Covid 2023

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Well enjoy your alternate universe.

It's right over there, next to the stalls occupied by Scientology, the Flat Earth Society, and Holocaust denialists.

[Swansong]

More info. My hospital system (14 hospitals, literally hundreds of outpatient clinics) is not mandating mask use yet but likely will if things don't improve or level off. Testing positivity rate is now up over 10% for the first time in longer than I can remember. Hospital census's are up as well, which is the lagging indicator we hoped to avoid.


But yeah. Just nonsense, right?

[Kepler]

Abortion isn’t about babies, otherwise they would care about the lives of people in many other ways. Family values isn’t about happy families, it’s about forcing people to fit into their small minded views.

Anti-abortion has never been about anything except punishing women for having sex.

Conservatives are so small, in so many ways, they murder women to try to force them to be sexually submissive. Because if women choose their partners, no matter how many they have they aren't choosing conservatives.

Conservatives cannot survive in the free market. Not in science, not in education, and not in desirability. Their only chance is coercion, and trying to force everyone to be as stupid and backwards and miserable as they.

[Jeb2020]

More info. My hospital system (14 hospitals, literally hundreds of outpatient clinics) is not mandating mask use yet but likely will if things don't improve or level off. Testing positivity rate is now up over 10% for the first time in longer than I can remember. Hospital census's are up as well, which is the lagging indicator we hoped to avoid.


But yeah. Just nonsense, right?

Wearing a mask? Yes, complete non sense.

Testing? Yes, also complete non sense.

The results produced by the theatre? Not non-sense the results are exactly what is intednded.

are there going to be choreographed dancing nurses this time?


Dear mask-pushers,

What’s actually “wrong, selfish, and stupid” is expecting everyone in the world to cover their faces, obstruct their breathing, & impede their ability to emote & communicate in perpetuity because you can’t manage your health anxiety.

The number of lives you’re entitled to restrict in service of your fears is exactly one: your own.

[Jeb2020]

Novak Djokovic, is the man.

[French Rage]

Does, he, understand, how, commas, work?

[Jeb2020]

Does, he, understand, how, commas, work?

Good post.

However, this topic is dedicated to cold symptoms.

[French Rage]

Oh OK then that tennis post fits wonderfully.

[Swansong]

I've no idea what you're responding to and I think I'm ok with that.

[Jeb2020]

Oh OK then that tennis post fits wonderfully.

Novak Djokovic declined to take the Quackccine that he had no medical need to take.

[French Rage]

And horse-paste gave you **** grammar. See, both are relevant.

[Swansong]

https://apnews.com/article/covid-vac...a014dbd98ddbde

FDA approved. CDC to approve next. Good news!

[dxmnkd316]

More info. My hospital system (14 hospitals, literally hundreds of outpatient clinics) is not mandating mask use yet but likely will if things don't improve or level off. Testing positivity rate is now up over 10% for the first time in longer than I can remember. Hospital census's are up as well, which is the lagging indicator we hoped to avoid.


But yeah. Just nonsense, right?

Anecdotally, it's spreading like wildfire amongst friends even in different circles. Yep families in the last three days. Another half dozen over the past week.

between school and the state fair and everything else, it's moving again.

we're going to be heading to a wedding in Detroit this week. We've been masking the past week to help avoid covid or any other bugs. We're also planning on masking on the flight and in the airport.

[dxmnkd316]

I had my annual check up about two weeks ago. My doctor, who is also a personal friend of mine, also works as one of the instructors at the Mayo Clinic. He and I were BSing after he was done poking and prodding me, and he told me that one of his patients is Mayo's chief doctor in charge of covid. He said that doctor had also just been in for an annual check up with him and they got to talking about covid.

She told him this year's version was going to be "lethal," according to my doctor. My doctor told me to not get a vaccine until very, very late fall, or early winter, even though people are pushing boosters now. He said the vaccines we've already gotten are going to be completely ineffective against what we will see this winter. But he also related that she said the new vaccines they will be coming out with this winter are going to work great. However, Mayo is bracing for a bad winter due to vaccine fatigue, the feeling that people will have that they've already had four or five shots so they should be good, and the fact that the old vaccines will be worthless against the coming strain.

Take that for what it's worth.

Going back to this post for a minute. I'm curious if your doc said to wait until late fall, early winter because he didn't expect the updated boosters out until then or just a general timing thing. From a few posts ago it sounds like next week will be the rollout.

Is the "wait" advice still applicable do you think? Anyone else also care to chime in?

My $0.03. The protection is robust for at least a month or two and then gradually less so after that. Ideally overlapping with as many protection-case-days (effectiveness*cases/day*days) as possible. In my head that's November/December. So maybe that means wait a month?

[Swansong]

It seems as though you get about 3-4 months of solid prophylactic protection post vaccination or infection for Covid, and seemingly years of severity-reduction after that. Which is good! It would be better if the prophylactic protection was longer, but considering this is one of the 3-5 most contagious diseases in human history, that isn't surprising.

Similar with flu, although influenza, I think, mutates far more easily and thus evades immunity easier.


All in all, I think a combination of "new booster available late September" plus timing the 3-4 months of prophylactic immunity over the worst time for communicable diseases (winter, in most of the US), suggests that both availability and effectivity are reasons to wait a bit.

If you go get vaccinated now, great. Whatever. Do it. The current booster is excellent. But if you want maximum efficacy and timeline, then wait until October. Personally, I'm waiting for mid-late October.