Jump to content

Featured Replies

  • Replies 12.8k
  • Views 986.8k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • My condolences to you and your family.  I can unfortunately relate... my brother passed away on Sunday (some may remember him from here & the old OB forum as Taynted_Fayth) so we're also trying to

  • WildPath
    WildPath

    I am a teacher and also immunocompromised. I got my first shot this week. It was neither being a teacher, nor having an autoimmune disease that qualified me to be vaccinated. My autoimmune condition p

  • I have had a positive covid test. Being double-vaxxed I had just mild symptoms, but they fit the description, so I got tested. It started on Friday & I am 80% better already. It literally felt lik

comment_507534
55 minutes ago, Noeller said:

there's no question that there's a race between vaccinations and the Delta variant, but I do believe that between AB's population density and how quickly they're getting vaccines into arms, we're at least better positioned against a potential 4th wave. I'm still confident, just based on all the reading I've done. 

In a better place than MB? Absolutely. That is a a low bar... we have the highest ingrown rate north of the Mexican border. But what is happening in the UK is a glimpse of what is gong to happen,  unless something different is done. 

Throwing the province wide open with only 25% of the population being fully vaccinated... that is not learning from other's mistakes. 

 

comment_507535
32 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

In a better place than MB? Absolutely. That is a a low bar... we have the highest ingrown rate north of the Mexican border. But what is happening in the UK is a glimpse of what is gong to happen,  unless something different is done. 

Throwing the province wide open with only 25% of the population being fully vaccinated... that is not learning from other's mistakes. 

 

See, I think the UK thing might not necessarily happen because of the difference in population density. UK is the entire population of Canada in a space the size of Alberta. 

I'm not saying that what Alberta is doing right....I'm not saying the UK situation ISN'T going to happen here....I'm just saying that it's not for sure, and there's absolutely legitimate reasons why it might not happen here.

comment_507549
13 hours ago, Noeller said:

See, I think the UK thing might not necessarily happen because of the difference in population density. UK is the entire population of Canada in a space the size of Alberta. 

I'm not saying that what Alberta is doing right....I'm not saying the UK situation ISN'T going to happen here....I'm just saying that it's not for sure, and there's absolutely legitimate reasons why it might not happen here.

66 million in a space the size of a prairie province so even more so.

comment_507560

Infectious Disease Expert Warns ‘We’re Not Done With This Virus At All’


Michael Osterholm doubted there would be future national surges in COVID-19 but said “substantial” local and regional ones were a possibility. Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm warned Friday of the possibility of “substantial” local and regional surges of COVID-19, telling CNN’s Poppy Harlow that “we’re not done with this virus at all.”

Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, doubted there would be another national surge because of the scale of the United States’ vaccination program, which to date has seen more than 175 million Americans receive at least one shot.

But Osterholm said more localized surges could occur if the highly transmissible Delta variant takes hold in the U.S., where it is now quickly spreading.

The variant first identified in India has already become the dominant strain of the virus in the United Kingdom, where rising cases have forced the delay of easing lockdown restrictions.

Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday that the Delta variant will “probably” become the most dominant in America. Osterholm agreed, noting its ability to evade the immunity provided by a single dose of one of the two-dose vaccines.

comment_507565
20 hours ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

In a better place than MB? Absolutely. That is a a low bar... we have the highest ingrown rate north of the Mexican border. But what is happening in the UK is a glimpse of what is gong to happen,  unless something different is done. 

Throwing the province wide open with only 25% of the population being fully vaccinated... that is not learning from other's mistakes. 

 

Kenney will argue that the AZ vaccine is inferior & England based everything on that. Better yet, he was told by his stupic caucus to open the province up & have the Stampede. Then kick him out when we shut the province down again.

comment_507604
19 hours ago, Noeller said:

We'll never be done with Covid... But we can learn to live with it as long as people get vaccinated. 

"There are only three Covid-19 patients at Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University Hospital, on Long Island, New York — a far cry from when the hospital, which is part of Northwell Health, had as many as 600 patients during the peak of the pandemic.

All three patients, who are in the intensive care unit, have one thing in common, said Dr. Hugh Cassiere, director of the hospital's critical care services: They're unvaccinated.

 

The trend appears to be occurring at hospitals nationwide.

"I haven't had anyone that's been fully vaccinated become critically ill," said Dr. Josh Denson, a pulmonary medicine and critical care physician at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans."

 

nbc news.

 

 

Edited by Mark F

comment_507633
31 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

Need to work on the Southern Health region. Cases rising there. Not a surprise that they have the lowest Vax rate (52%). If they were even at the next lowest region which is about 14% more, as a province we'd be at 73.2% first dosed versus 71. Seemingly they're going to end up messing things up for the rest of us.

ah yes even if Winnipeg does end up flattening the curve all over again we're still going to have a problem in certain regions

 

the hanover and sunrise school divisions have some cases in their schools 

comment_507647
5 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

Need to work on the Southern Health region. Cases rising there. Not a surprise that they have the lowest Vax rate (52%). If they were even at the next lowest region which is about 14% more, as a province we'd be at 73.2% first dosed versus 71. Seemingly they're going to end up messing things up for the rest of us.

Unfortunately, those are mostly people who don't take any kind of vaccine, it's not just covid.  Yet, 99% of them vaccinate their animals. 

Create an account or sign in to comment