COVID-19
Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus
Posted by: Stuminator
Ontario finance minister Rod Phillips resigns after getting caught vacationing in St. Bart's, all the while making it appear as if he was spending the holidays quietly at home. This guy must think he is above the law and does not have to abide by guidelines, like he expects regular folks to do. Good riddance.
You didnt hear about trending Trudoh in Cuba or some such place over the holidays?
Nope
Actual COVID death rate numbers are starting to emerge and it’s about 3x as deadly than “The Flu”:
Virus 3 times deadlier than flu, oximeters less reliable on Black patients
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south african mutant isn‘t fazed by antibodies, vaccines likely not working, acchieving herd immunity unlikely
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.18.427166v1
everybody back to 0
From my reading of the abstract and skim of the paper, I’d say your interpretation is pessimistic.
The response to current vaccines is unknown, possibly less effective and requires study. This is not the same as “vaccines likely not working”, and luckily the types of vaccines that work on COVID can be rapidly altered for new variants.
What part of the paper led you to the conclusion that heard immunity is unlikely? There is some discussion about how variations will pop up, making monitoring necessary, but that is normal for most viral diseases.
It’s worth noting that that paper has not undergone peer review yet.
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by skimming over the linked tweets related to this paper
Ford is an animal. Harris too.
When it became clear last fall that the province’s long-term care (LTC) homes were about to be engulfed by the second wave of the pandemic, the Ford government swung into action.
Wasting no time, it promptly introduced legislation — legislation that gave the corporate owners of long-term care homes extra protection from lawsuits that were accumulating against them.
Tragically, the province has shown no such speed or dedication to the task of providing extra protection — or much protection at all — to the elderly people who live in these homes and who, unlike the corporate owners, really are helpless to defend themselves.
It’s striking that Premier Doug Ford has given priority to the interests of these corporate owners even as the coronavirus has swept through LTC homes, turning them into gruesome death traps and claiming the lives of almost 3,000 residents.
Investigations, including those done by Toronto Star reporters, have found that the coronavirus death rate has been significantly higher in for-profit homes than in not-for-profit homes.
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Ford has two sides of his mouth and uses both of them
So our vaccines look to be delayed even more as the EU wants theirs and the US will be rolling them out full speed by spring. :(
What I am concerned about now is that the developed nations have left the poorer countries out in the cold and if the virus keeps spreading there and mutating so we might need new vaccines in 2022. Apparently none of the vaccine makers will share their formulas and allow more manufacturers to produce them. Greedy fucks. None of the government funding they received came with conditions of course.
The 3 amigos will save the world! See my post just above.
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/oxfam-reaction-pfizer-contribution-covax/
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Posted by: tungsten
The 3 amigos will save the world! See my post just above.
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/oxfam-reaction-pfizer-contribution-covax/
You have pet names for them now? As far as I know India is going to vaccinate India first and I have no idea what kind if production capabilities the Ruskies have. Maybe something from China, but do we know what they can produce? How are they going to save the world? The link above is just some guy whining that they didn't mention any of their vaccines, but they are still all in testing. The 3 authoritarian amigos have said they will help the poor countries but the problem is production, and they will all take care of their own people first. That is 3 billion amigos.
It's the thought that matters. ffs at least they offered. Unlike the Brits, 'yurpeons and yanks who want it all, and all for themselves or the Canadians who went off like whiney little bitches all just because they had to take a little time out.
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I heard on the radio that South Korea had purchased enough extra vaccine's for all of North Korea too.
Posted by: tungsten
It's the thought that matters. ffs at least they offered. Unlike the Brits, 'yurpeons and yanks who want it all, and all for themselves or the Canadians who went off like whiney little bitches all just because they had to take a little time out.
If Canada was as good as we think it is, we'd have our own production capabilities. Agreeable?
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