I thought "breakthrough" infections were rare?

[vraiblonde]

So how come every day another prominent person who is fully vaccinated turns up covid positive?

Homeland Security Sec Mayorkas Tests Positive for COVID

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who is vaccinated, tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday morning, U.S. media reported, citing a department spokesperson."Secretary Mayorkas tested positive this morning for the COVID-19 virus after taking a test as part of...

www.newsmax.com

 

[Sneakers]

Not so rare.

UK Vaccine Surveillance Report Says 98% of Adults Have Antibodies, Majority of Vaccine Breakthroughs Aged 40+ - Vision Times

A weekly vaccine surveillance Report from the UK Health Security Agency showed 98% of the country had antibodies yet most cases over 40 were vaccine breakthroughs

www.visiontimes.com

A weekly intelligence report examining vaccine uptake rates, new positive Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) case count, hospitalization, and death by a UK government health agency says that 98 percent of the country’s adult population has antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Nonetheless, the majority of positive cases in demographics aged 40 and up are vaccine breakthroughs

 

[Kyle]

I have no idea what the vaccine is, but I’m convinced it has nothing to do with Covid.

i’ve been around eight people in the last year and a half that I know had Covid. Including one that died.

I never caught it either before or after the vaccine.

And I had 15 months of exposure without the vaccine.

I think it’s a damn placebo.

 

[RoseRed]

Because it isn't as "deadly" as it really is made out to be.

 

[Ken King]

To borrow from another deadly process: Vaccinations "should be safe, legal, and rare".

 

[Kyle]

To borrow from another deadly process: Vaccinations "should be safe, legal, and rare".

Kind of like steak

 

[Ken King]

Kind of like steak

Check prices lately? Most can only get them by an illegal means

 

[Kyle]

Check prices lately? Most can only get them by an illegal means

I haven’t done too bad on that. Bought a whole New York strip a while ago and cut the steaks myself. Price isn’t too bad doing it that way.

I am longing for the days of 6.99 porterhouse steaks on sale at giant or Safeway.

 

[GURPS]

Bought a whole New York strip a while ago and cut the steaks myself. Price isn’t too bad doing it that way.

My wife buys a rib roast and we cut it up into Rib Eye Steaks

 

[Sneakers]

I haven’t done too bad on that. Bought a whole New York strip a while ago and cut the steaks myself. Price isn’t too bad doing it that way.

I am longing for the days of 6.99 porterhouse steaks on sale at giant or Safeway.

I distinctly remember my mom saying if the price of steak went over a dollar a pound she'd stop buying it.

 

[Clem72]

I distinctly remember my mom saying if the price of steak went over a dollar a pound she'd stop buying it.

Relatives on the west coast still send me pictures of steaks they pick up on sale. Safeway and Ralphs routinely doing boneless porterhouse for $5.99/lb or NY Strip and T-Bones for $4.99.

Why does California get the beef deals, they have a lot of cattle but not more than Texas or Florida.

 

[vraiblonde]

Winn-Dixie just had a one-day sale on boneless ribeyes, $5.99/lb. I bought a whole bunch, packed them individually, and put them in the freezer. On

Every Tuesday Fresh Market has boneless chicken breasts $2.99/lb and ground chuck $3.99/lb - the idea with them being that you come in for the cheap meat and end up impulse buying their $12 cookies, $8 bread, etc. If you can control yourself you can get some great deals.

 

[Hijinx]

The New York Strip Loins I was buying for $5.79. went up to $7.59 and the Angus New York Strip Loin was $11.39.

Now Angus may be a nice steer, but there isn't that much difference in their meat.

 

[stgislander]

Wow. Did this thread go off track.

 

[Grumpy]

Wow. Did this thread go off track.

CVS has a sale on Juicy Fruit Gum.

 

[TPD]

CVS has a sale on Juicy Fruit Gum.

in my younger years you would always find a pack of juicy fruit gum in my car or truck. Now it’s tic tacs you find - my false teeth don’t like gum.

 

[Hijinx]

I was neve a gum chewer, but there is a guy that goes to my Church that
is a real gum chewer. He goes up to Communion chewing gum

 

[Kinnakeet]

If covid is in the air everyone should have it I would think or is it just in certain areas and you have to walk past it

 

[Gilligan]

- my false teeth don’t like gum.

I just take mine out and put them next to my toupee so I don't lose them.

 

[Kyle]

I just take mine out and put them next to my toupee so I don't lose them.

Be careful the gum doesn't get stuck in the toupee.