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Oh no, over 200 new cases...

Wife and I just got the shot. I am ecstatic. Astrazeneca from local Pharmacy. The dude at Regent Park Pharmacy was awesome. He walked us through everything, assuaged my Wife's and my own concerns. Told us what to expect and what to watch out for. Darrel is awesome!

Here is a handy poster of the new variants

That's good, but much more needs to be done.

So... vaccine hesitancy seems to be an issue with the vaccine rollout. Has anyone seen any sort of campaign to reduce the hesitancy? I haven't seen any. If that's the case that is a huge failure in the roll out... and needs to be addressed.

From what I have read, it works well against The UK variant and the P1 variant in terms of transmissibility and mild to severe symptoms. The south African variant is where things get dicey. it has a 10,9 % efficacy in preventing mild to moderate symptoms. The good news is, so far it has a track record of 100% efficacy against SEVERE symptoms. ANd that is kind of what we want to do... take the shot so we don't die. Sure there are concerns, but the benefits FAR outweigh the miniscule chance of clots. https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-56665396 Handy little chart here: Here are few more articles: https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/news/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-blood-clot/ https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-benefits-still-outweigh-risks-despite-possible-link-rare-blood-clots

Regent Park Pharmacy has two appointments open this afternoon. Regent Ave W, Winnipeg, MB R2C 1S3 Phone: (204) 222-3257

Just got an appointment for my Wife and myself for tomorrow morning. Called the pharmacy.

Did you call or use the online appointment?

Most police officers and support still want to do good. Are good people. The issue is that "Blue Line", there needs to be systemic change. First off, they need to redivert funds for the police- basically unbundling the police. Take the burden of councilor, social worker and so on, off of policing duties and refocus on where actual police duties need to be. here is a great article on "unbundling the police" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/unbundle-police/612913/ “Two questions that could guide the reform movement are ‘What is it that police actually do?’ and ‘Why do we need armed police to do it?’” says Patrick Sharkey, a Princeton sociologist. Sharkey is no police-hating radical. He has worked with commissioners across the country, and his research has shown that targeted policing can be effective in reducing crime, especially in the most violent neighborhoods. But he thinks communities ought to experiment with alternative models to policing. “Police presence can reduce violence, but there are lots of other things that reduce violence, too. Business improvement districts reduce violence. University security organizations reduce violence. It’s possible that relying on police isn’t as necessary as we once thought, and that we might even have safer communities without many of them.”

I totally agree with this being the case.

Good for them. I hope we are soon behind.

In case anyone wanted to see the ****** carlson take down on last week tonight:

The pained looks she gives is too funny.

this? https://abc7chicago.com/covid-chidlren-variant-coroanvirus-coronavirus-vaccine/10486843/ "Osterholm previously supported sending children back to school. He said the virus was not a major threat to children. Now, the situation has changed. "Please understand, this B.1.1.7 variant is a brand new ball game," Osterholm said on NBC's Meet the Press. "It infects kids very readily. Unlike previous strains of the virus, we didn't see children under 8th grade get infected often or they were not frequently very ill, they didn't transmit to the rest of the community."

I think Dr. Seuss touched upon that one:

I see your local white supremist law enforcement that donates to white nationalist shooter and raise you white nationalist federal law makers forming a white nationalist caucus in the US congress: I see they've put down the dog whistle... picked up a bull horn, turned it to 11 and are now repeatedly shouting "COME GET YOUR KIBBLES AND BITZ!!!!"

Looks like a fun romp.

Not conclusive proof, but something to consider.

This. so much this.

To underscore your point, here is an article about an officer that was fired in 2008 for stopping another officer from choking a handcuffed suspect: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/us/buffalo-officer-reinstated-trnd/index.html "The officer, Cariol Horne, was fired following a 2006 incident in which she tried to stop an officer from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect. Horne served on the Buffalo police force for 19 of the 20 years required to receive a pension. "The message was sent that you don't cross that blue line and so some officers -- many officers don't," Horne said in a 2020 interview with CNN's Brianna Keilar. "I had five children and I lost everything but [the suspect] did not lose his life," Horne said then. "So, if I have nothing else to live for in life, at least I can know that I did the right thing and that [he] still breathes." I honestly wonder what would have happened if one of the other officers actually spoke up and forced Chauvin off of Floyd- I suspect that he would have a lot fewer friends in the department and probably reprimanded and would be an outcast...

To me, it feels more like the exposition of some dystopian sci-fi survival film. Maybe in a flashback on how it all started... then flash forward to present day in the movie...

Teah... yeah that the Bolsonaro (P1) variant is the one I have been dreading. That **** is nasty and is going to muck up any plans to going back to normal. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/brazils-p1-coronavirus-variant-mutating-may-become-more-dangerous-study-2021-04-14/ "Naveca said the changes appeared to be similar to the mutations seen in the even more aggressive South African variant, against which studies have shown some vaccines have substantially reduced efficacy. "This is particularly worrying because the virus is continuing to accelerate in its evolution," he added. Studies have shown the P1 variant to be as much as 2.5 times more contagious than the original coronavirus and more resistant to antibodies." A little information on the variants and where they come from: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55659820

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