What impact has the corona virus on you?

Black Rider wrote:

Vote for Biden and expect stuff like this to start happening here. Pelosi's already said people shouldn't be able to criticize the government on social media and wants to pass a law against it. 

In other news, my wife's coworker tested positive so she had to test and since I work for the same company I have to quarantine up to 10 days after her last symptom even though I feel fine. I love the government treating me like I'm five.

What is amazing is that different regions seem to have different standards.  You only have to quarantine for 10 days while I had to quarantine the 10 days with my wife and then do 14 of my own.  Even then, the county health department never once checked to insure that I was staying home and not out spreading the virus.  How does contact tracing work if they don't actually do it?

Yeah, mostly I can't go to work, no one is tracking me and since I haven't even tested, no one knows. Sucks though, I'm going to go nuts with nothing to do.

Black Rider wrote:

Yeah, mostly I can't go to work, no one is tracking me and since I haven't even tested, no one knows. Sucks though, I'm going to go nuts with nothing to do.

I'll bet you are.  Would drive me batty too.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/texas-family-films-coronavirus-psa-after-getting-covid-19-birthday-party-225215442.html

So we're going to remain prisoners indefinitely because of a case of the flu? No thanks.

I am off this week from school for Thanksgiving.  I am expecting to go full remote after that.

The only reason they have the power to destroy our lives is cuz WE give them the power! ALL we have to do is say NO. No, I won't close my business. No, I won't stay home. No, I won't wear the mask.
Just like the NY sheriffs are refusing to enforce the Thanksgiving laws being forced, we need to all tell them to pound dirt since our Constitutional rights are being taken from us.

Guilty/Forgiven wrote:

The only reason they have the power to destroy our lives is cuz WE give them the power! ALL we have to do is say NO. No, I won't close my business. No, I won't stay home. No, I won't wear the mask.
Just like the NY sheriffs are refusing to enforce the Thanksgiving laws being forced, we need to all tell them to pound dirt since our Constitutional rights are being taken from us.

While that sounds great, I don't think that the majority of Americans have the testicular fortitude to stand up and tell the government to shove all this where the sun doesn't shine.  While the USA has bestowed many freedoms and rights to many individuals and groups, our country is not known for restoring the freedoms it violates and seizes.  If we don't stop this now, we will be on a slippery slope to full blown Communism in less than a decade.

It should be interesting to see how many vaccines receive approval and how long it takes to have them fully rolled out.

There will be several available within a few months IMHO.

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Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE announced they will submit a request today (Nov 20) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of their mRNA vaccine candidate, BNT162b2 against SARS-CoV-2, which will potentially enable use of the vaccine in high-risk populations in the U.S. by the middle to end of December 2020.

The UK approved emergency use of the Pfizer vaccine on people 16+ possibly starting as early as next week. The US FDA meets the 10th to discuss (vote on?) approving the Pfizer candidate so I'd expect roll-out to begin before year end.

As long as it's optional, I'm not against it.

Normaniac wrote:

As long as it's optional, I'm not against it.

While most states don't have laws mandating these shots, most states' labor laws DO allow for employers to make this a condition for continuing to work for them.  So, I look for the working class to have this forced upon us as a guarantee of our jobs.

Yeah, businesses will probably be the bigger pusher since they don't want to deal with any liability if someone who doesn't get the vaccine comes to work and spreads it to those who haven't received the vaccine yet.

Our school went full vitual this week.  While I am thankful for a job, there is almost nothing for a teacher's assistant to do.  I am bored, and we are wasting taxpayer dollars.  I am thankful for the money, but I would like to feel useful.

Here, we are in a complete lock down till January the 19th.

Christmas won't be the same as last year.

I can imagine that Chris. You love to pay attention to the students. Help them.
I hope it will be soon possible for your school to get the students back.

Our numbers in TN have gone up drastically.  Of course, the CDC is lumping all pneumonia, flu, and COVID cases as the same thing according to their website.

COVID has all but eradicated the Flu.

Yep, the UK is starting to dish out the vaccine.  About 350,000 so far.  Starts with care homes, and health care workers, then the elderly, then it works it's way down based on age.

Also, in other news, the scientists have just spotted a new strain of the virus which transmits much quicker than the older one.  This mean London and all of the east and south east of England are back on lockdown.  Fortunately we're about 30 miles from the border of that lockdown, but it'll probably rush across to us to say hello.

Get your 'cancel' books out!

I believe there will always be a virus to keep us under control now.

Apparently the CDC thinks that in the U.S. we should skip old people on the first round of immunizations and get the all the medical workers first.
Why is that you say?  Because most older people in the U.S. are white.  So apparently it's okay to let the most susceptible group die... because they are mostly white.

https://reason.com/2020/12/18/vaccine-cdc-essential-workers-elderly-racial-covid-19/

Good news, this year only, worldwide flu is down 95%!

Fundy wrote:

Good news, this year only, worldwide flu is down 95%!

Hey it's another one of those "Statistically Impossible Statistics".

A mutated corona virus is in the UK.
This virus is very contagious, but the disease symptoms are mild.
In my country, one person is tested posititive on this virus.

It seems that more measures are to be taken to stop this virus in my country.
Here they start vaccinating on January 8th.

There are currently two vaccines approved here in the US (Pfizer and Moderna). Hopefully we can get more frontline workers vaccinated.