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Yup. Numerous countries showing that. Quick

Oh I wouldn't doubt there being major reporting issues in a country like that. For the US it seems to have matched up pretty much in line with excess deaths all along. Still prob off by some percentage either way

India might have also undercounted Covid deaths by a factor of 10... yikes India’s official death toll from Covid-19 is more than 400,000 but that is believed to be a huge undercount, particularly when taking into consideration the results of the latest serosurvey. A new report released by the Centre for Global Development this week concluded that excess deaths in India during the pandemic could be as high as 4.7 million, 10 times the official toll.

Looks like it will be at least recommended in 2 counties

I meant while I’m in Iceland. We won’t be inside too often.

It can be a brutal illness. My wife wound up at UMass with a toxic megacolon and has had numerous surgeries. She has been fine for(knock on wood) 20 years or so. It always lurks though and affects her day to day life.

Kevin could get his 20” month if a storm or two dumps over him.

That’s rough. My spouse has had that since she was 18. I wish you well.

Raining here. Light stuff, barely on radar. But annoying.

Hope you feel better. All of this rain etc can’t be helping with things like mold spores.

https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/were-the-covid-19-vaccines-rushed 2. A decade of mRNA vaccine research Researchers have been developing and researching an mRNA vaccine platform for over 10 years. After SARS-CoV-2 was sequenced, it took just a few days to make the mRNA vaccine candidates. The spike protein’s genetic code was plugged into preexisting technology with an already working process that had been evaluated for other vaccine uses, such as in the fight against dengue.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-how-it-was-possible-to-develop-covid-19-vaccines-so-quickly#The-vaccine-technology-already-existed The vaccine technology already existed Both the mRNA and adenovirus technologies behind the COVID-19 vaccines were built on decades of research and experience. “The scientific community wasn’t starting from scratch. Adenovirus and mRNA technology has been used in humans for decades. These are not new technologies. It’s mature, safe technology that was tailored and employed to fight this pandemic,” Jordan said.

ORH sitting at -1.7F with zero 90 degree days this month. 13.54” of rain. Lol

Yeah. High heat with lower dews would be great. Ain’t happening for a while it appears.

We ended up with 0.70” yesterday.

Yeah. Masks indoors. Restrictions on large gatherings. About what we expected. Won’t apply to us much

The skiing ain’t so good

I could not live there for the summer. The other three seasons sure.

Barnstable county was at 117 per 100,000. One issue there is that 100,000 just includes full time residents and the Cape has many times its normal population during the summer. So it is a bit off.

Here is an example. In a few days I’m traveling to another country where they ask you (for entry) to show proof of vaccination or recovery from a previous infection (or quarantine). Pretty easy to do

Sorry to throw in a non Covid question here: Has Massachusetts had any confirmed tornadoes this year?

Well, he is right. Think about human life expectancy since vaccines and modern medicine (it has many warts too) have come about. 500 years ago people were lucky to make it to 40. Now whether we are better for it is a whole other argument. I always heard from my parents how terrified people were of polio back in the 1950s before Salk. It was a miracle in their minds. I am guessing a big difference here is that it (polio) attacked children and the survivors had visible indicators of their struggle (crutches etc).

the captain in WallE agrees https://youtu.be/sogCiISNdhg

Good point

Any theories on why the US has suffered the most (in terms of deaths). Maybe the data is false (we overreported and others underreported)? Our lifestyles (travel etc).