Coronavirus. The n(in)th sequel.

[red_elk]

I'm of the mind that Cuba should be made into a transportation colony for people unfit for civil society. Big enough to support a population, close enough to be monitored so we don't get any of them floating back.

Cuba is too small, Japan would fit better.

 

[Samson]

Fox New's Tucker Carlson is telling people to commit felonies, by buying fake vaccine cards from scammers.



Spend hundreds of dollars on vaccine cards, that fail fairly frequently, and if they fail, land you in jail. Or get a free vaccine, just like Tucker Carlson, who is fully vaccinated, but doesn't want to tell his rube audience.

I was going to comment that sky pilots are doing it too, but as he also argued that slavery was good it is not so surprising.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I'm of the mind that Cuba should be made into a transportation colony for people unfit for civil society. Big enough to support a population, close enough to be monitored so we don't get any of them floating back.

Cuba is too small, Japan would fit better.

I'd say Australia, but Australia isn't real.

 

[sendos]

GOP Covid policy is killing GOP voters

Excluding the smallest counties also probably skews it away from Trump, given nearly all small counties are red.

Considering how close some US States are, this could legitimately cost them tight elections. Twice the margin that Biden won Georgia by, have died from COVID. A bit over Biden's margin in Arizona. If you use 2016, then twice how much Trump won Michigan by.

I love this stat so much. It is the cost of wilful ignorance and misinformation. The fewer these people, the better.

 

[Takhisis]

It appears that a lot of the new deaths we're adding now are in fact from around June. Between that and deaths recently loaded… from 2020! we have no real way of counting anything and really being able to follow the virus. I wonder what the real death toll is, in any case.

 

[Zardnaar]

It appears that a lot of the new deaths we're adding now are in fact from around June. Between that and deaths recently loaded… from 2020! we have no real way of counting anything and really being able to follow the virus. I wonder what the real death toll is, in any case.

Excess deaths viable or not counted?

 

[Takhisis]

Well, given my experience as a former census worker, I have to say: I don't know.

 

[Zardnaar]

20 cases today, 1 death (27 total).

 

[Drakle]

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1433854348346499087

Explore our model of excess deaths from covid-19, which finds that over 15m people have likely died from the virus — over 3x the official tallies from government agencies. Up to 12m have died in Asia alone, 11x the reported number.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates

15 million.

Asia's really bad excess deaths is skewed heavily largely by just India and Indonesia, and some of the Middle East. But that is still millions with a ratio on par or lower than other places. Asia is a super populated place.

Oceania actually has fewer excess deaths than normal, because of some of the lockdowns and travel measures.

If the US didn't have an existing very good healthcare system, it would be way worse.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Winning.

U.S. covid death toll hits 1,500 a day amid delta scourge
‘A perfect storm of viral changes and behavioral changes’ is driving pandemic’s fourth wave
Nationally, covid-19 deaths have climbed steadily in recent weeks, hitting a seven-day average of about 1,500 a day Thursday
“We are in a perfect storm of viral changes and behavioral changes,” agreed Lauren Ancel Meyers, director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
As of Thursday, the country has logged more than 640,000 deaths — and many experts believe we are not yet at the peak.

ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/03/delta-deaths-us-fourth-wave/

Its fine, the MAGAs have horse de-wormers

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, predicts that weekly deaths in each of the next four weeks will be between 9,900 and 11,900.

 

[Takhisis]

Best Korea has best ways of combatting the newfangled disease from nasty foreigners. Best way is to reject worst donations from interfering foreigners.
No, srsly!

Kim Jong-un rejects Covax vaccine offer as North Korea fights pandemic in ‘our style’
Unicef says country wants to send its UN-backed allotment of 3m Sinovac shots to other nations, with some experts believing it may want other vaccines

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered officials to wage a tougher epidemic prevention campaign in “our style” after he turned down some foreign Covid-19 vaccines offered via the UN-backed immunisation program.

During a Politburo meeting on Thursday, Kim said officials must “bear in mind that tightening epidemic prevention is the task of paramount importance which must not be loosened even a moment”, the official Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday.

Spoiler :

KCNA said Kim “called for fully providing material and technical means necessary for strengthening epidemic prevention, enhancing the professional qualifications and roles of the officials in the field of epidemic prevention and further rounding off our style epidemic prevention system.”

Kim previously called for North Koreans to brace for prolonged Covid-19 restrictions, indicating the nation’s borders would stay closed despite worsening economic and food conditions. Since the start of the pandemic, North Korea has used tough quarantines and border closures to prevent outbreaks, though its claim to be entirely virus-free is widely doubted.

On Tuesday, Unicef, which procures and delivers vaccines on behalf of the Covax distribution program, said North Korea proposed its allotment of about 3m Sinovac shots be sent to severely affected countries instead. North Korea was also slated to receive AstraZeneca shots through Covax, but their delivery has been delayed.

According to Unicef, North Korea’s health ministry still said it would continue to communicate with Covax over future vaccines.

Some experts believe North Korea may want other vaccines, while questioning the effectiveness of Sinovac and the rare blood clots seen in some recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The previously allocated 1.9m AstraZeneca doses would be enough to vaccinate 950,000 people – only about 7.3% of the North’s 26 million people – meaning North Korea would still need much more quantities of vaccine to inoculate its population.

Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Seoul’s Ewha Womans University, said North Korea was likely angling to receive more effective jabs from Covax and then strategically allocate them domestically.

“Pyongyang appears to have issues with Covax involving legal responsibility and distribution reporting requirements. So it might procure vaccines from China to deliver to border regions and soldiers while allocating Covax shots to less sensitive populations,” Easley said.

“The Kim regime likely wants the most safe and effective vaccine for the elite, but administering Pfizer would require upgraded cold-chain capability in Pyongyang and at least discreet discussions with the United States. The [Johnson & Johnson] option could also be useful to North Korea given that vaccine’s portability and one-shot regimen,” he said.

In a recent UN report on the North’s human rights situation, the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, asked North Korea to “take all necessary measures, including through international cooperation and assistance, to provide access to Covid-19 vaccines for all persons, without discrimination”.

He also asked North Korea to form a plan to enable diplomats and aid workers to return to the North and revive humanitarian aid distribution systems as soon as possible in conjunction with its Covid-19 vaccine rollout.

After their meeting in Seoul last month, Sung Kim, the top US diplomat on North Korea affairs, and his South Korean counterpart, Noh Kyu-duk, told reporters they discussed humanitarian cooperation with North Korea in providing anti-virus resources, sanitation and safe water.

I cannot tell whether this is about independence from China, fom the UN/US, or both.

 

[AmtrakQuebec]

Rocket Man probably thinks they will sneak in some drug to make his people realize he's insane.

 

[Zardnaar]

20 cases today, 801 from this outbreak 722 currently active.

 

[Takhisis]

Today there was a new ‘march of the stones’.

The first one happened only a few weeks ago. Relatives and friends of people who had died of Covid-19 engaged in a silent march one afternoon, during which they left stones with the names of their dead in front of the official government house downtown.

The very next night all the stones were mysteriously disappeared. During the predictable ensuing outrage, the ‘president’ claimed that the misgovernment had removed them to prepare to build a museum.
They still haven't reappeared.

So today people placed new stones.

I wonder what will happen.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Source

Libertarians are a meme ideology. Literally zero understanding of positive liberty, just a single-minded focus on negative liberty, and dying for it.

Yet another, totally stupid, probably preventable death. I feel for his family now having to go on without him. I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for him though.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Fox New's Tucker Carlson is telling people to commit felonies, by buying fake vaccine cards from scammers.



Spend hundreds of dollars on vaccine cards, that fail fairly frequently, and if they fail, land you in jail. Or get a free vaccine, just like Tucker Carlson, who is fully vaccinated, but doesn't want to tell his rube audience.

Maybe we need laws that encourage citizens to turn in friends or others who have fake vaccination cards and sue them for $10,000 plus court costs.

 

[Samson]

Masks really do work:

A huge randomized study offers evidence that wearing masks reduces the spread of COVID-19, and that surgical masks work even better than cloth ones. The ambitious study involved more than 340,000 people in 600 villages in Bangladesh. Villages and households were randomly assigned to receive free cloth or surgical masks and other mask-promotion strategies, or no interventions at all. Researchers observed the impact on people’s behaviour at hotspots such as tea stalls and markets. Participants were quizzed about any coronavirus symptoms, and symptomatic individuals were tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The interventions tripled the proportion of people who wore masks correctly. Overall, in the villages where the team distributed masks, symptomatic infections were 9.3% lower. Where surgical masks were given out, the results were even better: infections dropped by 11%. Older people benefited most: symptomatic COVID-19 in people over 60 went down by 35% in the villages using surgical masks.
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Writeup Paper

 

[AmtrakQuebec]

So, I was watching FAUX News this morning for shits and giggles and I see they are once again spreading misinformation about Ivermectin. They were ganging up on the "radical left media" for dismissing Ivermectin as a horse de-wormer, which it is. They were saying that it was a Nobel Prize winning drug that cured billions of people of parasites. Of course, that is not true. The Nobel Prize was won for Avermectin, not Ivermectin. Ivermection is a derivative of Avermectin but of course the idiots promoting it either don't realize there is a difference or are being deliberately obtuse.

 

[Samson]

So, I was watching FAUX News this morning for ****s and giggles and I see they are once again spreading misinformation about Ivermectin. They were ganging up on the "radical left media" for dismissing Ivermectin as a horse de-wormer, which it is. They were saying that it was a Nobel Prize winning drug that cured billions of people of parasites. Of course, that is not true. The Nobel Prize was won for Avermectin, not Ivermectin. Ivermection is a derivative of Avermectin but of course the idiots promoting it either don't realize there is a difference or are being deliberately obtuse.

First I will say do not go taking Ivermectin for covid, it is likely to do more harm than good.

However it has revolutionised both human and animal health in the third world, where parasitic nematodes are a significant drain on human health and the agricultural economy. Cell says:

Ivermectin is one of the most important drugs in veterinary and human medicine for the control of parasitic infection and was the joint focus of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, some 35 years after its remarkable discovery. Although best described for its activity on glutamate-gated chloride channels in parasitic nematodes, understanding of its mode of action remains incomplete.

From a fortuitous discovery on a Japanese golf course to a Nobel Prize, the impact of IVM on human health to date has been extraordinary. Notwithstanding the role of IVM in global food production, the Mectizan Donation Program has lifted the burden of onchocerciasis (river blindness) and, subsequently, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), from millions of people in the poorest countries in the world, and set a precedent for the role of public–private partnerships in global health.

In 1970, microbiologist Satoshi Ōmura collected a soil sample from woods close to a golf course in Kawana, on the south east coast of Honshu, Japan. Ōmura isolated and cultured a Gram-positive bacterium, sample NRRL 8165–a then unknown species of Streptomyces. NRRL 8165 cultures showed potent activity against Nematospiroides dubius infection in mice, and the active components were purified, revealing a family of macrocyclic lactones. These naturally occurring compounds were named the avermectins (and the bacterium, Streptomyces avermitilis) to reflect the worm-free ‘averminous’ conditions they produced.​

 

[AmtrakQuebec]

First I will say do not go taking Ivermectin for covid, it is likely to do more harm than good.

However it has revolutionised both human and animal health in the third world, where parasitic nematodes are a significant drain on human health and the agricultural economy. Cell says:

Ivermectin is one of the most important drugs in veterinary and human medicine for the control of parasitic infection and was the joint focus of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, some 35 years after its remarkable discovery. Although best described for its activity on glutamate-gated chloride channels in parasitic nematodes, understanding of its mode of action remains incomplete.

From a fortuitous discovery on a Japanese golf course to a Nobel Prize, the impact of IVM on human health to date has been extraordinary. Notwithstanding the role of IVM in global food production, the Mectizan Donation Program has lifted the burden of onchocerciasis (river blindness) and, subsequently, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), from millions of people in the poorest countries in the world, and set a precedent for the role of public–private partnerships in global health.

In 1970, microbiologist Satoshi Ōmura collected a soil sample from woods close to a golf course in Kawana, on the south east coast of Honshu, Japan. Ōmura isolated and cultured a Gram-positive bacterium, sample NRRL 8165–a then unknown species of Streptomyces. NRRL 8165 cultures showed potent activity against Nematospiroides dubius infection in mice, and the active components were purified, revealing a family of macrocyclic lactones. These naturally occurring compounds were named the avermectins (and the bacterium, Streptomyces avermitilis) to reflect the worm-free ‘averminous’ conditions they produced.​

Yes, I'm aware of all that. I guess I should have been clear that one of my main objections to the FOX report was the part about them saying it has cured billions of people of parasites... even in the document you linked it says Millions from Ivermectin, not Billions. The collection of all the Avermectin derivatives have cured more but even then, I doubt it has been billions.

I was probably being a little strict about the Avermectin vs Ivermectin part. Here is the original Nobel document from the Wayback Machine...

Wayback Machine (archive.org)