Coronavirus

[Rane1071]

 

[tvstrip]

https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/

Did you guys know we're halfway through the alphabet for variants? Well, just 1 short. We're up the Lambda variant, and there's still several other's that haven't been given a formal designation.

I don't know what will be scarier - a variant called the "Omega variant", or the fact that they would have run out of letters.

 

[gmase]

Who to blame? Immigrants!

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/07/republicans-unvaccinated-covid-border-502728

 

[Pornfan99]

Florida keeps setting records..:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-breaks-record-daily-covid-211017647.html

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/

Did you guys know we're halfway through the alphabet for variants? Well, just 1 short. We're up the Lambda variant, and there's still several other's that haven't been given a formal designation.

I don't know what will be scarier - a variant called the "Omega variant", or the fact that they would have run out of letters.

Perhaps we can start naming them like Hurricanes. You know, for example, Covid Donald

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

https://www.gocomics.com/claybennett/2021/08/07

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

OJ really hit the blonde... I mean... the nail on the head here.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1422221084988907520

 

[gmase]

Perhaps we can start naming them like Hurricanes. You know, for example, Covid Donald

Once we are through the Greek alphabet, how about using Latin? Using a dead language for a deadly illness seems very practical.

 

[gmase]

Perhaps we can start naming them like Hurricanes. You know, for example, Covid Donald

You are onto something:
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...-variant-why-not-call-it-the-desantis-variant

 

[gmase]

Sad and preventable
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/aug/10/state-hospitals-hit-with-1376-covid-patients/

 

[Luxman]

Some people may not trust the vaccine because it's free.
Maybe if they start charging people $10 for the vaccine shot more people will get it.
Reverse psychology.

 

[gmase]

Is COVID looking for respect from the doubters?https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/10/wyoming-delta-rural-coronavirus-503057

 

[Theopolis Q. Hossenffer]

Some people may not trust the vaccine because it's free.
Maybe if they start charging people $10 for the vaccine shot more people will get it.
Reverse psychology.

I like the idea of deep frying it and putting it on a stick.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Any opinions on unregulated illegal immigration and massive homelessness being super spreader COVID events? Seems like an 800 lb elephant inside of a phone booth.

 

[D-rock]

Any opinions on unregulated illegal immigration and massive homelessness being super spreader COVID events? Seems like an 800 lb elephant inside of a phone booth.

Is there any data or studies that display how much those factors spread COVID?

IMO even if it's a major factor which I'm skeptical about it's all the more reason to help poor people so they aren't homeless, and can make a living wage. Also all the more reason to make those illegal people legal. As much as people bitch about immigrants the US is one of the few Western industrialized nations that have staved off somewhat the problems with future population disparities do to people having less kids due to too many people not being able to afford them because we can't give everybody a living wage. Pretty much the only reason for that is we still take in a lot of people in immigration that haven't figured out we have been a shit hole country for a long time now, and still think this is a good place.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Is there any data or studies that display how much those factors spread COVID?

That's why I put it in the form of a question. Common sense tells me that the desperate and insane might be worth looking at being potential spreaders more than people more cautious about social distancing that have better access to vaccinations that live in single homes and don't ride buses.

 

[gmase]

That's why I put it in the form of a question. Common sense tells me that the desperate and insane might be worth looking at being potential spreaders more than people more cautious about social distancing that have better access to vaccinations that live in single homes and don't ride buses.

Poor and rural seem to be winning this round.

Like most things we can find examples:

• Olympia, WA has an outbreak among rhe homeless.
• Fort Bliss had an outbreak at a migrant shelter.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Poor and rural seem to be winning this round.

Like most things we can find examples:

• Olympia, WA has an outbreak among rhe homeless.
• Fort Bliss had an outbreak at a migrant shelter.

Cause and effect will always defeat political correctness. Some things are just that obvious. Water is still wet in 2021 despite what Twitter is trying to convince its schizoid cult members.

 

[gmase]

Cause and effect will always defeat political correctness. Some things are just that obvious. Water is still wet in 2021 despite what Twitter is trying to convince its schizoid cult members.

Common sense tells you there are many factors.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Common sense tells you there are many factors.

Absolutely. All of the above means remove any and all blinders. Why check only 180 when you should look around 360?