Dave
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fuck off with your conspiracy shit, this is the news thread, there is a thread for your moronic shit, I think you’ve already posted in it.
Coronavirus around the world thread
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fuck off with your conspiracy shit, this is the news thread, there is a thread for your moronic shit, I think you’ve already posted in it.
Dave
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Nicholas
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What measures are in place to prevent shoppers from not scanning all of the items they have taken?
Dave
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Mainly trust and the threat of a random spot check.
By the way, this isn’t self service it’s actually scan as you go, so you take the item and scan and pack each item into your shopping bags individually in the aisles. You go to the paypoint pictured and scan a barcode, pay and leave.
yes, the stuff on the rack appear by magic
Dave
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A lot of stuff doesn’t get touched as it is put on the shelf, you’ll get 12 bottles or tins on a cardboard tray and the whole tray is simply deposited on the shelf.
and none of the other customers would touch anything either
Dave
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not if you take from the back of the shelf where you can see the product hasn’t been moved. Benefit of also usually getting a fresher product with a lot of stuff.
Dave
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Though of course you are moving the discussion quite far from the original topic under discussion which was cashiers.
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I've finally stop sanitising my groceries.
Dave
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Like when I went to the mall for the first time since lockdown a year ago. Fear and habits are powerful forces.that must have taken some effort
COVID pandemic may have driven a flu strain into extinction
It's well-known that COVID-19 pandemic restrictions pretty much quashed the 2020-2021 flu season, with influenza cases falling to never-before-seen lows in the United States.
Dave
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How much less likely are you to spread covid-19 if you're vaccinated?
Vaccination still greatly reduces the risk of infecting others despite the arrival of the delta variant, recent studies show
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People who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 are far less likely to infect others, despite the arrival of the delta variant, several studies show. The findings refute the idea, which has become common in some circles, that vaccines no longer do much to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“They absolutely do reduce transmission,” says Christopher Byron Brooke at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Vaccinated people do transmit the virus in some cases, but the data are super crystal-clear that the risk of transmission for a vaccinated individual is much, much lower than for an unvaccinated individual.”
A recent study found that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant are 63 per cent less likely to infect people who are unvaccinated.
This is only slightly lower than with the alpha variant, says Brechje de Gier at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, who led the study. Her team had previously found that vaccinated people infected with alpha were 73 per cent less likely to infect unvaccinated people.
What is important to realise, de Gier says, is that the full effect of vaccines on reducing transmission is even higher than 63 per cent, because most vaccinated people don’t become infected in the first place.
De Gier and her team used data from the Netherlands’ contact tracing system to work out the so-called secondary attack rate – the proportion of contacts infected by positive cases. They then worked out how much this was reduced by vaccination, adjusting for factors such as age.
De Gier says they cannot calculate the full reduction in transmission due to vaccination, because they don’t know exactly how much vaccination reduces the risk of infection. But even assuming vaccination only halves the risk of infection, this would still imply that vaccines reduce transmission by more than 80 per cent overall.
COVID-19 Vaccines
Vaccines are seen as one of the best ways to stop COVID-19. Learn more about the types of vaccines, including the newly approved Novavax.
www.webmd.com
Nicholas
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But carry on protesting because "muh rights!"
Novel coronavirus discovered in British bats
A coronavirus related to the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans has been found in UK horseshoe bats—according to new collaborative research from the University of East Anglia, ZSL (Zoological Society of London), and Public Health England (PHE).