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Yes, I know, there was never going to be a 'good' time - but:
Cases up 41% week on week.
Hospital admission up 40% week on week.
Deaths up 48% week on week.
I respect everyone's right to now go back to 'normal' if they wish, but I'm staying in lockdown - particularly now that everyone else is 'free' to infect me.
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Where are you located? I live not far outside Atlanta in the US and we never shut down completely and have been fine overall.
5teveH wrote: else is 'free' to infect me.
Have you not gotten vaccinated yet?
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DevParty wrote: Where are you located?
In the UK, where our national sport is breading idiots.
If you're really good at it you can earn a living off of it. Well, I assume that's why the ones that do it best never seem to need to work... 
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musefan wrote: is breading idiots.
Is that gluten free bread ? 
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 It seems stupid is contagious
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North or South?
I'm Northwest, north of Kennesaw.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Kennesaw
We have offices in Kennesaw but I live just north of Cartersville.
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DevParty wrote: Have you not gotten vaccinated yet?
Yep. Double jabbed. But 60% of the people in UK hospitals, with Covid, have been double vaccinated - which is not convincing me that I'm safe! Yes, I understand the more people that are vaccinated, the higher that percentage will be - but it's not looking like a 'magic bullet' to me right now. 
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60% vaccinated? That sounds odd. In the US %99.7 of those being hospitalised are unvaccinated.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Maybe the UK is the control group.
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Darwin process playing out in real-time.
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5teveH wrote: 60% of the people in UK hospitals, with Covid, have been double vaccinated -
 Really? So, basically the UK got a bad batch of vaccines?
That's crazy.
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DevParty wrote: Really? So, basically the UK got a bad batch of vaccines?
a pic [^] 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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5teveH wrote: But 60% of the people in UK hospitals, with Covid, have been double vaccinated
Quote: LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - Britain's Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance said that 60% of people being admitted to hospital with COVID-19 are unvaccinated, correcting an earlier statement he made on Monday.
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OK, that's a bit better. When he said 60% vaccinated yesterday, he did seem quite calm. The rest of us were: WTF! 
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A bit like me saying "there are no bugs in my code", just before it crashes. 
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And the other 39.5% had only 1 of the 2 jabs?
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Member 14766868 wrote: And the other 39.5% had only 1 of the 2 jabs?
They, conveniently, didn't give us a break-down on that! I've looked for it, but no luck.
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I'm with you. I have received both Phizer injections, and I still wear a mask when I go out of the house. 
Nothing is ever easy
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Why?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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DevParty wrote: Where are you located? I live not far outside Atlanta in the US and we never shut down completely and have been fine overall.
Give it time, the Delta variant only started spiking GA's case count again 2 weeks ago. The UK's IIRC about 2 months into Delta. Right now their biggest problem is that a lot of people there got the Astrazenica vaccine which is only around 65% effective in preventing disease (vs J&J at 80% and Pfizer/Moderna around 95%). With delta having an R0 estimated to be between 5 and 8; 65% isn't enough to stop the spread even with most of the population vaccinated. The vaccines used in the US are more effective, but even if they do manage to continue working well enough that 99% of our hospitalizations are in the vaccinated; we've got so many more people refusing them that we're looking at a 4th wave building over the next month or two.
https://covidactnow.org/us/georgia-ga/?s=2069988
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Interesting. I guess we'll see.
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No freedom days at my dentist; now or in the future. Pockets of sanity.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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