SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Most large businesses (like mine) already require vaccinations, so the 100+ club…in addition to just being a number that dot.gov simply pulled out of their colon because of base 10 math, is not really as much contested ground….and there are probably going to be options to test out….claim religious exemptions…

In other word…..not really a mandate at all.
Ops normal for dot.gov.
Science is science.
Math is math.

The vaccine is either effective or it’s not.
Using the President’s OWN numbers, there is a 1:1000 chance for you getting a breakout case and a 1:5000 that the case will require treatment in a hospital for a disease that has something like a 1:1,000,000 death rate for the people that avail themselves of the free vaccines.

Veeeery strange territory to alienate some of his base (real progressives) by forcing medication with a not-a-mandate that virtually guarantees court challenges, and full employment for lawyers.
Using the same logic, I suppose that privately owned cars should be banned because they represent a “great danger to society” as defined by the current administrations interpretation of Jacobson. Alcohol too, and let’s not forget mentholated tobacco products.

 

lots of laws only apply to businesses over a certain amount of employees. i have not seen it challenged constitutionally, but it may have been

 

They can always choose a weekly test … with the long swab.

Bob Wilson

 

LOL!! Ouch!
The NFL has decided now on weekly tests for those fully vaccinated and daily tests for the unvaccinated. They didn't say which kind of test.
NFL, NFLPA agree to COVID-19 protocols for regular season 

 

There's another story of the mRNA vaccine discovery here.

As the article mentions, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman should get the Nobel prize. Both mRNA vaccines are based off of their research. (Pfizer hired Karikó later).

 

JHU's graphs today are less optimistic, still showing the current peak in upswing mode:

I think that word normally displays here as "nice person", which doesn't fit well for viruses.

 

Try Punka$$.

@ peak/past peak....holiday weekends and back to school activities mess with testing.

Meanwhile....Fall.
LOTS of American Rules Tackle (i.e. REAL!) football.
LOTS of pearl clutching and mass spreader event prophecies.

NOT a lot of face diapers or little white cards here...
I think they're over it....

 

From watching worldometer's Florida graphs over the past month, I have become a bit suspicious of its recent data, and now regret not keeping copies of it (and JHU too) at regular intervals to see how figures for any given date may be changed or updated.

I know how some CDC figures work. They are partial results initially, filling in as more jurisdictions file reports. Numbers for any given week or month start low and keep rising, rapidly at first, then slowing down after some weeks, asymptotically reaching a stable figure. "The speed of bureaucracy." Maybe some of that is now showing in worldometers figures too?

 

If you write something on PriusChat that gets rendered as "punk-nice person", regular PriusChat readers will generally recognize what you wrote.

 

Play stupid games.
Win stupid prizes....

What they should do in the US....instead of letting the serum expire on the shelves - or attempt a zany 'not-a-mandate' that's seemingly designed to further entrench the vax-reluctant would be to (1) vaccinate all of the catch-and-release residents as a condition for entry and (2) start a rapid exportation of the surplus juice to under-served nations with a surplus of 'zero shot' residents.

We even have a bunch of USAF C-17 Globemaster III's that are sitting round waiting for something to do now that we're finished with them in the Stans.....

Or?
We could sit around and berate each other while waiting for the X, , and flavors of the month to be imported......

Meanwhile.....depending on which "expert" you listen to (meaning: depending on your political motivations) we're either pre-peak, at peak, or post peak.....with the raw numbers leaning towards 'pre' - as expected, given the politics of the bug, and population densities.

If we follow where Δ started and imagine how it will spread, this seems likely. Δ kicked off in the SE, but will probably mimic its antecedents in spreading patterns and them folks in the NE, left coast, and flyover country will get in on the fun.
In in a non-abby world we could glean valuable data from these trends.......

 

i think if you look at the states with decent vax numbers and masking policies, the strategy is clearly working to keep hospitalizations and deaths down, which may be the best we can hope for.

i agree with who on this one (amazingly)
drop the booster zanyness for healthy people and get as many shots as possible in arms around the world

and focus on mask production for americans

 

international-review-argues-against-covid-19-vaccine-boosters

 

In a sane world each vaccine given would be to maximize the incremental world benefit (fewer infections, fewer hospitalizations, fewer deaths, etc.)
But instead we are going at warp speed sideways.

Mike

 

Interestingly enough.....THIS came from government funded radio....
A N.Y. Hospital Won't Deliver Babies After Workers Quit Over Vaccine Mandate : NPR

"My Body, My Choice....My FOOT!"