Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the president on COVID-19, rebuked Republican governors who have abandoned restrictions put in place to curb the spread of coronavirus in their states, suggesting on Wednesday the lifting of mitigation measures was “ill-advised.”
Ill-advised = GQP SOP
And, what will the governors of TX and MS have to say for themselves when their numbers start going off the charts?
I don’t care what the reasoning is, even us non-scientists know a pattern when we see it. I know little over 15% of everyone is vaccinated, that must be good enough, right?
There are going to be wacky States and there are going to be rational States. Part of what the rational ones do may well involve travel restrictions from the wack landers when their infection rates are still pegging the red zone. I am reminded of a gentleman who took his jacked up pickup four wheeling without using his seat belt because the State law at the time did not require it. He rolled the truck and broke his neck. Oh well, freedom isn’t free.
Democrats strive to know how government works. Republicans strive to know the ways government doesn’t work.
I just got my vaccine this morning. The other people in the waiting room (one wearing a Trump mask) spent their recommended 15-minutes talking about how it wasn’t real, how one of them had already had COVID but hadn’t been sick, how they were going to stop taking precautions (about something that isn’t real, for which they had just been vaccinated–gotta love the logic).
People are just so damn stupid.
It will be the death of us.
I watched Noem trying to defend her Covid failure the other day. The utter unwillingness of Republican Governors to face reality or engage in independent thinking is beyond all understanding. Abbot is no better.
There’s an article in WaPo this a.m. about how after a 6 week downturn in virus numbers in Europe it’s on the upswing again.
Can we be far behind?
OT-I have a serious dilemma here and I know many of y’all understand this stuff far better than I ever will. I have an opportunity to join Johnson & Johnson’s clinical trial of Ensemble 2 which is the J&J two shot trial. I would go next week to get the shot. Of course, being that it is a clinical trial it could very well be a placebo. They will “unblind” the study in 3-4 weeks. Anyone who got the placebo will be able to get the shot. Should I do it? I’m seriously debating it. On one hand, I might get the shot next week which is probably faster than I otherwise would. And Ensemble 2 might prove to be even more effective than Moderna and Pizer which are the ones I was hoping to get. On the other hand, I could waste 3-4 weeks for a less effective vaccine. What say you?
The other day I told one of my friends that my sister in law (a hard right Fox loving Trump supporter) had just received her first Covid vaccination. My friend was incredulous. “She told me that Covid wasn’t real. It was just a Dem plot.” I responded, “look at what Trump supporters do. Don’t pay any attention to what they say.”
There will be disease that travels to other states via infected persons in states lifting mitigation measures. However, I think that most increased, unnecessary deaths will occur within the populace of the states making these mistakes. So, is it really all that bad should a bunch of people in states south of the Mason-Dixon (where most Governors will be dropping the ball) drop dead? It’s evolution in its purest form. They elected their killers. Isn’t their fate earned?
“As long as it is killing mostly Brown and Black people, LET’S PARTY!”
That seems to be the “reason” for lifting the restrictions.
The Texas Gov will say it is easier to clean up the mess from the power outage while not wearing a mask.
One of my employees is in the same trial. I think they tell you at the end if you received the vaccine or the placebo, but that is about 5 weeks after the first shot. He thinks his was a placebo because he had no effects from the shot. His wife on the other hand was sick for about a day. He thinks she got the real thing.
I’d probably go for what is the real deal right now, but that’s just me and I’ve had my first shot. But, if you don’t feel in any particular danger or hurry, I mean what’s the hurry we’ve been this way for a year, then go for the good of human kind.
That’s a really good way to tell whether or not you got the placebo. I’ll keep that in mind.
Yeah, that’s a good point. I need to do it. I have to wonder how many Black participants they have, so I should do it for that reason alone. Thank you.
And back on the one hand, you would also be helping advance the science which helps the pandemic end sooner!
Giving this kind of advice is scary. All I can say is what I would do in my particular circumstances.
I think all of the vaccines are pretty effective, so I wouldn’t worry about that particular angle. So it would boil down to time and safety for me. If I go clinical trial, I have a 50% chance of getting vaccinated almost immediately and 100% chance of getting vaccinated within 4-6 weeks. I can shelter quite effectively and nothing in my life like a job requires me to take chances, so I am pretty secure that way. So it would boil down to how fast I think I can get the first shot of an already approved vaccine.
If I am sure I can schedule within the next 2-3 weeks, I would take the known quantity. If I had no idea when I would be able to schedule an already approved vaccine and my state did not seem to be getting things together, I would go clinical trial.