Nice to see levels relatively low in BC. Wonder if it correlates with higher rates of fall booster uptake?

Just had lunch with a physician friend who confidently told me they weren’t worried about COVID because “it’s just a virus just like any other”. Wondering if anyone has seen any reputable research that indicates that COVID is no more dangerous than other common viruses.

This is how he writes on discord
No caps no commas

It’s the repeated, correct use of commas that totally gives it away

COVID wastewater levels “high” in BC. Everywhere else “low”.

I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right.

Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵

5. One is leaving a ton of money on the table if one aspires to a zero trade balance with each and every trading partner.

One can run a net-zero trade balance while maintaining positive balances with partners who need what we produce, and negative balances with others who produce what we need.

#COYS
I’ve kept these wise words from a Celtic fan. Here’s hoping we’ve turned the corner.

2 things can be true (even if was a bit milder). Your risk of dying if you catch it can be lower, and your risk of catching it and dying can be higher.

Unfortunately I’m not sure that our public health officer in BC will be up to task. The minimizing is strong in this one.

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/

The Vancouver twitter and Reddit communities are sharing stories of family members with conjunctivitis and flu symptoms, so maybe🤷‍♀️ but seems unlikely with this strain.

Scary thing is that this teen has no known contact with birds, unlike previous human cases in poultry workers.

We meet the criteria for “worst-case scenario” and actually exceed it yet the PH response remains zero. Please amplify this.

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Of course they do