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Lots of co-morbidities. And I think there are huge gaps in our healthcare system that always get exposed in these types of scenarios.

I wish I had links but I don't. I tend do a Google Scholar search when I read a normal news article that states "A study in the NEJM released today" blah blah blah. Sometimes it's only abstracts though a lot of the COVID stuff has been published full text online, especially before it's fully peer reviewed.

But I think yourself and others are already latching on to the fact that as this virus mutates over time, it will get milder and milder - as you said, similar to the flu. I think natural immunity plays a role in that, definitely. The immunes systems natural protections nudge viruses to evolve into weaker versions over time. It's kind of a cat and mouse game. I have a friend who is an epidemiologist and they are on board with that theory as well - pending research of course. But it's trending that way...

From the studies I've read, natural immunity is fine vs the variant you have had, not as much vs other variants. And there is concern as to ho long immunity lasts, since coronavirus as a viral family also contain virus that also produce some "colds". We'll know more as time goes on. There's tons of ongoing studies looking at duration and effectiveness of immunity (as well as vaccinations) right now. So far studies show immunity plus the vaccine as a booster is very effective in preventing yourself from getting ill, even with delta.

What’s poison? You’ve referred to poison a couple of times tonight…

COVID for me, COVID for you, gonna catch the COVID from my big brown shoe.

B-side of Paperback Writer. Great track! Underrated...

Indeed. The folks that jumped on the “vaccines cause autism” train were from all walks of life, including those that could be classified as liberals or progressives.

Except that’s not what the study states. They state that vaccines should be prioritized for those that have not had COVID previously. It states this three times. It doesn’t state that those that were infected should not get vaccinated. They do exhibit some skepticism in whether vaccine + infection makes a difference, but don’t offer any findings on that one way or another. Twice in the article it mentions their study doesn’t take into account new variants, also - and delta was just getting ramped up, overseas, when this study was published in June. My only conclusion from this study is that if I were part of the team deploying vaccines, and I was short on doses, I would use this research to prioritize those that haven’t had COVID yet.

Thanks for posting this. The HRRR smoke models are pretty neat. Sad seeing all that smoke blowing across the country. Is it enough where it’s starting to affect weather? Seems like large swaths of US and Canada have at least a little smoke at this point in the atmosphere.

“Like many of you, I have had a lot of misinformation thrown at me by politicians and the media during the pandemic.” Wasn’t she a politician? Who provided misinformation? Maybe not specifically during COVID, but you think with a line like that, her occupation was school teacher or bank teller. Boy she’s special…

I would complain but I’ve been told that if I don’t like it to not read it since it’s a banter forum.

Agreed. This team was built offensively to be a playoff contender as long as health wasn’t an issue. Pitching was always the big question mark and it still is. Still not sold this team can make a run deep into the playoffs but it’s becoming more convincing each game that have as much of a chance as any other playoff bound team. No one is really a juggernaut this season in AL or NL.

It’s foolish to think that it’s entirely over and it’s nothing to be concerned about, as well as that the next waves to come will be as bad as the previous ones. The truth lies somewhere in middle. Hopefully your thoughts on COVID continue to be as accurate as your thoughts on weather.

Just the variety you are able to watch now is insane if you have a streaming device. Between the NBC Sports Network app and the Peacock app, you can watch almost every Olympic event, live or on replay. In comparison, I remember when it was 'exciting' that they started putting the Olympics on a second or third NBC owned cable channel when I was a kid, so you could watch other events besides what was on the primary NBC local affiliate.

Surprisingly got hit with that cell that was racing southeast through RI. Looked like some sort of area of convergence was near me as you could see things moving in opposite directions on radar before the storm came through. They usually die out here but not this time around. Temp dropped as well...

Overall it will be a good year for sweet corn crops in SNE. My great-grandfather ran a farm for most of his life and this was the type of weather he used to talk about that was good for corn even though it was bad for other crops - excluding the areas with excessive flooding of course, where nothing grows well in that...

Beer and steak.

In all seriousness, in my opinion, the most discouraging part of the pandemic is not grasping how masking up, social distancing, and vaccinations help society overall. There is no doubt that for the majority of people that are healthy recover from COVID fully, and for most, it's no worse than a bad cold or a case of the flu. In some cases you may never even have known you had it. However, there's a subset of the world population where this virus gives the body a total beating. In some cases, it's because of underlying conditions, or risk factors, and in some cases, it's in totally healthy people that for some reason, their genetic makeup and immune system just couldn't handle it. I'm fully aware that I'm probably at pretty low risk for side effects of COVID. In fact, I already had it right after Christmas, and it was relatively asymptomatic for myself, and my son. But my wife had it pretty bad. She's healthy as well, but she had some underlying lung issues from smoke inhalation from being caught in a house fire when she was a child. And she got COVID pretty badly, and it's unfortunately still affecting her 7 months later. My point here isn't to provide my life story, or get sympathy. However what concerns me is the lack of empathy towards how your relationship with the virus may affect others. Social distancing, masking, and now the vaccine, all reduce risk (but don't eliminate) of seriousness, and risk of transmission, to those who can't get vaccinated, or who don't have access to it yet. While the majority of others around you may not be severely be affected by COVID if they encounter it, there's gonna be a small percentage that are. Now that we have a grasp on this thing, I had no issues getting vaccinated so that I know I'm reducing my risk of infecting others, and lowering my footprint on the medical system that if I do contract COVID, or a variant, that the symptoms are risks continue to be minimized and I don't need to take away medical resources from those that need it. Sure there's people out there who aren't taking care of themselves by being overweight, or drinking, or smoking. But overall, those aren't contagious diseases. I'm not catching fat from sitting next to someone that's overweight. And we do have laws on the books for the parts of drinking and smoking that do affect others, such as drunk driving, or second hand smoke. However, there's a lot of people out there who are vulnerable for whatever reason, that shouldn't have to be shut-ins, if I can do my part. We're pretty luck as American's that many of us can lead relatively healthy lives with occupations that are relatively safe, and access in most cases to food, water, and decent nutrition. But even here in the US, there's sections of the population who do encounter those issues. If you look at how COVID is affecting other parts of the world where that's not the case, it's astounding what the differences are in death rates and hospitalization rates. The federal, state, and local government should never force you to get vaccinated. That's just an abuse of power that can more than likely go wrong since our government is run by humans and all their flaws. But I would definitely encourage anyone who is doubtful about getting the vaccine to do their own research about it, without the crap you read in the mainstream and social media, and, I think you'll find in most cases the evidence points to it being beneficial to both you and others to get it. That's all I got on this ongoing COVID discussion. Getting the vaccine, and trying to reduce risk, seems to be the right thing to do overall for others, at least to me. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming, long essays about Hadley Cell expansion, already in progress...

Can we go back to discussing mounting air conditioners in windows? Now that was some interesting reading...

LOL this banter is funny… Verdugo was tossing a ball to a Sox fan in stands (a kid) and a drunk Yankees fan caught it instead and threw it right back at him. I think even the other Yankees fans ratted him out at that point (there was some social media chatter about that). Now we’re discussing whether he should have recorded an assault in progress, lol. All humans are flawed, in some way. Didn’t sound like he provoked this incident.