2 more weeks before shot 2 for me.

They still don't get to my "age group" here. I'm too young and pretty. Still about three weeks or so for my first dose of thunder.

He thought it was just the cat scratch fever:

Coronavirus-Denier Ted Nugent Tests Positive For COVID-19: 'I Thought I Was Dying'
"I got the Chinese shit," the Trump-loving musician said in a Facebook live video filled with racist slurs.

Heavens to betsy...my flatbread recipe 10 years later.

just got my first dose of covid19 vaccine (Pfizer). yay

just got my first dose of covid19 vaccine (Pfizer). yay

Moronic selfish motherfuckers, part ∞:

117 staffers sue over Houston hospital’s vaccine mandate, saying they don’t want to be ‘guinea pigs’

Q-Anuts will say a Budweiser is how Satan gets inside you. For the rest of the U.S... PROGRESS!

Anheuser-Busch Will Give Away Free Beer if 70% of Americans Get Partially Vaccinated by July 4

A month or so ago many restrictions were toned down, e.g. 1.5 meter distance, wearing mouthmasks, and bars and clubs were reopened, concerts and festivals were allowed again
At the end of June we had only 500 infections
This week we had 7000!! Especially under young people

So we will be having more restrictions again. We need to keep attention to distance again. Bars can only be opened if customers are seated with distance applied, and there's a midnight curfew. Clubs are closed and festivals are canceled, except if there's distance applied which is impossible for the techno festivals like Mysteryland.

^
Infection rates have been rather low-ish in Austria for about a month or two now. But I can see a similar scenario happening here too. Lots of measures have been lifted. Clubs and bars have reopened. They are supposed to only let people in who are either tested, vaccinated or have rather recently recovered from Covid, however, a lot of them don't really check for that and just about let anyone in, no questions asked. People have no regard for personal space or keeping a distance anymore either. Lots of dancing on the edge of an active volcano. It's last year all over again. Summer's euphoria kicking in, no precautions being taken, then the tide turns and the numbers are skyrocketing - lockdowns and harsh restrictions ensue - driving idiots towards reactionary conspiracy theories and extremist ideas. Rinse, repeat.

Here's a translation of a retrospective news article of what happened over the past few weeks in the Netherlands:
How the cabinet was still surprised by the delta variant

So officially you had to be tested to get into a club, but some clubs would allow you in anyway because they made it practically impossible to get the test results in time. Plus apparently (don't think it is mentioned in the article) it was quite easy to reproduce a fake negative test result.

^ Thanks for the link. Different scenario here, at least in Vienna - it's rather easy to get test results quickly here. Even some you can do at home are accepted - ones you have to send in somewhere and wait a few hours to find out the results though - so planning ahead shouldn't be a big problem. However, a lot of locations just don't bother checking, for fear of losing customers probably (which in the long run is kind of stupid considering they'll lose many more if word of a cluster spreads).



The reigning coalition is currently pushing laissez-faire rhetoric and relaxing-of-measures policies for populist reasons. Regional governments are somewhat pushing back though - the Viennese mayor and his party affiliate and former Chancellor candidate Pamela Rendi Wagner have openly proclaimed their discomfort with the lack of care being taken right now - especially with regards to the lifting of the FFP2 mask mandate. The latter of the two being an actual virologist, btw.


I have at least gotten my first part of the vaccine, with the second injection coming soon, so I'm a tad more mentally relaxed now. I am however aware that a good amount of people have still not even received their first shot yet and that's not necessarily down to their personal choice (in some cases it is, but can't help those). The government could have had many more doses ready much sooner, but they seriously bungled this whole thing. And communication has been an issue from the very beginning. So lifting everything prematurely and acting like a) Everyone who wants to is fully vaccinated at this point and b) a vaccination equals inability to spread the virus, is kind of a frightening consensus by the powers that be right now - completely fucking over those that have not had the chance to get vaxxed by now or those who are rightfully concerned about a possible spread still. Right up until the numbers go up again and everyone acts like no one could have known. The human condition is a sucker.

So, in conclusion: Different details, but I can easily see numbers going up again sharply like they did in the Netherlands. The whole thing about testing being rather easy here certainly is a big advantage. But it only works if public institutions actually check for that and if people are not disincentivized to get tested by the lax atmosphere.

Fresh from the press:

I just went to the supermarket, some staff is wearing masks, but customers are not required so noone does (including myself actually). I thought there would have been restrictions already but apparently not ...
I have my first vaccine as well and the second in two weeks.

The estimation by government is that every adult (who wants it) is vaccinated by the end of August and all children of 12 and older by September. So with that we are on track compared with other countries, but we've lowered the barriers perhaps too early and too drastically.

What also wasn't mentioned in the article is that a lot of kids went on holiday to Spain or elsewhere and got infected there.

This is how it's done:

ha ha yes! definitely a keeper

and from its mutant descendants, one with some 20% dark rye flour is my favo(u)rite.

OH MY FUCKING GOD, GET THE FUCKING VACCINE ALREADY, YOU FUCKING FUCKS
by WENDY MOLYNEUX

The HermanCainAward is a thing.

Shit is hitting the fan, once again
Yesterday we had the highest amount of positive tests, ever! with 16.364
New restrictions will be announced tonight which will especially affect bars, restaurants, cinemas and concert halls. Everyone is pissed about it
And Le Guess Who? festival is this weekend as well .... hope they can go through without restrictions.

Wheehee thread recovered!

Austria has hit record-highs as well, with 11.798 new infections today. Up until a few days ago, the previous high point was at 9000-something per day.


Politicians are currently discussing a lockdown solely for unvaccinated people. Everyone projects that it won't be realistically enforcable due to the lax measures taken up until that point and that soon, we'll find ourselves again in a lockdown for all, unvaxxed and vaxxed.


The state I grew up in is at the forefront of this development, with close to 3000 cases. I remember telling people that checking vaccination statuses at restaurants, bars, public places etc. was not just a suggestion, but a necessity. I've been met with laissez-faire rhetoric at best and subtly hostile attitudes at worst in some scenarios. The numbers were low in Summer. Now they are not. Same development as last year. No lessons learned. I feel like I've been talking through my ass. I'm pissed at people not taking this situation seriously. I'm pissed at anti-vaxxers spreading their toxic B.S. I'm pissed at Upper Austria's rising disconnect from reality and reason.


Fuck people. One thread I'd have loved to fade into obscurity.

^


As if to mitigate the frustrated rant above a bit, the city (and state) of Vienna just announced two major things:


1. Clubs, concerts and events with 25 visitors and up are now required to only let in people who are both vaxxed/recently recovered AND able to produce a negative PCR-test.


2. The period after which someone is able to get a booster shot has been lowered to 4 months after the initial immunization. And dates are already available.



So I just booked my third shot. For all the frustrations I had up to this Summer, Vienna's sort of been on a roll ever since. At least administratively so. Randos in public are a different story altogether. There's no guarantee those extra-measures will stop the currently massive spread in its tracks, but for a while now, Vienna had the lowest numbers of infections per capita as compared with the other Austrian states/provinces. Having been the hardliner (Vienna has had the strictest measures of all the regions in Austria for some time now) for a while kind of/sort of paid off. I hope that trend continues.


I also hope that some of the other provinces learn to make some goddamn sense and take proper measures as well.

ICUs in the state of Salzburg are already above capacity, Upper Austria is on the tipping point.

The former is operating by order of triage already - selecting which patients to take care of and which will have to wait/possibly die.

Meanwhile, the two coalition parties are at loggerheads with each other. The Conservative majority is still clinging to the populist route - not wanting to declare a harsh Lockdown for everyone - because they had promised that the pandemic was kind-of, sort-of over for the vaccinated. The minority coalition partner (the Green Party) however is listening to expert opinions and is pushing for harsher measures in light of current developments.

Everyone is projecting that soon enough, the reigning party will be forced to declare said Lockdown - not because they finally decided to listen to their partners, but because by that point, the cases will have exploded to a point that could damage their reputation.

And the cat riddled with worms chases its tail ... again.

And ... Ivermectin is sold out in many pharmacies across Upper Austria. We live in the dumbest possible time-line.

And ... Lockdown. Starting this Monday. Vaccination mandates have been declared and are supposed to take effect in February. Whispers and murmurs about tomorrow's antivaxxer protests having the potential to be ... especially dire. Additional police presence has been announced for vaccination centers and hospitals, because they can't rule out "activities" in or around medical centers. Good times.

So I got it too. After 2,5 years and three shots of vaccine, and when Covid is nearly "over", I got caught up in it too.
Pretty nasty if you ask me. High fever, cough, weakness, yada yada

sorry to hear that. do you know where could you get it?

was it on your hol., or upon your return?

Wish you a nice and swift recovery. Lots of people in my circle had it lately. All the mutations seem to have eluded me so far. Though I have a hunch I might have had the OG virus back in early 2020 (no way to prove that now though). My mum's currently quarantining. Thankfully, she's doing okay.

i have a feeling it's one of those things where if you have it, you know you have it. I can't think of any time where I could say "yes, I have something nasty", so I've still been very fortunate and definitely triple stabbed.

But you have the shake shake...

Many people do know when they have it, but it's not quite such an open-and-shut case with everyone. Some have gotten through an entirely asymptomatical bout. Others had symptoms that were very mild and could easily be confused with other things. Therein lies one of the dangers, I think. One can spread it without having a clue they are infected.

My mother tested negative again now and she's had a mostly mild bout, thankfully.

thank you. I'm 99% healthy now already, just cough a few times a day.


funny thing, I might have got it on Vienna airport when I was getting back from vacation :)