COVID-19 - READ THE RULES BEFORE REPLYING

[Murasaki]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/johnson-covid-vaccine-doses-destroyed-delay-b1825272.html

15 million vaccines just went boom.

[Murasaki]

11 minutes ago, Benji said:

Germany decided that the people who got their first AstraZeneca shot get transferred over to another COVID-19 vaccine even though there are no data concerning COVID-19 vaccine mixing.

That has to be some drastic shortage of vaccine shipments. AstraZeneca is one of the vaccines which has a longer timespan between shots.

[WkdPaul]

Wait, isn't AstraZeneca a one shot vaccine ?

[Murasaki]

Just now, WrdPeter said:

Wait, isn't AstraZeneca a one shot vaccine ?

Doesn't seem so, im getting my second during summer.

[captain_to_fire]

Tfw some people think that a Dyson air purifier is actually working against asthma or Covid-19. 
 

 
It’s disappointing when just a few years ago, many tech youtubers became corporate shills for Dyson.

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, Benji said:

Yup, it isn't. Johnson and Johnson is a one-shot vaccine for all that I know, AstraZeneca isn't and requires the booster shot.

Must've mixed my info on AZ with the J&J one !

 

6 minutes ago, captain_to_fire said:

Tfw some people think that a Dyson air purifier is actually working against asthma or Covid-19. 

Wait, really ?

 

What's with 2020 and 2021 ??? Feels like more and more people are happy proud to display their lack of knowledge on so many scientific subjects ... Being a skeptic doesn't mean you have to throw mainstream science down the drain and get your talking points from FB !!!

[captain_to_fire]

51 minutes ago, WrdPeter said:

Being a skeptic doesn't mean you have to throw mainstream science down the drain and get your talking points from FB !!!

You know what they say, in the internet everyone’s an expert. Nonetheless, I remember just few years before Covid, I myself was looking into air purifiers because of my asthma but it’s a good thing I didn’t pulled the trigger on one. However I know for a fact that viruses are way too tiny to be captured by most air purifiers anyway. SARS-Coronavirus-2 measures at 125 nm, most HEPA filters have 0.3 μm perforations which allows the virus to easily pass through.  
 

 

1 hour ago, WrdPeter said:

What's with 2020 and 2021 ??? Feels like more and more people are happy proud to display their lack of knowledge on so many scientific subjects

Here’s Dyson’s official response to the CBC segment on air purifiers:

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Current test standards do not represent real living conditions.

 

The small chamber size is unrepresentative of a real-world environment – at around 30m3, it is small compared to the average room size in real homes, and homes rarely feature in-built circulatory or ceiling fans. This means a machine with a high CADR may actually struggle to clean the air properly when placed in a bigger room without a ceiling fan. In some cases they merely create a bubble of clean air in one corner of the room, and struggle to create whole room clean air in real living environments.

 

The CADR analysis method can be misleading to consumers, particularly given that CADR ratings are not generated in auto mode, and that they are inherently linked to the test chamber size.

 

At Dyson we believe that a purifier should clean the whole room. To do that it must be multifunctional - effectively sensing deteriorating air quality, capturing pollutants properly and projecting clean air to every corner of the room. As such, we champion testing that evaluates all three aspects of purification performance rather than focusing solely on filtration speed. Current testing methodologies that generate CADR ratings do not consider intelligent sensing nor full-room projection – two critical functions of high-performance purifiers.

Engineering is not my area of expertise but their statement looks similar to Intel downplaying Apple’s M1 chip by cherry-picking benchmarks and making outlandish statements.

[Andreas Lilja]

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/quebec-reports-1282-more-cases-of-covid-19-3-new-deaths

 

Doesn't surprise me, I work weekends and today there was weekday peak hour traffic. Gotta shop.

[atxcyclist]

Commercial/medical HVAC systems with UV purification would kill covid, because they have a long enough path where the air is exposed to UV. Those systems are massive, I’ve stood inside one of the non-UV parts of one of those systems, you could put a pool table in just that one part.

[Andreas Lilja]

On 4/2/2021 at 1:08 PM, wkdpaul said:

English version ;

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/gym-outbreak-quebec-city-1.5973890

 

His stupidity actually made the government close all non-essential business in the area for a few weeks, before this, the COVID cases per day were around 20 IIRC (in that area).

 

That gym owner single handedly closed a whole city with his stupidity !

Breaking. He even allowed people to train there during the lockdown.

 

Gainz everywhere except brain ones.

 

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2021/04/03/meme-quand-cetait-ferme-il-y-avait-toujours-des-gens

 

[captain_to_fire]

 

[Andreas Lilja]

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/covid-19-outbreak-at-quebec-city-gym-now-linked-to-171-cases?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1617663900

 

Gainz everywhere but the brain. 

[atxcyclist]

13 minutes ago, Andreas Lilja said:

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/covid-19-outbreak-at-quebec-city-gym-now-linked-to-171-cases?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1617663900

 

Gainz everywhere but the brain. 

It hurts my brain to read about these doofuses. As if there wasn't abundant data about the hazards of operating businesses like this with no regard to covid. People are selfish and greedy, and many people have paid the price. It's not really about the people at the gym, they have to know they're being risky, it's people around them outside the gym that are hapless victims. 

 

I confess I know little to nothing about the vaccination rollout up in Canada, I hope  the availability is improving and all of y'all up there are staying safe.

[WkdPaul]

7 hours ago, atxcyclist said:

It hurts my brain to read about these doofuses. As if there wasn't abundant data about the hazards of operating businesses like this with no regard to covid. People are selfish and greedy, and many people have paid the price. It's not really about the people at the gym, they have to know they're being risky, it's people around them outside the gym that are hapless victims. 

Pretty much everyone in the area is pissed at the owner and the gym members, before that they were at 20-40 cases per day since February, since the outbreak at that gym, they're now at 200+ cases per day and the region is now under stricter lockdown.

 

The owner was going to every news outlet he could to complain about the government measures and was obviously against lockdown and COVID prevention measures. He since got COVID himself, but he's still saying his gym followed all mandated measures (though right when cases started being reported from that gym, public health officials did an inspection and they found distancing and proper sanitization at entry wasn't respected, and as such, they closed the gym).

 

 

 

7 hours ago, atxcyclist said:

I confess I know little to nothing about the vaccination rollout up in Canada, I hope  the availability is improving and all of y'all up there are staying safe.

It's slow in my area, the government said they have unclaimed appointments (in my area, not sure how it's going elsewhere), they're asking that people go and get appointments as soon as they're eligible so that rollout can happen faster.

[dalekphalm]

8 hours ago, Andreas Lilja said:

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/covid-19-outbreak-at-quebec-city-gym-now-linked-to-171-cases?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1617663900

 

Gainz everywhere but the brain. 

The hilarious thing about that is people keep claiming "Gyms are never the cause of outbreaks!"

 

Seriously. Even if people are socially distanced, the very nature of a gym makes infection significantly more likely. When you're exercising, you're increasing your breathing by very wide margins - that increases the amount of viral load you're spewing literally into the air in your surroundings (since I'm assuming most people that go to a Gym during COVID are also not wearing masks).

 

Good ventilation helps but only so much.

8 hours ago, atxcyclist said:

It hurts my brain to read about these doofuses. As if there wasn't abundant data about the hazards of operating businesses like this with no regard to covid. People are selfish and greedy, and many people have paid the price. It's not really about the people at the gym, they have to know they're being risky, it's people around them outside the gym that are hapless victims. 

People also lie to themselves, or are lied to and believe it - lots of people (especially on Facebook) are saying that Gyms are harmless.

8 hours ago, atxcyclist said:

I confess I know little to nothing about the vaccination rollout up in Canada, I hope  the availability is improving and all of y'all up there are staying safe.

It's being done provincially and then further broken down by regional health units, so it varies a lot. My region is doing pretty good, as far as Ontario is concerned. Other regions are doing better. Others are doing way worse.

 

We're up to over 50,000 vaccine doses per day given, with about 2.5 million total doses given (Population of Ontario is approximately 14.57 million). We're at about 17% of the population (assuming single dose only, which is not necessarily the case).

 

I'm not eligible yet. In theory, in June or July I should be able to book an appointment (that appointment could still be a while away) - I had childhood Asthma so that *might* allow me to get the vaccine earlier. Not clear yet.

31 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

Pretty much everyone in the area is pissed at the owner and the gym members, before that they were at 20-40 cases per day since February, since the outbreak at that gym, they're now at 200+ cases per day and the region is now under stricter lockdown.

Yikes.

31 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

The owner was going to every news outlet he could to complain about the government measures and was obviously against lockdown and COVID prevention measures. He since got COVID himself, but he's still saying his gym followed all mandated measures (though right when cases started being reported from that gym, public health officials did an inspection and they found distancing and proper sanitization at entry wasn't respected, and as such, they closed the gym).

What a goddamn cock. People like that are evil. They might not see themselves as evil, but they are.

31 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

It's slow in my area, the government said they have unclaimed appointments (in my area, not sure how it's going elsewhere), they're asking that people go and get appointments as soon as they're eligible so that rollout can happen faster.

I hope they're strategically administering doses to anyone who will accept it to avoid dose spoilage, if they're having issues getting people to fill appointments.

[captain_to_fire]

With fitness gyms being petri dishes for Covid spread, I’m glad that I switched to home workouts. Many people underestimate that so much can be done using your own body weight as resistance, not to mention the cost savings.

[dalekphalm]

4 minutes ago, captain_to_fire said:

With fitness gyms being petri dishes for Covid spread, I’m glad that I switched to home workouts. Many people underestimate that so much can be done using your own body weight as resistance, not to mention the cost savings.

We've been doing a Six Week home workout plan since January (We just repeat the plan from the beginning when we reach the end). Only thing you need are a small set of free-weights, and probably an exercise mat (I did the first 6 weeks just using my carpet, but that's definitely far from ideal and was pretty rough on my knees).

 

Most of the resistance is either done with small weights (3 or 5 pound) or using your body (eg: Tricep Dips).

 

You're not gonna get massively ripped using this particular plan, but whether that's a problem depends on your workout goals.

[captain_to_fire]

8 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

You're not gonna get massively ripped using this particular plan, but whether that's a problem depends on your workout goals.

I’m not gonna get super ripped with home workouts but resistance bands did me wonders. 

[DeMarcus Lopez]

On 3/21/2020 at 8:57 AM, captain_to_fire said:

No evidence shows that antimicrobial soaps are more effective than regular bath soaps so it doesn’t matter what brand.

 

Really? Interesting...

[WkdPaul]

55 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

I hope they're strategically administering doses to anyone who will accept it to avoid dose spoilage, if they're having issues getting people to fill appointments.

Pharmacies started administering the vaccine too, and some aren't on the government appointment system as they use their own, so it's the current understanding that some people went to their pharmacist instead and that could explain why they're not filling all the appointments.

 

It's only a theory for now but that would make sense.

[captain_to_fire]

6 minutes ago, DeMarcus Lopez said:

Really? Interesting...

Needless to say, you’re better off with plain soaps than antibacterial soaps when it comes to preventing coronaviruses. Also, plain soaps tend to be cheaper.
 

https://www.ahealthiermichigan.org/2020/01/06/the-difference-between-plain-and-antibacterial-soap/

[12345678]

I don't wanna say it, but unfortunately I'm starting to think that this whole thing will become endemic

 

there is not really an international cooperation, each governments do as it suits for self interest

and (almost) each government is more worried about economic pressures

 

vaccinations are slow as fuck

 

there are already predominant mutation (who had been tracked) going around, and it's still uknown if the vaccines do work aganist them, the japanese variation seems to circumvent vaccines (from early news)

[FakeATF]

11 hours ago, captain_to_fire said:

With schools being petri dishes for Covid spread...

ftfy

 

In all honesty, I never expected Covid to last as long as it has. Back last year, I thought it would last 2 months, tops. Yet here we are, over a year later. I've been lucky because I live in a smaller, more isolated area, so the lockdown restrictions were never that strict, and there's probably only been 200 cases here since the outbreak. I haven't even been vaccinated because I've never tested positive, and I haven't been exposed to anyone who has had it. Dunno when or even if I'll get vaccinated because i'm not required to do it yet.

[PhantomJaguarr]

CA will be fully reopened on June 15th and doing away with the tier system. Hope on the horizon as more vaccines are coming in.

 

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/California-to-eliminate-tier-system-fully-reopen-16080761.php

[dalekphalm]

13 hours ago, EjectedCasings said:

ftfy

 

In all honesty, I never expected Covid to last as long as it has. Back last year, I thought it would last 2 months, tops. Yet here we are, over a year later. I've been lucky because I live in a smaller, more isolated area, so the lockdown restrictions were never that strict, and there's probably only been 200 cases here since the outbreak.

You're very fortunate! I hope your area keeps low case numbers.

13 hours ago, EjectedCasings said:

I haven't even been vaccinated because I've never tested positive, and I haven't been exposed to anyone who has had it.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your rationale here - the Vaccine is not for people who have tested positive (though there is research going on to see if a Booster shot would be useful for long term immunity for people who have already had COVID).

13 hours ago, EjectedCasings said:

Dunno when or even if I'll get vaccinated because i'm not required to do it yet.

Why would you not get it? Unless you cannot get the vaccine for medical reasons (as advised by a medical expert) - such as immunocompromised - there is literally no reason for you to avoid the Vaccine.