Yeah, I pulled into the designated area and a nurse asked us some questions then decided a PCR test wasn't necessary and gave us kits to take home.

Just make sure your swab is deep enough it tickles your brain.

:thumbs:

Is there no difference between the test on-site and the take-home test? Both need to go up in your nose....?:heckno:

Someone said you can swab inside your mouth, is that true?

The take home rapid test doesn’t instruct you to go deep like the PCR test. It only days 1/2” inside your nostril as far as I remember then you hold your nostrils shut against the swap and spin it some more.

Nothing compared to the PCR

Dr. Henry had a news conference today at 1:30.


really urging all private businesses and public sector to active business continuity plans. -multiple layers of protection urged to protect employees and customers as part of these BCPs.


She even mentioned plexiglass barriers in rooms, staggered schedules for employees in businesses so that people eat meals in different times.

Good luck with acquiring plexiglass with my public sector employer. -would be years before plexiglass barriers are even set up in my workplace. LUL

In other words, be kind, be calm, be safe?

I dunno ... tuning her out a bit. She's reached her expiry date, great for the first almost 2 years but we need another spokesperson, another voice, even if the message is stay the same damn course.

she's OK, she just needs an anger translator, i suggest luthor

Well it's not like they are willing to do anything new. Everything is about see the numbers first, well they can't even keep track of the numbers now. Now what. They really dropped the ball on this one. FailFish I called it 2 years ago, there's no economy without a healthy population. One of my co workers just called in positive today we'll see how that goes.

^It's not really a prophecy if you're citing the obvious...

And honestly, despite the people whining and BC's failing (of which there are many), we're still better than other provinces by far.

All the people complaining they can't go to the gym, imagine being told you can't walk your dog after 9pm or face 4 digit fines.

just saw this on twitter

True, but imagine being told you can't walk your dog after 9pm but having 10 guests over at your house is totally cool. How they pick and choose what's "safe" is bullshit especially with a variant like this where it's unavoidable.

Are drive through testing covid sites closed again because of the weather?

Got my 3rd dose of Pfizer today, very little arm soreness but will see what tomorrow brings. The nurse put an info/date sticker on the back of my vaccine card...these things are eventually going to look like license plates with stickers upon sticker upon stickers.

anyone know whats going on with the Johnson vaccine? cant find info at all if its available here

COVID-19 vaccines

thanks for that. the only thing I could find when I searched, was that was in November. going to check tommorow morning

I know of a couple people who have gotten it recently and they said it was no hassle, so hopefully that's still the case.

The gps chip does not come from the vaccine

The chip goes right into your brain by the swab, so all the antivaxxers can get tagged

They're not waiting for the wave to get big - HK is going into full lockdown starting this weekend. Max 2 per table at restaurants (depending on category), no dine in after 6pm, karaoke, mahjong, bars, sports centers, gyms, etc closed

The Omicron breakthrough was traced to two Cathay cargo employees who broke their 3 day home quarantine and went for dim sum and then drinking at a bar later that night. So they immediately switched to total quarantine 7 day policy for airline crew, instead of self administered at home, Cathay shut down for a week to adjust (including grounding all cargo flights), and those two were canned.

They got everyone who was in the restaurant and sent them into quarantine, but it was too late. People are starting to test positive with Omicron, and it's just a matter of time before we see thousands per day.

I agree that we should switch the numbers we look at to hospitalizations and deaths.

Vaccination bookings are packed. What's weird though is like 60% of the time people are choosing Sinovac, which is proven to be not much better than having no vaccine at all. Even with 3 doses, they suggest getting a 4th of Pfizer if you have it. Sinovac was never this popular except in the beginning, so I'm not sure why this is happening. All these reluctant people might as well stick to being reluctant. So weird.

^ it’s because it’s not a mRNA vaccine.

It’s the same thing here, all the anti vaxxers that are finally “giving in” are doing so on the grounds of getting the J&J vaccine… because it’s not mRNA and some of their truth telling people online have said that it’s okay to get that one I guess. My coworker who refuses to get it is on a waiting list for that one now after her pay got cut off.

The City of Vancouver Traffic Cams are useful! Looks like there are 2 lanes of cars lining up to get the vaccines on Cambie and 33rd for the St. Vincent site.

https://trafficcams.vancouver.ca/cambie33.htm

https://trafficcams.vancouver.ca/cambie29.htm

With case numbers quickly losing meaning, more people are focusing on hospitalizations. Currently 298 in hospital, 86 in ICU.

Hospitalizations are up 54.4% from a week ago, and up 8% from a month ago.
ICU are up 30.3% from a week ago, but down by 9.5% from a month ago.

From Dec 23 to 29, unvaxxed people made up 16% of cases (ie. 84% were vaccinated)
From Dec 16 to 29, unvaxxed people made up 55% of hospitalizations

There's a lot of cool info on this page (Note that there are tabs you go through, ie. "Outcomes by Vax1, Outcomes by Vax2", etc:
COVID-19 Regional Surveillance Dashboard
https://i.ibb.co/hC0yndK/001.png

On another note, wife got her 3rd shot of Pfizer and it put her on her ass. She was perfectly fine with 1st and 2nd Pfizers lol.

I read this as they put the shot up their ass, thinking like what!??.. Is there some new method to getting boosters now because I'd have to reassess if it's going up my butt.

Is this not normal at other Costcos?

Ever since Covid lineups at Costco Still Creek to pay have been wrapped all the way to the back to where the toilet paper/pop/cleaning products are.

Moves fairly quickly, just gotta look out for assholes trying to casually "merge" into your lane and budge haha.

The following are some of the reasons that my cousin in Hong Kong has told me about as far as why some of her coworkers and friends are choose Sinovac over BNT:

- the perception that Sinovac has less side effects than BNT
- concerns about unknown long term effects of mRNA vaccine
- They have no interest in getting vaccinated in the first place, thinking that masking and other anti-COVID measures would be enough to fend off infections. So even though they know Sinovac is useless, that'd rather get that than BNT

As far as I can remember, initially when HK was still reporting post-vaccination deaths, the count between Sinovac and BNT was something like 2:1 -- ie. out of 3 post-vaccine deaths, 2 had taken Sinovac while 1 had taken BNT.

Another nutty thing is -- a sizable portion of the HK population continue to think that COVID vaccination is some devious government scheme, and that they should oppose it just because the HKSAR gov is doing everything it can to push for higher vaccination rates. FailFish But I guess the US has a sizable population thinking along the same lines too...