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

MindzEye said:
Not to fuck with everyone's christmas zen, but a chat with a well connected business contact says that Dougie is quietly preparing an extended lockdown. My buddy has heard 8 weeks as the number fwiw but he wasn't as sure on that as he was on the lockdown bit.
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If they allow kids to go back to school after I’m down. They did this last year as well. Identically actually. Except they waited for boxing week sales to be over. I wonder if it’s actually going to be a lockdown or everything’s open with restrictions and capacity limits
 
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Big spike in Florida yesterday, 1,000 short of their record - 26,811

Equivalent of around 17,000 in Ontario. Could you imagine how different the reaction of the public would be here if we had 17,000 cases and only 63% fully vaccinated? Yikes.
 
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Florida has a lot of immunity through infection much like South Africa did so I do wonder if they'll be alright. Much older population tho.
 
Good to see




Also a new report came out saying that an estimated 1 in 10 people in London have been omicroned in the past week. That seems... Excessive. And would probably explain why we're seeing slowdowns across most countries who started their waves a month ago. The virus first takes out the most succeptable and then it starts struggling to find people to infect at some point. I hope this doesn't correspond with a delta resurgence! Get boosted to prevent that!
 
Looks like Israel MAY roll back decision to roll out 4 doses after seeing data about how quickly protection wanes. It won't be enough to help with omicron and with their level of population immunity it might not be a bad thing to let it rip!
 
hockeylover said:
Everyone I know's Christmases being cancelled left right and centre right now because of positives.
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lol. I laugh cause it is like stupidly obvious to me that you should not wait for people to get sick before changing plans due to pandemic, but apparently this is an unpopular viewpoint.

I know a number of people who have modified their plans in advance in response to the situation on the ground (example, my boss' wife's family cancelled their planned trip from PEI to Halifax, know a few folks who cancelled planned trips to ON). most folks I know around here are doing very muted celebrations, if any at all...

although one of my colleagues plans did get thrown off by some positive from the in-laws.

Buuuut I also know some people who are planning to continue on as if there is no pandemic. I don't really have much sympathy when the virus ruins their plans, but that's just me. People seem to have very much stratified into these two camps.
 
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My aunt and uncle are sick and saw my mom and the two Trumpers on Tuesday. Uncle has three people on his hockey team that tested positive in the last two days. Trumpers say if they're positive they will still go ahead with their Christmas dinner (kids and grandkids) tomorrow anyway.
 
hockeylover said:
My aunt and uncle are sick and saw my mom and the two Trumpers on Tuesday. Uncle has three people on his hockey team that tested positive in the last two days. Trumpers say if they're positive they will still go ahead with their Christmas dinner (kids and grandkids) tomorrow anyway.
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how is your mom doing? IIRC she got hit pretty hard by alpha?
 
Lag caveats and all and based on UK and specifically London data we'll eventually get hit and get hit hard but so far we are holding strong:

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And it's important to note that the vaccines best trait is their ability to keep people out of the ICU. It's kind of a miracle and beats the hell out of even the flu vaccines. We're gonna get hit and really struggle but we're really lucky this variant didn't come about pre-vaccines. Most evidence shows that this variant is very likely more severe than Alpha and look at our Alpha wave with just a fraction of the current daily case rate...
 
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