Dren posted:

Also, it is too early to freak out about Mu.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

..... but if it ever becomes apparent that it IS something we should worry about it'll be too late to do anything about it by then.

We couldn't have done anything about it anyway

Dren posted:

i mean yeah we can't do anything about it either way but there have been a ton of variants that showed promise for vaccine escape but got outcompeted by delta so don't waste time being upset (yet)

boquiabierta posted:

Have there been any reports of people actually dying from ivermectin? All I see is that calls to poison control and ED visits for overdose are up.

Edit: just saw this on Facebook, ew

phasmid posted:

I feel slightly better when you put it that way. What an incongruous feeling in a time of pandemic... Viruses taking up real estate so worse viruses can't movie in? Who'd have thought.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Or it's covid.

phasmid posted:

I feel slightly better when you put it that way. What an incongruous feeling in a time of pandemic... Viruses taking up real estate so worse viruses can't movie in? Who'd have thought.

Platystemon posted:

The beauty of immune escape is that if a variant gets enough of it, it stops being a competition and all of that real estate opens up.

Pinecone Sample posted:

A bartender I know says the hot new trend in localities requiring vaccination for getting into restaurants/bars is patrons forgetting their CDC card

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Requiring vaccinations is dumb in a country where the only proof is a little card (which btw can be forged or obtained via shady practices)

I don't know if there's a good way to track vaccinations without having people in some sort of national govt database, but Americans just won't do that

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Requiring vaccinations is dumb in a country where the only proof is a little card (which btw can be forged or obtained via shady practices)

I don't know if there's a good way to track vaccinations without having people in some sort of national govt database, but Americans just won't do that

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

I don't know if there's a good way to track vaccinations without having people in some sort of national govt database, but Americans just won't do that

wilderthanmild posted:

Most states have vaccination databases. Just most places doing confirmation aren't going through the hoops to use em.

Bad Purchase posted:

why don't they just scan the microchip to verify vaccination?

Crackbone posted:

I can’t help feeling fatalistic about covid at this point. We’re almost 2 years in, and things are arguably worse than a year ago. We have a dedicated population that will not get vaccinated, and an even larger population that won’t take basic precautions in public. It appears we can’t stop covid from becoming endemic, so what now? Encourage masks and vaccines as the new social norm and build out dedicated COVID treatment centers/crematoriums?

Dren posted:

i mean yeah we can't do anything about it either way but there have been a ton of variants that showed promise for vaccine escape but got outcompeted by delta so don't waste time being upset (yet)

Lolie posted:

That we haven't even managed to make purpose built quarantine facilities in the last year and a half

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Each motorhome has heating and cooling, and includes living and bedroom accommodation, kitchen, toilet, a shower, linen, radio and television.

The showground has access to power, water, and waste disposal services.

NSW Health has set up a "base camp" at the site, with staff on the ground around the clock to support the community.

They include personnel from NSW Health, NSW Police, the ADF, Aboriginal Affairs, the Rural Fire Service, State Emergency Service, NSW Ambulance, Resilience NSW, the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the local council, and a number of volunteer organisations.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

This is not a joke image

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

This is not a joke image

Crackbone posted:

I can’t help feeling fatalistic about covid at this point. We’re almost 2 years in, and things are arguably worse than a year ago. We have a dedicated population that will not get vaccinated, and an even larger population that won’t take basic precautions in public. It appears we can’t stop covid from becoming endemic, so what now? Encourage masks and vaccines as the new social norm and build out dedicated COVID treatment centers/crematoriums?

ymgve posted:

I really hope someone has done the pour-on dosing. Just drenched themselves from head to toe.

(Is it actually absorbed through skin, or is animal pour-on just used to treat external parasites?)

Barudak posted:

My mid 2000s rap decadence video but Im spraying ivermectin instead of champagne

Barudak posted:

My mid 2000s rap decadence video but Im spraying ivermectin instead of champagne

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“Children transmit viruses to each other, to their families, to their communities,” Swann said. “The first step toward normalcy is getting children vaccinated, at least for ages 5 and up. Right now, unfortunately, what we’re seeing in Florida is many, many children getting infected.”

Swann sees several possible routes back to normal life, including letting the virus burn through the population, focusing on masking and hybrid schooling, or a return to lockdowns. But her preferred pathway is mass vaccination of children — which can only happen after the vaccines are approved for the 5-to-11 age group, a step that’s not expected until at least later this year — along with masking and increased testing.

Ten years from now, the coronavirus “will be like influenza — it can cause death, but nothing like what we see now,” Swann said. But in the next year or so, the best Americans can hope for is a partial return to normalcy, with hospitals no longer being crushed with covid patients and occasional surges of covid in communities with low vaccination rates.

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And the national divide over vaccines, masks and other such politicized public health measures could well end up being the reason the pandemic persists in the United States, said Alex Berenson, a novelist and former New York Times reporter. Berenson’s agitation against the vaccine has become a popular source of succor for many who have refused to get the shot, but it also got him permanently banned from Twitter for what the company called “repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules.”

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

This is not a joke image



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