outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

Now we've got mink zombies to deal with.

i believe you’ll find they prefer the term “nosfurrati”

I wonder if PETA would have any issues about how various government agencies across Europe are treating undead furry lil' bastards!

(xp) Nosferretu surely?

well if you’re using the singular

Will read this later.

It pains me to say this, but... I think the claims made for the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are on *very* shaky ground. We should wait for a solid large trial. My latest @WIRED https://t.co/BKJfaQS1nc With a timeline & extra sources here: https://t.co/ZaeheAgtEP

— Hilda Bastian (@hildabast) November 25, 2020

LOL misread that as your 6yo daughter had to administer the test herself. Nothing would surprise me tbh.

I almost projectile vomited when they did me, because I am a wuss. She would probably have done a better job!

I would not be able to do it myself. That’s hard.

The tonsil scrape is a nightmare.

That's why, when they show footage of a test being administered on TV (which they do like clockwork), they always show the swab up the nose.

The nose bit ain't fun either. When they administered the nose swab, the woman had to say, 'Sir, could you stop scrunching up your face, we can't get the swab far enough in.'

I'm a wuss, is what I'm saying.

I've only had the nose poke. Going that far back feels unnatural and I would surely not be able to force myself to do it.

I've done my own test several times now, I feel fairly confident, except about how far up the nose I'm going

I'm just going to post that the SCOTUS ruling that came late last night is one of the most infuriating things I've ever encountered, and I'm angry quite a lot.

Yes... this is very, very bad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/supreme-court-coronavirus-religion-new-york.html

We just had a secret wedding in Brooklyn with 7000 people so this is just wonderful, can only imagine how Christmas mass will add to the death tolls.

hahaha well at least that won't impact my life oh wait that's walking distance hahaha no problem no problem

Yeah, all of the people on this board saying, "well if these wackos want to do it, fine whatever let them swim in covid" obviously don't know or care for people working on the front lines right now.

Like forks I am mere blocks from the nearest bk enclave so my deploration of this decision definitely includes some fear for my own safety

I just got off the phone with my sister, who is an RN/MBA and hospital administrator at Stanford University Medical Center.

She is on Stanford's vaccine task force, and says the vaccines are real, and will really be happening, within weeks.

They are getting the Pfizer vaccine and it will go first to ED and ICU staff, then to COVID unit staff, then to high-risk patients. After that, ina manner to be determined, to normal people.

She said that even a couple weeks ago she would have been incredulous - said that two weeks ago she would have said it was a year away.

So that's potentially hopeful, maybe?

Yes, it is hopeful news and should not be discounted.

The vaccine will certainly ease some of the emotional burden of nurses, doctors and other frontline workers, but the work will still be emotionally exhausting as they continue to see patient after patient suffering, often dying, the standard of care dropping as medical attention and equipment become triaged, and there is no vaccine available for their families and other loved ones. These people are having their hearts gouged at on a daily basis.

I can see giving them to ICU people first, but I don’t agree with the plan to give them to people with erectile dysfunction at the same time.

Heh, I couldn't figure that out either.

It's the only way Trump could insure he got his dose first.

Thanks to television, no one has yet caught up with ERs becoming EDs.

That is great news, YMP! Giving thanks for that today.

It's the only way Trump could insure he got his dose first.

lol

Emergency DEPARTMENT, sheesh

But you knew that

I'm worried about those orthodox hats catching a mutated form of the virus.

First evidence that prior exposure to common cold endemic coronaviruses dramatically reduces COVID-19 symptom severity and mortality:

Sagar et al, 2020. Recent endemic coronavirus infection is associated with less severe COVID-19. The Journal of clinical investigation.

https://i.imgur.com/xB4QYjW.jpg

Well that sucks for those of us who have been so successfully isolated that we haven't gotten colds

but... hasn’t everyone gotten a cold or thirteen at some point?

*raises hand*

there are 200 types of mild colds, only 4 of which are caused by coronaviruses

huh! alright

soup me up with some of that then, i’ll slurrrrp em up

Yeah, but the 4 colds caused by endemic coronaviruses account for 25% of all colds, if I recall correctly.

tracer haven't you already been huffing enough coronas this year, save some for the rest of us

don't bogart that joint pain

How recent do you need to have had a cold?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/28/met-police-anti-lockdown-protest-london

Silkie Carlo, the director of Big Brother Watch, who has campaigned on civil liberties during the coronavirus emergency, described the police claim about the current law on protest as “outrageous”.

“In practice, police are increasingly treating protests as banned,” she said. “The right to protest is the bedrock of any democracy. It’s clear to me that there’s a deliberate attempt to chill that right and misrepresent the law.”

She said her organisation was working with a number of people who had been wrongfully denied their right to protest.

I loathe these fucking people so much.

Great guy.

The founder, Matthew Elliott, also founded Eurosceptic think tank Business for Britain as well as Conservative Friends of Russia, Taxpayers Alliance, the NOtoAV campaign in the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum and in 2015, Elliot became the chief executive of Vote Leave.

but... hasn’t everyone gotten a cold or thirteen at some point?

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, November 27, 2020 6:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

*raises hand*

― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, November 27, 2020 6:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

there are 200 types of mild colds, only 4 of which are caused by coronaviruses

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal)

One of our Thanksgiving conversations concerned colds: no one in my family's gotten one in months. I've gone 18 months. We credit the masking and isolation.

Yes, I'm generally stricken with one cold after another from the end of summer to the start of Spring, barely a sniffle so far this year.

I have certainly had low-level sinus infections, but no colds, thank gods.

I had a brutal bacterial sinus infection that required antibiotics. That's been it though

Yeah, nothing here since last Christmas and again in February. (I’m still half convinced that one of those events might have been COVID itself — it’s not without the realm of possibility — but there’s no way to know now.)

We had ONE family visit and my daughter got strep.

I had a stinking head cold in September, but aside from that, no cold/flu illnesses this year. But I caught cellulitis from a spider bite at the end of the summer and had tendinitis in my knee earlier this month. Seems better now.

i usually get a sinus infection every four months but now that i don’t go into my office anymore... nada

I stopped getting colds once I stopped working with people with kids.

I've barely seen anyone since March, and I've still had a cold for most of the year.