KIP covid thread

Just got back from the friends and family (re) opening of my friend's place. It felt great to be in a room full of seated and (more or less) distanced people, everyone having a good time. Weird to think just a few months ago that would have been inconceivable. Def. felt more than a little like the last few steps to a finish line that's just come into sight.

This weekend was amazing. We had another couple (long since vaccinated) over for dinner inside for the first time since February 2020. Then I had a couple of friends over for a beer outside. Planning on starting up weekly ultimate (masked, for now) next week. I almost can't even believe it.

Played the first real gig with my band in forever, had the boys over afterward and stayed up late making egg tacos. Hosting an outdoor book publishing party for a friend today. Been doing indoor weekly potlucks again with the core group of friends. Life is amazing.

Mine was too: outdoor bars, a gathering in a friend's backyard. I can see the difference in people's attitudes.

We had a group of friends over a couple of nights ago, still outside (because it was nice), but everyone hugged and everyone was happy. Even the most anxious and neurotic of the bunch.

Went to the farmer's market this weekend for the first time since the pandemic. It shut down early in the pandemic, then opened with restrictions on how many people could shop, so I got out of the habit of going. It's in a new location now and open to everyone, and it's beautiful. Everyone was masked, but otherwise everything seemed very normal, people were just casually browsing, no one seemed stressed or in a hurry. It felt so nice to go to a public place just to spend some time there, not because I had a specific task to accomplish, and to be around other people who were doing the same thing.

My regular pub quiz teammate texted me earlier to say he's sitting in the pub in question and the quiz in question is on next Monday. First time since March 2020. Not sure how positive this is though tbf.

... as he says, he's been able to go an entire year without having to remember who won the Boat Race or the exact date we left the EU or whatever.

good news for people who got/get covid before vaccination:

NEW: Immunity to the coronavirus lasts at least a year, possibly a lifetime, and improves over time especially after vaccination, according to two new studies. 🧵https://t.co/qKRuTRf8Jh

— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorva_nyc) May 26, 2021

Let me say right off: This does NOT mean people who have been infected can skip vaccines. But it does mean that those who were infected and then vaccinated have what one researcher called "bulletproof" protection against variants, and will probably never need boosters

— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorva_nyc) May 26, 2021

It's the combo of infection and vaccination that is powerful here. The results will most likely not apply to those who never had Covid and were vaccinated, because immune memory is not consolidated the same way after vaccination as it is after infection.

— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorva_nyc) May 26, 2021

Is this true even for people that had only mild or totally asymptomatic cases?

I'm bulletproof! *plays in traffic*

Doesn't say traffic-proof!

based on that study alone, yes for mild, no evidence either way for asymptomatic. sample was 77 people most of whom had "mild" symptoms.

sample was 77 people

straight-up trolling ilx0rz there

Ugh, and I wanted to believe.

Went to the pub last night for the first time in living memory and, bearing in mind I've barely touched a drop since last March, drank quite a lot but didn't get drunk, the friend I was with was pretty pissed by the end of the night, and not a trace of a hangover this morning.

that's the vaccines imo

Had my 2nd jab today actually!

I flew to NY just to see a friend who had business in town. Had dinner out, saw a movie, went for a jog through Chelsea. It was all very weird! The town feels different, I haven't been away this long in decades. But it was amazing! To see a movie, to have dinner with a friend, to be doing stuff!!

need the world to know that my library is open for the first time in over a year, blessings 2 all

now that's a sea-change!

Vax-a-Million winner Jonathan Carlyle of Toledo is overwhelmed but said he’s hoping to use the $ to pay bills and buy a house.
“I kept hemming and hawing about (getting the vaccine)...and when the Vax-a-Million thing started I immediately went down there and got it.” @toledonews pic.twitter.com/BmkiwUIWnn

— Kaitlin Durbin (@njKaitlinDurbin) June 3, 2021

That’s from https://www.toledoblade.com/local/Coronavirus/2021/06/02/Ohio-trails-national-average-vaccinations/stories/20210602106

That is good.

Got my second AstraZeneca jab yesterday afternoon. Needle was bigger but the injection site is less sore today. I had some side effects today but nowhere near as much as after the first jab.

awesome :)

i had pretty much zero side effects from the second one. my wife just got hers today and feels pretty groggy though.

daily cases are low as fuck in BC and im getting my second vax on monday.

second dose of moderna kicked my arse but im pretty much back to normal now and happy to know i'll be a fully vaxed alpha in less than 2 weeks

join us

although i know of many people who have got covid while double-vaxxed none of them had a serious case of it. 2 weeks after my second dose i feel an absolute lack of concern about getting COVID. couldn't care less about it. i wasn't overly concerned before, but now it's completely out of my mind. feels liberating. the great majority of new cases - over 2/3s - are among the unvaxxed, meaning the numbers of infections among the partially and fully vaccinated are quite low.

I've...almost reached that point. I haven't stopped masking -- I've been masked for three hours at this library -- and I'll avoid crowded indoor settings, but if "mild COVID" is "akin to the flu or a bad cold" I can make the meek adjustment.

And that's bad "mild" Covid. Most people will have little to no symptoms at all.

out of caution w/ my folks I bought a few emergency Binax COVID tests so I could periodically test myself (or them), will replenish as needed (not cheap but how many times would you test someone a week, lol).

I actually ordered a box, then cancelled my order. It took one of my kids to talk me down. I said, my nose is a little snuffy, maybe I have Covid, do you think I should get tested? She asked me, did you come into contact with anyone positive for Covid? Not that I know of. Is a slightly snuffy nose your only symptom? Yes. Then don't worry about it. And if you are worried about it, wear a mask. And if it gets worse or doesn't go away, *then* get tested.

Nose was no longer snuffy by the end of the day.

that's really the damn problem for anybody with chronic anything (allergies especially). you know it's probably just that but....some of the symptoms are soooooo similar that you feel irresponsible not checking and then wonder if you should or shouldn't check.

really wish COVID had like a signature symptom (besides the loss of taste and smell, which doesn't happen in every case anyway) like THERE WILL BE A HUGE WART ON YOUR FOREHEAD so it would be unmistakable.

Vaccinated people still have a risk of transmitting it, and every vaccinated person who catches it helps make the variants smarter. Early testing suggests the vaccines may be only 50% effective against Lambda.

that is not kip imho

This should be pretty much the height of #flu season in the southern hemisphere. Yet very little of it is being detected, @WHO reports.
Flu has been at historically low levels during the #Covid pandemic. It will return. But when? https://t.co/85xzBwlTVr pic.twitter.com/7Fig8ZjmcN

— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) August 5, 2021

that is not kip imho

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 5 August 2021 15:12 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Look,

https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wlpr/files/styles/x_large/public/201912/1980s_--_mtv-era_kip_winger.jpg

fp'd sic. go to the other thread were double-vaxx people who don't leave their house are testing themselves twice a day

Early testing on Lambda efficiency is insufficient, no study has been peer-reviewed, and we should quit hyperfocusing on fucking lambda before we've managed to shed Delta. There are already 1000 cases of Lambda in the US, but people did the same thing when Beta was emerging and showing much more vaccine evasion and it hit the US and never generated many cases because it wasn't anywhere near as infectious as Alpha or Delta.

Also recent Singapore studies show vaccinated people who get infected are infectious for a shorter time frame as the body fights infection and a UK paper preprint yesterday showed that vaccinated people had lower viral load, contrary to the previous studies. Mask up indoors, yes, avoid crowds etc but jfc keep the proselytizing out of the kip thread.

citation on last part: https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/08/04/fully-vaccinated-half-as-likely-to-catch-delta-covid-variant-and-less-likely-to-infect-others-study-finds/

sic, take it to the other thread, where we can argue against your croaking of doom too.

When my mother was up for the football she just casually dropped that the couple who occupy the pointy thing across the road from her are vehement anti-vaxxers, I always hated that boy, he complained about the volume of my music when I lived down there, said we could find a "compromise" which apparently involved me wearing headphones and him carrying on being a dick, also I'm pretty sure it was him reported me for an ASBO, for writing "four letter words" visible from the street, yeah I wrote DOOM on my mother's wall, four letters and I stand by each one. But now he's actively trying to murder my mother and all the unvaccinated children who walk past his yard twice a day on the way to school, and also MY SISTER'S NEWBORN was visiting this weekend, I saw him stood in the yard when I was down there today but I hadn't been informed of his views at that point so I didn't know I should start shit. Apparently though he's "done his own research" and "it's his choice", well I done my research, it says he's a cunt and my choice is to walk down the road on tuesday and murder him with a clawhammer.
(I'm aware this is the KIP thread but I couldn't find the appropriate one and anyrate I shall be K this village P by ridding it of this scum. Tuesday tho, I got plans tomorrow).

Lol always good to be reminded that my life could be worse, I could have neighbors like that. So now that I found what seems to be the cheapest AirBnb in Atlanta to stay in for the time being, I’ve discovered that the main denizen to be encountered here is similarly infected with the brain worms. He seems just reasonable enough tho, so that I find myself wondering if there’s ANY way to engage in reasonable dialogue with this fruit cake but of course I’m just deceiving myself. Might as well go shout at Facebook.

That wasn’t very positive either was it. I’m not in South Carolina any more! Yay.

There are now not one but TWO rapid COVID testing sites within walking distance from my house. One of which I used in the past that at the time, did not work with insurance and required you to file a claim, but now DOES take it

Not that I need one right now but good to have options.

Covid: Vaccines '90% effective' at preventing Delta variant deaths

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58987835