Americans: Yeah that's right!
Almost everywhere else in the world: You pay how much for health care???
It's important for corporations which are people to exercise their freedom of expression which is money to bribe our politicians with campaign contributions which is speech into letting them gouge us which is legal because freedom is the bestest thing ever which is obviously the most optimal system because we're the only ones doing it so it must be right.
I mean that was the focus of the video and what they spent the majority of the time discussing. None of their other points were sourced, and there are no sources in the video description. Which I find funny since the video was objecting to us taking Bill Gate's word on anything, because he isn't a qualified epidemiologist, yet the same hosts somehow expect us to take their word, because they are qualified news announcers/comedians? Anyway, the main points I can identify:
running joke at my work is that CDC stands for Cant disrupt Capitalism; people are not happy about these changes. personally I think it's good. the 10 day window is unsustainable, half of people arent even on the same page, and health care workers have been sent in to die since day 1 and still aren't being compensated so this is nothing different in my eyes. I'm not blaming anyone, it's a systematic failure from the ground up. my hospital is once again an internal disaster in what seems to be a never ending tsunami; the harsh reality that noone is talking about that I want to scream like Leo Dicaprio in Dont Look Up is the real possibility that if you get sick, nobody is going to take care, you might die from neglect, and nobody will be held accountable. I have seen this with my two eyes. Get the vaccine or get fucked, essentially. /rant
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"not the alarming 73.2% that it had originally estimated last week."CDC significantly reduces estimate of omicron prevalence in US
The CDC significantly reduced its estimate for how prevalent the omicron variant of COVID-19 is in the United States on Tuesday, now saying that it is responsible for 58.6% of all new cases for the week that ended on Dec. 25.
I never said that it does, and it doesn't need to. Say the hospitalisation rate is 0.5%, so that on average 0.5% of people infected become hospitalised.
probably 3 - 4 a year.
Just have flu sex or just fall asleep watching a film.
You posted a lot in this thread .. I am sure you know what you need to do.. self test and get a PCr and stay at home until you have had a PCr test.
Which is?
The thing is we're trying not to catch it because I'm moving cross country in a matter of days and this would fuck up a lot if she has it.
I would opt for a PCR test to be sure , I had family members which had a negative rapid test, twice , but the PCr was positive .
Alright. Fuck man that takes days though and this wrecked her visit already cause she's triple masked staying away from me. I was hoping to move on a rapid and get answers immediately figuring the evening of the 26th to now is enough time. The thought of our trip carrying on like this for days while we wait for a PCR fucking sucks.
Rapid are sadly not always accurate.
There is just no way of knowing, there are too many variables and too many unknowns. Chances are there will at least be a fourth shot made available for those in high risk categories.
Reckon we'll see an Omicron vaccine made, given to everyone as a booster sometime around June-Sept and then the (UK) government will charge people for any boosters thereafter, unless you're part of an at-risk group (like the flu shot).
It's promising news, but I wouldn't consider it excellent just yet.Sinnergy pleaseif ur ok
No seriously, this is all excellent news. Think back these two years of misery, there never was a conspiracy to persuade us that things are *better* than they really are
the 75% estimate was definitely eye brow raising , but i get that coming up with these numbers must be challenging in a health care system as decentralized as ours. at the end of the day it really doesn't affect anythingCDC significantly reduces estimate of omicron prevalence in US
The CDC significantly reduced its estimate for how prevalent the omicron variant of COVID-19 is in the United States on Tuesday, now saying that it is responsible for 58.6% of all new cases for the week that ended on Dec. 25.
when did ending isolation ever require a neg test?
I think it used to be 14 days or neg test—whichever came first.
I’m very sorry for your loss. Hopefully things have gotten better since 2020 when dealing with the post mortem side of things. It was difficult on our end when we lost family members and watching a “virtual funeral”.
Condolences to you and your grand aunt's family. Were you close?
It's very nice of you to be there for Grandma in times like this. Good luck.
that makes 0 sense. can you link us?
If the goal is to safely get as many vaccines into the hands of needy people as possible in the shortest amount of time, lifting the intellectual property rights would be better than selling the vaccine at cost. With the IP rights waived, countries like South Africa and India could make their own vaccines with their more than capable facilities. This increases production capacity instantly and shortens transportation time. The amount of vaccines given away via COVAX is small relative what could be produced by everyone else in the world if they were only allowed to.
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I think that having 80-90% coverage would actually do a lot. Hypothetically, if we had vaccinated 80-90% of the world in the first 4 months, this pandemic would have been toast. Back then, the vaccines prevented transmission as well as it prevented serious illness. Now, with the new variants that evade the transmission protection, that prospect becomes less and less likely until new vaccines are developed that target the variants more specifically.
