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all they'd have to do is just changed vaxxed to immunized and we'd be good with pretty much whatev. As it stands, I'm ok with non legal mandates... If NYC wants to fire all its public employees that don't get jabbed, sucks for those folks but hey, a roofer's personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.

Absolutely don't mean this personally but just as we need data for (likely erroneous) claims like vaccines are killing folks, causing infertility, etc., etc., we need data for this too. Here's some for example. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1005517/Technical_Briefing_19.pdf Very up to date stats, no editorializing, from England showing that individuals with one or more jabs were responsible for >30% of recent infections (~10% 2 jabs + 2 weeks) whereas all possible reinfection cases are 1.2%, with actually confirmed reinfections a third of that. I have an open mind here, but I certainly don't give media and politicians the benefit of the doubt if they aren't going to have the courtesy to point us to the studies that suggest reinfection risk is notable compared to the post vaccine risk.

please do link

Sick rotation aloft, most pronounced I've seen arouns here in a while. High LCLs and no big rain cloud to obscure it helps.

unclear how things will hold together over the next hour but that reflectivity core east of PSF is a beast

good velocities showing up on the UMass radar, even down low on approach.

I presume there was quite a lot of backlog from the year plus that everything was on hold

that 2nd link appears to all be from last winter

Lol

Lots of studies came out showing higher/longer lasting antibody counts in the blood with the vaccines than with natural immunity. But the actual cohort studies are not bearing out numbers suggesting natural immunity is faring worse... The opposite really. There have been hypotheses of other aspects of immunity and/or antibody production on demand.

No. And the testing high for antibodies is irrelevent. The vaccinated are doing far worse with delta than those with natural immunity*. Edit-* with respect to contracting it, not outcomes. Neither group is having bad outcomes for the most part

The cause in this example would probably be given as complications from cancer, which would actually be a decent parallel here. If your point is that some deaths chalked up to covid were as much or more related to comorbidities, then ok I concur.

Covid seems to attack natural defense mechanisms against bacterial pneumonia and make you more susceptable. I saw a research paper suggesting that up to a third of the hospital deaths may have been related to such. Calling it a covid death is probably fair.

broken sensor? Anyway, looks like a true corker on tap, finally. Enjoy folks. We beach.

https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/gis/watchwarn.phtml

Not sure if a secondary front just pushed through but winds kicked up out of the north off quabbin and that dry air feels magnificent. Coming back from CA to OVC and damp sucked.

looks like a nice hail profile for interior SE MA

Speed Queen FTW

Quabbin earlier

Quabbin spillway flowing again, which is fairly unusual in July.

If you calculated these as a percentage of month days with snow I think Feb passes Dec, but Jan is still the peak.

Didn't want to get back on the plane this morning, but did at least get a birds eye view of the pyrocumulus we could see on the horizon yesterday. Fortunately the air quality was pretty good this week.

Insane. The Swift river must have gone over its banks because that road abuts it. If we should get another 3" today it's going to be fooking awful.

Have no idea what we'll come home to find. Just ridiculous.