HoarfrostHubb

My primary care physician is thinking this flu season might not be bad due to a larger than normal number of people getting vaccinated as well as mask use and distancing.

My wife has a cardio-pulmonologist at a very large teaching hospital near us. He was also in charge of that facility’s Covid ward during the height and has already forgotten more about Covid than I will ever know. He has large concerns about long term effects on patients. So folks on here can pooh pooh that all they want. I know who I listen to.

That narrative is pure garbage.

Ginx, are those gravity waves in the last panel?

Bob won’t like that

I think Tip’s thread deserves its own space. This one is the usual dull goings on. Temps and dews or frost obs and leaf reports.

Looks like we at least get a reprieve from the drought for a little bit. Temps beginning a bit AN. Edit...first few days look slightly BN for temps

Bowdoin is an excellent school. Beautiful campus. Good connections with Bates and Colby

And schools. This would help a ton

One thing I loved about the old MPM thread was people on here were very good at ferreting out the good data from the garbagio. It was to me the best source to get studies etc. ah well

An example... and I know Maine has different phases, etc... in Massachusetts should indoor venues for concerts be open? I would love to see a show live but would not personally go. So...let's say a venue has 1000 people in it, somewhat distanced, but in there for 2 hours watching a band. Having fun... 5 people catch the 'vid... spread it to folks at work...who spread it to the grandma they need to help care for... I dunno... I just have a bit of a break during work and was thinking about stuff. Gotta get back to it.

Media has been doing this since...well...media has existed. Caveat emptor and all the rest... I try to get into the studies/journals I can understand. And first hand accounts if possible.

Not trying to promote an agenda. Not dismissing it as the flu either

Yeah. As I just said to Jeff, I should have worded it differently. Not sure if any numbers have been determined for affects beyond 90 or so days after being diagnosed. But signs seem to be pointing to that happening for many. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/brain-fog-heart-damage-covid-19-s-lingering-problems-alarm-scientists

Yeah... I probably should have worded it differently... I have not seen definitive percentages etc, but it appears that there are more people suffering effects of this for long periods of time than dying. Survival rate is of course very high for most age groups. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30701-5/fulltext

Much higher numbers of people with long term health issues after “recovering” from the ‘Vid though. Heart, lungs.

A couple of weeks old, but there is a theory (not a study) that mask wearing may act as a quasi-vaccine. Interesting https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200909/could-your-mask-be-a-kind-of-vaccine-against-covid-19 Similar articles abound. original NEJM article. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913

Excess mortality is a good measure. It’s a pretty heinous illness and has killed 200k people. To say those people would have died anyway would apply to any pandemic. This is up there with some of the worst we have encountered in the US. And that number is with social distancing, masks, stay at homes etc and modern medical care. https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/09/01/comorbidities-and-coronavirus-deaths-cdc/

I’m sure there will be more but it seems to be somewhat rare at this point. Hopefully our immune systems can squash a second infection.

There have only been two documented reinfections, maybe this is a third. Of the millions of infections, these reinfections don't even move the needle. Time will tell though, but I think we would have heard of more cases if it were a big problem. Yeah The two others were confirmed RE infections via genetic analysis or something.

You're not doing it right...

Our guy has been offering a decent number of older films for cheap prices.We booked it for under $100 but we will buy lots of snacks to help him out. 25 maximum people per theater. If there is something you want to see that he isn't offering he will make attempts to work a deal with the distributors. There will just be 8 of us in the theater for this one. He has been selling popcorn, candy, etc since back in April or so to try to stay open. We have eaten a ton of popcorn!

Our local cinema has been allowing small private showings of films for a number of weeks. I just booked a screen to show Empire Strikes Back for my family for next Saturday.... a 40 year old film that I own in several formats

I dont think I have ever seen bugs like that before

2020 can go suck it