Getting vaccinated

[Gob]

Another one who knew more than the doctors and scientists.

[Long Run]

John wasn’t entirely wrong. He was extremely unlikely to die from Covid, as a physically fit 42-year-old with no underlying conditions. The Covid mortality rate for a 40-year-old with no underlying health conditions is about one in every 1,490 people infected.

But his calculus when it came to understanding the risk-to-benefit ratio of Covid vaccination was off. If infected, someone who is unvaccinated is 32 times more likely to die of Covid than someone who has been vaccinated. While vaccination carries a risk of side-effects, this risk is far smaller than the risk of being unvaccinated during a pandemic.

The biggest beneficiary of vaccination is society as a whole, as opposed to any one individual, especially healthy individuals who can rightly note that they have little to worry about with COVID. It is just a very selfish view though.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Thanks LR, Borrowed your summary for a friend.

[BoSoxGal]

Another one who knew more than the doctors and scientists.

Reading that story made me weep. How incredibly fucking sad.

I hate the purveyors of disinformation and all the enablers, too. They are essentially murderers to my way of thinking.

[Gob]

Could it be that Sars-Cov-2 is jumping from humans to other animals, and possibly back. In the US, last Autumn, it was found in 80% of white deer. This potentially means there is a huge population of animals out there who can not only act as reservoirs, but can also provide conditions ripe for more significant mutations that in humans. The deer seem unaffected, so chronic infections may be more common and so more mutations, which then can bounce back to humans.

I just hope the Americans don’t react to this by announcing a mass cull of deer, as they did with Geese after the Hudson River air crash, portrayed in the Tom Hanks film “Sully”. Following that, they killed over 70,000 geese in a futile attempt to control our declining relationship with nature

From my mate's blog.

[BoSoxGal]

Just a small point of contention; bird hazing and culling near airports was going on long before the so-called miracle on the Hudson incident, and the 70,000 birds culled in the New York City area (on a major migratory route for birds of all kinds) in the several years since that incident was predominantly made up of smaller birds, and only a few thousand geese.

And here’s a reason why such bird culling isn’t some kind of irrational overreaction to the problem of bird strikes:

http://www.celebrateboston.com/disaster ... e-1960.htm

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/201 ... ane-crash/

[Crackpot]

Deer hunting is a regular sport and there is already the apparatus in place to check the safety of the meat. The only time they use culls for deer is when the deer population either gets out of control or diseased in an area that is too close to dense population centers (parks golf courses etc)

[ex-khobar Andy]

Deer hunting is a regular sport and there is already the apparatus in place to check the safety of the meat.

Yes; but there is no system in place to routinely check deer meat for covid. It appears that proper cooking of the meat will destroy pathogens, including covid viruses. But when dressing the meat, wear gloves.

[Crackpot]

Specifically COVID no (that I’m aware of) but there are systems in place for checking hunted deer meat (at least in Michigan)

[Bicycle Bill]

I'm not a hunter, but living in Wisconsin you are exposed to a powerful hunting culture, especially with regard to deer season.  I do recall that within the past twenty years there have been several instances where white-tailed deer were found to be infected with chronic wasting disease, a fatal, infectious nervous system disease of deer, moose, elk and reindeer/caribou.  It is part of the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases — as opposed to COVID, which is a virus.

The hunt went on, but hunters were advised to first of all have their deer carcasses tested for presence of the disease. They were also advised to not consume meat from deer that had tested positive or had been taken from areas where instances of the disease had been confirmed, since processing or cooking the meat did not destroy the prions.

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[Crackpot]

Does Wisconsin have the testing stations that we have in MI?

[Scooter]

[Joe Guy]

And if you remove the first and last letters from OMICRON, I'm pretty sure it means MICROSOFT.

It's eerie...

[Bicycle Bill]

Does Wisconsin have the testing stations that we have in MI?

Don't know ... like I said, I'm not a hunter.  But they must have had some way of testing the deer the hunters took ... unless they let them process the deer while the tests were being conducted, and then — if the test came back positive — advised said hunter to shit-can the affected venison.

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[Gob]

Oh this is lovely;

"It is just my opinion and as I am not sure I am not surrendering my body ..not whilst they are building concentration camps in Australia for un va**efd and killing children all under an umbrella of 'safe' and 'good for humanity'"

Some numty hippy bird, calling herself "Lowen Moon", on the local rag FB page. God help society if she breeds...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Armed men held up a vaccination team stationed at a taxi rank in Soshanguve, Tshwane and robbed them of their cellphones and tablets on Saturday. The Gauteng health department said the men emerged from a white Toyota Quantum and robbed the team at gunpoint while they were busy inoculating people at the Wonder City taxi rank's vaccination pop-up site at around 09:00.

"The Gauteng Department of Health condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack on [the] Tshwane District vaccination team. The perpetrators fled with vaccination programme gadgets which consist of three tablets, one smartphone and six cellphones belonging to the team," it said in a statement.

[Burning Petard]

'wasting . . . ' disease is caused by Prions which are very scary stuff. Normal cooking or sterilization will not make them safe. It was found in local squirrels in DelMarVa years ago and I stopped hunting them--even though I really like to eat them, better (to me) than rabbit, duck or even chicken.

snailgate

[Gob]

Had the Moderna for my booster jab. For the first time I've got side effects, my lymph nodes in my left arm are all swollen.

[Bicycle Bill]

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[Econoline]

Got my booster jab this afternoon.

No noticeable problems so far, other than Bill Gates's voice inside my head nagging me to upgrade to Windows 11.