.@Schwarzenegger: “There is a virus here, it kills people. The only way we prevent it is to get vaccinated, wear masks, (etc) and not just think ‘well my freedom is being disturbed here.’ No. Screw your freedom, because with freedom comes obligation and responsibilities.” https://t.co/3Bbtv2Ad2q
— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) August 11, 2021
Average US cases/day via @CNN:
Right now: 128,871 cases/day
10 days ago: 90,576 cases/day
20 days ago: 51,448 cases/day
30 days ago: 25,255 cases/day
40 days ago: 13,164 cases/day
50 days ago: 11,659 cases/day— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 14, 2021
I totally understand feeling like things cannot change, but often that is an emotional reaction not analysis.
— Vice President of Getting Things Done (@DavidKaib) August 14, 2021
The COVID-19 death toll has started soaring again as the delta variant tears through the nation's unvaccinated population. Hospitals in virus hot spots say they are seeing more admissions and deaths among people under the age of 65. https://t.co/HkhTMeNlg4
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 14, 2021
The number of children hospitalized with Covid in the US has hit a record: 1,902 Saturday as hospitals across the South were stretched to capacity fighting the highly transmissible #DeltaVariant. The variant is rapidly spreading among the unvaccinated https://t.co/unJgL3fEda
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 14, 2021
Opinion: The pandemic has become more dangerous for children. Here’s how to help keep them safe. https://t.co/U82JDOkcJe
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 12, 2021
This is, I think, an excellent read for all parents who, like me, regularly wonder if we’re missing something amidst the latest “younger, sicker, quicker” narrative about covid and the delta variant.
https://t.co/7gLhl0ibFe— Rob Hughes (@R_Hughes1) August 13, 2021
This one chart is the single most powerful thing to show people in your life. pic.twitter.com/3LAxS20WvY
— carolynryan ?️?? (@carolynryan) August 13, 2021
What 6 health experts say about traveling during the delta variant https://t.co/ztS8nT87GX
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 14, 2021
Airlines begin to see drop in travel demand as virus numbers rise https://t.co/Tycws9ZCgU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 11, 2021
Orville Redenbacher risks becoming face of popcorn. https://t.co/BHnt0nahe6
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) August 11, 2021
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Global donations of coronavirus vaccines have become a political contest. “We should have the American flag on every vial,” said one lawmaker as China announced plans to share 2 billion doses by the end of the year. https://t.co/gEDJBQBwXM
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 14, 2021
Some AP photographers who traveled from around the world to cover the Tokyo Olympics must now deal with hotel quarantines in their home countries as a COVID-19 precaution. Their photos offer a window into their quarantines. https://t.co/Dm45SdMPuH
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 13, 2021
Daily new cases are dropping in China to a two-week low. The reason? Lockdowns, masks and mass vaccination campaigns. https://t.co/Vpxc2KgYZn pic.twitter.com/lZ5o7HZY2Z
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 14, 2021
India reports 36,083 new COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours https://t.co/E5Zx35dHxf pic.twitter.com/ZGliVtQ99e
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 15, 2021
New South Wales, Australia 'in worst ever Covid situation' https://t.co/eZ9URBfDs3
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 14, 2021
Australia secures 1 million more Pfizer vaccine doses from Poland https://t.co/VgbfaOXjK1 pic.twitter.com/CtSWvPuEHZ
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 15, 2021
Iranian state media says authorities will impose a six-day-long “general lockdown” on Monday in cities impacted by the coronavirus. It includes a travel ban between all Iranian cities. Iran reported 29,700 daily cases and 466 confirmed deaths on Saturday. https://t.co/omuFohzFXM
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 14, 2021
"The COVID-19 situation is catastrophic," says the president of Iran's Intensive Care Association. "Hospitals have reached their limit…. Sometimes they just wait for patients to die because there is no treatment [available] for this [number] of admissions." #sosiran https://t.co/sof8cPEnHe
— Golnaz Esfandiari (@GEsfandiari) August 14, 2021
WATCH: Britain's Heathrow Airport said that passenger numbers surged in July as the government eased travel restrictions and a recovery was underway, but warned that overall numbers were still down 80% as many barriers remain https://t.co/Q8K4r3Sf12 pic.twitter.com/rX9lZfvVmN
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 15, 2021
“‘If Africa were to experience an outbreak of the level of India or Brazil, my worry is for state collapses,’ says @mfallah1969. The resources of most African nations aren’t enough to sustain the social & economic shock of large outbreaks”#EndVaxApartheidhttps://t.co/KoLPnbAvlV
— Eric Reinhart (@_Eric_Reinhart) August 14, 2021
Mexico invites a massive southward surge of US anti-vax asylum seekers https://t.co/k3u6Vtqacm pic.twitter.com/k3H1uy6UKf
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 14, 2021
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Moderna's mRNA Covid vaccine found to be still effective 6 months after the 2-dose shots https://t.co/iQaY6sge3U pic.twitter.com/yUBmcaTb42
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) August 14, 2021
"We give them billions and THIS is what they come up with" is an argument for giving them more money, actually.
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) August 9, 2021
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Hospitals struggle with staff shortages in coronavirus hot spots https://t.co/i4e7RXl6yk
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 12, 2021
Mississippi hospital puts beds in parking garage to cope with COVID-19 surge https://t.co/hAMD2yA3Ci pic.twitter.com/dgNrHCwWFi
— Reuters (@Reuters) August 14, 2021
Back-to-school is not going smoothly nationwide. More than 10,000 students and staff members across 14 states are quarantined after exposure to the virus. For most, it's only the first week of school. https://t.co/MVtJyPKz6O
— Jaclyn Peiser (@jackiepeiser) August 13, 2021
More big news: The other major teachers union, the American Federation of Teachers, has changed their official position on vaccine mandates as well. They now support them, following a unanimous vote by their executive council last night, per @AFTunion
— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) August 12, 2021
They regret not getting the vaccine — and became social media evangelists for the shot https://t.co/ZdFIBTky6L
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 12, 2021
GOP Senator Rand Paul is a terrible person, citation #34567:
Sen Rand Paul & his wife Kelley had not bought or sold stock in an individual company in at least 10 yrs when she purchased shares Gilead in early 2020
Purchase came one day after 1st US clinical trial began for Gilead’s remdesivir as a covid-19 treatment https://t.co/GJ3iGGFm0j— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 13, 2021
J R in WV
Good morning, all!
Thanks for the companionship, Jackals… society amongst the plague!
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
115 new cases based on NYS Dept of Health data.
It looks like the local tracker took the weekend off.
Spanky
OH MY GOD WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MARYLAND?!?11
Spanky
I guess it would be too much to ask for Madison Cawtborn to not have been vaccinated.
Spanky
@Spanky: On my phone I see the entire chart is only 24 states but can’t see an explanation why.
mrmoshpotato
Powerfully incomplete? Why even have a legend at all?
YY_Sima Qian
On 8/14 China reported 24 new domestic confirmed cases (0 previously asymptomatic) & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic confirmed case recovered & 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 46 active domestic confirmed cases there. 1 community at Ruili remains at High Risk. 3 zones & 2 villages at Ruili, & 1 village at Longchuan County, are currently at Medium Risk.
Jiangsu Province reported 18 new domestic confirmed cases. 7 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently 740 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hunan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case. There are currently are 107 active domestic confirmed (including 1 serious) & 18 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Henan Province reported 5 new domestic confirmed & 7 new domestic asymptomatic cases. 1 domestic suspect case was cleared of COVID-19. There are currently 160 active domestic confirmed & 7 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Hubei Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 87 active domestic confirmed & 71 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Hulun Buir in Inner Mongolia “Autonomous” Region there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case (at Hailar), who had stayed at the same floor in same hotel at the same time as the confirmed case reported by Yinchuan. 1 residential compound remains at Medium Risk.
At Haikou in Hainan Province there currently are 2 active domestic confirmed cases, a person who had crossed paths w/ the party from Huai’an in Jiangsu Province on company outing at Jingzhou high speed rail station & a worker at the airport. 1 residential compound & 1 industrial part remain at Medium Risk.
At Ningbo in Zhejiang Province there is 1 domestic asymptomatic case, a dock worker at the port there.
Imported Cases
On 8/14, China reported 29 new imported confirmed cases (4 previously asymptomatic), 22 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 38 confirmed cases recovered, 8 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation & 4 were reclassified as confirmed cases, & 3,959 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,922 active confirmed cases in the country (738 imported), 64 in serious condition (10 imported), 504 active asymptomatic cases (394 imported), 2 suspect cases (1 imported). 44,300 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 8/14, 1,853.839M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 9.457M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 8/15, Hong Kong reported 1 new positive case, imported. 54.4% of eligible residents have taken at least 1 shot of vaccine, 42.3% are fully vaccinated.
Mary G
The county no longer reports on the weekends, but cases in CA overall are down 4%, which is a relief.
[Edited to add that South Dakota is up 206%, even before Sturgis numbers are in.]
That AP article where their photographers took pictures of the meals they got to eat in quarantine hotels was interesting. Australia gives an ear of corn, by itself, for lunch?
Brachiator
I was reading about Alabama’s recent state of emergency. From The Hill.
The governor tries to frame the argument in terms of typical conservative ideology, but the bottom line is that instead of trying to mitigate the virus, she is trying to get medical staff from outside the state.
And, as always, business gets more protection than people do.
As of August 11, 45.6 percent of state residents had received one vaccine dose. Only 35 percent were fully vaccinated.
charon
Keeping my own historical tab from NYT site:
.. 8/13/2021 cases 125,894 +24,695
..
.. 8/06/2021 cases 100,199 +28,968
.. 7/30/2021 cases 71,231 +25,999
… 7/23/2021 cases 45,232 + 16,917
..
.. 7/16/2021..cases 28,315 +12,107
..
.. 7/09/2021 cases 16,208
So U.S. total looks like leveling off.
NeenerNeener
Here’s a website that explains that chart:
https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/
These are the only states that reported; that’s why no Maryland or New York.
mrmoshpotato
@NeenerNeener: Thanks.
Barbara
@Spanky: If you go to KFF.org, you will find that not all states are reporting data on breakthrough infections. It’s only around half.
mrmoshpotato
@Brachiator: “Help us, but we aren’t gonna do a damn thing to slow the virus spread. And to hell with the kids.”
lowtechcyclist
The hell it is. Without a time period given, it means nothing. If it’s the case numbers for the past 3 months, when about half of us were fully vaccinated, then yep, very persuasive.
But if these are the case numbers for the entire duration of the pandemic so far, then the vast majority of those cases happened when everyone or almost everyone was unvaccinated because you couldn’t get the vaccine even if you wanted it. Which was as recently as early April.
Betty
Has anybody seen any creative anti-covid messaging? Things like fun graphics and slogans such as “Uncle Sam needs you to help crush the Covid”. We have people with such advanced skills. Surely they can develop story lines and images to capture the imagination to get across that this is a battle requiring everyone to get on board.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Director-General of Health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reports 20,546 new Covid-19 cases today in his media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 1,404,899 cases. He also reports 282 new deaths today, for a cumulative total of 12,510 deaths — 0.89% of the cumulative reported total, 1.08% of resolved cases.
There are currently 247,261 active and contagious cases; 1,059 are in ICU, 526 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 16,945 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,145,128 patients recovered – 81.51% of the cumulative reported total.
29 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 4,183 clusters. 1,317 clusters are currently active; 2,866 clusters are now inactive.
20,532 new cases today are local infections. Selangor reports 7,304 local cases: 282 in clusters, 4,240 close-contact screenings, and 2,782 other screenings.
Sabah reports 1,665 cases: 226 in clusters, 915 close-contact screenings, and 524 other screenings. Kedah reports 1,596 cases: 155 in clusters, 831 close-contact screenings, and 610 other screenings. Johor reports 1,508 cases: 325 in clusters, 818 close-contact screenings, and 365 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 1,439 local cases: 121 in clusters, 682 close-contact screenings, and 636 other screenings. Penang reports 1,111 cases: 60 in clusters, 402 close-contact screenings, and 649 other screenings. Perak reports 1,069 cases: 137 in clusters, 288 close-contact screenings, and 644 other screenings. Kelantan reports 1,025 cases: 63 in clusters, 652 close-contact screenings, and 310 other screenings.
Sarawak reports 961 local cases: 82 in clusters, 670 close-contact screenings, and 209 other screenings. Pahang reports 920 local cases: 321 in clusters, 455 close-contact screenings, and 144 other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 698 cases: nine in clusters, 372 close-contact screenings, and 317 other screenings. Melaka reports 631 cases: 160 in clusters, 306 close-contact screenings, and 165 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 534 cases: 63 in clusters, 406 close-contact screenings, and 65 other screenings.
Putrajaya reports 47 cases: 32 close-contact screenings and 15 other screenings. Perlis reports 21 cases: seven in clusters, six close-contact screenings, and eight other screenings. Labuan reports three cases, all close-contact screenings.
14 new cases today are imported: six in Pahang, three in Selangor, three in Kuala Lumpur, and two in Sarawak.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 442,150 doses of vaccine on 14th August: 161,049 first doses and 281,101 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 27,293,915 doses administered: 16,868,615 first doses and 10,425,300 second doses. 51.7% of the population have received their first dose, while 31.9% are now fully vaccinated.
trnc
The overall surge is making a difference in my travel plans, but so is the decision by some airlines not to require their employees to be vaccinated.
prostratedragon
@mrmoshpotato: Here’s a similar one from Vox that has more info on it and might be easier to read at a glance.
(H/t to hrbrmster at R-bloggers)
The Thin Black Duke
@mrmoshpotato: “No”, they replied.
Rusty
I don’t think it will substantially change the numbers, but when breakthrough cases of vaccinated persons getting COVID-19 are reported, how do they confirm the person was actually vaccinated? If it’s self reporting, I am guessing there is a certain level of claiming to be vaccinated when they didn’t. (As the TV show character House said, Everybody lies!). The lack of cancer could be to avoid embarrassment, not admit to family you didn’t bother, deliberate evasion, and so on. It would also be helpful to know of those that had breakthrough infections, is there something particular about them? Age, immunocompromised, other factors? The main problem is the flat out lies and disinformation. In the last week I have had several instances of encountering people sharing that lots of people are dying from the vaccine. One was on a community page, 11,000 dead from the vaccine, and another was a casual encounter where a person mentioned two people died this week from the vaccine in our area (both completely not true).
Ken
If they’re in a state where the governor or legislature is blocking COVID precautions, I can think of a few things they might try.
trnc
The vaccine is the miracle, dipshit. This is like the joke about monotheistic deity telling the flood victim, “I sent you a raft, a boat and a helicopter, dumbass.”
Barney
@lowtechcyclist: The time period is the start of January 2021 to mid July. Which is absolutely vital information for the chart to have any meaning at all; and I would say reduces it to a historical curiosity, with complicated varying vaccination rates and spread of variants meaning it contains little proper information at all.
trnc
@lowtechcyclist:
Yup. Appreciate the sentiment on her part, but I really wish people would stop thinking that membership on social media makes them communications experts.
Amir Khalid
The Government here has announced a list of categories of retail outlets that we fully vaccinated may patronise, effective Monday, in states under Phase 1 of the National Recovery Plan. These categories include clothing, furniture, sporting goods, electronics, home appliances, jewellers’ shops, car accessory stores and dealerships, and barbershops.
prostratedragon
@trnc: The donut one from Vox says “recent months through July.” I’m guessing that the included States have differing initial data periods.
NotMax
Cuba now the 49th country to report total cases over 500k. Portugal becomes the 33rd to report total case numbers over 1,000,000.
Just Chuck
@trnc: But don’t you know, everyone on social media is an expert on everything! I mean, what do all those doctors and epidemiologists know anyway? Hell, I can barely pronounce that last one, is that even a real job?
The triumph of stupidity and noise over fact is another reason I deleted my FB account. That the final deletion went through on Jul 4 (last year) is bonus.
Ixnay
@trnc: one of our favorites.
New Deal democrat
@lowtechcyclist: From January 1 through July 31, there were 14,800,000 new cases of COVID in the US. According to the CDC, 125,000 of them were breakthrough cases. That’s roughly 0.8%. The other 99.2% were unvaccinated. By the end of July, about 165,000,000 people were fully vaccinated. If we simply divide that in half for a crude average of how many people on average were vaccinated during that time, that’s 82,500,000, out of a total US population of just over 330,000,000, or 25% of the total population.
25/0.8=33.3. In other words, during the first 7 months of this year, the unvaccinated were about 33.3x more likely to have COVID than by chance alone.
Really, the CDC should be churning out updated graphs like this every day, or at least every week.
So I think there is signal there, although i’d Like to see one monthly for July, to better focus on Delta.
trnc
@prostratedragon: Yup. Some states also aren’t reporting. I was really hoping to see Co because we have some anti-vax extended family there. Well, for now, anyway.
WereBear
@Spanky: I believe getting the shot and lying about it is their new MO.
Though True Believers, as always, shoot themselves in the foot.
prostratedragon
@trnc: Yeah, I’m in Illinois, hoping they’ll get on the stick soon.
Nicole
@Rusty:
Yeah, that’s where my brain goes now, too. Reports of a flight attendant for Southwest who just died of Covid (his mom and a friend claim he was fully vaccinated and had no pre-existing conditions) were ALL OVER the Twitter last night and I hate myself for this, but I immediately went to, “WAS he really vaccinated?” His mom, if I remember right, claims he got Covid from a trip in May, which means he would probably have had to start the vaccination process in March to have been fully vaccinated (unless it was J&J) and I don’t know how many under 50, no preexisting conditions folk were able to easily get the shot in March.
And again, I hate myself for going down these distrusting rabbit holes because I feel like I’m the flip side of the QAnon coin when I do.
MomSense
My mom got a booster yesterday. She got a Moderna. No side effects except that I feel better.
MomSense
@Nicole:
It is most definitely not the flip side of Q. There have been two many people showing their whole, selfish asses from the start of COVID.
prostratedragon
@Nicole: I think the distrust is reasonable given the current climate.
At present all providers of covid vaccine are supposed to report regularly to the CDC. The required info includes identifying data for each recipient, so it’s possible to compile verified data on breakthroughs for an analyst with access to that database.
sab
@Nicole: I think it’s a valid point ( i.e. when did they get vaccinated.)
I have been saying this all year. Just getting the vaccine shots isn’t good enough. It’s another six weeks before they are fully effective.
So school boards or teachers unions or governors deciding in mid-August that vaccine mandates or even vacciine encouragement is a good things is a couple of months too late. Better late than never, but it is still very late.
ETA Italicized inserted as an additional comment in editimg.
Nicole
@prostratedragon: I just doubt in this case the CDC would come out and #wellactually if the mom or friend are misinformed, and so there I go, googling about someone I don’t know.
It’s so frustrating, because the media doesn’t attempt to dig; they’re thrilled to have a VACCINATED PERSON DIES OF COVID article because that will get clicks and the fact that it’s weaponized by anti-vaxxers isn’t their problem. None of the articles I read about the flight attendant noted that breakthrough infections are overwhelmingly rare and death even rarer.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 1,498 new cases of COVID-19 reported with no new reported deaths of someone who had tested positive (noting that register offices are now generally closed at weekends). Test positivity rate is 7.4%. Hospitalisations and ICU bed occupancy numbers are slightly down again but some regional hospitals are starting to put off and postpone elective surgery again. These are hospitals with small ICUs and limited resources, not the bigger city-centre sites.
Just over 23,500 vaccinations were administered in Scotland yesterday (Saturday) with over 25% of those vaccinations being first doses. 77.4% of the adult population are now fully vaccinated with another 12.8% having received their initial dose of vaccine. If this rate continues then we can expect 80% full vaccination in Scotland and the rest of the UK by the end of the month.
There’s still no definitive numbers on how the vaccination effort for 16 and 17 year olds is proceeding other than “demand is robust” statements in the Press. Nearly all Scottish schools will be open by the middle of this week with an in-class mask mandate in place.
sab
We have a friend with a breakthrough covid case. He has been resting at home for a week with a bad cough and a slight fever. Pretty good for a 70 year old man.
My 40 year old niece who got a symptomatic but “mild” covid case early on was much much sicker. Much higher fever. Much scarier breathing issues. She thought she might be dying. Same thing with my husband’s opthamologist. There is a huge difference between breakthrough cases and unvaccinated cases.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Jim, Foolish Literalist
A free vaccination could have saved her life. (thread)
Sloane Ranger
Saturday in the UK we had 29,520 new cases. This is an increase of 6.9% in the rolling 7-day average but is definitely an undercount since, as Robert Sneddon says, admin offices are now usually closed at weekends and Wales does not report on a Saturday. New cases by nation,
England – 26,700 (down 1979)
Northern Ireland – 1437 (up 48)
Scotland – 1383 (down 159 but see Robert Sneddon’s update above)
Wales – Does not report on Saturday’s).
Testing – Not updated at weekends.
Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.
Vaccinations – As of Friday, 13 August, 47,254,399 people had received 1 shot of a vaccine and 40,372,981 had had both. This means that 89.3% of all adults in the UK had received 1 shot by that date and 76.3% were fully vaccinated. The British government has announced that all 16 and 17 year olds in England will be offered the first dose of the vaccine by Monday, 23 August. As Robert Sneddon says, we still have no idea of the take up among this group other than the press release he quotes.
charon
San Diego data, 7/12/2021 to 8/10/2021:
https://twitter.com/SanDiegoCounty/status/142590961223919616
Fully vaccinated: 13
Not fully vaccinated: 521
Anoniminous
Vaccination is not a panacea. It is not a 100% guaranteed ‘Get Out of the Covid Pandemic Free’ card. Vaccination WILL greatly lower the chances of contracting the disease and WILL greatly lower the severity of the disease.
The jury is still out regarding vaccination and Long Term Covid.
So, unless the prospect of spending your last hours drowning in you own lung fluids or living the rest of your life with heart, brain, liver, or other major organ damage fulls you with joy keep wearing those masks and gloves and maintain proper Personal Protection Protocols.
Also, too, very early studies are reporting SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7.C.7 – aka “Lambda Variant” – is highly infectious, possibly more so than Delta, and has the RSYLTPGD246-253N, L452Q and F490S mutations on its spike protein – meaning “greater resistance to anti-viral immunity,” meaning existing vaccines are less effective.
Suzanne
@Anoniminous: I have been masking in public, with the exception of the gym. It is the only time I find masking to be really burdensome. Mr. Suzanne and I are thinking of biting the bullet and buying a Peloton. Ugh. I feel like a douchey white person just contemplating the prospect.
Kelly
Oregon reinstituted a statewide public indoors mask mandate Friday. Pleasantly surprised by approximately 90% compliance at a Lowes in heavily Trumpy Linn County on Friday. That’s about what compliance was at the end of the previous mandate.
Last week we bought a small A frame pop up camp trailer. We were sorting our go bags after several fires started forty miles away in the mountains. Decided to just go get an escape pod with room for the cats. Heading to the coast for a shakedown camping trip at a state park for a couple days this week. Not too worried about the Delta virus breakthrough since we will be in our own RV a few hundred yards from the breezy Pacific.
WaterGirl
@Kelly: The pop-up camper seems like a really good idea. Very smart
edit: I assume no bathroom in something like that?
Kelly
@WaterGirl: Portapotty with with a sink, an outside shower and a water heater. We’ll see how that works. The interior is an unpartitioned 7’x12′ but it is weathertight. Probably use the campground restrooms, masked. Easy to tow.
Bill Arnold
@Anoniminous:
Only a few studies so far, but it’s looking like loss of smell is highly correlated with an increased probability of long-covid involving brain function.
The response to levels of inoculum seems to be non-linear, and it is possible that high levels of (Delta(/Lamda?)) inoculum overwhelm the sparse vaccine-induced antibodies in the upper respiratory epithelium (including the olfactory epithelium), and that masking (by the infected, or the non-infected, or both) might reduce the chance of this happening.
I’m not waiting for the Science on this, and am focused on good, low-leakage masks like N95s when indoors in shared spaces, on good ventilation where possible (which includes good filtration if re-circulation is involved), and pushing for the return of indoor mask mandates in public spaces, and for vaccine mandates (public/private) for participation in indoor events.
The surface cleaning stuff is like 4th order at best (i.e. almost entirely security theater which instills a useful sense of seriousness), and the hand washing is mainly useful to reduce incidence of other common diseases that are actually transmitted that way.
Oh, and suppressing thoughts of throwing The Willfully Un-Vaccinated into wood chippers (head first, I’m not a monster), or at least putting them under house arrest. (Similarly, not sure if a few stand your ground cases against unvaxxed unmasked pro-Disease people would be net positive or not.)
sab
@Suzanne: Do you have anywhere in your house up to the elegance and good views that Peloton requires? // I have been laughing at their ads for years. Who gives up that liiving space to exercise equipment?
But my very physically damaged (blue collar) husband won’t let me go out because he wants to protect me (?? He cannot) so I haven’t had adequate exercise in years. It does irk me. It also stresses me out.
ETA: I am five five and slight ( before I chunked up from no exercise.) He was six two (before his back collapsed) so him wanting to protect me made sense on paper, but not in real life. I will die from medical issues before anyone injures me at this rate.
peggy
@sab:
peggy
I do an hour and a half of core exercises in bed in the morning, leg lifts, bridges, sit ups, and planks. I’m 5’3 and very chunky. It is too bad you can’t go out for walks. The world is a lot safer than hubie thinks.
Kayla Rudbek
@sab: we have a subscription to Zwift on our iPad which works with a trainer and a regular bike. I think that it is a smart trainer and it communicates with the iPad and runs a simulation of being on a bike ride, showing your speed on the course, changing the difficulty when you’re going uphill, etc. Probably a lot cheaper than a Peloton.