Early signs suggest fall COVID-19 wave starting in Canada — before updated boosters are available
Early signs suggest fall COVID-19 wave starting in Canada — before updated boosters are available
When we wear masks, not only do we do the right thing, but it helps others to feel brave enough to join us.
I just want to say when I personally see someone with a mask, I have no judgement or opinion on the person. That person needs or wants a mask and I think that's a good thing that came out of the whole pandemic.
No it doesn't. When others see people wearing a mask now, they think your either paranoid, virtue signalling, or have an health condition and therefore hava a higher threat model.
Don't feel embarred wearing a mask. Do what you think is best for yourself, but I can tell you it does not make people "brave and to join the movement".
My wife has a chronic lung condition ... we can't risk any kind of infection so she avoids going anywhere in public and I wear a mask everywhere I go where there are more than one person that is new to us.
After this pandemic, we're never going back to the way things were in the past.
No it doesn’t. When others see people wearing a mask now, they think your either paranoid, virtue signalling, or have an health condition and therefore hava a higher threat model.
Really? At this point when see someone wearing a mask I assume they have a cold/flu/covid and they're being prosocial...
As soon as I see someone use the phrase, "virtue signaling" unironically I know they're a fucking idiot.
They should invent filters that you can put over your body parts that help stop transmission of COVID.
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Sounds nice, but how, exactly, would you filter a disease?
The engineering effort will be greatly reduced if you focus on filtering SARS-CoV-2 instead. It turns out that if you avoid SARS-CoV-2 infection, the COVID-19 disease will not develop. No need to overcomplicate the problem.
Me and my gf got it last week. She got hit pretty hard and had to take a few days off work.
Honestly, I never stopped wearing a mask. After having it for years, it just feels more comfortable wearing it than not nowadays. Not wearing it is like going shirtless or something.
That aside, it also feels like after COVID, a lot of people have lost their sense of smell. The issue of excessive perfumes and nasty odours has gotten worse and I feel like I'll choke on them if I'm not wearing a mask. I already feel like choking despite wearing a mask, so it's hard to imagine how much worse it'll be without it.
I heard it doesn't even exist, so we should be good.
(Really really. I have a cousin that stupid, that he said that)
My son and I have agreed we don't discuss COVID or the vaccines because of this same thing.
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I prefer heckling people who don't listen to their doctor.
To his credit, one of my work peers whom I found out is afraid of the single most tested vaccine set in history, and with whom I've argued passionately and at length, is still 100% professional and helpful when we're on the clock, and I really have to respect that. There ARE those with whom we can have impassioned and frustrating arguments, and who are still absolute heroes in the next breath.
I will get a booster this fall, but honestly I'm not worried. I am not wearing a mask unless I'm sick myself but I respect other people's choices.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Western University microbiologist Eric Arts said Ontario's wastewater in particular is showing an increase in virus samples, but with reduced reporting and limited testing across much of the country, the full picture is hazy.
As CBC News recently reported, research shows a majority of the population has developed some level of immunity against SARS-CoV-2, thanks to high rates of vaccination and three-quarters of Canadians likely having detectable antibodies linked to prior infections.
But while many individuals' immune systems are now better trained to recognize this threat, reducing rates of serious illness and death over the course of the pandemic, the level of protection needed to avoid another infection in the first place can fade over time.
The challenges stemming from another wave would hit Canada on multiple fronts, said infectious diseases specialist Dr. Donald Vinh, an associate professor in McGill University's department of medicine.
Booster shots could shore up Canadians' immunity this fall, particularly as drug makers have adapted their vaccines to better match currently circulating strains, but Vinh cautioned the "cycles are not in sync."
Even at this point, however, Colijn stressed we're in a better place than the U.S. heading into the fall, given the higher levels of vaccine uptake in Canada over the last few years — so a spike in cases mirroring the surge south of the border isn't inevitable.
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When have we ever had boosters in a timely fashion? Every shot I have had has been at least one variant behind.
I've got a newborn at home and this is the shit I really don't want to be hearing right now.
SOB, I'm in Canada for the weekend at Niagara falls and Toronto