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I hear people insisting that China is controlling their weather

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I hear people insisting that China is controlling their weather

China Cloud Seeding

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In our province in Canada, British Columbia we've hit the lowest number of new cases since last September yesterday, 68. We have a population of 5 million. I think our highest daily number had been about 2000 per day this spring.

The numbers have been crashing downwards as we've hit 75% vaccinated above the age 12, with the first dose. The decision was to get as many people on the first dose as possible before scheduling 2nd doses, and now the 2nd doses are ramping up.

The other interesting stat is within that declining new case number, the number of Delta variant cases is increasing, so there is the possibility that a 4th wave could still happen.

Overall this has been fantastic news and I only share it because it is certainly evidence that vaccines are working and working quickly.

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I hear people insisting that China is controlling their weather

China Cloud Seeding

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In our province in Canada, British Columbia we've hit the lowest number of new cases since last September yesterday, 68. We have a population of 5 million. I think our highest daily number had been about 2000 per day this spring.

The numbers have been crashing downwards as we've hit 75% vaccinated above the age 12, with the first dose. The decision was to get as many people on the first dose as possible before scheduling 2nd doses, and now the 2nd doses are ramping up.

The other interesting stat is within that declining new case number, the number of Delta variant cases is increasing, so there is the possibility that a 4th wave could still happen.

Overall this has been fantastic news and I only share it because it is certainly evidence that vaccines are working and working quickly.

Bravo!! An outstanding turn around from where things were only a couple months ago.
Can't wait to visit again.. a few weeks after the border opens tho, as US plated cars getting vandalized in Canada was a real thing for a while.. Can't blame 'em really

Canada tops world in vaccinated population as new COVID-19 cases fall below 1,000

Just over two months after posting a record of over 9,000 COVID-19 cases in a single day, Canada’s daily case count has shrunk by 90 per cent.

The achievement comes as the country leads the world in the share of national populations vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, with close to 65 per cent of Canadians now having received at least one dose.
Monday’s 945 new infections marked the first time daily cases were under 1,000 since Sept. 20 of last year.

Updated data from the weekend also showed cases remained low on Saturday and Sunday, with provinces and territories reporting 1,384 and 1,238 new cases, respectively.

The seven-day average for new cases now sits at 1,305, according to a Global News analysis of nationwide data — the lowest average since Sept. 27, 2020.

Cases have continued to steadily drop from the peak of the third wave in April, when over 8,700 new infections were being reported daily on average.

The share of Canada’s population with at least one dose in their arms is higher than any other country, according to Our World in Data.

That’s despite only 12.9 per cent of the population having received both required doses, which pales in comparison to many other countries including the United States, China and much of Europe.
[globalnews.ca]

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Thanks I appreciate your sentiment though it feels weird to be congratulated for being responsible for one's own health.

I suspect that the strategy of getting as many people with one jab up front as possible, even as it meant delaying by several weeks jab two (8-10 weeks) ended up working.

In a way that was just an experiment as no one knew for sure whether that would be a good strategy.

The real issue is non-industrialized countries getting access to the vaccines or this pandemic is going to last for a considerable time to come with new variants popping up and maybe one or two that slip through where the vaccine is not successful. The delta variant is already proving to be able to infect the double vaccinated - albeit with mild outcomes.

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Thanks I appreciate your sentiment though it feels weird to be congratulated for being responsible for one's own health.

I suspect that the strategy of getting as many people with one jab up front as possible, even as it meant delaying by several weeks jab two (8-10 weeks) ended up working.

In a way that was just an experiment as no one knew for sure whether that would be a good strategy.

The real issue is non-industrialized countries getting access to the vaccines or this pandemic is going to last for a considerable time to come with new variants popping up and maybe one or two that slip through where the vaccine is not successful. The delta variant is already proving to be able to infect the double vaccinated - albeit with mild outcomes.

Agree on all counts.
Even though I was fortunate enough to receive my second shot in Feb., the strategy of getting more first shots in arms, as they have done in the UK and elsewhere, always seemed the smarter strategy to me.

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This is one approach.


Pakistan officials threaten to block phone service for unvaccinated

ktvu.com/news/pakistan-officials-threaten-to-block-phone-service-for-unvaccinated

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This is one approach.


Pakistan officials threaten to block phone service for unvaccinated

ktvu.com/news/pakistan-officials-threaten-to-block-phone-service-for-unvaccinated

They also stone rape victims for adultery in some areas there.

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In our province in Canada, British Columbia we've hit the lowest number of new cases since last September yesterday, 68. We have a population of 5 million. I think our highest daily number had been about 2000 per day this spring.

The numbers have been crashing downwards as we've hit 75% vaccinated above the age 12, with the first dose. The decision was to get as many people on the first dose as possible before scheduling 2nd doses, and now the 2nd doses are ramping up.

The other interesting stat is within that declining new case number, the number of Delta variant cases is increasing, so there is the possibility that a 4th wave could still happen.

Overall this has been fantastic news and I only share it because it is certainly evidence that vaccines are working and working quickly.

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This is one approach.


Pakistan officials threaten to block phone service for unvaccinated

ktvu.com/news/pakistan-officials-threaten-to-block-phone-service-for-unvaccinated

They also stone rape victims for adultery in some areas there.

Maybe they should stone anti-vaxxers instead. lol

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This is one approach.


Pakistan officials threaten to block phone service for unvaccinated

ktvu.com/news/pakistan-officials-threaten-to-block-phone-service-for-unvaccinated

They also stone rape victims for adultery in some areas there.

Maybe they should stone anti-vaxxers instead. lol

I'm technically not an anti-vaxxer. But I am stoned.

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From the London Times:

Covid will always kill and we have to accept that, says Michael Gove

Coronavirus

The country needs to learn to live with the coronavirus even if it causes hundreds of deaths a day, Michael Gove has suggested. The Cabinet Office minister said that the government wanted to “get rid of every possible restriction” but that some changes, such as working from home, were likely to stay. “We have to accept that this virus will circulate, and it will be the case, unfortunately, that in winters to come we will find that people contract it or subsequent variants and they will fall ill,” Gove told Times Radio. “Unfortunately there are respiratory diseases, including flu itself, which do every year result in an upsurge of people being taken into hospital, and in some cases suffering tragic consequences.” Asked whether there was a need to accept there would be deaths, he said: “It’s important that, while we do accept that, we also do everything that we can — consistent with society running normally — to protect people. “It’s not the case that we are blasé or shoulder-shrugging about it.”

Last night the government delayed plans to end all social distancing rules and lift remaining restrictions on June 21 by four weeks, after a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. Elsewhere, Nicola Sturgeon announced that Scotland is “likely” to maintain coronavirus restrictions for a further three weeks from June 28, when her government had hoped to lift many of the rules. Graham Medley, a member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said it was “quite possible” that the number of deaths from the virus could reach hundreds a day. Asked about Medley’s claim that there could be hundreds of deaths, Gove responded: “We are going to have to learn to live with Covid. He told the BBC: “It’s a very nasty virus. We can provide people with the best protection possible, through the vaccination programme, but as with flu, we know that there are a number of people who contract it.” Gove added that there would be no return to life as it was before the pandemic. “I suspect it may be the case that we may see different workplaces allowing people to work from home at certain points as well as coming into the office. I suspect there may be changes to the way that we live,” he said. “We won’t go back to the status quo.” Medley suggested that the government could face difficult decisions about reimposing some restrictions. “Depending on what the government want to achieve, they may well have to take decisions that are against what they would much prefer not to do, which is to make the changes that we’ve got irreversible,” he said. “It is possible we could end up with a situation where numbers of people going to hospital really mean that the government have to take some kind of action that they don’t want to.” Gove said he was “confident” that the new July 19 date for lifting all restrictions would be kept. “The figure that’s driving us is the number of people who are vaccinated,” he said. “If we can vaccinate the adult population, then that provides us . . . the best possible defence.”

Boris Johnson announced yesterday that the vaccination programme would be accelerated to protect more people and insisted July 19 would be the new “terminus date”. However, concern is mounting in the cabinet and on the Tory back benches that the rapid spread of the Indian variant could force the government to delay the easing of restrictions for more than a month.
Johnson said that it was “sensible to wait just a little longer” and “give the NHS a few more crucial weeks to get those remaining jabs into the arms of those who need them”. He said: “Now is the time to ease off the accelerator. Because by being cautious now we have the chance in the next four weeks to save many thousands of lives by vaccinating millions more people.” The only exceptions will be an end to the 30-person limit for weddings, while crowds will be allowed into sporting events such as Euro 2020 matches, Wimbledon and the British Formula One Grand Prix. Care home residents will be allowed to go on visits without needing to self-isolate for 14 days when they return. The limit on guests at weddings will be dropped from Monday. Capacity will still be limited by the size of the venue and the need for social distancing. Dancing and stand-up drinks receptions will not be allowed. Johnson’s science advisers agreed that little more would be gained by a delay beyond four weeks, with modelling saying that the pause would reduce a peak of cases in August by up to half.

Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser, said that the next few weeks would bring a “double protection” as the over-40s gained the benefit of a second dose and young adults had their first one. Delaying the end of restrictions until close to the school holidays would “also take the pressure off, and that should between them significantly reduce the peak”, he said. Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, said that “no one thinks at the end of the four-week delay the risk has gone — there will still be substantial numbers in hospital”. He said, though, that this needed to be balanced against the harms of restrictions. The prime minister announced a series of new targets to accelerate first and second doses. He said that the gap between doses for people in their 40s would be cut from 12 to eight weeks, meaning that everyone over 40 would have been offered a second dose by the week of July 19. In addition, all adults would have been offered a first dose by July 19. Johnson’s MPs expressed concern over the delay. Sir Charles Walker, vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers, said it was now likely that “we will end up with some form of lockdown” for the rest of the year. Jeremy Hunt, the former health secretary, criticised the government for claiming that the path out of restrictions would be irreversible.

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Masks are no more mandatory in my area, Oslo area of Norway, for the first time since Nov 5 last year. The third wave is over, and so will the pandemic be too in our country by August or so.

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Masks are no more mandatory in my area, Oslo area of Norway, for the first time since Nov 5 last year. The third wave is over, and so will the pandemic be too in our country by August or so.

That's one brave prediction.

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Masks are no more mandatory in my area, Oslo area of Norway, for the first time since Nov 5 last year. The third wave is over, and so will the pandemic be too in our country by August or so.

That's one brave prediction.