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[Ismo07]

That’s just so wrong.

 

Why it's just cold symptoms!!  Yes selfish people will always abound....

[dasmo]

At least they don't just kill us all after one of us tests positive like they are the chickens.... 

[sebberry]

At least they don't just kill us all after one of us tests positive like they are the chickens.... 

 

I know you think that's where the world is going.  

[Mike K.]

Why it's just cold symptoms!! Yes selfish people will always abound....

Flu symptoms

[dasmo]

I know you think that's where the world is going.  

If I did I wouldn't be here trying to enlighten y'all, I would be building a bunker.... Sense of humour is still important yes? 

[dasmo]

But they are killing the birds....Based on the PCR test.... 

"Bird flu's grisly question: how to kill millions of poultry

When cases of bird flu are found on poultry farms officials act quickly to slaughter all the birds in that flock even when it numbers in the millions, but animal welfare groups say their methods are inhumane"

 

https://abcnews.go.c...oultry-83939632

[Nparker]

...I know of someone who tested positive the other day but then still went to a concert because he had tickets they he couldn't offload. Lots of good the testing did.

There are probably hundreds of people on the streets of the CRD each day who are COVID positive, but asymptomatic and going about their normal lives. Isn't this why most people got vaccinated?

[Victoria Watcher]

Dr BH was on CFAX this morning with Al. Al asked her about the same point I raised yesterday which is the rapid surge in new covid cases. Dr BH avoided the question and re-iterated that folks should get vaccinated and that for the most part covid cases are mild and most people have been exposed at one point or another by now. They then moved on to talking about vaccination rates with medical professionals.

Must be a very touchy topic. If we are not concerned now with what appear to be the highest infection rates yet, then why did we lock everything down for so long and cause so much hardship?

B.C. COVID hospitalizations climb to 596 for the first time in months

Latest data from the BCCDC shows hospitalizations on the rise again

https://www.vicnews....time-in-months/


COVID-19 hospitalizations in B.C. are on the rise again as the latest weekly BCCDC report shows 596 people in hospital with the virus.

Of those in hospital, 54 are in ICU. Not everyone in hospital is there because of their COVID infection, as some people are found to have COVID after they are admitted to hospital.

This is the highest level of COVID-19 hospitalizations since February.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 May 2022 - 05:54 PM.

[sebberry]

All those silly folks showing up to the hospital with colds.

[dasmo]

All those silly folks showing up to the hospital with colds.

 

 

 Not everyone in hospital is there because of their COVID infection, as some people are found to have COVID after they are admitted to hospital.

[dasmo]

lucky they aren't chickens.... 

[Nparker]

Any comorbidities or demographics for those in hospitals?

[amor de cosmos]

At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of country’s first confirmed outbreak since the pandemic began.
https://globalnews.c...ads-nationwide/
 

Major US meat companies were aware that their sites were hotbeds for coronavirus transmission but exaggerated impending product shortages so they could keep workers on site at the height of the pandemic, according to an investigation by a House committee.

They also lobbied the White House and the US Department of Agriculture to minimize coronavirus safety measures on the industry, according to the report, which was released on Thursday by the bipartisan House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

Meat processing sites were a major source of coronavirus outbreaks, triggering a wave of lawsuits. This was largely down to their lack of safety procedures like social distancing and staff's inability to work from home.

The report focused on five of the US' largest meatpacking companies — Tyson Foods, JBS, Smithfield Foods, Cargill, and the National Beef Packing Company. During the first year of the pandemic, more than 59,000 workers at these companies were infected with the coronavirus and at least 269 died, the committee said.
 
The report details how meatpacking executives were allegedly aware of the high risks of coronavirus transmission inside their plants.
 
For example, a doctor at a hospital close to JBS' processing plant in Cactus, Texas, sent an email to a JBS executive on April 18, 2020, saying that "100% of all COVID-19 patients we have in the hospital are either direct employees or family member[s] of your employees."
 
"I am not sure this situation is being treated with the urgency it deserves," the doctor continued. "Your employees will get sick and may die if this factory continues to be open."

https://www.business...us-covid-2022-5
 

President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. has licensed a key technology used in the current Covid-19 vaccines to the World Health Organization, which would allow manufacturers around the world to work with the global health agency to develop their own shots against the virus.

The National Institutes of Health has licensed its stabilized spike protein technology to the WHO and United Nations’ Medicines Patent Pool, Biden said.

The spike protein is the component in the vaccines that induces an immune response, prompting the body to fight the virus. The NIH technology holds the proteins in a configuration that allows them to produce a more potent immune response. The WHO and the Medicines Patent Pool can now sublicense the technology to generic manufacturers around the world.
 
“We are making available health technologies that are owned by the United States government, including stabilized spike protein that is used in many Covid-19 vaccines,” Biden said.

The decision to share the vaccine technology comes ahead of a virtual global Covid-19 summit that the U.S. is co-hosting Thursday. The WHO, in a statement, said the license would make the crucial technology accessible to people in low- and middle-income countries and help end the pandemic.

https://www.cnbc.com...elop-shots.html

U.S. Covid Chief Warns New Vaccines Are Needed By Fall
In an Associated Press interview, Dr. Ashish Jha said Americans’ immune protection from the virus is waning.
https://crooksandlia...ew-vaccines-are

Edited by amor de cosmos, 13 May 2022 - 06:45 AM.

[max.bravo]

^269 deaths out of 59,000 infected employees. That’s less than half a percent infection fatality rate. Interesting case study.

[Ismo07]

But they are killing the birds....Based on the PCR test.... 

"Bird flu's grisly question: how to kill millions of poultry

When cases of bird flu are found on poultry farms officials act quickly to slaughter all the birds in that flock even when it numbers in the millions, but animal welfare groups say their methods are inhumane"

 

https://abcnews.go.c...oultry-83939632

 

For years and with many livestock...  Right?

[Ismo07]

There are probably hundreds of people on the streets of the CRD each day who are COVID positive, but asymptomatic and going about their normal lives. Isn't this why most people got vaccinated?

 

Likely don't know it, it's a little different for someone to know they are sick and still go.  Isn't that the prudent, unselfish thing?

[Ismo07]

^269 deaths out of 59,000 infected employees. That’s less than half a percent infection fatality rate. Interesting case study.

 

Can we get a flu death count for that company over the last 20 years?...  Again you like to bring up the percent of deaths.  What percent would it take for you to worry?  I'm guessing that none of those deaths are 80+ and likely very few even 65+ which keeps the % down.  Since working for the City for almost 30 years (omg) not one person out of the 1000+ has died of the flu in that span (that I'm aware of granted).  Way less than 0.05 have died of anything over that period of time (taken annually) so .05% of deaths in one year is kind of a big deal I'd think.

Edited by Ismo07, 13 May 2022 - 07:37 AM.

[dasmo]

It’s too bad the flu disappeared over the last two years. Makes it hard to compare the two…

[Ismo07]

It’s too bad the flu disappeared over the last two years. Makes it hard to compare the two…

 

Well check past years... Check the last 10 even...  

[sebberry]

It’s too bad the flu disappeared over the last two years. Makes it hard to compare the two…

 

Are you suggesting masking and distancing reduce the transmission of viruses?