Health Thread

The delta variant situation sucks. At least during the lockdown, I could be pretty confident that I was never going to get the virus as long as I did all the stuff I was supposed to do. Now I'm constantly in this weird position where I'll take some moderate risk like walking into a grocery store masked and then spend the next three days over-reacting to every cough or sneeze thinking "OMG, did I catch it!" I want to be taking some of the advantages of being vaccinated but every time I try I end up paying for it in guilt and paranoia.

Look up the Pfizer vs moderna numbers after 150 days. It's pretty clear what's going down. The efficacy of the vaccine is fading for symptomatic infection, but it remains primed to protect you from serious illness and death. With more different immune systems getting vaccinated it's just going to happen that there will be breakthroughs. And delta is like nothing we've seen before in this brawl and it does evade the vaccine in more people than we expected. After 150 days you'll see a breakthrough in over 50% of Pfizer folks, and some like 25% of moderna folks, if the mayo clinic data is to be believed.

The right loves to bring up that one little super spreader event in mass. They love harping that all the vaccinated people still spread it and got sick. Where they stop is that 4 of the 250 or whatever were ever admitted to the hospital. And all survived. Whole lot different numbers with the unvaccinated.

Pfizer has applied for the booster shot for the entire population, we could get the emergency approval by the end of September, would expect moderna to follow suit this week.

Nate Silver has been mostly right about COVID since the beginning.  

Back to masks in my county and at work. Lunches by myself again.

www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

This subreddit is extra dark but also informative to see how the unclean masses live. And what's with everyone asking for prayers then thanking people for them and saying no worries this guy's with Jesus now so all good. No lessons are ever learned, just more heel digging.

Insane that the UK has got 85% one shot and 76% fully vaxxed. I thought we were like brothers with the amount of crazies we have but no... America truly is in a class by itself for the conspiracy nuts. Which is weird since Facebook is world wide. What's with Americans being gullible for pretty much any conspiracy theory?

Found a thread, and a FB group where people talk about getting worms from the ivertecin horse medicine they're taking:

Really hope this vaccine mandate survives the courts.

The precedent is there it should, but the Supreme Court has me worried.

If it sticks, it's a good first step.

Vax approval for younger children is the next one.

Found out yesterday my family and I dodged what could be the biggest bullet in my entire life. There was a large family retreat planned and we were thinking of attending it to be social and connect with like minded people, etc. My wife and I decided we wouldn't register as after giving this some thought, we worried about some of the opinions firmly held by others, their decisions to not worry about Covid risk, could place us in a proverbial perfect storm of risk and we decided it wasn't for us.

Turns out there was a huge spread of Covid there, 3 couples we know personally and their kids getting sick with it. One of them the dad was super sick and it was touch and go. And... they still are anti vaccination. I just don't understand how so many people can do their own research and conclude it's unsafe for them and they have had a life and death experience with covid.

716k dead and counting in the USA.

I think I'm due in January.