Pandemic 2020

captainmorgan said:

I've believed from early on it was a lab leak from incompetence.

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I'm well aware.

I'm also well aware of the fact I pushed back on that narrative due to the press releases at the time stating it was a migratory infection. I have no problem admitting I was wrong. If they're conceding this now, odds are very good you were right all along.

TacoMac said:

I'm well aware.

I'm also well aware of the fact I pushed back on that narrative due to the press releases at the time stating it was a migratory infection. I have no problem admitting I was wrong. If they're conceding this now, odds are very good you were right all along.

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Who is conceding it?

Coronavirus Variant Tracker

New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are rapidly spreading through the U.S. These coronavirus variants are being studied because they may be more transmissible, cause more severe disease, or reduce the efficacy of current vaccines. Our live tracker keeps you updated with the key information you need to know.

The big picture: Multiple coronavirus variants are now spreading rapidly around the world, supplanting the original virus in some parts of the United States.

Details: In autumn 2020, researchers began spotting new coronavirus variants that seemed to spread faster than the virus that was first detected more than a year ago.

• The B.1.1.7 variant, which was first found in the U.K., began to spread around the globe. Others popped up in Brazil, South Africa, Japan, the U.S., and elsewhere.
• Data now show these new, more transmissible variants make up a majority of sequenced coronavirus samples in the United States.
• March was a pivotal month in the United States. Data for the month are only just becoming available, but a new study in the journal Cell estimates that as data catch up, they will show that B.1.1.7 became the dominant variant in many U.S. states by late March.

Interesting images.

Fore those north of the border.



In addition to these four variants, some provinces have identified cases of other variants of interest not currently reflected in our data. Updates may be made if the Public Health Agency of Canada designates new variants of concern.
CTVNews.ca’s variant tracker is keeping a daily count of these VOCs, with a provincial breakdown by variant that you can see in the above tables.
Additionally, CTVNews.ca is now tracking ‘screened’ COVID-19 cases, which have been identified as mutations but are yet to be confirmed which variant they belong to. The provinces that have started to identify these screened cases include Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

People have been locked down saving money and getting government stimulus checks, one consequence of this is many now have enough for a down payment on a new home.

DIY-HP-LED said:

People have been locked down saving money and getting government stimulus checks, one consequence of this is many now have enough for a down payment on a new home.

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It depends on where you plan to buy. Houses around here are selling for hundreds of thousands over asking price. The value of our house has doubled in 4 years.

CunningCanuk said:

It depends on where you plan to buy. Houses around here are selling for hundreds of thousands over asking price. The value of our house has doubled in 4 years.

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Housing prices in NS have gone up since the pandemic, we had it pretty good for awhile with covid, until the new much more contagious variants arrived. Apparently a lot of people who have resources, or can work from home are now opting for small town life.

Housing prices were high before, but the pandemic made them much worse. I think the government should get into the low cost housing business again, it will take some of the heat off the market and provide housing for low income folks. There is another problem however, the housing market in Canada is becoming internationalized, as many see Canadian houses as investment opportunities. You are seeing nonresident surcharges on property taxes in more places now.

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CunningCanuk said:

It depends on where you plan to buy. Houses around here are selling for hundreds of thousands over asking price. The value of our house has doubled in 4 years.

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because so much supply line has been interrupted, it translates right down to the minutia. everything is expensive if it has computer chips that weren't being made. new cars are going for sticker which raises the cost of pre-owned and it rolls on down from their. Canada is expensive too always $25 book US is $35 Canadian.

schuylaar said:

because so much supply line has been interrupted, it translates right down to the minutia. everything is expensive if it has computer chips that weren't being made. new cars are going for sticker which raises the cost of pre-owned and it rolls on down from their. Canada is expensive too always $25 book US is $35 Canadian.

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Also adding to the used car pinch is the fact all the rental car guys sold off more than usual at the start of the pandemic. Now they are not adding cars to the used market at their usual rate.

Canada invests nearly $200M to help Ontario facility produce mRNA vaccines (yahoo.com)
Canada invests nearly $200M to help Ontario facility produce mRNA vaccines
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that the Canadian government would invest $199.16 million to help Ontario's Resilience Biotechnologies Inc. increase its manufacturing of a number of vaccines and therapeutics, including those using mRNA technology.

Coronavirus: With Novavax deal, Canada could be producing COVID-19 vaccine domestically by the fall | CTV News

With Novavax deal, Canada could be producing COVID-19 vaccine domestically by the fall
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a deal has been struck with Novavax to produce its COVID-19 vaccine in Canada, but the pharmaceutical company isn’t expected to be ready to roll out doses domestically until the fall at the earliest.

The federal government has signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Novavax to pursue options to produce its COVID-19 vaccine at a new Montreal facility that is under construction.

While the prime minister is calling this a “major step forward,” it could be months before this potential first made-in-Canada vaccine candidate is approved, let alone shipped to delivery sites nationwide.

captainmorgan said:

Indian data suggests runaway COVID infections as deaths hit daily record

Nearly two-thirds of people tested in India have shown exposure to COVID-19, a chain of private laboratories said on Wednesday, indicating a runaway spread of the virus as the daily death toll rose to a record 4,529.

www.reuters.com

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Something up with that.

They're running constant daily cases of over 400,000. We had a record of several days just over 300,000.

Yet somehow they're showing roughly the same record death rates we did? I don't think so. I think so many are just dropping dead and being cremated on the outs that they can't count them all. I'm betting their daily death toll is closer to 7,000 at least.

It's all way under counted, they are finding unknown mass graves and the rivers are being used to dispose of the bodies and like you say how many undocumented cremations.

US-Canadian border restrictions to be extended through June: report
Restrictions on nonessential travel across the U.S.-Canadian border will be extended through June, Canadian news outlet CTV News reported Tuesday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested on Tuesday that three-quarters of Canadians would have to be vaccinated before the border could be reopened, according to The Canadian Press.

Over 46 percent of Canada's population has received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. By comparison, 60.2 percent of the U.S. adult population has received one dose, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

captainmorgan said:

It's all way under counted, they are finding unknown mass graves and the rivers are being used to dispose of the bodies and like you say how many undocumented cremations.

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So, if the population of India is around 1.4 billion and they achieve herd immunity with say 1% ( most will be untreated) of the population dying, that would be 140 million dead. That's a lot of bodies to burn, considering that probably 200 million people die there every year from natural causes anyway. They should see a big increase in deaths this year and next, until people are vaccinated. Since many of the elderly an vulnerable will be gone already, the next few years should see a decrease in mortality.

If 30% of people who get covid are maimed in some way then it will be an even bigger disaster.

Edit: Brain fart, 14 million dead, not 140 million dead @ 1% mortality and 20 million a year not 200 million!

captainmorgan said:

Infectious-disease scientists at Canada’s high-security lab collaborated with China

Seven scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg and Chinese military researchers have conducted experiments and co-authored six studies on infectious diseases

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Not exactly a secret when you publish a half dozen scientific papers. Getting future research money to work with the Chinese might be an issue though. If the virus did come from a lab fuck up, I would expect the biggest impact will be in China. I can only imagine how they feel about dodging the bullet with this pandemic and I would expect viral research to have a tight leash on it there from here on out. The negative implications for them grow with the number of dead in India and other places in the undeveloped world. North America and Europe will be vaccinated sooner that they will themselves and the undeveloped world.