Assholes/Mitigation Measures This article says that the asshole who got busted for running an underground nightclub in his condo got sent to jail for 29 days and fined $10K. The province is also trying to take his condo under civil asset forfeiture. Statistics +341 cases, +6 deaths. Currently 291 in hosptial / 115 in ICU,… Continue reading 2021-11-26 BC
Author: Ducky
2021-11-26 General
Variants This article talks about the race to contain B.1.1.529, now formally named Omicron (not Nu). This article reports that Pfizer/BioNTech say that they will know in under two weeks how effective their vax is against Omicron, and that they can have a revamped shot done in 100 days. Moderna says they’ve been working on… Continue reading 2021-11-26 General
2021-11-25 BC
Data This article reports that the province has finally released counts of patients infected in hospitals: 1619, 274 of which later died. (For comparison, there have been 12,214 total hospitalizations to date.) Mitigation Measures This article reports that the restrictions on gatherings in Northern Health have been extended indefinitely. This article reported that the province… Continue reading 2021-11-25 BC
2021-11-25 General
Variants Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Remember how yesterday I wrote this totally depressing analysis of how hard it was going to be to vaccinate our way out of this mess with our current vaccines? It just got harder. There’s a new variant under investigation — B.1.1.529 — with thirty fucking two mutations. People who I follow and respect… Continue reading 2021-11-25 General
2021-11-24 BC
Statistics +322 cases, +1 death. The vaccine numbers still don’t make sense, so no total vaccinated numbers or vax charts today. Currently 318 people in hospital / 109 in ICU, 3,015 active cases, 210,828 recovered. first doses second doses of adults 91.4% 88.0% of over-12s 91.0% 87.4% of all BCers ?% ?% Charts
2021-11-24 General
I spent a lot of time on my “when will it end” section, immediately below, so I ignored almost all other news. I’ll catch up tomorrow. Mitigation Measures/Vaccines/Opinion/Analysis Everybody wants to know when the pandemic will end — when we can stop masking in grocery stores, when we can go to the Whatsit Expo without… Continue reading 2021-11-24 General
2021-11-23 BC
Press Briefing I missed the first half of the briefing, and it didn’t look interesting enough to catch up on. I gather that they mostly talked about the vax for kids 5-11. The vax will arrive tomorrow, first invites will go out on Sunday, and kids will start getting vaxxed on Monday. Dix/Henry/Ballem dodged questions… Continue reading 2021-11-23 BC
2021-11-23 General
Mitigation Measures I have heard that it is critically important for masks to fit well to be useful, yet most of the people I see wearing masks have big obvious gaps in them. How could these possibly work? And yet, clearly they do. In addition to multiple studies showing mask-wearing reduces cases, pretty much every… Continue reading 2021-11-23 General
2021-11-22 BC
Mitigation Measures This article reports that a tribunal rejected a human rights complaint from a woman who refused to wear a mask in a Lululemon store, and refused what the tribunal thought were reasonable accommodations. This article reports on a snafu? poor messaging? at the border. There was a directive that Canadians in BC could… Continue reading 2021-11-22 BC
2021-11-20/21/22 General
Pathology This article says that people with mental illnesses are at much higher risk of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death. I gather that it’s not the mental illness per se, but the consequences of mental illness that put them at risk. Mitigation Measures This article reports that the Government of Canada has ended its COVID-era… Continue reading 2021-11-20/21/22 General