Of course, the official announcement is Ontario shuts non-essential businesses, except for takeout and curb side pickup, on December 26.
Is any form of manufacturing considered inessential? Like, does the box factory shut down?
Rad! Thank-you.
And I’m guesing That Asshole still hasn’t got his yet - funny if he’ll ultimately bow out to pander to his base.
Not defending him but there isn’t a lot of testing on people who’ve had covid getting the vaccine. The professional opinion on that is a little muddled atm.
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Belatedly realising that post may be too political a comment for this thread; acknowledging, then, that I was in error posting that here.
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Already acknowledged.
77,718,158 total cases
1,709,011 dead
54,593,404 recovered
In the US:
18,473,716 total cases
326,772 dead
10,802,496 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
science-advice-crisis_0.pdf (instituteforgovernment.org.uk)
Report from a UK think-tank on how the UK government has handled the crisis.
Something for everybody in the short report: The UK medical advisory system is good, but the government is in trouble for not making political decisions.
Particularly interesting because the two countries I hear most about (Australia and the USA) handled the politics and abused the science each in different ways: The USA used a meaningless best case scenario to justify lack of action, Australia used a meaningless worst-case scenario to justify unrelated actions, and the UK used science as an excuse for lack of thought.
If indeed Trump had COVID a couple months ago, him getting the vaccine may be medically pointless.
The implications of a Presidential vaccination photo-op or lack of such photo-op is for another thread in another category.
Now I’m picturing Boris singing “they BLINDED me! With SCIENCE!”
Maybe it’s just that they haven’t updated the site yet, but NO states on the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus site’s "Critical Trends’ page show a highest-ever-daily-reported-case load (seven-day averaged) on December 21.
May it not be an oversight. And may it continue as long as possible. Remember, what I’ve been listing are not merely the highest daily rates in the country, but the highest daily cases listed EVER for that state. Cases are still being reported (and, as in California, glutting ICUs), so getting that figure down to zero and keeping it there is the first step. The new vaccines ought to be changing that.
That would be such great news to think that the vaccines are having an effect this early in the cycle. That would be such a hopeful sign. I hope it continues in a good direction.
Just to be clear – I don’t think the vaccines are having a noticeable effect yet. The downturns we’re seeing in case rates has some other cause, and I fear the cases will jump again in the wake of Christmas. But the vaccines are coming just in time to start damping down new growth. I have no idea how long they’ll take to start bringing the numbers down.
This may be humor, but it’s topical humor from today’s homepage:
Vaccines take a few weeks to ramp up the immune system so I think this would be pretty impossible. Plus, very little of the vaccines have gotten out compared to the number of people getting infected.
We’re seeing an extended leveling off in San Antonio probably because the Fall surge is slowing down. Just in time for the Christmas!
Ontario has a mixed approach to which industries are considered essential. A few manufacturing industries are. Some are not.
Thanks.
COVID has now hit all the continents. 36 people tested positive at a Chilean research base.
78,366,297 total cases
1,724,039 dead
55,128,559 recovered
In the US:
18,684,628 total cases
330,824 dead
10,945,097 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison: