dws-2

There's nothing wrong with what Apple is doing, at least in a capitalist culture. Once a company get too big and gets too much pricing power, then it's the government's job to step in and even the playing field. Apple is functioning correctly; the government is not.

At least the charging issue will be fixable with an update. I've never had good luck with external monitors using Apple laptops, though.

I hope it's the same "additional time" they needed for the magic charging mat.

designr said:

dws-2 said:

However, it is _less_ likely that a vaccinated person would get sick and spread Covid.

Is there any data on this?

What I've read on this is that vaccinated people who get a delta-variant "breakthrough" infection seem to be more likely to be asymptomatically infectious.

I think what you're saying is that, once sick, vaccinated people spread it just as effectively as unvaccinated, which is true, with the caveat that the vaccinated tend to have a shorter period of time when contagious. What I was trying to say is that vaccinated people were less likely to get (and therefore spread) covid.

The protection of the vaccines from getting sick from Delta ranges anywhere from a low of about 35% (in other words, about 1/3, which is if three unvaccinated people get sick, then two vaccinated people get sick under the same conditions) to a high of about 80%. The range might be because of the differences in the populations being tested and the time since vaccination. For example, in Israel, the number is around 35%, maybe because it has been a long time since initial vaccination. In England, the protection is much better, maybe because they spaced out their shots more widely, and the time since people's second shot is much shorter.

What is confusing is that the CDC, until recently, was combining numbers from Delta and non-Delta covid, which incorrectly made the protection from the vaccine seem higher than it is. In general, the CDC has done a bad job of monitoring and updating when new information becomes available. They have also been really bad at communicating, making absolute statements one day, then changing it the next day. This is a fast changing situation, and communication should be clear about that uncertainty rather than state everything as a fact.

steven n. said:

I personally think my sister contacted it at CES (about 50,000 people from China) this year. 18 days after returning from Vegas, she got the worst case of the flu with serious respiratory issues. Because she was outside the (then) 14 day incubation period, it was “just the flu” ruled by the ER doctors. 6 weeks later she is still getting over it. 

Shortly afterwards, I got a 4 day case of the flu which hit my muscles and joints something fierce. I was also at CES. 

I strongly suspect my sister got corona virus. Me? I don’t know.

i think it is WAY under-reported. 

You're describing a flu, and there's no way of knowing its source. You may just be one of the millions of people who get the flu every year. I had a severe flu four years ago much like yours, but it was just the ordinary flu, which of course kills tens of thousands every year. In fact, based on what we know, the major issue with isolating the coronavirus is that it's pretty mild in most cases.

In fact, I wonder if total flu deaths will actually be lower than expected this year because people are actually practicing decent sanitation. It's difficult to know, but nine times out of 10, things are better than the media reports. Of course, there's always the outlier that everyone points to.