Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV/COVID-19)

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Originally Posted by Xtrema

Everyone is sniffling and coughing on zoom calls. Everyone is getting this.

Well the bright side is that if you are positive, you got 6 months of international travel without needing a PCR test on return. It's going to be the best summer ever.

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Going to Mexico in March (hopefully), where can I attend a Covid party so it can run through our triple vaxxed family and we don't have to fuck around with PCR testing on the way back home?

Only 50% joking.

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Originally Posted by Masked Bandit

Going to Mexico in March (hopefully), where can I attend a Covid party so it can run through our triple vaxxed family and we don't have to fuck around with PCR testing on the way back home?

Only 50% joking.

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Next week's weather is looking warm, I'm sure there will be plenty of anti-mask/lockdown and why don't they keep kids in school/home protests to join province wide. Friend lives right by CBE HQ said the -40c did give him some peace when it's too cold for protests.

Do you need a positive PCR to prove you had covid for these excemptions?

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Originally Posted by LilDrunkenSmurf

Do you need a positive PCR to prove you had covid for these excemptions?

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Yes, otherwise how do you prove it? One of the reasons I made my wife and daughter get a PCR, even though it was 100% for sure Covid. So it's on our official government records.

I’m sure someone calling the government making vaccinations mandatory a conspiracy theory is somewhere in the last 18k posts, but can’t be bothered to go find it.

Here is the Liberal health minister putting up the trial balloon. I’m sure once the federal government decides they want it, they’ll just create a policy that is financially punitive to the provinces u till it’s brought in.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/duc...-way-1.6307398

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Originally Posted by Masked Bandit

Going to Mexico in March (hopefully), where can I attend a Covid party so it can run through our triple vaxxed family and we don't have to fuck around with PCR testing on the way back home?

Only 50% joking.

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Just keep your ears open for people speaking French.

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Originally Posted by FraserB

I’m sure someone calling the government making vaccinations mandatory a conspiracy theory is somewhere in the last 18k posts, but can’t be bothered to go find it.

Here is the Liberal health minister putting up the trial balloon. I’m sure once the federal government decides they want it, they’ll just create a policy that is financially punitive to the provinces u till it’s brought in.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/duc...-way-1.6307398

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Still prefer choice and the Singapore route:
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...ated-by-choice

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Singapore will stop covering the medical bills of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients

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Originally Posted by Xtrema

Still prefer choice and the Singapore route:
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronav...ated-by-choice

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This is the way.

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Originally Posted by vengie

This is the way.

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This is the way.

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Originally Posted by pheoxs

My main concern at this point really is Omicron seems to be affecting kids moreso. Hospitalizations in the younger age ranges is much higher this wave, and its not helping they aren't near as well vaccinated. I feel bad for a lot of the kids / parents out there mostly. Rest of us (vaccinated) will likely catch it and pass and it'll move on.

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Parents had a choice to vaccinate their kids. I was shocked at how many didn’t go for it, not worth the risk but can’t explain the risk other than need more time, and now they’re worried. :dunno:

Double vaccinated kids ready for school next week.

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Originally Posted by rage2

Parents had a choice to vaccinate their kids. I was shocked at how many didn’t go for it, not worth the risk but can’t explain the risk other than need more time, and now they’re worried. :dunno:

Double vaccinated kids ready for school next week.

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Yup that's exactly what my cousin said about his youngest 9 year old. Meanwhile his 12 year old got double vaxxed. Can't explain the thought process.

Parents who chose not to vaccinate can fuck themselves and thier kids poor outcomes are nobody else's fault.

Kids under 5, I feel sorry for them, but you can't shut down society for that small sliver of the population.

Let 'er rip, best winter ever.

Double vaccination might be possible for ages 12-17? Not sure exactly when they had started.

The 5-11 group were only eligible since Nov 24, 2021. All the kids from kindergarten to grade 6 has either one or no shots. With how contagious this thing is, and how easy it is for kids to get sick from school to begin with. They are sitting ducks.

Edit marth

There are 16k kids with two shots in Alberta aged 5-11 and 12 kids with 3 shots


There was no enforcement of time on second shots, just a warning to wait …

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Originally Posted by cdnsir

Double vaccination might be possible for ages 12-17? Not sure exactly when they had started.

The 5-11 group were only eligible since Nov 24, 2021. All the kids from kindergarten to grade 6 has either one or no shots. With how contagious this thing is, and how easy it is for kids to get sick from school to begin with. They are sitting ducks.

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Originally Posted by redline

There are 16k kids with two shots in Alberta aged 5-11 and 12 kids with 3 shots

There was no enforcement of time on second shots, just a warning to wait …

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Ya. Canada recommends 8 weeks. US and Pfizer recommends 3 weeks. Canada allows you to follow US interval as long as parent understands they are going against Canada recommendations. I have no clue where canadas longer recommendation comes from.

16k kids ready to rock on Monday. :rofl:

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Originally Posted by rage2

Ya. Canada recommends 8 weeks. US and Pfizer recommends 3 weeks. Canada allows you to follow US interval as long as parent understands they are going against Canada recommendations. I have no clue where canadas longer recommendation comes from.

16k kids ready to rock on Monday. :rofl:

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Yeah my friend went to get her 10 year old his second shot after three weeks and the nurse tried to talk her out of it. Nurse even had to go talk with her supervisor and when she came back she still tried talking her out of it.

I almost wonder if Canada's 8 week recommendation comes from the government trying to delay shots for as long as possible until more vaccines can be allocated haha

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Originally Posted by rage2

Ya. Canada recommends 8 weeks. US and Pfizer recommends 3 weeks. Canada allows you to follow US interval as long as parent understands they are going against Canada recommendations. I have no clue where canadas longer recommendation comes from.

16k kids ready to rock on Monday. :rofl:

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It's very likely because of the Nature Medicine UK paper that was published in the middle of December. It showed that spacing out the second dose actually reduced the risk of myocarditis in young men while maintaining the benefits of the vaccine.

There was actually some further though that one dose may be best in young men also to balance the two risks. The biggest risk is definitely Moderna in men under 40 which is why the US stopped administering it to that age group and sex.

You can download the paper her if interested in reading about it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf

3 weeks is a bare minimum

The kid I have with one dose, I don't think I'd want them to get second after 3 weeks. That's going mostly on feelings an opinion. They'll get thier second somewhere close to AHS reccomended time.