COVID-19 (coronavirus disease)/SARS-CoV-2 virus

As said, that's a food bank line in Dallas from August.

 

We are staying put for Thanksgiving, but we usually do. We sometimes invite friends and neighbors over for desert, but not this year.

We were traveling Xmas to see my wife's parents. My son is a HS senior and this might be the last time we do Xmas at grands as a family. My wife's parents are about 80, so they are high risk and we are staying put. Covid ****ing sucks.

 

Family's plan before Christmas is everyone to isolate as if they have it and then rapid test before entering bubble with my father-in law, mother-in law, and brother-in law. Though, my wife and I have already had it so I don't think there is as much risk for us two for another couple of months.

 

I found out today the student I mentioned above in a previous post ended up testing positive for COVID. *sigh* No telling how many people were infected by the child. Not saying it's her fault, of course, but you get a feeling for how this thing is spreading.

 

I usually visit my parents, but not this year. No sense in risking it for me.

 

“******* street racers!”

 

Great news that there two vaccines now with nearly equal effectiveness. Should be enough to cover all the at risk groups by the end of the year.

https://apple.news/AvKQN6ueqS0uVocxc1Q_KWg

Pfizer Says Vaccine Is 95% Effective in Final Data, Will Seek Authorization

Shot could be on track to go into distribution by the end of the year if health regulators permit

 

I will accept that the news report I saw likely made a mistake reporting the numbers that said these numbers still show that there are risks to younger people. While these risks are much smaller for those younger than 50 they are not zero and also these numbers don't counter that younger people are transmitting the virus. Nor that there are longterm complications to COVID-19 that can affect younger people, nor that young people who become symptomatic are also using healthcare taxing our health care system.

Also all of these arguments regarding that while young people are at less risks still ignore that the elderly are and arguments against lockdowns and other restrictions essentially amount to that elderly don't matter to this society.

 

●Pfizer (BNT162b2, given in two intramuscular doses 21 days apart) had >90 percent vaccine efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 at or after day 7 following the second dose [205]. This effect was assessed on an interim analysis of 94 confirmed COVID-19 cases among over 30,000 participants.*



●Moderna (mRNA-1273, given in two intramuscular doses 28 days apart) had 94.5 percent vaccine efficacy in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 at or after two weeks following the second dose [206]. This effect was assessed on an interim analysis of 95 confirmed COVID-19 cases (5 in the vaccine group and 90 in the placebo group). Eleven cases were severe, and all of these occurred in the placebo group. No major safety concerns were reported.*



Although these data are promising, full trial reports are needed to critically assess the vaccines' impact and safety, including the effect on severe COVID-19 as well as the effect on microbiologically confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection (both asymptomatic and symptomatic, which could have implications for transmission). The durability of effect will also need to be evaluated over time.


* edited by the Great ExileD

 

When it comes to the talk of lockdowns, I get that some desperately want authoritarian rule, but I believe it's best to err on the side of freedom and liberty.

Those who are afraid are free to lock themselves in their homes for the next few years if that's what they want. Those who aren't afraid should be free to live their lives.

 

I don't know if it's been posted, but :

FDA Approves 1st At-Home Coronavirus Test
https://www.npr.org/sections/corona...4/fda-approves-first-at-home-coronavirus-test

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 Test for Self-Testing at Home
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/pre...horizes-first-covid-19-test-self-testing-home

 

Thought you might appreciate this

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/12/570/eabd3876.full

 

YES LOCK ME DOWN. LOCK US UP. WE WANT TO HIDE UNDER THE BED. PLEASE, DADDY. That's it, you nailed! You figured it out, bro! Best poster of all timeeeeee. Genius. You so smaaaaart. A+, 100, all hail!

 

I think they've said something similar before, but ... hmmm....

WHO tells doctors not to use Gilead’s remdesivir as a coronavirus treatment, splitting with FDA

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/cor...se-gileads-remdesivir-splitting-with-fda.html

 

First off the restrictions are nothing like authoritarian rule. Frankly it's rhetoric like this that is very unhelpful.

The concept of "freedom" isn't just do what you want whenever you want and the rest be damned but only exist within a social concept that has responsibility.

Second this those risking their lives have a direct impact on the rest of society when they end up straining our health care system.

 

Yeah what was i thinking, there's nothing authoritarian about the government forcing their citizens to stay locked in their homes unable to work to provide for their families unless they are the specific people the government allows to do those things.

After all, there's a virus going around that can harm a small percentage of the population, it completely justifies imprisoning the rest of the population.

 

It's shown hardly any benefit. It's amazing it was even used in the first place.

 

Can someone do a "Celebrities we've lost to Covid?" post? Like at the Oscars every year?

LOL. I'm joking. I've already researched this. But, hey! Knock yourself out.

What celebrity have we lost to Covid this year?