Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus

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I have a N95 and wear another cloth mask over it.
I thought an N95 filtered out everything.

One of my Retireds is from Information Security. We accepted it as a given that no defense would be perfect so it was considered routine to practice Defense in Depth. It appears to me the same concept applies to the Pandemic.

I've been thinking about that. I have an event to go to soon...it's outdoors I think, but it's still going to be quite a few people, and I'm a bit worried.

I’d wear a N95 and a face shield and stand well away from people.

Point of information : the Corona viru families of which Sats- Co-V2 is a member are unusual among RNA virus because they Do have proof reading enzymes.

Variation rates are slower than other viruses (Influenza springs to mind) giving adaptive immunity a better chance to play catch up with evolution in the virus.

It appears to be the case that the various variants manage a degree of escape from, for example, antibodies induced by catching and surviving the disease, but fare less well at evading antibodies and T-cells induced by vaccination.

What is becoming clear is that in places with high levels of vaccination, the numbers of people and percentage of people testing positive For Infection ending up in hospital or dead are very small, while in places where vaccination uptake has been low, the number of people ending up in hospital are high and business is still good for the undertaker.

Events of real life are confirming the results of the trials of the successful vaccines : they have induced immunity which gives very good protection against serious illness and death.

You are correct just read a paper on it. It's because covids RNA genome is quite large by viral measures.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21593585/

I meant the only thing that will protect you for 100 percent is a fully sealed gas mask with a charcoal filter. Yes a paper or cloth mask is much more for the protection of others as in keeping your germs to yourself.

Austin, Texas, activates emergency alert system as COVID crisis reaches "critical" point

Nurse shortage comes as COVID cases surge again in Houston


Baby with COVID-19 airlifted 150 miles because of hospital bed shortage


Covid vaccine mandates sweep across corporate America as delta variant spurs action

Ive heard it's going to be really bad come Fall/Winter, and a lot of nurses are planning to find other jobs before then.

It's going to be a mess.


That's what happened to my GF. She kept trying to call Tyson back, and when she finally got through, they had raised their pay by $3 and said they require vaccines now.

This was not mentioned in the article but I wonder how many nurses are saying no more because of not only dealing with what nurses have to deal with during a surge, and not only the personal risk to themselves, but go through that and putting myself and my family at risk to help people that deliberately put themselves in this situation?



More than a dozen large U.S. corporations, including Walmart, Google, Tyson Foods, and United Airlines, have recently announced vaccine mandates for some or all of their workers.

Demand outpaced availability until the Johnson and Johnson pause whereby demand cratered. No amount of persuasion, no amount of you have got to get weekly test requirments would persuade. The skeptics knew that as far as mask mandates and social distancing are concerned it is difficult and costly so it will be the vaccinated complying and them ignoring the mandates and laughing at the wusses". It is only now that companies are deciding vaccines is an employment requirement that the vaccination rates are going up. There is no "civil rights" and freedom issues here, it the companies exercising their freedom. They have decided the cost of having outbreaks among their employees was greater than the cost of enforcing a vaccine mandate. This is still going to be overly costly in money and customer loyalty for small companies to enforce. I have to wonder if this will be like before, whereby mandates created demand will work to a certain point and that point will not be enough to create herd immunity leading to long-term or lifelong preventable mitigation?

We have only eight ICU beds left in the whole state.
This will be awful if there is a mass casualty event.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnew ... utchinson/

I guess in some places the number of ICU beds might be less relevant because you'd have trouble calling for an ambulance.

The new variant is even worse.
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/v ... o-vaccines

Poe wrote a story about an arrogant prince who thought he could ignore a plague in his land. I think it's particularly relevent now.

I think it's a little bit of everything.

Plus, I know when West Michigan had all of its hospitals at max capacity, a lot of workers were catching Covid and having to stay home...so they were understaffed and overworked, everyone was so tired, and they had to bring help in from other states/countries. They were offering HUGE incentives for people to come work for them. It got so bad that they started letting sick people come in to work (if they felt well enough to work), but they had to stay isolated with the Covid patients.