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Fearful of 'Covid 2.0,' Maui business owners say they welcome tourism


The wildfires have sparked tension between grieving residents who say now is not the time to travel to the island and those who rely on tourism to survive.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

We did it folks

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fearful-covid-20-maui-business-owners-say-welcome-tourism-rcna100555

The Covid response was just a test run, we’re free forever now from any pretense that life matters more then the economy

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

We did it folks

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fearful-covid-20-maui-business-owners-say-welcome-tourism-rcna100555

The Covid response was just a test run, we’re free forever now from any pretense that life matters more then the economy

Spoondick posted:

we could house thousands of displaced residents or rent out thousands of units of housing as airbnbs to tourists or residents at gently caress-you prices gee hmm i wonder what they will choose

ibid posted:

god drat

https://twitter.com/CDCEnvironment/status/1692281921550614785

mahler_biryani posted:

I know this is late but it’s funny to see oneself described as part of forum drama (I am reasonably sure this is about me).

I just wanted to say that I didn’t see it the same way. I accidentally found the thread after spending almost 3 years finding my own set of precautions. Unfortunately, I swallowed propaganda of outdoor being magically safe wholesale. I found the response to my queries very reasonable and helpful. And I totally understand doubting my sincerity given the trolling invasions I have seen since. It was truly crack pinging time for me. I couldn’t believe I had missed all the evidence of outdoor transmission. To be clear, I was blaming myself and my blindness to this evidence.

Having said the above, I have only made minor adjustments to my precautions. I am not at thread level precautions and I am comfortable with it, given the fact that I have a kid that goes to school (masked, but unmasks for eating outdoors). I am much more aware of when I am rolling the dice than I was before the aforementioned discussion, and this is a great thing.

Speaking of which, I did roll some outdoor transmission dice on this work trip and now I seem to be having a bout of not Covid, which I still suspect might be Covid. I have fever and cough for 3 days now. I have done 3 RATs 12 hours apart and then PCR test which took 24 hours, all negative. All tests were done after I became symptomatic. I wonder if I am having the pre-Covid that was discussed the last couple days. I do have a paxlovid stash but given this seems to be something else, I guess I won’t take it. This is only the second time I am having any kind of sickness since 2019. The last one really was a cold as it lasted only 2 days and was negative on PCR.

salient posted:

the epidemiology prof teaching my infectious disease outbreak investigation class just sent an announcement that she has contracted the novel coronavirus but hopes to be teaching our first class in person on monday

ibid posted:

god drat

https://twitter.com/CDCEnvironment/status/1692281921550614785

quote:

The Biden administration’s effort to provide free Covid-19 vaccines to the uninsured will not start at retail pharmacies until mid-October, weeks after the government plans to make an updated version of the shot available to the broader public.

The gap in timing, which comes as Covid hospitalizations have ticked up in recent weeks, means that millions of Americans without health coverage will not be able to immediately get a no-cost vaccine at popular places like CVS and Walgreens, even as it will be widely available for those who have insurance.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the delay in pharmacy availability, with spokesperson Kathleen Conley saying the government is still finalizing contracts with companies like CVS and Walgreens that will allow them to distribute the vaccines for free.

The CDC expects the updated vaccine rollout to begin the third or fourth week of September, she said. But the contracts with pharmacies will likely not be finished until mid-October.

The uninsured will instead need to go to federal health centers or individual providers for free vaccines during the first stage of the fall vaccination campaign. That adds a layer of complexity, public health officials warn, that could discourage people from getting the shot.

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But with roughly a month to go before the vaccine rollout, CDC has yet to finalize the contracts. The agency maintains that it had always planned to begin free vaccine distribution in pharmacies in mid-October, even as the shot will be made available elsewhere earlier, due to the time it would take to reach formal agreements with the pharmacy chains. State health officials and public health experts planning for the on-the-ground campaign say they’ve gotten few specifics about how it will work or when they should expect more clarity.

“There’s just been a whole host of questions about how the pharmacy program’s going to work,” said Hannan. “A lot of those questions have been met with ‘we’re still working that out, we’re working on the contract.’”

Gunshow Poophole posted:

I made an iraqi beet stew with chicken kubbeh this week and have rarely been more powerful

Zugzwang posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3-NQvRmo3I

Real Mean Queen posted:

Sure, but the second, third and fourth sentences are probably better because you build up immunity

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

fosborb posted:

lol first locally transmitted malaria case in the DC area in the last 40 years just announced tonight

Zugzwang posted:

If we pushed it out of the US in the mid-20th century, surely we can all come together and get rid of it again

Calde posted:

woah, I remember that little saga!

quote:

Happy to see you're still lurking, covid thread lurkers gotta stick together imho

fosborb posted:

lol first locally transmitted malaria case in the DC area in the last 40 years just announced tonight

Tzen posted:

Went to the mall and visited my favorite store,



And then ate at the food court

Oracle posted:

So you're saying the poo poo AQI from the forest fires caused by climate change may well save us from covid, because it'll force people to mask up in a socially acceptable way?

Zugzwang posted:

If we pushed it out of the US in the mid-20th century, surely we can all come together and get rid of it again

quote:

Weekly nasal photodisinfection of 1,500 workers in a meat processing plant in Western Canada reduced infection rate to only 0.5% during a seven-month period (December 2020 to May 2021). During the same period, the provincial rate was 6.4%. This data indicates the infectivity rate of the treated population was reduced by 91.54%.

No serious side effects from the nasal photodisinfection (total of 21,459 treatments) were recorded.

Prior to the availability of vaccines, global meat processing plants were adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic due to close working conditions, with many Canadian meat processing plants experiencing severe disruption or closure.

Newly published research in the journal Public Health Practice shows that a weekly program of nasal photodisinfection implemented at a major Western Canada meat packing plant, alongside standard safety measures recommended by the US Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention (“CDC”), reduced the COVID-19 positivity rate by over 91% when compared to the reported provincial positivity rate over the same seven-month period.

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aPDT involves the application of a topical photosensitizer inside the nose, which has a positive charge that preferentially binds to negatively-charged microorganisms. Two small nasal cones connected to a light source are then inserted into the nares (nostrils) to activate the photosensitizer using a specific wavelength of red light. During illumination, the excited photosensitizer reacts with nearby oxygen which generates reactive oxygen species (ROS) that destroy a broad spectrum of microbes including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. This treatment is painless and takes approximately 5 min to administer.

ibid posted:

steriwave

https://ondinebio.com/photodisinfection-cuts-covid-in-meat-processing-plant/

Steve Yun posted:

a 1 in 1000 death rate…

if everyone in the us was vaccinated and got Covid, that would be 330,000 dead

ibid posted:

steriwave

https://ondinebio.com/photodisinfection-cuts-covid-in-meat-processing-plant/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666535223000393?via%3Dihub

Zugzwang posted:

If we pushed it out of the US in the mid-20th century, surely we can all come together and get rid of it again

ibid posted:

more

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/covid-vaccine-rollout-pharmacies-uninsured-00111496

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

10,000 jobs lost to the fires

But state tourism officials warn that as many as 10,000 jobs have been lost as a direct result of the Maui wildfires. Visitor spending losses are estimated at $1.05 million a day, and household income loss is estimated to top $535,500 a day, according to the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

https://github.com/sars-cov-2-variants/lineage-proposals/issues/606#issuecomment-1684906753 posted:

Since there is some discussion about concealed spread due to lack of surveillance, I'd like to share here some negative results too. That is probably unusual, but maybe still helpful.

In the past Austria was often an "early adopter" of emerging VoC/VuM/VoI's, probably due to its role in tourism.
In Austria there is an elaborated wastewater variant surveillance system. From the days August 6th and August 7th, we analyzed together with the Medical University Innsbruck, 30 samples covering ~40% of the Austrian population.

From all the mutations identified to be characteristic of BA.2.86 (i.e., G21941T, C22916T, C22353A, C21711T, C28958A, G26529C, C23604G, A26610G, A22034G, C26833T, C897A, G3431T, T15756A, A22556G, C25207T, C22208T, A7842G, G11042T, T22896A, C24378T, T13339C) only two mutations are found in any sample, those are C26833T and C22208T. They are not found in the same catchment. Both mutations were previously found in other backgrounds.

From our previous assessment of sensitivity I can confidently say that these results indicate that there is no community transmission of BA.2.86 in Austria as of August 7. Even the presence of single individuals is unlikely in monitored catchments, even though it can not be strictly excluded, especially in the larger catchments.

DominoKitten posted:

New BA.2.86 variant now has a nickname, Pirola:

https://twitter.com/TRyanGregory/status/1692545225019773101

Even strain nickname curmudgeon @JPWeiland supports it

https://twitter.com/JPWeiland/status/1692619712729944414

Steve Yun posted:

all this time we’ve been getting the fake Covid?



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...-caught-UK.html

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

We did it folks

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fearful-covid-20-maui-business-owners-say-welcome-tourism-rcna100555

The Covid response was just a test run, we’re free forever now from any pretense that life matters more then the economy

Tzen posted:

And then ate at the food court

Petey posted:

my blood pressure has been pretty consistently high for a few months now, 130+ SBP in medical settings, so my cardiologist had me get a home monitor to do daily tests for a few weeks, using the "five minutes of quiet and rest before a test" protocol.

the first few times it was 140+ SBP over 80-85 DBP, which is pretty high. then i started drinking 6-8oz of beet juice in the morning and it's gone down to 120- SBP over ~80-82 DBP.

it's hard to control for everything of course — food, exercise, rest, time of day, and so on. i'm sure there are many factors. i'll probably try cycling back off it and see what happens. just figured i would mention it on the endothelial health front.