While there can be no guarantee of reliability, this online gadget claims to assess your risk of hospitalization or death if infected by Covid19 based on age, weight, girth, and other characteristics.
If your health is good and your are not overweight, you will likely find the result encouraging.
"Pfizer and BioNTech announced that they have submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate. If authorized by the FDA, then the investigational vaccine could be used in high-risk populations in the U.S. by the end of December 2020."
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According to the risk calculator, I am low risk despite being old enough to be dead: specifically my risk of death from Covid is supposed to be 0.37%, which is surely a risk lower than many others I have taken in an almost completed life-time. And anyhow, the soon to be available vaccines seem less than ideal--even assuming that they work and have no nasty unanticipated side-effects. First, they require two jabs to be effective. Second, the do not prevent infection, but only the overt manifestation of the disease. Not sure if that matters or not. If infected, can I pass the disease to others even though I manifest no symptoms? That seems quite possible, and in which case, vaccination will not take us anywhere closer to herd immunity.
DeleteIn addition, it is said the new vaccines are expected to produce a large number of adverse reactions. So I'm with the folks who say, let the politicians head the line for vaccination.
DeleteWow, CS, look at this:
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Art museums potentially shuttering FOREVER.
It really is as if western civilization, and the human spirit expressed by it, are getting "shuttered."
Maybe the youth vanguard of the coming cultural revolution will find inspiration and entertainment when they're allowed to storm such places and rip their contents into tiny shreds. It is not unprecedented in human history for such things to occur. Actually, it is a periodic norm.
"Actually, it is a periodic norm."
DeleteExactly. The library at Alexandria, the Druidic University in France. all but one of the books of the pre-Columbian civilizations of S. America, and now, in real time, U-tube, flushing history as it happens.
Did you see: people are hoarding toilet paper again. There will be no meaningful uprising among people this brain dead. They haven't learned a damned thing and there's been so much to learn and absorb over the last nine months.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid growing up during the aftermath of WW2, we used newspaper, neatly cut in squares and threaded on a string hung on the outhouse door. Trouble is, now, newspaper publishers are using thinner and shinier paper, which reminds me of the story of one of my more colorful great uncles who started some kind of literary magazine just before WW1. As the proud publisher, he passed copies of the magazine to friends and relatives who sadly nixed it. They said the paper was too glossy for the outhouse.
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