Coronavirus thread

[Karl Henning]

I'm so sorry to hear this Karl.  I wish her a speedy recovery and will be thinking of all of you.

With love,

PD

Warm thanks!

[Karl Henning]

Seems promising. Hope the best for her.

Thank you!

[Todd]

Progress, but things need to pick up.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

My sister ( the oldest of my three younger sisters, and so closest to me in age) tested positive a few days ago. She feels like hell, although she says her experience is basically like an especially nasty flu. My brother-in-law and nephew show no symptoms but are quarantining, of course. Her doc called, and she is going into the hospital this afternoon for an infusion of antibodies, to keep the symptoms from worsening.  She will lick this.

Wishing your sister a speedy recovery.

[MusicTurner]

- a new test-yourself-at-home from the US is said to have a 80-92% certainty and a result within a few minutes. When in more common use, it will have decidedly positive, logistic effects. The 90% certainty is for people with symptoms.

- as could be expected, vaccine scepticism often goes down, once vaccines are starting to become implemented. Now the willing percentage is around 85-87% here in DK, with 5-7% against. Earlier, it was around 80%.

[Karl Henning]

Wishing your sister a speedy recovery.

Thanks!

[pjme]

Sniffer dogs could be used to detect people infected with coronavirus

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/125909/sniffer-dogs-could-be-used-to-detect-people-infected-with-coronavirus/
and now:
https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/150589/trainee-coronavirus-sniffer-dogs-will-graduate-in-february/
"Some months on, and the 11 dogs taking part in the trial are ready to line up and get their degrees. Their number is made up mainly of Malinois, spaniels and Border collies, and one beagle."

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Sniffer dogs could be used to detect people infected with coronavirus

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/125909/sniffer-dogs-could-be-used-to-detect-people-infected-with-coronavirus/
and now:
https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/150589/trainee-coronavirus-sniffer-dogs-will-graduate-in-february/
"Some months on, and the 11 dogs taking part in the trial are ready to line up and get their degrees. Their number is made up mainly of Malinois, spaniels and Border collies, and one beagle."

Wow!

[pjme]

And this - for all who suffer:

Since mid-June 2020, Festivals for Compassion has been uniting festivals in Europe and beyond. Each shared their interpretation of Calliope Tsoupaki's new solo composition Thin Air as an ode to compassion and an act of solidarity in these troubled times.

We were proud to commission Tsoupaki, one of the Netherlands' most celebrated composers, to create Thin Air, a piece that can be performed by any instrument and voice. It was premiered during the Holland Festival on the Dutch NPO Radio 4 on 20 June, with the Flemish radio station Klara taking over the next day.

After this, like a relay race of compassion, the work began its journey through Europe traveling from festival to festival. More than 50 partners have joined the race so far, including the Edinburgh International Festival, Helsinki Festival, Utrecht Early Music Festival, Operadagen Rotterdam, and the Thüringer Bachwochen. Up until now, a range of players and singers have created over 25 renditions of Thin Air to be shared with a worldwide, online audience, with you.

Festivals for Compassion is meant, quoting the Canadian festival Music on Main, 'to strike a chord with artists and audiences alike: a quiet moment of generosity and compassion right when so many need these qualities most.'

Thank you for coming with us on our journey & keep safe.

https://festivalsforcompassion.com/timeline/

https://www.youtube.com/v/MjYLz4aU4JU

[vandermolen]

Just drove past the local doctor's surgery with a huge queue of elderly people (myself not included, I'd like to point out) clearly waiting for their first Covid vaccination.

[T. D.]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/boris-johnson-evidence-new-covid-variant-associated-with-higher-mortality-.html

Boris Johnson says some evidence new Covid variant in the UK may be more deadly

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Just drove past the local doctor's surgery with a huge queue of elderly people (myself not included, I'd like to point out) clearly waiting for their first Covid vaccination.

Glad that there are starting to vaccinate in your area Jeffrey.  Any idea when you will be able to get one?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/boris-johnson-evidence-new-covid-variant-associated-with-higher-mortality-.html

Boris Johnson says some evidence new Covid variant in the UK may be more deadly

Heard a day or two ago about there also being a nasty strain in South Africa and Brazil too.

Out of curiosity, are any countries besides the US handing out economic stimulus checks?  And, if so, do you think that they are helping very much?

PD

[steve ridgway]

'to strike a chord with artists and audiences alike'

https://www.youtube.com/v/MjYLz4aU4JU

I came bottom of the class in music but can you actually strike a chord with a horn?

[Mandryka]

Very disturbing press conference from 10 Downing Street

https://www.youtube.com/v/iCrHEK_00Gk&ab_channel=10DowningStreet

[Irons]

Just drove past the local doctor's surgery with a huge queue of elderly people (myself not included, I'd like to point out) clearly waiting for their first Covid vaccination.

Surprisingly our local medical centre are not partaking. When due our jab will be given at Epsom Racecourse.

Anyone in the UK can by clicking here  https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk  find out when they will be called. I come into old fart category so due early next month. 

[Que]

The vaccination here, in the Netherlands, has barely started...

A combination of ordering late, organizing late, continious shifts in priority and mismanagement due to several "reforms" of the healthcare system by the neoliberal governments of the past decade...

Since I'm under 60 and perfectly healthy, I'm lucky if I would get my shot late this summer.
Though the timelines on when Western countries will have this under control are continously shifting backwards anyway...

Q

[MusicTurner]

- there's a real lot of talk about vaccines being delayed here in DK (Pfizer, Astra Zeneca) but in reality it seems to be only for a few weeks, and media are not really mentioning the other vaccines that will be coming quite soon, such as Johnson & Johnson.

- Local scandal here: some Money People/influencers/celebrities/Nouveau Riches vacationing in Dubai, a resort country that has opened up for tourism. This in spite of the official Danish recommendations of not going abroad. Now it turns out, that Dubai's testing before people going back to DK has been very poor, and 33 travellers were found infected when coming back, in spite of having negative tests from their Dubai departure. Including bringing new aggressive mutations with them. As a result, all Dubai flights have now been immediately cancelled, within an hour's notice or so.

- Hungary's approval of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine endangers the unity of a common EU vaccine policy, since, if the vaccine isn't effective enough, the virus may exist and spread anyway within the borderless EU, or the Sputnik V will complicate the release of any common vaccine passes.

[vandermolen]

Surprisingly our local medical centre are not partaking. When due our jab will be given at Epsom Racecourse.

Anyone in the UK can by clicking here  https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/vaccine-queue-uk  find out when they will be called. I come into old fart category so due early next month. 

The local surgery was on the front of the Times today as they were mistakenly delivered a double consignment of vaccines and were told that they were not allowed to be transported anywhere else - so they worked all night to make sure that not a single dose was wasted.

[Mandryka]

Nearly 500,000 jabs in the UK yesterday.

https://twitter.com/hugogye/status/1352984314229764096?s=21

It just shows how competent and talented Boris Johnson's government is. They could boil the ocean.  All the previous catastrophic COVID cock ups weren't cock ups at all. They either didn't want to make it happen or they deliberately sabotaged things. I suspect they're planning to use COVID to push the NHS to breaking point, and then they'll privatise it, giving their friends a slice of the potentially lucrative UK health pie.

[steve ridgway]

I suspect they're planning to use COVID to push the NHS to breaking point, and then they'll privatise it, giving their friends a slice of the potentially lucrative UK health pie.

Get more American food in then there'll be even more customers.