07-28-2021, 01:16 PM
(07-28-2021, 01:04 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-daily-covid-admissions
Looks like the hospitalizations are on the rise in the UK. Hospitalizations usually lag infection rates by about 2 weeks. Reporting infection rates lag what’s happening on the ground by about 2 weeks due to the time it takes to gather the information. Which means hospitalization rates reports are a snapshot of what was happening about a month ago. Same thing for deaths, but the lag behind the hospitalizations reports by about another two weeks or longer.
We’ve know that vaccinated people with break through infections can be contagious even before Covid-19. Same applies to vaccine preventable disease and their respective vaccines, but it happens at much reduced rates.
The Covid survival rate for your grandfather and you isn’t the same. Your 98 y/o grandfather’s risk of death is 600 times greater than a person age 18-29.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html
You’re using stats without the proper context.
https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid?country=~USA
Finally, yes, recommendations change based upon the situation. No different than if you’re driving through a thunderstorm or rounding a hairpin turn; you may have to adjust your speed for safety purposes. Or not and possibly crash and burn.
Everything about this post enforces why I think its not only premature, but also a bit harsh to impose such punishments for NFL players and teams. If the Delta hospitalization rates skyrocket, and death tolls start to rise, combined with the pfizer shot potentially not being as effective against delta, then everything is going to change again big time. I understand some rules and guidelines for the NFL, but what they came up with so far seems ridiculous at this point in time. Now also considering the fact that most NFL players are between the ages of 18-29. I mean it doesnt make sense. Most of the older, higher risk coaches, staff, refs probably already got the shot, I mean, I'm my grandpa's medical poa and yes I got him th shot even after he survived covid. I feel kind of bad now because he reacted badly with it. But players, the young, healthy and least likely group of people to get it, get it bad, die from it, etc are being punished for not wanting the shot? I just dont see how this works out well in the end for many reasons. I think its too early to put those kind of harsh punishments in place where a whole team is punished because one player for something we still dont fully understand or how it will play out. Totally ridiculous if you ask me. Roger Goodell is an idiot. Always had been.
