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- If you are interested in Crafting, maybe try ordering a craft kit online (something substantial that would take time would be best, like a Latch hook kit
(and crochet hook if you don’t have one), a potholder loom and cotton loops, or cross stitch kit), to work on.
- learn something physical, like an instrument, how to sew or knit, etc
- a lot of museums and zoos and the like are doing virtual tours or free online classes, so keep an eye out for that as well.
- do a giant puzzle
- Join an online bookclub
- Take an online class
While the outbreak started around New Year's Day (12/31), it's picking up steam around the Asia-Pacific region especially since Mainland Chinese people tend to travel a lot.
For reference, the BNO Newsroom twitter has a special feed for any info on the coronavirus:
https://twitter.com/bnodesk?lang=en
The WHO has page about COVID-19 and any other concerns people may have. I suggest peeps go to the Q&A page to check for official details.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
Edited by nombretomado on Jun 3rd 2020 at 3:21:48 AM
Huh. I had the opposite experience: second shot wasn't nearly as sore in the arm as the first.
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IIRC but didn't the first shot hurt more in the Astra Zeneca vaccine and the second shot hurt more in the Pfizer vaccine? Or was it the other way around?
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My wife is doing fine after her first shot of the Moderna vaccine. So far so good. She says her arm feels like it's bruised as if she hit it on a wall, which was exactly my experience.
Edited by Fighteer on Apr 11th 2021 at 9:06:33 AM
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I know some people have gotten delayed fevers from Moderna. My friend who was able to get it got a delayed fever after the first shot.
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Oh Se-hoon, the new mayor of Seoul said that he would loosen social distancing restrictions for nightlife, even while the nation is seeing the start of its fourth wave of COVID-19 infections. However, Jeong Eun-kyeong, the head of South Korea's Disease Control Agency is apparently against the idea.
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
One day later, my shoulder is a little sore.
Cringe but free
Chinese official acknowledges low effectiveness of Covid vaccines.
The comments on Saturday by Gao Fu, the director of China’s disease control center, suggest that China and more than 60 countries that have approved Chinese vaccines could need to adjust their distribution programs. The widespread distribution of Chinese vaccines means that any changes could potentially affect hundreds of millions of people or more.
Possible steps to boost effectiveness of Chinese vaccines include changing the amount of vaccine given, the number of shots, the time between shots or the type of vaccines given, Mr. Gao said.
He also praised the possibilities offered by messenger RNA. That technology is used in the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines but not in any of the vaccines thus far approved in China.
Officials in Brazil said in January that the efficacy rate for the CoronaVac vaccine from the Beijing-based company Sinovac was just over 50 percent. By comparison, Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech were found to be 90 percent effective in real world conditions, researchers said last month.
Last month the distributor in the United Arab Emirates of vaccines from China’s Sinopharm said it was offering a third dose in addition to the standard two-dose regimen for a “very small number” of people who were “not really responsive” to the vaccine.
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Ah fuck, this just gave ammo to the far right wackos across the world
Now I'm worried because my parents just have two shots
Edited by KazuyaProta on Apr 11th 2021 at 12:13:26 PM
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To be fair, 50% isn't that low - have you seen how low the expectations/benchmarks for a safe malaria vaccine are?
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Plus this is the Chinese-made vaccine specifically, right? I know it won't matter to the more wacky of wackjobs, but it's still worth considering.
Yeah, we've known for awhile that the Sinovac vaccine was of dubious quality. 50 percent is actually higher then I expected.
Though curious as to it's effective it is at preventing serious cases as opposed to infections in general.
Nowhere near the 90%+ effectiveness of Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, and we'll short of the 70%+ the J&J and Oxford vaccines have.
Redmess
50 is pretty terrible, considering in china's case that leaves hundreds of millions unvaccinated.
Optimism is a duty.
The Unknown
50% is still better than 0%, at the very least.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Apparently China is having a hard time simply convincing people to even get vaccinated in the first place.
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You mean they're not just frogmarching people into clinics and forcibly injecting them like all those anti-vaxxers say that TEH GOVERNMENT is itching to do? I thought the whole big advantage of authoritarianism is that you can just straight up FORCE people to do stuff """for their own good"""!
Edited by Reflextion on Apr 11th 2021 at 2:22:15 PM
Redmess
Yeah, it's rather ironic how people living in free countries expect their governments to just force people to get vaccinated, and then act surprised when actual authoritarian regimes leave the choice up to their citizens.
Optimism is a duty.
The news on Sinovac confirms what I was thinkimg after I looked up the numbers for Chile and found that deaths and hospitalizations remained high and not declining - even sometimes increasing - despite a 30% vaccination rate.
Given that it’s one of the main vaccines that developing countries have got (due to Chinese “vaccine diplomacy”), this is bad.
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Australia abandons COVID-19 vaccination targets after new advice on AstraZeneca shots.
Australia, which had banked on the AstraZeneca vaccine for the majority of its shots, had no plans to set any new targets for completing its vaccination programme, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a Facebook post on Sunday afternoon.
“While we would like to see these doses completed before the end of the year, it is not possible to set such targets given the many uncertainties involved,” Morrison said.
Authorities in Canberra changed their recommendation on Pfizer shots for under-50s on Thursday, after European regulators reiterated the possibility of links between the AstraZeneca shot and reports of rare cases of blood clots.
Australia, which raced to double its order of the Pfizer vaccine last week, had originally planned to have its entire population vaccinated by the end of October.
Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said Australia will have 40 million doses from Pfizer by the end of the year, enough to vaccinate all Australian adults.
“Can I tell you on a week by week basis how much of that is coming in? Or how much will be here by the middle of the year? No, I can’t. I can’t answer that question,” Kelly told reporters on Monday.
Pressed on whether there would be enough Pfizer vaccines for health care workers under the age of 50 by mid-year, he said only that the government still hopes to have all vulnerable groups vaccinated by then
The government is waiting for projections on how many people might refuse the AstraZeneca vaccine and how many more Pfizer or other vaccines might be needed so it can recalibrate its rollout.
Kelly declined to comment on whether Moderna Inc and Johnson & Johnson were resisting sending their vaccines to Australia as the country doesn’t have a no-fault vaccine compensation scheme, but said it was up to the government to consider whether Australia should have such a provision.
Australia’s hardline response to the virus largely stopped community transmission but the vaccination rollout has become a hot political topic - and a source of friction between Morrison and state and territory leaders - after the country vaccinated only a fraction of its four million target by the end of March.
About 1.16 million COVID-19 doses have now been administered, Morrison said, noting the speed of Australia’s vaccination programme was in line with other peer nations, including Germany and France, and ahead of Canada and Japan.
Australia began vaccinations much later than some other nations, partly because of its low number of infections, which stand at just under 29,400, with 909 deaths, since the pandemic began.
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The mayor of Seoul said that he could reopen karaokes at night under the condition that patrons will take a rapid antigen test. He also urged Korea's FDA to approve the antigen tests. However, the government is not approving any rapid antigen tests, because they are horribly inaccurate.
Why these rapid antigen tests are not a good idea is a textbook example of the Bayes theorem.
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Ted Nugent doesn't really think that 500k people have died from the virus.
Ok, has this guy been relevant in like, a decade? When was his most recent album released?
(link busted, here's one: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ted-nugent-lockdowns-covid-1-18/)
The url also says that he thought that COVID 1 through 18 existed. There's more craziness in here, but the article has the full video.
Edited by electricbean on Apr 12th 2021 at 1:01:35 PM
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He probably thinks there is a Covfefe-45 virus as well...
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Why is it called COVID-19 anyway? Is it because of the makeup of the molecule for it?
Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
Because it was discovered in 2019. That's literally it. COVID-19 means Coronavirus Disease 2019.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 12th 2021 at 12:51:21 PM
A nice butterfly
Costa Rica's cases nearly tripled, and the Brazil variant made its first appearance here. Possible consideration for a new lockdown.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Interestingly, when I got the second shot, the injection hurt quite a bit more, and the "punched arm" feeling took a few hours longer to start. No idea why that one was so different.
Optimism is a duty.