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Post by Kye on Feb 3, 2021 13:43:06 GMT
We're still in lockdown here in Montreal with an 8 pm curfew, but my daughter in Rimouski is now able to go to restaurants and gyms. Lucky her!
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Post by Moose on Feb 4, 2021 0:41:51 GMT
No curfew here but lockdown and schools are closed .
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Feb 5, 2021 6:31:42 GMT
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Post by Mari on Feb 5, 2021 6:31:42 GMT
Curfew. That's the word I was looking for a few posts ago. Ours remains in place. It looks like Girl can't celebrate her 2nd birthday this year. Last year we celebrated the week before the 1st lockdown. At that point no one thought covid was that bad in our country yet.
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Post by ceptimus on Feb 8, 2021 15:34:44 GMT
South Africa has halted the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine, because a trial has revealed that the vaccine provides "minimal protection" against mild to moderate cases. They still hope it might provide some protection against severe cases. BBC NewsBoris Johnson's half-measures and late quarantine program means that the South African strain of the virus is probably already endemic in the UK. BBC NewsThe natural conclusion to take from those two stories, is that as soon as lockdown measures are relaxed the new vaccine-resistant strain will quickly become the dominant one, and we'll be suffering continued lockdowns until next winter when new variants of the vaccine that protect against the new strain begin to be rolled out. It looks as though the vaccine manufacturers will forever be playing catch-up against a rapidly evolving virus. Right now, it looks doubtful that we'll ever be rid of coronavirus protection measures.
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Feb 8, 2021 21:37:05 GMT
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Post by Elis on Feb 8, 2021 21:37:05 GMT
I have to admit I'm struggling to see a perspective (not that the German government is giving us one with their way of making decisions every two weeks or so, for the following two weeks, but apparently no long term plan in any way) and I'm beginning to wonder if this is what the upcoming decades will look like. And I'm grateful to have my little family because that feels like samll, happy bubble where things are OK. Am also wondering when (if) we will see my parents in law again. I miss them a lot!
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 10, 2021 0:35:09 GMT
So, I see the good Farther did not post her news here, but she's been shot up.
Me? I just locked in my appointment for my first dose. I'm slated on St. Paddy's Day to go all mRNA on the Covids.
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Post by tangent on Mar 10, 2021 0:48:54 GMT
I have to admit I'm struggling to see a perspective... and I'm beginning to wonder if this is what the upcoming decades will look like. Yeah, it is a struggle but I'm sure it won't be like that in future years. As a society, we will gradually gain some immunity to new variants and with emerging treatments it will handled pretty much like flu. Not something to be feared.
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Post by tangent on Mar 10, 2021 0:50:17 GMT
Me? I just locked in my appointment for my first dose. I'm slated on St. Paddy's Day to go all mRNA on the Covids. That's good to hear.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 10, 2021 2:05:06 GMT
I have to admit I'm struggling to see a perspective... and I'm beginning to wonder if this is what the upcoming decades will look like. Yeah, it is a struggle but I'm sure it won't be like that in future years. As a society, we will gradually gain some immunity to new variants and with emerging treatments it will handled pretty much like flu. Not something to be feared. "...with emerging treatments it will handled pretty much like flu." The best 'emerging treatments' for 'the flu' are...cover your mouth, keep your distance, wash your hands. The Covid-19 protocols are prolly the best intervention ever in the struggle against 'the flu'. Masking protocols could minimize even 'the flu' and what passes for 'the common cold'.
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Post by tangent on Mar 10, 2021 19:15:26 GMT
The best 'emerging treatments' for 'the flu' are...cover your mouth, keep your distance, wash your hands ... and take Vitamin D* to make up for the lack of sunshine impinging our bodies because we wear clothes. * Vitamin D has been shown to be remarkably effective in preventing and treating Covid-19.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 10, 2021 21:05:31 GMT
The best 'emerging treatments' for 'the flu' are...cover your mouth, keep your distance, wash your hands ... and take Vitamin D* to make up for the lack of sunshine impinging our bodies because we wear clothes. * Vitamin D has been shown to be remarkably effective in preventing and treating Covid-19. That's not what recent JAMA articles are saying. www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/01/14/vitamin-d
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Post by Moose on Mar 10, 2021 23:48:39 GMT
I am not sure when we will be offered the vaccine .. I am going to try as hard as possible to get there though, even if I have to take a vallie first
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Post by tangent on Mar 10, 2021 23:59:44 GMT
*nods* very wise.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 11, 2021 0:01:12 GMT
I am not sure when we will be offered the vaccine .. I am going to try as hard as possible to get there though, even if I have to take a vallie first Well, that is to be encouraged, but if you make sure that Colin gets protected, you'd be covered until you decided to go out in to the world.
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Post by tangent on Mar 11, 2021 0:04:46 GMT
Indeed, but if Jo were to rely on Colin's vaccination, she would be reluctant to go out of the house.
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Post by tangent on Mar 11, 2021 12:51:48 GMT
Likewise, in December 2020, the British National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said that there was "no evidence" that vitamin D has a beneficial effect on preventing and/or treating Covid-19. And yet studies do exist showing significant benefits. The JAMA article grudgingly acknowledges a Spanish study that showed remarkable evidence of the benefit of administering calcifediol - the active form of vitamin D - during hospitalisation. The JAMA article acknowledges a number of studies have shown beneficial effects of vitamin D but covers itself by saying "more research is needed." Well that's original isn't it! I'm highly sceptical about statements made by various health authorities on vitamin supplements. It seems it isn't kocher to admit supplements can have any beneficial effect. It's as though they are protecting their reputations from ridicule. And yet they always add a rider, you can get all the vitamins you need from a healthy diet (or in the JAMA article's case, from the sun). Why do they feel the need to say that if no one needs supplements? It's well known that very few Britons eat healthy diets all the time and that many are deficient in at least some of the vitamins.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 18, 2021 4:10:15 GMT
Got my first jab of Covid-19 vaccine today. Pfizer. I go back April 7 for jab #2. I have injection site soreness and a slight headache.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 18, 2021 9:00:59 GMT
I have a slight headache, but I only have my jab #1 next week.
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Post by tangent on Mar 18, 2021 11:54:10 GMT
Got my first jab of Covid-19 vaccine today. Pfizer. I go back April 7 for jab #2. Great stuff
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 18, 2021 23:57:23 GMT
The injection site muscular pain is dissipating, but I'm spending much of today in something of a torpor. Sloth and indolence reigns.
But then, how is that any different than usual?
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Mar 19, 2021 0:41:43 GMT
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Post by juju on Mar 19, 2021 0:41:43 GMT
Husband has his next week, mine will be some time after that (unless they run out 🙄)
We’re a bit concerned about the clotting issue - his mother had a pulmonary embolism two weeks after her AZ jab. Coincidence? Very probably (according to the experts), although we assume her case was not considered or included in any stats.
Correlation is not causation of course, so we’ll take the jab.
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Post by tangent on Mar 19, 2021 12:09:15 GMT
Blood clots are very common. In the States, there are 900,000 every year, although the numbers are uncertain. So far, 19 million people have had the AZ job and only 40 blood clots have been reported. So I think the experts are right in saying it is most likely a coincidence. I've even heard it said that, based on the data, the AZ makes a blood clot less likely. There is some concern about very rare cerebral blood clots of which five have been reported. It is not clear there is a link with the AZ vaccine but it would still represent only a one in a million chance of getting the blood clot in the brain. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=paSknMkoCW0&t=50s with my favourite doctor, Dr John Campbell.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 19, 2021 14:53:06 GMT
The incidence of blood clots is no higher, in fact it's currently lower as tangent alluded to, among people who've had the vaccine than in the general population. But you don't hear any panic about not having the vaccine putting you at risk of blood clots.
It's not even correlation, let alone causation!
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Post by Kye on Mar 19, 2021 16:00:11 GMT
Not to mention the fact that birth control pills have a KNOWN side effect of blood clots and yet women are happy to take that chance...
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Mar 19, 2021 19:13:08 GMT
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Post by juju on Mar 19, 2021 19:13:08 GMT
Hmmm. I was all ready to be very gung-ho about this as I’ve been looking forward to us getting our jabs for weeks.
However I’ve just heard of two more people (a friend of a friend, and a friend of my sister in law) having strokes after the AZ jab. My SIL (not ever prone to exaggeration or drama, quite the opposite) was very happy to have it but has suffered some horrible side effects, and one of her friends has had a stroke within a week of her jab. I have no idea whether these events have been officially recorded as potentially linked events or not.
I really really REALLY want to think these are all coincidences. But I can’t say it hasn’t shaken me, and I’m now pretty anxious about my husband’s jab next weekend 🙁
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Post by JoeP on Mar 19, 2021 21:46:55 GMT
It's natural to be anxious. And we humans are definitely wired to spot coincidences as patterns. It's surely safer than crossing the road.
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Post by juju on Mar 19, 2021 22:08:04 GMT
I hope so. There’s no way we’d not have a jab, but as both covid and the vaccine are in their infancy it feels like we are in uncharted waters.
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Post by tangent on Mar 20, 2021 0:07:49 GMT
I understand your concern.
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Post by whollygoats on Mar 20, 2021 16:21:28 GMT
I'm still alive.
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Post by Sarah W. on Mar 22, 2021 13:32:31 GMT
If taking a low dose of aspirin is allowed, maybe do that? That should give some protection against clots in general regardless of their cause and might give you some peace of mind.
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