BF2S Forums Pandemic thread

Dilbert_X wrote:

Those people are all business executives and their trip was essential to the economy.

Last edited by uziq (2022-01-07 00:17:47)

uziq wrote:

the UK and EU medical regulators in charge of drug approval and medical practice are some of the most robust and respected in the world. as well as our medical journals and scientific records being world-leading, too, or at least on par with their american counterparts. so, yes, you didn't have to wait for national governments to make their political decisions. the medical-scientific community and regulatory bodies approved the treatments.

if anything, european leaders were at times over-cautious and given to bad briefing. macron notably spread a lot of fear and skepticism about the AZ vaccine when it was most needed. not too smart. ditto, south korea's government took an extra-cautious approach and waited for european nations to begin deploying their vaccine programmes and reporting back with data, which put them at the back of the queue internationally and seriously hampered their own vaccination drives when supplies were scarce.

DesertFox- wrote:

Coworker who sits next to me tested positive today. Having just spoken about how few people I know who caught it, this bastard ruins my metrics. I still feel fine, but am gonna be cautiously monitoring myself for symptoms.

A leading QAnon promoter who urged both her followers and strangers she passed on the street not to take the COVID vaccine died Thursday of the coronavirus, making her just the latest vaccine opponent killed by the disease.

Cirsten Weldon had amassed tens of thousands of followers across right-wing social media networks by promoting the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy under the screenname “CirstenW.” She was prominent enough to become a sort of QAnon interpreter for comedian conspiracy theorist Roseanne Barr and started recording videos about QAnon with her.

Weldon focused on attacking vaccines and other efforts to fight COVID-19, saying in one video that Dr. Anthony Fauci “needs to be hung from a rope.” She claimed the vaccine killed people and even recorded herself yelling at people standing in line to receive vaccines.

“The vaccines kill, don’t get it!” Weldon warned the waiting vaccine recipients in an undated video posted to one of her online accounts. “This is how gullible these idiots are. They’re all getting vaccine!”

In late December, however, Weldon started showing symptoms of coronavirus infection. In her last video, posted on Dec. 28, Weldon struggled through her remarks about the coming overthrow of the United States government, coughing and complaining that she was exhausted.

Three days later, Weldon was hospitalized in Camarillo, California. She posted a picture of herself wearing an oxygen mask to Instagram and claimed she had “bacterial pneumonia.” Weldon wrote in a post on the social media network Telegram that she refused to take coronavirus treatment remdesivir, calling it “Dr Fauci’s Resmedervir (sic).”

People in the QAnon community often talk about alienation from family and friends. ... Though they typically talk about how Q frayed their relationships on private Facebook groups. But they think these issues are temporary and primarily the fault of others. They often comfort themselves by imagining that there will be a moment of vindication sometime in the near future which will prove their beliefs right. They imagine that after this happens, not only will their relationships be restored, but people will turn to them as leaders who understand what's going on better than the rest of us.

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The Omicron variant could make Covid endemic in the UK, a senior government adviser has said.

Dr Mike Tildesley, from the University of Warwick and a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modelling group (Spi-M), told Times Radio that the latest mutation of the virus was more contagious but less severe than previous iterations.

“The thing that might happen in the future is you may see the emergence of a new variant that is less severe, and ultimately, in the long term, what happens is Covid becomes endemic and you have a less severe version. It’s very similar to the common cold that we’ve lived with for many years,” he said.

“We’re not quite there yet but possibly Omicron is the first ray of light there that suggests that may happen in the longer term. It is, of course, much more transmissible than Delta was, which is concerning, but much less severe.

“Hopefully, as we move more towards the spring and we see the back of Omicron, we can get more inter-relationship of living with Covid as an endemic disease and protecting the vulnerable.

“Any variant that does emerge which is less severe, ultimately, in the longer term, is where we want to be.”

Last edited by uziq (2022-01-08 03:32:34)

SuperJail Warden wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

fairly candid, but with school name omitted:

I Am a New York City Public High School Student. The Situation is Beyond Control.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/r … l_student/

interesting replies in comments.

another comment elsewhere in social media where this post was mirrored:

The most likely outcome of this post is that the school board will try to identify this student and punish them.

lol

Things are like that all over. NYC union doesn't have the balls of Chicago to call for a strike. The new mayor of NYC doesn't want to shut down schools a week into his term.

NYC doesn't have an elected school board. The board and "Chancellor" are appointed by the mayor. I don't like such a system. Conflict of interest.