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Apr 17, 2021 14:42
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Long* live the free market
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Apr 17, 2021 14:44
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must suck to live in a socialist country where there are always shortages of just one variant
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vyelkin posted:must suck to live in a socialist country where there are always shortages of just one variant  Thank you doug!
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As a moron royalist I love what a great job Boris Johnson did incubating a brand new variant for the Commonwealth. SECOND BRITISH INVASION, BABY!!
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:As a moron royalist I love what a great job Boris Johnson did incubating a brand new variant for the Commonwealth. SECOND BRITISH INVASION, BABY!! cheese ya lungs, guv'nah?
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I'm just amazed that they only managed to kill 100,000 more people than us so far plus create a vaccine that does gently caress all against the now-prevalent variants. They did a real lockdown, don't you know 
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:a vaccine that does gently caress all against the now-prevalent variants nonsense it's still 62% effective against b117. that is actually great in terms of the wider vaccine world and would be a very successful flu season, for comparison. there does appear to be substantially reduced efficacy vs the south african variant, though.
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Apr 19, 2021 14:18
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flakeloaf posted:It's higher than 0 and it's what's on offer They're still highly effective at preventing death and serious illness!
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Another Bill posted:They're still highly effective at preventing death and serious illness! yup! which is the most important part. all we have to do is get through this, which we will (though not as unscathed as we should, obviously), and i expect we'll see substantial effort toward a pancorona vaccine.
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AZ vaccine sites are now being listed on official govt websites as age 40+ in BC so I guess since boomers are vaccine shopping, the AZ vaccine suddenly became safer for people outside the 55-65 age range
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I'm not 40, so I still want John to tell me where my loving vaccine is
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My gf was reading about how thanks to the extremely slow rollouts of these vaccines, and number of people who are going to refuse to get one (globally, not just here in Canada) Covid is never going to go away. It's going to constantly mutate, and we'll be looking at getting yearly covid-season shots in the same way we get our yearly flu shots.
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Vaccines were never going to prevent COVID from being endemic. This isn't a failure of a vaccine rollout - it's by far the fastest vaccine development and the largest (and probably fastest) rollout we've ever done, by a significant margin (the previous development record was 5 years for Ebola). The problem is too many places adopted a strategy of minimizing stress on the health care system instead of aiming for eliminating COVID altogether.
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ExecuDork posted:I spend 8 months of 2018 at LU as a post-doc, working on the ReGreening project, the 40+ years of tree-planting on acidic, polluted soil that's actually working to return Sudbury to a forested city from its previous moonscape status. I remember 20years ago if you were driving across Ontario you could tell when you were getting close to Sudbury because all the trees literally started getting shorter and then they got taller again as you drove away.
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There's probably something to be said for patent rights forcing the vaccine into something like COVAX rather than just "open sourcing" the vaccine and letting everyone who can manufacture it. That sounds kind of naive when I say it but I think it's a factor.
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I remember getting polio vaccinations as a child in Europe, and that wasn't officially declared eliminated until 2000. Hell, you needed to get a yearly shot to protect yourself from tick-borne Lyme disease where I'm from.
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ZeeBoi posted:I remember getting polio vaccinations as a child in Europe, and that wasn't officially declared eliminated until 2000. Hell, you needed to get a yearly shot to protect yourself from tick-borne Lyme disease where I'm from. Got me curious since I'd never even heard of a Lyme disease vaccine and it looks like a GSK one called LYMERix was only available from 1998-2002 as a one(?)-time series of three shots before being abandoned for want of customer demand. Roughly 80% effective. US-centric info though - Was there a different one only available locally somewhere?
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Whoops, sorry it's called tick-borne encephalitis. https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/diseases/tick-borne-encephalitis
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Sounds like a perfect counter to all that head shrinking Zika 
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Supposedly in May I can get a vaccine here in Qubec. I'll believe it when I have the needle stuck in my arm.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Supposedly in May I can get a vaccine here in Qubec. I don't know how old you are but https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebecs-top-doctor-says-province-will-lower-age-of-eligibility-for/ quote:Quebecs director of public health said the province will lower the age of eligibility for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine today.
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ZeeBoi posted:I remember getting polio vaccinations as a child in Europe, and that wasn't officially declared eliminated until 2000. Hell, you needed to get a yearly shot to protect yourself from tick-borne Lyme disease where I'm from. Polio isn't officially eliminated. It is still endemic in parts of Asia. Polio vaccines are part of the routine vaccination schedule in Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-hea...s-children.html
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Goosed it. posted:Polio isn't officially eliminated. It is still endemic in parts of Asia. *declared eliminated in Europe I suck at posting today
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Martytoof posted:There's probably something to be said for patent rights forcing the vaccine into something like COVAX rather than just "open sourcing" the vaccine and letting everyone who can manufacture it. That sounds kind of naive when I say it but I think it's a factor. No you're absolutely right and if you want to get really mad about this, you can read about how Bill Gates is using his money and philanthropic clout to ensure IP protection on Covid vaccines so that poor people can't get them for cheap, despite the fact that something like the AZ vaccine was developed over the last 20 years based on 97% of its research funding coming from public sources rather than private industry.
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Apr 19, 2021 17:22
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Post all the vaccines on github so I can download them and sell them as NFTs so that I can afford a downpayment on a house
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https://twitter.com/CBCOttawa/status/1384260570363301893 could've bought more vaccines instead of a monument to nazis
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$4M might seem like a bit much for a ring, but it's a pretty large ring
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I can't wait to tag that thing with a red spraypainted hammer and sickle
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We should instead recreate that statue of Chronos punching all those babies and label it CAPITALISM VS POORS Pretty much the same thing
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yellowcar posted:https://twitter.com/CBCOttawa/status/1384260570363301893 Great website! I wonder who some of those donations are dedicated to.  Seems pretty rude to not list his other accomplishments! Being the second most genocidal European ruler during WW2 and architect of the biggest concentration camp outside of Poland was not an easy task. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_Paveli%C4%87#Genocide
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anybody toking up on the hill this year
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Starks posted:Great website! Lmao of course
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Another Bill posted:I don't know how old you are but I doubt it, I'm 33.
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Mameluke posted:anybody toking up on the hill this year i can't get high anymore without having vicious panic attacks, possibly due to how terrible everything is. it's also possible that i am a victim of communism.
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prom candy posted:i can't get high anymore without having vicious panic attacks, possibly due to how terrible everything is. it's also possible that i am a victim of communism. Ill just have to burn another one for ya bud
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