The #uturn on #vaccine #uptake is amazing, I'm surprised more people aren't breaking their necks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEzosYux.. " #trump bad, #biden good" - says a lot about your ability to actually process #politics ...
Weird story with #blm claiming a #us #newyork #restaurant is #racist against #black people: https://www.lotuseaters.com/blm-pickets-.. Apparently there is #cctv showing they simply turned away a group as one member didn't have a #vaccine #passport - one more reason that such #restrictions should not exist. I suspect we can see more of this #twotier #society in the near future.
Oh would you look at that, #covid #vaccine #passports are leading to a #twotier #society https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-per.. In this case, the woman had a severe reaction to her first dose, the second dose could kill her. The #hackernews #comments are really against her on this too, unfairly I would say: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285.. I think this #pandemic has really fucked with people's #perspective ...
So far the #uk 's #response to a #covid #vaccine #passport has been inadequate: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions.. People should not be excluded based on their #health and certainly should not be forced to have a #vaccine ! #mybodymychoice wasn't it?
Thank goodness the #uk 's #tory #government has come to its senses on the #covid #vaccine #passport #requirement https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58535258 The #vaccinations *need* to be the end of this process. It's either enough or it's not, no in-between. Either way, we cannot do this indefinitely. The #economy and people are at breaking point.
Would you look at that, the #uk #vaccine #advisory body has refused the #greenlight #vaccinations for 12-15 year old #children https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58438669 The #jcvi have argued that the benefit is so low for this age range that the risk of the vaccine is simply not worth it. *Let's be done with this now.*
As #aardvark points out, the #pfizer #vaccine is not particularly effective against the #delta #india #strain of #covid https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0903.s.. This means that for #nz - they will unlikely be able to come out of a Country-wide #border #lockdown and they will need to remain in #quarantine if the goal is still #zerocases ... Not good news...
There are definitely some question marks surrounding the #sputnik V #vaccine from #russia https://forbetterscience.com/2021/08/24/.. *Once again* - the #lancet #publisher appears to be in the middle of another #controversy - this time regarding #falsified #clinical #data !
#aardvark raises a great point about the #safety aspect of the #mrna #vaccines that have been pushed out in the less than a year: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0823.s.. Particularly, #autoimmune #disease - something that runs in my family, could be triggered by the #vaccine ... There have been zero tests, #shortterm or #longterm , on selected groups like this that may be worse off from having their #covid #jab .
Here's the thing, #israel have 78% #covid #vaccination rollout to people 12 years and older, but as this article suggests, the #vaccine is *definitely* helping suppress cases: https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/i.. That said, I think expectations need to be correctly managed. This is the best possible case they could hope for given the data.
There you have it, #israel openly declare that #vaccinations *do not work* against the #delta #india #variant of #covid https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/.. They have the world's *highest* level of #vaccine rollout. I mentioned a while back that irrespective of these results, it's now time to end the #covidlockdown ...
@barray on Fri Aug 13 04:59:31 UTC 2021 said: &eI really suspect #nz is about to have a massive wake-up call: https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/0813.s.. The #vaccine for #covid is not working, so either the Country opens up and accepts the #pandemic - or it remains in #lockdown forever. At some point a decision needs to be made. I understand that #aardvark is old and in the category of people most likely to be affected, but I really suspect this is all in vain.So a key person in the #oxford / #astrazeneca #vaccine development for #covid has no said that the #delta #india #variant makes #herdimmunity impossible: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/delta.. Why are we even bothering then? #israel has 80% #vaccination in #adults and recently got another surge in cases. *There is no way out, we just need to accept the reality.*
So a key person in the #oxford / #astrazeneca #vaccine development for #covid has no said that the #delta #india #variant makes #herdimmunity impossible: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/delta.. Why are we even bothering then? #israel has 80% #vaccination in #adults and recently got another surge in cases. *There is no way out, we just need to accept the reality.*
There is a study suggesting that the #moderna #vaccine is more effective against the #delta #india #variant of #covid than the #pfizer one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/.. The interesting part for me though is the #hackernews #comments where people are #mixingvaccines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=281.. This is completely untested: https://globalnews.ca/news/8021692/mixin..
Take the #vaccine #bigot - #eatthebugs bigot - wear the #mask bigot: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi.. There is *no way* out of #covid restrictions if *even after* #vaccinations are successfully rolled out across the #us - there are still talks of masks and #lockdowns !
I support the #french #protests in their push against a #healthpass - i.e. a #vaccinepassport https://www.lotuseaters.com/protests-int.. You should *not* be made to take the #covid #vaccine and you should not be #discriminated against based on your #health . I really hope #macron switches direction in #france to favour #freedom over #virus #metrics !