Covid-19: American Acceptionalism

My sister in England got her first Pfizer jab this past week. She said it went well, mostly just arm soreness and a bit of fatigue that day.

But, she was quite alarmed by the number of nurses declining a jab though.

I'm hoping people come around and it becomes monkey see, monkey do, but obtaining herd immunity is definitely going to be a massive challenge for every country.

 

I've mentioned elsewhere that there is a lot of people in healthcare that don't believe in vaccines. They will believe in the new age wellness influencer crap.

My employers are mentioning getting a system set up for us to have a vaccine.

 

Thanks, we desperately need it in the smaller developing countries. They don't have the purchasing power of the more developed nations so are last in line to get vaccines.

 

Pretty solid article in the NYT about the Janssen vaccine, an challenges with production. You also see that they started to set up production facilities in spring 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/health/covid-vaccine-johnson-johnson.html

 

965,000 new unemployment claims.

 

The layoffs are most likely a result of companies trying to make their bottom lines look better for EOFY. We had to lay people off a week before Christmas because our clients were making cuts at the end of the year to make numbers look better.

 

What in the actual ******** is going on in Spain?

They just exploded for new cases the last 2 or 3 days. Huge increases.

The said yesterday had about 5k cases of back reporting, and perhaps today does too.

But even after deducting that, it's a very alarming spike.

Has B117 spread its wings yet again?

 

result of New Year get-togethers?

 

We are in so much trouble!

Xmas/New Year's boom, and it sounds like the virus has mutated enough in response to human immune system to cause an even worse 2nd wave. The vaccine probably doesn't provide immunity for more than a year, even if that.

 

My wife got vaccinated Tuesday and didn't mention any large amount of people at her hospital not getting shots.

 

Well, it is San Francisco, the world capitol of anti-vaxx Karens.

 

I got vaccinated right before Christmas. Other than a little arm soreness and Bill Gates trying to communicate with me telepathically I am fine.

Got my second dose lined up for inauguration day, and I hear it comes with built in 5g.

 

You get free HBO Max with that?

 

About the UK and SA variant it is said people infected with it have a far higher virus load in their throats, thus spreading more viruses,
but also that the virus itself has improved it's spikes to be more successful in penetrating human cells.
So a double whammy.
Carehome in the Netherlands with a large outbreak of the UK-virus.

 

That would be wealthy and white Marin County to the north of San Francisco.

 

You are in the Bay Area, the home of new age whoo whoo hippies.

Given that I've seen Biden get the vaccine, I trust it. I can see why minorities are rightfully distrustful, but whenever I hear a well off white person say it, it's usually something about feeling and natural type things.