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

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rufus said:
I have it on good authority from the old guys down at the Legion Hall that Jebbie's mom is alive and well, and still providing her special services upon request.
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"What's an aquadump?"

Nobody commented that The Little Brown One broke with the whole family, went full-on Dump, and lost his primary anyway. Must be even more awkward around the Jebber household these days.
 
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I know this is very much in the last page in terms of news, as the US as settled into kind of a steady state mode.

And it's not nearly as good as some would try to make you think- the 7 day average has been around 300/day for quite a while now. That's a big improvement over the darkest days, most certainly, but from an annual basis, that's still over 100,000 Americans who die. Somewhere between 1.5-3x that of influenza. For the people who claim this is just like the cold, remind me how many people die of a cold?

It's astonishing how people are so very casual about this many deaths in a year, and it's ok. If it were the flu- I'm not sure how it would be seen, given it's worse than the worst flu season in some time.

I'm very glad we are so much better than the darkest days, don't get me wrong. But for anyone to pretend that this is all over- I sure hope you have all of your booster shots. (thankfully, here in my county, a gross majority have been vaccinated, and most people I've met have been boosted. It's been over a month since someone died here from COVID.
 
MichVandal said:
I know this is very much in the last page in terms of news, as the US as settled into kind of a steady state mode.

And it's not nearly as good as some would try to make you think- the 7 day average has been around 300/day for quite a while now. That's a big improvement over the darkest days, most certainly, but from an annual basis, that's still over 100,000 Americans who die. Somewhere between 1.5-3x that of influenza. For the people who claim this is just like the cold, remind me how many people die of a cold?

It's astonishing how people are so very casual about this many deaths in a year, and it's ok. If it were the flu- I'm not sure how it would be seen, given it's worse than the worst flu season in some time.

I'm very glad we are so much better than the darkest days, don't get me wrong. But for anyone to pretend that this is all over- I sure hope you have all of your booster shots. (thankfully, here in my county, a gross majority have been vaccinated, and most people I've met have been boosted. It's been over a month since someone died here from COVID.
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Of the 300/day, what percentage are unvaccinated? Because honestly, that does effect how much fucks to give. If it's 90% unvaxxed, then I really don't care. If it's closer to 50/50, then i'll be concerned.
 
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Of the 300/day, what percentage are unvaccinated? Because honestly, that does effect how much fucks to give. If it's 90% unvaxxed, then I really don't care. If it's closer to 50/50, then i'll be concerned.
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Not sure who the 100,000 are, but the April 2 numbers are 0.76 deaths/100k unvaxord, 0.1 deaths/100k vaccinated, and 0.06 deaths/100k vax and boost. On that same week, 78% of the population has one shot, 66% both shots..... I would imagine if the data is then corrected for pure numbers within it's own group, but I'm too lazy to get any deeper than I am already. The CDC has a lot of data, but outside of downloading it, it's kind of a pain to work with on the web.

But roughly- of 300, 265 are not vaccinated, the other 35 are (and many are boosted). And roughly annually- unvaccinated deaths are ~97,000 a year, vaccinated ~13k. The latter is significantly lower than normal influenza for the entire population, the former is considerably higher.
 
I give literally zero fucks about the willfully unvaxxed at this point.

13k/yr is not great, but honestly, that's barely high enough to make top 30 for causes of death. When's the last time you saw a news story about bladder cancer?
 
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I give literally zero fucks about the willfully unvaxxed at this point.

13k/yr is not great, but honestly, that's barely high enough to make top 30 for causes of death. When's the last time you saw a news story about bladder cancer?
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Not news, but you see ads treating drugs for random cancers all the time. Or asking for money... LOL.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I give literally zero fucks about the willfully unvaxxed at this point.

13k/yr is not great, but honestly, that's barely high enough to make top 30 for causes of death. When's the last time you saw a news story about bladder cancer?
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This.
 
Isn’t that the guy who advocated for schools to go entirely online and then it turned out he enrolled his kids in some Austrian boarding school specifically so they could be in person?
 
It's looking like BA.5 is set to outpace BA.4 and the multiple versions of BA.2 (we, in the US, mostly had BA.2.12). What does that mean? Well, it means that reinfection is likely, even for those that had BA.2.xx. Previous infection = 2/3 doses of vaccine basically reduces severity to flu-level, however even all that prior immunity doesn't offer a whole lot of protection against infection outside a few months.

Crazy. Again, I will state my belief that Covid 19 will be in the top 3 most infectious diseases ever discovered.
 
Swansong said:
It's looking like BA.5 is set to outpace BA.4 and the multiple versions of BA.2 (we, in the US, mostly had BA.2.12). What does that mean? Well, it means that reinfection is likely, even for those that had BA.2.xx. Previous infection = 2/3 doses of vaccine basically reduces severity to flu-level, however even all that prior immunity doesn't offer a whole lot of protection against infection outside a few months.

Crazy. Again, I will state my belief that Covid 19 will be in the top 3 most infectious diseases ever discovered.
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I hope Biden reverses course soon on his ridiculous Covid policies. We need to get it under control ASAP.
 
Swansong said:
It's looking like BA.5 is set to outpace BA.4 and the multiple versions of BA.2 (we, in the US, mostly had BA.2.12). What does that mean? Well, it means that reinfection is likely, even for those that had BA.2.xx. Previous infection = 2/3 doses of vaccine basically reduces severity to flu-level, however even all that prior immunity doesn't offer a whole lot of protection against infection outside a few months.

Crazy. Again, I will state my belief that Covid 19 will be in the top 3 most infectious diseases ever discovered.
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Already there. The speed and efficiency is unlike anything we've ever seen.
 
Drew S. said:
I hope Biden reverses course soon on his ridiculous Covid policies. We need to get it under control ASAP.
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Nope. No going back now. Our chance was in mid-2020. There is nothing we can do at this point. Not a thing. You can get vaccinated or not. Hospitalizations are relatively low and among the vaccinated relative to the unvaccinated. The government should do what they would with influenza at this point. Monitor, provide resources, but the people have had their chance to get vaccinated.
 
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