Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

HanSenSE · Nov 11, 2021

Neutral Corner · Nov 11, 2021

The next gen Covid vaccine appears to work on Covid-19, mutant strains and other varieties of Covid, and the common cold.

So will we still hear how they won't take it because it is experimental, a violation of their freedoms, and pollutes their precious bodily fluids, or will they simply take the damn thing? I mean, we're talking about the cure for the common cold here.

Next-gen supercharged COVID-19 vaccines may also target the common cold

tapintoamerica · Nov 11, 2021

Neutral Corner said: ↑

Health officials warn of increased risk of measles outbreak after 22 million infants missed their vaccine last year
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Interesting word choice in that headline. Infants "missed their vaccine" last year? As if they had a choice and declined?

maumann · Nov 11, 2021

Neutral Corner said: ↑

The next gen Covid vaccine appears to work on Covid-19, mutant strains and other varieties of Covid, and the common cold.

So will we still hear how they won't take it because it is experimental, a violation of their freedoms, and pollutes their precious bodily fluids, or will they simply take the damn thing? I mean, we're talking about the cure for the common cold here.

Next-gen supercharged COVID-19 vaccines may also target the common cold
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We put vitamins in all sorts of food products. Make it a mandatory ingredient in the production of beer, especially if it's tasteless. And by and large, the people refusing to get the vaccine buy tasteless beer.

Mngwa · Nov 11, 2021

Neutral Corner said: ↑

The next gen Covid vaccine appears to work on Covid-19, mutant strains and other varieties of Covid, and the common cold.

So will we still hear how they won't take it because it is experimental, a violation of their freedoms, and pollutes their precious bodily fluids, or will they simply take the damn thing? I mean, we're talking about the cure for the common cold here.

Next-gen supercharged COVID-19 vaccines may also target the common cold
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I would pay a lot of money to never have a sore throat again

Brooklyn Bridge · Nov 11, 2021

Our district held two townwide clinics for 5-11-year-olds yesterday. Huge lines. The superintendent sent an email today saying nearly 500 kids were vaccinated. My kids got Covid and flu shots this week.

I just need to go get my flu shot and we're all current

HanSenSE · Nov 11, 2021

Meanwhile in Canuckistan.

BTExpress · Nov 12, 2021

tapintoamerica said: ↑

Interesting word choice in that headline. Infants "missed their vaccine" last year? As if they had a choice and declined?
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The 22 million number struck me as odd.

There are only 3.5 million or so births a year. Hard to figure how 22 million vaccines could be "overdue" in one year.

Sam Mills 51 · Nov 12, 2021

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Yay or neigh?

playthrough · Nov 12, 2021

Brooklyn Bridge said: ↑

Our district held two townwide clinics for 5-11-year-olds yesterday. Huge lines. The superintendent sent an email today saying nearly 500 kids were vaccinated. My kids got Covid and flu shots this week.

I just need to go get my flu shot and we're all current
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We're taking our 9-year-old to get the shot at a big pop-up clinic set up across the street from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It's been going for a couple weeks, the traffic looked Indy 500-like when it first opened. Lots of kids plus you gotta figure in extra time for young'uns who really don't like shots. Like mine.

Spartan Squad · Nov 12, 2021

HanSenSE said: ↑

Meanwhile in Canuckistan.

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And a little closer to home, the but muh freedom people protest on the bridge because let's remember the sacrifices of our veterans by protesting ways to keep them safe. Police close one lane out of abundance of caution. Crash happens. Five people—bridge employees and two CHP officers—injured. Great job everyone!

Cosmo · Nov 12, 2021

From this morning's NYT newsletter ... was just having this conversation last night at a friend's place, re: at what point do you feel comfortable?

If not now …
Among the Covid experts I regularly talk with, Dr. Robert Wachter is one of the more cautious. He worries about “long Covid,” and he believes that many people should receive booster shots. He says that he may wear a mask in supermarkets and on airplanes for the rest of his life.

Yet Wachter — the chair of the medicine department at the University of California, San Francisco — also worries about the downsides of organizing our lives around Covid. In recent weeks, he has begun to think about when most of life’s rhythms should start returning to normal. Increasingly, he believes the answer is: Now.

This belief stems from the fact that the virus is unlikely to go away, ever. Like most viruses, it will probably keep circulating, with cases rising sometimes and falling other times. But we have the tools — vaccines, along with an emerging group of treatments — to turn it into a manageable virus, similar to the seasonal flu.

Given this reality, Wachter, who’s 64, has decided to resume more of his old activities and accept the additional risk that comes with them, much as we accept the risk of crashes when riding in vehicles.

Dr. Robert M. Wachter.Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle
He has begun eating in indoor restaurants again and playing poker, unmasked, with vaccinated friends. He has taken airplanes to visit relatives. He hosted a medical conference in downtown San Francisco with a few hundred masked and vaccinated attendees.

“I’m still going to be thoughtful and careful,” Wachter told The San Francisco Chronicle. But “if I’m not going to do it now, I’m probably saying that I’m not going to do it for the next couple of years, and I might be saying I’m not doing it forever.”

The hospitalization statistics in highly vaccinated communities help explain Wachter’s attitude. In Seattle (which publishes detailed data), the daily Covid hospitalization rate for vaccinated people has been slightly above one in one million. By comparison, the flu hospitalization rate in a typical year in the U.S. is more than twice as high. For most vaccinated people in a place like Seattle or San Francisco, Covid already resembles just another virus.

The risks are also low for unvaccinated children because Covid tends to be mild for them. (Plus, any child 5 or older can now be vaccinated.) For young children, Covid looks like a normal flu, if not a mild one:

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
As for long Covid, it is real but rare. It’s also not unique. The flu and other viruses also cause mysterious, lasting problems for a small share of people, studies show.

The bottom line is that Covid now presents the sort of risk to most vaccinated people that we unthinkingly accept in other parts of life. And there is not going to be a day when we wake up to headlines proclaiming that Covid is defeated. In many ways, the future of the virus has arrived.

All of which raises the question of which precautions should end — now or soon — and which should become permanent.

Should offices remain mostly empty? Should schools require children and teachers to wear masks? Should classrooms go remote again when they identify a new Covid case? (In Boston, a K-8 school closed for 10 days starting Wednesday because of an outbreak.) For how long should individuals organize their own lives around a fear of Covid?

Most of these questions are tricky, and a few factors can guide the decision-making, epidemiologists say.
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