OT: Coronavirus XXXVI: Bat Scratch Fever

[Stoneman89]

How is everyone holding up by the way?

Apart from the news cycle I mean, how are you doing? I was in the **** for a while, but family and work has picked me up. I know I am damn lucky to have my job, and a family which didn't bail on my drunken *** after these .... **** almost 11 months at home...

We're doing better and better here, even though we obviously have a lot of constraints. Vaccine cannot come quick enough imo, we need to see people again. Socialize, at least a little bit.

I've really been able to self-isolate lately, not too bad actually. Mind you, when it's minus 40, you don't exactly feel tempted to go anywhere else other than your own house.

 

[Stoneman89]

Clothing and beauty products are 2 sections I avoid as well. I've done the gift cars thing too, "here hon. Love you, pick what you want, you look good and what ever you choose" and pay the 10-30$ extra it costs cause she always picks a combination of things that cost more than the gift card(s) lol.

Got my wife some really tasteful underwear and nice shoes. When she saw them, she freaked and made me return them to Fredericks of Hollywood.

 

[Stoneman89]

Holy shit, dailies now down well into the 200's, hospitalization edging toward 400, ICU's really dropping now, and total cases soon to be below 6000. In other news, Rachel says please, stay in your basements, the end is nigh!

 

[Stoneman89]

100%. I'm not really a party person, so when even I start missing gatherings of humans, you know it's gone on too long. I find that the mental aspect wears on me more than anything. The constant negativity from certain political groups is so depressing. You try to turn it off but it is everywhere. But we just go day to day, keep as busy as we can, knowing that things will eventually get better. Take care over there!

Agreed.

P.S. Did you guys want your slippers back? You left them behind.

 

[yukoner88]

Holy shit, dailies now down well into the 200's, hospitalization edging toward 400, ICU's really dropping now, and total cases soon to be below 6000. In other news, Rachel says please, stay in your basements, the end is nigh!

Since I'm in the area. I listened to CHED last night..........Sunday night CHED radio......that was a mistake

 

[bellagiobob]

Since I'm in the area. I listened to CHED last night..........Sunday night CHED radio......that was a mistake

What was going on?

 

[bellagiobob]

I guess the good news is it can't possibly be worse in the future than zero doses.

 

[yukoner88]

I guess the good news is it can't possibly be worse in the future than zero doses.

Don't challenge them too hard on that, Junior's abilities to make things worse are profound

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Edmonton-area pastor arrested after church defies public health orders | Calgary Sun

 

[rboomercat90]

I guess the good news is it can't possibly be worse in the future than zero doses.

What I’ve learned being an Oilers fan all these years is there's no such thing as rock bottom.

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Ineligible self-employed Canadians who received CERB due to 'unclear' information won't be forced to repay | Montreal Gazette

 

[ThePhoenixx]

A way to save on expenses during lockdowns.

ASK AMY: Polyamory creates an extra family challenge | Ottawa Sun

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Alberta begins Step 1 of easing COVID-19 restrictions | Edmonton Journal

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Go Moe.

Moe says some lockdown boosters have remote-work privilege | Regina Leader Post

"It's easy for someone to stand up and say 'we need to lock everything down' when they have the opportunity to work from home," the premier said."

 

[ThePhoenixx]

ALDRICH: Health orders may have worked, but it shouldn't have come to that | Winnipeg Sun

"Oh, they definitely did work. Logic says that isolating a province’s population for now three months will stop the spread of any communicable virus in its tracks..."

"The reality is, the buck was passed on to Manitobans and the business community due to an inability of the province to protect the vulnerable in long-term care homes and other communities."

 

[ThePhoenixx]

That didn't take long. It's all wrapped up. Time for the WHO to move on. I find it bemusing how they call it the Trump theory.

‘Extremely unlikely’: WHO discounts Trump’s origin theory that COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan | Vancouver Sun

"The theory the virus came from a laboratory leak was “extremely unlikely,” Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO official, told reporters Tuesday at a joint WHO-China briefing in Wuhan, the city where Covid-19 first mushroomed at the end of 2019. He said no further research or study is needed into this theory, which has been promulgated by some, including former U.S. President Donald Trump."

"“It could’ve been introduced by a person who was infected and then spread to other people in the market — could be a trader or visitor — but it also could be the introduction of a product,” said Embarek,"

 

[GMofOilers]

That didn't take long. It's all wrapped up. Time for the WHO to move on. I find it bemusing how they call it the Trump theory.

‘Extremely unlikely’: WHO discounts Trump’s origin theory that COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan | Vancouver Sun

"The theory the virus came from a laboratory leak was “extremely unlikely,” Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO official, told reporters Tuesday at a joint WHO-China briefing in Wuhan, the city where Covid-19 first mushroomed at the end of 2019. He said no further research or study is needed into this theory, which has been promulgated by some, including former U.S. President Donald Trump."

"“It could’ve been introduced by a person who was infected and then spread to other people in the market — could be a trader or visitor — but it also could be the introduction of a product,” said Embarek,"

Everyone already knows it was created in a lab, this proves nothing.

 

[harpoon]

That didn't take long. It's all wrapped up. Time for the WHO to move on. I find it bemusing how they call it the Trump theory.

‘Extremely unlikely’: WHO discounts Trump’s origin theory that COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan | Vancouver Sun

"The theory the virus came from a laboratory leak was “extremely unlikely,” Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO official, told reporters Tuesday at a joint WHO-China briefing in Wuhan, the city where Covid-19 first mushroomed at the end of 2019. He said no further research or study is needed into this theory, which has been promulgated by some, including former U.S. President Donald Trump."

"“It could’ve been introduced by a person who was infected and then spread to other people in the market — could be a trader or visitor — but it also could be the introduction of a product,” said Embarek,"

Shameful. But entirely expected. WHO is a bought and paid for collection of sock puppets.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Crazy thought I had:

I'm not a bio-tech guy so I'm curious if it is possible this virus has actually been around for years mimicking common respiratory/flu illnesses which didn't cause any concern or reason to investigate further but then it mutated into something deadly last year.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

That didn't take long. It's all wrapped up. Time for the WHO to move on. I find it bemusing how they call it the Trump theory.

‘Extremely unlikely’: WHO discounts Trump’s origin theory that COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan | Vancouver Sun

"The theory the virus came from a laboratory leak was “extremely unlikely,” Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO official, told reporters Tuesday at a joint WHO-China briefing in Wuhan, the city where Covid-19 first mushroomed at the end of 2019. He said no further research or study is needed into this theory, which has been promulgated by some, including former U.S. President Donald Trump."

"“It could’ve been introduced by a person who was infected and then spread to other people in the market — could be a trader or visitor — but it also could be the introduction of a product,” said Embarek,"

"...but it also could be the introduction of a product"

Interesting. They completely discount and brush off the theory it may have been lab created but then go on to suggest it could have been introduced from a product practically all in the same breath.

 

[joestevens29]

Edmonton-area pastor arrested after church defies public health orders | Calgary Sun

Why wasn't everyone ticketed?

 

[Frank the Tank]

Crazy thought I had:

I'm not a bio-tech guy so I'm curious if it is possible this virus has actually been around for years mimicking common respiratory/flu illnesses which didn't cause any concern or reason to investigate further but then it mutated into something deadly last year.

There are teams of scientists around the world who track such things through phylogenetic analysis.

Phylogenetic supertree reveals detailed evolution of SARS-CoV-2 | Scientific Reports

"Whatsoever, the above distinct phylogenetic analysis results showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the rates of evolution on sequences of varied proteins in SARS-CoV-2s are highly non-uniform. There probably exists another bat coronavirus in divergent species as the adjacent ancestor of SARS-CoV-2, and/or SARS-CoV-2s already made advanced evolution in its animal host."

At the same time, bats located in certain regions of China and coronaviruses have been locked in an arms race against each other. Scientists studying this area have noted previously that such an environment is an ideal setting for rapid evolution of different coronaviruses (and their spike proteins).

 

[SupremeTeam16]

Ineligible self-employed Canadians who received CERB due to 'unclear' information won't be forced to repay | Montreal Gazette

Lol who could of saw this coming when the money was flying out the door.

They’ll spend a pile of money trying to track who owes what and recoup it. In the end they’ll probably end up spending more then they get back from people and call it a success.

That money is gone and they should just accept that fact. People saw an opportunity to take advantage of a flawed program and they milked it plain and simple. Most of these people are already living in poverty or struggling financially, good luck getting blood from that stone. And even if they do well they’ll just end up giving it back on the back end through various programs that these people will need to rely on to fill the gap of have to pay back 10-14,000 dollars.

 

[Yukon Joe]

I guess the good news is it can't possibly be worse in the future than zero doses.

That's an unbelievably shitty headline.

If you read the body of the article you'll find that Moderna ships it's vaccine to us every 3 weeks. So after getting a shipment last week, we were never going to get any shipment from Moderna this week.

 

[shoop]

Opinion: Sure, Canada’s vaccination plan could have been better. But hindsight is always 20/20

Nothing to see here according to the Globe and Mail.

Could anyone have reasonably predicted that the promising Canada-China vaccine collaboration would fall apart for geopolitical reasons

Yes, very many people reasonably predicted just that would happen.