New Zealand suppressed mass infections for literally 2 years. They are a prime example that lockdowns and restrictions worked, at least for non-omicron variants. There was also a switch in the lockdown strategy as of recent I think, with an acknowledgment/acceptance by government and country that they won't lock down forever, now that they are sufficiently vaccinated. They are trying to ease the spread but they are not doing the same covid zero type lockdowns as far as I'm aware. It would be cool to hear a Kiwi's word on whats going on in NZ, how they feel about the countries story with covid over the last few years Maybe @BMoney if he's interested
New Zealand has a total of 28 covid death pre-Omicron. Total of 56 covid death including Omicron. They prevented massive covid death.
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Wasn’t the argument Fall of 2020 that we wouldn’t hear about COVID 19 after the election if Biden won, or after the inauguration, so that crafty pol Biden just waited more than a year to his SOTU address to finally spring show us that COVID was really a political distraction..
He's been so s***ty at everything as a President that he has to manufacturer a victory...as if smart folks didn't already make mask wearing a personal choice since the vaccines got rolled out, or earlier. I've been maskless since April 2021. Funny how the CDC is just now catching up.
Don’t know about NZ but some Australians vacationed in Los Angeles a month or so back saying they had to get the hell out of there . When I was in Miami during the big surge it was all west coast people there’s a theme with people locked down go to places that are less locked down or not locked down
I used my brain, spoke to my doctor, made observations, and employed common sense. At the outset my doctor told me unless it is an N95 any masking is not going to provide much benefit. Observationally this made sense, because when the world was masked up during the bulk of 2020, infections were still spreading like wildfire. Then, when the vaccines rolled out, despite liberals best efforts to exaggerate the efficacy - it was known that the vax was simply a pre-emptive therapeutic. It did not eliminate the possibility of infection, nor eliminate the possibility of spread. So applying common sense, once vaxed I knew I was protected from severe illness, and I decided I didn't need to walk around in discomfort with an N95 anymore, or wear a surgical or cloth mask that was ornamental at best - so I made a personal choice and tossed the mask in April 2021 and I have been quite happy with this choice. Welcome to the window of how smart people ask questions, observe, analyze, and act.
The D&D doesn't reflect reality. this is the CDC data on Race/Ethnicity https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/201.../hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html this is the CDC data on Age https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/201...s-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html Vaccination, Race, Age, Health are the 4 factors According to the D&D, it's who you didn't or did vote for or what cable news show you watch. Apparently add on which podcasts you listen to to that.
the reasoning for getting the vaccine accord to the D&D is 100% political, but in reality it's more like 10% didn't russell westbook and harden get covid it like 2 or 3 times ? we know kyrie doesn't care and antonio brown of course if you stay home all day or walk around with 2 masks and gloves you won't get it
This is the kind of information I've really wanted since COVID hit. It places COVID risk in context with other common life risks. Very helpful. Risk of dying from COVID-19 The risk of dying from COVID-19 is decreasing over time thanks to vaccines, infection-induced immunity, therapeutics, better understanding of care, and many more factors. In the U.K., the risk of mortality from an infection is about 0.1% right now. But, what does 0.1% actually mean? For non-epidemiologists, it’s much more helpful to have a “relative risk.” In other words, how does the risk of dying from COVID-19 compare to other things in our world that we are much more familiar with? For example, the chart below compared the infection fatality ratio of COVID-19 to flu. In their 2014 book the Norm Chronicles—an entertaining, data-driven guide to the statistics of personal risk—authors Blastland and Spiegelhalter coined an ingenious measurement: MicroMort (MM), or a one in a million chance of dying. For example, the average person driving 250 miles is one MM—you have a one in a million chance of dying if you drive 250 miles. They used this standard of measurement to define risk for all types of random activities. I complied some below: MicroMort (one in a million chance of dying) per activity. Data from Norm Chronicles by Blastland & Spiegelhalter (2014). Table developed by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina/YLE See the full post here- https://yourlocalepidemiologist.sub...campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=url
