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  1. I'll answer a few. 1) Actually, the Moderna vaccine is pretty good. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/06/30/1011684609/moderna-says-studies-show-its-vaccine-is-effective-against-the-delta-variant 2) You kinda answered yourself here later in your post. It has to do with the more infectious variants. That will likely mean we will need a higher percentage vaccinated if herd immunity is possible. Getting vaccinated is the only moral way forward. Sadly, far to many hesitant and anti-vaxx morons going around like there isn't anything going on. 3) The jabs were initially approved for less than 30 days between doses. Places like Canada pushed the envelope due to supply issues and attempting to get as many people partially vaccinated to give some protection. As supply has gotten better, and the percentage of partially and fully vaccinated increased, the need for larger gaps between doses has passed. Now, it is about getting past the line with regards to fully vaccinated.
  2. Or illegal immigrants... Wait, they already are. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/06/ron-desantis/ron-desantis-effort-blame-covid-19-spread-migrants/
  3. Well, when you see reports like this, it seems that the FREEDUMB line places like Texas, Florida, Arkansas...I wonder what the reason could be???? https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/10/coronavirus-texas-hospitals-icu-beds/ Dozens of Texas hospitals are out of ICU beds as COVID-19 cases again overwhelm the state's capacity "This surge is by far the fastest and most aggressive that we've seen," said the health authority for Austin and Travis County, who urged eligible Texans to get vaccinated.
  4. Seems like some people didn't do their research. https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgqjz/anti-vaxxers-attempt-to-storm-bbc-but-target-building-bbc-moved-out-of-in-2013 Anti-Vaxxers Tried to Storm the BBC. They Got the Wrong Building. Anti-vaccine passport protesters tried to gain access to a building that the BBC left in 2013, and now mainly houses luxury flats and light entertainment TV studios.
  5. When the Pfizer vaccine gets full FDA approval soon (by Labour Day by some accounts) and the Moderna vaccine gets full approval later this year, will Chuck then stop calling them "experimental" or will Chuck come up with some other excuse? Just asking.
  6. Technically Chuck wins on a technicality. Technically. So, in less than a month your "Experimental" argument dies. Never mind the fact that Pfizer Phase 3 participants received their first jabs last year. Never mind the fact that millions of people who received their first jabs in December of last year have been fully vaccinated for going on 6 months. Tell us when thus dangerous long-term side effects are supposed to show themselves. The data says otherwise.
  7. OPERATION WARP SPEED (one thing I give TRUMP credit for and I'm a big TRUMP critic) PLUS DECADES OF RESEARCH INTO mRNA and mRNA VACCINES PRIOR TO 2020 That is why it happened so "quick" Answered multiple times in this thread (see previous page of this thread).
  8. Yet, another example where you can enjoy the art, but also understand that the artist is a person who can be just as much of a POS as un normies can be. I mean, I'll occasionally listen to the few Ted Nugent songs that I find OK even though that guy is a crazy moron.
  9. Seen this comment in a Reddit thread. Copy pasta Let's talk about the risk of Long Covid/Post Covid/PASC 18.95% of asymptomatic people with COVID will have long COVID Source link 30% of people diagnosed with symptomatic COVID will have long COVID Source link 49.98% of people hospitalized with COVID will get long COVID. Source link The CDC recently had a study where they compared people recovering from COVID to those recovering from cancer. Those after cancer were much better off: Source link Metric COVID Cancer Poor general health 32.9% 25.4% Poor physical health 32.9% 25.4% Pain level >= 7 40.4% 24.8% Poor mental health impact 19.1% 15.3% Applied cognition difficulty 42.2% 41.2% Difficulty Navigating stairs 40.2% 18.3% Difficulty Walking 15 minutes 38.2% 25.2% And that's just a small snipped of the problems. There are also a lot of health conditions that you are higher risk for like: 13-41% of permanent cardiac injury among COVID hospitalized patients 10x more likely to get blood clots from a COVID infection Oxford Study link , Report summary link 33.62% of people will develop mental health problems within 6 months of a COVID infection. Source link 28% of men diagnosed with COVID develop erectile disfunction. Source link Younger people are also at higher risk for multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) Source link Long COVID has also been found to impact young people more. The CDC shows that asymptomatic young people are more likely to have lingering health problems. Source link
  10. https://deadline.com/2021/08/markie-post-dead-night-court-actress-was-70-1234811055/ Markie Post Dies: Actress Known For ‘Night Court’, ‘The Fall Guy’ & More Was 70 JMA/STAR MAX/IPx/AP Images Markie Post, the actress known for turns in Night Court, The Fall Guy, Hearts Afire and more, died on Saturday, following a three year, ten month battle with cancer. She was 70. Post’s manager, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, confirmed her passing to Deadline. Born on November 4, 1950 in Palo Alto, California, Post got her start in entertainment by working behind the scenes on game shows, including Split Second, earning an associate producer credit on Alex Trebek’s Double Dare, and appearing before the camera as a card dealer on NBC’s Card Sharks. Her first acting credits came in 1979, with appearances on episodes of CHiPs, Barnaby Jones, The Incredible Hulk, The Lazarus Syndrome, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Hart to Hart. She’d later appear in series such as The Love Boat, Cheers, Fantasy Island and The A-Team, before landing the role of bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in ABC’s The Fall Guy. She appeared in 65 episodes of that action drama between 1982 and 1985. Post was also a series regular on NBC’s Night Court, portraying public defender Christine Sullivan for 159 episodes between 1985 and 1992. She also drew notice with her turn as Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman in Hearts Afire, the CBS sitcom, in which she starred opposite John Ritter. Later in her career, Post recurred on Scrubs, as the mother of Dr. Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke), in addition to Chicago P.D. and other series, portraying herself in a 2008 episode of 30 Rock. On the film side, Post was perhaps best known for playing the mother of Cameron Diaz’s Mary in Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s classic 1998 comedy, There’s Something About Mary. Post was determined to keep pursuing acting as “a side job”, even as she got sick. Between chemo treatments, she worked on projects such as Lifetime Christmas movie Four Christmases and a Wedding and ABC series The Kids Are Alright. “But for us, our pride is in who she was in addition to acting; a person who made elaborate cakes for friends, sewed curtains for first apartments and showed us how to be kind, loving and forgiving in an often harsh world,” her family said in a statement. Post is survived by her husband, writer Michael A. Ross; daughters, actress Kate Armstrong Ross and Daisy Schoenborn; son-in-law Bryce Schoenborn and her and Michael’s five-month-old granddaughter. Plans for a memorial are being made, though specific details as to a time and place have not yet been disclosed.
  11. Here is an article on mRNA vaccines from 2018. Just to illustrate that these mRNA Covid vaccines didn't just come out of nowhere. If you think they did, please stop. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243 mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology
  12. To illustrate why the vaccines were in arms so quickly. Also, at every step there is red tape from both the government and the corporations. That was reduced/eliminated. Also, they had no trouble getting tens of thousands of volunteers for the phased trials along with large numbers of locations to conduct the trials. Again, something that takes time under normal conditions. Finally, there was an extremely high likelihood of people being exposed to the virus during the trials. A number of placebo recipients in thr Moderna trials died of Covid-19. This is something that is difficult, if not impossible to achieve under normal conditions. All of this led to the quickness of getting jabs in arms. I will add that mRNA treatments/vaccines were inevitable in the next couple years. Covid-19 just so happened to come along when the final hurdles were being crossed.
  13. What a useless thread. This was debated ad nauseum in the Canadian Politics/Liberals win Minority Government thread. Like thoroughly.
  14. So a case fatality rate of 1.17% here in BC and a hospitalization rate of 5.4%. Then, there is the fact that a significant percentage of survivors experience long-covid. Nope, the vaccines are more dangerous and a bigger problem. /s
  15. You will soon be: All kidding aside, been over a month since my second Pfizer jab.
  16. This again. The Delta appeared BEFORE mass-vaccination was a thing. FACT. You are comparing pineapples to apples. Two totally different things.
  17. Too bad some people don't know their history and science. Public health initiatives work, but they only work if you are willing to go all in. https://www.pnas.org/content/104/18/7582?fbclid=IwAR2eM-8P8U7jGT1-iDDOB2aWx-b3e26qBZsgLhMUVYPAoopOFu3_dR5-oLw Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic Abstract Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) intended to reduce infectious contacts between persons form an integral part of plans to mitigate the impact of the next influenza pandemic. Although the potential benefits of NPIs are supported by mathematical models, the historical evidence for the impact of such interventions in past pandemics has not been systematically examined. We obtained data on the timing of 19 classes of NPI in 17 U.S. cities during the 1918 pandemic and tested the hypothesis that early implementation of multiple interventions was associated with reduced disease transmission. Consistent with this hypothesis, cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic had peak death rates ≈50% lower than those that did not and had less-steep epidemic curves. Cities in which multiple interventions were implemented at an early phase of the epidemic also showed a trend toward lower cumulative excess mortality, but the difference was smaller (≈20%) and less statistically significant than that for peak death rates. This finding was not unexpected, given that few cities maintained NPIs longer than 6 weeks in 1918. Early implementation of certain interventions, including closure of schools, churches, and theaters, was associated with lower peak death rates, but no single intervention showed an association with improved aggregate outcomes for the 1918 phase of the pandemic. These findings support the hypothesis that rapid implementation of multiple NPIs can significantly reduce influenza transmission, but that viral spread will be renewed upon relaxation of such measures.
  18. Moderna initially applied in June, but they have been adding data to their application since then. https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-08-05-21/h_510e0307e27f324c710b734b28a60668 Moderna expects to complete submission for FDA full approval this month
  19. In BC current data has that number of fully vaccinated at about 5% and those cases were ELDERLY. Single dose cases were running at about 18% and median age was 62. The remainder were UNVACCINATED. The two groups are not the same. NOT EVEN CLOSE.
  20. This type of reasoning pisses me off. It assumes that this virus is no big deal. All data and the thousands of deaths/hospitalizations say otherwise.
  21. yup, but even simple math comparing the case fatality rate for Covid and giving every single possible death associated to the vaccines put the vaccine death rate orders of magnitude safer than the virus. It isn't even close.
  22. All current data is that the majority of hospitalizations and deaths are from unvaccinated people. Also, your "choice" doesn't just affect you. I would love for refusers to then be on the hook for any Covid related healthcare costs going forward. Both you and anyone your potentially infect. There are plenty of stories that can be posted of people who made your choice, got Covid, and regretted their choice.
  23. Well, full FDA approval for the Pfizer vaccine is coming soon. They applied in May and 6 months will be in November. I've seen reports that it may happen by Labour Day. More than enough time to review the data. https://time.com/6087556/fda-pfizer-vaccine-approval/ FDA Accelerates Full Approval of Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine as Delta Variant Surges
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