Wow. Afghanistan has ~2% of the population vaccinated....
This should go well.
Wow. Afghanistan has ~2% of the population vaccinated....
This should go well.
Originally Posted by bae
If that percentage is the Taliban, that could be a benefit.
Bae, the pictures are really beautiful!!
Sara Palins death panels coming soon.
Icu’s in :
Alabama 100% occupied,
Georgia 92%
Florida 93.2%
Mississippi 92%
Texas and Kentucky over 90%
In the meantime people still have strokes, heart attacks, fall down or have car accidents.
it is moving up the country as Florida has lots of tourists celebrating their mask freedom.
stats from Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewals...h=25c482956bb5
City Manager where I work sent out an email saying employees have to either show proof of vaccination or be subjected to daily testing. I'm thinking that will also get everyone to get the booster too as that will count towards avoiding daily testing as well... probably.
That’s bad news Flowers! So glad I don’t live in those states.
I am wondering if the third will be required. There was an interview with Faucii where he mentioned the new variant was infecting the vaccinated at the same rate as the original was infecting the non vaccinated. Ok, so I would like to see the booster, being modified against the variant, rather then more of the same.
not so fast. The governors are doing all they can to send it to you.
https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/big...lman-saturday/
They expect 20,000 at a Trump rally in Cullman, where they have declared a state of emergency and the hospitals are overwhelmed and full.
Sweden had no lockdown and death rates ten time its neighbors.
https://www.businessinsider.com/swed...th-rate-2021-8
it seems so simple. A highly contagious respiratory virus makes many sick and kills about 640,000 people in the US. Many many people took precautions by stayed home when not working, wore a mask, and got the vaccine when it was their turn. That greatly reduced the hospital numbers. Now the packed hospitals have 95% unvaccinated very ill people who did not do the same. Bars and restaurants around here are packed with maskless patrons. Vaccination rate here about 50%. Seems like a no brainer to me.
I thought today of an illustration of the point I have been trying to make about immunocompromised people and covid.
Think back to the AIDS epidemic. A person would have AIDS and die of pneumonia. But really it was AIDS that killed them. If pneumonia didn't get them (see I am using the gender neutral plural as a singular again - you can teach an old dog new tricks), something like Kaposi's sarcoma would. In either case the real cause of death was AIDS.
Similarly today an immunocompromised person can die "of covid", but if not covid the seasonal flu or something else would have done them in. The underlying condition is the real cause of death.
If someone is 95 did covid kill them or did they of old age? If their immunity is so weak due to chemo, isn't their death really cancer related?
One thing I am grateful for work-wise - not only did I break out of food and beverage into something more stable, but at my job we mask up and no one gripes or complains about it. One of the cashiers lost two family members after the time that we in Arizona last Summer were the worst place in the world for the virus - there was a brief period last year where Arizona was actually the worst place in the world (!!!!!) for the virus. And around that time the Borderland that I so love was almost as bad.
Getting back to the point, some of the long term employees remember this cashier's deceased relatives - I'm thinking that this visual - here today, gone tomorrow - was enough to get people masked up beyond anything corporate might have said about it. At least I don't have to deal with politics much about masking up......though some customers are real PITA about it. Rob
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