Wow

I heard that it was up, but I hadn't heard 8%!  Do you have a link for that/

This is all I could find:
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

July +0.5% 
So in July it was up 5.4% for the past 12 months.


and this:

My bad, it is the PPI....

https://www.newsdirectory3.com/u-s-ppi-annual-growth-rate-expanded-to-8-3-in-august-hitting-a-new-11-year-high-anue/

I hope your wife just has a regular cold. My neighbor is on day 13, her symptoms are very stuffy head, sinus and nose pressure, and headache, she is very dizzy, presumably from inner ear involvement. She’s been in bed all this time and is very miserable. But her husband and daughter both had mild symptoms and seem to have gotten over it in less than a week.

She seems better today. The trigger to get her tested was her talking about taste and smell. We'll see.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/world/asia/us-air-strike-drone-kabul-afghanistan-isis.html?referringSource=articleShare

So, my wife may have COVID, had her tested today, no results for 36-48 hours. She had cold symptoms for a couple of days now coughing, sneezing and runny nose. It was after we had breakfast out this morning that she said she couldn't smell the perfume she put on nor taste her food.


While you can buy in-home rapid test kits, they sell out as soon as the pharmacies get them in. I did manage to get her a test within out health system. They have a drive through location not far from us. She had Moderna months ago. She is definitely not sick enough to go to the ER so she would never show in that kind of statistic.  I kind of wonder what would make a vaccinated person show up at the ER and need to be admitted.

I seem to be fine, certainly that could change. My vaccination was more recent and is Pfizer.

One thing that grinds my ass is it seems like they are trying to paint Republicans as the one not getting vaccinated. I'm not sure I know any conservative voices that are not vaccinated and do not tell folks to get vaccinated.  It is a lot of middle class folks and a large amount of the black population that are not vaccinated.

Why are we even using an emtionally charged phrase like "break through"?

No vaccine is perfect.  The mRNA vaccines have a demonstrated effectiveness of about 95%.  Which, if the math means anything, would mean that you can expect 5% of the vaccinated people to become infected if exposed.

What if the case were only showing up for those that had Moderna?  Would you not want to know that if you were considering getting vaccinated? 

Here's data I would like to see, of the break through cases, which vaccine(s) were used?  What if it was just Moderna or J&J or Pfizer. Would that data every see the light of day?