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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15660 on: May 12, 2022, 09:02:58 PM »
How the hell does the virus get in there? Like, how much border crossing even happens?

Wikipedia: "In response to the threats posed by COVID-19, North Korea closed its borders to foreign tourists on 22 January 2020.[3] As of 8 April 2021, tourism has not been allowed to resume and the economic losses are estimated to be at least $175 million.[4]"

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« Reply #15661 on: May 12, 2022, 09:12:59 PM »
I think there is a lot of economic crossing on the china side.  China uses North Korea as a source of temporary foreign labour  https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/china-06232021175823.html

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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15662 on: May 12, 2022, 09:38:25 PM »
What does a "nationwide lockdown" in North Korea look like exactly?

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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15663 on: May 12, 2022, 09:51:48 PM »
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« Reply #15664 on: May 12, 2022, 11:25:00 PM »
There was a cool blog about a western tourist who went to visit NK via train from Russia (its like a once a week train from mosccow)

Usually, tourism is super highly controlled. But since everyone arrives by plane via Beijing, they just didnt account for some white dude showing up on the train. So he had pretty free reign to wander around

Also, my cousin visited NK a decade or so ago

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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15665 on: May 12, 2022, 11:25:54 PM »
How the hell does the virus get in there? Like, how much border crossing even happens?

Wikipedia: "In response to the threats posed by COVID-19, North Korea closed its borders to foreign tourists on 22 January 2020.[3] As of 8 April 2021, tourism has not been allowed to resume and the economic losses are estimated to be at least $175 million.[4]"

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« Reply #15667 on: May 14, 2022, 07:14:27 PM »
China is doing a fantastic job fighting the virus. Go China. Keep it up!

I'm going to write an op-ed in Bloomberg just how well China is doing because unlike the US and EU they are an actual real super power. More like an ULTRA Power.
Maybe the WHO can share a thought or two about China's great Zero Covid Policy which is working great and tell other countries to do the same.

Thank god for eternal leader Xi Jinping who makes China blossom like a spring flower for eternity.  :preach
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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15668 on: May 14, 2022, 09:11:02 PM »
https://mobile.twitter.com/arnauldmiguet/status/1525337754497781760
"Now, don't you come back to the office until you've sprayed all of that disinfectant, you hear?"

"Where should I spray it?"

"I don't care, the word from the local politburo is that it must be sprayed."

"Ok, gotcha. Imma spray it all."
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« Reply #15669 on: May 18, 2022, 05:56:32 PM »
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« Reply #15671 on: May 21, 2022, 12:51:42 AM »
I got my first ever close contact alert from my phone.

Exposure was 10 days ago. Useless shit
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« Reply #15672 on: May 21, 2022, 12:54:05 AM »
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« Reply #15673 on: May 21, 2022, 05:38:34 AM »
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Oh come the fuck on
There's already a thread james
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48402.0
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« Reply #15674 on: May 21, 2022, 11:11:54 AM »
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Oh come the fuck on
There's already a thread james
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48402.0

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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15675 on: May 21, 2022, 05:44:26 PM »
https://mobile.twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1527665120351952896

My fiancee was in PR a few weeks ago for a bachelorette party and returned home with the regular, plain ol flu (we both tested negative for covid). Thank god.
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« Reply #15676 on: May 21, 2022, 06:53:59 PM »
https://mobile.twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1527665120351952896

My fiancee was in PR a few weeks ago for a bachelorette party and returned home with the regular, plain ol flu (we both tested negative for covid). Thank god.

Get her tested for chlamydia too. Drunk bachelorette party with hunky spanglish speaking latino men... It's a given
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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15677 on: May 21, 2022, 06:59:38 PM »
Still coughing after two weeks. If I had COVID, I would have been over this shit now but this cold is lingering and it's annoying as fuck.
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« Reply #15678 on: May 21, 2022, 08:26:56 PM »
Still coughing after two weeks. If I had COVID, I would have been over this shit now but this cold is lingering and it's annoying as fuck.

You got the monkeypox

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« Reply #15679 on: May 21, 2022, 11:52:44 PM »
Still coughing after two weeks. If I had COVID, I would have been over this shit now but this cold is lingering and it's annoying as fuck.

You got the monkeypox
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« Reply #15680 on: May 25, 2022, 12:47:44 AM »
Still coughing after two weeks. If I had COVID, I would have been over this shit now but this cold is lingering and it's annoying as fuck.

I caught a cold my daughter brought back from college. Hit me a week ago Sunday. Ten days later, I've FINALLY slowed down on the coughing and am able to sleep. This was some serious horseshit virus. Coughed so much, muscle cramps made it feel like I was being punched every time I coughed, blood in my sputum, just a complete shitshow.

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« Reply #15681 on: May 25, 2022, 10:14:07 AM »
4 people at work have covid

My vacation last week saved me

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« Reply #15682 on: May 27, 2022, 11:40:12 AM »
I know more people with covid now than at any previous point in the pandemic

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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15683 on: May 30, 2022, 04:26:44 PM »
Yeah, covid's slowly creeping up in my area and starting to get pretty bad again.
We are at about 150 cases/day after the first omicron wave, then it was 200, 300, 500, and now it's 750/day. Last summer's Delta peak in my area was 1,000/day.
15.9/100k case rate.

Though considering that almost no one is wearing a mask anywhere and everywhere is completely packed no restrictions and BA2 is going around...I guess it's kind of low. But then again with most people using at-home tests which aren't reported the real number is way higher so who knows. It's hard to track all this stuff.
 


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« Reply #15684 on: May 30, 2022, 07:49:35 PM »
It's not like we need any more evidence of the efficacy of vaccines, but here is some pretty interesting data from my home state:

Total deaths: 1034
Triple vaccinated (with booster): 286
Fully vaccinated (two doses): 400
Partially vaccinated (one dose): 73
Unvaccinated: 268
Deaths prior to vaccines: 7

While it might be argued that the majority of people who died were vaccinated, once you start factoring in the total number of people vaccinated or not vaccinated, then things become very clear.

Number of people vaccinated (single, double or triple) is 4.8 million people (92.36 per cent of the population over 16 years). i.e. 759/4,800,000=0.00015

Number of people unvaccinated is around 367,000 i.e. 268/367,000=7.3

I am sure there are other variables involved, but considering the majority of the unvaccinated population skews younger, then I am pretty happy to say that the vaccines work.

The whole country is pretty much under zero restrictions outside of mask wearing on planes and public transport with only restrictions remaining in hospitals and aged care facilities.

The next time someone says COVID vaccines don't work, just tell them to shut the fuck up.
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« Reply #15685 on: May 31, 2022, 02:24:56 PM »
It's not like we need any more evidence of the efficacy of vaccines, but here is some pretty interesting data from my home state:

Total deaths: 1034
Triple vaccinated (with booster): 286
Fully vaccinated (two doses): 400
Partially vaccinated (one dose): 73
Unvaccinated: 268
Deaths prior to vaccines: 7

While it might be argued that the majority of people who died were vaccinated, once you start factoring in the total number of people vaccinated or not vaccinated, then things become very clear.

Number of people vaccinated (single, double or triple) is 4.8 million people (92.36 per cent of the population over 16 years). i.e. 759/4,800,000=0.00015

Number of people unvaccinated is around 367,000 i.e. 268/367,000=7.3

I am sure there are other variables involved, but considering the majority of the unvaccinated population skews younger, then I am pretty happy to say that the vaccines work.

The whole country is pretty much under zero restrictions outside of mask wearing on planes and public transport with only restrictions remaining in hospitals and aged care facilities.

The next time someone says COVID vaccines don't work, just tell them to shut the fuck up.

How did your country only have 7 deaths for the entire first year of covid prior to vaccines?

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« Reply #15686 on: May 31, 2022, 02:54:03 PM »

This data is for my home state, not the whole country, but it was a similar story for the whole country outside of two major outbreaks in Victoria and New South Wales.

We did it through effective quarantine measures and nationwide shutdowns. We were basically COVID-free until omicron, but by then we had 90%+ vaccination rates in the adult population.
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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15688 on: June 03, 2022, 04:33:47 AM »
That's an Omicron variant, so it's also fond of sidestepping vaccinated immunity, and allows for repeated infection. FML

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« Reply #15689 on: June 04, 2022, 04:40:43 PM »
Thinking I have it.  Guess I picked it up coming back from Dublin. 

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« Reply #15690 on: June 06, 2022, 07:57:02 AM »
"We weren't prepared for the pandemic"  :lol
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« Reply #15691 on: June 06, 2022, 09:40:34 AM »
New employee was supposed to start today.

They went on a cruise last week.

Guess who called in sick with Covid on first day of work?
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« Reply #15692 on: June 06, 2022, 01:42:53 PM »
New employee was supposed to start today.

They went on a cruise last week.

Guess who called in sick with Covid on first day of work?
The girl who wanted to do two jobs at the same time would have turned up.

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« Reply #15693 on: June 06, 2022, 02:06:41 PM »
New employee was supposed to start today.

They went on a cruise last week.

Guess who called in sick with Covid on first day of work?
The girl who wanted to do two jobs at the same time would have turned up.

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Sick days are accrued after you work x hours, not at start, so he gets to recover unpaid

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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15695 on: June 08, 2022, 05:48:22 AM »
Think I'm on the mend.

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« Reply #15696 on: June 08, 2022, 06:03:08 AM »
Think I'm on the mend.

What are your lingering symptoms?

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« Reply #15697 on: June 08, 2022, 06:13:40 AM »
I just meant I'm over the worst.  Still got a cough and chest congestion, but sore throat is basically gone, fever seems to be mostly gone, have more energy.  Taste is still off.   According to CDC I'm still contagious for another 5 days.  I've been feeling guilty about breaking isolation to walk my dog, but all my friends that have already been sick live too far away to come over 3 times a day.

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« Reply #15698 on: June 08, 2022, 12:37:29 PM »
Welp, just received a message from my HR rep that I may have been exposed to covid on monday, the woman who sits next to me had it. Sucks bc I had a fun day at the vineyards planned for the weekend. Gotta get tested in a few days.
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« Reply #15699 on: June 08, 2022, 01:35:41 PM »
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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15701 on: June 14, 2022, 01:30:12 AM »

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Re: Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?
« Reply #15702 on: June 14, 2022, 02:21:05 PM »
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« Reply #15703 on: June 15, 2022, 04:57:48 PM »
At the airport and less than 10 % with masks

Also fauci has covid
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« Reply #15705 on: June 24, 2022, 04:03:35 PM »
Is it just me or are Euro numbers going up up up again?
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« Reply #15707 on: June 24, 2022, 07:00:55 PM »
Our government has announced the new wave has probably begun.

They don't intend to do anything about it.

Just let it rip :trumps
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« Reply #15710 on: June 28, 2022, 07:36:58 PM »
Fucking hell. Just get vaccinated you disease-ridden Euros and Yanks. Shit should be over by now.
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« Reply #15711 on: July 02, 2022, 02:00:31 AM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62018738

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Special paid leave for Covid-related sickness and isolation will be scrapped next week for NHS staff in England, it has been announced.

Yet another very smart decision.

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« Reply #15712 on: July 03, 2022, 07:56:40 AM »
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« Reply #15713 on: July 03, 2022, 08:43:04 AM »


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« Reply #15714 on: July 04, 2022, 05:57:06 PM »
Our government planned a COVID remembrance ceremony. It has been scrapped because COVID's back :dead
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« Reply #15715 on: July 06, 2022, 07:25:10 PM »
JAMES ALERT JAMES ALERT

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The charts in France and Italy are going to the moon again

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

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« Reply #15716 on: July 13, 2022, 05:33:19 PM »
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1547000919329587201

The commies and nationalists teamed up to make France great again.  :rejoice
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« Reply #15718 on: July 20, 2022, 03:56:38 PM »
Finally got hit 2 weekends ago at a wedding and just getting over it. Luckily it was fairly mild for me, chills the first full day, then just a harsh cough the next 2, and now just down to sporadic coughing.
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« Reply #15719 on: July 27, 2022, 08:44:56 PM »
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-tops-global-COVID-chart-dimming-reopening-hopes

:japancry

This, despite an insanely long and overly prohibitive international entry policy.