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Heading to bed, last day in NY is tomorrow and it is going to be a busy one.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

but the vaccines must be doing something. From where I sit, since the vaccines began rolling out in the US, the number of infections have dropped. In India, they're screaming out for Vaccines amongst other things, so I guess they think they're worthwhile.

I have people in their 80s who I care for, I don't want them dying before they have to, so if vaccines make their lives safer, then why not use them.

It's about protecting everyone, not just ourselves I believe.

They help, for sure. And they have risks, for sure. But it is very clear that the benefits outweight the costs, at least for normal adults. But if they are effective, in whatever way, then we need everyone to get them so that we can eliminate the threat. No vaccine is all that effective if only a few people get them.

JUst got the photos taken of our old house for the sale. It looks SO good after all the updates we did and the professional cleaners came through!

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just ordered our Starlink for our new home!

Make sure we get a full review

Ordered, but might take a while before it arrives.

Also working on getting the existing fiber sped up. We have fiber at 2Mb/s, jajaja.

I think we need more bandwidth than that.

Just ordered our Starlink for our new home!

@marigabyfrias said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Haven't posted anything in ML since like forever haha. I just published this video on Youtube. Just goofing around with some new gadgets I got the in the past week. Cheers!

OMG, a while Maggie has appeared!

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The numbers are out and you can see the effectiveness of the vaccines.

Yes, and it's only really effective against serious infections. Some of the vaccines (remember, whole regions of the world can't get the really effective ones and no children can - nor can people pick which they get) are only like 65% effective against infection, but nearly 100% effective in stopping a serious complication from infection.

So stopping the infection isn't even on the radar realistically. The name of the game is lowering infection rates to allow hospitals to have capacity while stopping serious infections to allow people to live and hopefully recover.

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

A successful vaccination means you are fully immune and you don't get sick at all after exposed to the Covid-19 virus. An unsuccessful vaccination means your body never reaches full immunity after the 2 weeks following completion of vaccination.
So, for the small percentage of people the vaccination does not work, that's what I was referring to in the part I wrote that you left out of your quote. The numbers are out and you can see the effectiveness of the vaccines.

That's not what it means. A vaccine is successful if it makes you "as immune" as you would be if you had already been infected. Which actually the vaccines are sometimes doing even better than that, which is mind blowing. This infection is changing the rules for everything.

But the reinfection rate is getting bad. That's part of the problem.

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

USA COVID Deaths 2020: 581K (with many not reported)
USA Driving Deaths 2020: 42K (highest in 13 years, 8% increase attributed to COVID)

So way more than 1000% higher from COVID vs driving, which a huge increase in the driving risk believed to be caused by COVID-induced pattern changes in driving.

Wow... that's surprisingly low!

No kidding, I figured it was way, way higher as well. Still at 40K I want to see that risk go away. That's nearly 1000 per state, per year. That means nearly everyone knows someone who died from that.

That said, someone we know died from car accident (single vehicle, totally her own fault, no one else involved) last night.