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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

Canada needs to get on with ordering more of those Pfizer pills. Supply is gonna be a huge issue with those for the next couple of years across the world. They need to scale up bigly. Will likely only be given to high risk folks anyway to prevent drug resistance. The young and healthy can mostly fight off infection alright anyway so it'll help an incredible amount with hospitalizations.

Intranasal vaccines that do a better job fighting initial infection + vaccines with broader coverage are two other things that can make a huge difference. Neither are particularly close right now but they're easily doable if they start putting more resources into getting them done.
 
Not sure if I posted before on this, but would flipping the script on school years and breaks make a difference? In school from April to December? Having winter break like summer break. Just a thought.
 
That UK report is a couple days old yeah. Just no evidence right now. Important point is that way the fuck more vaccinated people are being infected than ever so even if the variant is not milder it should appear that way everywhere (eventually) if vaccines (and reinfections) are doing their job. Right now no evidence of milder but that's gonna take a long time to figure out because there are so many factors.

Example:



Note that each variant up until this point has actually been deadlier. But for a variety of reasons (less infections from the highly vaxxed vulnerable, reinfections are milder, breakthroughs are milder, survivor bias, etc) it looks like each variant has gotten milder. Our bodies are naturally slowly learning how to fight a brand new disease. Obviously a lot harder to do when you're old and frail but vaccines help.
 
For those who got their flu shots... The vaccine may not prevent infection this year. Will still minimize severity tho.

 
hockeylover said:
this sounds perfect but... also hoping DoFo's gov't will pull this off this level of organization or foresight seems like a total fantasy.
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Then vote on the 2nd of June and get everyone you know to vote. Covid isn't going away on it's own, and if we have the tools to properly manage it but still can't...well fuck.
 
axlsalinger said:
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We all need to remember this before the brow beating begins of us needing to be kind and cater to them.

They have zero interest in catering to us. Literally zero. Your extended family that you're bending over backwards to be kind to and accomodate would throw you out of a moving vehicle if you required them to lift a finger to protect you (and themselves) from this.
 
Preston said:
That UK report is a couple days old yeah. Just no evidence right now. Important point is that way the fuck more vaccinated people are being infected than ever so even if the variant is not milder it should appear that way everywhere (eventually) if vaccines (and reinfections) are doing their job. Right now no evidence of milder but that's gonna take a long time to figure out because there are so many factors.

Example:



Note that each variant up until this point has actually been deadlier. But for a variety of reasons (less infections from the highly vaxxed vulnerable, reinfections are milder, breakthroughs are milder, survivor bias, etc) it looks like each variant has gotten milder. Our bodies are naturally slowly learning how to fight a brand new disease. Obviously a lot harder to do when you're old and frail but vaccines help.
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Also a grim thing to consider...we've already killed the weakest/most susceptible ~.5% among us.
 
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Germany agreeing with UK. Also say that boosters are not enough to blunt the wave sufficiently (which is not surprising considering the share of boosted folks getting infected).



(For the record I still don't think severity can be concluded one way or another at this stage, but it's clearly still that covid thing that kills people)
 
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