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    16 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:
    This shit is exasperating. Here is something new. And it underscores how YouTube parsers of science are just making things worse. “Masks don’t work!” Oh yeah? Fuck off.
     

    Given that this study is pre omicron, I'd like to see the data refreshed.

     

    EDIT:  Looks like they did update the data.  By Mid December there was almost no distinction between districts with mandates, partial mandates or no mandates.

    Moral of the story is there are no absolutes, don't try to spike the covid football, and check the dates on story that show up as "new"

    https://www.michigan.gov/documents/coronavirus/20211214_Data_and_modeling_update_vMEDIA_743631_7.pdf#page=51

     

     

     

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  2. What, that I support kids 5 and over who are approved for the vaccine to have to show proof of vaccination to be in public spaces?  They carry the disease just like the rest of us, and in the case of Omicron, they are getting it and passing it on.
    What's the rule in NYC for international travelers coming into the city for vacation?

    I don't think French or Spanish 8 year olds can get the vaccine in their home country, so is their family shit out of luck or is there an exemption?
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    On Christmas Day a family bought over $100 worth of tickets and food two days after Christmas. 

    The tip? $2.00.

    How much were the tickets and how much was the food?  $2 was probably low, but if a family of 5 went to a night movie, over half of that was on the tickets.

    We're tipping on tickets now?

  4. Maybe, someday, we can be as functional a country as......Mexico.
    That chart has to be "based on eligibility", right?

    Many countries aren't vaccinating their youth. I don't think Mexico is vaccinating under 18, which makes up a good % of their population.


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    I'll try to find it, but I thought I remember one of the legalization bills from a recent TX lege session was written by a hardcore Christian who argued marijuana was created by God, so it was fine.

    I could've been high at the time though.

    Edit:. Found it. From 2015....

    "Everything that God made is good, even marijuana" said state Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, who filed the bill. "The conservative thought is that government doesn't need to fix something that God made good."

  6. Since apparently everyone failed fucking English 
    Gorsuch incorrectly said the Flu killed “hundreds of thousands” every year. It does not. 
    Sotomayor incorrectly said we have “over 100K children…in serious condition”. We do not. 
    Both comments are factually incorrect and expose the stupidity of the court, along with its partisan nature. Americans deserve better. #bothsides
     
     
    According to the WaPo, there's a comma in Gorsuch's quote.

    "Hundreds, thousands of people..."

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/08/sotomayors-false-claim-that-over-100000-children-are-serious-condition-with-covid/

  7. Dude down the street tested positive.  He said he caught it at their bayhouse before his family came down to join him for a weekend. They are a bit over cautious and decided he needed to quarantine without them for 2 weeks.
    Fuckin a man - 2 weeks alone with no wife or kids at a bayhouse. This motherfucker is probably duck hunting and fishing every day.
    I bet that dude is just going to keep catching all the variants...
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  8. It's going to be interesting to see the results of the AISD testing clinics that opened yesterday and today.  The district encouraged all students to get tested before returning to school tomorrow.  My kids went to the McCallum High testing site yesterday late morning, and waited 25 minutes before being told that they were out of tests.  They went earlier this morning and we'll see how that goes.
    Even if the number of students in ASID who get tested before tomorrow doesn't approach 50%, I imagine there's still a sizable amount of students getting tested, and with the transmission rate of this variant, I have to believe there will be a lot of students who test positive and start their semesters virtual.
    I read out of 1200 tests, one third were positive yesterday.

    Would like to know how bad or non existent their symptoms were.
  9. The fact that we largely don't even have any standardized ways to record/stratify data on a state level, much less a national level, makes it next to impossible to gather all the categories of meaningful data.
    In the post-mortem of this pandemic, if I was a congresscritter (and imagining that we had a functional federal government), I would introduce Brisket's Pandemic Hospital Data Reporting Act (except I'd take the time to come up with words that make a cool acronym, like "BITCH" or something).  It would require all hospitals that receive medicare or medicaid reimbursement (so.....all hospitals) to report certain categories of admissions broken down in certain ways, upon either executive order or by order of the CDC (that is, they don't have to do it all the time, just in connection with certain infectious disease situations).  And we'd require things like the REASON for admission (so, the car wreck victim with COVID would be admitted for "Reason: broken bones from wreck," and wouldn't be recorded as a COVID case), etc. etc.
    We need to have a more uniform approach to understanding and managing pandemics in the future.  If we don't 1) learn from this experience and 2) put what we learned to good use, then we're fucking morons.
    SPOILER: we're fucking morons, and we won't do either 1 or 2.  But a boy can dream. 
    Oh man, the VAERS database is riddled with that kind of stuff.

    "My 85 year old dad got the COVID vaccine. He fell and broke his hip two days later."

    Similarly, in the 5-11 aged Pfizer trial, one of the kids broke his/her arm. Obviously (to most people) that's not a side effect of the vaccine, but it still had to be logged.
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