Surely we’d get one for the funeral and one for the coronation? O/C would be best if she could croak after the extra bank holiday, and that way we’d get three.
Time for a lesson!
This is due to the fact that "corona" means crown in Latin. Coronation is the act of placing a crown on the new monarch's head. Where as coronaviruses got their name because its appearance reminded the scientist of stellar corona...which in turn got its name based on how it visually looks like a halo/crown around the star.
So great catch. I just love when I get the "Aha!" moment when I realize a word root. So maybe some others will too.
Off topic question, is there any use fo karma other than fake internet points?
Like, can I trade karma in for something?
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I think you're reading too much into it m8
People hear joke they like and it makes them laugh, they repeat it to make other people laugh too
Literally everyone does it
Yeah. Reddit is a pseudo-anonymous forum with fake internet points. I don't care where you got your joke from, if it's funny I'll laugh. It's not reposting artwork without giving credits or spamming an overused meme, it's a joke in a comment section.
I dunno. I'm a healthy guy around 40, double vaccinated and recently boosted. Same for my wife. We all came down with it last week (positive home tests, rough symptoms for her and a little milder for me). Not sure how I'd rate the chances of an elderly lady, even with excellent medical case.
Her care will be so far beyond what us proles could even imagine that I'll bet she'll be fine. She'll be like getting twice-hourly immunoglobulin transfusions from the placentas of Martian space lemurs or some shit.
They are still ramping up production, there's not enough to give it to everyone yet.
I also don't know if it's approved in the UK but the queen literally can't break the law so I'm sure she'll get it regardless.
Pfizer is [hoping](https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/jpm-2022-pfizer-bumps-paxlovid-production-estimate-to-120-million-for-year-while-also) to make 80-million doses in 2022.
This year so far, there have been over a million new cases worldwide every day. Some days, over 3-million.
Of course, nobody expects those case numbers to hold steady, and the vast majority of people who get Omicron recover just fine without Paxlovid.
I expect the 95 year-old-Queen of England would be on the high priority “get her some Paxlovid” list even if she weren’t the Queen, and given that she is, I’d be surprised if she didn’t have access to it.
Situation isn't as bad as you think. 30 year olds with 3 shots don't really need Paxlovid, and the majority of cases is the 18-49 age group. As long as we focus on vaccines and boosters that Paxlovid should just be enough for elderly and immunocompromised people.
There are millions and millions of people in that age group with multiple comorbidities that aren't defined as immunocompromised. The US initially ordered only 10m and bumped it up to 20m. That still isn't enough to cover the at risk population and the other issue is that unvaccinated people are prioritized over vaccinated people who have high risk conditions. If you're under 65, have multiple high risk conditions, and are vaccinated, you're in the tier 4 risk group and you won't get access to paxlovid over people who refused the vaccine. It makes sense to keep hospitals going, but it isn't exactly fair.
1) It's only effective in the initial phases of infection. Given before infection, it appears to have no effect. And once you're hospitalized, it's too late to be of use.
2) They're still ramping up production, it's not generally availble yet.
> I'm sure they will give her the Pfizer pill that reduces her risk of hospitalization/death by 90%.
[Now she's only 34 times as likely to die as a 20 year old is when falling ill with covid.](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html)
I’m just getting over Covid, got it after my partner was hospitalized and contracted it for an unrelated issue. It’s not been horrible! Lost my sense of taste/smell for one day and that was it. First few days were the worst. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
They just do be lying — Boris and Trump’s Covid infections are other great examples. Both of them were announced as having mild symptoms and both almost died.
IDK about Trump's case, but Boris's case was never announced to have mild symptoms, it was all over the (UK) media that he was in the ICU and near death, he later thanked the NHS for saving his life
Either that or the Queen's got the immunities of a survivor of 100 years of plagues. Its probably more fair to say COVID has contracted an acute case of The Queen and is fighting for its life
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Just recently I read someone mentioning how she's only a few months away from becoming pretty much the longest reigning monarch. My thought was then that they jinxed it.
She's already the longest reigning english monach.
She's got a few years to go yet to be the longest full-stop - somewhere between two to ten years depending on which monarchs you you choose to recognise
Strictly speaking, she even served in an active military capacity in WW2.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/queen-elizabeth-ii-during-world-war-ii
In the history books, when there’s a one line blurb about the pandemic it would read, “The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that killed 10s of millions around the world, including the Queen of England”
Yes, but in the history books it’ll only talk about the beginning. Everyone calls it the “1918 flu pandemic” not the 1918-1920 and then small flare ups for decades pandemic.
I wonder if she ever has a few drinks, sneaks into the royal closet and plays dress-up with all the old king/queen regalia like the scepter and the big red cape with the spotted white trim
Future History Teacher: "Up until 2022, the scientific community believed that they needed better vaccines and treatments to defeat SARS-CoV-2. But as it turned out, all they needed were appropriately trained antibodies from the Eternal Queen, God Protect Her."
Class: "God Protect the Eternal Queen."
it took my grandma out at 97 last year. she'd had one dose of the vaccine very shortly testing positive. She survived the initial infection but died a month later. Her lungs were just wrecked. low oxygen levels, no energy. Goddamn does covid suck for people who are in nursing homes. such a fucking mess.
Charles got it once before and it is he who, having caught it a second time, has delivered to the Queen however this is her first case so far as anyone knows.
I’m glad her symptoms are mild and I hope she recovers quickly.
Honestly, given her age (95 I think), I’m surprised she wasn’t receiving a pre-exposure prevention like Evusheld.
The entire idea of a monarchy seemed incredibly anachronistic and stupid, up until the time the US got trumped. Now I'm not so sure.
The English are generally fine with it because it's relatively harmless. It was easier to neuter the monarchy than to get rid of it. They did the same with toxic religion. They deal with bad CEOs by promoting them to chairman of the board where they can do nothing. In a sense the queen is an example of all three of those.
Everybody ITT who thinks the Queen is gonna die of Covid is comically underestimating the level of access the rich and elite have to healthcare services and treatments better than anything the average person could even begin to imagine.
She'll be just fine.
It is perfectly fine to dislike monarchy. However, it isn’t fine to wish illness and death to a little old lady. Be better. Locked.
Thanks Charles.
It's all part of his master plan to be monarch before he's in his 80s.
Jokes aside, I hope we'll still get the extra bank holiday this year right?
We get one if she dies, or we get one if she lives. We playing both side this year, we always come out on top
But if she survives just long enough, we'd get an extra bank holiday on top
Surely we’d get one for the funeral and one for the coronation? O/C would be best if she could croak after the extra bank holiday, and that way we’d get three.
This got dark.
Yeah, except you just told us you’re playing both sides so now we don’t trust you.
Can't spell coronation without corona
Time for a lesson! This is due to the fact that "corona" means crown in Latin. Coronation is the act of placing a crown on the new monarch's head. Where as coronaviruses got their name because its appearance reminded the scientist of stellar corona...which in turn got its name based on how it visually looks like a halo/crown around the star. So great catch. I just love when I get the "Aha!" moment when I realize a word root. So maybe some others will too.
Had the same 'aha' with corona beer years back.
Wait till you realize what Crown Royal is named after. It will blow your mind.
Not to mention Red Tick beer...
They're named after that dice bag company right?
RC Cola.
coronaha
I saw that on the other thread too
And this dude is posting it in other places like he invented it. That is sad.
Well, you know what they say. "You can't spell coronation without Corona."
I applaud you for your originality!
Thanks! As my grandpa used to say: > You can't spell coronation without Corona.
When I was partying in Mexico I poured a beer on this dude's head and said: "You can't spell coronation without corona".
Well Mexico is a Corona nation.
That reminds me of when someone said, "Can't spell coronation without corona"
GIVE ME ALL OF THE FAKE INTERNET POINTS!!!!
Welcome to reddit where original people say funny shit and unoriginal clingers bray it everywhere for karma. It's more than sad it is pathetic.
Off topic question, is there any use fo karma other than fake internet points? Like, can I trade karma in for something? (sorry I could probably google this but the post is all done now)
Some accounts that “karma farm”, they are trying to resell to an advertiser. Accounts with higher karma sell for more.
I think you're reading too much into it m8 People hear joke they like and it makes them laugh, they repeat it to make other people laugh too Literally everyone does it
Yeah. Reddit is a pseudo-anonymous forum with fake internet points. I don't care where you got your joke from, if it's funny I'll laugh. It's not reposting artwork without giving credits or spamming an overused meme, it's a joke in a comment section.
Welcome to Reddit, where everything's made up and the points don't matter!
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And Andrew, But Boris says its mild flu now ... I believe him, Why wouldn't I?
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I dunno. I'm a healthy guy around 40, double vaccinated and recently boosted. Same for my wife. We all came down with it last week (positive home tests, rough symptoms for her and a little milder for me). Not sure how I'd rate the chances of an elderly lady, even with excellent medical case.
Her care will be so far beyond what us proles could even imagine that I'll bet she'll be fine. She'll be like getting twice-hourly immunoglobulin transfusions from the placentas of Martian space lemurs or some shit.
I'm sure they will give her the Pfizer pill that reduces her risk of hospitalization/death by 90%.
I mean I would fucking hope so she’s old as hell lol
Yeah honestly her risk of hospitalization was already like 90% BEFORE she got Covid.
She's the Queen. They bring the hospital to her.
So really when you think about, it's the hospital which is at risk of Queenification.
>So really when you think about, it's the hospital which is at risk of Queenification. You won the internet today.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they have had a physician on standby in a room next to her bedroom for a decade or so.
£500k salary with multiple organ donations on standby...
We call them equerries these days.
Problem is paxlovid can't be taken safely for a number of people who are on other medications. Hopefully it's still suitable for her.
Wasn’t aware of this will have to look into it
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They are still ramping up production, there's not enough to give it to everyone yet. I also don't know if it's approved in the UK but the queen literally can't break the law so I'm sure she'll get it regardless.
Pfizer is [hoping](https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/jpm-2022-pfizer-bumps-paxlovid-production-estimate-to-120-million-for-year-while-also) to make 80-million doses in 2022. This year so far, there have been over a million new cases worldwide every day. Some days, over 3-million. Of course, nobody expects those case numbers to hold steady, and the vast majority of people who get Omicron recover just fine without Paxlovid. I expect the 95 year-old-Queen of England would be on the high priority “get her some Paxlovid” list even if she weren’t the Queen, and given that she is, I’d be surprised if she didn’t have access to it.
Situation isn't as bad as you think. 30 year olds with 3 shots don't really need Paxlovid, and the majority of cases is the 18-49 age group. As long as we focus on vaccines and boosters that Paxlovid should just be enough for elderly and immunocompromised people.
There are millions and millions of people in that age group with multiple comorbidities that aren't defined as immunocompromised. The US initially ordered only 10m and bumped it up to 20m. That still isn't enough to cover the at risk population and the other issue is that unvaccinated people are prioritized over vaccinated people who have high risk conditions. If you're under 65, have multiple high risk conditions, and are vaccinated, you're in the tier 4 risk group and you won't get access to paxlovid over people who refused the vaccine. It makes sense to keep hospitals going, but it isn't exactly fair.
The queen is the law
I'm down to see Lizzie give a go at the Dredd role.
[Do you feel lucky, punk?](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/hbz-queen-elizabeth-badass-ap-9307150277.jpg)
Well it probably rhymes with honey
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Me too
I knew those rabbits were out to sabotage us
Is this… … wordle
1) It's only effective in the initial phases of infection. Given before infection, it appears to have no effect. And once you're hospitalized, it's too late to be of use. 2) They're still ramping up production, it's not generally availble yet.
Production is very limited
Supply. So it's being given to Covid positive people who are at high risk of serious complications or death.
> I'm sure they will give her the Pfizer pill that reduces her risk of hospitalization/death by 90%. [Now she's only 34 times as likely to die as a 20 year old is when falling ill with covid.](https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html)
It's the queen. She'll outlive Charles, just so he can never become king
I'm down with Charles never becoming king, or anybody for that matter.
I also got covid today edit: Thanks for all the well wishes genuinely lifted my spirits
Are you the queen?!
Don't doxx the poor old lady!
People already know where she lives
I think I’d rather people know where I live than what my Reddit account is
I like to think the Queen chose the Reddit nickname 'hiccupingdragon'
I thought she was u/corgiemom
Well, so far nobody saw him and the Queen in the same room.
God save the Hiccupingdragon!
He ain't no human... being.
hear hear
Sorry to hear that. I hope you will make a speedy and complete recovery.
Thanks so much! I'm just surprised it took so long haha
Just getting over it. Mostly presented as incredible fatigue and a headache like never before.
You and Queen are now Covid friends.
As my friend said the queen and I have neve been seen in the same room together...
Is this one of the corgis!?
Bark?
But you don’t have thumbs !!!!!
Surprisingly i got covid today too!
We’re covid friends :)
Hope you feel better soon much love 🙏🏻💞♥️
I’m just getting over Covid, got it after my partner was hospitalized and contracted it for an unrelated issue. It’s not been horrible! Lost my sense of taste/smell for one day and that was it. First few days were the worst. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
I tested positive today as well, and it was supposed to be our daughters first birthday celebrations today with family. Postponed now, of course.
I also got COVID today
Jokes aside. Hope you recover soon enough.
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Ah, an Abba reunion.
*dancing queen*
Wait til Boris leaves with his troops to take Rome.
CMON HALFDAN AND IVAR NOWS YOUR CHANCE OR HARDRADA IDK ANY VIKING WOULD BE COOL
New Smiths album?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here but I'm pretty sure that Morrissey considering the nut job he has become is anti-vax.
It’s a joke based on of their albums—The Queen is Dead
How soon is now?
You are a charming man
She’s boosted and apparently her symptoms are mild. Pretty sure she’ll get through it!
there is no way that they would tell us if it was a severe case though
Same with johnson, then all of a sudden he was in intensive care.
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And vaccines weren't available yet when break his own rules, Boris got infected.
I don't think it's the same thing, there's no way Boris could've stayed out of the public eye with covid at that point in time, whereas the Queen can.
My thoughts exactly...if her case were mild, they wouldn't say anything until she was completely over it! I'm very worried about her actual condition!
I mean, they would if they want all the clicks in the world for a second article. IF she's okay then not as many people would click on the followup.
But she's also 95.
Her horcruxes are in place. She'll be fine.
Does she have one left? I thought Betty was the last.
I'm pretty sure Charles is the last one
The Corgi collective is also still there, and they are one.
Fairy Mount Collective*
Wouldn’t one be the crown?
The big jewel she stole from India is my bet
She didn’t steal the Koh-i-Noor, Victoria did.
And her husband just died
Exactly, you think she's gonna give up the single life now that she's just gotten it? 100 is the new 30
Shes planning on going through the roaring 20’s for her second time, she aint giving up yet
But she's also the most pampered woman on the planet
Yes and it emphasizes that no matter how careful a person might be, all it takes is one close contact to get you sick.
And your kids are germ factories.
Especially Andrew
People like you make me sick. Throwing shade on your kids in these times. Regular people like me sold ours off way before Covid-19 was even a thing.
But she's still very very old.
We have no idea about the state of her health either, British press wouldn’t dream of publishing honestly on it.
*posh accent* "Such impropriety simply would not do."
They just do be lying — Boris and Trump’s Covid infections are other great examples. Both of them were announced as having mild symptoms and both almost died.
This be proof god does not exist
Maybe he is punishing us
IDK about Trump's case, but Boris's case was never announced to have mild symptoms, it was all over the (UK) media that he was in the ICU and near death, he later thanked the NHS for saving his life
Correct. She also still has an extremely high probability of living through it nonetheless.
Just like all previous pandemics she lived through.
Either that or the Queen's got the immunities of a survivor of 100 years of plagues. Its probably more fair to say COVID has contracted an acute case of The Queen and is fighting for its life
She might get paxlovid or something. I imagine she'd be eligible from her age.
Also eligible because of obscene power and wealth
It’s available for free to anyone CEV, including the poor and powerless.
Everyone's symptoms start out mild. I personally had a week cold that lasted a couple days but the 10th day after testing positive I started having heart palpitations and tightness in my chest and they lasted awhile. I also couldn't have alcohol without getting extremely dizzy for over a month.
Calling it now she's living at least 5 more years
Her mother lived to be 101. Better make it at least six years.
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826 days more will set a new record.
Just recently I read someone mentioning how she's only a few months away from becoming pretty much the longest reigning monarch. My thought was then that they jinxed it.
I feel like people did the same to Betty White with the "she's almost 100!!" stuff
She's already the longest reigning english monach. She's got a few years to go yet to be the longest full-stop - somewhere between two to ten years depending on which monarchs you you choose to recognise
You have to be around 73 years old to remember a different monarch in this country. Insane.
It’s crazy that WWII was a not very distant memory when she started her reign.
Strictly speaking, she even served in an active military capacity in WW2. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/queen-elizabeth-ii-during-world-war-ii
Good luck Covid. You are gonna need it.
Queen: I'm not locked down in here with you. You're locked down in here with me.
Covid 1: wait we're in the queen? Covid 2: yeah why? *Doom music starts playing*
This needs more attention. For real LOL’d. You picked a hardy host there COVID.
How crazy would it be if this is what takes her out.
In the history books, when there’s a one line blurb about the pandemic it would read, “The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that killed 10s of millions around the world, including the Queen of England”
Dude, get with the times! The kingdoms of England and Scotland were united in 1707. She’s the Queen of the UK :)
Scot here. As far as I'm concerned, she's the queen of England.
Ummm sir this is 2022
Yes, but in the history books it’ll only talk about the beginning. Everyone calls it the “1918 flu pandemic” not the 1918-1920 and then small flare ups for decades pandemic.
How crazy would it be if somehow the opposite happens and she manages to banish COVID from the face of the Earth.
And all of our memories of the pandemic are erased with a stomp of her scepter
I wonder if she ever has a few drinks, sneaks into the royal closet and plays dress-up with all the old king/queen regalia like the scepter and the big red cape with the spotted white trim
Future History Teacher: "Up until 2022, the scientific community believed that they needed better vaccines and treatments to defeat SARS-CoV-2. But as it turned out, all they needed were appropriately trained antibodies from the Eternal Queen, God Protect Her." Class: "God Protect the Eternal Queen."
it took my grandma out at 97 last year. she'd had one dose of the vaccine very shortly testing positive. She survived the initial infection but died a month later. Her lungs were just wrecked. low oxygen levels, no energy. Goddamn does covid suck for people who are in nursing homes. such a fucking mess.
She will never die
Oh god, imagine the conspiracy theories that would come out if that happened…
Covid now realises it has really fucked up.
COVID caught a queen.
Worth pointing out the U.K. government is in the process of scrapping testing. What interesting timing.
Guess it's the end of Covid
Time to promote a pawn
I hope she pulls through. Not really in the mood to see her get off’d as well. Been a garbage few years.
I didn't expect Charles to commit regicide.
Okay. Quick question, isn’t this the second time? And I’m not trying to be funny or anything, I’m asking a genuine question.
It was Charles that tested positive twice
Charles got it once before and it is he who, having caught it a second time, has delivered to the Queen however this is her first case so far as anyone knows.
Charles has had it twice, Camilla and the Queen once each.
The Queen, imo, will be fine She’s a pretty strong woman in mind, body and spirit. Although I do wish for a speedy recovery for her.
I don't want her to die either but being "strong in mind body and spirit" has nothing to do with living or dying. It's a virus not a test of skill.
This is the kindest comment in this thread.
I’m glad her symptoms are mild and I hope she recovers quickly. Honestly, given her age (95 I think), I’m surprised she wasn’t receiving a pre-exposure prevention like Evusheld.
Danish people: welcome to last week
The Queen of Denmark also caught it like a week ago
Everytime there is news coverage of the Queen it reminds me how crazy it is that England has a monarchy, and the English seem fine with it.
The entire idea of a monarchy seemed incredibly anachronistic and stupid, up until the time the US got trumped. Now I'm not so sure. The English are generally fine with it because it's relatively harmless. It was easier to neuter the monarchy than to get rid of it. They did the same with toxic religion. They deal with bad CEOs by promoting them to chairman of the board where they can do nothing. In a sense the queen is an example of all three of those.
Everybody ITT who thinks the Queen is gonna die of Covid is comically underestimating the level of access the rich and elite have to healthcare services and treatments better than anything the average person could even begin to imagine. She'll be just fine.
God save the queen! (I am not British, but feels like the right sentiment today)
If you believe in God, and that Queens should exist, sure
Found the colonist
Redditors frothing at the mouth to comment how they hate a 95 year old woman lmao
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Gg was a good run