The New Year, new Random Thoughts Thread

[apologies for repeating what others have said]

at this point it seems that Delta is not yet as lethal as "regular" Covid. hopefully that continues.
but it is sending a lot more young people to hospital.

two things:
- as it continues to spread (faster than regular) the chances of it mutating into something worse increase
and
- it will start to (again) overwhelm health care resources. how much can those people be expected to endure/deal with?

 

I think you just made the case for lockdowns being the wrong policy!!
And you should be including those with natural immunity when looking at herd rates. I'm still carrying my antibodies 15 months on and will not be getting a vaccine.

The Indian data suggests that it still remains extremely non-dangerous to those not old or living with pre-existing markets. Pneumonia killed more US citizens under 40 in 2019 than Covid did, so any uptick in the hospitalization/death rate in this category would have to be drastic for it to have any impact.

 

that's not recommended. why not get the shot in order to protect yourself / your family?

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-vaccines-protect-infection-doctors/story?id=78849841

https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2021/0...-dont-hold-up-in-fact-theyll-set-the-us-back/

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html

https://www.healthline.com/health-n...vaccinated-even-if-youve-already-had-covid-19

 

I know it's been discussed to death since I've last posted so I'll just echo what others have said. I'm not concerned about it, but I'm vaccinated and so is my wife. My stepson is 16 and had COVID last year but my wife wants to vaccinate him before he goes back to school. I have mixed feelings about children getting the vax but overall, I think the odds of anything bad happening to them are super low (but I also feel that way about if they got COVID). Our (almost) 2 year old would be my main concern but her pediatrician has said we have next to nothing to worry about.

As far as the general population, I am concerned for those who haven't had the virus or the vaccine but they also made their choice. We've had vaccines in abundance here for months now. Hope the rest of the world gets the help they need soon.

 

Definitely and for everyone even whispering about it in the USA again (for the future) don't know the wrath it would cause. Not to mention the economic harm.

I don't even know how they're coping in Europe, where lockdowns have been much worse.

Think it's also hilarious that LA County took the first opportunity to muzzle their residents indoors despite the CDC's stance on vaccinated individuals wearing masks.

We really need to move this to the rando thread.

 

Tips, I think you may be overrating your immunity from having Covid as data suggests its really the second shot (or first if you had Covid) that really supercharges your protection. That's why people hadn't had Covid have more symptoms after the second shot, and those who had Covid have those symptoms after the first.

Part of the issue they had in the UK is because they decided to give more people 1 shot and delayed giving out the second, so the population isn't fully protected.

 

FYI we've been vaxxing 12-18yo in Canada for quite a while now. AFAIK there have been zero deaths or major illnesses resulting.
(I think they use Pfizer exclusively for the 12-18's but not 100% sure on that point.)

 

Good because he'll definitely be getting it. My wife has no reservations.

 

My 12 yr old grandson has had his first dose of Pfizer and will be getting his second shot soon. He was super tired for a couple days afterwards but that's about it.

 

Agreed. But at the same time, the less variant factories there are the better. So get vaccinated people!

 

My daughter is off to India today from NZ. Yes she knows what is going on and has taken precautions.
She was offered a job at the American Embassy School in New Delhi. Great reputation with good benefits and remuneration.
The school is In a huge, almost a city to itself area, with the worlds (acceptable) embassies and schools there. she’ll be staying at the old Bulgaria schools apartments in nice garden surroundings.
She’s visited India before and loved it so it won’t be strange to her.

Her flight to get there is going to be horrendous. She’ll fly from Auckland to Dubai. That’s overflying India by about 5-6 hours. Stops there for 5 hours before flying back to New Delhi. Then the “check into India” for workers is like 4 hours.
Going to be a long day.........

 

Liverpool stripped of their world heritage status. Why?

 

I'm surprised there's no diving board .

 

I'm surprised there is no swim-up bar.

 

I alone can fix this.

oh sorry that’s the name of the book I’m reading. Quoting one of our glorious leaders claims.

 

Sounds like it’s you two who are in the pool.

 

Izzat the Everton Baths? A real landmark.

 

I've just looked more closely. this is a worry. Rafa's already having an effect ..... that is Everton's new physio treatment centre.

 

Fantastic race in the triathlon yesterday.
Typically there is a breakaway group in the swim that then extends the lead on the bike and the best runner in the group will take the win.
Yesterday there was just a stream of competitors coming out of the water one after the other and this led to a giant peloton on the bike. There were several attacks on the bike but none of the serious challengers made a big move there.
But the Norwegian, Blumenfelt, ran a 29:30 10k to take gold. The Brit, Yee, came in 11 seconds later for silver, and the Kiwi Wilde came third.

Best part of the day was half the field false-starting the swim. And Leslie Jones' commentary on Instagram - "these muthafu$kers got to swim bike AND run - isn't that the whole Olympics?" "It's kinda selfish to be this fu$king athletic."

 

Tips - did you see the start of that event, where the boat basically blocked off half the guys trying to dive in? what a colossal eff-up that was, and could have been bloody dangerous.

what are your thoughts on the winner's tactics?

 

Yep, what a cluster that was.
The commentators were even worse than the media boat, unfortunately. So bad.

As I mentioned, you typically will have a breakaway pack in the swim that creates a 10-30 second gap to the chase group. If you have the right bikers in that lead group, you can already have settled the podium by minute 20 of the event and that chase group is just there to finish out the event.

Yesterday was very different. You had 20 guys come out of the water within 17 seconds of the leader, and everybody else just followed along in a long train of individuals. So the tactics that most races have went right out the window (chase pack working to catch main pack). You really only had a huge, singular pack on the bike, which is good as it made for exciting viewing, but it played directly into the hands of the strongest runners and not the strongest bikers.

Blummenfelt played his hand perfectly and worked his way to the front over the course of the 40k bike. Once it was apparent he was having a good day on the run, it wasn't a question of who would win. He was one the top 3 pre-race favorites and he showed up and won.