Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[ADevilYouKhow]

Probably not. He seemed hesitant to talk about the vaccine other than it saved his life.

Crazy that this has had an outsized impact on the black community and there aren’t more prominent black people advocating for vaccines

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[Yapdatfool]

Crazy that this has had an outsized impact on the black community and there aren’t more prominent black people advocating for vaccines

Black people by in large don't want the vaccines (covid aint the only one we don't want either) and are very loud in saying so. One of my family members is one of them.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

China decides not to sell Olympics tickets to the Chinese public.

 

[Wild self]

An overlooked consequence of COVID-19: The hundreds of thousands of orphans left behind

An overlooked consequence of COVID-19: The hundreds of thousands of orphans left behind

Nearly 2 million people lost a parent during COVID

 

[Serious]

Unvaccinated people increasingly the target of financial penalties

Some people who remain unvaxed against Covid-19 are going to have to budget that decision in along with groceries, car insurance, and the heating bill.

Look no further than Novak Djokovic, whose career is on the verge of being derailed because he is unvaccinated. The tennis star left potential winnings of $3.3 million on the table when he was blocked from playing in the Australian Open due to his vaccination status. But that’s just the beginning of his professional concerns:

• It’s not clear how Djok can play in the French Open, the next Grand Slam tournament on the schedule, since the country just passed a new law that requires proof of vaccination for anyone at venues like sports arenas and restaurants. The UK and the US, which are hosting the final two majors of the year (Wimbledon and the US Open), also have tough restrictions on unvaccinated people.
• Lacoste, the apparel brand that sponsors Djokovic, said it would “review the events” surrounding his rejection by Australia. Djokovic is the 46th highest-paid athlete in the world, bringing in roughly $30 million in endorsements a year.

But tennis star or otherwise, unvaccinated people around the world are increasingly being hit by financial penalties as governments try to boost lagging vax rates. A quick roundup...

Greece: Beginning Sunday, unvaccinated people in Greece aged 60 and over will have to pay a monthly fine of €50 ($57), a penalty that’ll be doubled in February. “It’s the price to pay for health,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.

Austria: The government is planning to slap all unvaccinated adults with fines of up to $4,108 beginning in mid-March.

Canada: The Quebec government announced last week that unvaccinated adults will soon have to pay a financial penalty. Quebec’s premier said the policy was a “question of fairness” for the 90% of Quebec adults who are vaccinated.

The US: President Biden’s vax-or-test mandate for large employers, which could have led to fines up to $136,000, was struck down by the Supreme Court last week. Still, a number of corporations have implemented some form of “no-vax tax” on employees anyway: Delta is charging unvaccinated staff on its health plan an extra $200/month, and Kroger eliminated paid leave for unvaxed employees who get Covid.—NF

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/s...le-increasingly-target-of-financial-penalties

 

[Serious]

Both my nephews are sick. Told my sister them boys sound like they have Covid and she . It's just a cold. Meanwhile my little nephew coughing up a lung and I'm that is Covid . She also didn't mention they were sick til after I got there.

Were they vaccinated, is the question

 

[TheDarceKnight]

LMAOOOOOOOO

Guaranteed if what they read was in Joe Rogan’s favor he wouldn’t have questioned the source.
Pay attention to how he picked the website HIMSELF, then proceeded to questioned its validity after it went AGAINST his beliefs and he immediately moved the goalposts to mask the embarrassment

• Cognitive dissonance:
The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the mental discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes.

Anti-vaxxers in a nuthshells

this is crazy too

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Black people by in large don't want the vaccines (covid aint the only one we don't want either) and are very loud in saying so. One of my family members is one of them.

Sad that we’re loud and proud about blind ignorance. Letting the white man destroy the community through disinformation this time

 

[88m3]

More NYC School Students Are Being Tested For COVID-19, But Gaps Remain — Here’s What The Data Shows

 

[Ku$h Parker]

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[88m3]

NYS Health Department Recalls 250,000 Free Masks Given To Teachers And Libraries

wtf

 

[mastermind]

Biden officials divided on message over N95 masks for all

Inside the White House, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has been among those pushing for more widespread distribution of the N95 masks, including mailing one to every American, the person involved in the conversations said. But others, including CDC officials, have pushed back on the idea of a mass distribution of N95 masks, the person said.

The debate marks the latest point of division among Biden's top health officials. Last month, Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, appeared to contradict updated guidelines from the CDC that said infected people could leave isolation after five days without a negative Covid test. There was disagreement over the summer over how widely booster shots should be made available and when, with Biden's top medical advisers breaking with career Food and Drug Administration officials.

 

[88m3]

Jair Bolsonaro’s scorn for data leaves Brazil in the dark

 

[88m3]

Nebraska Republican tests positive for COVID-19 in latest congressional breakthrough case