Therapists: every now and then, you should scan your patient roster, and see whether the makeup of your patient population reflects the population of people in your area. If it doesn't, for whatever reason, you are part of systemic discrimination. Yes, it will require sacrifice.
I've already seen misinterpretation.
"You are part of" does not mean "solely responsible"
"Will require sacrifice" does not mean "must work for free"
I'm sorry that the world works the way it does, but you are either someone who works to correct barriers or someone who doesn't.
Similarly, reducing your carbon footprint barely puts a dent in the climate change crisis yet doing so, while influencing others to do so, and advocating for change at every level is *necessary* to affect climate change.
Please read the whole sentence above, until the end, before you try to counter the above. And if you are going to counter it (I love debate), don't be disrespectful.
Otherwise, you're just helping me fine-tune my blocking skills.
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"Vaccine Math for GBD Flat-Earthers"
or "Don't Be Like Kyrie"
Being vaccinated reduces your chance of infection from COVID by about 5-fold.
Consider this the "peer review" for all the 💩GBD/contrarian people who deny that vaccination prevents transmission.
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Hypothetical! Math!
100 unvaccinated basketball players (like Kyrie Irving) get a *significant* COVID exposure of some COVID-filled room. Some percentage (let's say for arguments sake 20%) get infected themselves.
100 x 0.2 = 20
Now we have 20 infected players.
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Each of these 20 players runs an elite camp with 30 unvaccinated kids (lots of indoor time, some chalk talk, etc). That's 20 x 30=600 exposures. Let's assume it follows the dynamic of the CDC report regarding spread to kids indoors. 50%.
We now have 1 years (Apr20-Mar21) of the pandemic and its association with suicide rates in the US (per @CDCgov). Pretty much every month (including the most recent) showed a substantial decrease compared to the previous five years.
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Here is the same data but comparing the sum of the past five years to the pandemic year. The overall average decrease is 4.4% compared to the past 5 years together, and 5.4% compared to the previous year.
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There will be breakdowns of data coming soon (when Wonder is updated) re: race, age, and gender.
I will get this data out as quickly as I can & visualize it in a way that puts it into context. Media people would do well to follow my example and include historical context.
It's a sad graph for UCSF contrarians and medpage today editors, but a good day for everyone else. Unequivocally, there is significant benefit *EVEN WHEN CONSIDERING THE MILD MYOCARDITIS* to using vaccines in adolescents.
Thank you to all of my followers and followers adjacent. Throughout August and September, I have been asking you to donate to Indigenous organizations and I would match up to $2000. Well, we broke through. We raised $2,295.31, which I will happily match, for $4,590.62!!
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These charities, organizations, and people directly benefited from your kind gestures. My match is distributed as well to:
On BC's first "official" (please make it statutory) Truth and Reconciliation day, I acknowledge that I was born lands stolen from peoples decimated by colonization, and the impact of this reverberates today with systemic barriers and discrimination against Indigenous peoples.
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Absolutely incredible: 1 in 500 Americans have died of COVID in the 1.5 years of its prevalence.
0.2% of ALL Americans.
0.05% on August 9/2020 (159d)
0.1% on Dec 22/20 (133d)
0.15% on Feb 17/20 (59d)
0.20% on Sept 14/2020 (209d)
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Since March 3, 2020 (first ten deaths recorded), the COVID death rate: 1,183 per day. Currently, the US is adding about 1,800 deaths per day, **ABOVE** the average for the entire pandemic.
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We *know* non-pharmaceutical interventions (masks, ventilation, stay home if sick, test and trace, keep yo' distance) work. Yet we still have jurisdictions resisting these things.
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Relieving news out of Japan - the spike of suicides seen in women in the fall of 2020 has dissipated and since April of 2021 suicides are similar to 2018 levels.
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When taking both male and female suicides, levels in the past few months have been at record lows.
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Japan's suicide reporting has led to many western reports of the impact of the pandemic, however it should be pointed out that the pandemic in Japan has never been worse, and Japan is in its fifth lockdown.