StrangeSox

Remember that per IDPH, these things were supposed to be in place before any region would enter Phase 4. Chicago entered Phase 4 on June 26th.

There's pretty regularly open, even wide open receivers that our never-ending parade of garbage QB's can't hit

David Frum wrote this a few years back, and I think we've seen substantial evidence in favor of it over the years and especially over the last couple of weeks:

when your last ditch legal coup attempt is going well

WE have some good news. There's a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. The end of the tunnel is still a long, grueling slog away, though. Stay home, stay safe when you can. Wear your masks if you absolutely have to go out. We're back to opening emergency field hospitals. If you get sick or injured, COVID or otherwise, there may not be space for you. Doctors are going to be making some very tough decisions on who gets treatment and who doesn't.

There's a lot of intentional misinformation/propaganda efforts out there as well.

It's basically the same as the Pfizer news, and the Pfizer stock sale was scheduled back in August. A lot of pharma execs are going to make obscene amounts of money off of this, and that's gross and a problem with our economic system imo, but that doesn't mean their vaccine is fake.

J&J is having a hard time getting fully enrolled and started their trials later than Pfizer, Moderna, or AstraZeneca/Oxford. They also had to pause for a couple of weeks in October. AZ/O is still on hold in the US by the FDA I think, but it's proceeding in Brazil and the UK. Some of the Moderna numbers: Most of these Phase 3's are targeting somewhere around 200 infections for their initial data sets before going for a EUA.

These are just press releases at this point, so we need to wait to see the full (preliminary) Phase 3 data when it's written up and submitted. But both of these vaccines appearing to be highly effective is of course great news. What's not clear from what I can read in the press releases is whether they think it's providing protective immunity, e.g. you can still get a SARS-CoV-2 infection but just end asymptomatic or mildly sick, or if it's actually giving some level of sterilizing immunity, meaning you don't ever get an infection and aren't going to be an asymptomatic spreader yourself. The later is much much better, but the current target endpoints are the first. Hopefully we know more in a few weeks.

Friendship ended with Pfizer vaccine now Moderna vaccine is my best friend

Great system, makes tons of sense.

The best (worst) part of all this is that both the Democrats and Republicans are holding big new member dinners.

ss2k5 within two years you're going be quoting straight from Das Kapital and Communist Manifesto, mark my words

lol

It's needlessly more expensive than a public system like every other modern country has. There's really no point beyond weird ideological hang ups that result in worse healthcare for a higher price tag.

It'll be 3k/day by then.

We're probably looking at 2k+ deaths per day baked in for early December at this point.

Lincoln way went fully remote after having 70 cases and 600 students in quarantine.