Covid-19 miscellany

[Jimmy Higgins]

The good news appears to be with so many elderly vaccinated, the death rates have plummeted even with the large rise in cases. So, until an uber deadly version of the disease the issue will be hospitalization numbers, which again will likely not be as bad with the elderly immunized. The only issue there, though, is with states just not caring now, there are almost no mitigations in place to inhibit transmission.

The sad news is those with compromised immune systems, they'll need to lock themselves indoors for the next half a year, while the freedom spreaders help continue making it unsafe for them to be outdoors. Sorry cancer patients. Oh, and Americans wanting to go to Canada where cases are dropping, and if Delta is spreading among the vaccinated... *sigh*

 

[TSwizzle]

Bad news for the left wing authoritarians and lockdown zealots as England lifts covid restrictions and thousands flock to bars and nightclubs.

Thousands of eager revellers across England have piled onto dance floors for the first time since March last year without being required to provide Covid passports or negative test results. Face masks are also no longer legally required, and with social distancing rules shelved, there are no limits on people attending. Venues including Fabric, E1, Ministry of Sound and Egg nightclubs in London, Pryzm in Bristol, Powerhouse Night Club in Newcastle and Moon Acre in Dorset re-opened on the stroke of midnight - the very second that most legal restrictions on social contact were removed. It's 'the moment we've been waiting for, that our customers have been waiting for,' said Tristan Moffat, operations director of London music venue The Piano Works, ahead of the deadline.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...stroke-midnight-restrictions-FINALLY-end.html

Oh no, people were dancing!!

 

[bilby]

Bad news for the left wing authoritarians and lockdown zealots as England lifts covid restrictions and thousands flock to bars and nightclubs.

Thousands of eager revellers across England have piled onto dance floors for the first time since March last year without being required to provide Covid passports or negative test results. Face masks are also no longer legally required, and with social distancing rules shelved, there are no limits on people attending. Venues including Fabric, E1, Ministry of Sound and Egg nightclubs in London, Pryzm in Bristol, Powerhouse Night Club in Newcastle and Moon Acre in Dorset re-opened on the stroke of midnight - the very second that most legal restrictions on social contact were removed. It's 'the moment we've been waiting for, that our customers have been waiting for,' said Tristan Moffat, operations director of London music venue The Piano Works, ahead of the deadline.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...stroke-midnight-restrictions-FINALLY-end.html

Oh no, people were dancing!!

Meanwhile, the PM is in isolation, as he is an immediate contact of a known new case - the known new case in question being the fucking Health Minister.

Seriously, if you wrote this shit as satire, it would be rejected as too implausible.

The existence of moronic decisions that are going to totally fuck up the United Kingdom is cause for celebration amongst both Brexit supporters and Covid deniers.

Meanwhile those of us who get our information from sources other than the Daily Fail are unable to believe that this level of destruction could be wreaked on a developed nation in such short order.

The UK was fucked. Now it's double fucked.


In other news, Katie Hopkins has been deported from Australia for being a fucking moron. Even our idiotic and incompetent Commonweath Government have decided that British Tory insanity is too far beyond the pale. That's pretty fucking damning.

 

[barbos]

PM ? you mean Boris Jonson? in isolation? But he just opened everything up.
...
OK, I googled. You can't make this shit up.

 

[Swammerdami]

Now we're queueing up to join a queue for Sinopharm vaccine. I don't know if this is pay-in-advance as was the queue for Moderna (maybe) in January (maybe) which we've already joined.

Vaccine mismanagement is now the major charge against our military dictator. People are clamoring to restore the  Shinawatra dynasty!

The largest hospital in our North-Central region has now shut its Emergency Room ("except for emergencies" ) due to Covid cases among medical staff. I used to watch the TV series ER; it was a big deal when they "closed Trauma."

There is a shortage of hospital beds in Bangkok. The new terminal at Suvarnabhumi International Airport is being turned into a 5000-bed field hospital.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Boris Johnson is effectively removing the floodgates during the flood, while the waters are rising. The UK Covid-19 plan is "Stupid has to work some time... right?"

PM ? you mean Boris Jonson? in isolation? But he just opened everything up.
...
OK, I googled. You can't make this shit up.

Well, as bilby said, you could, you'd just be laughed out of the room. It wouldn't be a satire or even slapstick.

 

[crazyfingers]

Bad news for the left wing authoritarians and lockdown zealots as England lifts covid restrictions and thousands flock to bars and nightclubs.

Thousands of eager revellers across England have piled onto dance floors for the first time since March last year without being required to provide Covid passports or negative test results. Face masks are also no longer legally required, and with social distancing rules shelved, there are no limits on people attending. Venues including Fabric, E1, Ministry of Sound and Egg nightclubs in London, Pryzm in Bristol, Powerhouse Night Club in Newcastle and Moon Acre in Dorset re-opened on the stroke of midnight - the very second that most legal restrictions on social contact were removed. It's 'the moment we've been waiting for, that our customers have been waiting for,' said Tristan Moffat, operations director of London music venue The Piano Works, ahead of the deadline.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...stroke-midnight-restrictions-FINALLY-end.html

Oh no, people were dancing!!

It's bad for anyone who cares about the well being of others. World health experts are absolutely stunned at Johnson's action not just for concern about residents of the UK but also for the world given that London is a global travel hub.

 

[ZiprHead]

Bad news for the left wing authoritarians and lockdown zealots as England lifts covid restrictions and thousands flock to bars and nightclubs.

Thousands of eager revellers across England have piled onto dance floors for the first time since March last year without being required to provide Covid passports or negative test results. Face masks are also no longer legally required, and with social distancing rules shelved, there are no limits on people attending. Venues including Fabric, E1, Ministry of Sound and Egg nightclubs in London, Pryzm in Bristol, Powerhouse Night Club in Newcastle and Moon Acre in Dorset re-opened on the stroke of midnight - the very second that most legal restrictions on social contact were removed. It's 'the moment we've been waiting for, that our customers have been waiting for,' said Tristan Moffat, operations director of London music venue The Piano Works, ahead of the deadline.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...stroke-midnight-restrictions-FINALLY-end.html

Oh no, people were dancing!!

It's bad for anyone who cares about the well being of others. World health experts are absolutely stunned at Johnson's action not just for concern about residents of the UK but also for the world given that London is a global travel hub.

Time to cut off travel from Europe again?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Time to cut off travel from Europe again?

The US is surging as well, thanks to people that just think this is a joke... meanwhile the Dow says it isn't laughing.

We could have shut this down spring 2020. Nope.

Could have kept the curve flattened. Also nope. FREEDOM!!!

Finally have the vaccine. We can protect ourselves from it. Nope.

The US plan seems to be hybrid. People with brains get vaccinated, the remainder of America goes herd immunity via catch and spread.

I want to go to Canada and I can't because too many Americans are blithering idiots!

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Bad news for the left wing authoritarians and lockdown zealots as England lifts covid restrictions and thousands flock to bars and nightclubs.

Thousands of eager revellers across England have piled onto dance floors for the first time since March last year without being required to provide Covid passports or negative test results. Face masks are also no longer legally required, and with social distancing rules shelved, there are no limits on people attending. Venues including Fabric, E1, Ministry of Sound and Egg nightclubs in London, Pryzm in Bristol, Powerhouse Night Club in Newcastle and Moon Acre in Dorset re-opened on the stroke of midnight - the very second that most legal restrictions on social contact were removed. It's 'the moment we've been waiting for, that our customers have been waiting for,' said Tristan Moffat, operations director of London music venue The Piano Works, ahead of the deadline.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...stroke-midnight-restrictions-FINALLY-end.html

Oh no, people were dancing!!

It's bad for anyone who cares about the well being of others. World health experts are absolutely stunned at Johnson's action not just for concern about residents of the UK but also for the world given that London is a global travel hub.

This shouldn't be a surprise. He waited way too long to act on Covid-19 last year. The guy is an idiot and a liar. He helped propel the lunacy of how much money Britain would save in Brexit.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Looks like we're going for culling instead of immunity.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Looks like we're going for culling instead of immunity.

Death toll is definitely dropping with the elderly vaccinated. So, we are going to see needless deaths, but not a huge toll. Hospitalizations are rising, but again, with the elderly not as much in the picture, it isn't as big an issue (yet). The trouble remains that with absolutely no mitigation efforts to reduce spread, the numbers for cases soon could dwarf what we've already seen. But if that does happen, then everyone would have either gotten it or was vaccinated. Though, also in that case, the remaining unvaccinated elderly will be seeing problems.

The question remains about long-term consequences of having Covid-19. And whether we grind complainers into sausage that needlessly contracted Covid-19 and demand government help to deal with their medical costs down the road.

 

[TSwizzle]

What an authoritarian hell hole Australia is;

Katie Hopkins has been deported from Australia after 'joking' about breaching hotel quarantine rules and calling Covid lockdowns the 'greatest hoax in human history.' The controversial British social commentator, 46, boarded a Singapore Airlines flight from Sydney at 3pm on Monday after her 'critical skills' visa was torn up by the Federal Government and she was fined $1,000 (£536) for answering the door of her room in quarantine naked and without a face mask in violation of quarantine rules. But during her stay in a hotel room, she shared an Instagram Live video in which she joked about deliberately breaking Covid rules by opening her door naked and mask-free to the workers who deliver her food.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said on Monday morning: 'I hadn't heard of her before and I don't want to hear about her ever again. 'I thought it was just shameful, the fact that she was out there boasting about breaching quarantine was just appalling,' she told the ABC.

DailyMail

 

[Elixir]

Looks like we're going for culling instead of immunity.

Death toll is definitely dropping with the elderly vaccinated. So, we are going to see needless deaths, but not a huge toll. Hospitalizations are rising, but again, with the elderly not as much in the picture, it isn't as big an issue (yet). The trouble remains that with absolutely no mitigation efforts to reduce spread, the numbers for cases soon could dwarf what we've already seen. But if that does happen, then everyone would have either gotten it or was vaccinated. Though, also in that case, the remaining unvaccinated elderly will be seeing problems.

The question remains about long-term consequences of having Covid-19. And whether we grind complainers into sausage that needlessly contracted Covid-19 and demand government help to deal with their medical costs down the road.

Yes, the layout of the fitness landscape is fucked up. Stoopid should hurt a whole lot more, and kill much faster.

 

[Swammerdami]

Oh no, people were dancing!!

Don't worry. Tomorrow the right-wing gibberish factory will be touting the meme that liberals spend their stimulus checks on frivolous partying, while conservatives are serious and use their checks to Create Jobs and buy educational books like Art of the Deal. The fun will even out.

 

[TSwizzle]

Oh no, people were dancing!!

Don't worry.

I'm not worried. It's authoritarian control freaks that are worried.

 

[lpetrich]

Reading TSwizzle's posts, I'm reminded of the anti-vax book  Melanie's Marvelous Measles

I've seen numerous satires of that title with a variety of diseases. Here's one that I invented: Corinne's Correct Coronavirus.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

What an authoritarian hell hole Australia is;

Katie Hopkins has been deported from Australia after 'joking' about breaching hotel quarantine rules and calling Covid lockdowns the 'greatest hoax in human history.' The controversial British social commentator, 46, boarded a Singapore Airlines flight from Sydney at 3pm on Monday after her 'critical skills' visa was torn up by the Federal Government and she was fined $1,000 (£536) for answering the door of her room in quarantine naked and without a face mask in violation of quarantine rules. But during her stay in a hotel room, she shared an Instagram Live video in which she joked about deliberately breaking Covid rules by opening her door naked and mask-free to the workers who deliver her food.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said on Monday morning: 'I hadn't heard of her before and I don't want to hear about her ever again. 'I thought it was just shameful, the fact that she was out there boasting about breaching quarantine was just appalling,' she told the ABC.

DailyMail

Hellhole? Sounds like Australia did the right thing.

 

[Elixir]

What an authoritarian hell hole Australia is;

Katie Hopkins has been deported from Australia after 'joking' about breaching hotel quarantine rules and calling Covid lockdowns the 'greatest hoax in human history.' The controversial British social commentator, 46, boarded a Singapore Airlines flight from Sydney at 3pm on Monday after her 'critical skills' visa was torn up by the Federal Government and she was fined $1,000 (£536) for answering the door of her room in quarantine naked and without a face mask in violation of quarantine rules. But during her stay in a hotel room, she shared an Instagram Live video in which she joked about deliberately breaking Covid rules by opening her door naked and mask-free to the workers who deliver her food.

Oh wait... we're s'posed to feel sorry for Katie for having been rescued from an authoritarian hellhole by the hellish anti-stupid authoritarian policies of the hellhole?
Ya sure ya betcha!

 

[Angra Mainyu]

Now we're queueing up to join a queue for Sinopharm vaccine. I don't know if this is pay-in-advance as was the queue for Moderna (maybe) in January (maybe) which we've already joined.

Vaccine mismanagement is now the major charge against our military dictator. People are clamoring to restore the  Shinawatra dynasty!

The largest hospital in our North-Central region has now shut its Emergency Room ("except for emergencies" ) due to Covid cases among medical staff. I used to watch the TV series ER; it was a big deal when they "closed Trauma."

There is a shortage of hospital beds in Bangkok. The new terminal at Suvarnabhumi International Airport is being turned into a 5000-bed field hospital.

That sounds bad , but hopefully you will get the Sinopharm vaccine soon and the second does in time. That will probably protect you from serious illness at least (and from illness if Delta weren't dominant, but I don't know how much it protects against that). Later, the Moderna vaccine will likely boost your immunity significantly.

Side note: before the vaccination campaign picked up the pace, some people here flew to Miami to get a free Pfizer jab (now some of them are stuck there because the government decided to allow only a small number of people to enter de country by plane every day, 600 and now I think about 1000, but that's another matter). I suppose that's a lot more expensive, but in the worst case scenario if you don't get the vaccine any time soon, maybe you could try that?