D&D and the rising pandemic

[Nagol]

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Products I have found you should be careful using when wearing masks:

1) breath mints

2) strongly scented mustache/beard/skin products

Both can get you a little light headed if you use them too soon before donning your kit.

Masks work poorly with facial hair. It's hard to get and maintain a proper seal.

 

[Zardnaar]

Of course. That's why I view all - even the ones that don't often share my opinions.

That's fine up to a point. I already know what's going to be on Fox or Huffington Post.

Main use I find for Fox is how bad is something. If they're not reporting on it or have it in the small print with some other clickbait title it's probably serious if they're downplaying it.

Reporters also ask some stupid questions. Our PM point blank answered a question and then they hit her with variants and got the same answer.

Also sometimes what's not said and how it's presented matters. When things started she did a US type presidential speech with a photo of our wartime leader. Our equivalent of FDR. Such speeches are very rare here.

She was invoking the war years. We're all in this together, look after each other etc. Also not missed was the level of government intervention in the economy. The emergency powers had never been used before.

Message sent though the media picked up on it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My beard & ‘stache- even slightly shaggier than usual, do not protrude to the edges of the masks we have.

 

[FrogReaver]

They're testing against the same strains. No mutation.

It’s not that I don’t trust you but, citation please?

 

[Nagol]

It’s not that I don’t trust you but, citation please?

Decline in influenza vaccine effectiveness with time after vaccination, Navarre, Spain, season 2011/12 - PubMed

This study evaluates the influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) in preventing laboratory-confirmed cases in Navarre, Spain, in the 2011/12 season in which the peak was delayed until week 7 of 2012. We conducted a test-negative case–control study. Patients with influenza-like illness in hospitals...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The timeframe was <100 days and the geographical position was unchanged. I.e. same strains prevalent.

And another: Waning vaccine protection against influenza A (H3N2) illness in children and older adults during a single season. - PubMed - NCBI

ETA: I have no idea how I quoted an old message initially. Fixed it.

 

[Nagol]

My beard & ‘stache- even slightly shaggier than usual, do not protrude to the edges of the masks we have.

I was out yesterday and saw a guy with a beard who had the mask covering the beard, but not his nose and mouth. I guess the beard was sick and needed the restriction more than he did?

 

[Eltab]

Reporters also ask some stupid questions. Our PM point blank answered a question and then they hit her with variants and got the same answer.

The White House Press Corps does that on a daily basis. For 45 minutes, in one instance.

 

[Zardnaar]

The White House Press Corps does that on a daily basis. For 45 minutes, in one instance.

Yeah I stopped watching the daily briefings and just get the condensed version.

Most of it is the director general of health. They're sticking his face on tee shirts and he's become a sex symbol for some of the older ladies.

Older generations had photos of our wartime leader, we found ones in my grandmothers belonging when she passed in 2002. Wouldn't be surprised if Jacinda gets the same treatment.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

I was out yesterday and saw a guy with a beard who had the mask covering the beard, but not his nose and mouth. I guess the beard was sick and needed the restriction more than he did?

Maybe his beard was really, really nasty, and he's trying to protect others from it.

 

[Henry]

“Doctor Mike” Varshavski had a really nice, succinct video on antibody tests and on vaccine immunity in general that I enjoyed - it’s pretty much some of the same info being talked about here, including qualitative testing, quantitative testing, and the usefulness of mass testing on a population: