Coronavirus thread

[Daverz]

A huge chunk of the US population would also refuse the vaccine.  I guess you're in the enlightened nation.  Bye bye herd immunity, guess we'll never get there.

Let's hope what people are telling pollsters is just "vice signalling", and they'll get vaccinated anyway when the opportunity arises.

[DavidW]

I would hope so.  And I hope that those that think that the vaccine is not safe will see with the overwhelming number of people taking it with no significant side effects... that these vaccines are safe.

[Florestan]

I and my wife got vaccinated by natural way --- ie, we had Covid-19.

All's well that ends well.

[Mandryka]

I'll be keen to know what people here who know the industry think of this account of vaccine distribution  and national interests.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1372897651360940035

[vandermolen]

I and my wife got vaccinated by natural way --- ie, we had Covid-19.

All's well that ends well.

Are you better now? Hope so.

[Florestan]

Are you better now? Hope so.

Yes, we're fine, Jeffrey, thanks for asking. Completely healed apparently. Honestly and God be praised, we both had only mild symptoms --- and what is more, we didn't infect any of the people with whom we were in direct contact (of which my father and father-in-law were at high risk, both having serious comorbidities).

Btw, starting tomorrow Romania gets into a sort of lockdown, milder than the spring/summer of 2020 one but harsher than what we had since autumn 2020. The good news is that the movement between regions / cities / towns / villages is not completely restricted yet and I hope it never will be. (My in-laws live in a village 2-hr-drive away from Bucharest and their home-cum-garden is our weekly refuge far from the madding crowd of Bucharest.

[North Star]

Yes, we're fine, Jeffrey, thanks for asking. Completely healed apparently. Honestly and God be praised, we both had only mild symptoms --- and what is more, we didn't infect any of the people with whom we were in direct contact (of which my father and father-in-law were at high risk, both having serious comorbidities).

Glad to hear, Andrei.

[Florestan]

Glad to hear, Andrei.

Thanks, Karlo. Cheers and stay safe!

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

Talked to two of my neighbors this morning, neither of whom intends to get vaccinated.  This, even though their leader Donald Trump (they rarely question him, saying he "displays good judgement") said, "I would recommend it."   

[Harry]

I was informed this afternoon that my wife and myself get our first jab on the 5th of April.

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

I was informed this afternoon that my wife and myself get our first jab on the 5th of April.

Way to go, Harry; may your reactions be nil and your celebrations include the buying of at least a dozen more CDs...

[DavidW]

Talked to two of my neighbors this morning, neither of whom intends to get vaccinated.  This, even though their leader Donald Trump (they rarely question him, saying he "displays good judgement") said, "I would recommend it."   

When Trump spent months downplaying the pandemic, he can't walk that back with one recommendation.  And radical right media have been playing up that vaccines are not safe.  What you end up with is a large group of people that won't wear masks, won't social distance and won't be vaccinated.

[Harry]

Way to go, Harry; may your reactions be nil and your celebrations include the buying of at least a dozen more CDs...

Lol I will buy certainly at least a dozen CD'S😄😁😆

[71 dB]

I was informed this afternoon that my wife and myself get our first jab on the 5th of April.

That's good news Harry considering the frustratingly slow vaccination speed in Europe.
In Finland about 14 % of population has got their first jab and it looks like my turn won't come until June/July. 

[Stürmisch Bewegt]

When Trump spent months downplaying the pandemic, he can't walk that back with one recommendation.  And radical right media have been playing up that vaccines are not safe.  What you end up with is a large group of people that won't wear masks, won't social distance and won't be vaccinated.

Correct, the neighbors in question are anti-vaxers and anti-maskers.  And anti-common sensers.  One of them has a mom, still kickin' at 93; her family refuses to wear masks around her.  "But you don't mind killing her?" is what I wanted to ask and didn't.  "We don't want to frighten her," is their rationalization.  My nextdoor neighbor has repeat nightmares about Antifa and BLM marching down our suburban street, raping and pillaging and "taking over our homes," that's how effective the right's propaganda is.  She makes me nervous as her house is just bristling with weaponry of all kinds.  Guns and God:  goes to church on Sunday, often twice, "for extra salvation," an interesting, if questionable theological concept.

[SimonNZ]

Whatever became of that huge stockpile of Hydrochloroquine?

And why has an investigation not been opened?

[MusicTurner]

That's good news Harry considering the frustratingly slow vaccination speed in Europe.
In Finland about 14 % of population has got their first jab and it looks like my turn won't come until June/July. 

The ever-changing vaccine news are quite stressful; we literally hear of huge delays and then big improvements, repeatedly, from day to day. I think this applies to most EU countries. The story goes that AZ has delivered 100 mio doses less than promised.

[Todd]

Progress for some countries, at least.  A good number of European countries appear to have dangerously incompetent public health officials at the helm.

[Todd]

Biden, companies working to develop 'vaccine passports.' It won't be easy

[DavidW]

Biden, companies working to develop 'vaccine passports.' It won't be easy

Not happy with this smartphone approach.  Contrary to popular belief not everyone uses them.  Just the strange hurdle of government agencies only communicating online and chains like CVS making vaccine appointments only available online has cut off many people.

A large fraction of people don't even use mobile tickets at airports for crying out loud.  I'm not a luddite but I know people that are.