I’m praying, living in the USA that we just might have turned a corner for the better on this virus! It’s been rough since Jan 2020 as that’s when our family went on our own lockdown. Two weeks ago was the first time I bought take out food. Went to BK and bought a monster Bacon King and fries. Definitely a heart buster on calories but damm it was good.
I’m still really worried about variations of C-19 hitting us. I’m fully vaccinated with Moderna’s vaccine. Looks like I might be needing a booster 8-12 months from now. I still wear a mask if I go inside anyplace as I’m not trusting the CDC just yet! Better safe then sorry!
Yep if something isn’t done in India then I feel this could carry on.
India is a ripe breeding ground for variants and has so many contacts all around the world.
Not the only developing country in this position but surely the most worrying for the world.
Good for you because personally CDC’s advisory on mask wearing for vaccinated persons are reckless and populist. It just risk reversing all the good progress made on the vaccinations. Just wait a little longer until vast majority are vaccinated and for things to stabilize.
And unfortunately the variants will hit or should I say, you may not even know it has hit. But there is only so much we can do about the unknown, but we need to continue doing what we know. Get vaccinated, wear a mask, stay social distanced and wash your hands when necessary and follow the usual hygiene regime.
To be fair, the Michael Lewis books he cites in that thread is incredibly explicit that the problems with the US response go way beyond “the orange guy threw out the response plan.” That’s what makes it so fascinating. Coming on the back of his last book, The Fifth Risk, a book about how the Trump admin had gutted government and made incapable of doing anything, you’d think his “this is how we fucked up the pandemic” would be very Trumpcentric. It isn’t and in places makes it clear how much deeper the problems ran.
The total for this weekend is 276.023 jabs. For the first time, we had more than a million vaccinations in a week. This weeks goal will be 1.026.596. One of them will be for my wife.
Not really significant news in relation to the fight against the virus, but significant news perhaps for AZ’s share price. As I mentioned a couple of months ago, AZ are only locked into providing their vaccine at-cost to developed countries until the pandemic is declared over, at which point they will take profits from any vaccine sales. It looks like we’ve reached that point here in the UK. I would think they need to declare the pandemic over in each country to modify the vaccine prices for that country? I believe the agreement they signed with Oxford required them to provide the vaccine at-cost to the developing world in perpetuity though so it shouldn’t have any effect on the vaccine supply to poorer nations.
Well, he isn’t wrong, but is he really the right carrier for this message? It’s like a lecture on Middle East instability from Tony Blair or a presentation on Sportsmanship from Bruno Fernandez.
well, big things happening in Vancouver. our 6week lockdown has ended. restaurants are opening. we’re vaccinating 240,000/day right now and in 4-6 weeks we’ll be able to go watch movies and have private gatherings again. I f’ing pray that folks are responsible with their returns to freedoms that we have taken for granted. I’m actually a bit weepy hearing this good news, finally.
