Just one. That’s how you keep things open. What idiot anti maskers and freedom preachers don’t seem to get is that the more people who take precautions the safer it will be for things to stay open.
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Just one. That’s how you keep things open. What idiot anti maskers and freedom preachers don’t seem to get is that the more people who take precautions the safer it will be for things to stay open.
The vaccine is not for sale, nothing Apple can do
*Unless you are a political donor in Florida
No argument from me. My point stands tho, regardless of age, Americans are unhealthy by an large. There are millions of young Americans who are obese, or are immunocompromised in some way through a ***** lifestyle. Just because we see a young person who has undiagnosed pathologies, doesn’t mean they were healthy, but the media doesn’t differentiate that detail in the statistics they report.Sure, statistically, older people die easier from covid. Doesn't mean those who are young didn't die from covid. They still did. Maybe they don't make as bold a dot on your graph but their lives are just as important and most likely could have been prevented if they weren't out and about in the world, and when they were, they wore masks.
We all know that every trip to the grocery store could be the time we catch covid from some idiot who had a block party over the weekend, whats worse is when that idiot also has his mask under his nose.
COVID-19 has killed thousands of young Americans. This is not just a tragedy for the elderly.
Cody Lyster of Colorado and Bryant Boyer-Killion of Illinois both died of COVID-19 at age 21. Their deaths, sadly, are not anomalies.www.businessinsider.com
Stay safe out there Specialists, Creatives, and Genii.
Because Apple is terrific at design, they will be able to design their stores to have adequate ventilation and filtration to exchange the indoor air three times per hour, or more. If they can have silent fans for macs, they can have quiet fans for stores. All you have to do is follow Paula Olsiewski on twitter, she is an MIT PhD and an expert in ventilation. Apple really wants to open their big headquarters, too! They will ventilate the heck out of that sucker, and people will be able to go back to work and design the iPhone 15, the Mac Pro 3, the macs that have phones built into them, the 5G cellphone base stations that go on city buses, Apple Pay for your mom's pizza party, and much much more. I would not be a nano influencer if I did not recommend you to write Mr. Tim and say "we want ventilation!!!" Cheers!
THIS!! I hope Covid will wake up people on the importance of regular exercise and a decent (not even good) diet.
60 Percent of Americans Will Be Obese by 2030
(if you can't read it https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...e.1871030/page-77?post=29646007#post-29646007 )
Cool, maybe just my naivety showing through, haven't paid any particular attention to how it's being rolled out across the world. Just folk earlier in this thread commenting on how they're unemployed and not going for it or for whatever reason they're avoiding it, I figured there'd be a cost. If everyone's getting it at some point, less risk I guess. Don't buy into the whole it's my right not to take it etc. A bit like how it's no-one's right to get in a motor intoxicated & take the life of another and get away with it, just how I see it though, call me old-fashioned.The vaccine is not for sale, nothing Apple can do
*Unless you are a political donor in Florida
If its anything like how they operated when they were open for appointments, they won't have anything out and won't touch anything that isn't sealed.
I am big pro vaccines (I mean, I got my two shots), but the legal basis is way different. One is a compelled action (forcing people to take a vaccine), the other one is a conglomerate of voluntary actions (drinking, driving etc.).
The word “cycle” is in this notice exactly zero times.
The word ”threshold” is in this notice exactly zero times.
A quick search on “cycle thresholds” brings up a million hits on “alternative news” conspiracy sites.
It does not say what you think it does. If you want to say that the cycle threshold was changed in a way that could result in a significant reduction in nationwide metrics, you need to cite something that can support that.
Please correct your false post above.
Read that again— change in labeling about potential changes in performance. You are completely ignoring all of the text in the notice that makes it clear there is no material impact on results today. This is a forward looking effort to avoid bad results in the event of future mutations. It is simply saying that the existing labeling on these 3 tests is no longer comprehensive and needs to be updated.
You are contributing to precisely this problem, though I‘m not sure you intend to. I think you’re suffering from confirmation bias. Look at my post history on this topic and you’ll see I’m far from a book burner or anti-science. You need to follow the science no matter where it leads, not misinterpret results because it fits your perception.
For example, by incorrectly stating that the decline in new cases is a result of a sudden reduction in test sensitivity, you are discouraging people from being tested and trusting the results of those tests, encouraging people to discredit other factors such as behavioral restrictions at the state level and people’s individual changes in behavior patterns. Your interpretation of the notice is wrong, and that interpretation will lead to bad outcomes.
Furthermore, just on the math of it all, your conclusion is nonsensical. Please, listen to what I’m saying, examine the facts, and reconsider spreading bad information.
Maybe you think you’ll convince people that the virus is more prevalent than they think it is and we’re suddenly blind, but you’re also giving people false causality to discredit efforts that are truly effective and when you’re point is found to be wrong after strenuously arguing for it here then you’ll have lost credibility for your arguments.
So let’s look at the math of the situation:
The FDA has approved more than 300 different tests for Covid-19. The notice you linked to addresses 3 of them. Two of which are unaffected because they test multiple sequences of which only one is tweaked by the UK variant, and the third they suggest is not apparently impacted significantly.
So, 0.33% of tests are of interest, but don’t appear to be significantly impacted.
Now, look at the magnitude of the drop in cases as shown in your second link:
That’s, what, conservatively a 50% drop since early January? Probably more.
You are claiming that an insignificant impact on 0.33% of tests has led to more than a 50% decrease in positive results. Now I don’t know how widely used that one test is, but I’d say that even if it was the only test used this doesn’t make any logical sense— the FDA wouldn’t call that kind of impact ”not significant”.
If you think you can pinpoint a particular day that things changed in data that noisy, then you don’t understand statistics.
You also don’t understand the source data— this is the day results were reported, not the day the test was done. Do you also think the virus takes weekends off? You wouldn’t expect to see any reaction to this notice showing up in the data within 24 hours.
Your heart might be in the right place, but I don’t think you are correctly interpreting what you are reading.
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My state (GA) has been essentially open for months.
Shops have barriers, folks wear masks, keep their distance, most fast food places are drive-thru only, some restaurants are open for some indoor and outdoor dining with barriers, some schools are open depending on local rates/tests, etc.
.. .and our statewide cases have been dropping precipitously since the beginning of January after the Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays spike.
....maaaaagical thinking we've got.....maaaaagical thinnnnggggg-king.........
....pay no attention to those nasty new variants that have taken hold and plateaued the case decline at around 76,000 per day. No new surge coming! Everything is fine.
....pay no attention to those nasty new variants that have taken hold and plateaued the case decline at around 76,000 per day. No new surge coming! Everything is fine.
Your risk of a severe COVID outcome is irrelevant if you don't get COVID in the first place. Stop excusing people who care nothing for the health of others.
All of whom died before they otherwise would have because they contracted COVID, many because selfish people weren’t taking the proper precautions.
Do Tennessee med schools teach you that if a fat man is hit by a bus, they died of obesity?
Possible future long hauler. Just because you survive it, doesn't mean you will not have long term effects.
do you like to run? Do you like to bike? do you like to run around the yard with your kids? I'd be concerned if you do.
But knock yourself out.
I don't give a crap about Covid or catching it. No I am not going to kill my grandmother she already passed away from depression caused by all the stupid Covid rules but not the stupid thing it self. Outside I don't wear no stupid muzzle on my face when outside walking. I am forced to wear one inside stores which I avoid for the most part but I take it off as soon as I go out. I hang out at my friends house without masks inside. I call this pandemic a joke. It is all to take control and lose freedoms. 99% who catch it are fine. I am tired of hearing about safe. What safe. I am not going outside to breath air and then drop dead. I do whatever the hell I want and if anyway says otherwise I tell them to shove there mask up there ass.
Agreed. My wife is a nurse on her hospitals covid-19 floor. She deals with infected patients all day every day. Most of the patients she deals with in younger demographics have some kind of underlying issue they were either aware of or unaware of in many cases. I’m not saying perfectly healthy people don’t get this and get wrecked or die. They do, but your point about the overall health of most Americans is spot on and it makes a difference in terms of who gets really sick and who doesn’t. It’s undeniable.
It's easy to call a store non-essential unless your family can't put food on the table because you aren't working.
I am 35 years old. I wear a mask for the safety of others even though it inconveniences me. Calling something a joke that 550k+ people have died from does not reflect kindly on your character. You can only expect the same from others that you give - "I do whatever the hell I want" - you can't really expect others to do any different then? Weren't you posting recently - asking Macrumors to stop posting mask pictures? Interesting.
Tired of seeing articles with people wearing masks.
I have enough of seeing this pandemic outside. I come here for comfort and to read the latest news, but lately you have been posing articles with people wearing masks. Face masks offend me to the point that I rarely go out anymore. If you can't find a picture of someone smiling then don't...
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Good news is you'll be ok since it sounds like you won't be going to the store.
It's possible to turn your life around, and its not just a saying. What would you like to accomplish in life if you could? It wont be easy but start small and over time you will see things start to build up.
When necessary I wear a mask. I also wear seat belts. I wear a bicycle helmet. I wear a hard hat. I wear condoms. I wear earplugs. I wear sunscreen. No big deal.
What the hell does seatbelts have to do with wearing a mask. I am tired of comparing drunk driving and seatbelts to not wearing a mask. If I don't want to wear one it is my choice. I just hate seeing others wearing them. It bothers me mentally.
Okay to be fair I am not going to comment anymore here. Covid topics always get me ticked off and I say things insulting so I apologize for any offensive. This is why most Covid threads I don't post comments.
Okay to be fair I am not going to comment anymore here. Covid topics always get me ticked off and I say things insulting so I apologize for any offensive. This is why most Covid threads I don't post comments.
I know, right?
I go to the food court and hope that I can share straws and other utensils with strangers, especially the "spork", yum yum!
I saw the blue-haired-bloody-mary crowd at McDonalds this morning. These people were all in their 80s and 90s, and they were greeting each other with hugs and kisses and EATING WITHOUT MASKS!
Oh, the humanity!
I am quite certain that these people did not live with each other, because if they did, I would not have been hearing things like, "Good morning!", "hi, nice to see you!", "how was your weekend?".
I mean, really, when you go to McDonalds with people who live in your house, you don't ask those questions at the restaurant because you've ALREADY wished them a good morning, and you ALREADY know how their weekend went. Because, like...you were there when it happened.
I think a lot of our seasoned citizens are just about DONE with Covid. Or they've had their vaccines and now are ready to get back to living.
I call BS on the highlighted sentence, because well, you can't back that up, not even a little.
Amen, brother! (or sister!)
Fear is a strong word.
In the US, we're told that 500,000 have died from Covid. I think that number is inflated by at least a factor of 2. But even if I took the 500,000 and divided it by the 350,000,000 people in the US, that is 1.5% OF 1%. Can you get a smaller number than that? I do think the real covid death cound is probably half that, once you subtract all the heart attack, cancer, seizure, and allergy related deaths that were misreported as Covid deaths.
It's probably less than 100,000 if you also subtract the broken legs too!
Would you like a real problem to worry about? I still think that way too many men pee on the seats in public restrooms, and then don't clean up after themselves or wash their hands when done. This probably contributes to much more cases of staph than to Covid deaths.
Wow, maybe you're the one person in the world who's 100% immune. To everything, including success.
Yeah, but we all choose to take risks or not. I know of a lot of families who've got the kids back in school and they still see grandma and grandpa on weekends.
Many are done with the shutdowns, and many have decided to take the risk.
Heck, I could get in my car, drive down the street, have an airplane crash into me, and I'd STILL be classified as a Covid death. Even if I'm still alive! At least I can still vote after I'm dead from
They're wearing them because it's a condition of their employment.
Wow, can I drive my pickup into the Apple Store? Will the innovation never stop with this company?