Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/NBCLX/status/1353708581514829825

Humans are offiically Panda's

[james]

Everyone is opening up dining, covid is over

 

[Nintex]

Thank you Ronald Reagan, freedom wins again

[Nintex]

People celebrating the end of COVID

https://twitter.com/Krantengek/status/1353799542538465284

https://twitter.com/newsblogmedia/status/1353799228557053952

https://twitter.com/BLuimes/status/1353795628141314049

https://twitter.com/BLuimes/status/1353792737535995904

[Flannel Boy]

Flannel Boy, who hurt you?

That's a long list.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/NBCLX/status/1353708581514829825

Humans are offiically Panda's

As the article mentions, this is not a new trend--it's just getting worse. The fertility rate in the US has fallen every year (except one when it was flat) since 2007, the last time it was at replacement level. This has been, more or less, a world-wide trend. Latin America is now below replacement. At the extreme end, Macao, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea have rates that are about half of replacement level, and still falling. 

[Rufus]

Depends on how nervous/eager the bean counters are. Scaling back infrastructure is easier than rebuilding/bringing it back online.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1353789925989167104


 

[james]

We need to lower the population by a few billion anyway

[Nintex]

Fantastic news everyone

https://twitter.com/tom_nuttall/status/1353794256440348674

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1353826946157785088

Meanwhile in the danklands 151 arrests tonight. Many police cars burned.

Police says they are at max capacity, football club supporters have offered to help protect their cities.
One man arrested for defending his store against looters because he violated the curfew. 

Some people say they should 'send in the tanks' which would be an option if we had any 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/zachculpeper/status/1353844642975014912

jesus 

[team filler]

keep my dutch bros safe at all costs 

[Nintex]

I live in a peaceful coastal town. No riots here so far.

Government needs to get their act together though, only a matter of time before either members of dank ISIS or the police are killed in a riot and all bets are off.
Yesterday a protestor nearly died when a water canon smashed her head into a concrete wall and rioters have been trying to burn police officers in their car.

Meanwhlie the politicians are bean counting on Twitter whose base is rioting and calling eachother out for being responsible.
They don't seem to grasp that these protests transcend party lines and their limited idea of who is capable of commiting crimes.

[Madrun Badrun]

The 8% thing was debunked like 5 minutes after it became a thing.  https://globalnews.ca/news/7598547/astrazeneca-coronavirus-vaccine-reports-incorrect/

[james]

Isn't the coast in the Netherlands under sea level

Seems risky

[Nintex]

And we're off
https://twitter.com/WildeWesten_NL/status/1354145064277176326

https://twitter.com/KIROLOUSBISHAY/status/1354146468857315329

Apparently this group of nice men are there to 'protect' the city 
https://twitter.com/Floris_West/status/1354131491144540162

Update police have given them orange vests so they look less intimidating 
https://twitter.com/BLuimes/status/1354140293822558213

[MMaRsu]

Lmao the riots were a one day thing. Shit isnt gonna happen right away the next day

All these closed stores.. couldnt even get groceries after work.

Fucking bullshit.

[Nintex]

Lmao the riots were a one day thing. Shit isnt gonna happen right away the next day

All these closed stores.. couldnt even get groceries after work.

Fucking bullshit.

Time to riot 

#gamersriseup

[MMaRsu]

Cant riot on an empty stomach

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/MarcusTriton/status/1353858160600240134

this guy is usually posting conspiracy shid 

[Tasty]

Flannel Boy, who hurt you?

That's a long list.

Does it include the Bruins?

[Nintex]

Belgium has closed the border for all non-essential travel until March 1st. Their PM called it "a line of defense"

[james]

Belgium has closed the border for all non-essential travel until March 1st. Their PM called it "a line of defense"

The Maginot Line

 

[Flannel Boy]

Flannel Boy, who hurt you?

That's a long list.

Does it include the Bruins?

[Flannel Boy]

We observed that neutralization of the 501Y.V2 variants was strongly attenuated, with IC50 6 to 200-fold higher relative to first wave virus. The degree of attenuation varied between participants and included a knockout of neutralization activity. This observation indicates that 501Y.V2 may escape the neutralizing antibody response elicited by prior natural infection

plasma from patients who had COVID has a neutralization capacity 6 to 200 times worse against SARS-2 501Y.V2 (the South African variant).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.26.21250224v1

[james]

We observed that neutralization of the 501Y.V2 variants was strongly attenuated, with IC50 6 to 200-fold higher relative to first wave virus. The degree of attenuation varied between participants and included a knockout of neutralization activity. This observation indicates that 501Y.V2 may escape the neutralizing antibody response elicited by prior natural infection

plasma from patients who had COVID has a neutralization capacity 6 to 200 times worse against SARS-2 501Y.V2 (the South African variant).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.26.21250224v1

Wait what?

If I got regular covid, im WORSE off against nu covid?

[Madrun Badrun]

Ya cause nu covid has diplomatic immunity

[Flannel Boy]

We observed that neutralization of the 501Y.V2 variants was strongly attenuated, with IC50 6 to 200-fold higher relative to first wave virus. The degree of attenuation varied between participants and included a knockout of neutralization activity. This observation indicates that 501Y.V2 may escape the neutralizing antibody response elicited by prior natural infection

plasma from patients who had COVID has a neutralization capacity 6 to 200 times worse against SARS-2 501Y.V2 (the South African variant).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.26.21250224v1

Wait what?

If I got regular covid, im WORSE off against nu covid?

You're still better off against "nu covid" than someone who hasn't had COVID-classic at all. It's just you're 6-200 times worse off at inhibiting "nu covid" rather than COVID-classic.

[james]

We observed that neutralization of the 501Y.V2 variants was strongly attenuated, with IC50 6 to 200-fold higher relative to first wave virus. The degree of attenuation varied between participants and included a knockout of neutralization activity. This observation indicates that 501Y.V2 may escape the neutralizing antibody response elicited by prior natural infection

plasma from patients who had COVID has a neutralization capacity 6 to 200 times worse against SARS-2 501Y.V2 (the South African variant).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.26.21250224v1

Wait what?

If I got regular covid, im WORSE off against nu covid?

You're still better off against "nu covid" than someone who hasn't had COVID-classic at all. It's just you're 6-200 times worse off at inhibiting "nu covid" rather than COVID-classic.

Oh, cool then.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/mikerosenwald/status/1354509023484194819

 

[james]

 

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/mikerosenwald/status/1354509023484194819

 

Is the picture not accurate or do they go ass to mouth?

[BIONIC]

Need to see it in action on some PAWGs 

[T-Short]

https://twitter.com/thismorning/status/1354014175215955969

 

[james]

Decent titties. Ill allow it.

[BIONIC]

“In a world where you can be anything - be kind”

Glen was a thot this whole time? 

[Potato]

Decent titties. Ill allow it.

Face like a busted arsehole though. 4/10 would still smang

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but only from behind

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[Mupepe]

Need to see it in action on some PAWGs 

It’s mostly PAAG’s in China

[Flannel Boy]

U.S.: 27,300,814 doses or 8.31 doses per hundred
Canada: 908,963 doses or 2.42 doses per hundred

Getting 1/30th of the doses.

[Nintex]

Netherlands

Administered : 203.450
Completion rate: 1,164% / 100%

500k doses in storage, 200k delivered a week by Pfizer.

EMA has said that the 2nd Pfizer dose should be administered no more than 3 weeks later from the first.
Our government has increased the waiting time for the second dose to 6 weeks.
 

[Madrun Badrun]

[Nintex]

Our health secretary has promised that within a month the backlog of vaccinations will be cleared.

After telling everyone we had to wait to do it responsibly and efficiently (because the vaccination efforts in Germany, France etc. were only 'symbolic')
medical professionals have concluded that the effort so far has been a mess and there is no clear strategy or coordination in place.

One of them said and I quote "the vaccination effort seems to have been focused on getting selfie shots not protecting the population" 

Quite something when the middle manager clown you appoint as secretary to be the fall guy doesn't leave his post but just keeps failing, circling back and working 9 - 5 (between interviews) on business days.
But you can't replace him yourself as it would shred the last bit of credibility your government (that has already resigned) has left and upset your coalition partner.

[MMaRsu]

https://twitter.com/mikerosenwald/status/1354509023484194819

 

Is the picture not accurate or do they go ass to mouth?

Real Corona testing facility

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/ZavaskiMD/status/1354984495586357248

edit: To find out the effectiveness, I think you'd need to compare to a group that didn't get a vaccine. Nevertheless, good news.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1355138840533590017

I guess the question is what was the prevalence of the B.1.351 variant in South Africa during the study period.

[Flannel Boy]

Novavax efficacy results:

95.6% OG strain
85.6% United Kingdom strain
49.4% South African strain (smaller sample and only phase 2)

[Flannel Boy]

Large image of 2020 mortality dataset (some countries incomplete):
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akarlinsky/world_mortality/main/world_mort_plot_all.png

[Flannel Boy]

According to the Novavax's study, those who were previously infected with the OG variant were just as likely to be infected by the South African variant as those who were never infected in the first place.

https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1354922533997473798

Another reason why those calling for natural herd immunity are fucking morons.

[zomgee]

I got my second shot. I cannot believe I made it through without getting this garbage.

[james]

I got my second shot. I cannot believe I made it through without getting this garbage.

Congrats dude!

I didn't realize we had posters older than 75 here

[zomgee]

No, I just took some old lady's shot. No idea who she was. She'll be fine.

I work at a hospital.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://twitter.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1355243085186256897

The juice got the juice

[EchoRin]

OJ no! That's a lethal injection! You've been duped 

[zomgee]

I got my second shot. I cannot believe I made it through without getting this garbage.

Holy shit I'm tired. I feel like I'm waking up from surgery.

[Nintex]

Well done WHO, you bunch of fucking wankers.

How's that investigation into the origins of COVID going? Oh, the Chinese government is being belligerent and obstructive to your efforts? Not like that was predictable...

A few days ago the first Dutch researcher arrived there and within 24 hours she said that it probably didn't originate from China while she barely had set foot in Wuhan.

Whaaaat - I haven't seen this anywhere. Link me my guy

https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/marion-koopmans-aangekomen-in-china-het-is-mogelijk-dat-de-oorsprong-van-de-pandemie-niet-in-wuhan-ligt~b018a765/

Having been part of trade missions Eric de Vlieger and Yves Gijrath explained how this works in their podcast.
They arrive in China, they are welcomed by their friendly guides who put them in luxury hotels and watch over them 24/7.

They meet, go out to dinner, talk, do some sightseeing and whenever they get close to where they need to be...
"Sorry, the market is closed today, maybe we can come back tommorow how about we visit the hospital instead?"

These type of things depend on the openess of the host country and the Dutch have a terrible record on these sorts of trips, most recently the investigation into flight MH17 which uncovered nothing.
China has a lot of influence over the WHO. They're going to find nothing except for some friendly people sharing their experiences. These doctors and researchers aren't the type of people who will press for more access to upend the table.

She's there for 1 month with the WHO team and currently they're working from their hotel room in quarantine for the next 2 weeks. That leaves about a week or 2 for any (field) research.

On the question of access she says:
"We'll see. For the last couple of weeks we've put together a detailed action plan in cooperation with our Chinese colleagues."

Update, the lady has left her hotel room and is being driven around by Chinese officials.

Someone tweeted her that it is customary in China to ask people if they had a nice breakfast.
She retweeted it.

[Potato]

Solid investigation. Good work. We'll find the bat-eating cunt who started this in no time.

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Unless the Wuhan Institute of Virology just admits they started the whole mess.

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[Madrun Badrun]

[Don Rumata]

I got my second shot. I cannot believe I made it through without getting this garbage.

Holy shit I'm tired. I feel like I'm waking up from surgery.

You've probably spent the last 48 hours, unconscious, at some Gates Foundation Black Site.

[zomgee]

Just waiting on the trigger word.

[Flannel Boy]

US' daily dose rate: 1,301,050
Canada's dose rate:     23,870

The country that, if you are to believe the media, had no vaccine plan until a few days ago, is doing 54.5x as many doses per day as Canada.