CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

If you needed proof of how dangerous it is to fight the deep state, how about the shocking news that right-wingers attending a "Re-Awaken America" Rally (featuring Alex Jones, the My Pillow guy, & the disgraced General Flynn) have been poisoned with Anthrax.

JovanHuttonPulitzer™ #JovanHuttonPulitzer@JovanHPulitzer·
Dec 23
1. To my friends tried to keep this underwraps until we knew what we were dealing with but Evidence suggest that several of us were targeted by biological agents at an event This has wreaked havoc on my system w all of the most dangerous symptoms appearing Scary to say the least
2. From rashes, to blistering,  passing blood to 2 solid days of haculicinations Massive fever storms drenching me and not abating BUT STILL NO definitive diagnosis yet All I know is zombie symptoms would be easier than these  symptoms.
3. I want to thank you for prayers and thank you for your well wishes You guys are the best This will not take me down and it's just part of the grand adventure we are all on together God's not done w me yet so the left isn't gonna escape what's coming  Loce you all
PODCAST Special Message: Anthrax? Anarchists’ Attack? What happened in Dallas? Was this a freak exposure to bacteria or was an evil hand played in an attempt to silence the truth? Malicious or just misadventure?

https://twitter.com/JovanHPulitzer/statu...19983?s=20

In my opinion, there's little doubt they were targetted by biological agents at the rally. Maybe it's more likely the biological agent was Covid rather than Anthrax though. Exhibit A for that outrageous speculation would be that one of the poisoned attendees, Doug Kuzma, a Covid-denial podcaster and Ivermectin proponent, is in hospital receiving treatment for Covid, lying sedated and on a ventilator. Apparently, his lungs are badly damaged and aren't responding well to treatment.
Right-Wing Podcaster Reportedly On Ventilator For COVID After Attending Rally,, HuffPost.

Don't you just love the creativity of these wingnuts? When reality hits them in the face, there's always a conspiracy theory to help them to avoid facing it.

[LP]

I hereby nominate Frederic Sinistra for a Darwin Award!

[Mav]

The CDC shortened the isolation period from 10 days to 5 days for those infected as well as making a similar change to the quarantine period for close contacts. This is due to growing evidence that the infected are  most infectious 2 days before and 3 days after symptoms emerge. If this were implemented in Australia, it would make it far easier for the AFL to run its competitions. Players would miss a week only. 

[madbluboy]

The CDC shortened the isolation period from 10 days to 5 days for those infected as well as making a similar change to the quarantine period for close contacts. This is due to growing evidence that the infected are  most infectious 2 days before and 3 days after symptoms emerge. If this were implemented in Australia, it would make it far easier for the AFL to run its competitions. Players would miss a week only. 

The AFL's only problem is WA who the other states need to start holding to account.

[capcom]

Who gives a stuff about them?  Or their duckhead premier ...

[LP]

Surely the Perth teams can just play their season as an away season!

[madbluboy]

Surely the Perth teams can just play their season as an away season!

Or they can sit out. Maybe we could play an international rules game against them at the end of the season.

[Mav]

Looks like a reduction in isolation/quarantine time is being considered in Australia according to The Age. Not only that, the definition of close contact might be tweaked to reduce the number of people who are required to quarantine. As I suggested, that may have a pretty big impact at AFL level.

There's also a suggestion that at-home rapid testing is better than PCR testing in current circumstances given it's better at determining if someone is currently infectious while PCR testing can return positive results well after someone has ceased to be infectious.

All this is unfolding while Victoria is starting to spike (3767 new cases) while NSW is going exponential (11,201 new cases). And the report from Imperial College concluded "these estimates translate into Omicron VE estimates of between 0% and 20% PD2 and between 55% and 80% PD3 against Omicron, consistent with other estimates"; in other words, full vaccination with 2 doses is only 0-20% effective while the booster fares much better with 55-80% effectiveness. And being infected with Covid confers almost no resistance to re-infection with Omicron (so anti-vaxxers can stop hosting their pox-parties). Pardon me while I rush off to book in for the booster ...

[madbluboy]

I never understood the advice that if you test positive at home which is 97% accurate that you should go out and line up with hundreds of people and nurses just to make sure.

[Mav]

Agreed. Lining up has always bemused me. I went to drive-through testing stations where the risk was limited to the staff who took the swabs. I did line up to get the vaccine, but there was no reason to believe that the people in the queue were any more likely to be infected than any randoms you might find in the streets (and perhaps less as vaccine clinics tried to keep the infected out). On the other hand, in the testing queues there'd be people who fear they have been infected, so there's a pretty good chance that a few people in the queue are infectious.