StrangeSox

Cy Lopez

This storm is coming in so quickly they don't have time for full evacuation measures and converting the counterflow highway lanes. Anybody there needs to get out ASAP

Flu last year was largely stamped out by what non-pharmaceutical interventions we were doing, whether they were official policies or just people taking more precautionary measures. Masking, distancing, remote learning/working, fewer people having big parties and gathering, etc. kept flu cases and deaths down to record lows. Some NPI's are coming back again now with mask mandates or at least "guidance," but a lot of the closure/remote NPI's won't be. I'd expect flu season to be higher than last year for sure. I'd get whatever the typical recommended schedule is, so flu, covid booster, shingles (age-dependent), and pneumonia if you fit the risk profile. Getting multiple vaccines in a year or closely together is pretty common. Here's the recommended vaccination schedule for young children:

gotta let them blow the save, to build confidence

Sox bullpen: bad, or worst in MLB?

broke the scoreboard lol

the thrill and excitement of baseball

let's slam that door shut now please

I heard he's stupid

Jays pitcher getting squeezed there

Fantastic hitting throughout today

Some decent news if you got the J&J shot:

"hey here's a random outfielder maybe tracking the ball"

hell of a hit

Not giving Rodon that perfect strike in the 1st, giving Ryu a strike 2 inches inside

Some sort of long-standing feud with the Canadian government??

where is stone?

Ump completely missed a solid strike 3 on the corner, turns into a solo HR.

that was a perfect pitch, thanks blue

Eric Topol tweets out a bunch of the studies being done in various countries. Importantly, what we're mainly seeing is that we don't get that local sterilizing immunity that prevents infection because Delta comes on too fast, but your body is still spinning up those antibodies fairly quickly and the vaccines are very likely to keep you out of the hospital. Third shot boosters gets the level of antibodies floating around in your bloodstream back up to sterilizing levels so that you don't get infected in the first place.

You're much more protected against hospitalization and death, but it's not impossible. A non-severe case can still mean something similar to a bad case of influenza--knocked on your ass for a week or two, possibly long-term complications e.g. fatigue or headaches for months. Vaccine efficacy begins waning after a few months, especially against Delta. If you're 6+ months out from your second shot, protection against infection is significantly reduced. Protection against hospitalization is still high but not as high. Against all of that, you do have to weigh your personal risks and the risks to others in your household. We've still done some smaller family outdoor stuff lately, but will probably be skipping an indoor family thing this weekend because our kids aren't vaccinated. We haven't sat down inside a restaurant since February 2020 and probably won't be any time soon. But we're doing more than we did this time last year. Maybe that's smart, maybe not. None of its easy to judge.

One more to go

Pitching out of it just like we knew he'd do. Total confidence.

Israel's hospitalization vs case curves are matching the US very closely, though. The UK is the outlier. It's not obesity rates.