AbsolutSurgen Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 Not nu, but Omicron. World Health Organization declares new variant of concern named Omicron | CBC News WWW.CBC.CA A new coronavirus variant that was identified this week in South Africa has been named a variant of concern and given the name Omicron by the World Health Organization. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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marioandsonic Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 19 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Not nu, but Omicron. World Health Organization declares new variant of concern named Omicron | CBC News WWW.CBC.CA A new coronavirus variant that was identified this week in South Africa has been named a variant of concern and given the name Omicron by the World Health Organization. Sounds like a Transformers villain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 Canada is now announcing similar actions to Europe. Props to Justin and the Liberal government for acting quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CitizenVectron Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Based on nothing but my own gut, I am going to predict that this variant will dominate infection worldwide within 3-4 weeks, and will prove to reduce the efficacy of the vaccines down to something like 10-20% for stopping infection. The vaccines will still hold up in terms of preventing severe disease for most people (since T-cell response is quite different than antibody response, and relies less on the shape of spike protein). Regardless, hospitals will once again start to become overloaded as more and more unvaccinated people enter them as the virus spreads among both vaccinated and unvaccinated. Most governments will be afraid to introduce lockdowns, etc, until it's too late. New vaccines for this variant (and Delta) will be released mid-to-late-2022 and will prove quite effective. We will enter 2023 roughly where we are right now, except that the far-right will have taken advantage of this in the US as well as Europe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 1 hour ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Canada is now announcing similar actions to Europe. Props to Justin and the Liberal government for acting quickly. The US just followed the EU/Canada and restricted travel from southern Africa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 This is why the development of therapeutics remains a necessity. Many thought these would just be for the unvaccinated, but not so. Everybody is going to catch this thing at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 14 minutes ago, sblfilms said: This is why the development of therapeutics remains a necessity. Many thought these would just be for the unvaccinated, but not so. Everybody is going to catch this thing at some point. Honestly one "good" thing (despite the cost) to come out of this pandemic is the giant amounts of investment into anti-viral research, both preventative and treatment-wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Expanded sick leave set to become a pandemic legacy, even as federal, provincial programs flop WWW.THEGLOBEANDMAIL.COM Growing momentum for paid sick leave ignores underperformance of programs launched during the pandemic Basically there is a movement in Canada to legally guarantee sick leave for all people. Most people have it through their work, but because it's not regulated, not all do. Also, lol at the article saying the pandemic-era temporary sick leave programs were "flops." Most of them required action after you took leave to be reimbursed by the government. If you know you have to do a bunch of paperwork to get paid after, you are far less likely to take it (especially it you make less to begin with). But if you know ahead of time that you can take a day off with pay, you are more likely to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 Early days, but potentially promising news: 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Air_Delivery Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Canada releases 50 million pounds from maple syrup reserve amid... NYPOST.COM The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers announced this week that it's pulling some 50 million pounds of syrup from its strategic reserve. @CitizenVectron As the representative of Canada what is the status on the maple syrup crisis? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Things are dour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Wait, that's real? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyphoidHater Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Break out the fenugreek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaxick Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Suddenly, this David Bowie song from the PC/Dreamcast game Omikron: The Nomad Soul is going to take on a new meaning. Thanks David Cage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleG Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Per my sister this evening, my nieces husbands family all have contracted Covid last week. 4 out of the 10 are currently in the hospital with 1 of the those in the ICU in piss poor shape. For fucks sake get your god damn vaccinations, fucking morons the entire lot of them. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Though it's less political of an issue than in the US (if only because there are less conservatives here), it's still a concern: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 9 hours ago, vaxick said: Suddenly, this David Bowie song from the PC/Dreamcast game Omikron: The Nomad Soul is going to take on a new meaning. Thanks David Cage. Between references to Omikron and the Pandemic Legacy board game there’s no way we’re not living in a simulation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said: there’s no way we’re not living in a simulation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Well, it finally happened. A relative has fallen to Q over the vaccines and covid. So this is fairly distant, but I see them every Thanksgiving and Christmas. My cousin on my dad's side married this guy. I'm not super close with him, but he's always been generally pretty jovial and okay to cut up with at the holiday gatherings. He's always been right wing--his son's a cop, he was big into Trump. But that was fine. We could spar with one another here and there and leave it with a "but whatever" and be fine to move on. Last year, our thanksgiving and christmas gatherings (which usually had 20+ people at them) were cancelled for safety reasons. We started back this year since everyone (minus this guy) was vaccinated. He gets there and I find him. He's sitting in a room by himself watching football, brooding. I strike up some small talk because I know he liked to mix it up in the past and he's always outspoken. So I talk about my work's vaccine mandate. He says a couple of dismissive things and then says "but I'm on a short leash, so I can't talk much." The look on his face is really pained in that it looks like he wants to go off. He doesn't get in line when food's ready. He doesn't eat with us. After the meal, when we're all milling around, he's nowhere to be found. As I was leaving, I catch a glimpse of him and the rest of his family leaving in their car. He sat in his car the entire time alone. I talked with my hillbilly uncle and he was like "oh yeah, he's into that Q stuff. It made him angry at the world. He lost a few friends over it and might even quit his job." He makes $26/hr driving dump trucks. That's damn good money here. He's always been big on talk, and that might just be all talk... but with Q, you never know. And if it came to that, his wife--my cousin--might decide that's the last straw. I wish I knew more. What got to him, if it's actually Qanon stuff, or just run of the mill (lol) right wing stuff on facebook It's no one I'm really mourning over losing. I see him twice a year and have only really done that in the last 5-6 years. I didn't grow up with him or anything. But the drastic change from 2019 to now is stark. I just feel bad for everyone in his life that was more close to him or that had to deal with him in the day to day over the last two years. Facebook, Q, OANN, and all that garbage got to him. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 My wifes aunt and uncle are getting better from Covid. Like I mentioned before, the uncle got it much worse, he did not end up in the hospital luckily. He could barely eat for 4 full days without throwing up or diarrhea. Now he's dealing with manageable congestion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 My first morning back in Texas after a week and a half in Mexico and it's another planet. In Mexico everyone is wearing masks, everyone. Here it's like 2%, I'm at the gym and statistically at least half these people aren't vaxxed and probably got COVID on Thursday. Some will probably have lingering effects, maybe a few die. We deserve this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Also I hear sometimes oh it's hard to breathe while working out with a mask. If I can squat 425 with a mask you can curl 25lbs with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Cases going to explode in January again, gonna be mostly chuds, chuds will also be like "Vaccines don't work just look at these numbers!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 minute ago, PaladinSolo said: Cases going to explode in January again, gonna be mostly chuds, chuds will also be like "Vaccines don't work just look at these numbers!" I hope they deny it as they take their last breath. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 32 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said: I hope they deny it as they take their last breath. Quite a few already have. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Not surprising, it will be everywhere soon: Covid: Two cases of new variant Omicron detected in UK WWW.BBC.COM Two people in the UK have been found to be infected with the new Covid variant, Omicron, the health secretary says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 24 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: Quite a few already have. Beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pickle Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 hour ago, SuperSpreader said: Also I hear sometimes oh it's hard to breathe while working out with a mask. If I can squat 425 with a mask you can curl 25lbs with it. Hmm, I don’t wear a mask in the gym when working out. I put it on at all times until I’m working out though. I don’t think we have to. I am a bit worried about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 I do rope pulls and overhead tricep pulls with the full weight stack. Wear a fucking mask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Grain of salt, etc: Actually, the BEST case scenario for a new mutation is that it's so contagious that it out-competes other variants and creates more natural immunity through milder infection. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 If the variant evolutions are leading in the direction of making it more cold-like, then that's a goddamned win! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwheel86 Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 2 hours ago, SuperSpreader said: Also I hear sometimes oh it's hard to breathe while working out with a mask. If I can squat 425 with a mask you can curl 25lbs with it. I have 19% lung capacity and had on an n95+surgical mask through a spinal injection. They'll be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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