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Necessary for you? Probably not. Necessary for the clerk? Much more likely.belljr said:
All the stores I go into the workers are wearing masks, behind glass etc..
[Jules][icon] said:
Two things:belljr said:
I feel like we should be past this by now, but.... you wear a mask to protect others, they wear a mask to protect you.
Behind the glass can actually be worse.
Why are you quoting a part of the article that had nothing to do with the question asked?
I like how they tout that their's only takes one shot but in another article I read it says it takes 30 days to reach full immunity so its not really a big improvement IMO.
So... take probiotics? Is that what this means?[icon] said:
ditto. and from what i am hearing those that are eligible to get it cant find appointments. there are like all these different places to look and they all show booked. people are like waking up at 6am to try to get spots a few weeks out.GroveDiesel said:
There are several large groups of people getting prioritized for poor life choices. Personally I find it infuriating that those that chose a healthy lifestyle are now being punished for it. So, know you are not alone, not by a longshot.GroveDiesel said:
All about storage and dosing requirements. No 2nd shot means half the logistics headache in getting people jabbed.
Requiring only one dose is a significant delivery advantage. And unless the J&J vaccine is very expensive to produce, should also be a cost savings per dose.
That wasnt part of the article. That was from the UK government release.
This article was linked earlier this week and does seem to indicate you are not likely to get Covid for at least 8 months. Not certain, but likely that if your not able to get reinfected 90% of the time, then you would not be able to pass it on to others. But of course all of this is uncertain...just like the immunity will likely last longer than the 8 months identified in this study due to the disease only being around for 12 or so months.
What really upsets me are Murphy’s excuses. NJ has been slower than most states to roll out vaccines and he continues to blame the federal government saying they have not supplied enough doses. Meanwhile, NJ has received over 650,000 doses and only given out a little over 250,000 doses. The large gap between doses available and doses delivered sure seems more like a distribution problem rather than a supply problem at this point.
You're a few months behind on this one:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/12/covid-masks-protect-wearers/
I get that but if my interactions are under 5 minutes does it really matter? And again I am pro mask ...I was just thinking it over
You know the 15 minutes is mostly an arbitrary distinction from like a 1970 smallpox study right?
Well, there is both a time element and a density-of-viral-load element in play. A lot of virus can cause an infection in a lot less than five minutes.
Thanks for posting your prior post and this one. It drives me nuts when the math-and-logic-challenged media distributes inaccurate and misleading information. This is a prime example. A 1% reinfection rate would be rounding error. 17%? Only 5 months of immunity? Much bigger deal.
It's a huge improvement logistically. 1) fewer shots required in total, 2) don't need to save doses for people to get their 2nd dose within a specific window of time, 3) don't need the extra hassle of slotting in people for appointments for that 2nd dose, 4) it's another vaccine that gives us more doses to work with. Every new vaccine is a game changer.
I've nearly stopped communicating with some work "friends" because of this. People that I used to enjoy chatting with that swear the numbers are "baked" because "hospitals get more for COVID deaths so they just call everything COVID." Or "I have a bunch of friends that got this and there symptoms are less than the flu. It's nothing. The media is just invoking doomsday for ratings." Those types of things. When I ask them where they got their info, it's invariably Twitter or FB. I just gave up having conversations with them. I don't need the aggravation.
I actually do know someone who had their adult son die of cancer in June. The hospital asked her if they could list cause of death as Covid on his death certificate and he didn't even have covid. She said no. I guess she could be lying to me though.
I don't believe that. That would be fraud. Not worth it for any hospital worker to do that. There's nothing in it for them except putting their job on the line to get the hospital more $.
That doesn't sound truthful at all. Nobody asks what can be listed on a death certificate.
Open some doors and windows. Air purification/ventilation.
Lots of this. And temp checks are good — temp checks + smell/taste checks would be even better.
Require fish to be cooked in the microwave every monday/wed/friday. Burned popcorn tues/thursday. Set up cameras around the place.
Especially since it is fraud .. my state
The person may be lying to me although I see no reason for her to lie. She's a retiree who lost her son to cancer. That being said I dodnt hear it from a friend. She told me directly.
If she is someone that doesn't believe in Covid or the numbers reports, then I see a reason.
The thing that confuses me with these articles is use of the term "lockdown." Apologies if this dead horse has been beaten in this thread, which I've only followed tangentially. The sentence from the Newsweek article - "The study compared cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the U.S. – all countries that implemented mandatory lockdown orders and business closures – to South Korea and Sweden, which implemented less severe, voluntary responses."
It's critical to read this article to evaluate -- the headline is very misleading if read without context and detail. I turned your post into a link.
It should also be noted that the severe lockdowns in Italy, France, and Spain came after their massive outbreaks. The sort of lockdown in England also occurred after their big outbreak and they didn’t really lockdown until their Trump knock-off tested positive. Each country had an increase following the relaxation of those restrictions.
