributing the cause of death to COVID-19 when the causes were due to other morbid conditions, especially in the last two age groups In closing, you want to be a lab rat for the pharmaceutical clinical trials, go for it.
April 5, 20214 yr 5 hours ago, Toastrel said: I get my second Pfizer next Sunday. Pfizer #2 a couple days ago. Zero side effects. Science is incredible.
April 5, 20214 yr 7 minutes ago, EagleVA said: There's a lot wrong with your rambling. First of all, the coronavirus for years has been known at the common cold. Secondly, you need to research Rockefeller Medicine and Germ Theory to understand how and why the US has a pitiful health care system......it's all about money, health care providers don't make money on healthy people, that want repeat customers. If you research those topics you'll learn that you don't "catch" anything, what the clowns think are virus' are exosomes which are created by your body inside your cells. Whenever you come down with cold or flu symptoms, that's your body detoxifying itself by way of releasing exosomes that clean out foreign material from you body, the last thing you want to do is take Rockefeller medicine to suppress those symptoms, let it run it's course........your sense of smell will return. Lastly, you can't throw out a death rate of 3%, it's broken down by age, here are the numbers representing your chances of surviving COVID-19 with no treatment at all 00 to 20, 99.997% 21 to 49, 99.98% 50 to 69, 99.50% 70+ 95% The numbers are actually higher than above because of the practice of attributing the cause of death to COVID-19 when the causes were due to other morbid conditions, especially in the last two age groups In closing, you want to be a lab rat for the pharmaceutical clinical trials, go for it. so, still refusing to go get your chip ?
April 5, 20214 yr 11 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said: so, still refusing to go get your chip ? Bonus, after my Pfizer shot, I can start my car remotely by rubbing my arm up and down.
April 5, 20214 yr Quote Children now playing 'huge role' in spread of COVID-19 variant, expert says New developments in the COVID-19 pandemic has one leading epidemiologist re-evaluating his own advice. Dr. Michael Osterholm is the Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He was also a member of Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board during the time between Biden being elected president and inaugurated. Osterholm previously supported sending children back to school. He said the virus was not a major threat to children. Now, the situation has changed. "Please understand, this B.1.1.7 variant is a brand new ball game," Osterholm said on NBC's Meet the Press. "It infects kids very readily. Unlike previous strains of the virus, we didn't see children under 8th grade get infected often or they were not frequently very ill, they didn't transmit to the rest of the community." The B.1.1.7 variant was first identified in the United Kingdom. It's now ripping through parts of the country. In Minnesota, Osterholm said more than 740 schools reported cases of the variant. In Michigan more young people are ending up in hospitals fighting more serious symptoms than previously seen in children with COVID-19. This is similar to what health officials have seen in other countries. The British Medical Journal wrote two months ago that "emerging evidence from Israel and Italy (shows) more young children are being infected with new variants of COVID-19." Seeing that happen in his own backyard, Osterholm is now questioning his own previous advice. "Anywhere you look where you see this emerging, you see that kids are playing a huge role in the transmission of this," Osterholm said. "All the things that we had planned for about kids in schools with this virus are really no longer applicable. We've got to take a whole new look at this issue." Vaccinations are expected to help fight off the B.1.1.7 variant. However, Osterholm said there's simply not enough time to just rely on vaccinations. "We're not going to have nearly enough (vaccine doses) in the next 6 to 8 weeks to get through this surge, and we're going to have to look at other avenues to do that just as every other country in the world who's had a B.1.1.7 surge has had to do." More young people infected, hospitalized The difference between previous surges and another possible surge now is "the people most affected now are the younger individuals," emergency physician Dr. Leana Wen told CNN on Sunday. Older populations have been prioritized nationwide for Covid-19 vaccinations. More than 54% of Americans 65 and older have been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC, while more than 75% of that same age group have gotten at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. But while that age group is now relatively well protected, Wen said, younger groups are still vulnerable as the B.1.1.7 variant circulates. The variant is more contagious and may cause more severe disease, experts have said. Research suggests it may also be more deadly. "We're seeing in places like Michigan that the people who are now getting hospitalized by large numbers are people in their 30s and 40s," Wen said. "And now we're even seeing children getting infected in larger numbers too." It's not just Michigan. "What we're seeing is pockets of infection around the country, particularly in younger people who haven't been vaccinated, and also in school-aged children," former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "If you look what's happening in Michigan, in Minnesota, in Massachusetts, for example, you're seeing outbreaks in schools and infections in social cohorts that haven't been exposed to the virus before." "The infection is changing its contours in terms of who's being stricken by it right now," he added. In Florida's Orange County, officials reported late last month a rise in Covid-19 cases in the 18-25 age group. And a third of all of the county's Covid-19 hospitalizations were people younger than 45, according to Dr. Raul Pino, director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County. New Jersey officials said last week that variants, including the B.1.1.7 strain, were contributing to a rise in cases and hospitalizations -- including in younger age groups. Between the first and last weeks of March, there was a 31% and 48% increase in the number of hospitalizations among the 20-29 and 40-49 age groups, respectively, state health commissioner Judy Persichilli said Wednesday. Meanwhile older residents only saw single-digit percent increases, she added. How we can curb another surge of infections Despite alarming warning signs, the US is not powerless, experts have stressed. Doubling down on safety measures -- masking up, social distancing, avoiding crowds -- coupled with quick and efficient vaccinations, can help curb another Covid-19 surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Saturday. "We say it over and over again and we need the local people, we need the governors and the mayors and others to be able to say, we're not out of it yet," Fauci said. "People say, 'Well you just want to confine us forever.' No, this is not going to last forever because every day that you get four million, three million people vaccinated, you get closer and closer to control." Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. estimated Sunday that Americans need to hold on for "another four to six weeks, and then we'll be on the other side of it." "All the vaccines seem to work just as well against this UK, B.1.1.7 variant ... so that is really good news," he said. "I have a lot of confidence that we're going to be in a really good place by the summer." "But if you're not vaccinated, you have to behave as though you're highly vulnerable to this virus, this is not a time to get sick," Hotez added. https://6abc.com/health/kids-now-playing-huge-role-in-spread-of-covid-19-variant-expert-says/10486843/
April 5, 20214 yr 5 minutes ago, lynched1 said: Meh The one point that should maybe be stressed more is that, with older populations also being the most heavily vaccinated by this point, they are also the most protected. If we just briefly ignore the increased infectivity of the variants, it would make sense that the virus would be forced to seek hosts in younger populations as older populations acquire immunity. So, while this development means that we do need to remain vigilant, it isn't necessary the kind of red flag that one may assume it is.
April 6, 20214 yr 27 cases reported today at our high school. We only had two days in all of March where a case wasn't reported. Spread is out of control right now.
April 6, 20214 yr I see "surge" and "skyrocket" used to describe increases in Covid cases or otherwise. Can someone quantify what a surge is, or what skyrocketing is?
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