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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

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  1. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I think China is way beyond that. In just a generation, standards of living have risen dramatically in China, and hundreds of millions of people have gone from abject poverty to becoming middle-class consumers. That is no longer a country of people happy to be lifted out of a subsistence. They will put up with their human rights being subjugated if those standards of living keep rising and they keep getting more and more stuff. That stuff ain't just food on the table, it's the same toys and relatively rich lifestyle that Americans want.

    That isn't going to happen, though, because they took what has essentially been a command economy as far as it can go on a mixture of 1) a dose of supply and demand mixed with 2) capital controls and 3) a huge amount of debt that has been inefficiently sprinkled around.

    The irony (unless I am using the word incorrectly) is that what lifted China to where it is today, was that it turned itself into a nation that was willing to produce things more cheaply for fat-and-happy Western countries that stopped producing things competitively themselves, and ran up a lot of debt to feed more and more consumption. And China is now becoming more like us in that regard than a country like Vietnam or Bangladesh.

    The difference is the suppression of human rights in China, and that puts the Communist party in a precarious position.
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 10, 2022
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  2. Jake from State Farm

    Jake from State Farm Well-Known Member

    Got double BOOSTED today
     
    Jake from State Farm, Apr 10, 2022
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  3. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member


    Site style is:

    Got double BOOSTED today

    and

    current Colorado snowpack statewide is 88% of median.
     
    Azrael, Apr 10, 2022
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  4. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    I got my first boost last December, so I'll have to wait until June for my second one.
     
    Twirling Time, Apr 10, 2022
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  5. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    HanSenSE, Apr 10, 2022
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  6. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Paywalled. Can you summarize?
     
    tapintoamerica, Apr 10, 2022
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  7. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    Not eligible for the second boost. Not old enough. When I am, will gladly get it.
     
    Cosmo, Apr 10, 2022
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  8. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    I got mine in December as well. I'm thinking that I'm going to hold on the 4th booster until the infection rate starts to spike back up. I'll get it for certain, but maybe more toward the fall. I always waited until late October to get my flu shot, because coverage wanes and it's usually still bad in February. Trying to stretch the most efficacious sweet spot.

    My wife will probably get titers drawn before getting another one. She's immune impaired, virtually zero IgA. It's entirely possible that the vax is doing nothing at all for her. She was in a research study ten years ago and after taking three measles vax over six months her immunity to them was basically a flat line. We're hoping her response to the covid vax is better, but without doing the blood draw all we can do is be careful.
     
    Neutral Corner, Apr 10, 2022
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  9. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Got my booster in November, then got Omnicrom in late December. I'll probably hold off on the second booster as well.
     
    MileHigh, Apr 10, 2022
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  10. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Miller's mother, 90, tested positive the last weekend of the season. Condition deteriorates as the series goes on, to the point that she's put in hospice care*. She's highly contagious, so, obviously, he can't go visit. Daughter recalls when her mother suddenly died quickly and unexpectedly a couple of years ago and how she never had the chancd to say goodbye, or properly grieve. She's afraid he won't have the opportunity to see her if she goes.

    Anyway, Dodgers win in 5, he gets the visit and, believe it or not, she starts getting better, to the point she was no longer getting hospice care and beat covid.

    *-Hospice care, not actually placed in a hospice. There is a difference. Hoping @OscarMadison or another member in the medical field can jump in and explain the difference, if necessary.
     
    HanSenSE, Apr 11, 2022
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  11. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Hospice care from my understanding is that the focus becomes keeping the person comfortable rather than treating the medical condition because no treatment will make it better. The person can receive this care at home.
     
    TheSportsPredictor, Apr 11, 2022
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  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Boosted in October, haven't had Covid. I am holding off a second boost, on the rationale that even though I have zero antibody protection from the last dose at this point, we are not in the middle of a surge at the moment. I don't want to get boosted now, have us get through the summer without a spike in cases and then have the next surge come at say the end of October or in November, when my boost from April will be useless.

    I'll get re-vaccinated if I see cases start picking up again. My thinking on this may not really matter, though, because my sense from reading is that this is likely to turn into a seasonal thing and by the fall when people are getting boosted, we may have a vaccine that targets the spike proteins of the newer variants. If that is the case, having gotten boosted right now would have been fine and I'll just be getting another shot with a reformulated vaccine. But right now, I am fine with letting the case loads determine whether I get boosted and when.
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 11, 2022
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