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Blackhawk posted:New Zealand's R value currently appears to be about 0.8, which is pretty good when delta's R0 is something like 6. Still even at 0.8 it's going to take us a longarse time to get back down to zero cases. I'm hoping the current R value is still a bit juiced by inter-household transmission and will go down again once it's burnt through all of the existing case family members. you have the luckiness of people experiencing their first lockdown in a long time and actually taking it seriously. i had to laugh watching some hiker youtuber from NZ who was posting videos all about "oh my gosh look at lockdown, haha zoom with friends... kick back and watch TV all day! this is awesome!" you've got about a month where people will put up with and do that willingly. hope you can get things under control in that time. that's the one shot you get basically
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none of my friends answer my zoom calls anymore.
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mod sassinator posted:you have the luckiness of people experiencing their first lockdown in a long time and actually taking it seriously. i had to laugh watching some hiker youtuber from NZ who was posting videos all about "oh my gosh look at lockdown, haha zoom with friends... kick back and watch TV all day! this is awesome!" you've got about a month where people will put up with and do that willingly. hope you can get things under control in that time. that's the one shot you get basically Yeah, it's really looking like even with vaccines if you want to keep things more or less normal most of the time you're still going to have to shut the entire country down every time you pick up a single community case. Vaccines would hopefully reduce the time in lockdown because the pre-detection spread would have been a bit less, but it's by no means a magic bullet. There's been some talk here about whether we can realistically go back to 'level 1' again, given even a single super-spreader event with delta (like a big rugby game or trade show/conference etc.) could potentially gently caress you with cases to the point where an effective lockdown would just be too long for the general population to tolerate. Edit: Like in this case we shut the entire country down the day of detection of a single community case, and now Auckland at least will be in maximum lockdown for minimum 1 month, and then likely several months of less restrictive lockdown after that. We were lucky that it didn't really spread to the rest of the country and so they'll be opening up a lot sooner. If we'd let it get to 10 or 100 cases in the community before lockdown we'd have been turbo-hosed. Blackhawk fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Aug 30, 2021 |
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gottleib, member of pfizer's board, is signaling winter for child vaccine availability: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-gottlieb-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-fda-children/quote:Washington — Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the Food and Drug Administration and a member of Pfizer's board of directors, predicted Sunday that the drug company's COVID-19 vaccine could be available to children younger than 12 by early winter, a crucial development in the nation's vaccination efforts as kids return to the classrooms. really pretty ridiculous no one can come out and say a solid date. just loving spill the beans, is it looking like december 1st? stringing people along with "we're going to file in october" means nothing
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we might have our next delta variant right here: https://inews.co.uk/news/health/boardmasters-festival-new-delta-strain-cornwall-event-1172393quote:Fears are rising that a new strain of the Delta variant of Covid-19 has emerged among festival goers after an event attended by 53,000 revellers in Cornwall led to sharp spike in cases among younger people.
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super sweet best pal posted:The Cornwall corn army is no match for a COVID warrior. i floop the pig
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mod sassinator posted:gottleib, member of pfizer's board, is signaling winter for child vaccine availability: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-gottlieb-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-fda-children/ Maybe they're timing it out so kids get all get their shots on Christmas break First day of Winter is 12/21
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McNugget Buddy posted:Maybe they're timing it out so kids get all get their shots on Christmas break the war on* Christmas just got real *on as in during. not against.
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silicone thrills posted:My last remaining lib friend flew to Spain for vacation this week Lmao. come to find out one friend is on the "if you read covid news so much you're worried about it, you need therapy" story arc the other is "just not seeking out any sort of downer info" my response is well we've made it this long without getting sick, and it's nice to stare into the sun the peak of the hangout was when i informed them all of the horse paste and all the folks eating it to cure their covid the look on their faces lmaoooooooo
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mod sassinator posted:we might have our next delta variant right here: https://inews.co.uk/news/health/boardmasters-festival-new-delta-strain-cornwall-event-1172393
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then again, https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1432201185033863170
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inferis posted:tough job working at the enumclaw tractor supply ![]()
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https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/84e8dbb1-b2f8-469d-b2a2-416c7756e252
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been following the ida news today and i just realized that i had forgotten about the pandemic like my brain is currently incapable of holding the reality of those two disasters happening at the same point in space and time lol, and also lmao piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing
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pancake rabbit posted:been following the ida news today and i just realized that i had forgotten about the pandemic What kind of paste do I eat for a hurricane?
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has ida petered out into a cat 1 yet
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Salt Fish posted:What kind of paste do I eat for a hurricane? CA glue, to stick yourself to a post in the ground and then to glue your flesh back together in the aftermath
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I keep trying to communicate to people how hosed up I am from my likely previous covid but they don't care. Even when I was directly dealing with it, it was the most sick I have ever felt and absolutely loving miserable. The lies about how vaccinated people won't get it and if they do it will just be a cold is a soothing reality that absolutely will not be abandoned until every single person gets it themselves because even seeing people near them getting sick is just considered the limited exception that you can't worry about.
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I've also been feeling like poo poo for days with a negative covid test and its insane how our society is so casual about every respiratory illness. This poo poo sucks!
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pancake rabbit posted:been following the ida news today and i just realized that i had forgotten about the pandemic [laughs in Californian] But seriously sometimes I take a “break” from pandemic news to check on the rampaging fires and carcinogenic air quality, and it is a good distraction. A change is as good as a rest.
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Salt Fish posted:What kind of paste do I eat for a hurricane? duck tails
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gonna put 5th wave on my schedule for Jan/Feb
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Koirhor posted:gonna put 5th wave on my schedule for Jan/Feb ![]()
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Shiroc posted:I keep trying to communicate to people how hosed up I am from my likely previous covid but they don't care. Even when I was directly dealing with it, it was the most sick I have ever felt and absolutely loving miserable. The lies about how vaccinated people won't get it and if they do it will just be a cold is a soothing reality that absolutely will not be abandoned until every single person gets it themselves because even seeing people near them getting sick is just considered the limited exception that you can't worry about. I'm sorry that you got sick, friend. ![]()
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This thread is getting worse than the climate change thread lmao, God drat. It's going to be a rough winter.
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Shiroc posted:I keep trying to communicate to people how hosed up I am from my likely previous covid but they don't care. Even when I was directly dealing with it, it was the most sick I have ever felt and absolutely loving miserable. The lies about how vaccinated people won't get it and if they do it will just be a cold is a soothing reality that absolutely will not be abandoned until every single person gets it themselves because even seeing people near them getting sick is just considered the limited exception that you can't worry about. just all around hosed Cup Runneth Over posted:This thread is getting worse than the climate change thread lmao, God drat. It's going to be a rough winter. just all around hosed
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Tzen posted:it sucks that people don't give a gently caress, or even write off experiences of those they are close to die has been cast ![]()
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I'm seeing a business opportunity for anyone with a horse and a camera. Cup Runneth Over posted:This thread is getting worse than the climate change thread lmao, God drat. It's going to be a rough winter. It's kind of awesome, isn't it?
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People love to criticize capitalism but its hard not to enjoy the consumer choice of which doomsday scenario to obsess over.
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Hexigrammus posted:It's kind of awesome, isn't it? No, it's genuinely really sad, because it's hitting goons now, and the thread is anxious and depressing instead of brain broken and jokerfied
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Blackhawk posted:New Zealand's R value currently appears to be about 0.8, which is pretty good when delta's R0 is something like 6. Still even at 0.8 it's going to take us a longarse time to get back down to zero cases. I'm hoping the current R value is still a bit juiced by inter-household transmission and will go down again once it's burnt through all of the existing case family members. have you considered letting the virus wash over your children, elderly and vulnerable instead? lot of tourism dollars being left on the table by not surrendering to the virus
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Hexigrammus posted:It's kind of awesome, isn't it? nope ![]()
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Tzen posted:lol esp when it's all baked in, just nothing to be done at this point, no one in power is going to do anything https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1367668000346828806 quite contrary! everyone in power is working very hard, very diligently, in service of virus.
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me laughing at dying chuds: Haha gently caress yeah!!! Yes!! me providing emotional support for people forced into infection by our broken society: Well this loving sucks. What the gently caress.
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Delta-Wye posted:https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1367668000346828806 Oh my God I had no idea it was a quote
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Cup Runneth Over posted:This thread is getting worse than the climate change thread lmao, God drat. It's going to be a rough winter. nah. both threads are great and make me laugh a lot. I know winter will suck, so video game backlog, a weight loss goal and a ton of work to build my business here I come. spring will be here before we know it, and another million or so dead.
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mod sassinator posted:gottleib, member of pfizer's board, is signaling winter for child vaccine availability: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-gottlieb-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-fda-children/ It's not releasing to theaters. People in the line can say no.
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LionArcher posted:nah. both threads are great and make me laugh a lot. I know winter will suck, so video game backlog, a weight loss goal and a ton of work to build my business here I come. spring will be here before we know it, and another million or so dead. I'm not using "worse" as in quality, I love both threads. I'm talking about mood. It's getting loving bleak in here, even the climate change thread regulars might tell you guys to lighten up.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Oh my God I had no idea it was a quote this thread is brokebrained, not creativ
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Chamale posted:I'm being way too risky at outdoor events with double vaccinated people. Those are the events I can set up to not have to actively enact precautions while talking to people, but at the current case rate it's not entirely safe for a group of vaccinated people to eat at a picnic table together. Ugh. ...what?
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