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hmmm. i am guessing there will not be an exception for kids under the age of 12. We had to cancel a fam trip to UK/France in summer 2020. kiddos are 13 and 10. good to see it's opening up again at least.
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reminds me of where i used to work. it was in the microchip assembly sector and we used a couple of xray machines. completely enclosed (lead lined) units and nothing like the dentist and doc office ones. I lost a bet and was the prestigious Radiation Safety Officer and had to explain any risks and procedures on what to do the machines were malfunctioning. I tired various factoids (rad dose from a 3hr flight is way more than using machine, inverse square law,etc...) and half the people that worked in the same room as the units said the machine did something to their blood when they were near it. Showing them the rad meter reading from the break room vs 10cm from the active machine (the same reading) made no difference. Dunno what it would take. either money, right to work, right to enter certain places.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
gyroprotagonist replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
seems like that could save money in the long run. from the web, it said avg cost of C19 hospital stay with no insurance was between $35K-70K. - you have 550K deaths. Let's just cut it in 1/3 and say 185K were in a hospital at time of death and received expensive care as the worst of the worst cases. 185K * $35K = $6.48B. take that money / $50 incentive and you have a max potential of getting another ~125M vaxxed to save money on any hospital stays. Insurance companies should be righting over to right to pay people to get vaxxed. Some are, i think in forms of rebates or less taken out of your check for company provided ins. But we as taxpayers who foot the bill for emergency room primary care should want to spend money to save lives and money by paying people to get vaxed. -
The Batshit Insane QAnon Conspiracy Theory
gyroprotagonist replied to Hugo Stiglitz's topic in Cloak Room
So we are sorta back with some Q-level shit from texags https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3195807/1 started as a vax thread, but the Q is strong in this one. you know it's good when this is the OP and we have a Billy-bad-ass sighting. look out over here... This below guy is awesome. he gets a reasonable response to why flu is down this year and then...checkmate... an unbeatable analogy. and then the coup de grace -
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ebay peeps, sorry to crash the thread, but we got hit when someone hijacked a dormant ebay registered to my wife, sold a bunch crap and now ebay is trying to come after us for money they paid out in refunds. We started getting all these return shipments from random people. It was all flea collars for pets. probably received 20 packages and it had info that it was an account for my wife. we could not log in the account or get a password sent (old email we no longer had access to). So called ebay and tried to report the fraud and that we were not in control of the account. They were spectacularly unwilling to do anything. would not shut down the account, would not tell us who was running the account the now or stop the auctions. zero fucks given by them. fast forward a couple months, the returns stop coming and we think we are done with it. but now ebay sent some collection letter because we had not refunded money to the people send back flea collars. Does ebay have no way to clawback money from the seller account receiving the money? I guess these guys just move on the next fraud account, set up to receive money and then shut it down when the returns start coming in.
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the only variant i have seen that AZ has not proven effective is the South African variant. there is just too little data to make sweeping statements like "the vaccine is ineffective against known variants" . AZ does very well against the UK variant (70% efficacy; linky). With the very limited data it had vs the SA variant, it did not do well in preventing infection. I don't think there is any data with AZ preventing hospitalization and death vs SA variant good or bad. https://theconversation.com/astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-faq-why-do-the-age-recommendations-keep-changing-does-it-cause-vipit-blood-clots-is-it-effective-against-variants-158302
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agree the message needs to move to incentivizing people to get the shot. There are several articles out there about people catching covid after the vax. This is not shocking as i think best case the mRNA vaxs are 90% at preventing infection. The initial numbers from the CDC on breakthrough cases seem pretty low (compared to the 90% expected efficacy) at the moment. one thing these articles are also saying is that pretty much everyone agrees that the vaxs are ~100% effective of stopping hospitalization and death. So again, another huge incentive, but vax hesitant people don't really care about probability of stopping death but likely would care about not wearing a mask to shop or travel. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the-shock-and-reality-of-catching-covid-after-being-vaccinated https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/20/no-myth-catching-covid-19-after-being-vaccinated/ so again, people can (literally) live with getting a mild case of covid after vaxxing. no big deal in my mind and just a step in the process to 'getting back to normal'. 10-20% of vaxxed people will get sick, recover and move on again. I think as more and more people get vaxxed and hit their 2 week milestone, there will start to be pressure put on retailers to stop mask mandates. What's happening in India and other parts of the world are reminders how fortunate the US is in vaxs delivered to citizens and how effective they are. This is scary. almost 3K per day and you can bet that the number is vastly underreported right now. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-deaths.html Also, India was poised to export AstraZeneca's vaccine Covishield to other parts of the world, but now will likely put that on hold. The AZ vax seems to have a good efficacy at 1 dose (~70%) so hopefully that will help. only 8% of the population has 1 shot administered so far and < 2% fully vaxed. compare to 42%/29% in the US.
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2020 - 2021 Dallas Mavericks: That motherfu*ker in Dallas is coming
gyroprotagonist replied to CBT's topic in Basketball
Drummond was just rebounding over every Mav last night. From the 2H that I saw, way too many 2nd chance points given up. Mavs countered every Laker run and would get off their duff and score when needed. Seeing the KP ankle bend, he should be ok. he did not step on anyone's foot. But who knows with KP. probably a grade 11 high ankle sprain. -
NY dad to be killed by exploding gender reveal device
gyroprotagonist replied to clapclapclap's topic in Daily Texan
20lbs of tannerite is the sweet spot. only got the local sheriff out to see what the fuss was about. no other towns nosing around. -
if they don't have a plan to redistribute the glut of vax that is about to be apparent in the US, the gov needs to get on that ASAP. I read there were clauses in the original vax contracts the Trump admin signed with vax makers that prohibit the use outside of the US. from vanity fair piece: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/why-the-us-still-cant-donate-covid-19-vaccines-to-countries-in-need In the grand scheme of things, whatever % of whatever group that refuses to get vaxed in the US is not the big issue when it comes to variants and all that. The US has been the leader in cases and deaths for so long, I had not really looked at much world news lately RE: covid. my how the turntables... I think the US better figure out how reroute some of theses vax doses ASAP. Hell, maybe telling the vax hesitant that these foreigners are going to take their dose will suddenly spark a desire to claim one. It sure works that way for my kids when we take some of their old toys to be donated.
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2020 - 2021 Dallas Mavericks: That motherfu*ker in Dallas is coming
gyroprotagonist replied to CBT's topic in Basketball
so it's not just my lying eyes. These guys miss a shit ton of wide open 3's -
reminded me of this scene Jules: Hash prostitution is legal there, right?Vincent: Yeah, it's legal, but it ain't a hundred percent legal. I mean, you can't walk into a restaurant, roll a joint drop trou and start puffing boinking away. You're only supposed to smoke boink in your home or certain designated places.Jules: And those are hash unlicensed massage bars?Vincent: It breaks down like this: it's legal to buy flash it, it's legal to own it, and if you're the proprietor of a hash unlicensed massage bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry advertise it, but that doesn't really matter 'cause get a load of this, all right? If you get stopped by the cops in Amsterdam Manhattan, it's illegal for them to search you arrest you for loitering. I mean, that's a right the cops in Amsterdam Manhattan don't have.
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Nancy Pelosi is a badass MF and I want her to be Speaker
gyroprotagonist replied to Hugo Stiglitz's topic in Cloak Room
it sure is easier to look smart when you are sparring vs Trump. I guess she really misses that backdrop to work from. Just a mind-numbingly stupid thing to think much less say out loud regarding a murder victim. -
yeah, dude looks pretty foolish, but it seems every expert has hailed variants as very bad news with not much data to back it up. there very well could be a variant out there that is truly resistant to the vaxes, but i don't think we have seen that yet. Minn did sorta buck the national trend though and increased cases from that point. But certainly not to the hyperbole of the attributed quote. I don't know if scientist are truly worried about these variants and are trying to inject more urgency (fear) into the populous to get vaxed. I get not leaning too hard the other way and saying no worries at all about the variants, but after the discovery of a variant and the initial claims that this one is/may/potentially resistant to current antibodies, i have not seen too much follow up that any variant is truly a c-c-c-c-combo breaker! for the vaxed and recovered. hope it stays that way and there is really not a need for a variant booster.
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This is really huge especially compared to the countries using the Sinovac vax, where it's reported that there is only ~3% efficacy after the 1st dose and then up to the 50-60% after the 2nd.
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i'm potentially going to win the lotto today. WTF is this shit? They have 1 fucking case and feel comfortable spewing this crap? out of the 6K positive cases from the 84m vaxed in the US, is there a breakdown on variants? Until there is data that a variant is rampaging through the vaxed population, we should tone down the doom and gloom about them being the next destroyer of worlds.
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no such thing as bad press?
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i am with you. with great news like this, there is no reason not open up. That 84m/6k positive test rate is insane in a good way. I was team 'listen-to-docs/WFH/limited travel/wear masks/SD/no parties', but now it does seem like good news is being slowplayed and the powers that be are reluctant to promote that vaxes will nuke the spread of the virus and will reduce/replace the need for masking and SD.
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My point was you cannot have false positive for death. no one is getting tested again 2 days later and coming up alive. Also think deaths are more accurate than positive cases in the US. As far the financial incentive to lie about the nature of covid deaths, I posted this in another thread. Here is the link for federal money to hospitals for Covid: https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/cares-act-provider-relief-fund/general-information/index.html Most of the money disbursed is based on previous years revenues. There is a tranche based on C19 admissions, but i could not find one tied to C19 deaths. There is also an incentive for nursing homes to cover up C19 deaths and show low numbers, so yeah, i think the # of deaths is fairly accurate. way more accurate than the # of positive cases recorded vs the true number in the wild. General Fund Initial $30 Billion Payment Allocation per Provider = (2019 Medicare Fee-For-Service Payments / $453 Billion**) x $30 Billion **This is the total sum of Medicare Fee-For-Service Payments in 2019 Additional $20 Billion Payment Allocation per Provider = ((Most Recent Tax Year Annual Gross Receipts x $50 Billion) / $2.5 Trillion) – Initial General Distribution Payment to Provider There is no mention of C19 as even being a factor. The hospitals get $ solely based on revenue from Medicare from 2019. Below is the only # of Covid cases that would affect a distribution i could find. $10 Billion to 395 High-Impact Hospitals Payment Allocation per Hospital = Number of COVID-19 Admissions* x $76,975 *Hospitals must have 100 or more COVID-19 admissions. So to get some of that $10B, hospitals would have to show or indicate a positive C19 admission. But nothing is tied to deaths as netting more money. Sure i guess they could go back and test a gsw victim that died in the ER for C19 and then fudge the admission form to list C19 if they wanted to up the total number. There is a benefit paid to nursing home that are below some standard for C19 infections and C19 deaths. so there would be an incentive to lie about and lower how many C19 deaths a nursing home had
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so huge difference on catching it but not needle moving to the public eye on not dying from it. Show only the bottom 2 Mortality numbers with no context and get blank stares with drumming up support from a vax hesitant crowd. my whole point was that not catching it at a staggeringly lower rate contributes to not dying from it at a similar rate; and that should be expressed. expressing death rates using positive cases for data sets does not tell the complete picture, imo
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random pre-paid cc just shows up in mail
gyroprotagonist replied to gyroprotagonist's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
i had one of them frozen, but should probably just get them all done that way. I went back and looked and the pre-paid card paperwork had something to do with the State of Virginia or at least had the word 'Virginia' prominently displayed at the top of the page, so it looks like the card was issued in response to some sort of claim for pandemic or unemployment benefits. -
no one is talking about anything being significant to worry about or not worry about. They are just numbers. Death in general is ~1% of the US population each year as i think 3m die from whatever each year. way back to my original post on this was to see if there was a number to show that vaxes cratered the death rate from Covid. It does. 74 deaths out of 84m is fan-fucking-tastic. not sure why you decided to take such issue with comparing that to 550K deaths out of the US population.
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JFC dude, what is your problem? All snark and no real response. The question I asked and tried to answer was how to best compare 74 deaths from covid out out of 84m people who have been vaxed. I chose to use 550K deaths out of 331m US population. I think maybe you are thinking i am trying to downplay the fatality rate of covid or something by using the .17% number? not sure with the facebook reference earlier. Yes, I have seen shit posted on texags and the like saying "why should i get vaxed? i have a 99.8% survival rate". That's not my point. my point was to compare like data sets to point out how much lower the number of deaths from the vaxed population was (for Covid) vs the number of deaths from the pre-vax/not vaxed population. To show that vaxing tremendously lowers your odds of dying from Covid to an absolutely miniscule rate. Regarding what i wrote, how many positive cases were reported out of the total number positive cases in the country? 1:1, 1:1.25? that was my point, it's unknown. The number of deaths reported from Covid are probably closer the actual amount than the number positive cases is to the real number of cases. And no, i don't buy into the nonsense that hospitals were just saying every death was a c19 death.
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