We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)

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They're promoting double masking now folks.

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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.

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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.

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Is a mask Kamala's glass ceiling?
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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.

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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. :look:
Per, why are you so obsessed with the United States?
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:lol:

He still dreams about that farm slut BJ he scored in nebraska back in 84
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The Brown Wizard wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:31 pm :lol:

He still dreams about that farm slut BJ he scored in nebraska back in 84
How do you know about that, were you there?
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Mëds wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:52 pm
The Brown Wizard wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:31 pm :lol:

He still dreams about that farm slut BJ he scored in nebraska back in 84
How do you know about that, were you there?
Young Per sorta looked like willy nylander. You never know...
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The Brown Wizard wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:09 pm
Mëds wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:52 pm
The Brown Wizard wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:31 pm :lol:

He still dreams about that farm slut BJ he scored in nebraska back in 84
How do you know about that, were you there?
Young Per sorta looked like willy nylander. You never know...
So Wiz was blowing Nylander, when it actually might have been Per??? Small world!
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:wow:

Maybe that humour line went a tad of course
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Cornuck wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:12 pm So Wiz was blowing Nylander, when it actually might have been Per??? Small world!
Per has a small one? :?
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Strangelove wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:35 pm
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I hear a couple of party houses on the Sugarcane reserve are the root of the Williams Lake outbreak.
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