Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!

[Hooked]

From Wednesday, Pick n Pays will be paying out R350 Covid-19 grants in cash
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/r...y-and-boxer-stores-for-some-recipients-2021-9
21 Sept 2021

• Special Covid-19 grants will be paid out at retail tills for the first time on Wednesday.
• Pick n Pay says it will be the first retailer to offer cash collection of the special relief of distress (SRD) payments.
• Recipients will be pre-assigned to the stores, and Pick n Pay has urged beneficiaries to check their collection point before arriving in stores.
• Boxer stores are included, but BP Pick n Pay Express, Pick n Pay Clothing and Pick n Pay Liquor stores will not be paying out grants.
• Retailers have kept a close eye on the SRD payments, which have been touted as a pilot for a basic income grant.

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Adephi]

 

[Adephi]

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[Intuthu Kagesi]

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Either my eyesight is more screwed than I believe it is, or your post is a tad erm ... blurry, (politically correct word for the phrase "kak resolution")
Can you please post a higher resolution version of it

 

[Adephi]

Either my eyesight is more screwed than I believe it is, or your post is a tad erm ... blurry, (politically correct word for the phrase "kak resolution")
Can you please post a higher resolution version of it

I used my phone. Will try later when I get some better tech.

Here is the original post for now

 

[Intuthu Kagesi]

I used my phone. Will try later when I get some better tech.

Here is the original post for now

Thanks so much

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Drikusw]

 

[ARYANTO]

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Paul33]

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Hooked]

Several people reportedly wound up in the ICU after a 'Get Covid' party in Canada
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/covid-party-canada-multiple-people-hospitalized-report-2021-9
24 Sept. 2021

"Several people were hospitalised after a "Get Covid-19" party in Canada, sources told City News Edmonton.

The sources told the media site that the party in Edson, Alberta, happened about two weeks ago, and an undisclosed number of attendees wound up in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Edmonton.

A "Get Covid" party is similar to "chickenpox party," in which people gather to intentionally expose their unvaccinated children to the virus in hopes of gaining natural immunity - a practice paediatricians call a gamble..."

 

[Hooked]

The verdict is in: Pregnant women pass Covid-fighting antibodies to their unborn children
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/pregnant-women-pass-covid-vaccine-antibodies-to-children-2021-9
23 Sept. 2021

"New data suggests Covid-19 vaccines do more than protect mothers-to-be: Pregnant women also pass coronavirus antibodies to their unborn children.

A new study from researchers at New York University found high levels of coronavirus antibodies in the blood of newborns whose mothers had received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. The study looked at 36 newborns and found that all of them had antibodies when they were delivered.

Mothers who'd been vaccinated 13 weeks before giving birth seemed to pass along higher levels of antibodies than mothers who'd been vaccinated more than 20 weeks before giving birth. But the researchers said more data is needed to determine whether there's really a correlation between the timing of the vaccine and a newborn's antibody levels.

It's also not yet clear how well the newborn babies were protected from coronavirus infections, or how long that protection might last. Still, the researchers suggested coronavirus antibodies may give infants protection during the neonatal period - their first four weeks - or longer..."

 

[Adephi]

Several people reportedly wound up in the ICU after a 'Get Covid' party in Canada
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/covid-party-canada-multiple-people-hospitalized-report-2021-9
24 Sept. 2021

"Several people were hospitalised after a "Get Covid-19" party in Canada, sources told City News Edmonton.

The sources told the media site that the party in Edson, Alberta, happened about two weeks ago, and an undisclosed number of attendees wound up in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Edmonton.

A "Get Covid" party is similar to "chickenpox party," in which people gather to intentionally expose their unvaccinated children to the virus in hopes of gaining natural immunity - a practice paediatricians call a gamble..."

We are not going to make it as a species.

 

[Intuthu Kagesi]

We are not going to make it as a species.

Natural selection will resolve a lot of the "problems" ... my concerns are that they take up valuable medical resources, and take innocent people along on their selfish journey

 

[DarthBranMuffin]

 

[Grand Guru]

 

[Silver]

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Thanks @Adephi

Question I have - on that chart - for Pfizer it says near the bottom of the chart that if you take 2 doses they should be 3 weeks apart. Thats 21 days
Yet we have a 42 day gap here in SA?
Why is this?

 

[Adephi]

Thanks @Adephi

Question I have - on that chart - for Pfizer it says near the bottom of the chart that if you take 2 doses they should be 3 weeks apart. Thats 21 days
Yet we have a 42 day gap here in SA?
Why is this?

That chart is mainly based on research done in USA. In the UK they found a better immune response when they where spread out further.

Also the waning effect of immunity is delayed longer. It is suspected the increased number of cases in Israel is due to the short interval they had between doses. At one of the many reasons.

 

[Adephi]

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Down to 5% positivity. Looking much better.

If only we can get the jabs up.

 

[Paul33]

Down to 5% positivity. Looking much better.

If only we can get the jabs up.

I saw an article somewhere sometime recently saying that the jabs have taken a nosedive and they don’t know why

 

[Intuthu Kagesi]

It seems the worlds largest HIV population, South Africa is largely responsible for the mutated Covid versions emerging and spreading across the globe ... Scientists are saying that they harbor the Coronavirus for longer, allowing it to mutate as it reproduces, and that this is why we, amongst others, remain on the "red list"? ... there are a number of articles and papers available on the web on the subject;

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...v-epidemic-stymies-south-africa-s-covid-fight

https://www.biospace.com/article/so...-natural-laboratory-for-sars-cov-2-mutations/