Days after completing his historic ride into space as part of the first all-civilian crew to reach Earth orbit, billionaire e-commerce mogul and mission commander Jared Isaacman is unexpectedly back in quarantine at home with COVID-19-positive family https://t.co/6TvWSYcbNT pic.twitter.com/dKEC7JpzF8
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 24, 2021
So much for Plan(et) B* …
… “I came back to Earth with a house full of COVID,” Isaacman, 38, said in an interview from his home in Easton, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, five days after he and his Inspiration4 crewmates safely splashed down in the Atlantic. read more
Isaacman said his wife, their two daughters, aged 5 and 7, and his in-laws all came down with COVID-19 upon their return from Florida, where the family stayed in the days immediately before, during and after the spaceflight and were apparently exposed to the virus.
So far, Isaacman said, he has yet to test positive…
Isaacman said none of his family has fallen seriously ill, though they do have symptoms.
He said all the adults in his household were fully vaccinated before their trip to Cape Canaveral, where the SpaceX rocketship he flew aboard blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center. The family also spent time in Orlando before heading home earlier this week…
*(/snark)
Booster logistics: States begin the complex task of providing Pfizer booster shots to designated eligible groups. Among the challenges: making sure recipients of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines know they're not yet eligible https://t.co/fPnYKyk4B9
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 26, 2021
U.S. health authorities agree the current supply of more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines, and steady production of more, is enough to provide boosters along with more initial vaccines, including for kids expected to become eligible soon. https://t.co/pxEIrPGq2J
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 26, 2021
"This is death by anti-science and a lot of this has been coming out of the nighttime Fox News," Dr. Peter Hotez says about the widespread Covid-19 vaccine misinformation. https://t.co/MGKypaGJyg
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 26, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic reduced life expectancy in 2020 by the largest amount since World War Two, according to a study published by Oxford University, with the life expectancy of American men dropping by more than two years https://t.co/bqWQG6DHxk pic.twitter.com/oV2qycoZGN
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 27, 2021
Six months later, COVAX is planning to overhaul the allocation methodology to ensure it takes into account the proportion of a country's population that has been vaccinated, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters https://t.co/yAWjp29dk3 3/3 pic.twitter.com/Icy5996ti1
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 27, 2021
So. Korea will start giving vaccine boosters. Shots will be administered to medical workers and to people in their 60s and older. More than 85% of new cases in the past couple of weeks were people who had not been fully vaccinated https://t.co/OHG0t2tT6o
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 26, 2021
Thailand to further ease coronavirus restrictions https://t.co/LUMBa0GKYI pic.twitter.com/7ccxWFpaV4
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 27, 2021
Iran’s holy city of Qom is where Shiite scholars study and pilgrims come to visit a shrine believed to be a gate to heaven. It's also where the Islamic Republic’s coronavirus outbreak began and still rages on to this day. https://t.co/wAqSbHz9Mf
— AP Middle East (@APMiddleEast) September 27, 2021
Australian authorities announced plans to gradually reopen locked-down Sydney, unveiling a two-tiered system that will give citizens inoculated for COVID-19 more freedoms than their unvaccinated neighbors for several weeks https://t.co/qmdmKz4TQL pic.twitter.com/y5waZ1JwCF
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 27, 2021
New Zealand to begin letting people isolate at home as it looks to ease border curbs https://t.co/SRhKM48ChU pic.twitter.com/Pe6uy1vHn8
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 27, 2021
Police in Norway have reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country’s big cities after streets, bars, restaurants and nightclubs were filled with people celebrating the sudden end of COVID-19 restrictions. https://t.co/gwzaIqLA7z
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) September 26, 2021
Ireland:
Update: After being persuaded to leave hospital by an anti-vaxxer, Joe McCarron died.pic.twitter.com/1ywbH1WMou
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) September 26, 2021
6/ UPDATES:
– Police investigation underway
– May not have been an isolated incident
– Antonio Mureddu is an ex soldier & extreme right supporterStory: @ConorGallaghe_rhttps://t.co/SFFoDD3gfX pic.twitter.com/q8Y71g4VuB
— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) September 26, 2021
Fourth member of Brazil's delegation to U.N. tests positive for COVID-19 https://t.co/jctHsf9emh pic.twitter.com/4bj5FlTe5M
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 27, 2021
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An extra dose of Johnson & Johnson vaccine substantially boosts protection against Covid. In a clinical trial, researchers found a 2nd dose enabled 94% effectiveness against mild to severe Covid, up from 74% w/ a single shot, the company reported https://t.co/GD1zUw5LED
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 27, 2021
COVID-19 has spurred investments in air filtration for K-12 schools – but these technologies aren't an instant fix via @HernadezLabCU https://t.co/D9TDvya56e @rhysthomas
— Ash Paul (@pash22) September 26, 2021
Even mild cases of Covid may leave a mark on the brain. The new findings, though preliminary, are raising concerns about the potential long-term effects of Covid19 https://t.co/qRKdb8prsN pic.twitter.com/4H5rJIhpMy
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 26, 2021
Drug-resistant infections have increased in hospitals during the pandemic. Resistant bacteria thrive on reused medical equipment, such as intravenous lines & ventilators. The problem is widespread & also involves resistant fungi that colonize equipment https://t.co/n864QRj6Bd
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 26, 2021
In the lab: A 3D-printed vaccine patch offers vaccination without a shot, which scientists say offers greater protection than conventional vaccinaion. Research is a collaborative effort of Stanford Univ & the Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill https://t.co/CsP9WROSih
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) September 27, 2021
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H/t commentor Redshift – Andy Larsen is The Salt Lake Tribune’s data columnist:
"Oddly enough, counting the number of breakthrough cases, hospitalizations and deaths — times the vaccine didn’t work — is a really effective way of showing just how well the vaccine does its job," writes Andy Larsen.https://t.co/1uEvfMjzGs
— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) September 25, 2021
… In other words, unvaccinated people in Utah have been between 4.4 times and 5.1 times more likely to get COVID-19, be hospitalized, or die because of it than vaccinated people in the past eight months.
OK, pretty straightforward. But that’s obviously been changing, right? After all, you’ve heard a lot recently (including from me, by the way) about vaccine efficacy declining as time passes. Given that the majority of those vaccinated got their shots in March, April and May, five to seven months ago, aren’t we likely to see that gap shrink?
Not so fast! It turns out that the gap has actually been growing. In other words, we’re seeing the multiplier — the ratio of coronavirus cases among the unvaccinated when compared to the vaccinated — increase over the past month.
Why is that? Well, coronavirus spread happens exponentially. Because the vaccine prevents most cases and makes other cases more mild, the contagion coefficient is higher in mostly unvaccinated communities compared to mostly vaccinated ones…
New York is considering employing the National Guard and out-of-state medical workers as it braces for staffing shortages with thousands of healthcare workers possibly losing their jobs for not meeting a Monday deadline for mandated COVID-19 vaccination https://t.co/sbeW7Rd93V pic.twitter.com/XKz9Rnjxx4
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 27, 2021
The tragedy in Alaska.
143/100,000 is a new case/population record for any US state in the Delta wave. And higher than any country in the world.
"A record 217 hospitalizations reported Friday were not part of the data backlog"
https://t.co/MA0viJEBeG pic.twitter.com/IV4Ol6slRi— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 26, 2021
Harvard Business School goes back to remote classes for first-year MBA students after eruption of Covid-19 'cluster' https://t.co/CwJKCyHkN8
— Adam Gaffin (@universalhub) September 26, 2021
Loder is right, but there's something good about this video too.
Much credit to the Coeur d'Alene school board and police. This is the way disrupters should be handled. https://t.co/wLtgkZBHR0
— Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) September 26, 2021
I refused writing a medical letter of exemption for a patient who wanted a vaccine exemption letter. They rated me one star and wrote this stunning review, “I’d rather die than see or talk to Dr. John again.”
Careful what you wish for. ??
— Dr. John E. Canuck, MD ???? (@CanuckManMD) September 23, 2021
Ben Garrison, suffering from “bad flu like symptoms with loss of smell”:
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) September 26, 2021
mrmoshpotato
Fixed.
NeenerNeener
Monroe County, NY:
Monroe County web site: taking the weekend off
NYSDOH says 176 new cases.
brantl
This hasn’t happened yet, but you know it’s going to, and I am dreading it. There’s going to be a T-shirt that says; “Get a mask, get the shot, or shut up and die, already!” And the first person to wear it is going to be in the biggest fist fight that ever happened.
mrmoshpotato
??♂️
mrmoshpotato
@brantl:
Would probably sell like hotcakes around here (BJ).
Also, mmmmm, hotcakes.
Baud
Space: The most effective mask of all.
HeartlandLiberal
We live in Bloomington, Indiana. Residential campus of Indiana University. (Most beautiful residential campus in the country, but that is another story.)
County has had lowest infection and hospitalization rate in state. But that may be changing. Wife informed us yesterday that City has announced no weekly recyclables pickup this week. We have separate chipped containers for garbage and recyclables, pickup every week. New garbage trucks with arms that pick up and dump contents into top of trucks. One man does the work of what three men used to do thanks to automation. Yet: the reason no recycles pickup? Too many workers out sick with COVID. They could not staff garbage and recycle pickups.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Watching Star Trek: TNG – COVID reboot again, I see.
YY_Sima Qian
On 9/26 China reported 13 new domestic confirmed cases & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases.
Fujian Province reporter 2 new domestic confirmed cases. 16 domestic confirmed cases recovered & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases were released from isolation. There currently are 415 active domestic confirmed & 1 active domestic asymptomatic cases.
Heilongjiang Province reported 11 new domestic confirmed & 3 new domestic asymptomatic cases. There currently are 49 active domestic confirmed & 5 active domestic asymptomatic cases in the province.
Yunnan Province did not report any new domestic positive cases. There currently are 9 active domestic confirmed & 2 domestic asymptomatic cases remaining in the province, all at Ruili in Dehong Prefecture.
At Hunan Province there currently are 7 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Zhangjiajie
At Henan Province there currently are 8 active domestic confirmed cases remaining, all at Shangqiu.
At Shanghai Municipality there currently is 1 active domestic confirmed case remaining.
Imported Cases
On 9/26, China reported 22 new imported confirmed cases (3 previously asymptomatic), 17 imported asymptomatic cases:
Overall in China, 36 confirmed cases recovered (20 imported), 23 asymptomatic cases were released from isolation (20 imported) & 3 were reclassified as confirmed cases (all imported), & 958 individuals were released from quarantine. Currently, there are 1,012 active confirmed cases in the country (526 imported), 11 in serious condition (3 imported), 344 active asymptomatic cases (334 imported), 2 suspect cases (all imported). 20,176 traced contacts are currently under centralized quarantine.
As of 9/26, 2,200.202M vaccine doses have been injected in Mainland China, an increase of 2.51M doses in the past 24 hrs.
On 9/27, Hong Kong reported 3 new positive cases, all asymptomatic & all imported (from Kazakhstan, the Philippines & Egypt, all had been fully vaccinated).
eclare
@HeartlandLiberal: I assume that will happen here in Memphis soon. The paper recently published vaccination rates of various city departments. The lowest was garbage removal, at 37%.
satby
We like to think that being liberal means we’re more smart and reality based. It doesn’t. The dumbshittery runs amok on this side of the divide too. I am so tired of the stupid.
Baud
@satby:
I don’t disagree. There’s a lot of bullshit that gets ignored because it pales in comparison to what’s going on on the right. But what specifically triggered your comment?
Biff Baxter
At this point, I’ve had it with the hardcore anti-vaxxers. Don’t argue with them. Let them deal with the consequences.
boatboy_srq
RELATED: My alma mater is in FL, with at least one campus in a COVID hotspot. Homecoming is in a couple months; it’s a big deal for alums. A week ago I emailed Alumni Relations telling them that I was not coming because it wasn’t safe, and pointed a finger at the surrounding communities whose ICU beds are full. Two days later Alumni Relations published a notice to everyone that on-campus Homecoming is cancelled and what events can go virtual will.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s Ministry of Health reports 10,959 new Covid-19 cases today in its media statement, for a cumulative reported total of 2,209,194 cases. It also reports 278 new deaths as of midnight, for a cumulative total of 25,437 deaths – 1.15% of the cumulative reported total, 1.25% of resolved cases.
Based on cases reported yesterday, Malaysia’s nationwide Rt is at 0.92.
862 confirmed cases are in ICU, 378 of them on ventilators. Meanwhile, 16,430 more patients have recovered, for a cumulative total of 2,005,943 patients recovered – 90.8% of the cumulative reported total.
19 new clusters were reported today, for a cumulative total of 5,432 clusters. 1,165 clusters are currently active; 4,267 clusters are now inactive.
10,947 new cases today are local infections. Sarawak reports 2,723 cases: 81 in clusters, 1,436 close-contact screenings, and 1,206 other screenings.
Johor reports 1,226 cases: 88 in clusters, 585 close-contact screenings, and 553 other screenings.
Kelantan reports 983 cases: 55 in clusters, 604 close-contact screenings, and 324 other screenings. Selangor reports 974 local cases: 79 in clusters, 565 close-contact screenings, and 330 other screenings.
Penang reports 793 cases: 25 in clusters, 326 close-contact screenings, and 442 other screenings. Sabah reports 751 cases: 46 in clusters, 366 close-contact screenings, and 339 other screenings. Pahang reports 739 cases: 273 in clusters, 382 close-contact screenings, and 84 other screenings. Perak reports 713 cases: 92 in clusters, 335 close-contact screenings, and 286 other screenings.
Terengganu reports 689 local cases: eight in clusters, 542 close-contact screenings, and 139 other screenings. Kedah reports 660 cases: 16 in clusters, 392 close-contact screenings, and 252 other screenings.
Melaka reports 344 local cases: 29 in clusters, 104 close-contact screenings, and 211 other screenings.
Kuala Lumpur reports 173 local cases: two in clusters, 75 close-contact screenings, and 96 other screenings. Negeri Sembilan reports 110 cases: three in clusters, 71 close-contact screenings, and 36 other screenings.
Perlis reports 51 cases: 21 close-contact screening and 30 other screenings. Putrajaya reports 18 cases: 10 close-contact screenings and eight other screenings. Labuan reports no new cases today.
12 new cases today are imported: five in Selangor, three in Kuala Lumpur, two in Terengganu, and two in Melaka.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) administered 269,465 doses of vaccine on 26th September: 117,196 first doses and 152,269 second doses. As of midnight yesterday, the cumulative total is 42,375,862 doses administered: 22,834,060 first doses and 19,633,681 second doses. 69.9% of the population have received their first dose, while 60.1% are now fully vaccinated.
OzarkHillbilly
If only.
Baud
@boatboy_srq:
You may have saved some lives.
satby
@Baud: Last night, John’s thread.
I try to provide value in my comments by linking to useful info or out of some expertise I have, only to waste my time entirely. And it amazes me that people can’t see the parallels between their own “ew, chemicals, scary!!” and an antivaxxer’s “we don’t know exactly what’s in those shots do we”. Not on here, but once someone actually said to me that she didn’t like all the chemicals in something and then read off her example: NaCl. If I had had a gun, I would have blown my own brains out to make it stop.
boatboy_srq
This is one of the other things COVIDiots conveniently forget. Hospitalizations at this level are going to be breeding grounds for all sorts of nasties, not just rhinoviruses. And these wingnuts in their idiocy will be spreading all manner of beasties besides the one virus they still think is a hoax.
boatboy_srq
@Baud: I like to think our voices carry some weight. I can’t be the only alum scared BLEEPless about a weekend in Florida in High Pandemic season.
boatboy_srq
@satby: Salt of the earth, the BJ commentariat.
Baud
@satby:
Too much NaCl will kill you! (if you have high blood pressure).
Shantanu Saha
@satby:
Wait until she finds out what’s in protein!
NotMax
Locally,
*Downward from the highest during the entire pandemic case numbers recently, but still approximately 5 times more than only a few months ago, when the state was daily reporting double digit case numbers, not the current triple digits.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
My chicken coop-keeping neighbor is usually a complete dipshit, but that whole family is vaxxed. He told me yesterday that the 18 year old son has it, probably from his job at the local Wal-Mart, which is overrun with spreadnecks. Kid has a cough, some nasal congestion, and has lost his senses of taste and smell. The poor kid had tickets for the “Louder Than Life” heavy metal festival this weekend, and couldn’t unload his tix.
Worse, the neighbor’s dad is in congestive heart failure with low O2 sat numbers already and is in extreme depression because he is facing a foot amputation. His mom’s of course at wits’ end, but nobody can visit dad OR mom because of COVID exposure – which includes my neighbor’s brother, who’d been ferrying the neighbor kid to work.
NotMax
@satby
NaCl is gluten-free!
//
MomSense
@boatboy_srq:
Covidiots are seemingly incapable and/or unwilling to consider the consequences of their actions to anyone outside of themselves. Every time I feel remorse at how much I loathe them, I remember that they do not care at all who they harm.
debbie
@satby:
It all goes back to nonsupport of public education. We really have become a stupid country.
MomSense
@NotMax:
LOLOL! I know we live in an Idiocracy because of all the products labeled gluten free at the grocery store. Did you know salmon is gluten free?!?!
MagdaInBlack
@satby: Late in life I am learning to keep my knowledge to myself, because its fkn annoying to be 2nd, 3rd, and 4th guessed at something you’ve been doing most of your life ?
J_A
Re Alaska cases
Am I the only one that has seen on TV the Alaska governor’s tourism commercial, where, after praising the state’s beauty and amenities, he ends by telling the viewer that if they come to AK, they will have the opportunity to get a free COVID vaccine?
Every time I watch it I keep thinking: “What the fish, Governor? Are you talking about the chance to get a COVID vaccine, or just to get COVID?”.
As an aside, in April or so, when vaccinations were ramping up in the USA and still months away in Latin America, Miami started offering vaccines to tourists. I know several people from different countries that actually traveled there to get it.
satby
Yeah, it sounds funny. I should just laugh and move on, right?
But it capped off a week when I also had to tell the 32 year old in our practice to start using fluoride toothpaste instead of the woo-woo charcoal one to save what’s left of her teeth after they remove 8(!!), and tell another person that diluted vinegar water doesn’t “sanitize” or disinfect at all. Because both fluoride and bleach have been demonized as dangerous; rampart tooth decay and surfaces crawling with germs are a-ok.
Matt McIrvin
@J_A: New Hampshire was one of the first places to open up vaccination to out-of-staters. It was a fairly savvy move because a lot of people from Massachusetts have second homes there or spend time in NH on vacation. But it happened at the same time that the vaccines became copiously available in Massachusetts, so they may not have gotten many takers–and NH has never achieved the level of vaccination in its own state that the other New England states have, though it’s high by national standards.
eclare
@satby: That is stunning…I know it’s anecdotal, but growing up we had well water for about three years. I had multiple cavities. Once we got back on fluoridated water, none.
MomSense
@satby:
Oh my god. It’s exhausting. Our office manager drinks Sovereign Silver for her immune health. My kids have nicknamed her smurfette and really hope she turns blue. She was telling one of the interns how great it is and how it’s all natural. I kind of joked that so is petroleum. It comes out of the ground! I’ve given up trying to talk to them about anything. When you’ve decided to take your medical advice from some guy on Facebook, I think you’re going to be tough to reason with.
satby
@MagdaInBlack: I never even went back last night after my last comment, and I will certainly not bother in the future. Everyone can “do their own research”.
satby
@MomSense: When I’m really pissed off, I also point out that petroleum is organic.
It is fucking exhausting, and the annoying thing is I know no one even read the link before jumping in to argue with me.
Ken
Some meat products are injected with a solution of sugar, salt, and soy and/or wheat byproducts. This is allegedly to improve flavor; that it also increases the weight by squirting what is basically water into the meat is another byproduct. So the label does have meaning.
Ken
We’re going to find out that Florida’s apparent high rate of vaccination is because, other than the over-60 set, everyone who got vaccinated in Florida was from out of state, aren’t we?
rikyrah
So,
I have possibly been exposed.
Got an email from Peanut’s school -someone in her class has tested positive.
Just made my appointment for a test ?
Phuck the lying unvaccinated ?, and their phucking parents who won’t get their children vaccinated.
Vaccine should be mandated for ages 12-17 in the schools TODAY ?
boatboy_srq
@Ken: That says a lot more about the quality of the food products than it does about the accuracy of the labeling.
WereBear
@satby: I never expected Weaponized Stupidity!
sab
@MomSense: satby wants suzanne to bugbomb her house, although she lives with a with a toddler and a husband with asthma. Some of us said mild flea outbreaks can be controlled with Frontline and more rigorous vaccuming. She threw up her hands and told us to go use essential oils.
I think she is mischaracterizing the discussion, but that’s just me.
boatboy_srq
@MomSense: Conservatists, now and always, have no care for any social ill until affects them personally.
satby
@Ken: I’ve had people tell me that they can’t use soap with oatmeal because they’re sensitive to gluten. First: celiac is a digestive disorder, not a skin disease; and second you’re hopefully washing with it, not eating it. Someone really invested in the bullshit (because they never actually have celiac disease) then pulls out their rhetorical coupe de grace: “skin is the largest organ in the body”. And at that point I have no fucks left to give, so I point out it may be, but it’s not part of your digestive system.
You have no fucking idea how bad it is.
MomSense
@sab:
I’d be more concerned about fleas for baby than bug bomb. Yes, chemicals can be overused or not used appropriately, but fleas are much more dangerous than people realize.
satby
@sab: no, you’re mischaracterizing it. I gave links to some information and a flea spray (not bug bomb) that’s effective for hard surfaces like floors, since Suzanne was upset at the thought of daily vacuuming. You can all do whatever the fuck you want, I provided information and a followup about relative safety.
And it was the second time I’ve noticed that you decided to directly contradict me based on your own anecdotal experience. Get back to me when you’ve been doing animal rescue for 40 years and have had literally hundreds of animals.
Baud
@satby:
Yeah, that might not be a sound assumption.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
GRRRR. ????? for you, Peanut and family.
Cermet
@boatboy_srq: Far worse on this front, apparently fungi are one of the leading causes of resistance and there are all of three drugs available in the world for treatment. Worse, no new drugs are being developed to date, and far worse, these existing drugs are losing their effectiveness. The requirement for steroids enable fungi to get a foothold in people being treated for covid so its a double whammy. A perfect storm (for fungi.)
Cermet
@Baud: Not sure on that because in large studies people with high salt intake lived longer than people on low salt intake. Also, except for about 5% of the population, salt absolutely does not cause/increase blood pressure.
satby
@MomSense: yeah, that would be me, but sab and WG vacuumed and it was fine. Oh and WG is allergic, so we all shouldn’t use what she’s allergic to.
And I have severe asthma, BTW. I used a mask when I sprayed the floors and area rugs, opened the windows, and went for a walk. Came back when they were dry and it was fine. But whatever. So done with it.
And some fleas have developed immunity to Frontline (that’s why you can buy it OTC now).
Skepticat
Yesterday, I didn’t answer a call because I didn’t recognize the number. When I searched, it showed as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doing a survey about vaccines, so I read the site and answered when they called again. It was quite a long survey, almost ten minutes, and some of the focus was on children in the household, though it’s only me and the cats. Most of the questions apart from those about demographics gauged my attitude about the vaccine’s importance and safety, though they also asked whether none, some, most, or almost all of my friends and family were vaxxed. I was happy to be able to say almost all. After my first shot, I also did an online survey about my physical response.
Cermet
@debbie: I disagree totally; science is taught at all public schools – even if the quality isn’t the best the kids are heavily exposed to science. The issue is religion and how polarized those total idiots have become and created a country of true fellow idiots. Religion is the enemy of all intelligent people.
Skepticat
@boatboy_srq:
Good on you!
Baud
@Cermet:
Interesting. My doctor hasn’t gotten the news.
Cermet
@Baud: Most MD’s haven’t. This issue is just like if someone (me) is sensitive to iodine, they think you can’t eat seafood – again, not true; but seaweed, on-the-other hand, is another matter – lol.
sab
@satby: I had no problem with the capstar suggestion. It was the link to the site with fleaspray I had an issue with. So yes you did too suggest she spray her house with a toddler in it.
YY_Sima Qian
@Amir Khalid: Glad to see Malaysia’s daily incidence finally coming down!
satby
@sab: spraying is directional, it goes where you point it. A bug bomb is a fogger, it goes everywhere because it fills the room with aerosol. I specifically said *I* had good luck with that spray. And again, I don’t GAF what you, WG, Suzanne, or anyone decides to do in their own home. I was making a case for an expedient way to get rid of a flea infestation; just as I (and a vet!) previously made a case for a dog not being a suitable match for a beginner. And both times you keep going out of your way to fight with me about it. Fuck off.
Robert Sneddon
Scotland — 2,069 new cases reported today. The test positivity rate is 9.5%. There was one new death reported overnight (noting that Register Offices are now generally closed at weekends). ICU bed occupancy numbers are 76, down two from yesterday while hospitalisations are 1,023, up 19.
There were over 7,500 vaccinations carried out in Scotland yesterday (Sunday) with over 60% of these being first vaccinations. 91.3% of 16+ adults are now vaccinated with their first dose and 84.2% are fully vaccinated. 70.9% of 16 and 17-year-olds have now received their first vaccination, up 0.3% from yesterday.
ab_normal
@MomSense:
Sorry, as the resident celiac I have to push back on gluten-free labeling. A lot of meats have injected solution to plump them up, and I like the assurance that it doesn’t include gluten.
sab
@satby: I did not disagree with you about the dog being unsuitable for a beginner. I explicitly said that it seemed to be a bad choice for a beginner.
If anyone who comments on a thread that you are commenting on is thereby challenging you and your expertise, then we have a problem with the whole concept of Balloon Juice.
I do have a problem with commenters who got pissed off in a prior thread coming back a day later and rehashing the whole thing completely out of context with people who haven’t read the previous thread.
I resent you implying that I am a Covidiot, an anti-vaxxer, anti-science and anti-flouride simply because I suggested a slightly milder approach to flea control that has worked for me.
Sloane Ranger
Just come from having my flu jab.
Anyway, Sunday in the UK we had 32,417 new cases. This is an increase of 15.4% in the rolling 7-day average. Normal weekend warnings apply. New cases by nation,
England – 25,538 (down 2549)
Northern Ireland – 1020 (down 100)
Scotland – 2556 (down 705)
Wales – 3303 (includes Saturday’s cases).
Deaths – There were 58 deaths within 28 days of a positive test yesterday. This is a decrease of 3.8% in the rolling 7-day average. 37 deaths were in England, 6 in Northern Ireland, 2 in Scotland and 13 in Wales, but this figure also includes deaths in Wales that occurred on Saturday).
Testing – Not updated at weekends.
Hospitalisations – Not updated at weekends.
Vaccinations – As of Saturday, 25 September, 48,722,414 people had received the 1st shot of a vaccine and 44,739,473 had had both. This means that, as of that date, 89.6% of all people in the UK aged 16+ had had 1 shot and 82.3% were fully vaccinated.
Personal – Northamptonshire has just gone purple on the case map, meaning that we have a rate of between 400-799 cases per 100,000 people. Perhaps this is not surprising as I have just checked our vaccination rate, which is massively below the national average, at 63.4% 1st shot and 57.4% 2nd. Of course, we also voted overwhelmingly for Brexit so perhaps I shouldn’t be so surprised.
Freemark
Chris T.
@Cermet:
Huh, I thought it was closer to half salt-sensitive, half not. Just curious as to whether you have some sources for these statistics.
Side note on fluoride / fluoridation: it’s a good idea for most, it converts a little bit of the apatite in the enamel to fluorapatite, which is a more durable mineral. But overdoing it produces dental fluorisis, which is mainly considered unsightly. Some places have sufficient fluoride content in groundwater (well water) that there’s no need for fluoridation, but most do not. When a water deliverer chooses to fluoridate the water, they can opt for the cheap and nasty stuff: fluorosilicic acid. Most do. It’s fine when handled correctly, but personally I’d be happier if they went for the more expensive additives, which are easier not to get wrong. :-)
Chris T.
@Freemark: I heard a story about someone who started eating the lube at the auto shop (in small quantities, I hope…). It works fine as a laxative and if you are carefully moderate, apparently it results in a… smoother bathroom experience?
(Can’t say I’ve tried it msyelf.)
Lacuna Synecdoche
MSNBC via Anne Laurie @ Top:
So when do we start calling it Fox Flu?
Freemark
@Chris T.: That is what mineral oil is most often used for.