Coronavirus - Taiwan 2021

[babab00m]

@finley

Molecular biochemistry isn’t my thing, but I assume you could test the vaccine on living cells in vitro and then use PCR to verify that the correct spike proteins are being translated.

Yeah it is what I think, and check the composition on random sample. Takes a bit of time, it is
biochemistry.

red tape was refering to this:

Coronavirus Vaccine in Taiwan - May/June 2021

More red tape for the sake of red tape. At least they “shortened” it from 40 days (wtf?) to 14.

[mitaranda]

I’m guessing it’s an unofficial level 4. But level 4 is going to impact the economy and people’s lives too much (think food services in Taiwan).

[finley]

Ah, I see what you mean. Even 14 days seems excessive under the circumstances.

[BurgerKing]

Good Lord, I fear for our future. Even my five-year-old understands her risk of death is insignificant.

[BiggusDickus]

@Andrew

@amitkattal

" they found that he did not have a fever. The man then refused to be taken to a hospital for treatment. "

Soooo, The guy coughed violently and fell down. But no virus because no fever. Just Excellent

You missed the best part:

The man then refused to be taken to a hospital for treatment. Staff then sprayed him with disinfectant and he was allowed to board another train to his destination

He had been sprayed with disinfectant.

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[DrewC]

@BurgerKing

Even my five-year-old understands her risk of death is insignificant.

For 5 year olds, it is. It’s very rare for anyone under 20 to die, and almost unheard of for someone under 10.

One of this disease’s small mercies. Could you imagine the global freak out if it was killing kids?

[SunWuKong]

@Marco

I’ll pass. No transparency, no jab.

From: https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/26/data-needed-know-if-sputnik-v-vaccine-too-good-to-be-true/

The current debate over the Sputnik V data is possible only because Gamaleya published its data analysis in The Lancet. But as the saying goes, you don’t know what you don’t know, and this will remain true for as long as the raw data for Sputnik V — and the numerous other Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials with no published data analysis — remain hidden.

Read the last sentence. What else don’t we know about what other vaccines? Why trust any of them?

@Marco

I don’t trust Russian vaccines.

Isn’t that what it’s all about? Taiwan doesn’t need Sputnik anyway, and Russia has other countries prioritized for distribution, so it’s a non-issue. There are other companies Taiwan didn’t buy from.

There is a whole thread for this:
https://tw.forumosa.com/t/coronavirus-vaccine-in-taiwan-may-2021/

[Andrew]

@BiggusDickus

He had been sprayed with disinfectant.

Internally, or just the outside?

[Mithrandir]

@BurgerKing

Good Lord, I fear for our future. Even my five-year-old understands her risk of death is insignificant.

That’s because you are adequately teaching that to your girl. At TAS one of my kids’ teachers said something like the kids need to wear their masks because they are primary vector of transmission and they could die if they didn’t. Fortunately I had already gone over all the facts with my kids first, but it still worried them enough to come ask me about it again.

[BiggusDickus]

@Andrew

@BiggusDickus

He had been sprayed with disinfectant.

Internally, or just the outside?

I’d guess the disinfectant spraying was them getting their own back on the beligerant, stubborn twat

[DrewC]

@Mithrandir

At TAS one of my kids’ teachers said something like the kids need to wear their masks because they are primary vector of transmission and they could die if they didn’t.

While their personal health risk is lower, don’t they carry the same level of transmission as adults?

[OrangeOrganics]

@Icon

Eh you haven’t read the thread Foxconned?

Military all right, like that is why they had nets to catch jumping employees?

You dont think Foxconn, the biggest Assembly company in the word, synonymous with cost-down and efficiency is good at putting together water-tight SOP?

Thats literally all of Foxconn’s business. Its what they do. Ask anyone in Taiwan about Foxconn and they will mention millitary style. How do you think they win contracts with Apple etc?

[OrangeOrganics]

@Icon

What scandal? Genocide, renegading on an international treaty with UK, setting a plague upon humanity have barely registered on international arena.

BNT washed it’s hands off the deal with Fosun as representative. A la Pilatus.

[BurgerKing]

Yes, but you’d think a teenager, and a learning college student, with full access to all the information on the Internet in their hand all day would have figured out that their risk was well under 20% by now.

[BurgerKing]

I think that any time one is asymptomatic the risk of transmission is always lower.

[chabuduo]

@Andrew

You missed the best part:

The man then refused to be taken to a hospital for treatment. Staff then sprayed him with disinfectant and he was allowed to board another train to his destination

差不多

[Mithrandir]

@DrewC

While their personal health risk is lower, don’t they carry the same level of transmission as adults?

Apparently not. I don’t think this is conclusively, but I’m fairly certain the empirical evidence indicates that they are both less likely to contract and less likely to transmit the disease. (I’ve read 50% less likely in both instances, but those all seem more like guesses to me.). There have been various explanations, but if the kids are less likely to be symptomatic or have serious cases, that alone would suggest why transmission rates are lower.

I haven’t looked again recently, but when I last looked I couldn’t find a confirmed case of a student giving Covid to a teacher.

Kids likely not driving household COVID-19 outbreaks

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02973-3

[LondonSpice]

Really - Everyone! Wow that puts us all in big trouble.

[Mithrandir]

@BurgerKing

Yes, but you’d think a teenager, and a learning college student, with full access to all the information on the Internet in their hand all day would have figured out that their risk was well under 20% by now.

Yes, but you’re forgetting that people are dumb.