Coronavirus and You - Page 366

On March 30 2021 02:13 Doublemint wrote:
if you are young and for the most part healthy there are very good chances you will be fine. problems arise when you are older or for some health reason more vulnerable. if both apply you are actually well served in being highly cautios. in rare cases you might get the long covid even when you are young(er) and healthy, even a child. or have to suffer through a bad case of covid when you need to go into intensive care. lottery of nature is a bitch here. the whole thing of a low death rate and outrageously stupid statements like "it's just a bit worse than a seasonal flu" gets thrown out the window if there are not capacities in the health system to help you. then there are good chances you are simply fucked.


that's why it's so important to stay vigilant for longer, especially now when vaccines are on the way. and with more aggressive and potent variants. don't be stupid guys, act responsibly for yourself and others.

I posted this in US pol but might as well put it here.

and nice to hear jimmi, hang in there

CDC director warns of "impending doom" as COVID cases increase

On March 30 2021 06:14 farvacola wrote:
The upside of living in an area that collectively takes the pandemic very seriously is that going out into public is not nearly as stressful as it is elsewhere. The downside is that we are stuck waiting for a vaccine and it looks like we’ve got weeks more to wait yet.

On March 28 2021 08:26 Lmui wrote:


Canada's already got purchase agreements for up to 76m Pfizer, 44m Moderna, up to 38m J&J and over 200m doses of others.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/services/procuring-vaccines-covid19.html

We have a population of 38m.
We have enough to give everyone one eventually. The problem is getting them which isn't happening for a good few months.

With no domestic vaccine manufacturing, that's just where we're at. We'll have enough by end of 2021, but we're trying to get stuff open by summer which requires non-optimal deployment to get working effectively.

On March 30 2021 23:35 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

Its sad that Canada now has such pathetic manufacturing capacity. Canada used to be very good.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/we-took-our-eye-off-the-ball-how-canada-lost-its-vaccine-production-capacity-1.5204040

It isn't just in this area where Canada has lost its manufacturing capacity. It is sad to see Canada this dependent on other countries.

Most of my Israeli and American friends are vaccinated and hardly any of my Canadian friends are vaccinated. My maternal grandma who still lives in Canada and is 73 goes for her first shot April 8.

On March 31 2021 01:21 LegalLord wrote:
On the other hand, countries like Canada are desperate enough that they have to take handouts from the COVAX program.

On March 31 2021 03:49 JimmiC wrote:
Compared to the countries mentioned, the US and Israel, we have "kicked ass", we will be donating lots of vaccines as we over ordered. Israel also is not manufacturing vaccines so it was hard to make the connection to your post.

Canada is the only G7 country slated to draw from COVAX's vaccine supply in the program's first allotment. A few other wealthy countries, including New Zealand and Singapore, are also part of the first allotment, but the vast majority are lower-income countries.