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Biden administration to buy 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to donate to the worldhttps://t.co/e7fCgZkkAO
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) June 9, 2021
Over half of all qualified Americans (age 12 or older) are now fully vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/wJ6x2HdyeB
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 10, 2021
Plummeting vaccination rates have turned what officials hoped would be the “last mile” of the coronavirus immunization campaign into a marathon, threatening President Biden’s goal of getting shots to at least 70 percent of adults by July 4. https://t.co/MDsw2Vssh7
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 7, 2021
The US (not including Florida) had +14,201 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total closer to 34.3 million. The 7-day moving average declined to 14,019 new cases per day. pic.twitter.com/k8T4FEmppS
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) June 10, 2021
As vaccinations have tailed off in the US, the number of new cases is no longer declining
Covid containment is <1/100,000 people
We're at 4.4/100,000 or >14,000 new confirmed cases/day (and a rising % of those are delta variant infections) pic.twitter.com/GnsT04DPhg— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) June 9, 2021
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Asia Health officials and experts welcome US plans to share 500 million more doses of the Pfizer vaccine with the developing world, but some say it would take more than donations alone to address huge vaccination gaps that threaten to prolong the pandemic. https://t.co/LMhSWVwIv9
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 10, 2021
The lack of knowledge about Covid-19 and problems with vaccine distribution could lead to more and stronger variants, health authorities from Africa and the U.K. said Wednesday at #WSJTechHealth https://t.co/y2OBJdHKam pic.twitter.com/SL4NHGzpeD
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 9, 2021
China Returns to Its Strict Covid Limits to Fight a New Outbreak https://t.co/b8PYGYsZZU
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) June 9, 2021
China is vaccinating 20 million people a day, more than half of all the daily vaccinations worldwide. https://t.co/yBV8889CcJ
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) June 9, 2021
Wherever it has been used at scale the Chinese Sinopharm #COVID19 #vaccine is proving rather poor at stopping spread of the virus. But Chinese authorities insist it is great at preventing severe illness.https://t.co/KAyXiZsk06
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 10, 2021
India records 6,148 deaths from COVID-19 in past 24 hours https://t.co/fjUtEObRCB pic.twitter.com/SHANJcrCci
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 10, 2021
Indian state sharply raises COVID-19 death toll prompting call for wide review https://t.co/XUTwboL834 pic.twitter.com/Mzm9FhSk0r
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 10, 2021
… India has the second-highest tally of COVID-19 infections in the world after the United States, with 29.2 million cases and 359,676 deaths, according to health ministry data.
But the discovery of several thousand unreported deaths in the state of Bihar has raised suspicion that many more coronavirus victims have not been included in official figures.
The health department in Bihar, one of India’s poorest states, revised its total COVID-19 related death toll to more than 9,429 from about 5,424 on Wednesday.
The newly reported deaths had occurred last month and state officials were investigating the lapse, a district health official said, blaming the oversight on private hospitals.
“These deaths occurred 15 days ago and were only uploaded now in the government portal. Action will be taken against some of the private hospitals,” said the official, who declined to be identified as he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Health experts say they believe both coronavirus infections and deaths are being significantly undercounted across the country partly because test facilities are rare in rural areas, where two-thirds of Indians live, and hospitals are few and far between…
There have been claims more young children and teenagers are more affected by India's second Covid surge – but are they?https://t.co/GDwyYDIt3l pic.twitter.com/VS5N6IYZr0
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) June 10, 2021
India’s National Institute of Virology has detected a new variant B.1.1.28.2 via genome sequencing of travellers from ?? & ?? to ??. The new variant pathogenicity evaluation show increased disease severity & need for screening of vaccine efficacy. #COVID19https://t.co/Fdr8UnV3Rf
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 9, 2021
Tokyo vaccination centre to offer shots to younger people as Olympics loom-media https://t.co/CLl0BoGdlP pic.twitter.com/6HTfDny3O8
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 10, 2021
S.Korea considers vaccinating workers at major companies https://t.co/q3sYp494QR pic.twitter.com/i63mTFgnxu
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 10, 2021
Europe is desperate for foreign tourists to return, but it isn't easy for travelers to work out the patchwork of different rules and requirements around vaccination and testing. The Associated Press sets out the situation in some of the main destinations. https://t.co/LwR5ZEXOCu
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) June 10, 2021
“It is extremely concerning and at times frustrating.” In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is at the back of the pack. In South Africa, the continent’s most robust economy, only 0.8% of the population is fully vaccinated. https://t.co/WTKwZptgTe
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 9, 2021
Brazil to receive 3 million doses of J&J COVID vaccine – minister https://t.co/RgivT9zeDn pic.twitter.com/WdKXRkZKvk
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 9, 2021
For more than a year, Haiti escaped the worst ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting few cases and fatalities. But the country is now grappling with its first serious outbreak and is yet to begin vaccinations https://t.co/9oCd439oGQ pic.twitter.com/fNUCapAtfq
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 10, 2021
Mexico reports 3,855 new coronavirus cases, 253 more deaths https://t.co/SIIEif7iEl pic.twitter.com/UPqRPXVyE0
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 10, 2021
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Both authorization and approval are rigorous processes that look at the safety and efficacy of a vaccine, said @IVACtweets's William Moss.
"We have more data on vaccine safety than with any other vaccine, even before the review of the full approval." https://t.co/oS2I663lHD
— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (@JohnsHopkinsSPH) June 9, 2021
SARSCoV2's "alpha variant"— B.1.1.7 that 1st emerged in the UK— adapted to evade innate immunity. That kind of stealth is what makes it so powerful & allowed it to spread around the world https://t.co/4XOSr9yekt
— delthia ricks ?? (@DelthiaRicks) June 8, 2021
Study of severe Covid helps uncover the roots of sepsis. Like a tsunami, sepsis occurs when an infection triggers immune system dysregulation, which leads to widespread organ damage & even death. New research offers insight into what goes awry https://t.co/ZGaJicUyKO
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 9, 2021
Old vaccines can fight new pandemics, including Covid. Vaccination w/ live attenuated vaccines— LAV— like those for TB, polio or measles can stimulate an innate immune response against other infectious diseases. This may possibly help resource poor nations https://t.co/tkZrYUn3vY
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) June 9, 2021
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Lots of factors involved in South’s vax lag — GOP resistance, black suspicion of medical system, rural isolation, poor access to health care. Other thoughts: education is predictor of vax willingness — Deep South has low educ levels. Also area w/ low social trust. https://t.co/RzBknysWnr
— Richard Skinner (@richardmskinner) June 10, 2021
Seattle has become the first major U.S. city to hit the COVID-19 milestone of getting 70% of people aged 12 and up fully vaccinated, according to Mayor Jenny Durkan. She says the city and its partners will now start efforts to support Seattle’s reopening. https://t.co/Ot4aT1yadg
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 9, 2021
Remember this jackass, from January, back when every dose of vaccine was liquid gold?
A hospital pharmacist who pleaded guilty to trying to spoil more than 500 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine was sentenced to three years in prison. https://t.co/is14NxB8tx
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 9, 2021
When LOOKIT MEEEE is your brand…
Naomi Wolf is headlining an anti-vax "liberation" event on Juneteenth.
Organizers told me conflating the holiday celebrating the end of chattel slavery and Covid restrictions was appropriate because "we have been enslaved by our government."https://t.co/eAytxIyFxd
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) June 8, 2021
And with a vaguely anti-Semitic advertisement, because of course. Can’t blame the MAGAts for this one; it’s a Saturday potluck / book signing in an upstate NY enclave full of well-to-do homeschooling refugees from the Big Apple. So brave!
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Big shot Biden
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Her Wiki page lists her occupation as a “conspiracy theorist”
sab
In Ohio here. Husband spent yesterday joking around with steel spoons and forks. Nothing stuck.
It is a good thing we aren’t using floppy disks anymore. Imagine the data loss.
5:30 a.m. robins are extremely loud.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@sab:
Chevy Chase has a solution to loud morning birds (video)
sab
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Old enough here to have had measles, mumps (painful!), chicken pox. Also knew people who had polio. Cannot fathom antivax “thought” process.
sab
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: I can relate to that.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY stats:
33 new cases – 63.6% were people under 40, including 9 children between 0 and 19. Men in their 20s had the highest number of cases.
Deaths now at 1309.
1% test positivity
58% have had at least 1 shot
52% are totally vaccinated
Also old enough to have had measles, mumps and chicken pox before there were vaccines for them. I don’t understand anti-vaxxers either.
MagdaInBlack
I am still the only one in my workplace of 10 who has been vaccinated. My estimators 18 y/o daughter signed up for vaccination, estimator giving her a lot of shit over it. I’ve stayed out of that, the kid made her decision and mom is a hopeless case. I remain stunned at the deliberate ignorance.
sab
@NeenerNeener: Chicken pox wasn’t painful, but it certainly was very very itchy. 60 years later I still have scars. Plus shingles risk.
sab
@MagdaInBlack: Covid has been so under wraps because so infectious. Even family couldn’t get in. Nobody actually saw it except front line medical personnel. Everyone else just heard about it. Even if you lost a loved one you just heard about it from doctors and nurses.
YY_Sima Qian
On 6/9 China reported 6 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Guangdong Province reported 6 new domestic confirmed (2 previously asymptomatic) & 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Liaoning Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There are 3 domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases at Yingkou.
In Yunnan Province, there currently are 2 domestic confirmed cases.
Imported Cases
On 6/9 China reported 15 new imported confirmed cases, 27 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 18 confirmed cases recovered, 15 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 2 were reclassified as confirmed cases, and 625 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 416 active confirmed cases in the country (285 imported), 12 in serious condition (1 imported), 371 asymptomatic cases (351 imported), 11 suspect case (both imported). 10,172 traced contacts are currently
As of 6/9, 824.856M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 15.894M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 6/10, Hong Kong reported 2 new positive cases, both imported (1 each from Mauritania & the UK).
MagdaInBlack
@sab: That’s basically it. She doesn’t know anyone who had it. Although, she thinks she had it, and worked through it, so there’s the ” It wasn’t so bad.” factor. Boss’s grmother had it, ventilator and all. Boss still isnt getting the vaccine.
Regarding chicken pox: I had chicken pox so bad they were in my throat. Not a fun experience.
Matt McIrvin
Tomorrow my employer is going to have our first in-person meeting in many months, and we’re going to be able to have it indoors and go to one of our old downtown lunch hangouts because all of us are fully vaccinated, besides which COVID is at a year-and-a-half low in Boston. It’ll be nice.
Geo Wilcox
@sab: You can hear them over the cicadas, lucky you!
Cermet
@sab: I can – argued two years ago with a coworker about vaccinations; he is very wary of them and against many types but interestingly didn’t hesitate for a second to get the Covid-19 shot, however. Fear of death is a powerful motivator.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Heath Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 5,671 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 639,562 cases. He also reports 73 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 3,684 deaths — 0.58% of the cumulative reported total, 0.66% of resolved cases.
There are currently 79,848 active and contagious cases; 911 are in ICU, 462 of them intubated. Meanwhile, 7,325 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 556,030 patients recovered – 86.94% of the cumulative reported total.
22 new clusters were reported today.
5,663 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 1,506 local cases: 125 in clusters, 1,069 close-contact screenings, and 312 other screenings. Kuala Lumpur reports 769 cases: 188 in clusters, 362 close-contact screenings, and 216 other screenings.
Sarawak reports 631 cases: 141 in clusters, 373 close-contact screenings, and 117 other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 593 cases: 140 in clusters, 258 close-contact screenings, and 195 other screenings. Johor reports 523 local cases: 202 in clusters, 230 close-contact screenings, and 91 other screenings.
Kedah reports 309 cases: 43 in clusters, 212 close-contact screenings, and 54 other screenings.
Kelantan reports 262 cases: 17 in clusters, 215 close-contact screenings, and 30 other screenings. Sabah reports 233 cases: 55 in clusters, 128 close-contact screenings, and 50 other screenings.
Melaka reports 184 cases: 45 in clusters, 102 close-contact screenings, and 37 other screenings. Penang reports 166 cases: 51 in clusters, 67 close-contact screenings, and 48 other screenings. Perak reports 143 cases: 57 in clusters, 59 close-contact screenings, and 27 other screenings. Pahang reports 112 cases: 46 in clusters, 58 close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Terengganu reports 108 cases: 35 in clusters, 57 close-contact screenings, and 16 other screenings. Labuan reports 106 cases: 37 in clusters, 31 close-contact screenings, and 38 other screenings.
Putrajaya reports 18 cases: 15 close-contact screenings, and three other screenings. Perlis reports three cases: two close-contact screenings, and one other screening.
Eight new cases today are imported: four in Selangor, three in Kuala Lumpur, and one in Johor.
Anne Laurie
From what I’m reading, it’s mostly people young enough not to have these memories (either because their parents had them vaxxed, or they drew a lucky card on herd immunity).
I can remember measles, chicken pox, ‘German measles’ (rubella), and a ‘second round of measles’ (diagnosed by my pediatrician over the phone) that was almost certainly scarletina (systemic strep infection, the nastiest / most painful — but at least it left me immune to future college-dorm strep throat infections). I got both kinds of shingles vaccines, side effects be damned, not to mention the Pfizer miracle shot!
Matt McIrvin
@Cermet: There’s a specific kind of antivaxxer who thinks they can power through the pandemic on diet and exercise, and regards vaccination as somehow opposed to that, the cop-out of a person who is too morally weak to rely on diet and exercise.
I was talking to an old online friend about this and he said that he thought that was actually motivated by a fear of death–these people pre-rationally associate medicine, doctors and hospitals with death, and whatever fad diet and supplement routine they’re on with vitality and self-mastery. Of course it’s ironic that they’re increasing their risk of death as a result.
Matt McIrvin
@Anne Laurie: I had the Shingrix vaccine just before getting vaccinated for COVID, so I could compare with the other experience fresh in my mind. The second shot of Shingrix hit me *way* harder than the Moderna shot did. But it was actually pretty similar to my kid’s experience with the Pfizer COVID shot. Just a day I had to pretty much spend lying down.
Zzyzx
I’m very impressed that that Naomi Wolf event trivializes slavery and the Holocaust at the same time.
Of course two core Jewish values are to not follow any ritual (e.g. fasting on Yom Kippur) if your life is at stake and saving others is the greatest good you can do, so equating Judaism with not taking vaccines because you don’t feel like it is extra offensive.
NeenerNeener
@sab: Yep, I still have “chicken pops” scars too. And MS, which some research has suggested is shingles turned inward. How accurate that is, is still under investigation.
Sloane Ranger
@sab:
Me too. I only had them on my scalp. I was playing with some friends at their house and I was scratching so badly she thought I had nits. She called me over, examined my head and I was being escorted home so fast I had to run to keep up with her. The really bad thing for me was that I had Chicken pox only a week or so after I was up and about again after nearly dying from Measles (temp. of 105). It was NOT a good couple of months for me.
YY_Sima Qian
I am rather puzzled by the NYT article on the Guangzhou outbreak. I normally consider Keith Bradsher one of the best foreign corresponds in China.
The response at Guangzhou is not different from any one of the previous dozen or so local outbreaks in China since the first wave, rather similar to the actions taken during Beijing’s Xinfadi outbreak in June 2020 (praised at the time for being targeted) – localized lockdowns of residential compounds and neighborhoods, school closures, repeated rounds of mass screening.
Xinjiang government locked down the entire “autonomous” region during the Ürumqi outbreak in Aug. 2020 (despite very few cases outside of the regional capital), and locked down all of Kashgar during its outbreak in Oct. 2020 (despite all of the cases being in 2 outlying rural counties far from urban area), Shijiazhuang in Hebei Province imposed a cordon sanitaire around the entire provincial capital during its outbreak in Jan. 2021 (as did Wangkui Country in Heilongjiang Province during the same time period). The extent of the lock downs in Xinjiang was drastic overkill relative to the scope of the outbreaks, and impacted far more people than current measures in Guangzhou.
I actually think Guangzhou should have imposed lock downs and mass screening in larger areas more quickly, in face of the more transmissive Delta variant. Of course, this was also China’s first experience with community outbreak of the Delta variant. Guangzhou Municipal CDC has claimed that, with the Delta variant, even relatively casual contact can cause infection, something almost never seen in previous outbreaks with other variants. Local governments of China’s more developed regions tend to be more “enlightened”, and less reflexive with drastic draconian measures “just to be sade” with no consideration for impact to people’s lives and livelihoods. Might have placed it at a slight disadvantage in this case.
In any case, incidence has been dropping, most of the new cases are either previously asymptomatic (thus already in isolation) or traced close contacts (thus already under quarantine). I have noticed that new cases seem to be identified in family clusters, which again points to the speed of transmission and the necessity for movement restrictions. In past outbreaks, one member of the family may test positive, and other members only become positive 5 – 10 days later (or not at all). In Guangzhou, entire cohabitating families are testing positive within 1 – 2 days, even with all residents in Liwan and Nansha Districts being screened every 2 – 3 days by RT-PCR.
Contrast Guangzhou with Shenzhen, the latter having < 20 positive cases with the Alpha variant, all started asymptomatic and only 5 progressing to mild more than a week later. The initial cases were likely breakthrough infections of fully vaccinated dock workers, who in turn infected a few other cases (all asymptomatic). I think the data gives an indication of the effectiveness of Chinese vaccines – limited sterilization efficacy, but can still reduce speed of transmission and prevent moderate to severe disease. There has been no neighborhood level lock downs in Shenzhen and no restrictions to movement. Only buildings with positives cases have been locked down. The outbreak is likely to already have been eliminated. Also contrast Shenzhen with the situation in Taiwan, an outbreak also of the Alpha variant.
Cermet
The decline in Covid infection rate appears to be leveling off – so its official: we have entered the period of the illness called the “Stupid Phase.” Every new infection and serious illness as well as death is solely due to the stupid (except, of course, those unfortunate immune compromised or those too young to get the vaccine.)
YY_Sima Qian
I am very gratified by Biden Administration’s plan to purchase 500M Pfizer/BioNTech doses for donation to the world.
This is how competition with China should be carried out, by doing better, not by maligning Chinese vaccine diplomacy (which comes off as whiny, especially to countries that do not have alternatives on offer) or throwing doubt on the efficacies of Chinese vaccines (surely detrimental to the global effort of vaccinating as many people as quickly as possible).
Notice that data more favorable to Chinese vaccines get very little play in western MSM. A prime example is the study conducted by Butantan Institute at the town of Serrano in the Sao Paolo State in Brazil, where full vaccination of 95% of eligible adults (or ~ 75% of all residents) with the Sinovac vaccine has collapsed case incidence, hospitalization and death, even among the unvaccinated minors. This points to at least some effectiveness in preventing transmission.
Sloane Ranger
So, Wednesday in the UK, we had 7540 new cases. This is an increase of 66% in the rolling 7-day average. New cases by nation,
England – 6201 (up 951)
Northern Ireland – 105 (up 24)
Scotland – 1011 (up 316)
Wales – 223 (up 201).
Deaths – There were 6 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 43.5% in the rolling 7-day average. 5 of the deaths were in England and 1 was in Scotland.
Testing – 727,274 tests were administered on Tuesday, 8 June. This is an increase of 11% in the rolling 7-day average. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs on that date was 571,644.
Hospitalisations – On Monday, 7 June, there were 1024 people in hospital. There were 154 people on ventilators on Tuesday, 8th. There was no change in the rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions as of 3 June.
Vaccinations – As of 8 June, 40,710,319 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 28,540,844 had had both. In percentage terms this means that, as of this date, 77.3% of all UK adults had had 1 shot of a vaccine and 54.2% were fully vaccinated.
Soprano2
Our restrictions were lifted on May 27th. On that day there were 43 people in local hospitals with Covid, the 7-day case rate per 100,000 people was 79.16, and 36.8% of eligible people were fully vaccinated. Now, just like day follows night, those numbers have spiked to 92 people in hospitals, and the 7-day case rate per 100,000 is 156. The fully vaccinated rate dropped to 36.05% because on June 7th they added the 12-17 year old cohort to the total. Our low points actually came on May 10th and 14th, because towns around us lifted restrictions in April. It’s so sad that people have decided to get sick and die of what is now a totally preventable disease.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 735 new cases of COVID-19 reported overnight, one new death. The test positivity rate is 2.8%, down from the previous few days. This may be due to more testing being carried out including “survey” testing where everyone in an area with a high rate of cases will be asked to undergo a test to provide some baseline data but with the expectation that most tests will be negative.
Hospitalisations and ICU bed occupancy numbers are remaining stable, the main factor the Scottish government has specified as the driver for their decisions on lockdowns and reaction to this epidemic rather than simple case numbers.
Vaccinations continue apace with over 51,000 doses administered yesterday with over 60% of those being second doses. Over half the adult population in Scotland is now fully vaccinated with over 90% of everyone above the age of 40 having received at least their first dose.
Locally, Glasgow is preparing to host several games in the Euro football championship with an associated Fan Village area where a few thousand ticketed fans will be allowed to congregate to eat, drink and watch the matches on large-screen displays. There will be testing and other precautions taken but it’s still a considered risk. Further ahead there will be an international rugby match, British Lions (a team made up from Scottish, English, Welsh and Northern Irish players) versus Japan to be held at the end of this month. Spectators will be allowed in to the stadium here in Edinburgh to watch the match. At the moment it’s expected to be about 25% capacity or roughly 16,000 or so warm bodies. I’m presuming testing and/or proof of vaccination will be needed but it may be that permission to allow spectators at all might be withdrawn at short notice depending on how the spread of COVID-19 goes over the next couple of weeks.
Cheryl from Maryland
Maryland has officially hit over 50% vaccinated, and my county, Montgomery, is close to 70% vaccinated. One area of concern is that two of the mainly conservative counties on the Eastern Shore have not reported anything in over a week. Not going to Maryland beaches this year!
Chris Johnson
Posted to the “I Got The Shot” thread: a few of us are still filtering in. Second shot, done :)
I’m glad to be more insulated from the plague lemmings, but still pretty bitter about them. I’ll be mask wearing just as a fuck-you, plus it’s a nice way to not catch the flu in flu season, and at this point I am rooting for the virus. Not really, but… you know that this is going to eat away at their voting margins, yes?
Soprano2
I’m not. If they’re willing to risk serious illness and/or death in an attempt to “own” us, let them. The only people they are “owning” are themselves (yes, with all the caveats that I know children under 11 can’t get vaccinated yet and the immunocompromised are at risk, none of that changes their behavior in the slightest). And yes, it could eat into their vote totals at the margins, although I doubt they’ve thought much about that. I had one tell me that his doctor told him he didn’t need the vaccine because he was young and healthy. I told him he needs a new doctor! The fact that they’re telling themselves all kinds of lies about the vaccines (They make you magnetic! They cause 5g to hurt you! They cause you to shed a dangerous virus onto other people!) tells you that they know in their hearts they’re making a bad decision, but their desire to show liberals “you aren’t the boss of me, you can’t make me take it” has overridden what little common sense they have.
J R in WV
There is nothing but good as the RWNJs talk themselves out of getting vaccinated. It cuts the voting margins a little bit, cuts demand for scarce resources, and trims some of the aggressively stupid and deliberately ignorant out of the general population.
Frankly, I’m glad to see more of the RWNJs get massively ill and die off.
Which startles me, I was once compassionate about even stupid people, but they have convinced me to not give a fuck about their deaths. I won’t be talking anyone into getting a vaccination. If they don’t believe in science, fuck ’em. To quote EFG once more! Fuck ’em, those assholes!
I quit wearing my industrial respirator some months ago, because it has unfiltered exhausts. Now that I’m vaccinated, I think I’m back to wearing the space mask, which is more comfortable, doesn’t fog my glasses, and provides more protection to the wearer than ordinary surgical masks. Will keep us from getting the flu or colds, as well as avoiding Sars-Corona-19, because even vaccinated people can catch the dammed virus!