Holy Shit - some of those positive tests arriving in Jamaica from England last week

[malaise]

are the new strain. Politicians and their corporate allies are killing people
Four of the 20 persons who tested positive for Covid have the new strain.
Positivity rate in Jamaica is the highest in the last eight weeks.

[monmouth4]

1. Oh malaise, stay safe. I'm so sorry Jamaica is going through this. Better days ahead I pray. n/t

[OnDoutside]

2. I'm not in the least surprised. We're in for a scary few months.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Time for international isolationism.

We need to stop this virus if we want to have a world to live in, in 2021.

[malaise]

7. Sadly he airline and hotel industries rule

It will be much worse in two weeks

[wnylib]

14. Too late for that, I'm afraid.

I suspect that the rapid rise in cases in the US is due only partly to people gathering at holidays and ignoring precautions. I think the new strain has been in the US for a while. The cases discovered recently in Colorado and California came from people who had not traveled. That means community spread already exists here.

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. Point is.....

don't add another variable into the each national case.

[Blue Owl]

4. Shit, that ain't the first news of 2021 you wanna hear

Stay inside and self-isolate!

[LisaL]

5. Of course it's a new strain.

It's a safe bet it's everywhere by now.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Rasta be with you. Stay safe...

[IcyPeas]

8. From NY Times: it's in 33 countries already

The finding brings the number of countries that have detected the variant to at least 33 since Britain announced finding it on Dec. 8, and the number of countries barring travelers arriving from Britain to more than 40. Some countries are also imposing restrictions on travelers, including U.S. citizens, who in recent weeks visited the countries where the variant has been detected.

The Philippines expanded restrictions on travelers from Britain and 18 other countries, adding the United States after a third state, Florida, reported an infection involving the variant. Many countries have already restricted travel from the United States because of its staggering number of infections — the most in the world.

California and Colorado have also found cases involving the variant. None of those infected in the United States had traveled recently, so the new strain is clearly circulating, though at unknown levels.

[malaise]

10. We're all going to have to shut down

This is madness

[Ponietz]

9. We are witnessing the corporatist equivalent of human sacrifice

on the altar of the sacred market of greed. At least the Aztecs honored their victims.

[malaise]

11. You nailed it

They don't give a flying fuck about the majority of on citizens

[Delphinus]

12. Yes!

A story I read yesterday from a Medium writer, Umar {don't recall his last name} spoke of the humans being basically sacrificed for the economy.

I feel we are nothing but cogs in this wheel of money for them.

[smirkymonkey]

32. Umair Haque.

I like his articles on Medium. However there are a lot of RW commenters who give him a hard time. I defend him whenever I get the opportunity.

[wnylib]

17. And the Aztecs sedated them, first.

[DemoTex]

13. The positive test rate here in upstate South Carolina is 33.2% .. insane!

When the new strain gets here (if it is not already here) .. well, I can't even comprehend it. Yet the partying goes on, football goes on, school will go on next week, etc., etc., and my RWNJ neighbors prance around maskless like they have some devine protection.

[roamer65]

16. As long as airline flights continue, it will spread.

Think of the “12 Monkeys” movie from 1995.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Guy I Know From Golf Course...

...and only lives about 3 blocks away, is going to visit friends in FL on the 14th.
Their SWA flight is costing them $45 each, roundtrip, Chicago to Ft. Myers. Grayhound would be over $160 per person.
The airlines aren't exactly dissuading travel with discounting like that.
Edit: I told him he was nuts to do it, but all he could think was they'll never get a deal like that again.

[roamer65]

19. 🦠

I love that guy...to death.



Signed,

His friendly SARS-CoV-2 buddy.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. He & His Wife Are 70

That cheap ticket was all that mattered.
They know better, but the price!!!
That's why I blame the airlines, too! A $45 round trip ticket for a thousand mile flight is encouraging winter travel.
COVID shift in their model.
My wife & I used to go to Key West every few years. Have friends in three different keys.
One year, we went in late March. $975 for both of us round trip.
We got a wild idea to go down for New Year's Eve that same year.
Checked on prices. $1,050 EACH!
Winter flights appear to normally be higher.
Now, $45 round trip in January? That's not discouraging flying!

[paleotn]

24. Whaaa? Ugh.

Just ugh. Whenever I think I can no longer be surprised by human stupidity, they raise the bar and surprise me again. Or is that lower the bar? Ugh.

[fwvinson]

21. Now, I'm going to have to watch it again.

[roamer65]

25. ...

The part the really hit me in the movie is where Madeleine Stowe writes “5,000,000,000 dead” on the side of the building.

[LovingA2andMI]

30. This....

12 Monkeys - 2021 Time.

[Aussie105]

20. A few weeks won't do it.

I can see the virus spreading throughout 2021, and not be under control until 2022 or 2023. Depending on vaccines making their way to everybody, and being effective.

Those who wanted to protect the economy by pretending it was business as usual, will find things falling apart anyway.

[LovingA2andMI]

31. Try 2025...

And yes. Which is why the immediate vaccine miracle was always a fantasy -- yet to say so folks dismissed such being on the anti-vakking side of the USA.

[mchill]

22. A 50% increase in transmission is far more lethal

Than a 50% increase in fatality rate. It’s all in the arithmetic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0zJNDM-c9WfI4ed8cMpXSJMyvD_gvynFod7W65sc3W6piUTLn4MQMpUng

Kucharski compares a 50 percent increase in virus lethality to a 50 percent increase in virus transmissibility. Take a virus reproduction rate of about 1.1 and an infection fatality risk of 0.8 percent and imagine 10,000 active infections—a plausible scenario for many European cities, as Kucharski notes. As things stand, with those numbers, we’d expect 129 deaths in a month. If the fatality rate increased by 50 percent, that would lead to 193 deaths. In contrast, a 50 percent increase in transmissibility would lead to a whopping 978 deaths in just one month—assuming, in both scenarios, a six-day infection-generation time.

[paleotn]

26. Ironically, the average human's

...inability to grasp sometimes even simple mathematics is now our undoing. Sheds a new light on that age old question asked by students in every age...."how is all this math going to help me later in life?" Well, it could help you make informed decisions during a global pandemic that WON'T lead to your death or the deaths of others. Math teachers should beat their students over the head with that from now on.

[barbtries]

23. stay home Malaise!

I hope you have been.

This virus is vicious.

[denvine]

27. So sorry to hear this!

Not surprising given the negligent attitude of the power brokers! Money rules. Stay safe!

[Evolve Dammit]

28. What really sucks is that Cult 45 wants infection. They are getting what they wanted. Damn them.

Stay safe Mon.

[LovingA2andMI]

29. Airtravel should have been SHUT DOWN for six months

However, American "exceptionalism" would never allow such a smart move to take place.

[Lucinda]

33. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[bdamomma]

34. Stay safe

malaise, we are all in this virus together. Wear your mask, social distance and wash hands. :candle