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I really feel like, for the US at least, we've learned all of the wrong lessons. We somehow took the most clear cut, direct, and unambiguous example of something where your actions effect others, and used it to entrench the narrative of "personal responsibility" even further. I expect that other tragedies tha befall people in the future, be it weather disasters or other things, will increasingly fall under the bucket "sucks for them, not my job to help".
Not to mention its accelerated the interal strife within the US that there is real fear between strangers for reasons beyond contagiousness. Just yesterday, my partner and i were taking a lovely walk in a nice neighborhood and a guy flipped us off because we deviated out path to keep space from him. This shit has by no means brought out the best in most people.
And detouring around people when you're walking is a normal thing people did before COVID
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URL kinda says it all. China's going back into lockdown mode
Yeah it's getting a lot worse there recently.
Relatively.
China, the last major country to relentlessly pursue a Covid-zero policy, reported 1,437 cases across dozens of cities on Monday. That’s a fourfold jump in a week.
Although record case numbers are testing the resilience of China’s no-tolerance approach, there is no sign the country is willing to pivot to ‘living with the virus."
Washington state, today: 860 cases.
The fourfold part is the problem. I wouldn't use this as a cue for what's next elsewhere though as this is apparently their first omicron encounter + sinopharm unfortunately doesn't work as well as the mRNA vaccines. Still has protection against the worst effects of COVID though.
Oh wow it's wild that they're just now getting their Omicron wave. Didn't it originate in Asia?
South Africa I thought
Iirc that's just where it was first identified. Dunno if origin has been chased down
It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
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Oh wow it's wild that they're just now getting their Omicron wave. Didn't it originate in Asia?
China has been willing to do full lockdowns at the first sign of an outbreak for a while, like if anyone in your building tests positive the entire building and possibly the block is locked down, if it spreads the city is isolated, it's likely they managed to contain any previous outbreaks
Or more specifically: the elderly vaccination rate.
When Omicron hit, *more than two-thirds of people aged 80+ in Hong Kong were still unvaccinated*, compared to a couple of percent in New Zealand and Singapore. This was a year after vaccines became available.
Or more specifically: the elderly vaccination rate.
When Omicron hit, *more than two-thirds of people aged 80+ in Hong Kong were still unvaccinated*, compared to a couple of percent in New Zealand and Singapore. This was a year after vaccines became available.
Even worse than that, more than 2/3 are actually UNvaccinated, as per your quote here.
NEW: The White House is warning it will have to wind down a program that pays to test, treat and vaccinate uninsured people for COVID-19 because the administration has run out of money for the program, which Congress failed to include in funding legislation.
Another immediate impact will be an end to federal funding for monoclonal antibodies, a treatment that had been provided free of charge.
Starting next week, the White House said it will cut allocations to states by more than 30% to try to stretch its existing supplies.
The government cannot buy more oral antiviral treatments like Paxlovid beyond the 20 million treatments already secured, and needs to scale back planned purchases of preventative treatments for immunocompromised people, the White House said.
Research into next-generation COVID vaccines will be curbed, and some surveillance for new variants will also be stopped, the White House said.
The administration said it also will need to limit its push to help poorer countries vaccinate people.
I guess it kind of depends on when/how big the coming waves are, and if the feds approve anything between now and then. Right now, in the US, there are 33k positive tests being reported daily. Lets say the average over the next period of time is 3x that (assuming waves and increased testing since you can actually get a treatment, which would increase average over now), and lets say 1/2 of reported tests are eligible, accessible, and desirous of paxlovid. That means 50k doses needed per day. If 20m are purchased by the feds, that means 400 days worth of courses, which is certainly enough time for them to approve purchase of more. So, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean it's dead in the water.
In continuing COVID is over news, in the last two days Barack Obama and Douglas Emhoff have tested positive.
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
Irish PM tested positive and got news of the test while sitting next to Pelosi at some useless DC gala.
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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Irish PM tested positive and got news of the test while sitting next to Pelosi at some useless DC gala.
What is it with people getting a test for a highly communicable disease and then going to events and hanging out with people while they wait for the results?
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
Irish PM tested positive and got news of the test while sitting next to Pelosi at some useless DC gala.
What is it with people getting a test for a highly communicable disease and then going to events and hanging out with people while they wait for the results?
I think a lot of important people get regularly tested as a part of their job.
Irish PM tested positive and got news of the test while sitting next to Pelosi at some useless DC gala.
What is it with people getting a test for a highly communicable disease and then going to events and hanging out with people while they wait for the results?
I think a lot of important people get regularly tested as a part of their job.
That and those routine tests are generally low priority processing. For the ladies tackle team I coached, and again this year, they get tested twice a week at two of the three practices, but often aren't getting results until a 2nd practice has passed. So the Monday test might not come back until Friday, meaning they were at the Wednesday practice exposing people.
Yeah if you have testing requirements you're not taking one, waiting for the result, then going out, you're constantly testing and going about activities at an uninterrupted cadence. Like the surveillance testing at schools, they aren't keeping the kids home until the results come back because they're testing them once or twice a week.
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And detouring around people when you're walking is a normal thing people did before COVID
Wastewater Levels (and cases) remain locally low.
We’ll see what that last five day trend turns into.
We're officially less than 1 new case a day here locally!
URL kinda says it all. China's going back into lockdown mode
Yeah it's getting a lot worse there recently.
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Relatively.
Washington state, today: 860 cases.
The fourfold part is the problem. I wouldn't use this as a cue for what's next elsewhere though as this is apparently their first omicron encounter + sinopharm unfortunately doesn't work as well as the mRNA vaccines. Still has protection against the worst effects of COVID though.
South Africa I thought
Iirc that's just where it was first identified. Dunno if origin has been chased down
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China has been willing to do full lockdowns at the first sign of an outbreak for a while, like if anyone in your building tests positive the entire building and possibly the block is locked down, if it spreads the city is isolated, it's likely they managed to contain any previous outbreaks
Only about 2/3 of the elderly are vaccinated in Hong Kong, I imagine China proper is similar. I gave a feeling it's gonna be ugly.
Reporter covering COVID:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1503420692829777928
Even worse than that, more than 2/3 are actually UNvaccinated, as per your quote here.
wastewater data is weird. Locally we've got a site that went up by 1000%. Also one that went down by 100%.
Maybe the bathroom was out of sevice and everyone had to go across the street to poop
I blame it on shitty sampling.
NPR is a major news outlet.
No, even at the time it was labeled "hey Congress we want money for this"
Good thing the pandemic is over and we're all ready to go back to the office and ditch masks
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They did send round a "so far we're only at 0.3% infection rate considering the office numbers" email
Then yesterday, boom, 6 reported cases
I've upped my mask game from layered cloth to FFP2 in the meantime, now they're not sold out everywhere
They're basically the same thing as far as Covid is concerned. Either will reduce transmission drastically.
What is it with people getting a test for a highly communicable disease and then going to events and hanging out with people while they wait for the results?
I think a lot of important people get regularly tested as a part of their job.
That and those routine tests are generally low priority processing. For the ladies tackle team I coached, and again this year, they get tested twice a week at two of the three practices, but often aren't getting results until a 2nd practice has passed. So the Monday test might not come back until Friday, meaning they were at the Wednesday practice exposing people.
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It's even worse in South Korea.
You know BNO News.
Likely BA.2 rather than BA.1 - But the differences between the two are substantial, despite them both being labeled as "Omicron".