We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
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- Strangelove
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Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
They're promoting double masking now folks.
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Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
What worries me a bit is that a lot of people seem to think that th ePandemic is basically over now that we have a vaccine. Think again!
It will take at least another six months before enough people have been vaccinated to really start seeing the effects of herd immunity.
If you look at eg the current trends in the USA all significant figures are still heading straight up.
On Jan 12th more than 4400 covid deaths were registered in the USA.
The worst number during the peak in April was just over 2700, so this spike is much worse, and it hasn't even peaked yet.
Having vaccines available is great, but we're not safe until most of the population has been inocculated - twice - and in some areas there may even be resistance to taking the vaccine. Hopefully we will start achieving herd immunity sometime this summer in most of the industrialized world, but many poor countries have still not received any vaccines, so it may take another year to really break the back of this beast.
And then we also don't know foe how long we stay immune. Will we have to repeat the vaccinations on a yearly basis?
Will the virus mutate so much that the vaccines no longer are effective?
We already see multiple strains, apart from the original one there is a South African one, a british one, two Brazilian strains, etc. So far there is no indication that any of these strains renders the vaccines ineffective, but as the virus keeps mutating, you never know.
I really hope that normalcy will return some time this summer or fall, but it's to early to start counting chickens.
Or as we say in Sweden, don't sell the skin before you've shot the bear.
It will take at least another six months before enough people have been vaccinated to really start seeing the effects of herd immunity.
If you look at eg the current trends in the USA all significant figures are still heading straight up.
On Jan 12th more than 4400 covid deaths were registered in the USA.
The worst number during the peak in April was just over 2700, so this spike is much worse, and it hasn't even peaked yet.
Having vaccines available is great, but we're not safe until most of the population has been inocculated - twice - and in some areas there may even be resistance to taking the vaccine. Hopefully we will start achieving herd immunity sometime this summer in most of the industrialized world, but many poor countries have still not received any vaccines, so it may take another year to really break the back of this beast.
And then we also don't know foe how long we stay immune. Will we have to repeat the vaccinations on a yearly basis?
Will the virus mutate so much that the vaccines no longer are effective?
We already see multiple strains, apart from the original one there is a South African one, a british one, two Brazilian strains, etc. So far there is no indication that any of these strains renders the vaccines ineffective, but as the virus keeps mutating, you never know.
I really hope that normalcy will return some time this summer or fall, but it's to early to start counting chickens.
Or as we say in Sweden, don't sell the skin before you've shot the bear.
Whatever you do, always give 100 %!
Except when donating blood.
Except when donating blood.
Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
Is a mask Kamala's glass ceiling?
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
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Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
Per, why are you so obsessed with the United States?Per wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:58 am What worries me a bit is that a lot of people seem to think that th ePandemic is basically over now that we have a vaccine. Think again!
It will take at least another six months before enough people have been vaccinated to really start seeing the effects of herd immunity.
If you look at eg the current trends in the USA all significant figures are still heading straight up.
On Jan 12th more than 4400 covid deaths were registered in the USA.
The worst number during the peak in April was just over 2700, so this spike is much worse, and it hasn't even peaked yet.
Having vaccines available is great, but we're not safe until most of the population has been inocculated - twice - and in some areas there may even be resistance to taking the vaccine. Hopefully we will start achieving herd immunity sometime this summer in most of the industrialized world, but many poor countries have still not received any vaccines, so it may take another year to really break the back of this beast.
And then we also don't know foe how long we stay immune. Will we have to repeat the vaccinations on a yearly basis?
Will the virus mutate so much that the vaccines no longer are effective?
We already see multiple strains, apart from the original one there is a South African one, a british one, two Brazilian strains, etc. So far there is no indication that any of these strains renders the vaccines ineffective, but as the virus keeps mutating, you never know.
I really hope that normalcy will return some time this summer or fall, but it's to early to start counting chickens.
Or as we say in Sweden, don't sell the skin before you've shot the bear.
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Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
He still dreams about that farm slut BJ he scored in nebraska back in 84
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Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
How do you know about that, were you there?The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:31 pm
He still dreams about that farm slut BJ he scored in nebraska back in 84
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Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
Young Per sorta looked like willy nylander. You never know...Mëds wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:52 pmHow do you know about that, were you there?The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:31 pm
He still dreams about that farm slut BJ he scored in nebraska back in 84
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Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
So Wiz was blowing Nylander, when it actually might have been Per??? Small world!The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:09 pmYoung Per sorta looked like willy nylander. You never know...Mëds wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:52 pmHow do you know about that, were you there?The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:31 pm
He still dreams about that farm slut BJ he scored in nebraska back in 84
Doc: "BTW, Donny was right, you're smug."
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Maybe that humour line went a tad of course
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Per has a small one?
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/m ... t-n1400444
"WATCH: Joe Biden Violated His Mask Mandate Within Hours of Signing It"
YEEEEEEUP, yup, yup, yup, yup, yup...
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Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
I hear a couple of party houses on the Sugarcane reserve are the root of the Williams Lake outbreak.
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
Re: We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
- Strangelove
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