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

office update: my boss is isolating at home as his young daughter is covid positive (thanks daycare).

separately, today my paralegal shows to work and reports being unwell. we send her home and for testing and of course she has covid (apparently for the third time). so I am now a close contact of hers. interesting times.
 
Assuming your paralegal has been fully vaccinated and had covid twice before she must have a crappy immune system.
 
anne25 said:
Assuming your paralegal has been fully vaccinated and had covid twice before she must have a crappy immune system.
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yeah she is now double vaxxed and triple vid'ed.

she showed up to our morning meeting wearing her winter jacket cause she was getting chills (in fairness, our offices are often quite cold, but not this morning!). but she is well enough to work from home. apparently her first (pre-vaccination) infection was by far the worst
 
Might depend on what the goal is. Is it to suppress transmission? If so you mandate updated vaccines/boosters. Are we accepting out of control transmission and hoping for a milder illness without hospitalizations? I'm not convinced that being vaxxed in Jan 2021 will help more than or as much as having an infection in 2022. And since we'll all either have been vaxxed or infected at least once very soon I personally don't see the point.

The key was getting that first exposure via vax, because a big proportion who didn't are now immunosuppressed and experienced longterm issues. That still may happen with some vax infections especially if we're rolling the dice on 5-10+ lifetime infections (reasons to still be cautious) but it's less likely in any individual case. And if one has already been infected it's nearly the same thing really. You get less consistent immune response than vax person to person but it's the same idea in the end.
 
Thread on the new sublineage that will become our new enemy shortly.




Obviously not ideal that we're gonna be faced with something EVEN MORE transmissible than Omicron. But this isn't a crazy jump like Delta vs Alpha or Omi vs Delta.
 
As my INSIDE SOURCES told me a couple of weeks ago:

www.ctvnews.ca

Decisions on Novavax, Medicago COVID-19 vaccines could come within 'weeks': Health Canada

Health Canada is set to complete its reviews of the Novavax and Medicago COVID-19 vaccines 'in the coming weeks,' according to the agency's deputy minister. If authorized by the federal regulator, these vaccines would become the first COVID-19 vaccines to be made in Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca


In a perfect world our 3rd doses would have been Novavax product. It does quite well on Omicron! But they're a horse shit corporation who still haven't found a way to scale their (admittedly) complex formulation.
 
Preston said:
Might depend on what the goal is. Is it to suppress transmission? If so you mandate updated vaccines/boosters. Are we accepting out of control transmission and hoping for a milder illness without hospitalizations? I'm not convinced that being vaxxed in Jan 2021 will help more than or as much as having an infection in 2022. And since we'll all either have been vaxxed or infected at least once very soon I personally don't see the point.

The key was getting that first exposure via vax, because a big proportion who didn't are now immunosuppressed and experienced longterm issues. That still may happen with some vax infections especially if we're rolling the dice on 5-10+ lifetime infections (reasons to still be cautious) but it's less likely in any individual case. And if one has already been infected it's nearly the same thing really. You get less consistent immune response than vax person to person but it's the same idea in the end.
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this makes sense to me
 
I see a hitch in your plan, Hana.

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"On Sunday morning, the day she died, Ms Horka said she was feeling better and dressed to go for a walk. But then her back started hurting, so she went to lie down in her bedroom.

"In about 10 minutes it was all over," her son said. "She choked to death".
 
Ford teasing loosening restrictions but as per usual will not announce them until later in the week. This despite hospital cases increasing.
I am so tired of this.
 
MapleLeafBlueJayBoy said:
Ford teasing loosening restrictions but as per usual will not announce them until later in the week. This despite hospital cases increasing.
I am so tired of this.
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But what about those of us who get the itch for indoor dining immediately after finding out that more people died yesterday of covid than has happened in a single day for about a year?

What about us?
 
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