Hungry posted:

On the subject of booster jabs: it's only 4 months since I got stuck with the second dose of Pfizer slut juice. I don't trust the CDC's bullshit "8/6 months" thing, but is there any reason that 4 months out is too early for a sneaky 3rd?

Petey posted:

they've blogged this publicly now, so sharing: https://shaynathemaker.wordpress.com/2021/08/25/i-got-covid-19-as-a-healthy-vaccinated-college-student-and-im-still-dealing-with-it/

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/dsacathcaucus/status/1430547612206260225?s=19

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Thank you. Should I run the air conditioners/fans or would that be bad? It's pretty hot in my place (I hate the summer anyway, I like it cold AF) so normally I am running the AC/fans anyway.

quote:

A few months ago, Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican of Florida, declared his hands-off approach to COVID-19 “a tremendous success.” Politico announced that he had “won the pandemic.”

But then came the hypercontagious Delta variant, which continues to hit Florida harder than anywhere else in the country.

The result? DeSantis just added another, less flattering distinction to his résumé. When COVID first surged across the Sun Belt last summer, the average number of Floridians dying of the disease every 24 hours peaked at 185, according to the New York Times’s state-by-state COVID database. The same was true over the winter.

A few days ago, however, Florida’s daily death rate cleared 200 for the first time, and today it stands at 228 — an all-time high.

This makes DeSantis the first (and so far only) governor in the U.S. whose state is now recording more COVID-19 deaths each day — long after free, safe and effective vaccines became widely available to all Americans age 12 or older — than during any previous wave of the virus.

So what went wrong? California thinks it has the answer.

Since last spring, Florida and California — two of America’s biggest and most influential states — have been locked in a pitched battle over which kind of pandemic response makes the most sense: less or more. At times, the Sunshine State seemed to have the upper hand — like when Florida avoided the worst of a nationwide winter surge that hit California particularly hard, all while refusing to require masks in public and keeping bars and restaurants fully open.

But Delta may have changed that.

“Vaccines are working to prevent deaths in many other countries that have seen post vaccine spike in cases, and most other states in the U.S. as well. Florida is different,” Dr. Vincent Rajkumar, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, recently explained on Twitter. “What’s different in Florida is that, relative to the vaccination rate (~50%), the relaxation of distancing and masking was disproportionately high. Leaders expressed disdain for masks and mask mandates. The total number of people unvaccinated is high. And hospitals got overwhelmed.”

quote:

Residents in Hillsborough County, Florida have been asked to cut back on non-essential water usage like watering lawns and washing cars and warned to expect a “change in taste and odor in drinking water” as dwindling supplies of liquid oxygen, ordinarily used to purify drinking water, are diverted to hospitals using it to treat the state’s record numbers of Covid-19 patients.

John_A_Tallon posted:

If they don't succeed in infecting China with Delta, and they might not, then we can expect a hot war in the near future.

Zurtilik posted:

It is endemic. Nothing to be done now but accept the Lord's plan!

etalian posted:

Lol looks like Tampa will be switching to authentic swamp water since it uses a similar Ozone process as Orlando for purifying the aquifer water

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robert...sh=6c87a1e47557

etalian posted:

lol at Florida

https://news.yahoo.com/florida-is-the-only-state-where-more-people-are-dying-of-covid-now-than-ever-before-what-went-wrong-090001893.html

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

I admire your optimism. We still had that before delta.

You won't go full Sydney but you may go full Melbourne with just under 100 cases forever with never ending lockdown.

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/katie_martin_fx/status/1430850900592144385?s=19

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/katie_martin_fx/status/1430850900592144385?s=19

quote:

A friend sent me a long, panicked-seeming text about his growing oyster habit. He’d only tried them once or twice before the pandemic, but now he finds himself cycling to a ­fishmonger’s to buy a box of six and eating them right there in the street. “I don’t know why I do it; at this point it’s not even fun,” he said.

quote:

Queensland may as well kiss international tourism goodbye if arriving passengers are made to quarantine at a new purpose-built facility at Toowoomba, industry leaders have warned.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced on Thursday the new 1000-bed quarantine site would be fully operational by March, well after the country reaches its 80 per cent vaccination targets and restrictions are eased or lifted.

She said vaccines and hotel quarantine were the best weapons against the Delta variant of Covid-19 and even though you are vaccinated, you could still “transmit” the virus.

quote:

“I am concerned; it must be being built for a future pandemic or a new variant, I presume,” Mr Turner said.

“If that is the Queensland rule, Queensland won’t get any tourists and the other states will get them because no doubt they will be open in the next few months.

“If it was built for this pandemic, it is going to kill tourism permanently for Queensland and possibly interstate tourism as well.”

quote:

“I am concerned; it must be being built for a future pandemic or a new variant, I presume,” Mr Turner said.

“If that is the Queensland rule, Queensland won’t get any tourists and the other states will get them because no doubt they will be open in the next few months.

“If it was built for this pandemic, it is going to kill tourism permanently for Queensland and possibly interstate tourism as well.”

quote:

News.com.au is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia. It had 9.6 million unique readers in April 2019[1]

Joementum posted:

etalian posted:

Lol looks like Tampa will be switching to authentic swamp water since it uses a similar Ozone process as Orlando for purifying the aquifer water

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robert...sh=6c87a1e47557

quote:

The oxygen shortages are making it harder for Elon Musk’s aerospace venture SpaceX to launch its rockets and could affect its launch schedule, the company’s President Gwynne Shotwell said on Tuesday. Liquid oxygen is a crucial propellant used in rockets and Shotwell urged anyone with some spare to get in touch.

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/katie_martin_fx/status/1430850900592144385?s=19

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

So, hooray, I'm stuck letting a stranger into my home today because ConED wants to install new meters because it's not like there's a pandemic on, and I can't opt out.
I'll obviously not be letting the gently caress in unless they're wearing their mask properly, and will be wearing my respo the whole time they're here. I don't have any of those fancy in-door air purifiers/filters (what are some good recommendations for the future?) so what's my best bet for making things safe-'er' once they're gone and/or while they're here? I imagine opening all windows before they even come in is one thing? Should I turn on ceiling fans, standing fans, and air-conditioners, too, or will that just spread poo poo around rather than circulate in new air/spread it out? Once they leave I figure keep my front door open for a while?

I'm already freaking out about this so please no 'you're hosed lmao' jokes. Thanks.

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

im pretty sure people who do bleach enemas also think they're expelling worms when its actually intestinal lining. cant imagine thats not happening here.

mycomancy posted:

God drat, most humans alive in the West are just domesticated animals with little sentience.

quote:

At Southwest Airlines, the chief operating officer, Mike Van de Ven, shared a message with staff on Aug. 20, saying that the increase in bookings has “taken a toll on our operation and put a significant strain on all of you. And for that, I am sincerely sorry.” He also said that “historical staffing models have not been effective in this pandemic environment.”...

“You would think a pandemic affecting a ton of people would cause people to maybe pause and be more compassionate to each other,” said Ms. Petzel, the American Airlines attendant. “For whatever reason, it’s made it go the complete other way.”

Solarin posted:

bottled water panic buyers finally vindicated.

quote:

“You would think a pandemic affecting a ton of people would cause people to maybe pause and be more compassionate to each other,” said Ms. Petzel, the American Airlines attendant. “For whatever reason, it’s made it go the complete other way.”

gradenko_2000 posted:

wear your respirator

ask the technician to wear their mask

open your windows and your doors (assuming this isn't going to cause you to get robbed or whatever)

run all the fans you have, with a view towards bringing air from the outside, going in. Obviously you can't change the direction of a ceiling fan - run it anyway. If you can't put your box fans/standing fan near a window or a door, run it anyway, just eyeball whatever will help circulation

you can run the A/C just on the fan mode, no need to make it cool

keep the fans running and the windows/doors open for... idk 15 minutes after they leave? as much as an hour if you can manage it

Pryor on Fire posted:

The staffing models that large corps HR use have been completely wrong this year, I find this very amusing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/travel/flight-attendant-burnout.html

Business Gorillas posted:

turns out algorithms designed to keep everything limping along as cheaply as possible have zero allowances for "what happens if a massive pandemic occurs" or "what happens if a quarter of workforce quits or dies"

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

I want it cool lol. I assume the actual air conditioner is fine? And thanks for the info.

Zurtilik posted:

The thing is that it's not like other deaths have stopped. What the gently caress is society supposed to do with an extra 1,000+ bodies a day? This is what we want to be endemic? Do we just assume it'll stop after its killed enough?

Zurtilik posted:

The thing is that it's not like other deaths have stopped. What the gently caress is society supposed to do with an extra 1,000+ bodies a day? This is what we want to be endemic? Do we just assume it'll stop after its killed enough?

Zurtilik posted:

The thing is that it's not like other deaths have stopped. What the gently caress is society supposed to do with an extra 1,000+ bodies a day? This is what we want to be endemic? Do we just assume it'll stop after its killed enough?