Covid News Around the World One Year Later

[Aragorn243]

The Spanish flu never went away. It's now known as the seasonal flu. It mutated and continues to mutate today. Just as Covid will continue to do. This mask crap and isolation crap and shut down crap can't go on forever.

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[Aragorn243]

Why the 1918 Flu Pandemic Never Really Ended - HISTORY

[fjruple]

Why the 1918 Flu Pandemic Never Really Ended - HISTORY

Great history of the 1918 Pandemic. Anybody notice the American soldier in the header was carrying a Model 1873 Trapdoor Springfield .45-70 rifle with a spike bayonet!

[Aragorn243]

Great history of the 1918 Pandemic. Anybody notice the American soldier in the header was carrying a Model 1873 Trapdoor Springfield .45-70 rifle with a spike bayonet!

Probably a national guardsman. I did not notice till you pointed it out though. Good catch.

[fjruple]

Probably a national guardsman. I did not notice till you pointed it out though. Good catch.

I had heard that the Minnesota National Guard still had the Trapdoor Springfields in the system in 1940!

[Aragorn243]

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine has been put on hold for a week in the US as mass panic ensues over 6 women out of 7 million people who received the vaccine developed blood clots. One has died a second is in serious condition. I expect the vaccine will begin use after the week stoppage but the damage is done. People will refuse what is probably the least controversial vaccine out there. Two of my relatives got one of the two dose vaccines and are now both extremely sick from it. They are OK but to sick to go to work.

The morning news on CBS ratcheting up the fear factor by telling everyone the Brazil variant (not racist of course) is both more deadly to young people and more contagious by 2 1/2 times and it will be world wide in a couple of weeks. The UK variant (also not racist) is now the dominate variation in the US with the Brazil variant becoming more widespread.

Meanwhile, the numbers don't really seem to be changing much. Close to a quarter of the US population is fully vaccinated now with a third receiving at least one dose. Numbers of new cases are somewhat static.

Excess deaths however continue to be way below expected, 11,000 fewer per week holding steady.

[Aragorn243]

To put the J & J blood clot risk in perspective, 6 out of 6.5 million developed the specific type of blood clot they are investigating. In the general population 5 out of 1 million develop the same type of clot without getting the vaccine which is many times higher so those that developed clots could have simply been in that group.

The risk of any type of blood clot in the general female population is 5 out of 10,000, women on birth control 1 out of 100, ICU patients with severe Covid 31 out of 100. Women after giving childbirth is 65 out of 10,000.

Not sure why they didn't release these numbers rather than creating a panic.

[Gil Boyd]

Sorry, don't swallow all this ballony about one vaccine affecting numerous amounts of people.
My son who is at the sharp end says, there were 8,000 blood clot incidents EVERY MONTH just in the UK, before this virus started its deadly trail.
So on that basis, Antihistamine and Paracetomol have more chance of killing you.
Bloody Politics driven........but a subject to be avoided at all costs, especially when talking about Astra Zenica a marvellous vaccine, delivered at record speed with ALL the relevant safety checks and clearances, delivered at the cheapest cost for the WORLDS benefit, only to be ridiculed by a few.
Sit back and tell me "So those on the Pheizer vaccine are immune all of a sudden from blood clots............rubbish, there's more to this personal attack then we mere mortals will get told"

[Aragorn243]

Seems odd but Covid news is getting covered less and less here. I don't have a good feel if cases are going up or down at the moment. Some say up but as they don't talk about it, that seems unlikely or the up is so small it doesn't matter at this point. Nothing major about the states coming out of lockdown anymore either. The people there don't seem to all be dying like the media seemed to indicate.

Gun violence is now the top of the news cycle. Although NBC went completely nuts and covered nothing but Prince Philip for days. I tuned out. Being informed he died and they were going to have a memorial service for him was enough for me. Seemed like a decent guy who lived a long life but there are more important things going on.

Restaurants and bars are open to 75% capacity now with no ill effects. Nearly all schools are back to in person instruction in PA now with the exception of Philly which plans to start three weeks before they are done for the year. That makes perfect sense. Most people here do not wear masks outside but a few do. Seems to be regional. Other areas wear them pretty heavily. In stores they are still required but I'm seeing more and more ignore the rule again.

TV shows are interesting. Some started with masks, some didn't, some are still wearing them at times but logic seems to have been thrown out. By general covid rules, they are putting the masks on when they could be taking them off and not wearing them when they should. Doesn't make a lot of sense.

Still seeing lone drivers in their cars wearing masks.

[Aragorn243]

Culturally, I'm now noticing long term affects from this. I don't see hand shakes ever coming back. People will likely continue to social distance from strangers in stores, some get a panicked look if you get too close and others including myself just back away is someone moves in. It's become second nature. A lot of people will demand to work from home and I expect employers will accommodate them. Businesses don't need to rent the space, they can also relocate anywhere for what facilities they do need.

The decline of churches has been accelerated. Online services is becoming the norm for some very devoted church goers. For others, it's simply forgotten.

The impact of this is huge and there's no escaping that. Time will tell if we will move forward or backward from this.