COVID-19 in America

[prunus]

America gets hit hard because it has high levels of obesity, which is a big comorbidity with Covid. That and the low level of vaccine uptake, especially as this low level often combines with people unwilling to take other precautions either, and how this is sometimes focused in particular areas (Republican districts mostly).

Is it also correct to say that although omicron is milder than previous variants, it’s still on a par with the original virus that still killed tens of thousands? It’s only vaccination making it ‘mild’ for most people, if you’re unjabbed and have comorbidities then it can still take you out.

I think I’ve read analyses that suggest it is milder than delta and alpha, but more virulent than wild type (such analyses are necessarily imprecise because of the difficulty of untangling vaccine- or infection-acquired immunity and cross-immunity effects, but…). So it’s probably fair, albeit liable to be misleading, to say it’s milder than other variants, wild-type not being a variant.

 

[Yossarian]

In Florida, which has been averaging well over 100 COVID deaths a day, they're now only reporting data once every two weeks, and this state department of health spokesman seems insanely gleeful about it.

 

[NoXion]

EXCLUSIVE: "Non-COVID" Excess Death Rates Ran 21x Higher In Reddest Counties Than Bluest In 2021

UPDATE: I somehow forgot to include a few paragraphs regarding the state-based data at the end of this entry; these have been added. As many others have noted, the actual COVID death toll, both here in the United States and around the world, is almost...

www.dailykos.com

Maybe that's why they want more unwanted babies, they need more miseducated bodies to work themselves to death for them.

 

[petee]

it's going around again, I'd say about ten students and teachers out in the past week.

 

[petee]

HE EXPLAINED TO HER

 

[8ball]

HE EXPLAINED TO HER

I wouldn’t want to be stepping off a plane with a hundred grand in cash in my pockets either tbf.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Should of offered him $10 to take his glasses off for the rest of flight and told him he doesn't need them and they don't really work.

 

[petee]

first case of the year already in my school.

 

[petee]

 

[Yossarian]

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Also RECTAL DOMINO, RETAIL CONDOM, and LOCATE NIMROD

 

[PTK]

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Erotic Almond, or "Mark" as he was in those days, was my best friend in secondary school in the 1970s.

 

[petee]

i've been coming across coronavirus-era memes recently, some good'uns

 

[8ball]

i've been coming across coronavirus-era memes recently, some good'uns

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From around December 2020, maybe?

 

[petee]

From around December 2020, maybe?

i thought early 2021, but in the same time frame yeh.

 

[petee]

i got the vaccine and didn’t realize that "the jews" now control me. which is just the way they'd want it.

Anti-vax influencer Stew Peters has a new fixation: "the Jews"

He says he's not sure whether Hitler was a bad guy, because of all the "propaganda."

www.motherjones.com

 

[petee]

A Florida man accused of brutally beating and killing his father was upset after learning his dad received "the vaccine," investigators say.

Florida man bludgeons father to death after learning he got 'the vaccine:' Investigators

The 911 caller, who is a friend of the family, described the suspect, Brian Mcgann Jr., as a "delusional conspiracy theorist."

wchstv.com

 

[petee]

so i got it, last two weeks of july. it took another two weeks to get my energy back. brain fog, exhaustion, lost 4 pounds in a week, went off alcohol completely. 2 out of 4 ain't bad. it's all over the place. https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/4832099-covid-19-summer-surge-us/amp/

 

[krtek a houby]

so i got it, last two weeks of july. it took another two weeks to get my energy back. brain fog, exhaustion, lost 4 pounds in a week, went off alcohol completely. 2 out of 4 ain't bad. it's all over the place. https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/4832099-covid-19-summer-surge-us/amp/

Glad you are mended. It's been 2 years since got the damned thing and haven't felt the same, since.

 

[8ball]

A Florida man accused of brutally beating and killing his father was upset after learning his dad received "the vaccine," investigators say.

Florida man bludgeons father to death after learning he got 'the vaccine:' Investigators

The 911 caller, who is a friend of the family, described the suspect, Brian Mcgann Jr., as a "delusional conspiracy theorist."

wchstv.com

I suppose depending on the brutality of the beating, he might possibly have exposed himself to the vaccine.