a la "I'm not a racist, but ..."

Story checks out.

You CAN fiNd CONvINcing InFO ON BOth siDEeS

Missouri Tourist Hotspots Also Heating Up COVID Counts As New Variant Spreads

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/heal...ariant-spreads

Good arguments on both sides! On the one hand people are dying - on the other hand - MAGNETS!

It is rather small sample of 42 deaths.

Disney just announced that Disneyland is dropping the mask requirement starting tomorrow. The subreddit is hopping with many people mad on the internet!

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/travel-information/

I see both sides. Parents with unvaxed kids are very unhappy.

Y'all need to be better at identifying trolls, and more importantly, ignoring them until the eventual time they get lit up.

For no good reason, it occurred to me this morning that it would be interesting to see if there's data to show a correlation between education and vaccination rates.

Caveats: I'm just poking around the internet for data, not doing actual research. Also note this only shows some correlation, not causation, but I found it interesting.

First, education by state:



From a story on Business Insider

Then, the Mayo Clinic's map of vaccination rates (this one is kind of interactive, so I just linked the page).

I swapped over to fully vaccinated, then compared the two tabs.

I was surprised to see even the "low" states are in the thirty percent + range. Thought that would be lower. Even the highest states are generally just over half. I would've guessed higher.

I agree that we all need to get better at ignoring trolls.

No data on this at all, but my limited personal observations lead me to suspect that you underestimated how motivated by fear of dying 65+ y/o people were in the less educated states.

So you are saying deaths could be reduced by 71% if everyone was double vaccinated? (from a whopping total of 42).

Lets try not to be polarized.

The point is double vaxed is not a complete silver bullet, watch out, stay aware, but, double vaxed massively increases your odds of escaping needing hospital or ICU.

Dont go full its just flu bro, dont go we is all doomed bro.

As Aristotle said "virtue is a mean."

Shuffle is the consummate chicken little. It's not even close

2 months to the day later, got vaxx'd.

J&J fwiw.

Felt right to me too.

Was the only one available at Walgreen's for a walk-in today so somewhat moot.

A man after my own heart; caution veers to fear so easily tho.

Look at who your allies are atm bro. You sure the (grand) plan is to align with them?

It's like a reverse tragedy of the commons to benefit from the masses partaking in something you refuse.

Not gonna do it.

"Consummate Chicken Little" would be a solid undertitle IMO.

He's not even as stable as an erratic woman.

Also, doesn't appear to be the case.

https://twitter.com/fact_covid/statu...94628267700225

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/v...nt=immediately

LKJ,

Every one of those posts was made after identifying that poster as a troll. Sweet gregging tho.

Chicken Little Consommé imo

Is it a troll if they actually believe it? Philosophy!

Yeah lower hospitalization rates but the best is your now magnetic.

When one considers that a larger portion of older and high risk people have been vaccinated and probably a larger % of low risk people aren’t getting vaccinated these stats are even more remarkable.

Magnetic and superb 5g signals... We're doing ok, and I think the extra 4 weeks delay we're having is the more sensible idea, than opening and then having to say 'Hold on, we just have to drop back again'.

If they can get on top of the 2nd doses for older people, as well as firing the firsts into as many as possible before next month, we'll hopefully see the end of any massive restrictions here. Not that there have been any for a few months, to be fair.

Something like 97 percent of the vulnerable population of the UK is vaxxed. If the 1/33 which isn't is making up two thirds of the hospitalizations and the 32/33 which is vaccinated is making up one third of the hospitalizations. So 1/66 of the number we'd expect if they were unvaxxed. Those back of envelope calculations mean protection from Delta is about 98-99 percent.

The death stats, by similar method, give us 97 percent protection, but include "deaths with" not just "deaths from" so also positive cases who have car accidents. I wasn't one to wave away thousands of excess deaths as "deaths with not from", but that will be true for at least some out of this few dozen in a country of 60 million people. Everything else we've seen in the last year relating to protection has the efficacy against infection less than efficacy against hospitalization, and efficacy against hospitalization less than efficacy against death.
I don't expect this is really an exception.

It's about the same size as the initial samples that were used for vaccine efficacy. Results like 29-3 for infections on the first 32 infections were impressive when you start with equal numbers of vaccinated and unvaccinated. The current UK numbers are also impressive when you start with 30 times as many vulnerable vaccinated as vulnerable unvaccinated.

half way to second jabbie...fork still stuck to face and now strange build up of charged particles gathering all around aforementioned fork ...other than that nothing

Despite what he says, the UK is actually similar. It's not geographic swathes, but vaccine hesitancy in certain pockets within the muslim community is a big part of what's driving the resurgence in the UK - weeks on, the Delta variant hasn't really broken out of those strongholds though it continues to spread within them.

Even within that community it varies a lot depending on who people are talking to - about 80 percent of muslim over 50s nationwide are actually vaccinated, but it depends on where they are and what ideas are going round.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/interactive-map

If you zoom in a lot it resolves to ward level (I.e. the different zones are in easy walking distance of each other), but there are still big differences.

My own home area, being too poor to attract migrants, is 98.9 percent white and coronavirus is really finished there as too many people are already vaccinated. Delta has been circulating for weeks in the UK and it really hasn't gained a foothold outside of those anti-vax communities - though now the younger people can get vaxxed too it will be beaten there too.