Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2/Covid-19 Megathread

[Tamas]

 

[Sheilbh]

One has to admire the thoroughness of their incompetence.

It might almost be that they're not the brightest bulbs in the box

[The Brain]

Not the crispiest shepherds in the pie.

[KRonn]

It seems like most employers around here who started coming back to the office made in-person appearance optional last week.  I personally decided to stop coming for a while, I think the situation is getting worse pretty quickly even in New Jersey and NYC area.

Right. At my place the office only has a few people in, with some people choosing not to go in. My manager said it's ok if I want to work from home entirely, but I'll likely go in a day a week. For now anyway.

[Legbiter]

Here we're flat for the moment with regard to new cases, averaging about a hundred a day. Most are fully vaccinated but the 10% holdouts are slightly worrying because the delta variant is expert at chasing them down. Symptoms are much less severe in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated but it's a big disappointment the vaccines aren't better at curbing transmission. 

We're going to start vaccinating the 12-15 year olds next week, still mulling whether to vaccinate my sons.

[DGuller]

I'm checking the CDC statistics every day, and Jesus Christ, the trends are like in the first days of the pandemic.  Florida cases went up 15x from the recent low, but even NYC went up 10x from the recent low, and New Jersey went up 5x.  Florida may have started from a higher base, and got to an even higher place in absolute terms, but at these growth rates, it doesn't matter much where you're starting from, pretty quickly you're all going to get to a shitty destination.  The cases don't seem all that less fatal either, in aggregate at least.

[Legbiter]

I'm checking the CDC statistics every day, and Jesus Christ, the trends are like in the first days of the pandemic.  Florida cases went up 15x from the recent low, but even NYC went up 10x from the recent low, and New Jersey went up 5x.  Florida may have started from a higher base, and got to an even higher place in absolute terms, but at these growth rates, it doesn't matter much where you're starting from, pretty quickly you're all going to get to a shitty destination.  The cases don't seem all that less fatal either, in aggregate at least.

New York is interesting. Seems there's a significant class issue with regard to vaccination looking at the different boroughs. That's been the case here as well. Also vaccines were rare here until fairly recently, they were done via lottery once the oldies & vulnerable were jabbed and every dose left over at the end of the day was administered on a first come, first served basis which created massive hype.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-05/when-money-can-t-buy-shots--new-york-city-s-vaccine-holdouts

Black New Yorkers are the least vaccinated group, with a 31% participation rate. Asian New Yorkers, meanwhile, have the highest at 71%.

[Jacob]

Glad to see that the rate of vaccination is fairly high in Corona.

[Razgovory]

One of the people who work at the mental health place I go to died of Covid.  She had gotten the vaccine, so either she was in bad shape before the illness or she just had bad luck.

[viper37]

things are flaring up over here.  About 300 cases per day, hospitalizations on the rise, but not many deaths so far.

a vaccine pass will be mandatory by september, maybe earlier in some places.

[Savonarola]

I saw this on the BBC and, uhm...



Somehow I always thought that Martin Lawrence would be the one to doom humanity; not Will Smith.   

[The Brain]

I always thought Wild Wild West would be the worst humanity had to suffer from that quarter.

[Syt]

Austria daily case numbers and running average the last 8 weeks:

[Savonarola]

Meanwhile in China:

Chinese state media outlets scrub quotes about the pandemic after discovering the expert was a fake character.

Authorities became suspicious when it was discovered Dr. Huxtable had endorsement deals with Jello Puddin' Pops and New Coke.

[DGuller]

  I'd be careful with food products coming from Dr. Huxtable.