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The Australia thing isn't as simple as that idiotic tweet Jimmy posted.
Earlier in the pandemic, Aussies weren't giving two shits and acting recklessly, and somehow everything was ending up okay. Experts were very confused, and still are confused.
There is some belief that an unrelated vaccination they were given in that country for the past several decades (which isn't really done elsewhere) might have provided some COVID protection.
It's not clear what's going on, but it's definitely not masking saving Melbourne. This is exactly the type of irresponsible mask messaging which needs to stop.
WEAR YOUR MASK AND IT ALL GOES AWAY, GUYZ!!!!
This leads to people going out and assuming they're protected if they have masks on.
So on a semi-related note...
I have a colonoscopy (my first one ever) scheduled for mid-January.
I am considering postponing it for two reasons:
1) COVID infections might be peaking in southern CA in mid-January
2) Presumably the vaccine will bring the danger way down shortly after mid-January
3) I'm required to take that awful way-up-the-nose COVID test prior to my procedure -- something which may NOT be required if a vaccine is available
However, there are reasons to do this ASAP. Among them:
1) If vaccines are available to the general public, they might force me to get one before the colonoscopy, and this will take away my choice as to what I want to do. (Right now, I'm not sure how soon I'll take the vaccine.)
2) I'm almost 49 and haven't had a colonoscopy yet, despite a family history of colon cancer. In fact, my dad likely would have died in his mid-50s if he didn't have one (an almost-cancerous polyp was found and removed). Also, his mom died of colon cancer in the early 70s.
3) A blood test in October revealed a very mild level of anemia, for the first time in my life. I do not have any outward symptoms of anemia, though. Sometimes anemia is indicative of colon polyps, though usually those polyps are benign. Either way, this makes a colonoscopy even more important.
Tough choice. Not really sure if I want to go in for a voluntary procedure right when COVID is peaking, but I would also feel like a complete moron if I end up with colon cancer because I didn't jump on this anemia thing soon enough.
The place I'm getting it done takes all kinds of precautions, but a lot of it is performative BS such as cleaning. I guess it helps that people have to take a COVID test beforehand, but the staff concerns me, as I doubt they are taking a COVID test every 3 days or whatever.
The models at the beginning were laughably low, and I remember commenting about this on radio.
50k in 27 days is extremely likely at this point. Death trends lag behind new case trends by about 2 weeks, and the new case trend is looking pretty bad at the moment. So we will probably see really bad death numbers in mid-late December. It will probably stay bad until early 2021, at which point the vaccine will start bringing it down.
The main reason we've done so well is our government took this seriously from the beginning.
We actually tested people who were coming into the country, especially from high risk areas. And those who were infected that were not detected at entry, were comprehensively contact traced... along with mandatory quarantine for travellers. (quarantine was somewhat screwed up in a few areas and this led to the big spike in Melbourne)
BCG vaccine might have played a part, but other countries who used the same type of vaccine have not faired so well. Our warm weather might have helped too. Of course being a big island helped.
This is coming from a person who never praises our government.
Y'all are being defeatist.
SoCal checking in here...our rolling average positivity rate is like 6% and we have a decentish icu cushion. The efforts we've made have paid the fuck off and that's with us not doing nearly as much work as we should have. All things considered where I live, we are doing a much better job in terms of keeping our covid act together vs most of the country.
The APC I1307K mutation is primarily found in people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (Jews of Eastern European or Russian ancestry). Researchers believe that 6 percent of Ashkenazi Jews carry this gene mutation, making them at a significantly higher risk for developing colon and rectal cancers.
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Druff you keep repeating ad nauseam that people wear a mask because it gives them a false sense of confidence that they will be protected from catching covid.
NO ONE WITH HALF A BRAIN THINKS THAT.
A mask helps keep you from spreading covid to others. That's why people who aren't assholes wear masks.
I’m also SoCal and the hospitals are packed. There’s currently more people hospitalized in California then at any point in the pandemic and over 20k new positives a day. Governor is about to drop a restriction that will ban travel to different counties.
My wife’s hospital has zero available ICU beds and the Chula Vista hospital is putting two people on one ventilator.
Depends what you define as "half a brain".
Tons of people think that. I've even had a lot of educated, normally-sensible, Democrat-voting people try to tell me that, when I question why they've been going to casinos or whatever.
"No, I'm careful, I use Purell and wear a mask! It's not likely I'll get it."
I hear this shit all the time. The media has hammered the narrative of, "Wearing a mask makes you safe" and "If everyone masked, we would be done with this" -- neither being correct.
They are afraid to say the truth -- that masking likely only helps the wearer a little, and that you're doing it for others, not you. And that if you spend a lot of time indoors other than your own home, you're safe. That's a dangerous message.
Given that hospitals are filling up, what happened to all those makeshift secondary hospitals that were set up in the spring, and subsequently shut down for lack of need?
Why aren't these opening back up?
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