Coronainsanity

[zyxt9]

The challenge at this point is getting an appointment. The method of "just jump online and get your appointment" has been part of the problem.

They needed to utilize their existing data sources to say something like "on Monday, if your SSN begins with 000-100 you can sign up" or even "if you are 80+ and your last name begins with A-E" or something.

Yes, much of this blame belongs to Trump and his screwball administration. However, governors could have made these types of adjustments to the roll out. Controlled, methodical, informed structure would have reduced the amount of Vax being thrown out every day due to incompetence...but as always, stupidity reigns in government.

 

[Gulo Blue]

The challenge at this point is getting an appointment. The method of "just jump online and get your appointment" has been part of the problem.

I'm impressed at the local level though. Signing up for waiting lists and getting texts and emails that are applicable has pretty much worked. Supply is still behind demand, but outside of that unavoidable issue, hospitals, government, and CVS/Wallgreens all got the coders hired, organized, and communicating enough to build databases that play nice together.

 

[Gulo Blue]

And I think the occasional pop-up open-to-everybody vaccination clinics 1-2 hours from population centers is on purpose so that some of the people trying the hardest to get a vaccine can get one. It adds an element of self-selection to the process. It looks like a local thing, but I think it's planned at the state level.

 

[Michchamp]

I'm impressed at the local level though. Signing up for waiting lists and getting texts and emails that are applicable has pretty much worked. Supply is still behind demand, but outside of that unavoidable issue, hospitals, government, and CVS/Wallgreens all got the coders hired, organized, and communicating enough to build databases that play nice together.

like everything else in America, it's lousy compared to how efficient and progressive we used to be, but it's at least functional for many people.

I was reading about how the government (not private chains) handled the polio vaccination campaign. To be fair, they didn't have to refrigerate those doses. But the easier distribution method might also be to their credit (??), so maybe there's no reason to be fair.

 

[tomdalton22]

I think the vaccination process is going pretty good...at least it is where I live. I went on line, got an appointment, showed up and was done in less than a 1/2 hour.

 

[Michchamp]

I think the vaccination process is going pretty good...at least it is where I live. I went on line, got an appointment, showed up and was done in less than a 1/2 hour.

We didn't have too much trouble getting shots here.



A site I read has tracked vaccination rates, and there hasn't been any sustained increase since Biden took over, so we're still just lumbering along, but hopefully enough people get vaccinated before the immunity provided by the shots starts wearing off. Or it mutates enough rendering the immunity provided.


ANd of course, the rest of the world is way behind the US in vaccination rates, and Patent protections mean they'll likely stay there, and we're not going to stop international travel... So even if we do "beat it" here in the US in the next year, our population will be mingling with populations where COVID-19 is still endemic & mutating, ensuring there will probably be additional outbreaks for years.

 

[Gulo Blue]

ANd of course, the rest of the world is way behind the US in vaccination rates, and Patent protections mean they'll likely stay there, and we're not going to stop international travel... So even if we do "beat it" here in the US in the next year, our population will be mingling with populations where COVID-19 is still endemic & mutating, ensuring there will probably be additional outbreaks for years.

This is Bill Gates's job now.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Top ten causes of death in 2020. These are considered preliminary numbers. For some reason, it takes nearly a year to get final numbers.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

Not as much change in non-covid death rates as I would have guessed.

I thought traffic accidents would be down, and maybe they were, but deaths from 'unintentional injuries' were up 11% last year.

Influenza and pneumonia up 7.5% (and there was roughly no flu, so we must be talking about pneumonia)

Suicide down 5.7%

Diabetes up 15.4%

 

[Michchamp]

Top ten causes of death in 2020. These are considered preliminary numbers. For some reason, it takes nearly a year to get final numbers.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

Not as much change in non-covid death rates as I would have guessed.

I thought traffic accidents would be down, and maybe they were, but deaths from 'unintentional injuries' were up 11% last year.

Influenza and pneumonia up 7.5% (and there was roughly no flu, so we must be talking about pneumonia)

Suicide down 5.7%

Diabetes up 15.4%

fewer people also seem to be falling into the Grand Canyon and dying lately. I haven't had to update that thread very much in the last year

 

[Gulo Blue]

Caveat: preprint

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.21.21250266v1.full.pdf

 

[tinselwolverine]

fewer people also seem to be falling into the Grand Canyon and dying lately. I haven't had to update that thread very much in the last year

Probably people are putting off the trip because of that double quarantine requirement; two weeks before and two weeks after.

That?s a big chunk of time.

 

[tomdalton22]

Out of all of the "rules" that are put into place, my guess is the self quarantining is the one that almost nobody does.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Out of all of the "rules" that are put into place, my guess is the self quarantining is the one that almost nobody does.

Obviously people who wanted to travel to the Grand Canyon would have observed it had they gone ahead with the trip.

How else can we we account for the falloff in deaths from people falling into the canyon?

 

[Michchamp]

Caveat: preprint

the fact that it's a pre-print means it's less reliable than an InfoWars video, right?

 

[Gulo Blue]

the fact that it's a pre-print means it's less reliable than an InfoWars video, right?

Naturally.

Actually, now I'm wondering if preprints gets retracted/corrected less often than regular papers because of the increased attention.

 

[Gulo Blue]

fewer people also seem to be falling into the Grand Canyon and dying lately. I haven't had to update that thread very much in the last year

Pretty sure suicides going down defies our collective expectations from last year.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Why are covid cases spiking so much in Michigan? Daily cases is approaching the December spike. Hospitalization is lower, probably because older people a more vaccinated, but it's still at 60% of the peak and rising rapidly.

 

[sggatecl]

Why are covid cases spiking so much in Michigan? Daily cases is approaching the December spike. Hospitalization is lower, probably because older people a more vaccinated, but it's still at 60% of the peak and rising rapidly.

My wife just sent me a text that their census is higher than at any point since Covid 'started'.

 

[sggatecl]

US suicides dropped last year, defying pandemic expectations

I remember one of the 'Covid death numbers are exaggerated' narratives (along with doctors are just lining their pockets) was that suicide numbers are higher than normal. Maybe someone found a way to blame suicides on Covid too?

 

[tinselwolverine]

US suicides dropped last year, defying pandemic expectations

I remember one of the 'Covid death numbers are exaggerated' narratives (along with doctors are just lining their pockets) was that suicide numbers are higher than normal. Maybe someone found a way to blame suicides on Covid too?

Now that you?ve put the idea out there, someone is certainly going to run with it and try.