Oso planning to go pro
An author/critical care nurse that I know wrote a memoir while processing the emotional trauma of a year of holding her in the dike of death we're all in such a rush to forget and ignore.https://www.amazon.com/Year-Nurse-2020-Pandemic-Memoir-ebook/dp/B095PWYG3B
Thanks for the link. Sounds sad but interesting.
Her other titles are... something.
Yeah, she's got a niche. People are into it though. She's sold a heckuva lot more books than I have, so who am I to judge.I've read some of the material in Year of the Nurse. It's a pretty visceral window into her experience.
From the NYT:The Delta variant of the coronavirus can evade antibodies that target certain parts of the virus, according to a new study published on Thursday in Nature. The findings provide an explanation for diminished effectiveness of the vaccines against Delta, compared with other variants.The variant, first identified in India, is believed to be about 60 percent more contagious than Alpha, the version of the virus that thrashed Britain and much of Europe earlier this year, and perhaps twice as contagious as the original coronavirus. The Delta variant is now driving outbreaks among unvaccinated populations in countries like Malaysia, Portugal, Indonesia and Australia.Delta is now the dominant variant in the United States. Infections in this country had plateaued at their lowest levels since early in the pandemic, although the numbers may be rising, while hospitalizations and deaths related to the virus have continued a steep plunge. That’s partly because of relatively high vaccination rates: 48 percent of Americans are fully vaccinated, and 55 percent have received at least one dose.But the new study found that Delta was barely sensitive to one dose of vaccine, confirming previous research that suggested that the variant can partly evade the immune system — although to a lesser degree than Beta, the variant first identified in South Africa.Can we please hear again that COVID-19 is "over"?
For the fully vaccinated, it pretty much is.
Hasn’t this become a Jonestown situation? Righties have drank the kool-aid that the vaccine is evil and dangerous. Hence 99% of Covid deaths are among the unvaccinated. Isn’t this just another mass suicide situation for followers of a madman?
But it isn't.
Japan to hold Olympics without spectators.
But it isn't.Well, there are plenty of anti-vaxxers on the left, including a fairly large percentage of Black people.
1. I agree with FBM. I basically take no precautions now. The only time I wear a mask is when it is required (rarely).2. The hesitancy of blacks has a lot more to do with the history of their treatment in this country than it does with an anti-vaxxer belief.
Wisconsin now averaging zero deaths from covid. Time to move along and get on with life. Its over, aina?
four staff members and 13 attendees from the Country Jam festival in Grand Junction got COVID-19 after attending the three-day event.
Grand Junction's Daily Sentinel reported crowds of up to 24,000 each night during Country Jam
A country music festival in Colorado that featured many popular performers has led to a COVID-19 outbreak, officials say. Officials with the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment say four staff members and 13 attendees from the Country Jam festival in Grand Junction got COVID-19 after attending the three-day event.
Are we sure they didn't get sick just from having to listen to country music for three days?
I mean, CO has a delta variant "outbreak", but:https://tasteofcountry.com/country-jam-colorado-festival-covid-19-outbreak/So 17/72,000 = .023% diagnosed (0.00023). More people probably ended up with dehydration from the event.
MU82 doesn’t really put things in context.