COVID Thread

[Gomez Adams]

The Wreath of Khan

 

[Zeedox]

Reliant sits at Z -10000 meters in the Wreath nebula awaiting Khan

 

[Gomez Adams]

What the hell? My posts from yesterday are all landing in the wrong threads. *sigh* Bad day.

 

[Zeedox]

I thought, perhaps he's had some eggnog...

 

[Gomez Adams]

I thought, perhaps he's had some eggnog...

No. A couple of beers though.

Getting old.

My daughter and her boyfriend are coming over today to spend a few days with us. I bought another bottle of Jim Beam for eggnog and a bottle of Absolute and Kahlua and a few cartons of half n half to make white Russian's with.

So if I go off the rails, you'll know why.

 

[Zeedox]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-mutating-immunity-1.6691372

 

[Gomez Adams]

And I just got my omicron updated booster a few weeks ago. Figures.

 

[Zeedox]

 

[Zeedox]

Highly immune evasive omicron XBB.1.5 variant is quickly becoming dominant in U.S. as it doubles weekly

XBB.1.5 now represents about 41% of new cases nationwide in the U.S., according to CDC data.

www.cnbc.com

The Covid omicron XBB.1.5 variant is rapidly becoming dominant in the U.S. because it is highly immune evasive and appears more effective at binding to cells than related subvariants, scientists say.

XBB.1.5 now represents about 41% of new cases nationwide in the U.S., nearly doubling in prevalence over the past week, according to the data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The subvariant more than doubled as a share of cases every week through Dec. 24. In the past week, it nearly doubled from 21.7% prevalence.

 

[Gomez Adams]

People not getting vaccinated and boosted are just acting as incubators for new strains of covid.

 

[Zeedox]

Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities

To survive the work-from-home revolution, cities must let developers convert office buildings into deeply weird apartments.

nymag.com

The nation’s office buildings aren’t as empty as they were before COVID vaccines became widely available in spring 2021. But they’re still far less populated than they were in 2019. A recent analysis of Census Bureau data from the financial site Lending Tree found that 29 percent of Americans were working from home in October 2022. In New York City, financial firms reported that only 56 percent of their employees were in the office on a typical day in September.

When only 50 percent of a company’s staff leave their homes in the morning, that firm’s desire for floorspace plummets. If storm-clouds appear on the economic horizon — like, say, a central bank dead set on slowing the economy to kill inflation — downsizing your office becomes the easiest way to cut expenses. Thus, as rising rates have laid tech low, San Francisco’s signature office towers have emptied out. In New York, meanwhile, Meta has ditched 450,000 square feet of office space. Across the nation as a whole, only about 47 percent of offices are occupied.

 

[Gomez Adams]

Half the office complexes around here were emptying out before covid ever hit. They keep on building them but nobody is leasing them.

It's yet another bubble brought on by bogus bookkeeping that leads to unrealistic projections.

And in the end it won't matter because when it all collapses the government will yet again bail all the banks out that financed all of it.