There’s a lot of ‘fuck it’ goin around - it’s as contagious as the real pandemic itself. I see this everywhere with people not wearing masks since it’s just a suggestion and not a mandate. I work in a small office and I’ve already heard three people cough, one of whom doesn’t wear a mask. This is the state of things.
I hope you stay well.
I’ll be going in next week for the first time since May. I’m going to be pissed if I hear that shit.
Thank you.
It gets better. I went to the local 7-eleven, and like nobody’s wearing masks - at all. I’m in an area which had a comparatively good vaccination rate - at least among adults. But a lot of people are not masking now, especially young men (all ethnic backgrounds). It’s the “I’m a tough guy” mentality.
The two times I’ve actually gone into a grocery store rather than doing curbside pickup in the last couple of months, I was one of maybe 5 people wearing a mask. We’re not talking wall to wall people here, but I was definitely in the very small minority.
Guido said the peptide, or chain of amino acids, can be synthesized in the lab, making the capture or raising of the snakes unnecessary…
“We are afraid that people will go hunting for the jararacussu all over Brazil, thinking it will save the world or themselves, their family. That’s not the case. Is this an important discovery? Without a doubt it is. But chasing after the animal is not how this pandemic will be resolved.”
218,551,423 total cases
4,533,942 dead
195,385,487 recovered
In the US:
40,114,099 total cases
657,910 dead
31,020,612 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Great! Now the anti-vaxxers will stampede to self-treat themselves with highly toxic snake venom. This may actually be successful, in a Darwin Awards sense.
That thought occurred to me too. What’s next, extracts of oleander and jimson weed?
Forsythia, of course.
Well, we already did oleander extract, about a year ago.
Haven’t heard about the Loco Weed cure yet, but it can’t be far behind.
Hemlock!
It grows wild around here. I could make a fortune! Pay in advance, of course.
Don’t delay! Customers are going fast!
According to today’s Johns Hopkins Coronavirus site, the seven day average daily reeported new cases for Louisiana is zero new cases.
I repeat that:
Louisiana has ZERO new daily reported cases (seven day average)
According to my mathematical training, the only way you can do that is to have no reported new cases every day for a week. Which I don’t buy for a minute. Something odd is happening with the reporting out of Louisiana.
The same thing is happening with Florida
South Carolina, meanwhile, has hit a new high of 5570 cases
Hawaii is reporting a new high of 985, which is paradoxically lower than the seven-day average high of 1120 reported two days ago. Averaging must have brought it down.
West Virginia and Tennessee are very close to new highs, and rising rapidly
If you look at the United States as a whole, the seven day averaged reported new cases has very abruptly nose-dived away from its former trajectory, which looks suspicious. I think there may be some weird change in reporting or data gathering, rather than an actual sudden drop in cases.
Quitcher bitchin’! You wanted COVID to go away, didn’t you?
Now, if only DeSantis were president, he would make it go away for the whole country. 
while I agree that zero cases must be a data error, Delta has soared and crashed in India and to a lesser extent in the UK. It will probably do something like that here, too, except I expect bumps for school opening and for the winter holidays.
Yeah, but if you look at the trajectory of daily reported cases in India it has a very smooth form to it. It gradually goes up, then down, in a somewhat Gaussian fashion.
The data from the US goes up in the same way, appears to be poised for a gradual decline in the same way, then abruptly shoots down in a very unconvincing plummet.
Bearing in mind that Louisiana was just devastated by Hurricane Ida on Sunday, and much of the state (including the hospitals) has no electricity – it may be a case of nothing being reported, not that there are no new cases.
This is a nothing burger. It’s just a temporary data issue. This is extremely common, found pretty much everywhere, and usually corrected in a few days.
Louisiana is stale due to Hurricane Ida.