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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36604 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Can't be much good as Yale has to keep on releasing statements distancing the uni from statements made by said doctor of B.S.. |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Academic Institutions Playing dA 'WOKE' Game. aka Distancing Themselves from All Reason; Logic; Truth; and da REAL Scientific Method. Yah May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
We've know for a while that Russia's Sputnik V is a poor performer (as well as China's efforts), but now there's another twist to it that has lead to it being banned. :-O Let us suppose that "millions" is exactly 1 million. With a population of 330 million and assuming that neither the vaccinated nor the observers are in any way special, this would mean for each of us in the US on average 1 out of 330 people we know have died in the last 9 months or so. Funny, no one I know has died in the last 9 months or so. But, our family did lose someone considered family since the early 80s, to CVD9, September 2020. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36604 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well it's time for another update of the lists as the world's total case tally exceeds 244.8 million while total deaths pass 4,970,100. Nepal was knocked out of the top 50 of the death list by Bosnia/Herzegovina, Guatemala replaced Morocco in 45th spot, Egypt leapt over Portugal as Japan and the Netherlands to land in 38th, Thailand jumped over the Netherlands and Myanmar into 36th while Bulgaria displaced Iraq from 32nd, Malaysia removed Pakistan from 27th and Peru became the 6th country to enter the 200K+ death clubhouse. The Diamond Princess got torpedoed out of 206th place on the total case list by Anguilla before being torpedoed again by Greenland, the Faeroe Islands sailed past St. Barth into 203rd while Saint Kitts/Nevis slipped into 200th past Bhutan, Dominica jumped over Comoros and Sint Maarten to claim 190th as Sint Maarten was removed from 189th by St. Vincent Grenadines, New Zealand leapfrogged Chad, San Marino and Bermuda to takeover 185th and Gibraltar along with Grenada moved past Liberia into 182nd & 183rd spots respectively. New Caledonia removed Gambia from 174th spot, Brunei took a short flight past the C.A.R., South Sudan and Hong Kong to land in 170th as the Channel Islands did the same to South Sudan, Hong Kong and Saint Lucia to land in 168th, Barbados took a slightly longer flight passing over Equatorial Guinea, Djibouti, Burkina Faso and Andorra to claim 162nd while the Congo did the same to Aruba, Mali, Nicaragua and Taiwan to takeover 157th, Mauritius leapt past both Curaçao and Tajikistan into 154th and Burundi replaced Timor-Leste in 152nd place. The Bahamas sailed past the Seychelles into 147th place, Belize nudged Benin out of 144th while P.N.G. took a long leap over Benin, Togo and Tanzania into 141st, Laos jumped over Gabon and Guyana to claim 137th as Syria moved past both French Polynesia and Sudan to takeover 131st, Suriname took 126th from Eswatini and Trinidad/Tobago slid past Réunion then Guadeloupe into 122nd spot. Cameroon passed Rwanda to become the 111th member of the 100K+ club, Singapore and Australia leapt over Mozambique, Finland and Afghanistan to claim 98th & 99th spots respectively as Estonia jumped over Kyrgyzstan and Albania into 95th, Latvia also jumped over North Macedonia and Norway into 90th while Nigeria replaces Zambia in 87th, Moldova removed Egypt from 78th and Lithuania glided over Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Denmark coming down in 70th place. Venezuela trotted past Uruguay to become the 68th member of the 400K+ club, Ireland kicked Palestine out of 65th place as Azerbaijan became the 59th country to enter the 500K+ clubhouse before sliding past Bolivia and Ecuador into 57th while Bulgaria zipped past both Saudi Arabia and Costa Rica to takeover 53rd, Greece became the 48th member of the 700K+ club before passing Tunisia into 47th and Austria was the 45th country to enter the 800K+ clubhouse. Morocco was removed from 37th spot by Cuba, Serbia took 35th off of Portugal while Romania yanked Bangladesh out of 29th, Czechia pulled Japan out of 25th as the Ukraine move past the Philippines into 18th, Spain became the 10th member of the 6M+ club and Russia was the 5th country to join the 8M+ club. Meanwhile Florida's death count took a jump to 58,933 from 58,612. Well that's it for now and I need a beer after all that. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36604 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well here down under in Australia the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is coming along in leaps and bounds, even if we got off to a late and balky start on many other countries. Up until the 25th of this month (day 245 of our rollout) 87.1% of our total population has had 1 jab while 74.1% are now fully vaxed. We're expecting to hit 90% 1st dose in 13 days and 90% fully dosed in 40 days (so far we have been running ahead of these estimates up to this point). The Australian Capital Territory comes in on top with >95% 1st jabs with 88.9% fully dosed. New South Wales comes in next with 93.2% with 1st jabs and 85.5% fully dosed. Victoria comes in 3rd with 90.8% 1st dosed and 75.9% all dosed up. Coming in close on the country's average is Tasmania with 87.5% having 1 jab and 72.6% all dosed up. South Australia comes in next with 79.6% single jabbed and 63.1% double dosed. Western Australia comes in next by the skin of its teeth with 76.6% single dosed and 60.2% double jabbed. Queensland is the only eastern state that is dragging its feet with 75.7% with 1 jab and 61.2% double dosed. The Northern Territory brings up the rear with 74.2% with a single dose and 61.7% fully dosed. The last 4 had better get a move on as borders are coming down fast whether they're ready or not. Also in 2 weeks fully vaxed people of the 1A rollout (aged and disability care patients) will be eligible for their Pfizer booster shots (or even Moderna boosters if they wish to mix'n'match) as their 6 months will be up then (Pfizer was also the only available vaccine here back then at the time). 1B participants will follow shortly after that. Our contracted production run of 50 million Ox/AZ is coming to an end and won't be extended (we're having enough problems giving it away now) as booster shots for it will be of the nRMA type anyway (Pfizer, Moderna or the soon to be approved Novavax). Maybe P.N.G.'s latest outbreak will convince them to use the stock up this time. Anyhow, don't be covidiot, get vaxxed. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The question is which is first ... Anti-Vax Covid 19 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mental-disorder-cdc-covid-eligibility/2021/10/27/2a45eea0-32ae-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21119 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Here in the UK we have a curious shift of numbers... Over the last week, we have a suspiciously rapidly reducing number of daily infections coming down from a high of about 47000 per day (gov.uk 'dashboard'). However... More reliably from the ONS, we have the continuing fairly steady rate of:
And looking at the ONS charts, there is still a steady upwards trend towards yet more infections... Is this where we are now reaching a plateau from almost everyone (non-vaccinated) having now been infected?! Is the new "Delta-plus" variant an evolutionary response to reinfect again all those yet still not vaccinated??... Regardless, we still have a very great many people ill with covid, and our hospitals are full, and we are moving into the cold damp dark part of the year with our hospitals already full before the additional winter loading of winter illness hits... "Plan B"? What "Plan B"??... Here's hoping we can hit a high enough vaccination rate, soon enough, for our health service to survive this winter... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36604 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Actually you guys recorded a day of about 52K last week Martin, but yes it will be interesting to see how you go during this winter going into it with such high numbers. With us here going into summer might be about the only thing that will help down in Victoria with their stubbornly high case numbers and I still reckon that they opened up far too early down there. Meanwhile Florida slipped in some more 4 week old data to take their death count from 58,933 up to 59,495, but why they still persist with this stupidity is beyond me. Anyhow I'll throw in some milestones while I'm here. Burundi became the 152nd member of the 20K+ case club, North Macedonia became the 92nd member of the 200K+ club while Armenia became the 82nd member of the 300K+ club, Lithuania became the 69th member of the 400K+ club, Guatemala became the 51st member of the 600K+ club as Georgia became the 49th member of the 700K+ club, Vietnam became the 40th member of the 900K+ club and Poland became the 16th country to enter the 3M+ clubhouse finally giving Mexico company at the bar. Turkey is enjoying last drinks in the 7M+ clubhouse while the U.K. is enjoying last drinks in the 8M+ clubhouse. And down in the Australian Capitol Territory (where all the federal pollies and public servants reside) are getting right into their booster shots already with their doses to population ratio passing 240 (200 is theoretically 100% of population). Well it must be time for another coffee. |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Milestones? Man O Live Yah May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36604 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It hasn't been added to the lists as yet, but Tonga prepares for potential lockdown after its first case of Covid-19.. :-( Tonga was one of only a few countries that had not reported a single Covid case since the start of the pandemic. But on Friday, Tonga's Prime Minister Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa confirmed its first positive case from a passenger who had traveled from New Zealand.Well that should use up so more of those AZ shots. Meanwhile it's looks like we'll be going back to P.N.G. with another huge load of AZ and personnel to see if we can do any better this time convincing the locals to get the jab. It maybe easier this time with Delta on the rampage there now. Only 1% of their 9.9 million population is fully vaccinated and only 2% partly vaccinated. A big problem there is that the dozen main population centres only account for 10% of the total with very few roads. Main transport to get to all those remote villages is by boat, light plane or on foot with pack animals, but the biggest problem so far has been vaccine hesitancy. Of the doses that we took there last time almost half went off to Timor-Leste while our people took the rest along with their equipment over to Fiji before it all ran out of date. Fiji is now 70% fully dosed, though vaccine hesitancy seems to be a problem getting the rest there done also. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21119 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Whilst we have some curiously variable but still very high numbers of infection, we also have Trump-esque political silliness here in the UK: Covid: Are people wearing masks less often? ... Why isn't the government reintroducing rules for masks?... So... We have the coincidence of reduced mask usage, a slowdown in vaccinations, increased hospitality business, and an increase in rates of infection pushing still more people into actual hospitals... And our hospitals are full. Who pays to pick up all the sick pieces? Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36604 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well Tonga went into a week long lockdown last night while things get worse in Russia. Russia counts cost of missteps, vaccine refusals as COVID tide keeps rising 1 thing not mentioned in that story is that Russians wanting to be vaccinated are border jumping to get access to western vaccines. Meanwhile the U.S. is still acting like a chook with its head cut off heading in all directions at once, but where it should really be going. America Has Lost the Plot on COVID. But what would 1 expected from such a badly divided country. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21119 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Here's a brief reminder of just a small part of what we're dealing with whilst blundering through the covid pandemic: Researchers uncover how SARS-CoV-2 escapes a cell's antiviral defenses wrote: ... The finding explains the cellular coup d'état staged by the novel coronavirus, and how it disrupts normal cell defenses to hijack human host cells. No wonder covid is so successfully infectious!... Stay safe folks!! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21119 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Meanwhile, our much maligned and underfunded scientists have found another new highly potential medicines/protections that can be developed further: Researchers create mirror-image peptides that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 wrote: ... researchers report the creation of D-peptides that neutralize the virus and stop infection of cultured human cells. EXCEPT!!!... Note the final comment for that article: ... By the time the researchers published their findings however, several treatments had become available, including antiviral medications, antibody cocktails and vaccines. Prompted by these global advances, the team has shifted focus from COVID-19 to trying to create compounds that target all coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS... A game of funding? Politics? Commercial exploitation of the presently very expensive cocktails against covid??... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21119 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Two low cost effective ways to physically kill off most viruses and bacteria including the Coronavirus: Specific UV light wavelength could offer low-cost, safe way to curb COVID-19 spread wrote: A specific wavelength of ultraviolet (UV) light is not only extremely effective at killing the virus which causes COVID-19, but is also safer for use in public spaces... Researchers develop 'virus-killing' air filtration system wrote: A new carbon-based air filtration nanomaterial capable of capturing and destroying various viruses, including animal coronavirus, a close relative of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19... How soon to be widely used to clean up the covid mess?... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21119 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
And for those that survive a bout of Coronavirus, here is just one of the longer term maladies to hope to miss: Nearly 1 in 4 People With COVID-19 Have Brain Fog Months After Their Infection wrote: ... almost a quarter of people with COVID-19 reported symptoms of brain fog, including memory issues, months after their diagnosis... A Third of COVID-19 Patients Develop a Mental Health or Neurological Condition Within Six Months wrote: ... investigating the potential after-effects of COVID-19 found that about a third of people diagnosed with the infection will also be diagnosed with some type of neuropsychiatric condition within six months... 'Brain fog': the people struggling to think clearly months after Covid wrote: ... “Brain fog seems like such an inferior description of what is actually going on. It’s completely crippling. I am unable to think clearly enough to [do] anything,”... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21119 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
But another reason for the government's reluctance could be more political. And that has been noted... MPs told to wear masks in Parliament amid rising Covid cases wrote: ... A parliamentary spokesperson said that "recent increases in Covid across the country… are also being reflected in Parliament". A very simple real world physics case of "Cause and Effect". How can politics be so mindlessly unhealthy?! Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36604 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Up until the 25th of this month (day 245 of our rollout) 87.1% of our total population has had 1 jab while 74.1% are now fully vaxed. We're expecting to hit 90% 1st dose in 13 days and 90% fully dosed in 40 days (so far we have been running ahead of these estimates up to this point).Well since that post 12-15yr olds are now being reported in the stats that I'm using (it's an ever changing .pdf link so there's no point in posting it as it will change), but even with that lot now included our vaccination rates are still doing well, with that group already showing 68% having 1 jab while 47% have had both. Day 253 of our rollout sees 88.7% of our population approved to be vaccinated are now single dosed and 78.5% fully dosed. The Australian Capital Territory comes in on top with >95% 1st jabs with 93.7% fully dosed. New South Wales comes in next with 93.7% with 1st jabs and 88.7% fully dosed. Victoria comes in 3rd with 91.9% 1st dosed and 81.8% all dosed up. Still coming in close on the country's average is Tasmania with 89.6% having 1 jab and 76.1% all dosed up. South Australia follows with 82.4% single jabbed and 67.9% double dosed. Western Australia still comes in next by the skin of its teeth out of the last 3 with 79.3% single dosed and 64.4% double jabbed. Queensland is still the only eastern state that is lagging behind the rest with 78.5% with 1 jab and 65.3% double dosed. The Northern Territory continues to bring up the rear with 77.3% with a single dose and 64.3% fully dosed. By either the end of this summer or beginning of next autumn here 5-11yrs olds are expected to get full approval to be dosed so they'll also get thrown into these stats not long after. Meanwhile in other news the U.S. is having the grand opening of their 47M+ case clubhouse on this day. |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Meanwhile in other news the U.S. is having the grand opening of their 47M+ case clubhouse on this day. And On This Beautiful Day WEEEE dA WEEEEEE Peoples are 300 MILLION PLUS NOT in da Clubhouse. Yope May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21119 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Further positive developments from the power of Science: Covid: Pfizer says antiviral pill 89% effective in high risk cases wrote: An experimental pill to treat Covid developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by 89% in vulnerable adults... All good and useful, and all good Science. You can bet that most covid victims will clamor for those drugs to "make them better". So why would they not also believe in getting vaccinated and using the precaution of masks to avoid the pain and suffering and the gamble of deliverance in the first place? Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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