Are textbooks even honest about Reagan yet?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure the Reagan era in survey-type textbooks would be mostly foreign policy stuff, Iran hostage crisis resolved, Gorbachev summitry, Nicaragua war, some Iran-Contra material, maybe touch on the Grenada invasion and the Volcker-Reagan recession. Criticizing his horrifying domestic policies would be too touchy for public school textbooks since we're still in that era, politically speaking; they'd vague it down and pretty it up and try not to offend anyone.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
*whispers* we could increase the rapidity of vaccine uptake by just making them mandatory for everyone
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
That seems like it would be counter productive in the current environment
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
Demand will outstrip global availability for at least 6 months anyway - might as well cross that bridge when doses are more available
― Nhex, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
The very high incidence of side effects like fatigue, headache and muscle soreness, even though they're short duration and non-life-threatening makes it difficult to mass vaccinate entire hospital or care-giving staffs in a few days. But spacing out vaccinations for those reasons can't explain the problems getting this done faster. These have to be failures in communication, coordination, and logistics, which all should be controlled by a central authority, meaning the facilities of the US government.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
first U.S. case of the new covid variant, and a person with no travel history, so obviously missing some links in the chain
Colorado officials on Tuesday reported the first known case in the United States of a person infected with the mutation-laden coronavirus variant that has been circulating rapidly across much of the United Kingdom and has led to a lockdown of much of southern England.The case involves a male in his 20s who is currently in isolation in Elbert County and has no travel history, according to a tweet from the office of Gov. Jared Polis.
The case involves a male in his 20s who is currently in isolation in Elbert County and has no travel history, according to a tweet from the office of Gov. Jared Polis.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
i'm sure it's been here for weeks. the US has barely been doing the necessary sequencing to pick it up.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
(citation for that: https://newrepublic.com/article/160743/us-already-covid-variant-wouldnt-know)
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
we'll know if it's here by 2026
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
while we're fighting Swine Gonorrhea
I must say that another year or two of this and I will throw myself off a bridge.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
better sequencing for the presence of this variant would be helpful for identifying where it's emerging and slowing its spread, but looking at the whole picture, the USA would only do a sporadic and incomplete job even if that info were swiftly available. even if our government(s) were operating like a precision machine, the US populace is just not built for an effective unified response to a pandemic like this. we're all out here building our little personal fortresses. or not.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
xpost i v much don't want you to do that but at the same token I'll probably be r there with you
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
i just get upset daily by what it's turned me into. I'm a type of nasty that I never was before and I have to retrain myself to not take things out on other people which used to be the one thing I could count on myself to never do
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
This is the situation right now in one of the largest single site hospitals in the UK. For context, this hospital has the largest single-floor critical care unit *in the world* with 100 beds https://t.co/LdkN7dqzYc— Bill Hanage (@BillHanage) December 29, 2020
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
better sequencing for the presence of this variant would be helpful for identifying where it's emerging and slowing its spread, but looking at the whole picture, the USA would only do a sporadic and incomplete job even if that info were swiftly available. even if our government(s) were operating like a precision machine, the US populace is just not built for an effective unified response to a pandemic like this. we're all out here building our little personal fortresses. or not.โ Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Tuesday, December 29, 2020 6:14 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
โ Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Tuesday, December 29, 2020 6:14 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
you'd think america might have learned that having thousands of layers of government while simultanously hating all of them is not a good idea.
bleak thread re: how this is playing out with vaccine distribution:
There appears to be no investment or plan in the last mileNo effort from Feds to help states launch a real vaccination infrastructureDid the Feds not know vaccines were coming?Shouldn't planning around vaccination sites, etc not have happened in October or November?10/11— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) December 29, 2020
(this is the kind of shit i had in mind when i objected (on this thread?) to the idea that healthcare providers should be the ones to figure out vaccination rollout)
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
xp I posted a similar picture from a London hospital in the UK thread. There has been a disinformation effort going on for some time to try to convince people that hospitals are โemptyโ, that most people dying have โunderlying conditionsโ (never mind in this country that that could include a history of mental illness and that most people would be living with their conditions normally if not for covid) and when doctors and nurses post on twitter about the desperation of the situation they are attacked by conspiracists and cunts who accuse them of not working hard enough. I hate it, and I hate them.
― scampish inquisition (gyac), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
me tooasthma should not be a death sentence ffsit's appalling, all of it
― kinder, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
lmao so because argentina have a habit of sovereign defaults, pfizer asked them for fishing rights as an indemnity on their vaccine contract?— joolsd (@joolsd) December 30, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 09:54 (three years ago) link
Ive been trying to tell ye, fishing rights are important
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
I hate it, and I hate them.
Especially as they are getting away with it and they will continue to get away with it.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/30/boris-johnson-2021-vaccine-rollout-brexit
The majority of the cabinet take the view that once you have vaccinated everyone on the first priority list (everyone aged 50 and over, plus those aged 16 and over with underlying health conditions), then the bulk โ if not all โ of the restrictions should go. Johnson is also thought to be keen to get rid of constraints as soon as possible. However, government aides are braced for a battle โ they anticipate opposition from some in the scientific community against a full unwinding.
lol we're all quite literally gonna die
― josef cake (Matt #2), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
Someone was telling me as well that the plan is to give everyone on the first priority list their first dose, and the second dose would then follow like 3 months later? Rather than restrict to just the very highest priority and make sure they all get both their doses within weeks of each other?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
― stet, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
60% of Ohio nursing home staff refusing covid vaccine @GovMikeDeWine says— Marty Schladen (@martyschladen) December 30, 2020
it brings me little pleasure to advocate coercing people to do something that has not been specifically collectively bargained but Iโm sorry, make them take it or they can stay home. (also pay them better.)
also this was published today, unfortunately itโs a sleepwalk by people who probably publish too much that takes no point of view and doesnโt bother getting into the detailshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774712
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 30 December 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
60% of a specific nursing home, or 60% of ALL Ohio nursing homes? if the latter, holy shit
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
If itโs the latter, we are absolutely fucked.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
The vaccine is only 52% effective starting two weeks after the first dose. When you get the second dose, the vaccine is 91% effective seven days later. This is a reckless headline. https://t.co/sYHCIPiHmS— Nato Jacobs (@dcmadness202) December 30, 2020
― โBigโ Don Abernathy, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
the UK plan is to vaccinate using a (completely untested!) protocol of waiting months to give the second dose https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55280671.
this a vaccine whose trial results are already pretty unclear. millions of partially immune people (how partially we don't know because we don't have any data!) behaving like they are totally immune, plus a virus that demonstrably mutates. could end badly!
I can't be the only one who is unexcited by the prospect of a purportedly more transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variant, possibly with mutations conferring partial antibody resistance, propagating in a UK population that is 'semi-immunized' for 12 weeks. Experiments in viral evolution...— Paul Bieniasz (@PaulBieniasz) December 30, 2020
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
btw the untested single dose rollout seems like exactly the kind of big physics brain idea that comes from dominic cummings types.
people have advocated for *running trials* to see whether it's a good idea (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-doses.html), but the UK attitude seems to be let's just do it and be legends.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
Let's just muddle through, what?
― josef cake (Matt #2), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
until it's over we'll have to, somehow
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 30 December 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Oh great thank you mainstream press.
California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine: ABC https://t.co/wTZNqtTBmD pic.twitter.com/xwceAlccW6— Reuters (@Reuters) December 30, 2020
― โBigโ Don Abernathy, Wednesday, 30 December 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
More on that 52%
1/ The MHRA has approved a longer gap between doses for both the AstraZeneca vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine. The latter has concerned some people. Specifically many are citing a figure of 52% for protection after the first dose.Here is why this 52% figure isn't useful [1/n] pic.twitter.com/ZdFJNMtRxd— Theo Sanderson (@theosanderson) December 30, 2020
― stet, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
Nearly 4000 dead over the last 24h in the USโฆ jfc
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
holiday reporting is going to be unevenly distributed, so i'm hoping the 4000 is just offsetting a lower-than-usual day
but yes. it is grim
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
grim should be dictionary.com word of the year for 2020
In less than ten months, covid-19 has killed more than one of every thousand US residents -- 338,500 dead out of a population of about 335,000,000.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYy6YY0EC94
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 31 December 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
this is as depressing as it sounds from the URL. this was new to me: "Keep in mind that, in 1947, New York City vaccinated 5 million people against smallpox in two weeks." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/americas-vaccine-rollout-disaster.html
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Thursday, 31 December 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
also can we arrest this person
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/30/951736164/some-500-coronavirus-vaccine-doses-intentionally-destroyed-hospital-says
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 31 December 2020 05:18 (three years ago) link
"accidentally" my ass
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 31 December 2020 05:20 (three years ago) link
jebus. so thievery or apocalypto?
― Nhex, Thursday, 31 December 2020 06:02 (three years ago) link
the email from my hospital's chief medical officer today said that out of ~9k people offered the vaccine by email, ~8% declined and ~40% had not responded
― k3vin k., Thursday, 31 December 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
_lol we're all quite literally gonna die_And going to gift the world a vaccine-resistant strain, seemingly (because the selection potential to create one will be huge with vaccinated people eating out to help out beside infectious people)
― Cheese flavoured Momus (wins), Thursday, 31 December 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
xp I expect email may not be the best way of inviting elderly patients? where I am there's pleas on local Facebook groups from the practice to pass the information on to elderly family, friends and neighbours... takeup seems great so far but comms are really rushed, presumably due to short notice of obtaining vaccine supplies...
― kinder, Thursday, 31 December 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
Just received this email cancelling my 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine. On the basis of UK government guidance yesterday. This means that the vaccine is not being delivered as licensed. I DID NOT consent to receive an off-label drug with NO evidence of benefit with a single dose. pic.twitter.com/ZDtIjm1z8W— Dr Katrina Farrell (@farrell_katrina) December 31, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 31 December 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
what a shitshow
― kinder, Thursday, 31 December 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
So near yet so far
― meanwhile back at the song (Matt #2), Thursday, 31 December 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link