COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (7 Viewers)

[Saint_Ward]

It’s probably going to take me awhile to feel comfortable not wearing it

Mandate has been lifted in my county but everyone I’ve seen out running errands still wears there’s indoors

I still use mine at the grocery store and similar places. Especially when I see people coughing and crap, not even covering their mouths at all.

Honestly, too many people around here, and most don't have a clue what personal space is.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

I know there was a study a couple weeks ago that came out which was peer reviewed showing Ivermectin was ineffective at preventing moderate to severe disease from covid.

Then just a couple days ago we get this.



Two different studies, one being a conference paper the other peer reviewed and both showing strong efficacy from the use of ivermectin. So which is it?

Here are the two papers recently published:

Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for COVID-19: A Citywide, Prospective, Observational Study of 223,128 Subjects Using Propensity Score Matching

Background: Ivermectin has demonstrated different mechanisms of action that potentially protect from both coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and COVID-19-related comorbidities. Based on the studies suggesting efficacy in prophylaxis combined with the known safety profile of...

www.cureus.com

RETRACTED: Treatment with Ivermectin Is Associated with Decreased Mortality in COVID-19 Patients: Analysis of a National Federated Database

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdr…

www.sciencedirect.com

 

[Saint_Ward]

I know there was a study a couple weeks ago that came out which was peer reviewed showing Ivermectin was ineffective at preventing moderate to severe disease from covid.

Then just a couple days ago we get this.



Two different studies, one being a conference paper the other peer reviewed and both showing strong efficacy from the use of ivermectin. So which is it?

Here are the two papers recently published:

Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for COVID-19: A Citywide, Prospective, Observational Study of 223,128 Subjects Using Propensity Score Matching

Background: Ivermectin has demonstrated different mechanisms of action that potentially protect from both coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and COVID-19-related comorbidities. Based on the studies suggesting efficacy in prophylaxis combined with the known safety profile of...

www.cureus.com

RETRACTED: Treatment with Ivermectin Is Associated with Decreased Mortality in COVID-19 Patients: Analysis of a National Federated Database

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdr…

www.sciencedirect.com

That last study... the remdesivir group was 40 times larger and averaged 10 years older. Age may have been a factor

 

[jahsoul357]

I still use mine at the grocery store and similar places. Especially when I see people coughing and crap, not even covering their mouths at all.

Honestly, too many people around here, and most don't have a clue what personal space is.

Quietly, I just keep my mask on because in my old age, I'm beginning to realize that people are just nasty..lol. When I know that I'm going to be surrounded by a lot of people indoors, I just throw my mask on.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

That last study... the remdesivir group was 40 times larger and averaged 10 years older. Age may have been a factor

But also in the last study the Ivermectin group was still a little over 1000 people which is enough to be statistically significant.

The first study is the one that really got my attention though, peer reviewed and had a very large sample size and showed with an extremely low dosage of Ivermectin(.2mg it showed 70% effectiveness as a prophylaxis. Nothing in the conclusion of the study: "Conclusion: In this large PSM study, regular use of ivermectin as a prophylactic agent was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates."

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

Didn't have a chance to post this when it came out on 03MAR2022. This subject keeps going back and forth. This one seems to have some backing. Personally, I've no horse in this race whether it was from a lab or the seafood market. It was just extremely disappointing to watch our poor reaction to a global pandemic.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Today is the first day since March 2020 that my kids have gone to school in person without a mask. For my oldest, that covers her 12th grade spring through college sophomore spring. For my youngest it's 9th through 11th grade. Throughout that time they were either remote or in a masked classroom.

I'm happy to stop wearing the mask, especially since it turned into a farce a long time ago (the masked walk to the restaurant table..lol) but I hate that my kids have been subjected to masking in class long past the point where the science said don't bother. Hopefully they can make up the lost ground.

 

[jayd265]

Today is the first day since March 2020 that my kids have gone to school in person without a mask. For my oldest, that covers her 12th grade spring through college sophomore spring. For my youngest it's 9th through 11th grade. Throughout that time they were either remote or in a masked classroom.

I'm happy to stop wearing the mask, especially since it turned into a farce a long time ago (the masked walk to the restaurant table..lol) but I hate that my kids have been subjected to masking in class long past the point where the science said don't bother. Hopefully they can make up the lost ground.

good news for them

we've been fortunate. believe my kids only had to put up with the shenanigans the first few weeks of the school year then they dropped it in schools in our area. grateful for that. getting more normal again.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Very interesting article
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If the pandemic were a movie, it wouldn’t make any sense. Even putting aside the suffering and monotony that would make up the film’s “action,” the narrative structure of COVID—defined by its false endings, exhausting duration, and inscrutable villain, a virus—would be unwatchable. The most generous thing that Monisha Pasupathi, a psychology professor at the University of Utah who studies life narratives, said to me about the pandemic’s cinematic potential was that, well, “there’s always that contingent of film historians” who have a taste for the avant-garde.

Two years of living with the coronavirus has been spirit-depleting for obvious reasons, but this weariness has been compounded by the fact that the pandemic has defied our attempts to snap it into a satisfying story framework. Mark Freeman, a psychology professor at the College of the Holy Cross, told me that he’s been thinking of this condition as “narrative fatigue”—“an exhaustion born not only out of the relentlessness of the pandemic but the relentlessness of the ever-changing narratives that have accompanied it.”

The coronavirus’s volatile arc has thwarted a basic human impulse to storify reality—instinctively, people tend to try to make sense of events in the world and in their lives by mapping them onto a narrative. If we struggle to do that, researchers who study the psychology of narratives told me, a number of unpleasant consequences might result: stress, anxiety, depression, a sense of fatalism, and, as one expert put it, “feeling kind of crummy.”

A particularly deflating stretch of the pandemic’s story came in 2021, after vaccines were made widely available. They initially seemed like the salvation that people fantasized they would be—President Joe Biden celebrated “independence” from the virus in a Fourth of July speech, and “hot vax summer” was something that people actually said. The Delta variant, of course, eviscerated that optimism and produced a feeling of narrative whiplash. Wasn’t the story supposed to be over, or at least at an intermission?

What has made the pandemic’s story even more exasperating is that Americans haven’t even been able to agree on its basic facts; many people have been falsely asserting that the pandemic is a hoax and that the vaccines are harmful. Americans’ divergent beliefs work against telling a collective story, according to Dan McAdams, a psychology professor at Northwestern University. Other collective tragedies haven’t had this kind of dissonance. During World War II, a national narrative was easier to construct, he told me: “Nobody was arguing that it wasn’t happening.”

A story can be more psychologically satisfying when it has a diabolical antagonist to root against, yet the pandemic denied us that as well—the virus is not willful and has no motives. Instead, as Melanie Green, a communication professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, pointed out to me, many people have resorted to casting a different enemy themselves: Donald Trump, Anthony Fauci, the entire nation of China. Green also sees this vacuum of villainy as having contributed to pandemic conspiracy theories, which are basically just convenient stories about whom to be mad at.............

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[superchuck500]

 

[bonnjer]

We JUST got done with this wave. Can we please have a dang break?

 

[faceman]

Here's an article from Forbes containing his tweet. It appears to be variants of Omicron.

New Covid-19 Coronavirus Wave In Europe May Have Already Begun, Data Suggests

With the BA.2 Omicron “Stealth variant” spreading and Covid-19 precautions being lifted, conditions may be ripe for yet another Covid-19 upswing in the U.S. as well.

www.forbes.com

 

[Goatman Saint]

Tomorrow we start mask optional at work. I’m not wearing it, but about 3/4 of my students say they still will. It will be weird to actually teach without a mask for the first time in 2 years

 

[LonghornSaint]

Tomorrow we start mask optional at work. I’m not wearing it, but about 3/4 of my students say they still will. It will be weird to actually teach without a mask for the first time in 2 years

Mouths look weird.

 

[bonnjer]

Tomorrow we start mask optional at work. I’m not wearing it, but about 3/4 of my students say they still will. It will be weird to actually teach without a mask for the first time in 2 years

The last few days, I've gone without a mask in public more often than not, but I still have yet to be able to bring myself to not wear it at school. At this point, it's just a mental thing.