State of Emergency Declared in Tokyo as COVID Cases Spike Ahead of Olympic Games
For the fourth time since the start of the pandemic, Tokyo has declared a state of emergency as coronavirus Delta variant cases spike just over two weeks from the Olympic opening ceremony.
Tokyo reported 920 new infections in a day, the highest number since May, and the city has increasingly implemented unsuccessful measures to try to keep the virus at bay as the Olympics have approached. Now, residents are nervous as roughly 11,000 Olympians, 4,000 Paralympians, and tens of thousands of support staff are starting to arrive from all over the world.
Because of the state of emergency declaration, most Olympic venues will ban spectators. The decision is a reversal from last month, when Olympic officials announced that spectators would be allowed, but would be capped at 10,000 people or 50% of capacity per venue. As of right now, venues outside of the city of Tokyo can still allow spectators, so mountain and road biking events are expected to allow fans to some extent.
With only 15% of Japan's population fully vaccinated, many are concerned that the Olympics will become a super-spreader event. Just a few days ago, a Serbian rower became the third Olympian so far to test positive for COVID upon arrival to Tokyo. Two Olympic Village workers also tested positive for the virus earlier this week.
"It will be an unusual way of staging the event amid a state of emergency," Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said, according to the Guardian. "But I want to show from Tokyo that the human race can overcome great difficulty through hard work and wisdom."
We will keep you updated on how COVID will affect the Games as more information becomes available.
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Seriously take a chill pill, you attack me then essentially reiterate or support my argument the rest of the time lol. My bottom line: don't assume spikes are from ignorance/denial.
Analysis from Israel, who have one of the world's best vaccine coverages, gave double Pfizer vaccination providing around 64% protection against delta.
It's still good and I'd still definitely take it but significantly lower than what we were seeing against earlier strains.
Vaccines prime the immune system in preparation to respond to an infection. You have to catch the virus for it to even matter that you had the vaccine. Upvote if you understand this, downvote if you don’t.
Maybe you are replying to the wrong post?
Vaccine = MASSIVELY reduced chance off hospital or death.
You still catch it. But life goes on and your body fights it. Like every other vaccine. Oh and life returns to normal.
Its why in the UK with a huge vaccine success (about 86% one dose, 62% double jabbed- but all at risk groups jabbed and kids don't get jabbed!), we are about to go situation normal next week. Japan is not in that position and therefore should not be having mass participation events.
The IOC is holding Japan under the thumb as its the IOC who cancels it not the Government without significant penalty.
There is only one conspiracy with C19 and thats single use plastic (yeah they are not paper) masks that are on every trail, in every river, in the sea, just everywhere.
Current data out of the UK:
50 out of 7235 patients hospitalized with delta, post 2 dose shot, died.
44 out of 53822 patients hospitalized with delta, unvaccinated, died.
Table 4, pages 13-14:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/997418/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_17.pdf
So if 7235 patients were hospitalised after vaccination then 180, 875 people have contracted the delta varient in the UK after recieving both vaccinations.
I agree the vaccine helps allot, but i replied to the claim that for anybody vaccinated it is extremely unlikely they will catch it, which is simply not true
Its pretty incredible to watch people think covid is some unique disease and not realize the pcr testing fiasco. Must be awful to bike with, presumably walk their bike down literally everything because of fear. Super fun at parties too lol.
Conspiracy theory, just like the lab leak too right? Definitely nobody profiting off of keeping everyone addicted to online buying or socializing lol. And yes, the pandemic is real, gnarly, and vaccines work. I'm just aware how people have profited and want to continue that. Also aware of the addiction to media and fear. But please, continue to call me a conspiracy theorist.
Nice bio btw, appears you're competing in the victimhood Olympics. I wish you well on your quest for virtue signaling gold!
Also, only big libertarian and far leftists approve of the ccp. Most everyone else strongly dislikes them.
Sent from Samsung, not iPhone.
just more pink bike users spewing hate. lovely.
Did you have to get vaxed for you Olympic competitions?
Note to everyone: We are all mortal. Nothing we can do about it. So, in your mortality don't bother me in my life and I will not bother you in yours. Now, off to buy cigarettes.
To that, being asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic of something does not make you SICK from something. It is a shame however how many surgical procedures that we had to cancel (read: leave people in terrible pain and suffering every day)..and for simply no good reason.
I do still have a face mask that clearly states "Let the weak die". Those are seriously words to live by.
Thousands? You think humans have been around for just thousands of years? Do you know the history of what was happening to humans before medicines?
I just can't tell if this diatribe you wrote is satire or your true reflection of knowledge.
Let me ask you this: let's say you don't get vaccinated and you contract C19 but are asymptomatic, and you and I cross paths at the grocery store line, I get it from you and I fall incredibly sick.....maybe die.....you shoulder zero responsibility or ownership to your fellow neighbor?
His exact words were: “In all the history of respiratory-borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks. The driver of outbreaks is always a symptomatic person”
The problem on your second point is, unless there is a cheap and rapid detection method with 0% false positive and false negative rate, it is really hard to track asymptomatic transmission. Standard protocol for free PCR test (covered by the government in my country) is showing symptoms and have a positive antigen test, or had close contact with someone who is positive by PCR test.
On to your last point. If you have mild symptoms, played it down, not getting yourself tested, and still doing business as usual, then IMO you are partially responsible for every person that you infect. The dilemma is, in regard to your first point, milder symptoms which is caused by vaccine may increase untraced asymptomatic cases. This is not a problem if a large part of the population is either already had the disease or vaccinated (herd immunity). If I had to choose between contracting the disease or getting the jab, then comparing the fatality rate of the disease and the vaccine is easy.
He is treated by Sky Jeebus, MD.
man made? what are you talking about;
There are a couple of vaccines for Yersinia Pestis;
All pharmaceuticals don't come from plants;
How will this vaccine cause people to die in 10 years?
What you should have written as a qualifier is " I'm a moron" not "I'm no expert"
mRNA takes a complementary copy of a gene from the nucleus to the ribosome. I'm really have no idea what you are talking about "animal studies in the last ten years".
Just you point out you are arguing with someone who has a doctorate and studied the mechanisms of gene expression regulation for years. My knowledge and understanding of this area of biology is significantly greater than yours.
Robert Malone does claim to have invented the mRNA vaccine technology, but this doesn't seem to be correct or at the very least is quite a stretch (he wrote a paper in 1989 where they got mouse cells to express a protein from a firefly). I would expect the technology has had some input from a number of other people in the intervening 32 years, and as ever in science, don't listen to 'authorities', look at the evidence they present. I don't actually care who he is or what he claims to have invented if what he says disagrees with the evidence.
I can almost guarantee every single person who says "do your own research" has never worked in a research lab.
I was at the test events in 2019 and I'm absolutely disappointed that Covid-19 robbed me of an opportunity to be at the Olympic games.
With a 70% effectiveness rate, and no anti-vaxx movement against this, its pretty depressing that various health authorities are so against it.
I could post a number of studies. How do think India went from disaster zone to not even being mentioned in the media within a couple of days?
bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-021-06104-9
I HATE conspiracy theories. My precious libertarian movement is infected with 9/11 truthers and anti-vaxxers. But when you do what governments and health agencies have been doing for the past year, what do you expect to happen? Its turning me into a conspiracy theorist, and even worse, agreeing with you!
Big Pharma doesn’t benefit from ivermectin because it’s cheap and off patent. Couple that with the WHOs and CDCs bumbling of this pandemic in multiple ways and I’m way more inclined to believe doctors and physicians on the ground.
Watch the results from other countries using ivermectin. You’ll see…
www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n747
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/ivermectin-why-potential-covid-treatment-isnt-recommended-use
ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/05/26/bmjebm-2021-111678
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab591/6310839
Vaccines prevent disease which saves money overall.
@mtb-scotland. You are correct, don't believe those who say the vaccines were rushed through, that just shows a lack of understanding of the process for design, verification, validation and clearance.
You need a clinical trial with validated efficacy data and clearance from world bodies like the FDA, Dekra etc.
The best thing about the internet is you can prove anything. Even the earth is flat, one country was believing that if you drunk bleach or lived in a hot place you would be fine.
“ rate of clinical improvement was 73.3% (22/30) in the study group and was 53.3% (16/30) in the control group (p = 0.10). At the end of the study, mortality developed in 6 patients (20%) in the study group and in 9 (30%) patients in the control group (p = 0.37). At the end of the follow-up period, the average peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2) values of the study and control groups were found to be 93.5 and 93.0%, respectively.”
Even if those P values are true and from appropriate models, it is clear that Ivermectin at best has a very small effect on the most severely affected Covid patients. It reads as a study looking for a conclusion before the data are generated.
The vaccines were clearly rushed. The trials won’t conclude until 2023.
No, I admit I didn’t read the study I quoted. I just posted the first I found to prove to counter your point that none exist.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823
Without allowing for honest debate the truth cannot be known. It is common and accepted practice to treat severe COVID patients with Corticosteroids. This came about because doctors were trying it, and shared their results with other doctors. As the popularity grew with anecdotal stories, more formal studies were done and it was found to be effective. This is how science works- you don't stumble in the dark, you look for smoke to orient your plan of inquiry.
No wonder these vaccines are so safe and the alternatives are utterly useless.
You’re still young dude. Give it 10 years and your bullshit detector will be as finely tuned as mine
The ivermectin stuff is so weird, it's not like there's any good evidence that it works against covid. It just appears to have taken off on certain social media channels and has now been latched on to (hey, remember hydroxychloroquine!). Plenty of off-patent drugs get investigated and used for novel uses, dexamethasone being a prime example - cheap and off patent and employed as a front line treatment for sever Covid. How does that fit with the patent conspiracy thinking?
There's loads of "studies" on ivermectin online, and even websites claiming to be meta-analyses of it's effectiveness. Unfortunately none of it holds up to investigation or provides rigorous data that backs up the claims.
I should caveat this with it may turn out to be effective, there is a study ongoing - this also applies to any number of currently existing drugs. However the data available on it at the moment does not show this.
There is very low to low certainty of evidence to suggest that ivermectin does anything for covid-19. The doses that have to be used to inhibit viral replication are way above what is considered safe.
If nothing else; they won't any worms or parasites after taking the sheep drench.
What experience do you have with med tech companies?
What experience do you have with clinical trails?
What experience do you have with the development process?
Do you know or work with many principal scientists in med tech?
Do you know how many projects are parked in med tech so far along the development path due to market changes, funding or a new leader coming into the business?
Have you ever been involved in a regulatory submission?
Do you know the difference between a minor, major, note to file, resubmission?
Do you know which companies are on the FDA fast track list?
I guess not or you wouldn't post what you do on here!
What is your experience?
Or are you just quoting someone on the internet?
The primary example is Dexamethasone, which is standard treatment all over the world for severe cases.
Btw, look at India and their problem with extremely dangerous "black fungus" infections. That is what happens when misinformed people who believe in wonder-treatments use the wrong medications on Covid-patients.
So much for the 9.2 million/day they were projecting back in 2019.
Choose what to be terrified of carefully.
Malaria has around the same fatality rate as covid (at least in my country), so why no lockdowns on malaria outbreak? Because halting its spread is easier. Kill the vector (mosquitos), done. On the other hand, covid is spread by infected humans. Kill the humans, then? Well, only if your name is Kim Jong Un.
Tl;dr comparing diseases based on its fatality rate alone is dumb
This "contagiousness" I was talking about is different on so many level compared to how SARS-CoV-2 spread. Or do you think we can exchange what is in our gut as easy as breathing and talking? Do you put your feces on the mouth of every person you meet? Eewww.
Oh, and every time I see 72.6 kg 11 year old, I don't assume that it is caused by eating disorder. It could also be genetics. Not all people has the same basal metabolic rate.
PS: the problem in using "not looking hard enough" is whatever counter point I convey will never be "hard enough" for you. You should "try smarter" in presenting your point. See what I did there?
Shower me with downvotes, I'll revel in your contempt! (That's if you can pull yourselves away from the Vanilla Ice video you have on constant loop.)
Tokyo course looks way better than the Rio and London courses... lots of punchy climbs, off-camber, and actual single track sections.
As far as Olympics go, it's the best course in a while.
Table 4 on pages 13 and 14 should be of interest.
Things fall apart, it's scientific!
Indonesia : hold my beer
But hey, at least politicians can appear to worry about people's well-being and Jeff Bezos and other corporations can "earn" hundreds of billions because they don't have to play by the rules local businesses do.
Discussion cannot be suppressed. Debate cannot be suppressed. From what we know of history, it is a foreboding sign when people seek to do those things. And to be fair, the Germans also lived in a free world until debate was suppressed and government authority greatly expanded.
I'm very curious if there's the volume of "don't give a sh*t about you's" outside the US or if this attitude is unique to our culture
I've stated a fact, one that apparently upsets your desire to have blind faith in your own uneducated acceptance of propagandist misinformation that's in no way supported by legitimate science.
Good of you to tacitly admit that you don't give a shit if your neighbors are oppressed as long as you aren't though.
How was needing to wear a mask a form of oppression. Seems sorta similar to having to wear a shirt in a store, or glasses to drive if you have bad eyesight.
I don't think you understand liberty the way the founders intended. They didn't write that you get to do whatever you want. That is a system of governance called anarchy, which relies on a utopian idea that if you take away all rules and regulations that people magically just become super nice and caring about all others, and would never try to press an advantage that they have, into a situation that may harm others in any way. Kinda like how Libertarians think.
I'm quite familiar with how liberty operates the way the founders intended... in fact, they made it quite clear themselves; Ben Franklin famously said "those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" and few quotes better sum up the pathetic acquiescence to governmental overreach that we currently face than that.
You see, what the weak sheep such as yourself fail to understand is that liberty is a promise of freedom not of safety. Liberty is unrelated to anarchy because anarchy is the absence of government whereas liberty is the state of government as an arbiter of individual freedom. Liberty makes no promises of safety, only of opportunity unencumbered by precisely the governmental overreach you eagerly accept today. If you're afraid, by all means, exercise your liberty and wear a mask, or stay home, or wear a hazmat suit. But the moment that the government demands you do any of those to function as a citizen, to pursue your profession or to exist in society, then it has failed in it's most critical role; that of preserving the liberty of its people.
You know, for someone who responds as much as you do, it's almost impressive that you've deftly avoided saying anything remotely accurate thus far... kudos for defying the odds.
"He(Franklin) was writing about a tax dispute between the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the family of the Penns, the proprietary family of the Pennsylvania colony who ruled it from afar. And the legislature was trying to tax the Penn family lands to pay for frontier defense during the French and Indian War. And the Penn family kept instructing the governor to veto. Franklin felt that this was a great affront to the ability of the legislature to govern. And so he actually meant purchase a little temporary safety very literally. The Penn family was trying to give a lump sum of money in exchange for the General Assembly's acknowledging that it did not have the authority to tax it.
SIEGEL: So far from being a pro-privacy quotation, if anything, it's a pro-taxation and pro-defense spending quotation.
WITTES: It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security. It means, in context, not quite the opposite of what it's almost always quoted as saying but much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means."
I find pants to be more of an annoyance than a mask that I only needed to wear when I couldn't distance myself from others, but I don't feel like my freedom is being infringed upon that I have to keep my pants on when I'm at my desk in my office.
It was annoying not seeing people faces close up, and the communication thing was a struggle at my work where the decibels can be over 100 all day long, but those days are behind us now.
I agree that the government overreaches in some ways. I find the amount of money that it uses to subsidize fossil fuel, growing super water dependent crops in the desert, and the massive subsidies given to insure a burger is cheaper than a salad pretty annoying. Much more of an over reach than putting out guidelines that where given to state health authorities to try and limit the death of citizens due to a global pandemic.
That's adorable... you "love" that quote so much that the only thing you can say about it is to quote a fallacious interpretation by a Brookings fellow from NPR interview that you just found on Google.
Just for the record, when the best argument you can muster is to say of a man know for eloquence and directness of speech, "what he really meant was"... well, then you have no argument.
In fact, quite to the contrary of what Ben Wittes suggests, Franklin openly acknowledges that the Freemen of Pennsylvania have chosen their liberty over safety. He is not presenting that quote in the context of asking for legislative liberty, a bizarre interpretation by any right, but rather in recognizing that the Freemen have chosen their liberty over purchasing temporary safety from the legislation. The entirety of the quote being:
"We have taken every step in our power, consistent with the just rights of the Freemen of Pennsylvania, for their relief, and we have reason to believe, that in the midst of their distresses they themselves do not wish us to go farther. Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
The key verbiage being "they themselves do not wish us to go farther" and "those who would give up essentially liberty, to purchase"... clearly referring to the liberty of the Freemen to choose, irrespective of the position that more money would increase safety. He later continues on, further clarifying his doubt as to the value of protection through taxation in saying "whether he could, as he supposes, 'if his hands had been properly strengthened, have put the province into such a posture of defense, as might have prevented the present mischiefs' seems to us uncertain; since late experience in our neighboring colony of Virginia shows clearly, that it is next to impossible to guard effectually an extended frontier, settled by scattered single families at two or three miles distance, so as to secure them from the insidious attacks of small parties of skulking murderers"
He quite literally says purchasing temporary security is "next to impossible" given the disposition of the frontier so the assertion that he meant the opposite of his words and was actually referring to some abstract concept of legislative liberty is absurd.
It's also key to note the distinction in saying essential liberty vs temporary security... you know, an essential liberty such as an individuals right to maintain autonomy over their own healthcare choices vs the temporary (and illusory) safety offered from a flawed idea that mask usage stopped virus transmission... this is in contrast to a non-essential or unreasonable liberty, such as the liberty throw shit at a stranger or to stab someone you dislike, vs an essential safety, such as being protected from someone stabbing you because they dislike you.
...but hey, kudos for yet again illustrating that you actually don't have a single f*cking clue what you're talking about and just repeat whatever idiotic propagandist rhetoric the media feeds you.
And I get a good laugh out of watching you repeat ignorant rhetoric you heard on TV without a shred of awareness as to how absurdly banal you sound, so at least we're all having fun.
No one is suggesting anyone should or wants to get sick, but we do get sick in our lives, we do encounter viruses. You can expect that you and your family will avoid getting sick or ever contracting viruses, but those expectations would completely at odds with reality.
Fear is making people unreasonable.
Remember condescending Canadians who mocked usa health care and trump but when it came to life or death they ended up having to get vaccine from them as all they got was incompetent blackface and BLOOD CLOTS …everyone keeps acting like know it all’s and calling everyone names when the ONLY issue was no one was able to get a vaccine but hated the one administration that made it possible to made one. Too proud and politically motivated to say ….. thank you .
At least Biden hasn't been trying to take credit for any vaccines, because he doesn't need to seek false praise.
You don't see Boris Johnson taking credit for the AstraZeneca vaccine, do you?... It was developed in the UK, and he was the Prime Minister when it was developed, but at least he isn't trting to claim that it was developed thanks to him.
Japan only has a 15% vaccination rate and they never reached herd immunity for a variety of reasons.
'Murica ♂️
Y'all just love that boot on your neck.
Let us know how you feel when you or your loved ones reach the lantern at the end of time......
Damn y'all work hard at being blind.
Go back to Hemet.
They don’t have access to vaccines nearly to the degree we do….isnt their population only like 15% partially vaccinated?
Even if masks are effective, obviously the country with highest vaccinated citizen count will be able to “spend the weekend at the beach and bbq’ing with no masks”
f*cking braindead cuck
Ahhh…Murrieta. I get it now.
Vaccine saturation varies tremendously throughout the US so, while our overall rate of vaccination may be higher, regional rates in many areas are at or below Japan's... and yet we see no corresponding variance in emergent rates of infection, rather a consistent decrease throughout the country irrespective of regional vaccine trends.
And if masks were effective then they'd be controlling the rate of infection in Japan, preventing this outbreak... but they're not.
But please, tell me more about how everything you know you learned from the TV.
I do agree with you though, you are a brain dead cuck... so at least we can see eye to eye on that much.
Ahh... Long Beach. You got it now.
Of course in heavily republican areas we are seeing a pretty big surge in cases right now due to low vaccination rates. That was unfortunately to be expected.
And the idea that heavily republican areas are seeing any surge right now is pure bullshit... in fact, states like Texas and Florida have been far more successful in handling covid, with far less infringement on the liberty of their citizens, than states like California and New York. Pull your head out of your ass and get some facts.
Oh wait I see that you are operating off old info.
I am not aware of any areas in the US that are below 15% vaccinated, I'm certainly happy to live in one of the most vaccinated areas in our country. We are fully open and still seeing a decrease in cases.
It was strange that the infection rate didn't follow the vaccination rate, for a while. Now however the expected trend is showing through in the infection rates. In areas of low vaccination, infection rates are trending up, in areas with high vaccination rates infection rates are continuing to trend downward. The delta variant is about 2x as transmissible and so it is now even more important for everyone to be as protected as you can manage to be. Being fully vaccinated I really am glad I don't have to wear a mask outside of places that are choosing to still have customers wear them.
Masks have shown to have some effect in controlling the spread, but we are aware that you don't understand that.
Nice to see you don't even bother trying to refute my supposedly outdated info and just move on to making shit up... and I have no doubt that the list of shit you aren't aware of is nearly endless.
The infection rates have no correlation or causal relationship with rates of infection shown throughout the country at the present time, not outdated, not some imaginary projected future, at the present time. That's a fact, period, full stop. If your lack the intellect to draw conclusions from that factual reality, that's on you.
And no, the delta virus isn't twice as contagious... it's about 50% more contagious than the alpha strain, which itself was about 50% more contagious than the Wuhan strain that broke containment.
And no, masks do not and have not been shown to control the spread. In fact, with the release of Fauci's emails we also know that those making such claims knew masks were ineffective for preventing spread and offered only protection against droplet transmission... which is a virtually irrelevant vector.
But please, continue telling us how little you know about what's going on.
To my knowledge, most countries had some form of indoor dining by the fall of last year, especially in countries like Korea. Maybe we did as well in some states, but not mine. Our infection rates were wildly out of control starting in the summer of last year and then we kept getting to new highs in infection rates and death until finally starting to trend downward after January. We peaked at something like 4000 deaths a day, 2000 seemed like a good day by January. Which is really wild since we are so spread out in north America. Outside of big cities our most densely populated areas have very low density compared to Europe or eastern Asia.
There are very few countries with our resources, but we are ranked 21st(out of over 200) highest number of deaths per million people, with mostly less resourced countries above us. Yeah the UK, and Italy have slightly higher death rates, but Italy got hit earlier and UK had a nasty variants originate there and also did the no lockdown thing at the beginning, which really screwed them.
It isn't an idea that areas with low vaccination rates are seeing an increase in infection rates, they just are seeing infection rates around 3x the areas with high vaccination rates. These areas happen to also be heavily republican, that isn't an idea, it is just a fact.
"Vaccine saturation varies tremendously throughout the US so, while our overall rate of vaccination may be higher, regional rates in many areas are at or below Japan's... and yet we see no corresponding variance in emergent rates of infection, rather a consistent decrease throughout the country irrespective of regional vaccine trends."
But I guess that remedial level of literacy explains why you fail to understand the realities of the virus beyond the propagandist rhetoric that your TV feeds you.
It's really not worth the effort to go point by point but just to hit two key things, no there is not a correlation between vaccine saturation and infection rates... least of all one indicating a 300% increased prevalence in low saturation, republican areas. That's neither an idea nor a fact, it's just you talking out of your ass... and no, we're not "so spread out"... in fact, more than 62% of the US population is concentrated in less than 3.5% of our land.
Go ahead and put your head back up your ass before your ignorance infects others... it's far more dangerous than covid.
You also do realize that if a number goes up by 50% and then that new number increases by 50%, that it is more than 2x as big. For example 150 is 50% larger than 100 and 225 is 50% larger than 150. 225 is 2.25x bigger than 100. Welcome to elementary school math.
Man you are just so boring. It's exactly like listening to conservative talk radio. Kinda funny for a moment... then I realize that you might actually believe what you are saying. Then I hope that people thinking this way are incredibly rare... but then I remember that our presidential election wasn't a total blowout in 2020. Then I think we may be screwed...
Your elementary math example is fun, not relevant to anything we've discussed but fun nonetheless... I guess it's good that you can demonstrate your highest level of education completed at least.
Now... back to the vaccine saturation levels; Texas has a vaccine saturation level of roughly 42% compared to California at roughly 51%. Going back to your elementary math, that's just a touch more than 20% higher vaccine penetration. Meanwhile, California is currently experiencing a 78% increase in the rate of infection while Texas is seeing a 34% increase. Back to your elementary math, that means that California has roughly 130% higher increase in rate of infection than Texas, despite have 20% higher vaccine saturation. Idaho, with only 36% vaccine saturation has been experiencing a 1% increase in infection rates while Massachusetts with 62% vaccine saturation is up 33%. North Dakota with only 39% vaccine saturation has seen a reduction in infection rates of 16% while heavily vaccinated New Jersey, at 56%, has only seen their rates fall by 4%.
So, as I said, there is no corollary link between vaccine saturation and infection rates and certainly no causal link. I know, it's hard to get past the headlines to actually look at data and learn something with your head up your ass and only an elementary school education but do avoid trying to pretend you know what's actually going on until you grow up and get some facts.
And I agree, if we can elect a bumbling idiot like Biden, then we definitely may be screwed... but here's to hoping we right the ship next time round and get back on track to the historic pace we were on before a pandemic managed to slow things down.
The size of the fluctuations might be an interesting thing to study. I bet the effect these fluctuations have is tied to how dispersed unvaccinated individuals are in an area. For example, if you are studying a county, you may have a particular town with a low vaccination rate that brings the total vaccination rate of the county down. The infection rate in the relatively unvaccinated area could then be kept lower because the neighboring areas are less likely to spread individuals with covid to them.
I'm not looking at daily swings but only information that uses multi day averages. Nice cherry picking though on those numbers, very interesting analysis.
I'll admit Biden was maybe my 5th or 6th choice out of the early primary candidates. He was just safe, so he won the primary though and I was genuinely shocked by the numbers that turned out for his opponent. Since my vote doesn't matter in the general election, being in a solid blue state now and a solid red state growing up, I have always been able to vote my conscience instead.
I also hope that we can get back in that GDP trend line that started in 2010, maybe even get to the highs of 2015. The manufacturer where I work has been in high gear since July of last year, and no sign of slowing down.
I didn't cherry pick anything, that was you... you regurgitated rhetoric that cherry picked individual counties "parts of Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Nevada" to try and create a connection that doesn't exist while I illustrated that the same data you tried to use to cherry pick can just as easily tell the opposite story... why is that... because, as I've said several times and you're just not intelligent enough to grasp, there's no correlation between infection rates and and vaccine saturation. Even adding in additional factors such as population density isn't effective at establishing causative relationships; California for example has a greater vaccine saturation and lower population density than Florida while having a slightly higher increase in infection.
The simple fact is that the data doesn't tell the tale you want it to... that's the beauty of me being able to sit back and accept what the data says, throughout this entire charade I've watched you puppets desperately manipulate data to tell the story you want it to tell. I'd happily accept that masks prevented covid transmission, but that isn't what the data says. I'd accept that the vaccines are driving infection rate changes, but that isn't what the data says. You can't accept that because you've made a religion out of following the talking heads telling you how to live and you can't be wrong, so you'd rather believe bad data and cherry pick talking points to support your narrative, just like you're trying to do by isolating GDP trends.
...oh, and PS, the high point for GDP growth was 2018, not 2015. It's gotta be rough never getting anything right, better luck next time.
We can parse data here in the US however we want. However, it is clearly evident that countries that have very low vaccination rates are seeing infection rates go up a lot and countries that have the highest vaccination rates are not seeing this same sharp movement up.
If you have sources of info that directly conflicts with the government organizations that monitor and publish these sorts of statistics then you need to contact the media about this huge conspiracy.
Well the two men took to fighting
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce
"Data Source: World Bank"
i.imgur.com/ZzB2hzV_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
2015 - 2.91%
2018 - 2.93%
No conspiracy, just your stupidity and dishonesty.
Back to reality please.
data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?start=2010&locations=US
i.imgur.com/3g4wjr5_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
I guess the world bank data stream is the huge conspiracy to which you referred... better get on the horn to the media!
f*ck man, you just can't avoid sounding like a dumbass can you? And it's not a random image, I uploaded it so that you could see... point being, the world bank is displaying data differently than the data they're streaming in their feed so neither of us knows which one is actually correct. Here it is in a table just to help clarify for you...
i.imgur.com/bvLslBD_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
Man, the lengths you'll go to just to support your confirmation bias and try to salvage a single 'win' from your list of dumb shit said is legitimately impressive...
I'm not worried about winning, it is just fun to mess with conspiracy theorists.
The only thing you're messing with is the impression that you're capable of independent thought or factual analysis.
Many... and I don't have any interest in a Florida man's silly insult responses.
Florida man? I was born and raised in Southern California and have lived here the majority of my life
f*ck man, you really just can't get anything right, can you?
Like me you will notice that the Liberal went to distain and name calling and in-fact attempted slander of an entire State by attributing the region to being simpletons, conspiracy theorists and so then uninformed and not worthy of further comment. Please keep it up, we need true diversity of views. Kudos.
".....and I don't have any interest in a Florida man's silly insult responses.". As we say - Zinger!