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01-26-2022, 11:02 AM #39176
While I don't disagree with that piece, he leaves open some real scary possibilities. While Omicron is likely to leave us with a reasonable immunity and new variants are likely to be less virulent, there is still a real significant chance that it all goes south again. The next variant could be (but
"probably" won't be) really nasty. Again, only time will tell, so instead of sound the all clear sign we need to stay vigilant for both the short term and long term. Trump could have been right, as might you, but if we assume you are and let down our guard, as we did spring of '20, we could be in for bigger problems.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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01-26-2022, 11:05 AM #39177
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01-26-2022, 11:08 AM #39178
Any kind of COVID laws, rules, restrictions should exactly match COVID cases in real time. So I don't see any harm in lifting all restrictions and laws when cases plummet in a couple weeks. It's unlikely that any new COVID variant emerges from the wealthy, highly vaccinated world. If it comes, it is likely coming from the poor, unvaccinated world. Cautious optimism is the perfect term to summarize how we should go forward. Let society get back to normal when new cases fall. But warn the public that the good times might not last forever.
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01-26-2022, 11:11 AM #39179
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01-26-2022, 11:11 AM #39180
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01-26-2022, 11:14 AM #39181
according to this link, tenure only exists for a quarter of university teaching staff
https://www.newfacultymajority.info/...bout-adjuncts/
[i can't vouch for the link per se, but it came up fairly quickly in the search...]
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01-26-2022, 11:28 AM #39182
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01-26-2022, 11:32 AM #39183
But statistically speaking, it is highly unlikely that any new variant comes from the wealthy, vaccinated world, where nearly 100% of immunocomprised individuals (where variants most likley will come from) are vaccinated. Statistically speaking, it is much more likely that a new variant comes from the poor, unvacinated world, where 3 billion people have had no shots and only ten percent have received at least one shot.
That's why the best way the wealthy world can prevent new variants is not endlessly debating trivial things like vaccine passports to sports ball games and whether bar fly John Stockton should be banned from his alma matter for not wearing a mask, and instead focus all their efforts on getting the poor countries vaccinated. But no one cares about this and politicians only care about what the people care about.
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01-26-2022, 11:37 AM #39184
It is that easy, just not in the US with our entrenched partisanship. Here's a good article on why Japan has fared so well, written by the guy who came up with Japan's COVID strategy. No lock downs, no shut schools, no mandates, no vaccine passports, not mask rules. Instead, a very basic concept: People should avoid the three C’s, which are closed spaces, crowded places and close-contact settings. All voluntary, and it is have proven to work:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/o...pan-covid.html
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01-26-2022, 11:38 AM #39185
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01-26-2022, 11:46 AM #39186
Because we spend resources worrying about our own population rather than worry about Africa's population. The money we are spending on testing, sending free tests and masks to people, should all be going to Africa to get them vaccinated as quickly as possible. All the stimulus and bail out money we spend would be better spent getting Africa vaccinated. This problem should be front page of every paper in America, every single day. Instead, it occasionally rears it's head buried deep down on the NYTimes. The WHO is screaming to help Africa and it appears to me world leaders are ignoring the cries. It's the gated Beverly Hills conundrum. The wealthy world feels safe behind their closed gates with their top of the line vaccine, so fuck the rest of the world.
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01-26-2022, 12:12 PM #39187
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01-26-2022, 12:24 PM #39188Registered User
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We talk about reservoirs for potential variants for 200+ pages and our global vaccine rollout 2+ years after the start of the pandemic is.............(fill in the blank)
https://graphics.reuters.com/world-c...ut-and-access/
Looking at the globe, I'm pleasantly surprised by the high vaccination rates in South America. Africa on the other hand...
Meanwhile the WHO is begging for help daily and we barely see it in the news.
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01-26-2022, 12:40 PM #39189
Over 60% of the world's population has now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. Is that bad? I agree it could be better, but that doesn't seem terrible to me. More than ten billion doses have been administered worldwide even with a significant proportion of people being vaccine hesitant. There are lots of counties in the U.S. that are still less than 50% vaxxed. That's a significant problem, too.
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01-26-2022, 12:44 PM #39190
Yes more should be done to help other countries get vaccinated.
Why this has to come at the cost of reducing testing/access to free tests is where you and Ass are wrong.
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01-26-2022, 12:56 PM #39191
So tell me again how we are supposed to be helping third world nations halfway around the globe the globe when we can't even get 90% of our own citizens to agree to take the vaccines? We're not exactly leading by example.. And this is coming from the same crowd who screams that we shouldn't be helping other countries when we have our own homeless and disabled veterans who need the assistance more..
Pretty rich LOL! Also, isn't capitalism supposed to be the perfect system and 'Murikan way? Shouldn't it be Big Pharm that handles all that philanthropy? What's stopping them??Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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01-26-2022, 01:00 PM #39192
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01-26-2022, 01:05 PM #39193
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01-26-2022, 01:08 PM #39194
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01-26-2022, 01:13 PM #39195
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01-26-2022, 01:16 PM #39196
A lot is being done by other countries and the US to get third world vaccines. Enough, probably not near enough. but still a lot. Would stopping testing, free masks, et al, free enough money to solve "the Africa problem"? I doubt.
Not to make it political, but the pandemic response certainly political.
Solving the vaccine issue in other country is foreign aid. Is it beneficial to us? Sure, but which political party has fought foreign aid, in just about any form, excepting anything military?
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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01-26-2022, 01:19 PM #39197
Whatched a re-run of Castle last night where someone was planning on releasing a highly contagious variant of the H1N1 virus. The police chief exclaimed: "Do you know what the could do? It could start an epidemic!"
I stared at the TV thinking "that's just crazy talk"Last edited by KQ; 01-26-2022 at 01:57 PM.
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01-26-2022, 01:52 PM #39198
I'm sure it's mentioned in the article (paywalled) but NOT mentioned in your summary that Japan is ~80% vaxxed, people wear masks literally everywhere they go and they tightly control their borders and enforce quarantines for people coming in. Conveniently missed by you.
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01-26-2022, 03:50 PM #39199
For the cockapoos who can't be bothered to do their own research, read this before any more whining about a lack of American efforts to vaccinate the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbevax
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01-26-2022, 03:54 PM #39200click here
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All the scientists not wearing the rose-colored blinders. Probably most scientists looking at the data disagree. As you reported upthread, UK cases are falling 46% every two weeks. Current case 7 day average rate there is 135/100k daily cases. If we project that forward 6 weeks to early March, UK will see about 20/100k daily cases. Health officials in my area use 10/100k as the maximum restrictions threshold (threat level purple). By that metric, UK will still have an extraordinarily high rate of Covid infections in 6 weeks.
Also worth noting that since BoJo's outburst, UK cases are no longer falling. Could be a meaningless blip in the downward trend, too early to tell. I think the death and injury rates remain too high to call this over, but that's my value judgment.
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