So the builder was wearing PPE to ensure the chimney doesn't get a nosocomial infection?

Now now, that's Alberta.

Quebec is the other weirdly racist province. Let's call it the Boston of Canada.

As an immigrant who has been living in Quebec for eleven years, I have never personally experienced any kind of racism except for the occasional lame joke about Nazis that Germans get to hear all around the world. It's the same thing for numerous other immigrants that I have met throughout these years. I have never lived in Montreal but in Chicoutimi, Sept-Îles and Gatineau and I have never had any problems. There are obviously racist people anywhere in the world and exceptional extreme cases from time to time but out of all places I have been to, Quebec is certainly the best place to live. Most importantly, the younger generation in Quebec is particularly open-minded, progressive and welcoming which is very promising for the future. I can identify much more with values in Quebec or in Canada than with values from any other country that I know. If that weren't the case, I would live someplace else, as simple as that.

Hopes rise for end of pandemic as Pfizer says vaccine is 90% effective

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/covid-19-vaccine-candidate-effective-pfizer-biontech

While this sounds definitely promising, we have to wait until the results have been peer reviewed and we know how the ninety percent are actually achieved.

Nice to see some good news; hoping that something like that can be put infront of people before the virus mutates into something that the vaccine isn't targeted for (see also: Danish mink farm fun).

Covid-19 is raging in my home state. We're shattering records for new cases by the day, and our governor's "aggressive" action is to... Reduce bar and restaurant capacity and hours.

I expect that we will have to be vaccinated at least once per year because the virus will inevitably mutate the critical sequences (that's just my super pessimistic prediction without looking at the actual data - I might be wrong).

Researchers still have more questions than answers about coronavirus mutations, and no one has yet found any change in SARS-CoV-2 that should raise public-health concerns.
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Sequencing data suggest that coronaviruses change more slowly than most other RNA viruses, probably because of a ‘proofreading’ enzyme that corrects potentially fatal copying mistakes.
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Many mutations will have no consequence for the virus’s ability to spread or cause disease, because they do not alter the shape of a protein, whereas those mutations that do change proteins are more likely to harm the virus than improve it.
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At a time when nearly everyone on the planet is susceptible, there is likely to be little evolutionary pressure on the virus to spread better, so even potentially beneficial mutations might not flourish.
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It is a possibility, but by no means a certainty, that the virus will acquire mutations that change its susceptibility to antibodies and immunity.
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As population-wide immunity rises, whether through infection or vaccination, a steady trickle of immune-evading mutations could help SARS-CoV-2 to establish itself permanently, says Sheahan, potentially causing mostly mild symptoms when it infects individuals who have some residual immunity from a previous infection or vaccination. “I wouldn’t be surprised if this virus is maintained as a more common, cold-causing coronavirus.” But it’s also possible that our immune responses to coronavirus infections, including to SARS-CoV-2, aren’t strong or long-lived enough to generate selection pressure that leads to significantly altered virus strains. Worrisome mutations could also become more common if antibody therapies aren’t used wisely — if people with COVID-19 receive one antibody, which could be thwarted by a single viral mutation, for example. Cocktails of monoclonal antibodies, each of which can recognize multiple regions of the spike protein, might lessen the odds that such a mutation will be favoured through natural selection, researchers say. Vaccines arouse less concern on this score because, like the body’s natural immune response, they tend to elicit a range of antibodies.
It’s even possible that the D614G change could make the virus an easier target for vaccines.
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As a scientist who has watched HIV mutate to elude many vaccines developed against it, he remains wary of the potential of SARS-CoV-2 to evade humanity’s responses. Luban agrees: “We need to keep our eyes open for additional changes.''

Agreed the the regular vaccination expectation - might be time to pool together with some friends & see about buying shares in big pharma, they're going to have a great decade at this rate

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 relative to controls

Persistent fatigue following SARS-CoV-2 infection is common and independent of severity of initial infection

Impaired spermatogenesis in COVID-19 patients

So much for "only as dangerous as the flu".

No, do not be scared by what happened in Denmark. Not much to worry as of now.

I hope this ages better than the first page of this thread.

I hope this ages better than the first page of this thread.

"muh freedom" is stronger than the will to live

The fact that Covid has developed new strains in such short time, means that no medicine will be ever totally safe and given the aforementioned things, develop different vaccines for different strains will be hard.

This guy, for real, said in return that the people of Europe and Australia were naturally more inclined to submit to their government, and that Americans are just too free willed and independent to do such a thing.