[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19 vaccine situation

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-03-31, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 3/31/2021 11:04 AM, David Jones wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 10:42:51 AM UTC-4, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
>>> The USA is making good progress.
>>> As 65+ we had our 2nd Moderna doses 2 weeks ago in the the USA - NH.
>>> Our 30 year old daughter signed up today for an April appointment.
>>> 18+ can sign up later this week.
>>
>> It's generally been taboo to discuss the age factor in COVID-19 fatalities, but generally the
>> state Governors have prioritized the right people.
>>
>
> Is that an Ohio thing?  We sure discuss it here.  Protecting those older 
> than one's self is rather important.  Aside from "we like them", if they 
> go, who's next?  I avoid mirrors ....
>

Interesting. I never even considered this.

Here in the UK, we may not exactly have the greatest politicians in the
world, but at least we do have (now at least) good reporting of these
types of things so we now have good data about what the death rate is
for each age group.

Even when we didn't have good reporting early on, this is exactly the
kind of analysis that people in the UK were calling for from the beginning.

Performing this analysis may lead to uncomfortable truths (for example,
early bad policy here in the UK regarding care homes), but it is exactly
that kind of data that helps us to understand what is going on so we
can do something about it.

Simon.

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