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August 1 21, 7:48 am
Long thread here from a pediatric doc in Houston. Sound like they’re getting many more kids in the hospital now with the delta variant.

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A couple of useful tweets on Delta and vaccines from the journalist I’ve found most informative over the past year.

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I think we need to stop talking about "breakthroughs," as though they're something surprising or that it's something gone wrong with the vaccine. What is it about 95% and 85% efficacy that makes people assume it should be 100%? It's why some fully vaccinated people have continued to wear masks and be careful. Part of this current surge is due to the Delta varient but I think it's also due to everyone thinking this was basically over when the CDC (stupidly) said vaccinated people didn't need to wear masks in public anymore so everyone took that as a sign that it was safe to go back to normal. Sorry but the timing couldn't have been worse.

Also, concerning Haltz's post above...my wife is a pediatrician and suspects that this could evolve into primarily being a children's disease at some point. But luckily our last president told us that kids couldn't get it.

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I am having a hard time with all of this, this morning.

We have been working remote or from home from (3/2020 - 5/2021) exclusively. We started re-introduction into the office at the end of May / early June. There is no good reason for us to be in the office other than someone wants us in the office. We have out produced anything previously and proved there is no good reason to be in the office. Especially with this kind of surge and the way the delta variant delivers such a strong initial viral load.

We are all at the office, wearing masks, stuck at our desks. What's the [expletive] point of being here - being stuck at our desks with masks on? No point in going through this risk. (And, by the way, we've had live/active cases on our floor within the last few weeks)

I basically have to figure out a way to quarantine at home now. My wife is the caregiver of her mother who we have to go check on at least daily. My 3 year old can't be vaccinated and I don't want her to go through getting it. I have to avoid many people I love again as to not put them at risk as they are compromised.

There is no good reason to be at this type of risk and have to jump through hoops like this. We were productive for 14 months remote. And it's only going to get worse. I guess we just need to get the damn thing and let the chips fall wherever they fall.

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I feel you Fat_B. I don't know why companies don't realize what a huge risk it is. Not only to you and your loved ones. But to the company!!! What would happen if suddenly - god forbid - the virus ripped through an entire floor. If they had 20, 30, 40 people out at the same time, and some of them never came back. That would be a huge risk to the company!!

My company is like yours. We had our best year ever last year. We have proven we can handle business 100% remote. Luckily they hadn't quite pulled the trigger on bringing us back into the office yet. But they were close. We were having meetings to talk about some sort of hybrid rotation of 3/2 office/WFH. And now with Delta, I think they have gotten cold feet.

I'm sorry you have to quarantine at home. That sucks man. I hope everyone there stays healthy.

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Y’all are reminding me why I hate my boss and my company. I worked from home for a whopping two months a year ago and I’ve been in the office ever since despite my not wanting to be.

I acknowledge that part of my job does need to be done in the building. But, it doesn’t necessarily need to be done by me, just anyone in my position. There are three of us on my shift: me, a man who was immunocompromised so I understand why he was at home the entire time, and another guy who didn’t want to work from home because he didn’t think his internet speed would be sufficient. And the other guy is an assistant producer who doesn’t have a daily newscast on most nights.

Seems to me you could’ve had me do the bulk of my producing from home and had the other guy time out my newscast (the last 10 percent of the shift) this entire time. And if he was on vacation, yeah, I’d need to be the one to be in the building.

But no. I worked from home every other week for two months, and when I asked why I was being brought back, I was told because “it was just nice having people here.”

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Sorry MCG.

I completely understand. There is no good reason to go through this risk other than. (The people on the #floor want us in the office)

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Since there is concern about the Delta variant among both vaccinated & unvaccinated, I thought I would share this article which interviews two doctors at Yale Medicine: Dr. Inci Yildirim, an infectious disease specialist and vaccinologist, and Dr. Francis P. Wilson, an epidemiologist and nephrologist.
I’m Vaccinated. Should I Be Worried About the Delta Variant?

This week, the CDC announced that in areas of the country with high COVID transmission, even vaccinated people should start wearing masks indoors again. In issuing the new guidance —a change from previous recommendations — the agency cited concerns about the rapidly spreading Delta variant, the most contagious strain yet. Right now, the Delta variant accounts for about 83 percent of COVID cases in the U.S. In states with low rates of vaccination, including many in the South, cases are surging, and some hospitals are now experiencing the biggest influx of patients of the entire pandemic.

The main danger with the Delta variant is increased transmission rates — meaning it can spread much faster than previous strains of COVID. According to the World Health Organization, if you are fully vaccinated, the chances of contracting a severe case of COVID are extremely low. However, there are more and more reports of breakthrough cases among vaccinated people, leading many to wonder how worried they should be about this variant and if they should change their behavior.

To learn more about what the Delta variant’s spread means for those who have been vaccinated, the Cut spoke with two doctors at Yale Medicine: Dr. Inci Yildirim, an infectious disease specialist and vaccinologist, and Dr. Francis P. Wilson, an epidemiologist and nephrologist. Here’s what to know:

https://www.thecut.com/2021/07/what-the ... nated.html

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I keep seeing this weird talking point amongst anti vax or anti maskers that the survivability rate is 99.8%. Not sure how that’s picked up so much steam when you can just do the math on 328 million.

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ghostrunner wrote:
August 2 21, 8:58 pm
I keep seeing this weird talking point amongst anti vax or anti maskers that the survivability rate is 99.8%. Not sure how that’s picked up so much steam when you can just do the math on 328 million.
That is the math, if you say that 327.4 million have survived out of 328 million. It is completely disingenuous, but the math is correct.

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