SouthCoastMA

66°. Nicer than yesterday

Catpaws at the moment. But also some blue sky..weird times.

Wow - it's snowing here. Wasn't expecting that. 

Just now, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Heavy heavy rain for se mass.:.. we take 

Pretty sure that EURO run would give you several inches. We'll need more evidence at 12z.  

That run gave me serious FOMO. Might as well keep trending a bit further east 

I though the hires gem turned at bit interesting at 6z too

6 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

You’re a trooper, GL. Tell us how it went in the golf thread.

39 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

That pic is kinda close but needs more skinny meth/opioid look.

Well we can stick with GoT

5 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

No way many parents are going to inject their kids with an EUA vaccine for a disease that doesn’t even affect them. Adults can get vaccinated and be safe without needing kids to get the vaccine.

I tend to agree with this..at least in the near term. I know they are doing trials on 6 month olds, but I'm going to pass on this for my 3 year old whenever it gets EU approved. 

2 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

This is going to make more people not wanting to get any vaccine and halt the opening process.

Yes because some will just read the headline or 1st tweet and use it to justify their hesitation in general, unfortunately. There is no nuance any more. Dumbest time to be alive

"Due to the unique treatment required for the extremely rare side effect found in 6 cases, this has not been fully communicated to healthcare providers, and thus we are temporary halting the JJ vaccine until this treatment can be more thoroughly explained" would have been better messaging.

"Until that process is complete, we are recommending this pause. This is important to ensure that the health care provider community is aware of the potential for these adverse events and can plan due to the unique treatment required with this type of blood clot."

It's a temporary pause until the treatment needed is understood by providers. 

34 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

NAM is even worse and farther SW. It’s not done moving west yet. We hang. Stein pulls noose tight , kicks the chair out from under 

Prior to the act, carves "Stein" in the wooden beam above. 

Fav local players: Ortiz, Martinez, Bird, Brady

Honorable Mention: Bergeron, Pierce

1 minute ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Greatest show on Turf w Isaac Bruce . I really liked the Kurt Warner story 

Manny was my Favorite hitter , him and Clutch Ortiz back to back was something special

Steroid Era: Barry Bonds was one of a hundred plus hitters juiced and he was head and shoulders above everyone else at age 38

Yeah Manny is probably in the top 5 greatest hitters that ever played, steroids or not. I really miss those days

40 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Sports ...Anyone 

most underrated NBA players 

Stockton and Rodman come to mind 

Favorite NFL WR’s 

Moss - beat speed and feet ever 

 

Underrated NBA: Chris Mullen

Fav NFL WR: Marvin Harrison, Moss, Bruce

Fav Steroid Era MLB: Bagwell, Piazza, Griffey

Hope it's wrong, but probably not. I'd be surprised if we get past 60%

America may be close to hitting vaccine wall

MASS's numbers just came out. They really do seem like they have plateaued regarding cases, hospitalizations. And deaths keep declining. 

Record number of vaccinations in Mass today: 112,933 - 1st time over 100K. 

17 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Nope. In the last two weeks our cases keep going up. While we're only 17% fully vaccinated you'd like to see the opposite trend. Whatever the reason (less social distancing, people not gaf, etc), it sure makes the anti-vaxers ammunition to say what's the point of getting the vaccine when cases keep going up.

The cases are rising among the 0-29 demos, they represent nearly 45% of the cases in MA now. A vast majority of that age group is unvaccinated, so it's not entirely unexpected given the variants increased transmissibility

That anti vaxxer stance makes no sense either..unless tons of people who were recently vaccinated are getting sick as well. We just simply aren't there yet. I'm guessing we'll need to be above 50% vaccinations to start seeing notable declines

Just now, PhineasC said:

I don't like the Israel comparison. They are basically a police-state with literal border walls and checkpoints all over the place. Also very tiny country.

Right but those conditions might be the best way to test how well a vaccine is working..in a relatively controlled environment. The wildcard is obviously the amount of variants present there. If the SA and P1/P2 variants aren't prevalent there, it may be moot. 

Look at Israel. They are ahead of us by over a month and a half, so we are on the same trajectory. They had similar spikes at during the early stages of vaccination - but look to have mostly squashed it. Now if they start having cases increase again, that would be a big red flag

1 minute ago, BuffaloWeather said:

I agree, but the full FDA approval would most likely be based on the initial vaccine given, any other boosters would likely need further authorization? In all my research it seems the variants are not that far off from the original strain and any infection if it does happen results in minimal issues. In my opinion the media is fear mongering with the variants causing an entire new wave of covid. This virus is toast come summertime. 

I tend to agree with this

They are already working on boosters apparently. 

"While the majority of the population develops full immunity within 14 days of completion of their vaccine series, a small proportion appear to take longer to mount a full antibody response"

also, would be interesting to see which vaccines they had.

2 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

And they probably aren't even that effective in the real world across millions of people, especially if those people stop masking and distancing.

Yeah, across extremely large sample sizes..it would almost be shocking if there weren't a handful.