Mega Yacht sales are directly relevant to COVID-19 in your world?
That explains quite a bit in terms of understanding your posts here in the forum.
i actually remember a story very early in the pandemic about workers at a mega-yacht shipyard in cornwall for some reason being essential, but i don't think that's what he was getting at
i can't imagine this is what he means, it sounds too much like socialism
CNN’s Christine Romans took time on Tuesday to look at a study from Oxfam International, and she determined that the pandemic has been a “profit machine for the world’s richest people.” The study says that in the last 21 months, the total wealth of billionaires has shot up by more than $5 trillion, and the world’s ten richest men have seen their combined fortunes rise from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion.
“When times are tough, the rich get richer. When times are good, the rich get richer,” Romans summarized. “All told, their total worth is 6 times greater than the world’s poorest 3.1 billion people. It’s almost mind-boggling.”
https://www.mediaite...covid-pandemic/
Small business confidence plunges to lowest since pandemic began amid Omicron chill
CFIB calls for government's help 'if we want to avoid mass casualties in the small business community'
https://financialpos...d-omicron-chill
Health Canada approves Pfizer antiviral but supply issues expected
https://www.winnipeg...-576073442.html
Compared to their peers, youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to experience significant impairment in school functioning and mental health. Mix in the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruptions are even greater.
https://www.eurekale...releases/940325
more about myocarditis
The heart has played a central role in COVID-19 since the beginning. Cardiovascular conditions are among the highest risk factors for hospitalization. A significant number of patients hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infections have signs of heart damage, and many recover from infection with lasting cardiovascular injury.
It's not surprising that debates over COVID-19 vaccines frequently center around issues involving cardiovascular health. The high-profile collapse of Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen in June initiated a myth about the link between sudden cardiac death and vaccination among athletes that persists several months later.
Perhaps the most common point of conflict concerning COVID-19 vaccines is the risk of myocarditis following immunization, particularly among young people.
What do the numbers tell us about COVID-19, vaccines and myocarditis?
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Post-vaccination myocarditis
Myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination is rare and the risk is much smaller than the risks of cardiac injury linked to COVID-19 itself.
Based on a study out of Israel, the risk of post-vaccine myocarditis is 2.13 cases per 100,000 vaccinated, which is within the range usually seen in the general population. This study is consistent with others in the United States and Israel which put the overall incidence of post-vaccine myocarditis between 0.3 and five cases per 100,000 people.
The kids are alright
The highest incidence of myocarditis after vaccination with mRNA vaccines has occurred within three to four days after the second vaccination in males who are under age 30. In pediatric data, the median age is 15.8 years, with most patients being male (90.6 per cent) and white (66.2 per cent) or Hispanic (20.9 per cent). Reliable data on booster shots in this age group is not yet available.
Most studies show a clear benefit of COVID-19 mRNA vaccination with respect to myocarditis. Only one study by Martina Patone, from the University of Oxford, and colleagues found more ambiguous results for those under 40 years of age based on myocarditis rates alone. However, if considering the other ill effects of infection with SARS-CoV-2 — both cardiac and not — there was still a strong benefit in immunizing younger people with COVID-19 vaccines other than Moderna, which research suggests has a higher risk for myocarditis than Pfizer’s vaccine.
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Adults who develop myocarditis from COVID-19 have poorer outcomes than non-COVID-19 cases, including a higher risk of death. It should be noted that myocarditis associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection is just one of several heart conditions linked to COVID-19 with outcomes that are worse than non-COVID-19 cases.
In cases of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination, the vast majority of cases are mild and resolve quickly. In adults, 95 per cent of cases were deemed to be mild. Similarly, in children, 98.6 per cent are mild, and there has not been any reported need for mechanical heart support (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, when blood is pumped outside the body to a heart-lung machine) or deaths. All children who had heart weakness had complete normalization of their heart function on followup.
https://theconversat...cination-174580
via https://medicalxpres...accination.html
Henry Ford Study Finds Low Risk of Myocarditis in College Athletes Who Recover from Mild COVID Symptoms
Researchers issue caution that the link between COVID and cardiovascular disease remains unclear.
https://www.newswise...covid-symptoms/
NZ scientists develop method to disinfect PPE for potential reuse in Covid-19
New Zealand scientists have developed a shipping container-based unit to disinfect N95 masks and other PPE, so it can be potentially reused and safely recycled.
https://www.eurekale...releases/940347
Uptake and continued use of the NHS Covid-19 app last year depended on people’s trust in the UK Government, their concern about privacy, and crucially whether other people in their social networks endorse it, a new study shows.
https://www.eurekale...releases/940341
France's health pass has saved almost 4,000 people's lives, eased the pressure on hospitals and helped to keep the economy afloat, according to a new report from an economic analysis group.
France’s Council of Economic Analysis, a group that advises the government, has produced a report on the impact of the health pass from its introduction on July 12th until the end of 2021 – and its headline finding is that the pass saved almost 4,000 lives.
The French health pass was introduced by the government in the summer of 2021 and its stated purpose was twofold; to stem the spread of the Covid pandemic and increase vaccination rate
To hold a valid health pass, French citizens must either have proof of full vaccination, proof of recent recovery from Covid or a negative PCR or antigen test taken within the past 24 hours. It is needed to access a wide range of venues such as restaurants, cafés, bars, cinemas, theatres, tourist venues, gyms, leisure centres and to use long-distance trains or visit health centres as a visitor or for non-emergency treatment.
A new study from the Council of Economic Analysis, an independent consortium of economists that advises the French Prime Minister’s office, has shown that the health pass has been a mighty success.
The study refers to health passes as “Covid certificates”.
“We estimate that the announcement of Covid certificates during summer 2021 led to increased vaccine uptake in France of 13.0 percentage points of the total population until the end of the year,” write the authors.
“Further, this averted an additional 3,979 (3,453‐4,298) deaths in France.”
“Notably, the application of Covid certificates substantially reduced the pressure on intensive care units (ICUs) and, in France, averted surpassing the occupancy levels where prior lockdowns were instated.”
https://www.thelocal...ost-4000-lives/
https://www.bruegel....and-the-economy
via https://www.ft.com/c...a0-d30fc16b6d9d
Novak Djokovic returned home Monday after being thwarted from defending his Australian Open title only to face a new predicament: He could be barred from the French Open this year, too, if he's still not vaccinated against COVID-19.
https://www.cbc.ca/s...-case-1.6317638
The world must vaccinate everyone against COVID-19 in order to defeat the pandemic, said the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Guterres made the remarks on Monday in his address to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos Agenda, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The last two years have demonstrated a simple but brutal truth -- if we leave anyone behind, we leave everyone behind," said the United Nations Secretary-General.
http://www.ecns.cn/n...ie2087976.shtml
Number of COVID-2019 cases across globe exceeds 325 million — WHO
The biggest number of coronavirus cases was reported from the United States, India, Brazil, the United Kingdom and France
https://tass.com/world/1389341
global excess deaths
Last year’s Day of the Dead marked a grim milestone. On 1 November, the global death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic passed 5 million, official data suggested. It has now reached 5.5 million. But that figure is a significant underestimate. Records of excess mortality — a metric that involves comparing all deaths recorded with those expected to occur — show many more people than this have died in the pandemic.
Working out how many more is a complex research challenge. It is not as simple as just counting up each country’s excess mortality figures. Some official data in this regard are flawed, scientists have found. And more than 100 countries do not collect reliable statistics on expected or actual deaths at all, or do not release them in a timely manner.
Demographers, data scientists and public-health experts are striving to narrow the uncertainties for a global estimate of pandemic deaths. These efforts, from both academics and journalists, use methods ranging from satellite images of cemeteries to door-to-door surveys and machine-learning computer models that try to extrapolate global estimates from available data.
Among these models, the World Health Organization (WHO) is still working on its first global estimate, but the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington, offers daily updates of its own modelled results, as well as projections of how quickly the global toll might rise. And one of the highest-profile attempts to model a global estimate has come from the news media. The Economist magazine in London has used a machine-learning approach to produce an estimate of 12 million to 22 million excess deaths — or between 2 and 4 times the pandemic’s official toll so far (see go.nature.com/3qjtyge and ‘Global toll’).
https://www.nature.c...586-022-00104-8
Support for populist parties and politicians, and agreement with populist sentiment, has diminished during the pandemic, according to a “mega-dataset” taking in attitudes of over half a million people across 109 countries since 2020.
A University of Cambridge team say there are clear signs of a turning tide for the “populist wave”, as the mishandling of coronavirus by populist leaders – along with a desire for stability and a decline in “polarising” attitudes resulting from the pandemic – starts to move public opinion.
https://www.alphagal...y/ItemId/216604
Dominic Cummings Ready to ‘Swear Under Oath’ BoJo 'Lied' About No 10 Lockdown-Busting 'Boozy Party'
https://sputniknews....1092332789.html
While the number of intensive-care-unit patients has been inching higher in recent weeks as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads in Italy, it has not approached levels seen during earlier waves yet.
But at least one patient, recently released from Rome's Spallanzani Hospital after more than two weeks in the intensive care unit (ICU), warns there is no reason people should drop their guard.
"I could have died, and at one point I thought I was going to die," Roberto, a 61-year-old government worker, told Xinhua.
"I didn't take the pandemic seriously enough and I paid the price," he said. "My doctors said I was lucky to recover completely."
Roberto, a grandfather of two, was vaccinated in March 2021, around three months after Italy first started vaccinating residents. But as infection rates fell to low levels during the summer of that year, he said he disregarded messages from regional health officials for a second dose.
http://www.ecns.cn/n...ie2088100.shtml
Morocco plans $220 million package to help Covid-hit tourism sector
https://english.alar...-tourism-sector
2 close aides of Pope Francis test positive for COVID-19, Vatican says
https://www.rappler....9-vatican-says/
Almost 150,000 Children in India Lost Parents During COVID-19 Pandemic, Child Rights Watchdog Says
https://sputniknews....1092334946.html
Nationwide lockdown in Russia amid situation with COVID-19 is not an option — Kremlin
The Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that "the situation can vary from region to region"
https://tass.com/world/1389645
Cabinet decides to postpone Russian Investment Forum from February to later dates, says PM
The forum was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic
https://tass.com/economy/1389655
Hong Kong police on Monday arrested two former flight attendants and charged them with breaching the city's COVID-19 rules, according to a government press release.
https://www.business...id-rules-2022-1
Hong Kong killing 2K small animals after hamsters catch COVID-19
https://globalnews.c...-kong-hamsters/
Former New York Times journalist Donald G. McNeil Jr. wrote an article on Medium that stated what everyone with an ounce of intelligence already knows, but wouldn’t dare put in print: Not only is Donald Trump losing hundreds of voters each day to COVID-19, their deaths are already surpassing the margins the GOP can possibly hope to attain in the swing states. Maybe it seems ghoulish to post the political ramifications to a human life, to which I reply that Democrats aren’t the ones killing these people—their own right-wing disinformation machine is. Hell, we are trying to save them despite the political ramifications.
Trumpists simply don’t believe in wearing masks, or social distancing, and are so anti-vaxx that they won’t even listen to Trump himself as he tries to tout the vaccines. GOP leaders are also undermining public health directives aimed at protecting their own people. Trump did have a change of heart about promoting the vaccines only because someone impressed upon him that the deaths are his voters. He really needs as many as possible in 2024, but it’s too late—and it’s getting worse.
Multiple studies from the AP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and even Texas’ health services have shown that the deaths are almost entirely among the unvaccinated, and most of these individuals identify as Republican. The profile of a typical COVID-19 victim is now an older unvaccinated person who is obese and lives in a rural area, far from a hospital. In other words, lots of common ground with a Trumper. Obviously, this has already had a major political impact.
McNeil did the math:
As of this week, about 1,800 Americans a day are dying of Covid; the C.D.C. expects that number to rise above 2,600. Virtually all are adults. If 95 percent were unvaccinated and we assume that 75 percent of those were Trump supporters, that’s 1,300 to 1,900 of his voters being subtracted from the rolls every single day.
Donald Trump lost Arizona by a mere 10,000 votes. He lost Georgia by 12,000, He lost Wisconsin by 21,000. He lost Nevada by 33,000. Right now, about 60 Arizonans, 36 Georgians, 34 Wisconsinites and 14 Nevadans are dying of Covid each day. Seventy five percent of 95 percent of that would be minus 103 Trump voters per day — just in those four swing states. Week after week. That adds up.
The hospitals here in Florida are at the breaking point. The state broke the record with 430,297 cases last week. Also, Florida deaths rose from 184 the previous week to 470 just last week, the most since early November. Gov. Ron DeSantis is so far gone that he is arguing that Trump was too sane and honest about COVID-19 and should have ignored it even more than he did.
https://www.dailykos...ndreds-each-day
https://donaldgmcnei...im-153a2ff62718
Officials Struggle to Regulate Pop-Up Covid Testing Sites — And Warn Patients to Beware
https://khn.org/news...nts-to-beware/
Laura Ingraham took particular delight in the fact that Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tested positive for Covid-19.
In June, the Fox News host accused Milley of spreading “far-left Marxist racist ideology” in the U.S. military.
During Monday’s show, Ingraham introduced a recurring segment with Raymond Arroyo called “Positively Boosted,” during which the two highlight Covid-positive cases in people who are fully vaccinated and boosted.
While vaccinated people can test positive for Covid, they are far less likely to be hospitalized or die because of the virus. This fact, of course, was omitted from the “Positively Boosted” segment.
“All right, the triple vaxxed Joint Chief[s] chairman Mark Milley – our favorite, Mark Milley! – tested positive for Covid yesterday,” Ingraham said while clapping. “And who else? General David Berger, the Marine Corps commandant, also positively boosted.”
A graphic on the show indicated that Milley was experiencing “very minor symptoms.”
https://www.mediaite...y-has-covid-19/
Lara Logan, the former 60 Minutes correspondent who as of late has earned a reputation for pushing conspiracy theories at Fox News, has been dropped by talent agency UTA over controversial comments she made about Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The veteran journalist was dropped after she sparked controversy by comparing the top U.S. infectious diseases expert to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele on Fox News.
https://www.mediaite...octor-comments/
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