Mass vaccinations in the midst of a pandemic (not before an outbreak) creates an arms race with an evolving virus, while destroying herd immunity. Months of social distancing among young people, compromising their immune systems. In general, experimenting with our immune system, and its evolution, along with that of the virus.
Well that'll learn you for leaving the country. First world problems, I suppose if you can afford international travel money is no object to you. Hopefully their facilities are better equipped than the ones we have at our southern border. Oh and as always of course all of the leaders, dignitaries and well connected will have to follow this exact protocol.
I've got a little more than a week for my round 2. Looking forward to having it done - cases here are trending up and people are being stupid.
First shot tomorrow, finish 4/28. Not that anything will change...
woohoo!
We aren't changing much. I can't believe how full the restaurants are. There is a potential trip for us on the horizon, but we'll be nutty about being cautious, and still won't be dining out or being around any people.
Went to two grocery stores in the last couple of days. One still required masks the other didn't. I went with the flow but I should really keep wearing mine because we are heading into cold season.
29th day since last locally spread infection in the state but Brisbane just reported a troubling community case with no known source.
My son in Brissy tells me you are now in for a little 3 day lockdown, IIRC?
Just Brisbane. The unknown source case cluster is expanding. I think they are going to have trouble with contact tracing since it was out in the community for so long before being detected. With luck it will get tamped down.
One of the exposure sites was a respiratory health clinic. Reading between the lines it looks like someone went to the clinic and they made them get tested. Supposed to work the other way around, but it is really hard for people to keep getting tested for mild symptoms when, as far as you know, there isn't any covid out in the community.
Of course it is the variant that first showed up in Britain. Effin' contagious. I was more or less on board with the slow vaccine rollout here, at first. But now I think it was a big mistake. One of the cases in Brisbane is a nurse who hadn't been vaccinated. The economic and social cost of the delay is huge.
Went to two grocery stores in the last couple of days. One still required masks the other didn't. I went with the flow but I should really keep wearing mine because we are heading into cold season.
29th day since last locally spread infection in the state but Brisbane just reported a troubling community case with no known source.
My son in Brissy tells me you are now in for a little 3 day lockdown, IIRC?
Went to two grocery stores in the last couple of days. One still required masks the other didn't. I went with the flow but I should really keep wearing mine because we are heading into cold season.
29th day since last locally spread infection in the state but Brisbane just reported a troubling community case with no known source.
i think the question is about efficacy not necessarily about safety (62% vs 79% for example)
if you have a minute check this out
AZ is about to find itself in big trouble for deliberately spiking the stats. Their efficacy is the lowest at 62% and the (largely unwarranted) rumblings about blood clots weren't helping. I suspect they spiked the numbers to boost their falling vaccination uptake - many were refusing the AZ vacc in quite a number of countries, including a significant contingent of health care workers. 62% efficacy against the original Covid 19 sample quite frankly is barely a stop gap. Recent reports suggest AZ doesn't work well at all against the South African variant. U.S. Health Body Questions AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data When NIAID makes the unusal move of making a public statement and comes out against your methods, you have a big problem.
I suspect they are going to get punished - and thus, so will their stock. I'd short them.
Excellent! 
