Covid-19 discussion, continued...

Mask mandate being lifted here on or before May 16. Party time!

posted by like_that

I recall during the summer I said that masks are not as effective as people think they are, and if they were as effective they would open everything up (I.e. schools).

There's been plenty of research to show they can be highly effective, but it still has its limits.  Wearing a mask in a crowded room for 8 hours probably wouldn't cut it.  But for an hour in the store or doctor's office they work very well.

posted by iclfan2

Now they’re saying, at least for Pfizer, that a 3rd dose will probably be needed within 12 months. Never ending.

I'm sure it will be annual.  Cha-ching!

Although there has been some evidence covid immunity could last a decade or more.  That's a different coronavirus, but at least that's a tiny bit more scientific than just assuming immunity only lasts 6-12 months.

posted by gut

I'm sure it will be annual.  Cha-ching!

Although there has been some evidence covid immunity could last a decade or more.  That's a different coronavirus, but at least that's a tiny bit more scientific than just assuming immunity only lasts 6-12 months.

Well, that's how it's been for flu shots, at least for those who get those annually, so I wouldn't know why a person would think a variant would be one-and-done.

I got my second shot yesterday. Traveled to Dallas today. I was dizzy when I woke up and probably had a fever all day as I was cold and I’m never cold. 36 Hours later I feel pretty good just a slightly sore arm. 

posted by Heretic

Well, that's how it's been for flu shots, at least for those who get those annually, so I wouldn't know why a person would think a variant would be one-and-done.

Pretty much only for flu shots.  Most other vaccines last years, if not a lifetime.  And that's normally the case with coronaviruses.  Mutations is a different story. 

But flu shots only provide protection for 6 months, and variant specific.  Again, coronavirus vaccines aren't flu shots.  Flu shots are kind of the exception here.

Pass.  I think I'll go outside and get some fresh air, sun induced Vitamin D, and eat some steak with B12

https://www.whio.com/news/coronavirus/how-watch-gov-mike-dewine-hold-covid-19-news-conference-thursday-afternoon/2I7ECUT7PFEFZNJ2YBWGJQ2N4Y/

For that man to say "its dangerous out there" is borderline criminal.  

Ontario has lost their minds. When every other lockdown attempt has failed, the logical thing to do is try another one, but make it way more tyrannical. That's sure to work.

🔥Ontario, Canada is now officially a police state🔥 pic.twitter.com/cBP8kCTG16

— 🍁🇨🇦CanAditude🇨🇦🍁 (@CanAditude) April 16, 2021

posted by justincredible

Ontario has lost their minds. When every other lockdown attempt has failed, the logical thing to do is try another one, but make it way more tyrannical. That's sure to work.

If the left had their way... 

I can’t believe they’re doing this over a year in. And that people would comply. 

Looks like there are some PDs pushing back. Any officer that enforces this isn't fit for the job.

In this thread, I'm logging all of the Ontario police departments which are refusing to randomly stop and question people, despite the provincial government extending this "power" to them. Please let me know if you see any not in this thread. https://t.co/mTeX37O8wk

— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) April 17, 2021

posted by justincredible

Ontario has lost their minds. When every other lockdown attempt has failed, the logical thing to do is try another one, but make it way more tyrannical. That's sure to work.

It's almost as if pseudo lockdowns don't work because people don't follow those orders in private residences.  As if the only solution is a vaccine.  But that would mean the orange man did something right that Canada and the EU couldn't figure out.  Oh, and Brexit seems to be working out a lot better for the Brits than the EU, too.

posted by justincredible

Ontario has lost their minds. When every other lockdown attempt has failed, the logical thing to do is try another one, but make it way more tyrannical. That's sure to work.

🔥Ontario, Canada is now officially a police state🔥 pic.twitter.com/cBP8kCTG16

— 🍁🇨🇦CanAditude🇨🇦🍁 (@CanAditude) April 16, 2021

"we all have personal responsability"  Really?  Then why the Communist state?

This retard is a head of a school union, and doesn’t understand that these people left the workforce bc the shit ass teachers decided they didn’t need to work. The comments are the lolz. 

115% of mothers with young children left their jobs in 2020 because of childcare responsibilities. https://t.co/VImJlOeWlQ

— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) April 16, 2021

posted by gut

It's almost as if pseudo lockdowns don't work because people don't follow those orders in private residences.  As if the only solution is a vaccine.  But that would mean the orange man did something right that Canada and the EU couldn't figure out.  Oh, and Brexit seems to be working out a lot better for the Brits than the EU, too.

I would say the UK has a very strong lead on the EU. 

posted by iclfan2

This retard is a head of a school union, and doesn’t understand that these people left the workforce bc the shit ass teachers decided they didn’t need to work. The comments are the lolz. 

115% of mothers with young children left their jobs in 2020 because of childcare responsibilities. https://t.co/VImJlOeWlQ

— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) April 16, 2021

This headline is weird. All women with young children, and somehow 15% more than that, left their jobs in 2020?

posted by brutus161

This headline is weird. All women with young children, and somehow 15% more than that, left their jobs in 2020?

At some point in the Tweet stream he corrects it to 11.5

posted by superman

At some point in the Tweet stream he corrects it to 11.5

posted by iclfan2

This retard is a head of a school union, and doesn’t understand that these people left the workforce bc the shit ass teachers decided they didn’t need to work. The comments are the lolz. 

115% of mothers with young children left their jobs in 2020 because of childcare responsibilities. https://t.co/VImJlOeWlQ

— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) April 16, 2021

Large city teachers unions are delusional of the real world 

Save some women for the rest of us...

It’s a cultpic.twitter.com/04WhIJHxm2

— Woj Pawelczyk (@Woj_Pawelczyk) April 25, 2021