CoVID-19
sameThe "Winner" from me is for your super smart daughter!
Dad's sister is unvaccinated, passed out Sunday before Thanksgiving and broke her nose and will lose teeth. Story is convoluted, but she tested positive this past week afterwards. Only reason she even got tested was because her boyfriend tested positive after a coworker he was in contact contracted Covid, but logic would indicate the she probably had it and gave it to him considering the passing out. How a physician wouldn't think to have her tested is beyond me. Apparently passed out again Friday. Not at a hospital yet as far as I'm aware of. In the midst of all of this, she had contact multiple times with my 89 yo grandparents and other physicians to address the fall trauma before testing....
...My Dad doesn't have the same type of relationship with his family as others do. He's fairly estranged from his sister, and my grandparents dogmatism surrounding the Jeebus has been a source of much drama. Regardless hoping he doesn't literally lose his immediate side of his family.
...My Dad doesn't have the same type of relationship with his family as others do. He's fairly estranged from his sister, and my grandparents dogmatism surrounding the Jeebus has been a source of much drama. Regardless hoping he doesn't literally lose his immediate side of his family.
Despite other ridiculous, my ‘rents seem to be taking it seriously now, with full vax and boosters. My dad as a pharmacist and nurse was fighting some significant cognitive dissonance with how much hard right propaganda he listens to all the time, but he relied on his training. Now they are seeing quite a few friends drop off due to Covid and possibly more than normal because my mom coaches a weight loss program and a few of the drop-outs that have quit and regained weight succumbed pretty fast to an infection. Usually with other medical problems, but enough of them dying off to make an impact at least with my parents and at least one thing not being a Pelosi-conspiracy.
Can we start the whole apocalyptic dystopian thing now?
Might be time to take the grinder off the shelf and start looking for some old farming plows. Seems to work for Rogue Hoe, so Mad Max me some weaponry.
BIL is up to 88-90 O2 and holding. Hospital needs beds so they are sending him home with Oxygen and steroids for now. Any change and he's back in. Definitely love my youngest daughter's bunt truths though 
He laughed when my sister told him about it. They are talking about getting the shot once they're able (60 days since they both have had it now). Here's to hoping they get the kids too!
He laughed when my sister told him about it. They are talking about getting the shot once they're able (60 days since they both have had it now). Here's to hoping they get the kids too!
Scary and risky way to have to learn a lessonBIL is up to 88-90 O2 and holding. Hospital needs beds so they are sending him home with Oxygen and steroids for now. Any change and he's back in. Definitely love my youngest daughter's bunt truths though
Yup. Hoping it motivates her twin sister to get her family vaccinated too.
Just talked to a buddy/client who's 6 days older than me. Wife is a teacher and brought home COVID - got the whole family sick. Everyone cruised through it, but he got hammered. Ended up in hospital with O2 levels in 80's. Got sent home with O2 for over a month. Said that he lost over 30# of mass, largely muscle. Can barely ride 2 miles on flat terrain on his road bike now.
Semi-retired cop (might go back if second career fails, but left because he didn't like where it was heading), but doesn't know if he'll be able to pass the basic physical now. Former SWAT, super fit guy, but not vaccinated.
Semi-retired cop (might go back if second career fails, but left because he didn't like where it was heading), but doesn't know if he'll be able to pass the basic physical now. Former SWAT, super fit guy, but not vaccinated.
Aaaaaaaaaand there you have it.
Did you ask him how much his hospital visit cost? $$ that could have gone toward a myriad of useful things... but instead...
Kid is taking his 3rd Covid test 'cause he still feels crappy. Kid-cooties suck.
CHRIST IN JEFF BEZOS' ROCKET SHIP, ARE WE NOT SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS GUY MARRIED A HORSE. SHE COULD HAVE BEEN ON IVERMECTIN
like redoing your landscaping, amirite
So this guy at work is not quite an anti-vaxxer, but definitely vaccine skeptic. At the beginning of a meeting shortly after I first started (a couple months ago) he was going on a bit of a rant about studies from Israel were showing negative long-term effects of the mRNA vaccines, that he wasn't opposed but just wanted to see what the side effects were, general distrust of Big Pharma, if he was gonna get vaccinated it'd be the J&J, blah blah blah. All the typical anti-vax BS. Well, I think his wife had to be hospitalized for cancer issues not too long ago, so he was essentially forced to get vaccinated to visit her. He went with the J&J, of course, and lost no time in letting everyone who'd listen know that it "wasn't by his own choice" and what the fuck ever.
Fast forward to today, and he announces in our daily standup that he tested positive for COVID last week, and that it really wasn't a big deal for him. Headaches, slight cough, loss of taste and smell, etc. Then the fucker goes on to spout off with "Well if you ask me, the vaccine is what caused it. I mean, months and months or even a year or two and I never got it. And then I got the vaccine, and I get it? I mean c'mon, right?"
Fucking mouth breathers. Had to vent, thanks for listening.
Fast forward to today, and he announces in our daily standup that he tested positive for COVID last week, and that it really wasn't a big deal for him. Headaches, slight cough, loss of taste and smell, etc. Then the fucker goes on to spout off with "Well if you ask me, the vaccine is what caused it. I mean, months and months or even a year or two and I never got it. And then I got the vaccine, and I get it? I mean c'mon, right?"
Fucking mouth breathers. Had to vent, thanks for listening.
As a contractor, I'm taking the "let's not rock the boat" sort of approach. I definitely tried to affect change (work related change, mind you) at my last contract gig, and I am pretty confident that is part of the reason they let me go.
Yeah pretty much.
This was why I was not only closed to the public for over a year, but only worked at night, after everyone else had left the building. I did this because my 83 year old parents were depending on me for everything so they could stay home and safe. And I know it was the right decision even though it put my "business" in the toilet. One of my neighbors who refused to wear a mask was in her shop last December sick with Covid. Who knows who many people that self-centered idiot infected. But it damn sure wasn't my parents. Fuck her !
Me: there is no god, certainly not a benevolent one with a sense of justice and fairness
God: hold my beer
God: hold my beer
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Wonder how long until they tell people to just work from home again.
I fully intend to WFH as much and as long as allowed. No sense exposing myself to Covid and bringing it home to the baby.
yup. it's regional, and the different levels are based on # of new daily cases, which is on the rise again.
Mass. waste water analysis is predicting a yuuge spike in infections and hospitalizations, soooon.
TOTALLY unexpected.