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Sheepdog

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The NSW/Sidney/Northern Beaches authorities stamped out that small outbreak pretty quickly, eh?
It won't be stamped out because the right-wing New South Wales government is blinking at having to mess with Christmas properly.

Summer weather will help them contain the overall damage, but because of Christmas travel that they didn't curb in time and family mingling there will likely be plenty more spotfire outbreaks, and we will likely get an outbreak from it here in Victoria too.

Their testing numbers are good though. Their overall health infrastructure is just way better than ours. But their politicians might fuck them, whereas our Dear Leader and the Dear Leaders of the other states have compensated for comparatively shittier systems by ruling with an iron fist.

The West Australian cunt shuts his borders at the first sign of trouble, but it has worked and they've basically been covid free the whole time.
 
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So the vaccine plan, without Texas screwing it all up by going against the plan, is 5 months to finish phase 1.
That's old people and essential workers basically.

That puts at May 2021 for 85 million vaccinations done. We'll assume roll outs happen faster as time goes on and we do another 100 million 4 months after that. September 2021. 185+ million vaccinated and another portion already infected and recovered with some level of partial immunity for some period of time.
That should be enough to really be back to things domestically, right?

Now the rest of the world...


I will go on record saying I think it's screwed up that Texas is choosing to put at home old people higher up than people that have to work and be exposed to the undifferentiated public, all while providing no significant support for those industries or employees.

From the CDC summary on guidance:
Although overall mortality increases with age, the proportion of deaths associated with COVID-19 is similar across middle-age and older adults
It's about 9-10% after the age of 45. Turns out Americans have a lot of comorbidities with all that obesity. Hospitalization is up in the older crowd but deaths aren't. Those that are gonna die probably got that heart disease much earlier in life it looks like.

So we are lowering priority of 50 year old meat plant workers, grocery workers, etc. who are more likely to be uninsured, to be exposed, and nearly as likely to die, to be behind medicare insured older people that have retirement and the ability to stay home without financial ruin.

We chose straight death/hospitalization rate without any consideration of ability outside of that.
We keep wanting to open back up and are killing the people we depend on to open us up!

#teamessentialworkers
 
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jobs that get exposed the most...

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half of all essential workers are older than 40.

Maybe you can use technology to lower risk of some, but others you can't and its inherent in the job.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

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jobs that get exposed the most...

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half of all essential workers are older than 40.

Maybe you can use technology to lower risk of some, but others you can't and its inherent in the job.
Non-medical essential workers have, and will continue to get the absolute shaft for the duration of the pandemic. It's been an absolute joke to have them treated as virus fodder in March and now be shuffled to the back of the line for vaccines in December.
 
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Eric Trump

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I hear youtubers say that the rest of the world is laughing at you how you cant get your shit together. I can tell you that in our country everyone says that we have never been more fucked before. Politicians say we are fucked, the media say we are fucked, the people know we are fucked. I dont know about the rest of the world, but no one in the country where I live is laughing at you, they are crying because they are fucked themselves
 

ShatsBassoon

Throwing bombs & banging moms
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