COVID-19 - who's got some?

[Dre617]

not going to lie, I would like another trip to Portland..it was fun going in 2019 but will have to wait a while till the baby is grown a little bigger Edited June 1, 2021 by Dre617
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[ammcinnis]

Nasa says 3/4 of the earth's population needs to die so that the rest may live ...

Source? Context?

[stm25rs]

I'm going mask-free whenever possible.

 

Baltimore City still has an indoor mask mandate, the state mandate is lifted, and some stores in the surrounding counties have taken down their mask signs. So when I go to a store I carry it with me, if they have a sign up, I put it on, otherwise it goes in the pocket.

 

Most of the customers I've visited for work since MD lifted the mandate still have mask requirements though.

 

I'm vaccinated, my girlfriend is vaccinated, and my mom (the only high risk person I see regularly) is vaccinated.

[RWebb]

I'm going mask-free whenever possible.

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I also like to rawdog it whenever possible!

[DrD123]

No shocker there (I enjoyed the video) - face coverings don't do jack to protect you, the idea was to reduce potential for infected folks to infect others. While clearly an uninfected person doesn't need one, there are asymptomatic folks out there, so the thought is to deal with that. I'd really be interested to know the numbers for asymptomatic vs. symptomatic

[NSFW]

You don't take vaccines after the virus has gone through the population.

Any mutations from the virus are weaker.

 

Mutations that weaken the virus tend be quickly outnumbered by the original stream. Mutations that increase the virus' ability to spread tend to overtake the original strain, becoming the dominant strain. That's how evolution works. Unsurprisingly, that's also the pattern we saw with the coronavirus.

 

Taking vaccines after the virus has "gone through the population" is standard practice. I'm curious as to what makes you think coronavirus has "gone through the population" though. The hospitalization rate in the US is declining, but it's still a long way from zero. It was only a couple weeks ago that we got back down to October 2020 levels.

 

You stop taking vaccines after the virus has been eradicated. That's not even on the horizon for coronavirus.

[ehsnils]

Here's a kick at an anti-vaxxer.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
    James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
   Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,  Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.de>,
   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
    ksummit@lists.linux.dev,
    Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
   linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
    linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
   Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,  Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
   linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
    Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Maintainers / Kernel Summit 2021 planning kick-off
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:55:41 -0700
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiB6FJknDC5PMfpkg4gZrbSuC3d391VyReM4Wb0+JYXXA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5038827c-463f-232d-4dec-da56c71089bd@metux.net>

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:08 AM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
<lkml@metux.net> wrote:
>
> And I know *a lot* of people who will never take part in this generic
> human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people
> who generate and exhaust the toxic spike proteine, whose gene sequence
> doesn't look quote natural). I'm one of them, as my whole family.

Please keep your insane and technically incorrect anti-vax comments to yourself.

You don't know what you are talking about, you don't know what mRNA
is, and you're spreading idiotic lies. Maybe you do so unwittingly,
because of bad education. Maybe you do so because you've talked to
"experts" or watched youtube videos by charlatans that don't know what
they are talking about.

But dammit, regardless of where you have gotten your mis-information
from, any Linux kernel discussion list isn't going to have your
idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me.

Vaccines have saved the lives of literally tens of millions of people.

Just for your edification in case you are actually willing to be
educated: mRNA doesn't change your genetic sequence in any way. It is
the exact same intermediate - and temporary - kind of material that
your cells generate internally all the time as part of your normal
cell processes, and all that the mRNA vaccines do is to add a dose
their own specialized sequence that then makes your normal cell
machinery generate that spike protein so that your body learns how to
recognize it.

The half-life of mRNA is a few hours. Any injected mRNA will be all
gone from your body in a day or two. It doesn't change anything
long-term, except for that natural "your body now knows how to
recognize and fight off a new foreign protein" (which then tends to
fade over time too, but lasts a lot longer than a few days). And yes,
while your body learns to fight off that foreign material, you may
feel like shit for a while. That's normal, and it's your natural
response to your cells spending resources on learning how to deal with
the new threat.

And of the vaccines, the mRNA ones are the most modern, and the most
targeted - exactly because they do *not* need to have any of the other
genetic material that you traditionally have in a vaccine (ie no need
for basically the whole - if weakened - bacterial or virus genetic
material). So the mRNA vaccines actually have *less* of that foreign
material in them than traditional vaccines do. And  a *lot* less than
the very real and actual COVID-19 virus that is spreading in your
neighborhood.

Honestly, anybody who has told you differently, and who has told you
that it changes your genetic material, is simply uneducated.  You need
to stop believing the anti-vax lies, and you need to start protecting
your family and the people around you.  Get vaccinated.

I think you are in Germany, and COVID-19 numbers are going down. It's
spreading a lot less these days, largely because people around you
have started getting the vaccine - about half having gotten their
first dose around you, and about a quarter being fully vaccinated. If
you and your family are more protected these days, it's because of all
those other people who made the right choice, but it's worth noting
that as you see the disease numbers go down in your neighborhood,
those diminishing numbers are going to predominantly be about people
like you and your family.

So don't feel all warm and fuzzy about the fact that covid cases have
dropped a lot around you. Yes, all those vaccinated people around you
will protect you too, but if there is another wave, possibly due to a
more transmissible version - you and your family will be at _much_
higher risk than those vaccinated people because of your ignorance and
mis-information.

Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies.

And if you insist on believing in the crazy conspiracy theories, at
least SHUT THE HELL UP about it on Linux kernel discussion lists.

               Linus

[cww516]

I feel like there's the makings of a good joke there about Linux and not getting viruses...

[HDTurbo]

Ironically, Enrico uses anti-virus software.

[Penguin]

Hot my second dose of the Moderna today (finally). Gave me an itchy throat and a headache, so I laid down and took a nap. Feel normal now, no big deal.

[Penguin]

I'm going mask-free whenever possible.

 

Baltimore City still has an indoor mask mandate, the state mandate is lifted, and some stores in the surrounding counties have taken down their mask signs. So when I go to a store I carry it with me, if they have a sign up, I put it on, otherwise it goes in the pocket.

 

Most of the customers I've visited for work since MD lifted the mandate still have mask requirements though.

 

I'm vaccinated, my girlfriend is vaccinated, and my mom (the only high risk person I see regularly) is vaccinated.

 

:lol:

 

You just described my approach since 03/2020. I didn’t die. Hell as far as I know I didn’t get Chinese Lung Herpes either, and if I did it wasn’t bad enough to distinguish from a cold.

[laz]

Hot my second dose of the Moderna today (finally). Gave me an itchy throat and a headache, so I laid down and took a nap. Feel normal now, no big deal.

 

I’m scheduled for July 2nd. I’m not sure if it’s coincidence but I got a sore throat and was super congested, to the point of almost losing my voice, for a straight week after the first shot.

 

We’ll see what happens after the second shot.

 

I also had Covid 3 months ago.

[Penguin]

Strangely last night I ran a fever and had chills, today a bit sore.

[laz]

I’ve had friends that didn’t get any symptoms until after 12-14 hours after the shot. They went away within 24 hours after first getting them.

[RWebb]

Strangely last night I ran a fever and had chills, today a bit sore.

This is my story.

 

 

 

laz got the chinaHerps

[laz]

This is my story.

 

 

 

laz got the chinaHerps

 

It is worst. It’s the FloriCubanHerps!

[RWebb]

was she good looking? Worth it?

[Penguin]

Nope scabby elbows and body odor.

[RWebb]

body odor.

Hes got covid and cant smell her

[laz]

All of the above.

[DrD123]

Well - flew for the first time since the start of the pandemic - things seem to be more or less getting back to normal (the airports were crowded and all my flights were packed) - masking is mandatory in the airports and on the flight (compliance was very good, as far as I noticed) - anyone else travel yet?

[stm25rs]

I went to a bachelor party in Fort Lauderdale mid May. We got in on a Thursday and that Friday was when CDC lifted the mask guidelines. Of course, it was also Florida, so masks were already a rarity.

 

Next flight is late August, going to a wedding in Seattle

[boxkita]

I went to a bachelor party in Fort Lauderdale mid May. We got in on a Thursday and that Friday was when CDC lifted the mask guidelines. Of course, it was also Florida, so masks were already a rarity.

 

Next flight is late August, going to a wedding in Seattle

 

my sympathy. seattle or the surrounding area?

[stm25rs]

Wedding is at the Seattle Sculpture Park, so pretty central

 

What's wrong with Seattle? Seems like a fun place to visit for a yuppie like me

[boxkita]

Seattle is a sanctuary city. The homeless population has taken over all the parks. Fjuan just visited and had a good time. I haven't been downtown since covid shut the city down.