Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9201737/Coronavirus-infections-plummeted-30-three-weeks.html

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:My dad tested positive on January 6 and has been on a ventilator for 15 days due to COVID-19 pneumonia and the extensive damage to his lungs. He's having a tracheotomy today to replace the traditional ventilator, which will hopefully lead to a faster weaning process. He's 59, in pretty good shape, and had no pre-existing conditions. The doctors said he about a 20-30 percent chance of surviving two weeks ago, but he has been holding steady since. We are hopeful he will recover in the next few weeks based on the progress he's made.

This thing is scary, completely unpredictable, and the recovery for those who have the most severe symptoms is long and grueling.

Yup. My brother caught it and he is in a very bad way too.

Same history as your father except he is only 35.

Thankfully, things started to turn around for him on Monday and he is slowly improving.

My father, sister-in-law and neices have it too but they are doing fine.

Jorge wrote:The Russian vaccine is safe and 92% effective: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55900622

This is great news for me because that's the vaccine that the Argentinian government is importing. I was considering traveling to Colombia to get the Pfizer vaccine instead but I'm more at ease now

Peeps wrote:

Jorge wrote:The Russian vaccine is safe and 92% effective: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55900622

This is great news for me because that's the vaccine that the Argentinian government is importing. I was considering traveling to Colombia to get the Pfizer vaccine instead but I'm more at ease now

Alexey Navalny gives it two thumbs down

96583UP wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Jorge wrote:The Russian vaccine is safe and 92% effective: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55900622

This is great news for me because that's the vaccine that the Argentinian government is importing. I was considering traveling to Colombia to get the Pfizer vaccine instead but I'm more at ease now

Alexey Navalny gives it two thumbs down

amazing what science can achieve when you hack other nations’ computers and steal their intellectual property

simple schoolboy wrote:

96583UP wrote:

Peeps wrote:

Jorge wrote:The Russian vaccine is safe and 92% effective: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55900622

This is great news for me because that's the vaccine that the Argentinian government is importing. I was considering traveling to Colombia to get the Pfizer vaccine instead but I'm more at ease now

Alexey Navalny gives it two thumbs down

amazing what science can achieve when you hack other nations’ computers and steal their intellectual property

Nah, they have their own pharma/ vaccine industry, no need to steal anything. I think Sputnik is a more conventional vaccine than the mRNA ones, so probably easier to store.

Higgs wrote:First community transmission case in 10 months today. Straight into 5 day lock down.

Here in Western Australia we were getting waay too complacent. Not certain this isn't a needed reminder.

Quarantine hotel worker, uber driver. Had been using the contact tracing app etc. Looks like the UK strain.

Hopefully not too much spread but we'll see I guess. We have to mask up after 6pm tonight for the first time since this all began.

Let's see how we go.

Simple Torture wrote:My wife's niece got COVID and her first symptom was puking on camera during her 1st-grade distance learning.

knee tunes wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:My wife's niece got COVID and her first symptom was puking on camera during her 1st-grade distance learning.

Why isn't she your niece ?

Simple Torture wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:My wife's niece got COVID and her first symptom was puking on camera during her 1st-grade distance learning.

Why isn't she your niece ?

This is a weird thing I have, I don't know if other people think this way. If someone's not related to me by blood, I wouldn't call them "my niece/nephew." My wife has three nieces, and they all call me "Uncle ST," but in my mind they're not my nieces. Same with my nephew--in my mind he's my nephew, not my wife's, even though she's "Auntie ST's wife" (my kids are my brother's niece/nephew's, but not my sister-in-law's, etc.). Is that weird? Do other people not refer to their family that way?

Simple Torture wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:My wife's niece got COVID and her first symptom was puking on camera during her 1st-grade distance learning.

Why isn't she your niece ?

This is a weird thing I have, I don't know if other people think this way. If someone's not related to me by blood, I wouldn't call them "my niece/nephew." My wife has three nieces, and they all call me "Uncle ST," but in my mind they're not my nieces. Same with my nephew--in my mind he's my nephew, not my wife's, even though she's "Auntie ST's wife" (my kids are my brother's niece/nephew's, but not my sister-in-law's, etc.). Is that weird? Do other people not refer to their family that way?

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:My wife's niece got COVID and her first symptom was puking on camera during her 1st-grade distance learning.

Why isn't she your niece ?

This is a weird thing I have, I don't know if other people think this way. If someone's not related to me by blood, I wouldn't call them "my niece/nephew." My wife has three nieces, and they all call me "Uncle ST," but in my mind they're not my nieces. Same with my nephew--in my mind he's my nephew, not my wife's, even though she's "Auntie ST's wife" (my kids are my brother's niece/nephew's, but not my sister-in-law's, etc.). Is that weird? Do other people not refer to their family that way?

Yeah I'm the same way

Birds in Hell wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:My wife's niece got COVID and her first symptom was puking on camera during her 1st-grade distance learning.

Why isn't she your niece ?

This is a weird thing I have, I don't know if other people think this way. If someone's not related to me by blood, I wouldn't call them "my niece/nephew." My wife has three nieces, and they all call me "Uncle ST," but in my mind they're not my nieces. Same with my nephew--in my mind he's my nephew, not my wife's, even though she's "Auntie ST's wife" (my kids are my brother's niece/nephew's, but not my sister-in-law's, etc.). Is that weird? Do other people not refer to their family that way?

Yeah I'm the same way

Me too.

My brother's kids are my niece/nephew, and they call me uncle.

My wife's brother's kids are my wife's niece/nephew, and they just call me by the first name.