My first jab was bad and my second had pretty much no side-effect. Its difficult to know how an individual’s body will react.
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I’m fearing that we might have a very nasty riot/disturbances due to the lockdown.
It’s perfectly all right to punish/fine someone for breaching the protocol. But using it to extracting bribe/ransom by police is really disgusting (but not at all unexpected though). Also, what’s the fucking rule? You clearly mention about essential services (medicine, food etc.) not included in the lockdown, then you collect booty from those businesses.
We are really hopeless.
Well the latest NHS surveillance report is showing a drop in cases across all age groups, with case positivity reduced in all age groups over 29, with the same steady incline under 29:
National flu and COVID-19 surveillance reports: 2021 to 2022 season - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
So maybe we really are over the hump?
The data looks promising, but they are also really difficult to interpret meaningfully in isolation.
The original wild type version of this virus has an R0 of somewhere around 5 in normal circumstances, but with public health measures we got that down repeatedly to under 1. Delta is though to be as high as 10. So basically what we know is that despite it being highly contagious, we also have PH measures that are very effective at reducing transmission. Therefore, I wouldn’t put too much faith in the case number data without also knowing what sort of behaviors were occurring in the community at the time. In my experience, those behaviors are often at odds with the official public health guidance (e.g. we remove mask mandates and large %s of the population thinks “fuck that” and chooses to stay at home more than they were).
Weird if true imo
You’d just get fried by her flaming ire, same as me.
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BBC News - No Covid traces found in railway stations or trains
I find this astonishing…but then again nothing about this pandemic should surprise me any more…
To me this is one of the more surprising developments. Very early on, before it really hit the west, we knew it was unusually contagious for a virus of its type. A clear explanation for why was provided by in initial non-clinical studies that demonstrated it had unusually long viability on surfaces. Directives to not touch your face, wash your hands regularly and a global rush on hand sanitizer all commenced. And it turns out its had very little to do with how the bastard is actually transmitted.
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Isn’t the moral of the story that TfLs sanitisation and cleaning regime has done really well, rather than Covid doesn’t linger on surfaces?
Possibly, but it also doesn’t change that fomite transmission has been demonstrated to be surprisingly unimportant. The continued focus on this aspect of risk mitigation is well meaning, but in lots of cases actually counter productive as it lowers peoples inhibitions to entering environments where the virus is circulating because they have observed that their table has been sanitized.
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Hmmm 
Testing numbers are also down along with infection numbers. I cant decide if its less tests means less infections or less infections means less tests.
I’m also extremely uncertain about this as well.
Florida is hitting peak records for new cases, and is responsible for approx 20% of all US cases right now, yet testing looks way down and anecdotally it’s pretty difficult to get a test. The wait at county run sites are 4-5 hours long, and people are reporting a 3 day wait list at the commercial sites.
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I mean, it’s all relative.
The number of people detected as having covid has steadily been coming down and at a rate faster than the drop in numbers being tested. That plateauing and subsequent drop does align with the fact that the numbers of daily deaths has not risen rapidly nor has the number of hospitalisations. Both are either tailing off (rate of increase of daily deaths) or has already tailed off (numbers in hospital).
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We have followed restrictions, patiently stood 1-2 meters apart, had little social contact and worn masks when we have traveled far. However, my region has been blessed with only microscopic outbreaks. One person who had traveled here and there, a couple at other times. It always got struck down fast with no actual real outbreak. So in general it has been nothing (forgive me @cynicaloldgit , as I ask for an exception to the rule just this once). It’s been a damn while since the epidemic first came to Norway now, perhaps and maybe probably, people are tiring of mentally taxing precautions (because it is mentally taxing to not go out with friends, to have very limited social contact etc.). And now of course, the more contagious Delta variant is dominant.
And so it happened that we’ve had a very serious outbreak in Volda/Ørsta now for nigh a week. Volda is a University College town (micro, micro Oxford) and Ørsta is another town just 10 km drive on the other side of the mountain basically.
It’s actually quite bad, Restrictions have been enacted now.
It all started on My Kitchen in Volda, a chinese resturant that also works as a bar on evenings. Students have come to Volda again, summer is almost over after all, and there were partying and dancing and people were much too close.
As of today, since the outbreak, in total 133 have been infected. Today, 10 known cases as far as I know.
My Kitchen has been reported to the police and they will be pressing charges. Makes me sad, they were careless and probably they should be fined; but I LIKE that chinese resturant and bar and desperately want it to survive. It is a cozy place to have a beer. I am more than a bit worried that they will be bankrupted now, business has been hard for quite some time after all. Even so, for reasons of deterrence it is important that they get some sort of punishment I suppose. I have seen a video from the student’s dancing there and it was…as if it was before the pandemic with drunk youngsters, dancing on tables and such, shouting and screaming while they played disco music. Truly unfortunate.
In any case, many of the student’s got infected, and from there the infection spiraled to what is in total now 133. The outbreak came at the worst possible time, as the health sector in the municipality is mostly on holyday so testing capacity, all of that, way down from normal (Volda also has a hospital, but capacity there is down during late July/early august). Doctors from different municipalities are helping out now as far as I understand.
Anyway, it will run it’s course, people will probably be fine. Most of those infected are young, however as far as I understand it, some of them have been quite sick indeed. But I don’t think anyone have been actually hospitalised (though admittedly, this is still early and thus that can of course happen that people get sicker I suppose, or worse, some vaccinated elderly person get it).
Here is a super short story from 3 days ago. Since then, a lot of stuff have happened but I think I covered that in my post:
In anyway, that’s it from me and my report from the fjord-landscape in the west of Norway.
Ps. In an ironic twist, this basically happened a couple of days before I got my first vaccine shot (so I was careful when I traveled to Volda and got my own shot). Note therefore that the youngest age group with no preconditions or underlying diseases (18+39) only now are getting vaccinated, so the students then were mostly unvaccinated of course. So far, I don’t think it has spread to anyone who is to be considered to be “weak”, so no one will probably and hopefully die.
Volda municipality reports the nightclub My kitchen after corona outbreak - NRK Møre og Romsdal - Local news, TV and radio - World Today News?cf_chl_jschl_tk=pmd_ead93f58a6eba1ca0f30aef320cadc2fe1034c8f-1627925983-0-gqNtZGzNAqKjcnBszQiO
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Over to something a lot more light-hearted. Mr. Lordy and former Eurovision winner, Tomi Petteri Putaansuu, got vaccinated today with his second dose in…costume 
Completely unimportant of course, but kind of amusing:
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