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Vulnerable and quadruple jabbed yet I still got COVID – politicalbetting.com
Vulnerable and quadruple jabbed yet I still got COVID – politicalbetting.com
Quite a number of PBers have been contacting me to ask how I am after reporting here during the Easter weekend that I had contracted COVID. Well it took just over a week but I am pretty much over it now. My wife still has it and remains infectious.
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Glad you’re better.
I'm not sure our expectations were over-stated. In fact, they were very much under-stated at the beginning of the pandemic. Indeed, that's why our experts ****** up so spectacularly.
It remains a nasty virus that I would really rather not catch. This country's approach is far too lax.
A couple of things. Masks have pretty much vanished. Also, I assumed there must be something on at the O2. Not many people got off at North Greenwich. They were all going to Westfield for shopping. Cost of living crisis? What crisis?
Our experience in the north east is pretty similar. It is incredibly rare you see a mask. Even on public transport. I’ve been to my GPS a couple of times recently and that is the only place I’ve wore a mask.
COVID seems pretty much done and dusted to people. Whether that stays the case we shall see.
Abortion now heading for illegality in the US, Trump endorsing candidates and The Daily Mail doing everything possible to re-elect Boris, even if it means daily lies. I find myself less and less in sync with the west.
p.s. people do their shopping just after pay day
US politics is going to get even uglier.
https://covid.joinzoe.com/
Fortunately where I live lots of people still wear masks: roughly half in shops.
I don't want to catch this as I too am vulnerable.
Which it does. Life is pretty much like it was pre covid.
We have to learn to live with it.
- wear them all the time, including while outside and when no-one else is near (15% of people)
- never where them, even if in an incredibly poorly ventilated place with lots of people (83% of people)
And then there are 2% of people (inluding... errr.. me...) who will wear one when it seems higher risk, and will not the rest of the time.
Very few masks in the streets of our small town. Still restrictions in health related premises, though; pharmacy has restrictions, when one phones the surgery one is told not to actually come unless one has an appointment. Not sure about the dentist, but I'll find out next week!
Quite a lot (for us) of people visited our little museum yesterday, though. Maskless.
Re Roe v Wade, it has been widely seen as a poor (in terms of legal reasoning) judgement. Even Ginsburg recognised that.
Guys:
(a) it's sunny, and sunlight kills Covid
(b) it's Los Angeles! You'll next pass another pedestrian on Thursday.
There is basically zero chance any of these people will catch Covid. Outdoor. In LA.
* Pavement, damn it
Glad you’re recovering Mike, and hope your wife recovers soon. Three cheers for the vaccines, that have managed to turn something deadly into something manageable.
Pavement is the stuff the sidewalk is made of
On the other hand, I can't help feel this is may be a Pyrrhic victory, creating far more Democrat voters in November than would otherwise be the case.
If you want to wear a mask then that is your choice and talking of being vulnerable I am extremely vulnerable due to my age and health conditions but I am not paranoid about it
Numbers in my hospital have plummeted. On Friday we had 70, it weas 450 about 6 weeks ago.
"NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin shared his plans to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with Hungarian authorities."
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1521224095848927233
Although sadly it makes some sense. Hungary is covetously eyeing up some of Ukraine's territory. If true, how long before we start asking whether Hungary should remain in the EU and NATO?
And it has been settled law for half a century.
*was..... seems better lately.
Mr. NorthWales, she's annoyed she wasn't invited?
Can't get my head around that.
Here's the brutal truth about this abortion thing. The hard right wing of the Republican Party are obsessed about life right up until the point of birth. Then it flips the other way and they do everything they can to deny the person decent education, healthcare, rights, jobs. Its as if they want a nation of drones to be born for them to profit from...
I’d trust the guardian as much as I’d trust the Mail.
Well now - isn't that always the case when you have rights embodied in a constitution? That there are some rights which are inalienable and inherent in the very fact of being human which cannot be taken away by any vote.
If a democratic vote is the only and final determining factor, then presumably it would be ok - if voters chose this - to deprive women of the vote or black people or to make homosexuality illegal or to make it illegal to vote for a particular political party etc.
There is always a tension between democracy and the idea of fundamental rights. But the argument that only those rights granted on the basis of popular support are valid is wrong and dangerous. After all, there are plenty of examples of really quite vile policies and deprivation of rights being very popular indeed.
As for the "rooted in history" argument, this is so much baloney. The right to vote has not been rooted in history. It is quite a relatively recent innovation. The right to own slaves OTOH goes back to time immemorial. The legal reasoning in Roe v Wade may not be up to much but if this is what replaces it, it does not seem to be an improvement.
What is also worrying, if the reports are to be believed, is the attack on two cases which advanced gay rights. Attack the Voting Rights Act which made sure black people were not denied the vote. Then women. Then gay people.
Despite all this hissing and clucking over this particular issue, the available evidence is that modern democracies where abortion is banned (eg Ireland until recently) have very low rates of illegal abortion, and almost zero resultant maternal deaths.
If that is a fake - and no one has claimed it is - it's an extraordinarily detailed and convincing one.
"Rooted in history" has no real legal basis either - it's just a preference of a particular justice to recognise only the rights which were thought important a couple of centuries back.
I would like to understand the legal basis for saying that the US government cannot mandate the wearing of a mask to prevent harm to others but can mandate that a woman must give birth against her wishes and despite any risks to her health.
Let's hope that this is not the final decision.
And @SouthamObserver we only need to look at our own country's politics to see that womens' lives and rights don't matter, not as much as they should and certainly not as much as mens.
It's been a few decades since the Republicans worked out that they could flip a significant block of votes based on this issue.
Care about the North East? He doesn't even know where he is.
Bring a map to your next photo op @BorisJohnson. https://twitter.com/LabourNorth/status/1521216686535450628/photo/1
If the voters in those states want to elect representatives who will do that why shouldn’t they be permitted to do so?
The UK has no real understanding of proper federalism
But it's a possible campaign idea I suppose.
What I struggle to comprehend is how people vote for this. Vaginas are dangerous so we read in the UK and at least some Americans have them. Why would you vote to remove your own rights? To risk bleeding to death in agony (as @Cyclefree and Mrs RP have both said this morning). To subjugate your own gender - or at least your wives and daughters?
I do what I can to empower my daughter and to shape the world so that she can be all that she wants to be. The idea of raising her to be some man's property and saying "if you are raped it's God's will" is just crazy.
So do they do it because they genuinely believe in the non-rights of women? Or because they have been raised to hate liberals so hard that they will remove their own rights just to do them over?
And the democracy/states rights thing is tricky, as I'm sure you know really. Some things that could get 50% + 1 vote just aren't on. Especially when it's a majority being unpleasant to an outcaste minority.
After all, using the reasoning in the leaked decision, blacks having the right to vote is hardly rooted in history in the US. Why is that not as much of a "phony right" as the other rights criticised by this draft judgment?
And if they should not be permitted to do so, on what basis do you say this?
Sigh ..... https://twitter.com/advollyr/status/1520747025981231105?s=21&t=ZOlqwlFpfvSLznps6m_S0A
Although I cannot say I have seen or heard of anyone too bothered, outside political circles, on the Tyneside/Teesside thing.
It’s not like when IDS went to Nissan and praised Newcastle United.
And Bush, of course, appointed Alito.
We can pretty much predict that a few lone voices will try to deflect these - we can't pass judgement on Boris being fined by the police until the other police conduct a new investigation and fine Starmer. But nobody will care by then. The din of the people demanding the crook be removed from office will be deafening.
This sounds incredible but compare the war on drugs, a senior member of Nixon's government is on record as saying it was just a proxy for a war on black people
https://twitter.com/technopopulist/status/1521122232097021953?s=21&t=cTVgar1NfQtvogk2F1iNDA
Whether you personally want to catch it or not is neither here nor there, unless you lock yourself at home and never leave it for the rest of your life the chances are you're going to catch it.
In Mike's case the vaccine worked, it did its job. Preventing "cases" isn't the purpose of the vaccine, preventing hospitalisation and death is. I'm glad that Mike is OK and that the vaccine did its job for him. 💉👍
Heathener, it is utterly unreasonable for you to expect restrictions on other people's liberties including masks, in order to prevent a spread of a virus that is going to spread anyway and which everyone vulnerable has already been offered four vaccines for.
As per observation in from Smithson the Younger in El Lay, here in Seattle % of people taking the Middle Way with masking is higher than 2%, at least in my very Woke neighborhood. In local big grocery store, would guess maybe 35%-40% still masked. Higher in smaller shops particularly where staff is masked. For me, and many others, feeling of solidarity with owners & workers of these places is part of the equation.
My personal practice is similar to RCS perhaps slightly more as I am a) approaching OGH's age cohort with several risk factors; and b) kind of guy who wears belt AND suspenders (actually visa versa).