outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Heh, I couldn't figure that out either.

It's the only way Trump could insure he got his dose first.

Thanks to television, no one has yet caught up with ERs becoming EDs.

That is great news, YMP! Giving thanks for that today.

It's the only way Trump could insure he got his dose first.

lol

Emergency DEPARTMENT, sheesh

But you knew that

I'm worried about those orthodox hats catching a mutated form of the virus.

First evidence that prior exposure to common cold endemic coronaviruses dramatically reduces COVID-19 symptom severity and mortality:

Sagar et al, 2020. Recent endemic coronavirus infection is associated with less severe COVID-19. The Journal of clinical investigation.

https://i.imgur.com/xB4QYjW.jpg

Well that sucks for those of us who have been so successfully isolated that we haven't gotten colds

but... hasn’t everyone gotten a cold or thirteen at some point?

*raises hand*

there are 200 types of mild colds, only 4 of which are caused by coronaviruses

huh! alright

soup me up with some of that then, i’ll slurrrrp em up

Yeah, but the 4 colds caused by endemic coronaviruses account for 25% of all colds, if I recall correctly.

tracer haven't you already been huffing enough coronas this year, save some for the rest of us

don't bogart that joint pain

How recent do you need to have had a cold?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/28/met-police-anti-lockdown-protest-london

Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, who has campaigned on civil liberties during the coronavirus emergency, described the police claim about the current law on protest as “outrageous”.

“In practice, police are increasingly treating protests as banned,” she said. “The right to protest is the bedrock of any democracy. It’s clear to me that there’s a deliberate attempt to chill that right and misrepresent the law.”

She said her organisation was working with a number of people who had been wrongfully denied their right to protest.

I loathe these fucking people so much.

Great guy.

The founder, Matthew Elliott, also founded Eurosceptic think tank Business for Britain as well as Conservative Friends of Russia, Taxpayers Alliance, the NOtoAV campaign in the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum and in 2015, Elliot became the chief executive of Vote Leave.

but... hasn’t everyone gotten a cold or thirteen at some point?

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, November 27, 2020 6:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

*raises hand*

― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, November 27, 2020 6:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

there are 200 types of mild colds, only 4 of which are caused by coronaviruses

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal)

One of our Thanksgiving conversations concerned colds: no one in my family's gotten one in months. I've gone 18 months. We credit the masking and isolation.

Yes, I'm generally stricken with one cold after another from the end of summer to the start of Spring, barely a sniffle so far this year.

I have certainly had low-level sinus infections, but no colds, thank gods.

I had a brutal bacterial sinus infection that required antibiotics. That's been it though

Yeah, nothing here since last Christmas and again in February. (I’m still half convinced that one of those events might have been COVID itself — it’s not without the realm of possibility — but there’s no way to know now.)

We had ONE family visit and my daughter got strep.

I had a stinking head cold in September, but aside from that, no cold/flu illnesses this year. But I caught cellulitis from a spider bite at the end of the summer and had tendinitis in my knee earlier this month. Seems better now.

i usually get a sinus infection every four months but now that i don’t go into my office anymore... nada

I stopped getting colds once I stopped working with people with kids.

I've barely seen anyone since March, and I've still had a cold for most of the year.

We've all had the sniffles here a few times since the kids went back to school in September.

I get flush every time I drink and I always temporarily get paranoid that a fever is starting even though I know why I'm flush.

having anxiety/OCD sucks lol

I've had about 4 bouts of colds (one terrible one which knocked me out but wasn't covid), or cold-like symptoms which disappear after a day or so, since March.

having kids makes me get every bug going so there better be an upside! I'm sure some of it is allergy related - something sets off a brief but kind of violent reaction.

I only get one cold a year and it’s not due yet so I can’t really say.

Teaching at a university and having a kid in preschool meant one or two of us were sick at any given moment over the last five years but everyone’s been totally healthy since my possible corona faded in late March. It’s weird to not have been to a pediatricians office for so long when we had been going every six to eight weeks.

Same here. We have a nine month old who has literally never had a cold in his life.

Absolutely deranged that closing bars and casinos before schools is considered an odd and noteworthy policy https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/28/covid-schools-open-rhode-island/

I have no idea whether schools in RI or anywhere else should be open, but I know that bars should be shut if schools are, jfc.

Thrilled to see LA county close outdoor playgrounds while keeping indoor shopping malls open btw.

That's nuts.

xp Elementary schools actually have a lower infection rate compared to the general populace in NY

Pre-school and elementary school students having lower infection rates and posing a low risk of transmission, and secondary school students having the highest rates and posing the greatest risk of transmission (of any age group) is a repeated observation in S. Korea, Israel, and Germany...

It points to an improved policy for future pandemics where in-person schooling continues for those who benefit most from it, developmentally, while middle and high-school latch key kids are toil behind laptops, in preparation for their adult drudgery.

grim but probably true

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/nyregion/schools-reopening-partially.html

Good

https://www.twitter.com/kate_ptrv/status/1332398737604431874

I couldn’t just walk past this Tweet, so here is some fun #dataviz

Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n https://t.co/xEmCTQn9sA pic.twitter.com/tVecEiX5Jc

— Kate Petrova (@kate_ptrv) November 27, 2020

Percent of wages currently subsidized by governments due to COVID:

Japan: 100% for small businesses; 80% for large firms

Netherlands: Up to 90%

Norway: Up to 90%

Germany: Up to 87%

France: Up to 84%

Italy: 80%

United Kingdom: Up to 80%

Canada: Up to 75%

United States: 0%

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) November 30, 2020

The US is such a cruel country. I hope Biden uses his bully pulpit to at least attempt to ram through more relief, but I'm guessing I'll end up donating to a bunch of fucking gofundmes instead.

Well, I burst into tears after seeing that tweet.

I'm so scared about money, guys. I have no idea what I'm going to do if this gig I'm testing for on Thursday doesn't work out. I don't make enough to live on running the workshops that I do, and all of the universities here have decimated their adjunct ranks for the spring.

<3. i'm so sorry, table. it's really fucked :(

God that's a stark reminder of how much our elected officials openly and actively hate the populace they allegedly represent.