As of an hour ago, UPS and FedEx both had flights in the air with the first batches of Pfizer’s vaccine for distribution.
(Friend of mine is in the aviation industry and often plane watches for things like this.)
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Massachusetts governor is threatening lockdown Jan 1, which, SHOCKER, is because cases have far surpassed even the worst of the previous surge. 
I’m so sad that this means people are going to be losing their livelihoods and it’s because we couldn’t be bothered to keep infection rate LOW and kept acting like jackwagons.
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I like this word. May I please borrow it?
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You are wicked welcome to it. Courtesy of Boston scumbags like me. hat tip
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Posted this elsewhere, and you can find many versions of it online. Had a presentation last week from a state health official regarding behavioral health (mental health and wellness) during disasters. This pandemic counts as a disaster. We’re strongly in the Disillusionment Phase right now. With a solution on the horizon, it’s going to get better. In the meantime, please be kind to yourselves, folks.
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So how does something like this work in terms of a long ranging disaster? Anniversary is hard to pin down when we’ve been going through this for 9 to 10 months now.
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No idea. Year after? These are general trends taken from many large disasters.
Graphic Source:
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Among the interesting discussion of how autoantibodies work, this article includes the tidbit that 10% of younger Covid patients and a much higher percentage of those 70+ seem to be suffering from “long covid” persistance of diminished health in the wake of their infection:
This article about how data scientists are helping front-line medical researchers rapidly process/analyze relevant clinical data is also encouraging:
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Oh hey, it me! i mean, not with covid, but I did have a cold turn into a 2+ year ordeal when I was a kid.
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Vaccination has begun in Florida!
I was going to put gifs behind a spoiler but I can’t figure out how to make them gifs instead of pictures and I’m too excited to bother figuring it out right now! YAAAAAAY!!
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You can almost plot this against covid death rates 0-0
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I’m amazed that there have been enough events analyzed and that there’s a trend that’s been found.
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I want to know what happens when you have multiple disaster scenarios stacked. Like you have a pandemic, then wildfires that destroy your town or a giant port blow up or an authoritarian steal an election and deport all the (winning) opposition party leaders and jail all the people that protest.
2020 really be 2020.
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Fuuuuck. Yeah, that was mentioned in the presentation that folks who were caught in the fires are basically experience double-time and overlapping disaster feelings.
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The fires were definitely the maximally shitty part of my life this year. I would like to not experience that again.
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I wasn’t even in an evacuation zone, just shy of it, but that was the most stressful 2 weeks of my life in recent memory - helping friends evacuate their houses and their livestock, seeing friends homes get destroyed, not being able to breathe in my own house and all the loss of brain function while being expected to work, not knowing if I was going to have to flee at any point. combined with the pandemic stress of social distancing. would not recommend.
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Agreed. Trapped inside with creatures who wanted to be outside and couldn’t understand why no was also a special level of hell. Baby pounding on the glass and crying to go out… not my fave.
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Yep. We were right on the edge of one and just left because fuck it – but even so, super stressful and shitty and not at all fun.
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Also, I had no idea how bad air in my house could get and to feel like there were no solutions…oof. Both SSO and I were dealing with not being able to perform at work and later realize it was because our oxygen intake was so low.
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