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Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

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Swansong said:
There have been a number of competing and contradictory studies on this (what is the latent severity of Omicron vs. Delta). I think, as Drew notes, the decoupling of severity from case rates is likely a function of earned immunity through immunization, infection or both.

Delta hit when we still had a sizeable amount of people without any immunity. Omicron hit when that was no longer the case.
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Still, I saw something last week, I forget where, probably Eschaton, that said for like last month or whenever, 40% of the Covid deaths were among the vaccinated.
 
rufus said:
Still, I saw something last week, I forget where, probably Eschaton, that said for like last month or whenever, 40% of the Covid deaths were among the vaccinated.
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I would assume they had some sort of pre-existing condition like my vaxxed buddy who died.
 
I think the big cause for that "40% [if that's the correct number] of deaths are among the vaccinated" thing is a simple math problem ( (c) scooby). Most people that are at high risk of death from covid are vaccinated, so looking at it this way is a bit of a Simpson's Paradox.
 
Swansong said:
I think the big cause for that "40% [if that's the correct number] of deaths are among the vaccinated" thing is a simple math problem ( (c) scooby). Most people that are at high risk of death from covid are vaccinated, so looking at it this way is a bit of a Simpson's Paradox.
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This country has failed math. We don't understand it, we can't do it, and we don't get it. 1 million dead. Does it attack the vulnerable i.e. natural selection? Yes. We were supposed to be better than that. We are not.
 
My younger niece has COVID, as do her two roommates. One of which was supposed to attend her graduation ceremony yesterday but couldn't. She's doing OK for now, worried a little about the older niece as the two of them were together at the Red Sox game on Wednesday. She's been testing negative but came down with conjunctivitis yesterday. Hopefully not related but she may go get a PCR test today. Ugh. I hate this.
 
Scarlet said:
My younger niece has COVID, as do her two roommates. One of which was supposed to attend her graduation ceremony yesterday but couldn't. She's doing OK for now, worried a little about the older niece as the two of them were together at the Red Sox game on Wednesday. She's been testing negative but came down with conjunctivitis yesterday. Hopefully not related but she may go get a PCR test today. Ugh. I hate this.
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It sucks. Absolutely sucks.

My dad caught covid about 10 days ago now (vaccinated, boosted). mAb treatment. 99% recovered, but still positive on rapid tests.

And he's scheduled to go to Israel on Wednesday.


Fortunately, Israel (and much of Europe) accepts "recovery notes" from doctors in lieu of negative tests, but jesus this one cut close.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
This country has failed math. We don't understand it, we can't do it, and we don't get it. 1 million dead. Does it attack the vulnerable i.e. natural selection? Yes. We were supposed to be better than that. We are not.
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In the end Scooby, Mother Nature always wins.
 
Handyman said:
In the end Scooby, Mother Nature always wins.
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Don't gotta be a weather man to know which way the wind blows.

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ScoobyDoo said:
Yes, she does. I used to believe in Engineering and Science to mitigate her control. I no longer believe.
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Oh I still do...but no matter what The Earth has the final say. It gets used a lot by me but this is the truth:


The planet is fine, the people are fucked!
 
They did say in their official press release "we will extinguish the virus as quickly as possible."

I am not joking.
 
"If I had a million corpses."

A Proclamation on Remembering the 1,000,000 Americans Lost to COVID-⁠19

MAY 12, 2022 • PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS

Today, we mark a tragic milestone: one million American lives lost to COVID-19. One million empty chairs around the dinner table. Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family, a community, and a Nation forever changed because of this pandemic. Jill and I pray for each of them.

As a Nation, we must not grow numb to such sorrow. To heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible. In remembrance, let us draw strength from each other as fellow Americans. For while we have been humbled, we never give up. We can and will do this together as the United States of America.

In memory of the one million American lives lost to COVID-19 and their loved ones left behind, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset May 16, 2022. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same period at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-sixth.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
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