Zardnaar
Deity
Spot the difference.
Lockdown levels changing.
The boss.
Lockdown levels changing.
The boss.
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Coronavirus. The n(in)th sequel.
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One might hope the "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" may help us here. Seeing these big numbers on charts can be abstracted and not considered as something that affects an individual, if they really want to. One person that people have developed a parasocial relationship with could bring it home in a new way. Possibly, perhaps, for some people.
That is a kakapo doing lockdown? Cool.
Zardnaar
Deity
Yeah it's a kakapo My second favorite NZ bird.
Zardnaar
Deity
49 cases today down from 53 yesterday second day of declining numbers.
2 weeks if lockdown tomorrow. My area dropping to level 3. Only Auckland in level 4 for two more weeks maybe Northland but not for much longer.
2 weeks if lockdown tomorrow. My area dropping to level 3. Only Auckland in level 4 for two more weeks maybe Northland but not for much longer.
Next variant? C.1.2 increased from 0.2 percent of South African sequences to 2 percent last month
South African scientists have detected a new coronavirus variant with multiple mutations but are yet to establish whether it is more contagious or able to overcome the immunity provided by vaccines or prior infection, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has said.
While the majority of South Africa’s coronavirus cases are currently caused by the Delta variant – first detected in India – C.1.2 caught scientists’ attention because its mutation is almost twice as fast as observed in other global variants.
So far C.1.2 has been detected in all nine provinces of South Africa, as well as in other parts of the world including China, Mauritius, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
It is however not frequent enough to qualify as a “variant of interest” or a “variant of concern” such as the highly transmissible Delta and Beta variants, which emerged in South Africa late last year.
While the majority of South Africa’s coronavirus cases are currently caused by the Delta variant – first detected in India – C.1.2 caught scientists’ attention because its mutation is almost twice as fast as observed in other global variants.
So far C.1.2 has been detected in all nine provinces of South Africa, as well as in other parts of the world including China, Mauritius, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
It is however not frequent enough to qualify as a “variant of interest” or a “variant of concern” such as the highly transmissible Delta and Beta variants, which emerged in South Africa late last year.
EnglishEdward
Deity
I don't disagree with Joe Stalin on that.
I have only met one person I know of who has died of Covid-19, a friend of the wife.
Anyway now that the joyous counting Gold medals at the main Olympics has finished,
I am back to my morbid persona of comparing Covid death statistics again.
COVID Live Update: 217,989,863 Cases and 4,525,235 Deaths from the Coronavirus - Worldometer (worldometers.info)
I see that Indonesia has scored a six score lead over the UK.
7. Indonesia 132,491
8. UK 132,485
Am currently wondering if Russia will overtake Peru, and Argentina will overtake France.
We added another two hundred dead today and the government is trying to give subsidised plane tickets to foreign tourists (never mind actual Argentines stuck outside because of the misgovernment denying them entry) and incentivising mingling to alleviate the social mood before next week's elections.
So I'd say this country can catch up with France.
So I'd say this country can catch up with France.
Snerk
Smeghead
Well I had kind of a sore throat today. Goodbye cruel world. Getting my second shot friday. (if I make it til then)
stfoskey12
Emperor of Foskania
Hospitals are overflowing in Oklahoma and we have no restrictions. A few private businesses have a mask mandate, and that's it.
EnglishEdward
Deity
I thought that in Oklahoma everyone could sit in the middle of their own wheat field.
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
I missed the Japan thing; fewer ICU units per capita than much of the developed world. It doesn’t take much of a spike to fill the hospitals.
75% of the country is under a state of emergency. Now each time it is declared, it gets a little flimsier in how they implement it—malls and restaurants close at 8:00, and no alcohol sales for bars and restaurants (though this is being flouted.)
Now that some 80%+ of seniors have been 2x vaccinated, they’re not filling the hospital wards like last year. Instead, we have more infections of younger people and while they are statistically less likely to need critical care, there are more of them now and thus—hospitals are full again.
Actually over the weekend there was a hip-hop music festival outside of Nagoya that violated the emergency guidelines, allowing in over 5,000 people and selling alcohol. Also, schools will re-open if they aren’t already... remember that school buildings here are small and crowded.
Things could change with the elections, though? Who knows, it’s all up in the air. The poor choice of wording there, I only noticed it after...
75% of the country is under a state of emergency. Now each time it is declared, it gets a little flimsier in how they implement it—malls and restaurants close at 8:00, and no alcohol sales for bars and restaurants (though this is being flouted.)
Now that some 80%+ of seniors have been 2x vaccinated, they’re not filling the hospital wards like last year. Instead, we have more infections of younger people and while they are statistically less likely to need critical care, there are more of them now and thus—hospitals are full again.
Actually over the weekend there was a hip-hop music festival outside of Nagoya that violated the emergency guidelines, allowing in over 5,000 people and selling alcohol. Also, schools will re-open if they aren’t already... remember that school buildings here are small and crowded.
Things could change with the elections, though? Who knows, it’s all up in the air. The poor choice of wording there, I only noticed it after...
FTFY
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
Our long lockdown isnt working, as people are flaunting the rules, including people that have tested positive and been told to isolate themselves
Now its pretty much a race to get vaccination numbers up high enough.
These people seem dumb even from the perspective of not respecting lockdowns. Why bother wasting your time with testing if you're going to go out in public regardless of the results? Better off not bothering with testing and just claiming that you don't have symptoms and weren't in close contact with any positive cases.
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
I suggest visiting the vet instead of a hospital
Once your on a ventilator and in a coma the chances of survival are very small
Once your on a ventilator and in a coma the chances of survival are very small
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Libertarians are a meme ideology. Literally zero understanding of positive liberty, just a single-minded focus on negative liberty, and dying for it.
I see it as puberal behavior
Never really grown up to adults
sendos
Immortal
Oh no. New COVID-19 variant of concern just discovered in Colombia, called the "mu" variant.
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...=push&utm_campaign=2021-09-01-New-coronavirus
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...=push&utm_campaign=2021-09-01-New-coronavirus
amadeus
Bishop of Bio-Dome
There isn’t anything inherent in libertarianism itself that would be anti-vaccination; I would say rational self-interest dictates that anyone eligible for a vaccine should get one. It would also be in the rational self-interest of civilized society (its members, not a collective) to simple exclude these people from participating in it—no shopping, dining, movie theaters, employment, whatever.
Unfortunately, the squeaky wheels of ignorance have been getting the grease.
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