We were able to find the previous relevant thread quite easily and without even needing to ask, but nevertheless provide the usual regular update as interest is becoming endemic.
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Anyway here’s some fun to begin.
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We were able to find the previous relevant thread quite easily and without even needing to ask, but nevertheless provide the usual regular update as interest is becoming endemic.Please Like Us If You Like¡
Anyway here’s some fun to begin.
I have to wonder how hygienic it was to have a dead man propped up at a restaurant for a few years.
sibeen said:
SCIENCE said:
We were able to find the previous relevant thread quite easily and without even needing to ask, but nevertheless provide the usual regular update as interest is becoming endemic.Please Like Us If You Like¡
Anyway here’s some fun to begin.
I have to wonder how hygienic it was to have a dead man propped up at a restaurant for a few years.
I’ll give the English that, they know a thing or two about taxidermy
dv said:
sibeen said:
SCIENCE said:
We were able to find the previous relevant thread quite easily and without even needing to ask, but nevertheless provide the usual regular update as interest is becoming endemic.Please Like Us If You Like¡
Anyway here’s some fun to begin.
I have to wonder how hygienic it was to have a dead man propped up at a restaurant for a few years.
I’ll give the English that, they know a thing or two about taxidermy
I thought ‘get stuffed’ was an Australian expression.
Did we steal it from the Poms, or was it vice versa?
My daughter has tested positive and has mild symptoms.
The rest of us have done RATS, all neg.
I was a bit bemused by the instructions.
So … remove after 90 seconds when the sponge becomes soft AND the indicator on the black turns blue.
That’s three separate conditions, and the AND makes it sound like they all have to be met, which was troubling because ours did not turn blue even after several minutes when the sponge became soft.
Checking the website showed us that what is meant is you have to keep it until
(Time passed is >=90 seconds) AND ( (the sponge has become soft ) OR (the back has turned blue) )
dv said:
My daughter has tested positive and has mild symptoms.The rest of us have done RATS, all neg.
I was a bit bemused by the instructions.
So … remove after 90 seconds when the sponge becomes soft AND the indicator on the black turns blue.
That’s three separate conditions, and the AND makes it sound like they all have to be met, which was troubling because ours did not turn blue even after several minutes when the sponge became soft.
Checking the website showed us that what is meant is you have to keep it until
(Time passed is >=90 seconds) AND ( (the sponge has become soft ) OR (the back has turned blue) )
I hope your daughter short covids well.
they do say that public health communication has been one of the major failings of 2020 2021 2022 onward
“The combination of COVID-19 and influenza seems to be particularly severe.”
“Influenza … can be a severe disease,” he said.
“I’m particularly concerned because all of our immunity will have waned over the last two years. Our general immunity is low and the virus is here and it’s beginning to spread.
“If we get it, it’s likely to be more severe.”
—
That’s right you babies, when there’s COVID-19 and there’s influenza, then people getting fucked up must be all the fault of … the influenza¡ The COVID-19 is just a mild bonus inevitable, a necessary.
SCIENCE said:
“The combination of COVID-19 and influenza seems to be particularly severe.”“Influenza … can be a severe disease,” he said.
“I’m particularly concerned because all of our immunity will have waned over the last two years. Our general immunity is low and the virus is here and it’s beginning to spread.
“If we get it, it’s likely to be more severe.”
—
That’s right you babies, when there’s COVID-19 and there’s influenza, then people getting fucked up must be all the fault of … the influenza¡ The COVID-19 is just a mild bonus inevitable, a necessary.
went to and did reads that
might need get a flu shot, be the first ever, generally just drag my feet for 12 weeks with seasonal exposure, and about every ten years get landed on my back for three days
in related news, it’s been 8 weeks since first symptoms of covid, getting there, just bit of a sore throat on and off, don’t feel like ought push myself too much, or get cold too much, or go underslept
I haven’t measured the brain damage yet
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
“The combination of COVID-19 and influenza seems to be particularly severe.”“Influenza … can be a severe disease,” he said.
“I’m particularly concerned because all of our immunity will have waned over the last two years. Our general immunity is low and the virus is here and it’s beginning to spread.
“If we get it, it’s likely to be more severe.”
—
That’s right you babies, when there’s COVID-19 and there’s influenza, then people getting fucked up must be all the fault of … the influenza¡ The COVID-19 is just a mild bonus inevitable, a necessary.
went to and did reads that
might need get a flu shot, be the first ever, generally just drag my feet for 12 weeks with seasonal exposure, and about every ten years get landed on my back for three days
in related news, it’s been 8 weeks since first symptoms of covid, getting there, just bit of a sore throat on and off, don’t feel like ought push myself too much, or get cold too much, or go underslept
I haven’t measured the brain damage yet
That’s not going to be easy.
Peak Warming Man said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
“The combination of COVID-19 and influenza seems to be particularly severe.”“Influenza … can be a severe disease,” he said.
“I’m particularly concerned because all of our immunity will have waned over the last two years. Our general immunity is low and the virus is here and it’s beginning to spread.
“If we get it, it’s likely to be more severe.”
—
That’s right you babies, when there’s COVID-19 and there’s influenza, then people getting fucked up must be all the fault of … the influenza¡ The COVID-19 is just a mild bonus inevitable, a necessary.
went to and did reads that
might need get a flu shot, be the first ever, generally just drag my feet for 12 weeks with seasonal exposure, and about every ten years get landed on my back for three days
in related news, it’s been 8 weeks since first symptoms of covid, getting there, just bit of a sore throat on and off, don’t feel like ought push myself too much, or get cold too much, or go underslept
I haven’t measured the brain damage yet
That’s not going to be easy.
chuckle
would it be so bad anyway, maybe i’d enjoy watching TV more
Daug’s condition is described as meh, with “throat on fire” and lethargy, so not too bad.
dv said:
Daug’s condition is described as meh, with “throat on fire” and lethargy, so not too bad.
Her bf has tested + as well but is asymptomatic. We did a food drop for them, they aren’t stir crazy yet.
we don’t know if this means anything to most of you but
What The Laugh Out Loud Fuck
Molnupiravir reduced the risk of hospital admission or death by 52% versus placebo in the interim analysis but raised risk by 35% among patients subsequently evaluated.4 There was no clear explanation for this substantial disparity in treatment effects between the interim and final phases. Molnupiravir showed no overall benefit over placebo for resolution of covid-19 related signs and symptoms.5
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Good News ¡ Profits Will Be Higher Than Ever Before ¡
Patients report a rebound of COVID-19 symptoms after taking the antiviral Paxlovid
Many report that after finishing their five-day course of treatment, feeling better, and testing negative on an at-home rapid test, they then test positive again a few days later.
Paxlovid, granted an emergency use authorization by federal regulators in late December, is an at-home treatment prescribed at the first sign of infection to patients at high risk of serious COVID complications. The treatment consists of a series of three pills taken twice a day for five days. In its clinical trial, Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that manufactures Paxlovid, reported an 89 percent reduction in COVID-related hospitalization or death from any cause in patients who received Paxlovid within three days of symptoms, compared with patients who received a placebo.
The pills had initially been in short supply and hard to find for some but are more widely available now. Doctors have hailed the antiviral as an invaluable treatment, helping to keep vulnerable people from developing life-threatening complications. But some infectious disease specialists, while still extolling Paxlovid’s benefits, have expressed concern that the rebounds they are seeing and hearing about may indicate patients, after completing treatment — and testing negative and then positive, again — may still be infectious and transmitting the virus to others.
But Sax said it makes “intuitive sense” to re-treat patients with a second course of Paxlovid if they rebound after the first course.
nah no way no no way
Pfizer Inc. executives said patients who suffer a relapse in Covid-19 symptoms after taking a full course of Paxlovid should take more of the treatment, though current U.S. guidelines limit use to five consecutive days. “Paxlovid does what it has to do: it reduces the viral load,” Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said in an interview. “Then your body is supposed to do the job.” But for unknown reasons, the CEO said, some patients aren’t able to clear the virus with the first course of treatment. In cases where virus levels do rebound, Bourla said, “then you give a second course, like you do with antibiotics, and that’s it.”
oh
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Peak Warming Man said:
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went to and did reads that
might need get a flu shot, be the first ever, generally just drag my feet for 12 weeks with seasonal exposure, and about every ten years get landed on my back for three days
in related news, it’s been 8 weeks since first symptoms of covid, getting there, just bit of a sore throat on and off, don’t feel like ought push myself too much, or get cold too much, or go underslept
I haven’t measured the brain damage yet
That’s not going to be easy.
chuckle
would it be so bad anyway, maybe i’d enjoy watching TV more
here these fellas measured it for everyone
we were sure we’d said it before but since in our dementia we can’t remember exactly where
it’s like this shit burns you for 20 years but vaccines give you a shield worth 10 years
SCIENCE said:
here these fellas measured it for everyone
we were sure we’d said it before but since in our dementia we can’t remember exactly where
it’s like this shit burns you for 20 years but vaccines give you a shield worth 10 years
sorry, going less populist, we mean these fellas
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00147-X/fulltext
Llllllllllllllet Iiiiiiiiiit RRRRRRRRRRRip¡
SCIENCE said:
Llllllllllllllet Iiiiiiiiiit RRRRRRRRRRRip¡
didn’t read it all, there’s only so much shared misuse of the alphabet I can stand in a day, i’m minorly consoled there is a reality outside that, outside human thought
the program of herd immunity sure has been effective, it might be said
was and is it a pandemic i’d ask, or is it something else, possibly worse
SCIENCE said:
Greatest health system in the world.
All those suckers with ‘socialist’ medical systems don’t know what they’re missing out on.
captain_spalding said:
SCIENCE said:
Greatest health system in the world.
All those suckers with ‘socialist’ medical systems don’t know what they’re missing out on.
profits
ABC News:
‘‘I do apologise to the public’: Police officer breaks down in emotional final day of corruption hearing
By Danny Morgan
A senior Victorian police officer accused of serious misconduct ends a marathon four-day stint in the witness box in tears, apologising to his peers and his family.’
It was nice of him to apologise, wasn’t it?
Now, let’s hope that they prosecute the living shit out of him, and chuck him into the hoosegow with a lot of other people who he also presumably didn’t know had criminal records (but they know him).
“In this country it is as well to put an admiral to death bent copper in prison now and then, to encourage the others.”
Oops, mistake, wrong thread.
ABC News:
‘‘I do apologise to the public’: Police officer breaks down in emotional final day of corruption hearing
By Danny Morgan
A senior Victorian police officer accused of serious misconduct ends a marathon four-day stint in the witness box in tears, apologising to his peers and his family.’
It was nice of him to apologise, wasn’t it?
Now, let’s hope that they prosecute the living shit out of him, and chuck him into the hoosegow with a lot of other people who he also presumably didn’t know had criminal records (but they know him).
“In this country it is as well to put an admiral to death bent copper in prison now and then, to encourage the others.”
Bugger, i did it again!
I can take a hint, i’ll stop now.
Bugger, i did it again!
I can take a hint, i’ll stop now.
Try again ..
oops
https://torontosun.com/health/omicron-as-severe-as-previous-covid-variants-large-study-finds
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1601788/v1
nice
SCIENCE said:
oopshttps://torontosun.com/health/omicron-as-severe-as-previous-covid-variants-large-study-finds
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1601788/v1
nice
criminal in my opinion, promoting wild covid, which is what’s happened, the view was that if enough people were involved in doing that it couldn’t be criminal
makes no difference though, the collective stupid doesn’t make it less stupid
Spiny Norman said:
Try again ..
Never mind that, there’s money to be made. Let her rip!
oops
SCIENCE said:
oops
That is also only one province in SA.
poikilotherm said:
poikilotherm said:
SCIENCE said:
oops
That is also only one province in SA.
¿ so the problem is actually 4 times worse ?
SCIENCE said:
poikilotherm said:
SCIENCE said:
oops
That is also only one province in SA.
¿ so the problem is actually 4 times worse ?
Or 4x less worse.
poikilotherm said:
SCIENCE said:
poikilotherm said:
That is also only one province in SA.
¿ so the problem is actually 4 times worse ?
Or 4x less worse.
you’re right, the rest of the country must be at absolute zero cases
Laugh Out Loud What A Bunch Of Fucking Malingerers
SCIENCE said:
Back Up A BIT,CHINA Were Right Again, This Time When They MURDERED Pet Dogs
i’m calling it the end days of civilization of that passes for news
SCIENCE said:
Laugh Out Loud What A Bunch Of Fucking Malingerers
still an impressive maiming in progress, the good work of the endemicists, they be retreating into the background noise I bet, disappearing into the pathosphere
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
Laugh Out Loud What A Bunch Of Fucking Malingerers
still an impressive maiming in progress, the good work of the endemicists, they be retreating into the background noise I bet, disappearing into the pathosphere
won’t be long they be diverting your attention by absurd devices such as pointing at your pet dogs, hoodoo stuff
here have some
lies
SCIENCE said:
here have some
lies
there won’t be any recovering from the psychological corruption of using vaccines as a vote to let covid go
the language around the subject is worse than unreliable, appeals to the covid gregarious and more generally a crude libertarian philosophy, doesn’t matter what is said now words are like goofer dust
clearly the correct solution
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-09/covid-positive-with-kids-how-to-get-help/101026582
should be to make sure there’s less isolation and more random people simply rocking up to take care of the baby goats
rather than stopping transmission of dementiavirus
(disclaimer: yes we know the article doesn’t make these comments)
SCIENCE said:
clearly the correct solutionhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-09/covid-positive-with-kids-how-to-get-help/101026582
should be to make sure there’s less isolation and more random people simply rocking up to take care of the baby goats
rather than stopping transmission of dementiavirus
(disclaimer: yes we know the article doesn’t make these comments)
wonderful article, read it earlier, makes it sound like it could be a 24hour thing, now granted i’m a little prejudiced against the devices for normalizing it, normalizing the pandemiendimicidalism (try saying that after a few beers), convenient instrumental confusions that way toward herd immunity, but i’d just point out that within the range of individuals having normal immune function there are quite a lot of people that don’t get over it quickly, and likely continue to be somewhat contagious
but don’t tell anyone, it’s a secret
as you were, continue with the correct thoughts
transition said:
but don’t tell anyone, it’s a secret
as you were
easily treatable
We performed a cross-sectional study of pLT recipients who received transplants between 1985 and 2004. A 20-year evaluation of physical health (growth, renal function), mental wellbeing and social outcomes (substance abuse, adherence, education, employment) was performed. All patients included were considered to have normal graft function.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00267-4/fulltext
Eighty-four patients met study criteria. Median age at transplantation was 1.3 years (IQR 0·7–3·3 years), with median duration of follow-up of 20.2 years (18·0–23·5). At median of 20-years, 19 patients (23%) had chronic renal dysfunction and 3 patients (4%) had a BMI of >30 (mean 20·4). Evaluation of long-term psychosocial outcomes demonstrated 22 patients (26%) with mental health disorders. Substance abuse was lower than national average. 62 patients (74%) were in education, employment or training. Overall, only 26% of our cohort achieved a composite outcome of ‘meaningful survival’.
Laugh Out Loud
SCIENCE said:
Laugh Out Loud
Stupid populist nonsense. Cases through the roof? Let’s get rid of restrictions!
furious said:
SCIENCE said:
Laugh Out Loud
Stupid populist nonsense. Cases through the roof? Let’s get rid of restrictions!
Yeah, but they have a total of 6 people in the ICU.
sibeen said:
furious said:
SCIENCE said:
Laugh Out Loud
Stupid populist nonsense. Cases through the roof? Let’s get rid of restrictions!
Yeah, but they have a total of 6 people in the ICU.
That’s a lag indicator, by the time it catches up, it’s too late…
transition said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
Back Up A BIT,CHINA Were Right Again, This Time When They MURDERED Pet Dogs
i’m calling it the end days of civilization of that passes for news
Laugh Out Loud What A Bunch Of Fucking Malingerers
still an impressive maiming in progress, the good work of the endemicists, they be retreating into the background noise I bet, disappearing into the pathosphere
won’t be long they be diverting your attention by absurd devices such as pointing at your pet dogs, hoodoo stuff
SCIENCE said:
transition said:transition said:
still an impressive maiming in progress, the good work of the endemicists, they be retreating into the background noise I bet, disappearing into the pathosphere
won’t be long they be diverting your attention by absurd devices such as pointing at your pet dogs, hoodoo stuff
chuckle
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
transition said:won’t be long they be diverting your attention by absurd devices such as pointing at your pet dogs, hoodoo stuff
chuckle
subject maiming, my reading below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID
something else to count, count it into existence then undercount, render it uncountable, the oblivion of the expansionist’s pathosphere
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chuckle
subject maiming, my reading below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVIDsomething else to count, count it into existence then undercount, render it uncountable, the oblivion of the expansionist’s pathosphere
i’ll say’t, just on the evidence of long covid prevalence, on that basis I absolutely support the Chinese approach to covid, and I won’t be convinced otherwise
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chuckle
subject maiming, my reading below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVIDsomething else to count, count it into existence then undercount, render it uncountable, the oblivion of the expansionist’s pathosphere
i’ll say’t, just on the evidence of long covid prevalence, on that basis I absolutely support the Chinese approach to covid, and I won’t be convinced otherwise
is it the same as this one
apparently there was no adenovirus and dogs aren’t even mentioned
what a joke eh ahahahahahaha so funny
SCIENCE said:
apparently there was no adenovirus and dogs aren’t even mentionedwhat a joke eh ahahahahahaha so funny
couldn’t get in, asserts I have an ad blocker
I like the mysterious part, sort of draws you in, encourages more of it so it won’t be a mystery, you’re encouraged to both indulge and resolve the mystery, which requires more examples of it, more evidence
the normalization, an equivalent stupid might be living with mushroom clouds
just my dumb opinion
SCIENCE said:
apparently there was no adenovirus and dogs aren’t even mentioned
what a joke eh ahahahahahaha so funny
but wait there’s more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiATDMHU7gc
this is fucking hilarious, it’s amazingly entertaining
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
apparently there was no adenovirus and dogs aren’t even mentioned
what a joke eh ahahahahahaha so funny
couldn’t get in, asserts I have an ad blocker
I like the mysterious part, sort of draws you in, encourages more of it so it won’t be a mystery, you’re encouraged to both indulge and resolve the mystery, which requires more examples of it, more evidence
the normalization, an equivalent stupid might be living with mushroom clouds
just my dumb opinion
Massachusetts health officials have launched an investigation after two Massachusetts children were diagnosed with a pediatric hepatitis infection that’s been causing significant liver damage and failure in children. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health told CBS Boston reporters that two Massachusetts children contracted the hepatitis infection. Further details about to the children’s cases have not been released due to the patients’ age. Officials said they both tested negative for adenovirus infection — a common cause for contracting hepatitis in immunocompromised children.
Two of the children had to have liver transplants and no patients have died, according to officials. All of the pediatric patients were previously healthy and none of them tested positive for COVID-19 beforehand. Experts suggest that adenoviruses — viruses typically associated with cold-like symptoms, fever, sore throat and pink eye — may be causing the severe liver damage.
oops we think what they meant was
Two of the children had to have liver transplants and no patients have died, according to officials. All of the pediatric patients were previously healthy and none of them tested
the end
what’s it called when people only listen to good advice after they fuck up
Fit-tested N95 masks combined with portable HEPA filtration can protect against high aerosolized viral loads over prolonged periods at close range .
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiac195/6582941?login=false
SCIENCE said:
SCIENCE said:apparently there was no adenovirus and dogs aren’t even mentioned
what a joke eh ahahahahahaha so funny
but wait there’s more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiATDMHU7gc
this is fucking hilarious, it’s amazingly entertaining
I readed some…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplastic_anemia
“………..Aplastic anemia is present in up to 2% of patients with acute viral hepatitis…….”
SCIENCE said:
what’s it called when people only listen to good advice after they fuck up
oh look someone else caught the contagious contagion of inevitable inevitability, or the inevitable inevitability of the contagious contagious, however you like your recursive stupid
Laugh Out Loud
no you idiot you’re counting it wrong, if you cut that lifetime short, then that $800000 comes out faster, so the economy runs hotter and stronger and better
Spiny Norman said:
Fit-tested N95 masks combined with portable HEPA filtration can protect against high aerosolized viral loads over prolonged periods at close range .
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiac195/6582941?login=false
thanks
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11303-8
guess it’s entirely possible to stop transmission and decrease reproduction number to less than unity and asymptotically approach null SARACAIDS-19 after all
dear God, watched normal also
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-12/sa-records-4696-new-covid-19-cases-and-seven-deaths/101060670
transition said:
dear God, watched normal also
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-12/sa-records-4696-new-covid-19-cases-and-seven-deaths/101060670
norman, should have said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGF-UNk3UdE
Animated World Map of COVID-19 Spread (till April 2022)
transition said:
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dear God, watched normal also
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-12/sa-records-4696-new-covid-19-cases-and-seven-deaths/101060670norman, should have said
that was a freudian typo, Norman given his own show a while back, to me seems to have got swung nicely to normalizing whatever it is, however one might see it
i’d suggest the wild covid business probably is more like three or four bad airliner crash landings a week, if you add the morbidities and disruption
no cheer for AJ on that analogy, won’t help sell tickets and get people airborne and mobile
all helps with the desensitization though, even talking about desensitization, but there’s another dimension to desensitization, where it is a very different thing to desensitization, and that is masking, where they overlap required an uncommon effort to see them as distinct things, and you need see them as distinct things to consider how they might be deployed as indistinct, or indistinguishably
an esoteric consideration perhaps, but there it is
Mrs m tells me that North Korea is in a bad way with Covid at the moment.
Real information is still sketchy.
Looking at Covid deaths from 2020 to now. I’m not at all happy.
UK and NZ deaths are still on the high side.
mollwollfumble said:
Mrs m tells me that North Korea is in a bad way with Covid at the moment.
Real information is still sketchy.Looking at Covid deaths from 2020 to now. I’m not at all happy.
……./cut by me master transition, and apologies/…..
India’s very flat there, must have had a staggeringly effective pandemic response, herd immunity perhaps, I hear it’s going around
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
what’s it called when people only listen to good advice after they fuck up
oh look someone else caught the contagious contagion of inevitable inevitability, or the inevitable inevitability of the contagious contagious, however you like your recursive stupid
nothing like the big badboy catching some wind to inspire people to give give give eh
so you all needed some good news today well this is probably it, probably as good as it gets
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-helped-raise-31-billion-global-pandemic-response-2022-05-12/
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) – The United States will share technologies used to make COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization and is working to expand rapid testing and antiviral treatments for hard-to-reach populations, President Joe Biden said on Thursday. “We are making available health technologies that are owned by the United States government, including stabilized spike protein that is used in many COVID-19 vaccines,” Biden said in his opening speech.
Several generic drugmakers that will produce versions of Pfizer’s (PFE.N) COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid have agreed to sell the medicine in low- and middle-income countries for $25 a course or less, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) said on Thursday. The technologies will be licensed by the U.S. National Institutes for Health to the WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the MPP, initiatives set up to share know-how with manufacturers all around the world, allowing them to work on generic versions of key COVID-19 tools. Scientists at the NIH worked with Moderna (MRNA.O)to develop its COVID-19 shot.
“It’s through sharing and empowering lower-income countries to manufacture their own health tools that we can ensure a healthier future for everyone,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
as some have said better late than never
probably caused by lockdowns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/11/drug-overdose-deaths-cdc-numbers/
More Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021 than any previous year, a grim milestone in an epidemic that has now claimed 1 million lives in the 21st century, according to federal data released Wednesday. More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, up 15 percent from the previous year, according to an estimate released by the National Center for Health Statistics. The tally of 107,622 reflects challenges exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic: lost access to treatment, social isolation and a more potent drug supply.
SCIENCE said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
what’s it called when people only listen to good advice after they fuck up
oh look someone else caught the contagious contagion of inevitable inevitability, or the inevitable inevitability of the contagious contagious, however you like your recursive stupid
nothing like the big badboy catching some wind to inspire people to give give give eh
so you all needed some good news today well this is probably it, probably as good as it gets
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-helped-raise-31-billion-global-pandemic-response-2022-05-12/
WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) – The United States will share technologies used to make COVID-19 vaccines through the World Health Organization and is working to expand rapid testing and antiviral treatments for hard-to-reach populations, President Joe Biden said on Thursday. “We are making available health technologies that are owned by the United States government, including stabilized spike protein that is used in many COVID-19 vaccines,” Biden said in his opening speech.
Several generic drugmakers that will produce versions of Pfizer’s (PFE.N) COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid have agreed to sell the medicine in low- and middle-income countries for $25 a course or less, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) said on Thursday. The technologies will be licensed by the U.S. National Institutes for Health to the WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the MPP, initiatives set up to share know-how with manufacturers all around the world, allowing them to work on generic versions of key COVID-19 tools. Scientists at the NIH worked with Moderna (MRNA.O)to develop its COVID-19 shot.
“It’s through sharing and empowering lower-income countries to manufacture their own health tools that we can ensure a healthier future for everyone,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
as some have said better late than never
However, where a person earns on average <$160 (USD, PPP*) per month (as in Tanzania) even that seemingly low $25 price tag is quite out of reach.
. * PPP = purchasing power parity
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probably caused by lockdownshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/11/drug-overdose-deaths-cdc-numbers/
More Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021 than any previous year, a grim milestone in an epidemic that has now claimed 1 million lives in the 21st century, according to federal data released Wednesday. More than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, up 15 percent from the previous year, according to an estimate released by the National Center for Health Statistics. The tally of 107,622 reflects challenges exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic: lost access to treatment, social isolation and a more potent drug supply.
money has no conscience or memory, so you can imagine its potential to ‘liberate’ by way of crude notions that pass for morality
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/coronavirus-cases-data-reveals-how-covid-19-spreads-in-australia/12060704
I am having look at covid numbers
‘…Australia’s official case counts have become increasingly inaccurate as testing facilities struggle to keep up with demand fuelled by the Omicron variant and people are asked to rely on rapid antigen tests (RATs) that are in short supply…’
possibly not verbatim^ I typed it from memory using my savant gifts
i’d like to see where it was wrote or spoke, or there exists any convincing evidence in the real world of things, that the intention or objective of testing was (part of a policy and program implementation) to keep the numbers within capacity, within testing capacity, so they might be accurate numbers, and continue to be accurate numbers
Peak Warming Man said:
NZ PM has covid.
didn’t ‘e ask for it
Since last family update.
My sister in Sydney has it now.
My nephew and his wife in New York have had it.
Their children have had it twice.
Despite all being vaccinated up to the limit of the law.
Daug and Daug’s bf have recovered well enough to be socialising with us and now the boss lady thinks she might have it, had a PCR test at Royal Perth this morning. Apparently the turnaround is pretty good now and we may get an answer by close of biz.
some people have brains and want to keep them functioning
SCIENCE said:
some people have brains and want to keep them functioning
So why are they gathered in a large crowd when they could do that from home?
Bubblecar said:
SCIENCE said:
some people have brains and want to keep them functioning
So why are they gathered in a large crowd when they could do that from home?
oh we didn’t say that those were the same people
and we broadly agree with your point
but yeah at least for their gathering which we presume is as “normal” as they are aiming for, they are doing the things that are most going to protect them
no they’re not
oh wait
shit
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no they’re not
oh wait
shit
endothelial insult, perhaps
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
no they’re not
oh wait
shit
endothelial insult, perhaps
viral-induced
transition said:
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SCIENCE said:
no they’re not
oh wait
shit
endothelial insult, perhaps
viral-induced
get real, more like it was the dogs and lockdowns
dv said:
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transition said:
transition said:
endothelial insult, perhaps
viral-induced
get real, more like it was the dogs and lockdowns
fair point, adenovirus, dog, or lockdown
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transition said:transition said:
endothelial insult, perhaps
viral-induced
get real, more like it was the dogs and lockdowns
yeah coronavirus exposure-deprivation syndrome, and mysterious canine-induced hepatitis syndrome
Flu-like illnesses in Australia, including Covid.
Highest incidence since September 2019.
ABC Perth
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The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 in WA has now breached the threshold that medical experts believe warrants the re-introduction of COVID restrictions.
STORY:
Link.
WA recorded 12,266 new COVID-19 cases to 8pm last night with 314 hospitalisations and 11 people in intensive care.
The Australian Medical Association and the Australian Nursing Federation have previously called on the government to reinstate the mask mandate and other restrictions if the number of hospitalisations breached 300.
The state government has also flagged hospitalisation and intensive care figures as the numbers to watch, but despite the spike in the number of people in hospital, the Health Minister said it still falls within a manageable range.
Instead, Amber-Jade Sanderson pointed at staff furlough figures as the critical number now affecting health services, with about 2200 staff absent due to being sick or needing to isolate.
“The number that’s challenging hospitals at the moment is not so much hospitalisations, but furlough staff. That’s the number we’re watching,” Ms Sanderson said.
How Omicron Infection Turbo-Charges Vaccinated People’s Immunity
Breakthrough infections bested booster shots in two studies
BioNTech team says results argue for omicron-specific booster
ByNaomi Kresge
15 May 2022, 17:30 GMT+10
People who are vaccinated and then get infected with omicron may be primed to overcome a broad range of coronavirus variants, early research suggests.
A pair of studies showed that infection produced even better immune responses than a booster shot in vaccinated patients. Teams from Covid-19 vaccine maker BioNTech SE and the University of Washington posted the results on preprint server bioRxiv in recent weeks.
The findings offer a reassuring sign that the millions of vaccinated people who’ve caught omicron probably won’t become seriously ill from another variant soon — even though the research needs to be confirmed, especially by real-world evidence.
“We should think about breakthrough infections as essentially equivalent to another dose of vaccine,” said John Wherry, a professor and director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania who wasn’t involved in the research but reviewed the BioNTech study. That could mean that if someone had Covid recently, they could wait before getting another booster shot, according to Wherry.
Alexandra Walls, a principal scientist at the University of Washington who authored one of the studies, cautioned that people shouldn’t seek out infections in response to the findings.
The data comes as omicron continue to fuel outbreaks around the world, most notably in China, where residents of Shanghai have endured almost six weeks of lockdown. Waves of new variants are coming more quickly in part because omicron is so transmissible, giving it ample opportunity to spread and mutate as countries drop restrictions, said Sam Fazeli, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence. Meanwhile, regulators are weighing whether Covid vaccines should be updated to target omicron.
BioNTech’s team argued that the data indicate that offering people an omicron-adapted booster shot may be more beneficial than multiple ones with the original vaccines.
The Washington research, conducted together with Vir Biotechnology Inc., looked at blood samples from people who had been infected, then had two or three doses of vaccine, as well as those who’d caught the delta and omicron variants after two or three doses; others still had been vaccinated and boosted but never caught Covid. A final group had only been infected with omicron and never vaccinated.
One part of the study zeroed in on antibodies, the protective proteins tailored to recognize and neutralize invaders. It showed vaccinated people who’d caught omicron had antibodies that outperformed the others. They were even capable of recognizing and attacking the very different delta variant.
“That indicates that we are at the point where we may want to consider having a different vaccine to boost people,” said David Veesler, an assistant professor at the University of Washington, who led the research. The scientists were also able to identify antibodies in the nasal mucous of these patients, which could help them neutralize the virus as soon as it enters the body.
Nasal Sprays Are Poised to Be the Next Weapon for Fighting Covid
Both the Washington and BioNTech studies also looked at another piece of the immune system: B cells, a type of white blood cells that can kick in to produce a burst of fresh antibodies if they recognize a pathogen. People who’d had an omicron breakthrough infection had a broader response from these useful cells than those who’d had a booster shot but no infection, the BioNTech team found.
Crucially, the Washington team also found that the broad response was missing in unvaccinated people who had caught omicron as their first exposure to the virus. This “would be a problem if a new variant that is significantly different emerged,” Veesler said.
There’s no guarantee that future mutations will be as mild as omicron, and the pandemic’s future is hard to predict since it depends not just on immunity in the population, but also on how much the virus mutates.
Other researchers who reviewed the studies said the findings match up with the growing body of evidence for an immune boost from exposure to different virus variants via vaccination and infection. Scientists have also shown broad immune responses in people who caught delta after getting their shots.
“Maybe this is an indication that an updated booster might be a good idea,” said Theodora Hatziioannou, a virologist at The Rockefeller University who helped lead a team that looked at breakthrough infections in a group of vaccinated people in New York City.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-15/how-omicron-infection-turbo-charges-vaccinated-people-s-immunity?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Omicron Infection Turbo-Charges Vaccinated People’s Immunity
People who are vaccinated and then get infected with omicron may be primed to overcome a broad range of coronavirus variants, early research suggests.
is this the same bloomberg laugh out loud
ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hint: if it happens 6 times a year then the answer could be 480 but it’s probably closer to 10 before you reach the same endpoint
fun incoming
If only there were a way to prevent transmission of SARACAIDS-MISC virus so that people wouldn’t feel the need to be injected with dangerous vaccines¡
lol what a crock
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-17/omicron-catch-covid-twice-how-sick-will-you-be/101071264
But while Omicron appears to be causing more reinfections than other variants, there isn’t enough robust data to make firm conclusions about the severity of reinfection with Omicron or other variants. What we know for certain is we need more data from more people to say that reinfection is less severe.
must be retarded to not be able to jump in as quickly as during the last overwhelming infection period when it was immediately obvious without any bulk data at all that it was getting milder
here’s a good exercise in misdirection, but sure go on blaming adenovirus CHINA for the hepatitis proliferation of gun violence
not just our misdirection
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-17/covid-vaccines-booster-astrazeneca-australian-deaths/101055494
sarahs mum said:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-17/covid-vaccines-booster-astrazeneca-australian-deaths/101055494
how fortunate the we are to have the broadcaster, to soften the landing into the borderless world of free-range covid, and other things
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here’s a good exercise in misdirection, but sure go on blamingadenovirusCHINA for thehepatitisproliferation of gun violencenot just our misdirection
I look forward to the broadcaster’s articles regard what causes healthiness
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lol what a crockhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-17/omicron-catch-covid-twice-how-sick-will-you-be/101071264
But while Omicron appears to be causing more reinfections than other variants, there isn’t enough robust data to make firm conclusions about the severity of reinfection with Omicron or other variants. What we know for certain is we need more data from more people to say that reinfection is less severe.
must be retarded to not be able to jump in as quickly as during the last overwhelming infection period when it was immediately obvious without any bulk data at all that it was getting milder
they want more infections to study, need more infections, and preferably that indicate reinfection is less severe
goodoh, the new medicine
measure it into existence, measure it into greater prevalence
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here’s a good exercise in misdirection, but sure go on blaming
adenovirusCHINA for thehepatitisproliferation of gun violencenot just our misdirection
I look forward to the broadcaster’s articles regard what causes healthiness
meditation, murder-free diets, magnetic jewellery, photosynthetic mellow, and sweet clean open air
wait
at least one of those actually would help in 2022 but it doesn’t have ‘m’ in it
can’t they just give some teenagers a couple of hours of training
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can’t they just give some teenagers a couple of hours of training
crosseyed derr read some about that, bullshit came to mind
Fuck Dirty Profiteering Insurance Companies
these appropriations may be inappropriate
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
SCIENCE said:
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
Not allowed to enter LGH without donning a mask (provided) and filling in Covid form. Ditto our village health clinic.
Bubblecar said:
SCIENCE said:
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
Not allowed to enter LGH without donning a mask (provided) and filling in Covid form. Ditto our village health clinic.
Bubblecar said:
SCIENCE said:
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
Not allowed to enter LGH without donning a mask (provided) and filling in Covid form. Ditto our village health clinic.
Yes, I reminded Mr buffy he would need a mask at the Family Clinic this morning. I wonder if he remembered when he got there.
Political Interference
here they go again again again
SCIENCE said:
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
if the anarcho-capitalists weren’t taking over the show globally P2 masks would be universally encouraged, and disposable medical gloves would be provided on entry to supermarkets etc, with suitable disposal facilities out in the carparks
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
if the anarcho-capitalists weren’t taking over the show globally P2 masks would be universally encouraged, and disposable medical gloves would be provided on entry to supermarkets etc, with suitable disposal facilities out in the carparks
Everyone, staff and visitors, still has to wear masks in the hospitlal i’m working in.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
if the anarcho-capitalists weren’t taking over the show globally P2 masks would be universally encouraged, and disposable medical gloves would be provided on entry to supermarkets etc, with suitable disposal facilities out in the carparks
Everyone, staff and visitors, still has to wear masks in the hospitlal i’m working in.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
if the anarcho-capitalists weren’t taking over the show globally P2 masks would be universally encouraged, and disposable medical gloves would be provided on entry to supermarkets etc, with suitable disposal facilities out in the carparks
Everyone, staff and visitors, still has to wear masks in the hospitlal i’m working in.
Funnily enough though the LGH let me do without a mask after the operation, and in the ambulance drive to our little hospital, and as a patient in the latter. But all the staff wore masks.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:
SCIENCE said:
some hard core hedging right here
“There’s definitely an argument that masks would assist in protecting hospitals, and is something that should certainly be on the table.”
maybe they should be on the face
if the anarcho-capitalists weren’t taking over the show globally P2 masks would be universally encouraged, and disposable medical gloves would be provided on entry to supermarkets etc, with suitable disposal facilities out in the carparks
Everyone, staff and visitors, still has to wear masks in the hospitlal i’m working in.
that’s good, but there are problems, big problems, big problems with long covid, a growing problem, a foreseeable problem
further of prophylaxis, surface contact has been neglected
shopping trolley handles for example, fucken terrible, you can’t rely on casual use of hand sanitizer
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further of prophylaxis, surface contact has been neglected
shopping trolley handles for example, fucken terrible, you can’t rely on casual use of hand sanitizer
You can still get shopping trolley wipes at the hand-sanitising stations at supermarket doors her.
If they’ve run out, a squirt of hand sanitiser on a paper towel (also usually available) substitutes.
No towel? Rarely happens, but get a big blob of gel on your hand, and rub it over the handle. Then do your hands again.
captain_spalding said:
transition said:further of prophylaxis, surface contact has been neglected
shopping trolley handles for example, fucken terrible, you can’t rely on casual use of hand sanitizer
You can still get shopping trolley wipes at the hand-sanitising stations at supermarket doors her.
If they’ve run out, a squirt of hand sanitiser on a paper towel (also usually available) substitutes.
No towel? Rarely happens, but get a big blob of gel on your hand, and rub it over the handle. Then do your hands again.
The last is what I do at the store when I go. It’s not that difficult.
In non-foreign-interfered, non-Republican-copycat, Australian political news, the latest¡
We want to put that in the rear-vision mirror. We’re putting this pandemic behind us and all the intervention of government in our lives.
remember when disinformation agents told everyone to avoid masks because there was a shortage
now tulips
SCIENCE said:
it was the dogs
https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1526682813998800898
SCIENCE said:
Straight To You From The
WuhanWestAfrican Institute of Virology
https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1526682813998800898
uncontained, uncontrolled covid today, any sort of stupid tomorrow is possible, a liberating evolution of global health policies
Sweden seems to have stopped daily reporting.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
They’ve been stuck in the middle 50s on the deaths per million table for months now.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
y’al’r’ invited to compare the reassuring tone of this article to the reassurances we were given in early 2020 laugh out loud
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-20/monkeypox-spreads-through-europe/101086894
ah fuck, we’d say we’re asking for a friend but since you all know we don’t have any of those
¿ does ivermectin work for monkeypox ?
something you might wonder about
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The man is serious.
The rumour mill has it that “self limiting” is the new “mild”.
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that’s quite good, though not funny really
welcome relaxed disease internationalization, covid easy, disease easy, get those planes back in the sky before there’s an outbreak of nationalism
SCIENCE said:
something you might wonder about
the it’s not a race is on again
https://fortune.com/2022/05/19/monkeypox-vaccine-purchase-2022-us-government/
Not The ASMR You Hope It Is
but there you go, pandemic over
allegedly UK data
also
https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/05/22/pandemic-most-certainly-not-over/
The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organisation has warned, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the Omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril”. The United Nations health agency’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told officials gathered in Geneva for the opening of the WHO’s annual meeting that “declining testing and sequencing means we are blinding ourselves to the evolution of the virus”.
While there has been progress, with 60 per cent of the world’s population vaccinated, “it’s not over anywhere until it’s over everywhere,” Tedros said. “Reported cases are increasing in almost 70 countries in all regions, and this in a world in which testing rates have plummeted,” he added.
While the world’s vaccine supply has improved, there is “insufficient political commitment to roll out vaccines” in some countries, gaps in “operational or financial capacity” in others, he said. “In all, we see vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation and disinformation,” Tedros said. “The pandemic will not magically disappear but we can end it.”
Tedros is expected to be appointed for a second five-year term this week at the World Health Assembly, the annual meeting of the WHO’s member countries.
reappointed eh is this CHINA or something
that’s right any country that prioritises healthy living people over freedom to smear disease all over each other is a gross human rights violation
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Witty Rejoinder said:
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Do what exactly? Besides returning to a mask mandate I think that horse has bolted.
what is it then, is it that
we mean even in the absence of mask mandates is there a way to for example claw back some of the healthcare system such that ambulances aren’t waiting 8 hours for patients to die before entering the emergency department
Wife of the bloke over the road has COVID. She caught it from her 102 year old grandmother. Both are doing OK.
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Witty Rejoinder said:SCIENCE said:
Do what exactly? Besides returning to a mask mandate I think that horse has bolted.
what is it then, is it that
- the only thing that government can do is mandate or demandate things
- government are unimaginative and cannot think of any way to reduce the risk of viruses spreading through shared indoor air
- it’s economically preferable to kill andor maim 50% of the population so the other 50% get rich
- we’re less imaginative than government and don’t immediately have other ridiculous options to include here
we mean even in the absence of mask mandates is there a way to for example claw back some of the healthcare system such that ambulances aren’t waiting 8 hours for patients to die before entering the emergency department
They’re all good suggestions. I thought you might be referring to new lockdowns or border closures.
Witty Rejoinder said:
SCIENCE said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Do what exactly? Besides returning to a mask mandate I think that horse has bolted.
what is it then, is it that
- the only thing that government can do is mandate or demandate things
- government are unimaginative and cannot think of any way to reduce the risk of viruses spreading through shared indoor air
- it’s economically preferable to kill andor maim 50% of the population so the other 50% get rich
- we’re less imaginative than government and don’t immediately have other ridiculous options to include here
we mean even in the absence of mask mandates is there a way to for example claw back some of the healthcare system such that ambulances aren’t waiting 8 hours for patients to die before entering the emergency department
They’re all good suggestions. I thought you might be referring to new lockdowns or border closures.
sure, if you like, but as you say,
ah well guess it took 2 years for everyone else with brains to say it
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ah well guess it took 2 years for everyone else with brains to say it
Isn’t the Dirac Delta function an impulse step function to infinity?
:)
well could be worse we suppose
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-022-01385-9/d41586-022-01385-9.pdf
.jp
sibeen said:
SCIENCE said:
ah well guess it took 2 years for everyone else with brains to say it
Isn’t the Dirac Delta function an impulse step function to infinity?
:)
integral or differential
actually meaningful read
Next Level Fuck
The What
While In Rome, Fiddle
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While In Rome, Fiddle
Dr. Bhattshittaya Bhattacharya woud approve.
seems complicated, maybe
“What the mask mandate will be replaced with is a requirement for schools to continue to monitor case numbers. He added that mask mandates would be reinstated if a school recorded more than 10 cases of COVID in one classroom, or more than five cases across five different classrooms.
deliberately so, to confuse
SCIENCE said:
seems complicated, maybe“What the mask mandate will be replaced with is a requirement for schools to continue to monitor case numbers. He added that mask mandates would be reinstated if a school recorded more than 10 cases of COVID in one classroom, or more than five cases across five different classrooms.
deliberately so, to confuse
measure and monitoring stuff into existence, very effective at normalization, probably a derr descended of management theory or something like that, anyway consider the good work in the ideological apparatus getting children to do it, spread a disease and make it normal
SCIENCE said:
Next Level Fuck
The What
probably a view that doesn’t require any thinking, it’s an expanding market
SCIENCE said:
well could be worse we supposehttps://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-022-01385-9/d41586-022-01385-9.pdf
Latest for Australian flu-like symptoms. At Mrs m’s stage production that she’s playing for, 19 people have come down with covid.
mollwollfumble said:
SCIENCE said:
well could be worse we supposehttps://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-022-01385-9/d41586-022-01385-9.pdf
Latest for Australian flu-like symptoms. At Mrs m’s stage production that she’s playing for, 19 people have come down with covid.
Yes it looks like ths State Premiers have completely dropped the ball and lit it get totally out of control.
Peak Warming Man said:
mollwollfumble said:
SCIENCE said:
well could be worse we supposehttps://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-022-01385-9/d41586-022-01385-9.pdf
Latest for Australian flu-like symptoms. At Mrs m’s stage production that she’s playing for, 19 people have come down with covid.
Yes it looks like ths State Premiers have completely dropped the ball and lit it get totally out of control.
Top countries for Covid deaths per population.
Excluding small countries, New Zealand is third worst in the world after Finland and Portugal. Australia well into the top ten.
World map. Covid cases per population.
Peak Warming Man said:
mollwollfumble said:
SCIENCE said:
well could be worse we suppose
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-022-01385-9/d41586-022-01385-9.pdf
Latest for Australian flu-like symptoms. At Mrs m’s stage production that she’s playing for, 19 people have come down with covid.
Yes it looks like ths State Premiers have completely dropped the ball and lit it get totally out of control.
remember when people said that about the NSW arseholes and all the fascists got upset
Cases are high and winter is coming. We need to stop ignoring COVID
Published: May 23, 2022 2.34pm AEST
Nicholas Talley receives funding from the NHMRC and the Department of Defence/Breakthrough Human Performance Research Call. He is affiliated with OzSage, the Australian Medical Council (AMC) (Council Member) and the NHMRC Principal Committee (Research Committee).
In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable.
Sadly we have surpassed that milestone in the first four months of this year alone.
Each day, an average of 45,000 Australians are reporting cases of COVID, a number that is rising and likely a substantial underestimate.
Yet where are the sensible public health measures to stem the tide of illness and death?
People are dying of COVID
Sadly we are now leading the world in COVID cases per capita.
But did these people die of or with COVID? This question is raised often by those who wish to diminish the impact of the pandemic, including former prime minister Scott Morrison.
The evidence, however, is clear – of all people who died “of” or “with” COVID during the pandemic in Australia, 90% have died of COVID.
Even if we concern ourselves only with excess death rates (that is, deaths exceeding what would usually be expected) COVID is a major killer. The Australian Bureau of Statistics evaluated deaths in January 2022, around the time of the peak in COVID cases during the first Omicron wave in Australia. Comparing the observed mortality rate to the usual pre-COVID rate, they found 22% more deaths in that month than expected.
COVID is currently on track to be one of the leading causes of death in Australia this year.
Long COVID will affect many Australians infected, perhaps up to 30%. And the other long-term effects of COVID are not yet known.
The number of deaths and long COVID are only part of the story. The health care system right now is in crisis throughout the country with people dying waiting for ambulances, record levels of ambulance ramping (where patients wait with paramedics for medical attention), prolonged emergency stays for patients in overcrowded departments, and hospital staff shortages.
Add to that we are now facing our first flu season in two years, with weekly numbers now exceeding the average for the past five years.
Coupled with a lower-than-average uptake of the flu vaccine this year, the flu season is shaping up to potentially be a severe one – potentially resulting in up to 30,000 people requiring admission to hospital.
With winter coming, and more people gathering indoors as the weather turns cold, COVID cases may also rise in tandem with influenza.
We can reduce cases
This looming disaster can be averted: we can reduce transmission and “flatten the curve” with simple actions.
We have seen the impact the relaxation of public health restrictions and protections like mask-wearing mandates have made in terms of driving transmission.
In Western Australia, relaxation of public health measures including mask wearing and household contact isolation occurred on April 29. Within days of these changes, case numbers reached record highs – there are now 100 more people hospitalised with COVID every day than before these changes went into effect.
It would stand to reason reinstating these two measures would have the opposite effect – fewer cases, fewer people in hospital, and fewer people dying of COVID.
The Australian Medical Association has called for an increase in voluntary use of masks, yet its pleas are being ignored. It seems without mandates most people are unwilling to wear masks, so reinstating these mandates for indoor gatherings should be considered.
Boosters and treatments are vital
We also need to use the tools we have to prevent serious disease in people who contract COVID.
Although vaccinations have maintained effectiveness for serious illness, hospitalisation, and death, our protection has waned over time and has also been reduced due to Omicron’s increased immune-evasion.
The impact of a booster dose is substantial, with high levels of protection against severe outcomes demonstrated with a third dose. Yet only 70% of the population of Australia has received a booster and numbers are not increasing.
For those who have been boosted, the fourth dose prevents severe disease in those most at-risk, but to date, most eligible people are yet to receive it.
If delivered early to those most at risk of severe disease, antiviral medications can reduce the risk of hospitalisation. But to access these medications, patients must have access to testing and a knowledgeable care provider all within five days of the onset of symptoms. The GP community is trying, but inequitable distribution of these treatments will occur without more education and support for the clinicians at the coalface.
A clearly articulated vision of what is at stake and what actions we need to take to avert disaster is the leadership we need right now.
A few simple public health measures such as mask mandates and reinstating isolation for household contacts of positive cases could make a major difference saving lives. And ensuring provision of boosters and early antiviral therapy for those at-risk despite vaccination will also save lives.
Pretending the pandemic is in the rear-vision mirror will help no one.
…
Nancy Baxter
Professor and Head of Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Nicholas Talley
Distinguished Laureate Professor of Medicine University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle
https://theconversation.com/cases-are-high-and-winter-is-coming-we-need-to-stop-ignoring-covid-183218?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cases are high and winter is coming. We need to stop ignoring COVID
Published: May 23, 2022 2.34pm AESTNicholas Talley receives funding from the NHMRC and the Department of Defence/Breakthrough Human Performance Research Call. He is affiliated with OzSage, the Australian Medical Council (AMC) (Council Member) and the NHMRC Principal Committee (Research Committee).
In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable.
Sadly we have surpassed that milestone in the first four months of this year alone.
Each day, an average of 45,000 Australians are reporting cases of COVID, a number that is rising and likely a substantial underestimate.
Yet where are the sensible public health measures to stem the tide of illness and death?
People are dying of COVID
Sadly we are now leading the world in COVID cases per capita.But did these people die of or with COVID? This question is raised often by those who wish to diminish the impact of the pandemic, including former prime minister Scott Morrison.
The evidence, however, is clear – of all people who died “of” or “with” COVID during the pandemic in Australia, 90% have died of COVID.
Even if we concern ourselves only with excess death rates (that is, deaths exceeding what would usually be expected) COVID is a major killer. The Australian Bureau of Statistics evaluated deaths in January 2022, around the time of the peak in COVID cases during the first Omicron wave in Australia. Comparing the observed mortality rate to the usual pre-COVID rate, they found 22% more deaths in that month than expected.
COVID is currently on track to be one of the leading causes of death in Australia this year.
Long COVID will affect many Australians infected, perhaps up to 30%. And the other long-term effects of COVID are not yet known.
The number of deaths and long COVID are only part of the story. The health care system right now is in crisis throughout the country with people dying waiting for ambulances, record levels of ambulance ramping (where patients wait with paramedics for medical attention), prolonged emergency stays for patients in overcrowded departments, and hospital staff shortages.
Add to that we are now facing our first flu season in two years, with weekly numbers now exceeding the average for the past five years.
Coupled with a lower-than-average uptake of the flu vaccine this year, the flu season is shaping up to potentially be a severe one – potentially resulting in up to 30,000 people requiring admission to hospital.
With winter coming, and more people gathering indoors as the weather turns cold, COVID cases may also rise in tandem with influenza.
We can reduce cases
This looming disaster can be averted: we can reduce transmission and “flatten the curve” with simple actions.We have seen the impact the relaxation of public health restrictions and protections like mask-wearing mandates have made in terms of driving transmission.
In Western Australia, relaxation of public health measures including mask wearing and household contact isolation occurred on April 29. Within days of these changes, case numbers reached record highs – there are now 100 more people hospitalised with COVID every day than before these changes went into effect.
It would stand to reason reinstating these two measures would have the opposite effect – fewer cases, fewer people in hospital, and fewer people dying of COVID.
The Australian Medical Association has called for an increase in voluntary use of masks, yet its pleas are being ignored. It seems without mandates most people are unwilling to wear masks, so reinstating these mandates for indoor gatherings should be considered.
Boosters and treatments are vital
We also need to use the tools we have to prevent serious disease in people who contract COVID.Although vaccinations have maintained effectiveness for serious illness, hospitalisation, and death, our protection has waned over time and has also been reduced due to Omicron’s increased immune-evasion.
The impact of a booster dose is substantial, with high levels of protection against severe outcomes demonstrated with a third dose. Yet only 70% of the population of Australia has received a booster and numbers are not increasing.
For those who have been boosted, the fourth dose prevents severe disease in those most at-risk, but to date, most eligible people are yet to receive it.
If delivered early to those most at risk of severe disease, antiviral medications can reduce the risk of hospitalisation. But to access these medications, patients must have access to testing and a knowledgeable care provider all within five days of the onset of symptoms. The GP community is trying, but inequitable distribution of these treatments will occur without more education and support for the clinicians at the coalface.
A clearly articulated vision of what is at stake and what actions we need to take to avert disaster is the leadership we need right now.
A few simple public health measures such as mask mandates and reinstating isolation for household contacts of positive cases could make a major difference saving lives. And ensuring provision of boosters and early antiviral therapy for those at-risk despite vaccination will also save lives.
Pretending the pandemic is in the rear-vision mirror will help no one.
…
Nancy Baxter
Professor and Head of Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of MelbourneNicholas Talley
Distinguished Laureate Professor of Medicine University of Newcastle, University of Newcastlehttps://theconversation.com/cases-are-high-and-winter-is-coming-we-need-to-stop-ignoring-covid-183218?
Very fair call.
Michael V said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
He is affiliated with OzSage, the Australian Medical Council (AMC) (Council Member) and the NHMRC Principal Committee (Research Committee).
In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable.
It seems without mandates most people are unwilling to wear masks, so reinstating these mandates for indoor gatherings should be considered.
The GP community is trying, but inequitable distribution of these treatments will occur without more education and support for the clinicians at the coalface.
A few simple public health measures such as mask mandates and reinstating isolation for household contacts of positive cases could make a major difference saving lives. And ensuring provision of boosters and early antiviral therapy for those at-risk despite vaccination will also save lives.
Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Very fair call.
communists
SCIENCE said:
Michael V said:Witty Rejoinder said:
He is affiliated with OzSage, the Australian Medical Council (AMC) (Council Member) and the NHMRC Principal Committee (Research Committee).
In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable.
It seems without mandates most people are unwilling to wear masks, so reinstating these mandates for indoor gatherings should be considered.
The GP community is trying, but inequitable distribution of these treatments will occur without more education and support for the clinicians at the coalface.
A few simple public health measures such as mask mandates and reinstating isolation for household contacts of positive cases could make a major difference saving lives. And ensuring provision of boosters and early antiviral therapy for those at-risk despite vaccination will also save lives.
Melbourne School of Population & Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Very fair call.
communists
What a pity.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Cases are high and winter is coming. We need to stop ignoring COVID
Published: May 23, 2022 2.34pm AESTNicholas Talley receives funding from the NHMRC and the Department of Defence/Breakthrough Human Performance Research Call. He is affiliated with OzSage, the Australian Medical Council (AMC) (Council Member) and the NHMRC Principal Committee (Research Committee).
In a poll conducted by the Guardian in August of 2021 about the number of deaths Australians would be willing to accept as restrictions eased, only 3% of respondents felt that 5,000 or more COVID-related deaths per year would be acceptable.
Sadly we have surpassed that milestone in the first four months of this year alone.
../cut by me master transition/..https://theconversation.com/cases-are-high-and-winter-is-coming-we-need-to-stop-ignoring-covid-183218?
>Although vaccinations have maintained effectiveness for serious illness, hospitalisation, and death, our protection has waned over time and has also been reduced due to Omicron’s increased immune-evasion.
let me take a liberty and rewrite that more as I interpret it
vaccines are not impressively effective against the disease, and less effective as it has evolved, this was foreseeable, the evolving immune evasion can be seen to be caused by the number of infections tolerated, which is a monstrous number, largely made possible by policies that incline a very high tolerance perhaps even unlimited infection numbers
¿ you lot all warmed up for your daily dose of good news you always wanted to hear ?
let’s begin
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7121e1.htm?s_cid=mm7121e1_w
SCIENCE said:
¿ you lot all warmed up for your daily dose of good news you always wanted to hear ?let’s begin
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7121e1.htm?s_cid=mm7121e1_w
read that properly later on, hope you’re not suggesting there’s something unhealthy about covid, something more than obvious immediate deaths related, your failing positivity finding expression in alarmism
SCIENCE said:
¿ you lot all warmed up for your daily dose of good news you always wanted to hear ?let’s begin
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7121e1.htm?s_cid=mm7121e1_w
read that properly, thankyou, master science
oho what’s this ahahaha let’s go time to Let It Rip® yeah woohoo
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-26/meningococcal-three-cases-detected-cairns-school/101101576
Not exactly panic stations yet but the Australian death rate does continue to climb, with over 1000 deaths just in the last month.
dv said:
Not exactly panic stations yet but the Australian death rate does continue to climb, with over 1000 deaths just in the last month.
FWIW here in Queensland, from the start of the pandemic until early January this year we had 7 deaths.
As of today it’s 1034. And I still get the occasional funny look when I (rarely) go out double-masked.
Spiny Norman said:
dv said:
Not exactly panic stations yet but the Australian death rate does continue to climb, with over 1000 deaths just in the last month.
FWIW here in Queensland, from the start of the pandemic until early January this year we had 7 deaths.
As of today it’s 1034. And I still get the occasional funny look when I (rarely) go out double-masked.
lady brings up fairly regularly recently, last three weeks or more, that she feels like the odd one, the contagious one, when doing shopping or whatever, as the number of people wearing masks declines, but for the moment we’re staying with it, i’m in the tenth week or so recovering from plague, not 100% yet, nearly though, haven’t enjoyed it much
whatever anyway, subject becoming enured of accepting casualties, WW3 could be just around the corner
transition said:
whatever anyway, subject becoming enured of accepting casualties, WW3 could be just around the corner
maybe but we have good news for you too
what do you do with a bunch of disaffected, impoverished, human bodies who have nothing left to lose by running to the front lines instead of staying at home hoping
SCIENCE said:
transition said:whatever anyway, subject becoming enured of accepting casualties, WW3 could be just around the corner
maybe but we have good news for you too
what do you do with a bunch of disaffected, impoverished, human bodies who have nothing left to lose by running to the front lines instead of staying at home hoping
They should get one of these new fancy Labour governments.
oh c’m‘on everyone knows it was the dogs
Most Effective Way To End The Pandemic
Don’t Worry, If You Save These Lives From COVID-19 They Will Be “Lost” Anyway
An Australian man believed to be assisting in the ongoing war effort against Russian forces has been killed in Ukraine.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-28/australian-dies-in-ukraine-michael-oneill/101107898
At least 15 people have died in torrential rains across southern China, according to state media reports.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-28/china-rains-torrential-15-dead-3-missing-fujian/101107966
Fake Oversaturated Light Teals Demand Increase In Plastic PPE Pollution
Greens health spokesperson, Dr Tim Read, today urged the state government to do more to reduce the rate of community transmission of COVID and influenza by launching a campaign to create a culture of wearing masks indoors and paying attention to air quality.
Dr Read called on the government to seek and publicise advice on what more should be done to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses and to fund a program encouraging the community to voluntarily adopt effective low impact measures, such as: A campaign promoting face masks indoors during winter
https://greens.org.au/vic/news/greens-call-mask-campaign-government-sleepwalks-towards-health-crisis
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.16.491922v3
possibility that infection by SARS-CoV-2 ORF1abVVVNASN variant might elicit an autoimmune T cell response via epitope mimicry and is associated with the outbreak of unknown hepatitis
Laugh Out Loud
but probably a repost
And today we move to position #16 on the Worldometer list.
A year ago we were down around #126. :(
Spiny Norman said:
And today we move to position #16 on the Worldometer list.
A year ago we were down around #126. :(
Which list? There are heaps and heaps of lists on Worldometer for various COVID stats.
Spiny Norman said:
And today we move to position #16 on the Worldometer list.
A year ago we were down around #126. :(
I’m not too worried about case numbers as we knew we would move towards endemism once we got highly vaccinated.
In deaths per capita we are at #144
dv said:
Spiny Norman said:
And today we move to position #16 on the Worldometer list.
A year ago we were down around #126. :(
I’m not too worried about case numbers as we knew we would move towards endemism once we got highly vaccinated.
In deaths per capita we are at #144
And remember case numbers are rubbery, and have been throughout the time of this pandemic. In the early stages (and actually, until quite recently) in Australia testing was by PCR and only if you had symptoms. This bug is apparently quite good at being asymptomatic, so we have pretty definitely had many more cases than have been “proven” on PCR or RAT. Then there is the dodginess of RATs. They are reasonably good if you have symptoms, but if you are only testing because you have to for work, you may come up positive when you are not. Admittedly it’s not a huge percentage, but it’s there. And I understand we are now just accepting into the stats any RAT result phoned in by the person who did it. So deaths per capita, because death is pretty solidly ascertainable, is the most reliable figure we have.
buffy said:
Spiny Norman said:
And today we move to position #16 on the Worldometer list.
A year ago we were down around #126. :(
Which list? There are heaps and heaps of lists on Worldometer for various COVID stats.
Spiny Norman said:
buffy said:
Spiny Norman said:
And today we move to position #16 on the Worldometer list.
A year ago we were down around #126. :(
Which list? There are heaps and heaps of lists on Worldometer for various COVID stats.
the slow massacre, in the name of liberty
Spiny Norman said:
buffy said:
Spiny Norman said:
And today we move to position #16 on the Worldometer list.
A year ago we were down around #126. :(
Which list? There are heaps and heaps of lists on Worldometer for various COVID stats.
Also, we are only a little way into it spreading here because we held it off, I wonder if other countries are still testing at the same level as we are. Much of Europe has moved on now, I think. I may be wrong on that.
And if you want to jump us up the league table, use the active cases column. We are number 12 on that one if you put it into greatest to least order.
transition said:
Spiny Norman said:
buffy said:Which list? There are heaps and heaps of lists on Worldometer for various COVID stats.
the slow massacre, in the name of liberty
if covid were sort of equated with firearm prevalence, granted an analogy of limited usefulness maybe, but if it were for a moment, the comparison of course doesn’t lend to normalizing endemic covid (cough inappropriately applied term), anyway what a fortunate thing there are worse things happening in the world, like real massacres involving guns
This is interesting. I thought I’d have a look at the Australian Provisional Mortality Statistics for this year. Two months are now out. But they have changed the baseline because 2020 had less than expected deaths. So it’s not really the same as has been previously reported for years and years. We could just be catching up on the lower numbers in 2020.
>>Throughout this report, counts of deaths are compared to an average number of deaths for previous years. In this report, data for 2021 is compared to an average number of deaths recorded over the 5 years from 2015-2019 as was the case in previous publications. Data for 2022 is compared to a baseline comprising the years 2017-2019 and 2021. 2020 is not included in the baseline for 2022 data because it included periods where numbers of deaths were significantly lower than expected. Counts of deaths for 2015-2021 are included in the baseline datacubes of the data downloads section of this report. <<
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/jan-feb-2022#articles
And here is the article particular to COVID19.
https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/measuring-australias-excess-mortality-during-covid-19-pandemic-doctor-certified-deaths
Spiny Norman said:
Actually, that’s quite good. And I haven’t said that in a long time.
A pity that Australia and New Zealand are still seventh and fourth worst in the world for deaths among countries with > 1,000,000 people.
mollwollfumble said:
Spiny Norman said:
Actually, that’s quite good. And I haven’t said that in a long time.
A pity that Australia and New Zealand are still seventh and fourth worst in the world for deaths among countries with > 1,000,000 people.
so vaccination wasn’t necessary or even important after all
SCIENCE said:
mollwollfumble said:
Spiny Norman said:
Actually, that’s quite good. And I haven’t said that in a long time.
A pity that Australia and New Zealand are still seventh and fourth worst in the world for deaths among countries with > 1,000,000 people.
so vaccination wasn’t necessary or even important after all
Minimise the symptoms possibly
SCIENCE said:
mollwollfumble said:
Spiny Norman said:
Actually, that’s quite good. And I haven’t said that in a long time.
A pity that Australia and New Zealand are still seventh and fourth worst in the world for deaths among countries with > 1,000,000 people.
so vaccination wasn’t necessary or even important after all
Lousy vaccines. Not even one of the available vaccines was a killed virus vaccine. Or a weakened live virus vaccine.
I think I know why. To stop the vaccine showing up as a false positive on antigen testing.
They considered it was OK to be killed by the virus so long as there were no false positives on the tests.
All five of the last seasons flu vaccines were killed virus vaccines. But there are no flu tests, so they didn’t have to worry about false positives on flu tests.
I really wonder what the curves would have looked like if there were no vaccines.
Direct comparison of Covid deaths (not scaled by population) for Australia, NZ, and China.
I wonder how useful the RAT tests are
I felt quite unwell for three days before the RAT test returned a positive.
Cymek said:
I wonder how useful the RAT tests are
politically or medically
SCIENCE said:
Cymek said:
I wonder how useful the RAT tests are
politically or medically
Medically
mollwollfumble said:
SCIENCE said:mollwollfumble said:
Actually, that’s quite good. And I haven’t said that in a long time.
A pity that Australia and New Zealand are still seventh and fourth worst in the world for deaths among countries with > 1,000,000 people.
so vaccination wasn’t necessary or even important after all
Lousy vaccines. Not even one of the available vaccines was a killed virus vaccine. Or a weakened live virus vaccine.
So?
mollwollfumble said:
A pity that Australia and New Zealand are still seventh and fourth worst in the world for deaths among countries with > 1,000,000 people.
Not sure why you think the million person cut off is so crucial but anyway…
In deaths per capita, Australia is #96, and NZ at #104, among nations with more than a million people, of which there are 158.
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:A pity that Australia and New Zealand are still seventh and fourth worst in the world for deaths among countries with > 1,000,000 people.
Not sure why you think the million person cut off is so crucial but anyway…
In deaths per capita, Australia is #96, and NZ at #104, among nations with more than a million people, of which there are 158.
‘…deaths per capita…’?
per capita
pər kăp′ĭ-tə
adverb & adjective
‘Per capita’ almost everyone gets just one death each. There’s a few statistical anomalies who get revived, but it’s generally 1 per head.
captain_spalding said:
There’s a few statistical anomalies who get revived,
that sibeen fucking up a perfect score.
dv said:
mollwollfumble said:A pity that Australia and New Zealand are still seventh and fourth worst in the world for deaths among countries with > 1,000,000 people.
Not sure why you think the million person cut off is so crucial but anyway…
In deaths per capita, Australia is #96, and NZ at #104, among nations with more than a million people, of which there are 158.
I presume moll was talking about new deaths, rather than totals.
Also when comparing deaths/capita I think it’s quite reasonable to exclude very small countries where most of the population lives within a small area.
Cymek said:
SCIENCE said:
Cymek said:
I wonder how useful the RAT tests are
politically or medically
Medically
20%
easy, this is simply because they cooked the books by removing cancer
COVID-19, The Cure For Cancer
SCIENCE said:
easy, this is simply because they cooked the books by removing cancer
COVID-19, The Cure For Cancer
Which country/city state is that? Where is the graph from?
au
SCIENCE said:
au
elsewhere
oh well at least it looks seasonal
SCIENCE said:
so being female, married, unmarried, childless, parasiteinfested, divorved, dead, zombie, as long as it’s Labor there are any number of reasons that shade should be thrown on an elected representative hey
actually we take that back we’ll throw the shade right now
LOL
US airlines are so desperate for pilots they are dropping some requirements and considering cutting training hours to get more pilots flying sooner
Regional carrier Republic Airways, which operates on behalf of Delta, American, and United, is trying to reduce its pilot training requirements. In April, the airline asked the Federal Aviation Administration for permission to hire pilots out of its training academy when they reach 750 flight hours instead of the 1,500 hours currently required for most pilots.
¡ well hey at least even if the risk of dying in an aeroplane crash goes up 1000 times, then flying will still be 10 times safer than snorting up a nice dose of SARS-CoV-2 virions !
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/wa/2022/06/01/wa-eases-covid-19-virus-vaccine-rules/
Endgame
SCIENCE said:
Endgame
in french or whatever, do I need learn french
Is this the most recent Covid thread?
Top countries for Covid deaths. Australian Covid is not getting significantly better in terms of number of deaths..
Taiwan and Portugal are both showing rapidly rising death rates. But are peaking in terms of number of new cases.
A caveat for this graph. Ireland and Finland have higher death rates but they’re not reporting reliably enough to plot. These are other countries above the USA. Many Caribbean Island nations are reporting Covid deaths and because of the low population these show up as spikes on a death per population scale.
Each week I feel like printing the following map and posting it at the local shopping centre.
Battle of the DW companions
