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fuck no, that bigoted narrow minded bitch need to be one of the ones that catches it and dies
Wow. Family?
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fuck. sorry to hear that @eric strt6
Yep Mother in law. Right wing Southerner. Small town in Kansas (Sedan) Total Bigot. Hates Mexicans, Blacks, Asians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists. Socialism ( even though she is on medicare and lives in section 8 housing) Only people she likes are so called white Christian Republicans
Florida is Florida, buy the rest of the country is only doing about 25% better with vaccinations at best.
Damn @eric strt6 — Kia kaha bro.
Wife was on a conference call with a lady in FL today, mid 40s(ish, my guess), she had the delta and was trying to work from home (wtf America). Told her to get off the call and go to bed. Holy shitballs she was not OK, she looked like death warmed up.
Wife was on a conference call with a lady in FL today, mid 40s(ish, my guess), she had the delta and was trying to work from home (wtf America). Told her to get off the call and go to bed. Holy shitballs she was not OK, she looked like death warmed up.
She was just pulling up on those bootstraps.
Luckily for her she draws a wage from an NZ company who offer unlimited sick leave and great foreign health insurance. She was just responding to /acting on her cultural conditioning / ‘Protestant guilt’ / capitalism norms / high C personality type. She needed a reminder / explicit permission to chill. Hope she does better, she seems like a really smart person. The FL location does take a couple of points off this argument pthough…
Ebola-like Marburg virus found in Guinea - BBC News
A man who died is found to have had the highly infectious virus, the first human case in West Africa.
www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org
Almost seems like a publicity stunt for the coming Hot Zone movie.
Da phuq? I guess it's not a big deal. It's not like Florida is having a big issue with the whole COVID thing.
www.nbcnews.com
DeSantis' office says salaries of officials who require masks for students may be withheld
The superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Florida's largest district, said the threat would not influence its decision.
More than 99.99% of fully vaccinated people have not had a severe breakthrough case, CDC data suggests
The average number of new coronavirus cases in the US has increased ninefold since the beginning of July. Follow the latest updates on vaccines, variants and the pandemic here.
Mississippi largest hospitals out of ICU beds
The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting more than 6,900 new COVID-19 cases from the past three days.
www.wcbi.com
2 Texas ERs temporarily shut down as US Covid-19 hospitalization and death rates double in 2 weeks
The crush of patients infected with the Delta variant is affecting hospitals nationwide. Now some Texans trying to get care at their nearest emergency room will have to go elsewhere.
www.cnn.com
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meanwhile in florida.... gov douchesantis is basically trying to hide the # of kids he's killing. from the article:Da phuq? I guess it's not a big deal. It's not like Florida is having a big issue with the whole COVID thing.
DeSantis' office says salaries of officials who require masks for students may be withheld
The superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Florida's largest district, said the threat would not influence its decision.
Ugh. Most social series of days I’ve had since this began and the anxiety is stupid. Coffee outdoors Friday and Saturday. Indoor visits with groups of one to three friends Sunday and Monday (all vaccinated). Monday group had the most external social contact of anyone I saw. It was stupid how the wheels in my head wouldn’t stop turning, doing the math on how likely one of “them” was exposed and my chances of a breakthrough, or what if I’d picked it up and passed it on to them.
This shit is exhausting. I don’t know how I’d manage it if I had a public facing job and/or kids. I’m sure I’d find a way, and I have a lot of respect for those of you dealing with this shit.
This shit is exhausting. I don’t know how I’d manage it if I had a public facing job and/or kids. I’m sure I’d find a way, and I have a lot of respect for those of you dealing with this shit.
I deal with it the same way I deal with all the other infectious diseases that I get exposed to. Mask, gloves, disinfect and the fatalistic attitude that I do a job that someone has to do. Any of the shit out there can kill me, we all die at some point so why worry. I knew the risks when I signed up for the profession. nothing has changed, just most of the deadly stuff is not as widespread or widely known by the public at large but there is a lot of it out there.
+rep for eric plz.
(and anyone else on here who has to deal with us plebs when we're sick and/or old)
I wish there was a way to know where infections are happening, in terms of location types.
Is it medical/healthcare facilities, or do the safety protocols actually limit transmission better than other arenas?
Is it bars and restaurants, where people can do mask-off drinking and dining?
Is it family gatherings?
Is it airports, or shopping malls, or movie theaters, or grocery stores...?
Obviously every region has different covid concentrations and different vax rates and different mask rules/adherence. But I'd imagine the venue for transmission could be similar.
Is it medical/healthcare facilities, or do the safety protocols actually limit transmission better than other arenas?
Is it bars and restaurants, where people can do mask-off drinking and dining?
Is it family gatherings?
Is it airports, or shopping malls, or movie theaters, or grocery stores...?
Obviously every region has different covid concentrations and different vax rates and different mask rules/adherence. But I'd imagine the venue for transmission could be similar.
^^Where there's people. With higher risk if there's no masks and much higher risk again if indoors.
"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function"
I’m back to approaching everyone as a self-centered, walking, death trap that should be avoided until proven otherwise.
@stoney just following up on what we were discussing yesterday re: EUA vs full approval, if you want some easy talking points, try these two, as its easier to explain the differences than how the process is similar. and start with the disclaimer that EUA's are only granted during situations that are deemed a public health crisis (there's some other technicalities here, but if you have to explain this to someone, those details will likely result in blank stares).
1 - Emergency Use Authorization basically gives a drug/vaccine expedited review by the FDA. It sends it to the head of the line. Normal FDA approval takes 10 months or longer from the time of initial submission. As we saw with the covid vaccines, this duration was drastically reduced. i believe they all came in under 2 months (please correct me if this is inaccurate)
2 - Under an EUA, the FDA controls / directs the distribution, NOT the manufacturer. This is a stipulation of the EUA since it concerns/addresses a public health crisis.
more details (especially concerning the use of EUA's during covid) can be found here if you want to nerd out:
www.fda.gov
1 - Emergency Use Authorization basically gives a drug/vaccine expedited review by the FDA. It sends it to the head of the line. Normal FDA approval takes 10 months or longer from the time of initial submission. As we saw with the covid vaccines, this duration was drastically reduced. i believe they all came in under 2 months (please correct me if this is inaccurate)
2 - Under an EUA, the FDA controls / directs the distribution, NOT the manufacturer. This is a stipulation of the EUA since it concerns/addresses a public health crisis.
more details (especially concerning the use of EUA's during covid) can be found here if you want to nerd out:
Emergency Use Authorization
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) information, and list of all current EUAs
Alabama Just Tossed 65,000 Vaccines. Turns Out It's Not Easy To Donate Unused Doses
Alabama is one of the states throwing away COVID-19 doses as they expire. But other nations desperately need vaccines — and public health experts would like to see vaccines used instead of wasted.
www.npr.org
Well done, Alabama... well done, indeed.
Alabama COVID cases strain ICU bed capacity amid delta surge, low vaccination
As Alabama's COVID-19 cases have climbed amid the delta variant's spread, hospitals in the state are nearing their capacity for new ICU patients.
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com
Alabama Just Tossed 65,000 Vaccines. Turns Out It's Not Easy To Donate Unused Doses
Alabama is one of the states throwing away COVID-19 doses as they expire. But other nations desperately need vaccines — and public health experts would like to see vaccines used instead of wasted.
Well done, Alabama... well done, indeed.
i can't quite put my finger on it, but i feel like these might be relatedAlabama COVID cases strain ICU bed capacity amid delta surge, low vaccination
As Alabama's COVID-19 cases have climbed amid the delta variant's spread, hospitals in the state are nearing their capacity for new ICU patients.www.montgomeryadvertiser.com
cOrReLaTiOn dOeS NoT ImPlY CaUsAtIoN!!
I'll admit that the tiny bit of schadenfreude I feel is far outweighed by the sadness I feel when I think about just how many preventable deaths are going to occur in the next couple of weeks. I really feel bad for the medical professionals that are going to be dealing with it all and the mental issues they will probably all have for years to come.