More than 650,000 white flags are being planted at the National Mall in Washington D.C., representing the number of American lives lost to COVID-19, in an outdoor installation by artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg pic.twitter.com/FzoDI9jnaa
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 16, 2021
You absolutely can! It is a participatory art installation. Visit https://t.co/28oYZpH1zK for more information on personalizing flags!
— Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg (@sbfirstenberg) September 15, 2021
WATCH: President Biden meets with the CEOs of Walt Disney and Columbia Sportswear, and other business executives and leaders, to discuss his recently announced vaccine requirement for companies that employ at least 100 people. https://t.co/G8U1G1RTH6
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) September 15, 2021
Almost 500,000: That's the number of children diagnosed with COVID from Sept. 2 to Sept. 9, a number the American Academy of Pediatrics said has "increased exponentially." @NBCNews
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 16, 2021
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The US, now ranked 37 on the list of fully vaccinated of total population, and dropping lower every weekhttps://t.co/CtQtGEAl0S pic.twitter.com/Tc9OhSsitb
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 16, 2021
“The current state of vaccine inequality is not acceptable” – Insightful interview with @Gavi’s @MaphosaThabani on vaccine hesitancy, supply challenges & why countries must prioritize first doses in lower-income countries before rolling out boosters: https://t.co/bpS2jITc8N
— Seth Berkley (@GaviSeth) September 16, 2021
Chinese health officials say they have fully vaccinated more than 1 billion people. That's 72% of China's population of 1.4 billion. The announcement comes as China battles a new outbreak of the delta variant in the southeastern province of Fujian. https://t.co/PB0bzyY3Hn
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 16, 2021
Singapore PM gets COVID-19 booster shot, urges others to follow https://t.co/1PWFULZrwK pic.twitter.com/JbXWvr5x9q
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 17, 2021
The closing of schools for more than a year has been a devastating blow for many of Indonesia's students. A World Bank report calculated the pandemic will leave more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency level identified by OECD https://t.co/zGOBl1ClQn pic.twitter.com/N1lmS8aarn
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 17, 2021
Vaccinated Australians promised more freedom even as COVID-19 cases mount https://t.co/940IndEdeJ pic.twitter.com/KjwmEJuwCX
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 17, 2021
Australian officials will trial a home quarantine system for fully vaccinated international travelers arriving in Sydney, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, as the country moves to reopen its borders despite persistent COVID-19 cases https://t.co/bicMCP63ZB pic.twitter.com/0dz5RfZMYf
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 17, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that dozens of people in his entourage tested positive for the coronavirus before he went into self-isolation earlier this weekhttps://t.co/FbbDoZOt1B
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) September 16, 2021
Italy to require all workers to show 'green pass' certificate https://t.co/T3ZmZuLHOg
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 16, 2021
More than 3000 healthcare workers were placed on suspension without pay yesterday in France. They refused #COVID19 #vaccination.https://t.co/oppeDBhOaY
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 16, 2021
Dutch to introduce 'corona' pass despite strong opposition https://t.co/qo0d2vkqQa pic.twitter.com/RBYZD58aQ0
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 17, 2021
Britain will consider easing England's COVID-19 rules for international travel after the travel industry complained that a myriad of onerous rules and red tape were hobbling airlines, holiday and tourism companies https://t.co/WH2Oy8W1P7 pic.twitter.com/JwUUTTA9SK
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 17, 2021
Brazil's federal government wants to halt COVID-19 vaccinations for most adolescents, citing a death under investigation and adverse events after some 3.5 million teens have already been immunized, but several state governments vowed to press on https://t.co/bgr4MOaitN pic.twitter.com/svwVO3x2q4
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 17, 2021
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Ahead of FDA's meeting Friday, the agency has released an analysis of Pfizer's booster shot application. It's the 1st public look at data on a potential 3rd Pfizer shot. Document is 23 pages. A panel of outside experts empaneled by FDA will review the data https://t.co/bBHmQ0nEuN
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 16, 2021
All the vaccines are great, but I can't deny the joy I felt upon learning that the one I got will henceforth be known in Canada as "Spikevax" https://t.co/kvjjT4FLK4
— Tyler Irving (@tylereirving) September 16, 2021
Survey of mRNA-#vaccine recipients in 5 @VeteransAffairs (VA) centers, Feb1-Aug6, 2021 vs #DeltaVariant :
– over-65-yr-olds were 80% protected against #COVID19 hospitalization
– <65-yr-olds 95% protected
– Overall vaccine effectiveness anti-delta = 86.8%https://t.co/ZU0tSDWQk1— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 16, 2021
Nursing homes & #COVID19
"Among >14,900 nursing homes reporting #vaccination data by Jul18, 60% of staff & 81.4% of residents were fully vax'ed. Average vax coverage was lowest among CNAs (49.2%) & nurses (61.0%)…"https://t.co/tbVAmfCLzP— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 16, 2021
Long Covid less common than feared – ONS study https://t.co/fCCfamitTo
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 17, 2021
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The thing about the brain trust of the COVID denial crowd is that in addition to being horrible people, they are phenomenally, phenomenally stupid. The only thing that makes them relevant is their horse paste eating audience is just as stupid.
— What Biden Has Done (@What46HasDone) September 16, 2021
Idaho, last March.
Idaho, today. pic.twitter.com/zHqQXPyNYO— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) September 16, 2021
Idaho allows overwhelmed hospitals to ration care—if necessary. State health officials activated “crisis standards of care” allowing facilities to ration treatment https://t.co/9Zw8lAjwnb
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 16, 2021
Idaho went pretty much all in on anti-mask, anti-vax, pro-Covidism. Now they are rationing hospital services. Here are some of the ways doctors and nurses will use to decide which lives they should try to save. https://t.co/E5kU3vzPRv
— Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) September 16, 2021
In the Star Trek episode "the Conscience of the King" Governor Kodos – Kodos the Executioner – killed 4,000 colonists. DeSantis exceeded that this week alone. https://t.co/zCsCFPiJsK
— Malaclypse (@Mal_A_Clypse) September 17, 2021
Newly released promotional video for future events reveals that Michael Flynn was the organizer of the event in Sarasota, FL this past weekend, where doctors were mass-signing medical exemptions for masks. pic.twitter.com/u7YNzcaB5p
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 16, 2021
As the fake Covid-19 vaccination card market booms, some sellers are asking for hundreds of dollars for a card. The US Customs and Border Protection says it has intercepted thousands of packages of the fake cards. https://t.co/SzmBY5YHxi
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 16, 2021
Hey, remember ‘Right Wing Warrior’ Laura Loomer?
White nationalist, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, and congressional candidate Laura Loomer now has covid. pic.twitter.com/Og2tVXwR28
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 17, 2021
I don't care what you say I think this aged excellently https://t.co/QnuZTEcF3P
— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) September 17, 2021
germy
A nice young man, a pastor, who is also running for public office.
NotMax
I do take issue with the reporter’s downplaying of the infected customer as “careless.”
Also locally,
Chyron HR
“Purposefully turning the third largest state into a COVID petri dish and making no attempt to restrict movement of infected people will cause infections in other states, too.” How did I do?
germy
John S.
The levels of epic stupidity (along with the heat, hurricanes, etc.) in Florida are why after nearly 40 years of living here, I am done. My wife and I are going to Washington in a few months to look for houses so we can relocate next year.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
Monroe County web site says 213 new cases and 4.5% test positivity.
NYSDOH says 296 new cases. I still have a tv delivery, furnace maintenance, doctor appointments and car maintenance scheduled across the next few months, so I’m worried because our case counts have gone wild again.
NotMax
@Chyron HR
Signs needed on the interstate.
FLORIDA STATE LINE
ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK
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YY_Sima Qian
On 9/16 China reported 62 new domestic confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic) & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Fujian Province reporter 61 new domestic confirmed cases (1 previously asymptomatic) & 6 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 261 active domestic confirmed cases & 9 active domestic asymptomatic cases.
Yunnan Province reported 1 new domestic confirmed case, at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture, a traced close contact of the domestic confirmed case reported one 9/15 & already under centralized quarantine. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 1 domestic asymptomatic cases there. The last Medium Risk village in Ruili has been re-designated as Low Risk.
Hunan Province did not reported any new domestic positive cases. 12 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There are currently are 33 active domestic confirmed cases in the province, all at Zhangjiajie
Henan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 3 domestic confirmed cases recovered. There currently are 10 active domestic confirmed cases in the province.
Hubei Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. 1 domestic asymptomatic case was released from isolation. There currently are 11 active domestic confirmed (6 mild & 5 moderate) & 3 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
At Shanghai Municipality there currently are 4 active domestic confirmed cases.
Imported Cases
On 9/16, China reported 22 new imported confirmed cases (2 previously asymptomatic), 14 imported asymptomatic cases, 2 imported suspect cases:
Overall in China, 45 confirmed cases recovered (29 imported), 12 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (11 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (2 imported), & 917 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 916 active confirmed cases in the country (587 imported), 5 in serious condition (3 imported), 378 active asymptomatic cases (359 imported), 2 suspect cases (both imported). 15,875 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 9/16, 2,165.679M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 4.251M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 9/17, Hong Kong reported 3 new positive cases, all imported (from Germany, Qatar & the UAE, all had been fully vaccinated).
Tony Jay
How do you say it over there?
“Uh, what is ‘evidence that ‘following the science’ went out of the window the moment Party donors started squealing about their dividends’?”
But never mind. The Egg-shaped Emperor ‘beat’ Covid months ago, the UK Media told me so.
Matt McIrvin
@Chyron HR: Florida’s case rate per capita is still twice as high as Vermont’s, but in a few weeks, there will likely come a moment when cases are higher in the Northeast because they slowed this wave down and it’s already burned through the tinder down South, and I am positive that we’ll have another round of “where does DeSantis go for his apology?” then. Never mind the deaths or the hospital occupancy.
Suzanne
@John S.: I hear you. I have been missing AZ, even has a dream about it last night. Woke up and remembered that they’re out of water but full up on crazy people. Sigh.
Baud
MomSense
#TeamSpikeVax
Ken
Perhaps in the sense that everyone who was around in 1776 is dead.
mrmoshpotato
Re: everyone who refuses to get vaccinated.
You selfish, murderous bastards!
My brain refuses to come up with anything more eloquent. I’m so done with the willfully unvaccinated.
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense: :) ?
NotMax
@Ken
Maybe the pastor can start a movement to remove Washington from the money because he advocated inoculation.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 17,577 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,067,327 cases. It also reports 346 new deaths as of midnight, for a cumulative total of 22,355 deaths – 1.08% of the cumulative reported total, 1.21% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.98.
891 confirmed active and contagious cases are in ICU, 410 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 22,970 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 1,833,248 patients recovered – 88.2% of the cumulative reported total.
19 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,247 clusters. 1,387 clusters are currently active; 3,860 clusters are now inactive.
17,574 new cases today are local infections. Sarawak reports 3,480 cases: 176 in clusters, 2,311 close-contact screenings, and 993 other screenings.
Selangor reports 2,646 cases: 79 in clusters, 1,352 close-contact screenings, and 1,215 other screenings. Johor reports 2,334 cases: 162 in clusters, 1,389 close-contact screenings, and 783 other screenings.
Perak reports 1,596 cases: 484 in clusters, 444 close-contact screenings, and 668 other screenings. Sabah reports 1,533 local cases: 73 in clusters, 852 close-contact screenings, and 608 other screenings.
Penang reports 1,462 cases: 238 in clusters, 463 close-contact screenings, and 761 other screenings. Kedah reports 1,233 cases: 11 in clusters, 677 close-contact screenings, and 485 other screenings.
Kelantan reports 869 cases: 37 in clusters, 496 close-contact screenings, and 336 other screenings. Pahang reports 832 cases: 233 in clusters, 482 close-contact screenings, and 117 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 719 cases: nine in clusters, 571 close-contact screenings, and 139 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 364 local cases: 12 in clusters, 193 close-contact screenings, and 159 other screenings.
Melaka reports 287 cases: 31 in clusters, 139 close-contact screenings, and 134 other screenings.
Negeri Sembilan reports 197 local cases: nine in clusters, 130 close-contact screenings, and 58 other screenings.
Perlis reports 41 cases: 13 close-contact screenings and 28 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 31 cases: 25 close-contact screenings and six other screenings. Labuan reports 10 cases, all from other screenings.
Three new cases today are imported: two in Kuala Lumpur and one in Negeri Sembilan.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 202,298 doses of vaccine on 16th September: 62,108 first doses and 140,190 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 39,685,414 doses administered: 21,783,871 first doses and 17,973,545 second doses. 66.7% of the population have received their first dose, while 55.0% are now fully vaccinated.
Percysowner
I don’t watch the MSNBC lineup, instead I listen to it on podcast next day. Last night Rachel Maddow was talking about the crisis in the Idaho hospitals. Unfortunately she kept saying Ohio for a while. So there I am, walking my dog before morning coffee, hearing about Ohio hospitals being closed for all elective surgery and for certain non-emergency surgery. I was very concerned. Fortunately Ohio isn’t there yet, but our state legislators are working on it.
I have surgery scheduled for Sept 30, and I want to have it, not wait and worry while COVID patients eat up all the available beds.
New Deal democrat
Continuing good (or less bad) news on the Delta wave as cases in the US are 10% below their peak for the third day in a row after the Labor Day artifacts exited the data, and in the UK cases continue to decline rapidly from their secondary peak, now down almost 25%.
Deaths continue to rise, as expected, with the 7 day average in deaths over 1900. I expect this to rise another 500 to 1000 before peaking.
It’s too soon to know how if the spread among schoolchildren will cause a similar secondary or even new peak in the US, or just slow the decline.
As an aside, does anyone know what has happened to 91-Divoc? It has failed to update for 2 days in a row, so no convenient way to compare State-level data.
satby
@Tony Jay: well, I had planned a trip to London (pre-Delta, but post opening) and for a fully vaccinated person the additional covid testing to leave, on Day 2, and come home added almost $600 to my trip, almost as much as my 7 day hotel stay. So I’m about to cancel it (again, this was a reschedule due to last year’s covid surge). The UK measures seem overdone compared to the EU ones.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin: As of 2 days ago, Florida was right behind North Dakota and poised to overtake it for 2nd place in total confirmed cases per capita. It was in 12th place and rapidly rising in deaths as well. Since May 2020, it is probably in the top 5 for total deaths per capita.
Matt McIrvin
I’m seeing a huge burst of people going “If the vaccine really works, why do YOU care why I’m vaccinated? I guess YOU don’t really believe in it, huh?”
…and continuing to believe that this is an absolutely irrefutable argument, because their friends all congratulate them on the irrefutability of it, and everyone who might fire back concluded months ago that trying to convince these numbnuts of anything is like talking to a wall. Honestly I don’t even want to start shit any more.
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: For total deaths per capita, until recently the Northeast looked relatively bad because they took such a horrific hit way back in spring 2020 (and some of the states aren’t undercounting COVID deaths as badly as Florida).
But I’m talking more about the focus on whatever happens to be going on this particular week, since the memory hole is strong in this country.
Mousebumples
@Matt McIrvin: what about all the kids who can’t be vaccinated or people like my MIL who has gotten a booster already, as a kidney transplant recipient, who may not be fully protected? That’s how i respond.
It’s not about fully vaccinated me. It’s about those that are too young to be vaccinated or those that have weakened immune systems and are at higher risk.
*sigh
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat:
I think it is now possible to see the tick up in the Northeast, where younger schoolchildren are a substantial fraction of the unvaccinated. The peak in MA was just starting to level out and it looks like cases are rising again. But the big outbreaks in the vacation areas, where permanent residents are heavily vaccinated–the Cape and the islands–are subsiding rapidly, as you’d expect from the season ending.
Matt McIrvin
@Mousebumples: Really, there are lots of reasons:
1. The vaccine isn’t perfect for anyone–even if you’re vaccinated, it’s a lot safer for there to be less virus about than more.
2. This is particularly the case for the elderly and immunocompromised.
3. Children under 12 can’t yet be vaccinated at all.
4. It’s bad for everyone who might need medical care when the hospitals are overflowing with severely ill and dying COVID patients.
All this stuff should be obvious. But “hur hur, if you think I’m a danger to you, you must not believe in the vaccine” sounds like an unanswerable burn to these people.
Some of this also serves as a response to the people who are pro-vax but want to lift all non-medical interventions and just let it rip, on the grounds that it’s inevitable that everyone will get COVID anyway, and breakthrough infections aren’t that bad, so we should just accept it and get it over with. As I think Cheryl said, these people are a relatively small part of the population but they’re very loud on social media. To some extent the debates within the subset of people who are vaccinated is an echo of the wider disagreements in microcosm.
Ken
“I’m not a sociopath”?
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: The implication is that everyone really knows the vaccine doesn’t work at all, but the liberals pretend they believe in it because we get off on forcing other people to do stuff for its own sake. Just like with global warming, etc.
The latest burst of it I saw was somebody incensed that theme parks could have vaccine mandates for their employees. Yeah, he wants Disney park staff to be free to spread virus to guests, on the grounds that if we believe in the vaccine so much it shouldn’t matter anyway.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin: What site are you using to access State level data (since 91-divoc may have stopped updating)?
Matt McIrvin
@New Deal democrat: covidactnow.com has (smoothed) state and county data. Also the NYT tracker (whose vaccination numbers, I suspect, are more accurate since they don’t just rely on the CDC).
91-DIVOC stopped aggregating hospitalization data a while ago since they were only getting it from the old COVID Tracking Project. So I rely on them less than I did.
CCL
Lacuna Synecdoche
Reuters via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Given TX and FL, I’m not sure we’re in a position to be critical of Australia’s (or, for that matter, anyone’s) Covid-19 policies.
New Deal democrat
@Matt McIrvin: Thanks. Covidactnow’s comparison systems seems clunkier than 91-divoc’s, but if the latter stops updating, it’ll have to do.
Lacuna Synecdoche
via germy:
Yep, in the sense that the right-wing were the losers then too.
germy
Lacuna Synecdoche
@Matt McIrvin:
“Honestly, I don’t. The more Republicans die from Covid, the less there are to vote in elections.”
And yes, I know the unvaccinated pose a continuing threat to the rest of us – due to the increased viral load and breakthrough infections from Delta, as well as the breeding ground the unvaccinated supply for evolving new strains.
That said, these aren’t people who will listen to reason, so there’s no sense in trying to make them. It’s more satisfying to just let them know I look forward to their funerals.
Kent
@John S.: come join us in Camas
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 5,885 new cases were reported over the past 48 hours due to a technical issue with some of the COVID-19 case reporting yesterday. The test positivity rate is 9.9%, also affected by the technical issue. The number of new deaths was 30 overnight. ICU bed occupancy numbers are 87, down seven from yesterday while hospitalisations are 1,037, down 17.
There were just under 4,500 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Thursday) with about 35% of these being first vaccinations. 91.0% of 16+ adults in Scotland are now vaccinated with their first dose and 83.5% are fully vaccinated. 66.0% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination. It seems first vaccinations for adults have stalled out with only the 16-17 year olds coming forward now.
Scotland will start offering single-dose vaccination to 12-15 year olds beginning on Monday. It will be interesting to see the rate of takeup of this program when it has been running for a while. The public health folks here in Scotland aren’t reporting school attendance to be a big reason for the spread of COVID-19 here. Scotland is doing noticeably worse in terms of new cases compared to England at the moment and one differentiator between the two nations is that Scotland’s schools restarted a couple of weeks earlier than England, in mid-August. We’ll see.
Winter is coming.
smith
@New Deal democrat:
The problem with 91-divoc is actually a problem with the Johns Hopkins database, on which it’s based. For some reason JH posted exactly the same numbers for 9/16 as they did for 9/15, and the guy who runs 91-divoc must have noticed and didn’t update. I’m assuming this will be straightened out shortly.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
I would add #5: even if this plague just kills anti-vaxxers, many of those anti-vaxxers are the parents of young children who are orphaned by their deaths. This has happened too many times already, and each such story breaks my heart.
And as the parent of a minor child myself, the sheer irresponsibility of parents who won’t get vaccinated enrages me. As a parent, you’ve got a responsibility to be around for your kids if you can, until they’re ready to fly on their own. Refusing the shot is refusing that responsibility.
Too bad, kids, Mommy and Daddy didn’t care enough about you to get the shot. Now you’re looking at each other and wondering, “what happens to us now?”
Ken
@lowtechcyclist: You remind me of a post — it might even have been here at BJ — where someone talked about when they first realized what it meant to be a parent. They got sick, the sort of thing where before being a parent, they would have spent the day in bed. But they had a baby, so they couldn’t be sick.
Sloane Ranger
Thursday in the UK we had 26,911 new cases but this does not include information from Scotland, due to “technical issues” not otherwise explained. The rolling 7-day average was down 22.4% (for what this is worth absent Scottish figures). New cases by nation,
England – 22,949 (up 871)
Northern Ireland – 1071 (down 233)
Scotland – see above
Wales – 2891 (up 593).
Deaths – There were 158 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is an increase of 4.7% in the rolling 7-day average. 123 deaths were in England, 5 in Northern Ireland, 26 in Scotland and 4 in Wales.
Testing – 1,084,585 tests were conducted yesterday but figures do not include Scotland for above mentioned reasons. This is a decrease of 9.7% in the rolling 7-day average, but how much of that is due to the absence of Scotland’s figures, I don’t know. The PCR testing capacity reported by labs was 829,367.
Hospitalisations – There were 8339 people in hospital and 1081 on ventilators as of Wednesday, 15 September. The rolling 7-day average for hospital admissions as of 11 September was up by 2.5%.
Vaccinations – 48,505,068 people had received the first shot of a vaccine by 15 September and 44,234,077 had had both. Figures do not include Scotland due to above named technical issues. As of 15th September, 89.2% of all people in the UK aged 16+ had had 1 shot and 81.4% were fully vaccinated.
MoCaAce
5. A lottery or “random allocation”…
Step right up folks and spin the wheel of death!
Actually they may have to modify the wheel so people can spin it from their hospital beds.
VFX Lurker
Los Angeles County public health officials want to go the extra mile and mandate proof of vaccination or a negative test before entering a theme park. This would affect Six Flags Magic Mountain and Universal Hollywood.
I’m all for it. Hoping they’ll accept a digital vaccination record, but I can bring my physical CDC vaccination card if needed.
?BillinGlendaleCA
One of the assistant managers at the Home Depot I work at was out for about 2 weeks, found out yesterday that it was due to a COVID infection. He’s back now but was saying that he’s just getting over the cough and still has fatigue and he still feels like things are hazy mentally just a bit.
Matt McIrvin
@VFX Lurker: That’d be awesome.
A month and a half ago, when there wasn’t as much virus around here but the rise of Delta was already making me a bit nervous, I went to Six Flags New England. I had tickets I’d gotten as a birthday present in more optimistic times. Was ambivalent about actually using them but decided that, with all of us vaccinated, overall infection rates still low-ish and planning to stay outdoors the whole time, we weren’t taking a huge risk.
The interesting thing was that nearly everyone there was in full “pandemic is over” mode. Almost no masks aside from mine, zero social distancing. Some people had masks on their kids who were too young to vaccinate, but I’d say it was a minority even of them. Ride lines were crowded.
Somehow, I didn’t get infected. But I’d have been much happier if they had a vaccination-or-test-out mandate. The risk would still have been there, of course, but not as blatant–and I wouldn’t be at any great risk of killing somebody else.
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: Of course, some of them have swallowed conspiracy theories and genuinely believe that getting the vaccine is the thing that will kill them, and not getting it is the responsible choice. Which is why I mostly blame the people who are feeding them these lies.
It’s so tiring though. Every online forum that even vaguely touches on politics or health ends up turning into a forum for these antivaxxers spewing the same garbage unless there’s merciless active weeding. Comments on YouTube are particularly horrifying–you just can’t post a video about COVID and leave comments on; it’s going to become an antivax platform, with all these antivaxxers just congratulating each other on how they’re punching through the lies in a huge circle jerk. Reading that stuff it can start to feel like the world is 90% antivax.
The Pale Scot
The Killer Bees have to get back on SNL and lament the actions that humans are taking against their good friends, the Coronaviruses, who took them all in when they were starving.
I can’t find a clip of the sketch