... Sounds like a country song.
I couldn't decide what thread this belonged to, so I started a new one.
https://twitter.com/ColeMillerTV/status/1236109907155271680
Meanwhile, Larry Kudlow and Kelly Ann Conway are out there literally saying it's contained like Baghdad Bob.
Literal moron
https://twitter.com/jfreewright/status/1236282192826859521 21
The panic over this is nuts, and I live in one of the areas where people actually have coronavirus. The hospital a block from where I work has quarantined a bunch of their workers.
It's roughly as deadly as the flu or pneumonia. It'll wipe out elderly and immuno-compromised people, just like the flu and pneumonia and other hospital infections do.
If we shut down the economy to try to prevent it from spreading, I'm betting that will kill more people, and not just the already infirm. [People afraid to go to hospitals, increased stress, anxiety and social isolation, people losing their jobs, people who decide to not spend money getting health care, etc.] And it'll probably spread anyway.
I think the big reason why it scares the health care community so much is because it seems to be more contagious and more unpredictable in its severity than flu is. People are spreading this more easily than they do fly because they aren't as symptomatic so they don't self quarantine at home as quickly as people who get flu do. It also is actually deadlier than flu at present moment, but that death rate may drop as we get better at diagnosing it.
Best time to fly now. Don't even have to buy first class! Upgrades will clear.
If the economy shuts down Little Donny loses his only bragging point
Scumbag fargs
https://twitter.com/ap/status/1236476457494417408 21
I'll take "Governmental Hacks" for $1,000, Alex.
"What are three iceholes who ruined states as governor?"
Correct!
Strap in, tomorrow about to be wild with the markets.
Also, a thread:
https://twitter.com/abraarkaran/status/1236680328875474944
It would be nice to have a competent leader in the White House right now. Things are about to get interesting.
Very soon we're going to start seeing announcements from government agencies, schools, and private companies to the effect of, "we are closing for the next two weeks, at least."
This administration is a joke with how they're handling this.
That idiot Ben Carson was on TV yesterday talking about it. Said he wasn't interested in reading the plan and then when asked about the cruise ship docking today he said they'd have a plan within three days on what to do.
Cheeto Dick thinks that if he ignores it and plays it off as a hoax the markets won't react. Newsflash, fargo, you're wrong.
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1237028285919268864
Omg.
Trumps tweets this morning are smelling more desperate than usual
Our family has decided that the elders are staying home as of today, until....not sure..a month at least.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 09, 2020, 11:05:54 AM
Our family has decided that the elders are staying home as of today, until....not sure..a month at least.
Our spring break begins Friday. We're supposed to be back on March 23. I guess we'll see what happens.
Head of Port Authority has it
my company cancelled our yearly lets spend millions of dollars on a party and get wasted for three days event. wah.
My girl looked up cruises yesterday and some were as low as $189
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 09, 2020, 09:38:08 PM
My girl looked up cruises yesterday and some were as low as $189
I'm due to go on one in June
it was already cheap and has dropped 300 bucks plus you can cancel up to 48 hrs before it leaves
Floating malls slash infection incubators no thanks.
i saw pictures of people on a cruise ship yesterday. it looked miserable and i don't even think it was one of the virus ships.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 10, 2020, 07:17:06 AM
Floating malls slash infection incubators no thanks.
i get the drink package so i can coat all my organs in alcohol to stop any diseases from getting in
Solid plan, better you than me.
I've been on one. It was just ok.
After the fifth day I was ready to get off the boat.
this one you are barely on the boat and it has some great stops one of them being portland maine which you get a long ass day and night in....a great american city and so slept on
I have gauzy memories of a weekend spent there with a beautiful young woman when I was young and beautiful, too.
Now I'm a 45 year old failure, headed to the end faster every day.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 09, 2020, 09:38:08 PM
My girl looked up cruises yesterday and some were as low as $189
Maybe it's because I was in the Navy for 9 years and cramped on a ship most of that time but I never understood the appeal of a cruise. I've asked people and they've said there's shows and activities etc. but for roughly the same amount of money I could go to an all inclusive resort on an ocean front which offers more than a cruise with way less restrictions.
Quote from: AO1 on March 10, 2020, 09:58:24 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 09, 2020, 09:38:08 PM
My girl looked up cruises yesterday and some were as low as $189
Maybe it's because I was in the Navy for 9 years and cramped on a ship most of that time but I never understood the appeal of a cruise. I've asked people and they've said there's shows and activities etc. but for roughly the same amount of money I could go to an all inclusive resort on an ocean front which offers more than a cruise with way less restrictions.
no chance you can get a decent all inclusive for even close to the same price as a cruise
cruises are insanely cheap compared to any other vacation...thats pretty much the entire appeal...otherwise id always go to a single destination and chill
and of course its great for old people who cant get around that much as they get everything they need within a few yards walk
I can get 4 days all inclusive with airfare for $500 - $800 per person
https://www.expedia.com/Hotel-Search?packageType=fh&searchProduct=hotel&c=b16e38fb-1810-49e4-81a9-145da499a3e7&adults=1&children=1_12&originId=6346776&ftla=PHL&destination=Cancun+(and+vicinity),+Quintana+Roo,+Mexico&destinationId=179995&ttla=CUN&startDate=4/28/2020&endDate=5/2/2020&sort=recommended&tripType=ROUND_TRIP&misId=Agi7gLG1q67-oBUQ7puS-anX2KeqASDCwPYR
Never priced a cruise but I'm assuming they're not as cheap
those are garbage ass cancun places and still around the same price as a 10 day cruise
dont get me wrong id rather pay double and go to a good resort but theres no price comparison...nothing can beat a cruise for the value
Quote from: ice grillin you on March 10, 2020, 09:34:54 AM
this one you are barely on the boat and it has some great stops one of them being portland maine which you get a long ass day and night in....a great american city and so slept on
Been there more times than I can count since my wife is from the area and a large portion of her family still lives there. Beautiful city.
Been to Portland twice and liked it both times. Didn't spend enough time to say I really experienced the city but hit a couple breweries and just liked the overall feel of it.
Here's a couple of threads from doctors in Italy (supposedly) for your reading uh pleasure?
https://twitter.com/silviast9/status/1236933818654896129
https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/1237142891077697538
flights to europe are dirt cheap right now. think i might snag a long weekend somewhere fun.
Quote from: ice grillin you on March 10, 2020, 10:42:34 AM
those are garbage ass cancun places and still around the same price as a 10 day cruise
dont get me wrong id rather pay double and go to a good resort but theres no price comparison...nothing can beat a cruise for the value
They look fine to me and I'd stay at any one of them for 4 nights before I got stuck on a ship with a few thousand people.
Supposed to go to Disney end of April, like all of our trips it's tentative. Baby's momma told me yesterday she won't let me take my daughter. I told her to farg off. She threatened to call the cops :-D
Quote from: phattymatty on March 10, 2020, 12:25:03 PM
flights to europe are dirt cheap right now. think i might snag a long weekend somewhere fun.
I mean, at this point, unless it's Italy...is there anywhere in Europe you're gonna go that would be less safe than America at this point? Lol
I guess the only problem is you'll be more likely to do touristy things which means more time spent in large crowds, but...it's not like we're exactly doing a bang up job on containment here atm
Quote from: AO1 on March 10, 2020, 09:58:24 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 09, 2020, 09:38:08 PM
My girl looked up cruises yesterday and some were as low as $189
Maybe it's because I was in the Navy for 9 years and cramped on a ship most of that time but I never understood the appeal of a cruise. I've asked people and they've said there's shows and activities etc. but for roughly the same amount of money I could go to an all inclusive resort on an ocean front which offers more than a cruise with way less restrictions.
Yeah after a few days I was like...I'd rather pay to go to one spot. I had fun on the boat and I drank to the point where the last day I didn't even want to look at it.
https://twitter.com/abc/status/1237418127975211010
gonna go home and watch Outbreak tonight
https://twitter.com/edgeofsports/status/1237452968095551488
Straight up criminal
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html#click=https://t.co/mlEjBJl96Q
officially pandemic
https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1237779140620759043
100 million infections with a 1% death rate would be 1 million deaths. This is not "just the flu".
global death rates more like 3.65% by my count.
that rate should be inflated as presumably a lot of people had COVID-19, got better, and were not captured in the "infected" figures...but there's also a huge difference between 3.65% and 1%
Listen to the MAGAts tho..."its just the flu durrr"
Houston just canceled the Rodeo here which is huge news. People are freaking out bc they're pissed they won't get to see the concerts. Multi million dollar loss in revenue for the city. Couple that with the oil market shteinting all over itself and people are in full blown panic here.
The turning point for canceling the Rodeo was the event that precedes it, the BBQ cookoff, had a guy from the county above us attend and he's got the virus. They do not know how he contracted it - meaning he was not in contact with someone who traveled etc - so they think the community spread is now in full force.
Yeah i was trying to be generous in the best case scenario direction. It can be waaaay worse if it's more towards that end of things.
Also just heard on KYW1060 that apparently scientists released a study today showing it survives up to 2-3 hours in the air and 2-3 days on plastic and metal surfaces. This shtein is very much not the flu. However, I can't find any evidence of this study on the internet right now so can't look at it
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 11, 2020, 02:47:23 PM
Listen to the MAGAts tho..."its just the flu durrr"
If three million Americans die and two thirds of them are red hatters, I'm voting COVID-19 for President
Quote from: Munson on March 11, 2020, 02:52:01 PM
Yeah i was trying to be generous in the best case scenario direction. It can be waaaay worse if it's more towards that end of things.
Also just heard on KYW1060 that apparently scientists released a study today showing it survives up to 2-3 hours in the air and 2-3 days on plastic and metal surfaces. This shtein is very much not the flu. However, I can't find any evidence of this study on the internet right now so can't look at it
https://time.com/5801278/coronavirus-stays-on-surfaces-days-tests/
Quote from: Diomedes on March 11, 2020, 02:44:43 PM
global death rates more like 3.65% by my count.
that rate should be inflated as presumably a lot of people had COVID-19, got better, and were not captured in the "infected" figures...but there's also a huge difference between 3.65% and 1%
South Korea has had the most widespread testing and their rate is roughly around 0.8% right now. I suspect even that is inflated, since asymptomatic, mild symptom, and otherwise healthy people are not likely to seek out testing, and testing *should* focus on the elderly and already infirm.
It'll be a while before a broad enough cross-section of people are tested to say too much intelligently about death rate.
Honestly don't see huge differences between this and the flu, other than that this is new and people are panicking. And, to preempt a likely response, I'm definitely not a MAGA guy.
Following up on the Rodeo cancellation; last year it generated $227M in economic impact and 3700 jobs.
Huge hit
Quote from: hunt on March 11, 2020, 03:13:24 PM
Quote from: Munson on March 11, 2020, 02:52:01 PM
Yeah i was trying to be generous in the best case scenario direction. It can be waaaay worse if it's more towards that end of things.
Also just heard on KYW1060 that apparently scientists released a study today showing it survives up to 2-3 hours in the air and 2-3 days on plastic and metal surfaces. This shtein is very much not the flu. However, I can't find any evidence of this study on the internet right now so can't look at it
https://time.com/5801278/coronavirus-stays-on-surfaces-days-tests/
Thank you Hunt.
Found the tidbit about SARS interesting. I assumed this virus would be more sturdy than SARS but apparently not.
All the conventions are getting cancelled. Small-time artists are going to lose a lot of income from not making sales at those shows.
Quote from: QB Eagles on March 11, 2020, 03:54:04 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on March 11, 2020, 02:44:43 PM
global death rates more like 3.65% by my count.
that rate should be inflated as presumably a lot of people had COVID-19, got better, and were not captured in the "infected" figures...but there's also a huge difference between 3.65% and 1%
South Korea has had the most widespread testing and their rate is roughly around 0.8% right now. I suspect even that is inflated, since asymptomatic, mild symptom, and otherwise healthy people are not likely to seek out testing, and testing *should* focus on the elderly and already infirm.
It'll be a while before a broad enough cross-section of people are tested to say too much intelligently about death rate.
Honestly don't see huge differences between this and the flu, other than that this is new and people are panicking. And, to preempt a likely response, I'm definitely not a MAGA guy.
I think the biggest difference so far is that this is more contagious than the flu is. And IIRC, the flu death rate is like .4%, so even a rate of 0.8% would be double the flu.
Right now though I think the biggest danger still is the potential for the outbreak to get bad enough fast enough that our health care system gets overwhelmed ala Italy, which'll mean a lot more deaths than otherwise wouldn't happen. Once we get through that initial outbreak, it should go back to normal and hopefully the disease disappears completely, if not becomes rare and/or something we vaccinate for
https://twitter.com/JesseAPaul/status/1237848859499347968
My girl's university suspended all f2f classes and is moving everything online for at least the next three weeks. They've had ZERO cases reported thus far.
That's how serious this is.
Motherfargers nationwide need to smarten up.
Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson tested positive.
From a "people need to get serious" perspective, this might...actually help?
Quote from: Rome on March 11, 2020, 08:11:17 PM
My girl's university suspended all f2f classes and is moving everything online for at least the next three weeks. They've had ZERO cases reported thus far.
That's how serious this is.
Motherfargers nationwide need to smarten up.
Our district has a protocol in place right now as they prep for it. We're in "Phase 2" right now, if it gets to "Phase 4" they're closing down
I didn't watch or listen to President Dipshtein but my girlfriend texted that he said he's suspending travel and cargo from Europe beginning Friday for a month.
feel like 2 famous people getting corona is going to lead to a massive lockdown fairly soon
my company has been making us take our laptops home each night as a precuation
i for one welcome coronafest2020 leggo
NBA has suspended the season
Whoa
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1237914656490078213 21
https://twitter.com/hustle_nba/status/1237909854062129152 21
https://twitter.com/knoweyedentity/status/1237910275946405888
lol...dude clearly absolutely hates doing the job of POTUS
On another note; if any of you fargers are part of the toilet paper, water, paper towel and cleaning supplies hoarding lunatics...plz stop.
The breadlines of the Great Depression have been replaced with lines of morons buying up shtein paper...for a god damn virus that isn't intestinal!
I'm not even trying to buy more stuff than I normally do. I went Monday and no TP or cleaning supplies. One six pack of smart water was left in the entire store so I got that. My girlfriend was able to get me a case at Kroger thankfully. I got the last of the paper towels. And for the oddest missing items...all the ketchup was gone. Da fuq.
The TP stuff is because people are worried they won't be able to get out of the house for a few weeks if shtein goes south I imagine
https://twitter.com/robdauster/status/1237931942680674304
Quote from: Munson on March 11, 2020, 11:17:41 PM
The TP stuff is because people are worried they won't be able to get out of the house for a few weeks if shtein goes south I imagine
shtein going south...toilet paper...lol
world is crashing so i ate a bunch of mushrooms on a wed night. feels much better.
Wise move. I'm in dire need of a good trip myself.
https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1237902120478748673
Quote from: Munson on March 11, 2020, 11:17:41 PM
The TP stuff is because people are worried they won't be able to get out of the house for a few weeks if shtein goes south I imagine
Legit LOL on the indirect pun.
The GOP and anyone following their line of thinking should be shamed forever.
This has become a joke. There is panic at the stores. The market and basically global economy is crashing and had Trump addressed this sooner the impact wouldn't be as great as it is now. And it's only going to continue.
Washington needs to get the kids off the table and the adults need to take control.
The arrogance of "conservative" Americans disgusts me. People whining about sports cancellations and events. One of our city council members here pushed the stupid ass "Texans are tough! We didn't need the mayor to kill the rodeo" shtein. Like because people live in Texas somehow they're immune to this. Wrong.
Testing? Lol farg us right? The mongoloids who pound the table with the AMERICA IS THE BEST shtein need to reassess. We refuse to test people. The politicians refuse to address it.
You're a low wage worker who can't take off? farg you you're fired. Pull them boot straps up and get to work.
Have kids in school that's been canceled (Ohio K-12 closed for three weeks) and can't work? Big business gives no fargs. You're fired.
It's the same mentality when people get sick with regular ailments or when bad weather rolls through. farg you go to work.
McCarthy and the GOP refusing to assist is borderline criminal.
All because people have lined up to kiss Trump's ass. For what? Why? farg him and farg anyone who voted for him and his cabal of jackasses.
I'm laughing at the idea of you thinking this changes anything for the people that voted for Trump.
I'm getting really excited about the idea of deplorables dropping like flies because they followed Fox News and Herr Trump. Go to your rodeos, catheter cowboys! Go to your megachurches. Hold hands in prayer before you harrass women at Planned Parenthood. Please, don't listen to the liberal media...listen to Fox and Sinclair.
All MD public schools just closed effective Monday through end of month.
I'm out on parental leave right now but my sub called me today to tell me they had a meeting and the principal basically said it's a matter of when not if we move to online learning.
I'm now 3 degrees of separation away, well 4 technically, my wife is 3 away, from a potential case, nothing confirmed yet. The woman she coaches with is married to a guy who works at the charter school that was the first to close in our state because one of their teachers traveled to asia and then reported flu like symptoms last week. Haven't heard an update on any diagnosis though. So far the only 4 confirmed cases have all been confirmed within the last two days and they're all connected to UD (A professor and 3 students)
What we're seeing now is basically what people caught last week. We have literally no idea...
Disney closed. Lindsay Graham self-isolating. Would be nice if that was the last we ever heard from him.
Governor Hogan bans meetings greater than 250 people. All government buildings closed to public. No visiting prisons. No renewal of driver's licenses, etc. He handed over control of all non-essential, non-emergency government functions to his Lt. Governor, and will focus on crisis management.
I don't like this Hogan guy much. He's a Republican who could have renounced the brand and won reelection easily, and he didn't. So to me, he's a Trumper.
But he's done several things despite my dislike for him that I have to admit are wise and decent, and his management of this situation has so far been good.
It's only California Disney, that barely counts. Now if Florida Disney and Waffle House close, we're all farged.
I had to eat at a Bojangles recently.
Holy farg..
Did Lindsay Graham catch it from his boyfriend?
The biggest health care system in the state here just announced a drive thru testing facility, apparently only a 4 hour thing this saturday
Quote from: Diomedes on March 12, 2020, 05:56:47 PM
I had to eat at a Bojangles recently.
Holy farg..
is that a good holy farg because I love bojangles.
https://twitter.com/emmersbrown/status/1238241271946317825
Things are going well
https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1238225969065967617
TX2K20 has been canceled for spectators.
It's a huge drag racing event here at the local track. People come from all over and the organizers pulled the plug about an hour ago. Needless to say the FB comments on their page are wild. I scrolled through about 500 of them and only two people said "this was the right decision"
Most are just pissed they're out money for travel expenses. A lot are pissed bc the event isn't issuing refunds on the track passes.
They had one event today and they'll still allow the racers to race this weekend but unless you're a sponsor, crew member or VIP you're SOL.
The percentage of low IQ MAGAts within the racing community is high btw. So so many "LET US MAKE THE DECISION ON OUR OWN!" Type comments. One chick screeching about that is a critical care nurse...who obviously doesn't understand that healthy people aren't really at risk here and passing it to the immunocompromised is the issue.
My Trump loving race car driving Uncle is in Florida for the Gatornationals which the NHRA canceled. The fb comments are 99% stupid liberals, DemocRATS, Soros, they couldn't impeach Trump so now they're resorting to this. One guy with common sense chimes in saying Italy and China are canceling everything so hows that the democrats fault...he was immediately bashed. farging deplorables
Elders in my family raging that we're keeping grandchildren apart from them.
This is gonna suck.
There was a Star Trek TNG episode with Charles from MASH where the folks on his planet ritually killed themselves at 60. They euphemistically referred to it as the "resolution."
I'm just saying... not the worst idea ever.
PS: * 54 * here... 👋
Quote from: AO1 on March 13, 2020, 06:59:02 AM
My Trump loving race car driving Uncle is in Florida for the Gatornationals which the NHRA canceled. The fb comments are 99% stupid liberals, DemocRATS, Soros, they couldn't impeach Trump so now they're resorting to this. One guy with common sense chimes in saying Italy and China are canceling everything so hows that the democrats fault...he was immediately bashed. farging deplorables
Yep...that sounds about right.
Imagine going through life so goddamn stupid like these people.
Our mayor is black and even though the concerts at the rodeo feature hip hop, KPop, Tejano to include country the deplorables are saying how it was only canceled because it is a white event and if it was "some damn NAACP thing you know damn well they wouldn't kill it"
Reports were Bolsanro tested positive but now he's denying it, saying it was negative....lying dictator, my money is on him lying.
The mayor of Miami, who also met with Bolsanaro and his crony that's sick (who also met with Trump last week), tested positive
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/13/jared-kushner-combat-coronavirus-facebook-127941
lololol
That is horrifying. Not the least bit surprising, however.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 13, 2020, 08:16:55 AM
Elders in my family raging that we're keeping grandchildren apart from them.
This is gonna suck.
An artist I follow on the twitter decided not to travel back to the US for his grandfather's funeral. Please remind your old folks that the grandkids won't be at their funerals either if they keep their shtein up.
https://twitter.com/PearlteaRizzy/status/1238369458323738624
https://twitter.com/FrankKhalidUK/status/1237772680478314497
All that was left in ShopRite today was Brawny paper towels because they were the most expensive. They put a limit of three antibacterial soaps per purchase.
Anti-bacterial additives should be banned. Soap itself is anti-bacterial. Anti-bacterial additives serve only to sell more soap to ignorant people, and to increase the amount of bacteria that can survive our anti-bacterial chemicals by exposing bacteria to just enough of the stuff to develop immunities to them.
Don't buy anti-bacterial soaps people.
Next week it'll be a lotion frenzy.
A lot of dry skin after all that washing.
Classy move by Bobrovsky and the Panthers (as well as the NBA players also doing it as mentioned in the tweet):
https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1238561493215477761
What would be classier is if the billionaires who own the arenas paid them a living wage to begin with plus pay them during the shutdown.
But who are we kidding? Eat the rich.
You don't get to be a billionaire by being fair to anyone.
All Florida public schools are closed for through March 27.
I guess we'll see that second week if we'll be setting up remote learning for the foreseeable future.
My daughters school is closed till the 29th.
No lie didn't feel great today. Took my temperature and it's normal. Just gonna monitor my symptoms for now.
From a friends fb post...you can't make this shtein up
QuoteWell said, Steve! Such a coincidence that the infamous, George Soros predicted there would be a market crash before our next presidential election. Magically, a few weeks later, the Covid-19 virus is exposed in Wuhan, China. Two miles from the outbreak in Wuhan, is a Bio-safety Level 4 (BSL-4) that is a Bio Weapon Lab. I'm sure everyone can connect the dots. Communist China HATES President Trump! Trump is the first President ever to stop the mass give-aways that the USA has been giving away to China for decades. Furthermore, consider the way the Democrats and their evil partners, the mass media, have been politicizing this virus. "It's all Trump's fault"! This entire outbreak is a master plan to get Trump out of office! All of the Left's other plans have failed to remove Trump. President Trump is the Only one standing in the way of their One World Order. Thank God for that!
What a farging whack job.
Quote from: AO1 on March 13, 2020, 07:21:02 PM
From a friends fb post...you can't make this shtein up
QuoteWell said, Steve! Such a coincidence that the infamous, George Soros predicted there would be a market crash before our next presidential election. Magically, a few weeks later, the Covid-19 virus is exposed in Wuhan, China. Two miles from the outbreak in Wuhan, is a Bio-safety Level 4 (BSL-4) that is a Bio Weapon Lab. I'm sure everyone can connect the dots. Communist China HATES President Trump! Trump is the first President ever to stop the mass give-aways that the USA has been giving away to China for decades. Furthermore, consider the way the Democrats and their evil partners, the mass media, have been politicizing this virus. "It's all Trump's fault"! This entire outbreak is a master plan to get Trump out of office! All of the Left's other plans have failed to remove Trump. President Trump is the Only one standing in the way of their One World Order. Thank God for that!
A solid 60% chance there's a few folks on CVON that believe something similar but aren't saying it
Our governor just closed the schools down for 2 weeks
Quote from: Munson on March 13, 2020, 08:20:35 PM
Quote from: AO1 on March 13, 2020, 07:21:02 PM
From a friends fb post...you can't make this shtein up
QuoteWell said, Steve! Such a coincidence that the infamous, George Soros predicted there would be a market crash before our next presidential election. Magically, a few weeks later, the Covid-19 virus is exposed in Wuhan, China. Two miles from the outbreak in Wuhan, is a Bio-safety Level 4 (BSL-4) that is a Bio Weapon Lab. I'm sure everyone can connect the dots. Communist China HATES President Trump! Trump is the first President ever to stop the mass give-aways that the USA has been giving away to China for decades. Furthermore, consider the way the Democrats and their evil partners, the mass media, have been politicizing this virus. "It's all Trump's fault"! This entire outbreak is a master plan to get Trump out of office! All of the Left's other plans have failed to remove Trump. President Trump is the Only one standing in the way of their One World Order. Thank God for that!
A solid 60% chance there's a few folks on CVON that believe something similar but aren't saying it
Stopped posting there a few months ago. Too toxic.
Quote from: AO1 on March 13, 2020, 08:23:18 PM
Quote from: Munson on March 13, 2020, 08:20:35 PM
Quote from: AO1 on March 13, 2020, 07:21:02 PM
From a friends fb post...you can't make this shtein up
QuoteWell said, Steve! Such a coincidence that the infamous, George Soros predicted there would be a market crash before our next presidential election. Magically, a few weeks later, the Covid-19 virus is exposed in Wuhan, China. Two miles from the outbreak in Wuhan, is a Bio-safety Level 4 (BSL-4) that is a Bio Weapon Lab. I'm sure everyone can connect the dots. Communist China HATES President Trump! Trump is the first President ever to stop the mass give-aways that the USA has been giving away to China for decades. Furthermore, consider the way the Democrats and their evil partners, the mass media, have been politicizing this virus. "It's all Trump's fault"! This entire outbreak is a master plan to get Trump out of office! All of the Left's other plans have failed to remove Trump. President Trump is the Only one standing in the way of their One World Order. Thank God for that!
A solid 60% chance there's a few folks on CVON that believe something similar but aren't saying it
Stopped posting there a few months ago. Too toxic.
Hah, I don't blame you. I haven't checked in there in weeks but it seemed bad last time I did, can't imagine with the impeachment and the Dems voting and now this that it's any better
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https://twitter.com/PennLive/status/1238516967167926274
https://twitter.com/mqmq_mmqq/status/1236751849769676801
Eat. The. Rich.
Now is the time for open warfare, folks.
You first Rambo
How about you go first you farging Hoyda.
You're a lot of tough guy talk, Rome. It's your thing and mostly it's kinda cut.
But dude, you're making calls to arms on the Internet during an actual crisis...and catching feelings over being poked for it.
Saddle up and ride out to fight your war or just shut the farg up about it.
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https://twitter.com/green_footballs/status/1238979956669022208
neither of those links work
Hmm...mighta got deleted. Basically pointing out that Trump wouldn't actually tell us if he was positive or not.
And now on a related note....this:
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1239000115387551744
https://twitter.com/kfile/status/1239215435226234880
farg this mother farger so hard
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1239217522093764608
What the farg????
https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1239241504226508802
Dem lawyer during the impeachment investigation.
Fun fact: the senate trial vote wasn't even 6 weeks ago
Quote from: Munson on March 15, 2020, 12:30:07 PM
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1239217522093764608
What the farg????
https://twitter.com/JoshuaHol/status/1239203186080206848
jfc. apparently this is (Rightfully) a huge story over there
https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1239287776249593858
Sadly nothing Cheeto Dick does shocks me any more. It also shows how god damn stupid he is to ask Germany to ante up their work for US only.
Literal imbecile.
We went out last night and today and the places we went normally are hopping and there was a handful of people there.
NYC and PA (certain counties including Chesco and Montco) have ordered restaurants to close to walk in biz and only do take out or delivery.
The markets are going to crash again tomorrow. Overnight trading indicates it'll open down 1000
My buddy just sent me this:
QuoteNot sure of validity here, but my brother's son Ryan at University of Delaware has a fraternity brother whose aunt works for CDC. She was in a mtg w/Trump and tomorrow they will be announcing a national quarantine for everyone in the US for up to two weeks to stay at home. I can see him doing this to get on top of it and stomp out. Guess we'll all see tomorrow. Just figured I'd let you know so you can get your shtein paper and Gentleman Jack before the rush
Like he said, validity is a question but it makes sense.
Frankly, it's too little too late at this point.
Interesting. Only thing that makes me question it is didn't the CDC just issue guidance today for seniors to stay home? Or am I mixing that up with the fact that they wanted to do that last week and were shot down by the admin?
https://twitter.com/ryansickler/status/1239045001125842944
A National quarantine is certainly on the table.
But "my brother's son Ryan at University of Delaware has a fraternity brother whose aunt works for CDC" is ridiculous. Jesus Christ. Thank God you warned me of the validity question, otherwise I never would have suspected.
Yeah we have had a lot of that here too; someone started the rumor that the city of Houston was going to enact a lockdown. I have a friend who works for the city so I texted him and asked if it was true. It was not.
Even when we told the person who heard fifth hand that a lock down was coming did not believe us despite hearing it straight from the mouth of someone high up in the city.
CNN saying they're considering a nationwide curfew (which sucks honestly because the few times I have snuck out to the store I've done it late night to avoid crowds hah)
I just requested an absentee ballot. I'll vote by mail, thank you.
I see the Dow is reacting well to Trump bragging about the highest stock rise ever all weekend and the Fed cutting rates
he's got this under such control that he can return to bashing Hillary and pardoning members of his crime family
it's great
I can't imagine a worse person to be potus right now (or ever but that goes without saying). His sole concern is the stock market because he's hanging his re-election hopes on the economy. Glad they lowered rates and gave trillion and a half in tax cuts to the top 1% in a bull market. shteins gonna hit the fan but he's already used the push only in an emergency button to artificially inflate the economy. His supporters have gone from this is a democratic hoax to blaming the media. farging deplorables
Quote from: Diomedes on March 16, 2020, 07:58:54 AM
A National quarantine is certainly on the table.
But "my brother's son Ryan at University of Delaware has a fraternity brother whose aunt works for CDC" is ridiculous. Jesus Christ. Thank God you warned me of the validity question, otherwise I never would have suspected.
Just passing it on, Dio. It's not gospel or even remotely confirmed.
Quote from: AO1 on March 16, 2020, 10:56:19 AM
I can't imagine a worse person to be potus right now (or ever but that goes without saying). His sole concern is the stock market because he's hanging his re-election hopes on the economy. Glad they lowered rates and gave trillion and a half in tax cuts to the top 1% in a bull market. shteins gonna hit the fan but he's already used the push only in an emergency button to artificially inflate the economy. His supporters have gone from this is a democratic hoax to blaming the media. farging deplorables
It really is like this was designed to happen at literally the worst possible time in our country's history for this to happen. Just a severe lack of leadership.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1239312603555532801
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1239565989148229632
Quote from: Rome on March 16, 2020, 11:17:14 AMJust passing it on, Dio. It's not gospel or even remotely confirmed.
Stop passing rumor.
Stop yelling fire in a crowded theater.
https://twitter.com/miracleofsound/status/1239563543185424384
https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1239578864822767617
Socialist Mitt!
https://twitter.com/nygovcuomo/status/1239610734033670145
Trump being petty AF because Cuomo pointed out the FedGov incompetence earlier on national TV
String got the COVID
Quote from: Munson on March 16, 2020, 02:16:30 PM
https://twitter.com/nygovcuomo/status/1239610734033670145
Trump being petty AF because Cuomo pointed out the FedGov incompetence earlier on national TV
I watched Cuomo's pc it was so refreshing watching a grown up lead instead of talking about the stock market and pointing fingers
Quote from: Diomedes on March 16, 2020, 11:41:38 AM
Quote from: Rome on March 16, 2020, 11:17:14 AMJust passing it on, Dio. It's not gospel or even remotely confirmed.
Stop passing rumor.
Stop yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Worst haiku ever.
I despise everything about trump but his presser today was the least terrible I've ever seen. Appropriately somber, even said that the media is covering this responsibly and not making it up.
When he starts resorting to the truth, you know it's gonna get way worse.
3000 hit in the market today.
good looooord
Can't wait to see them make up another trillion to throw at the stock market.
In April, I pulled my retirement savings from an old rollover IRA that was almost entirely in U.S. stocks and spread the investments out into a much more balanced package. I have no idea how it's fared so far, or for that matter how poorly my old position would have done, but I'm sure I made the right call. I'll continue to not look at it....nothing to do about it at all anyway.
Quote from: phattymatty on March 16, 2020, 04:34:15 PM
I despise everything about trump but his presser today was the least terrible I've ever seen. Appropriately somber, even said that the media is covering this responsibly and not making it up.
When he starts resorting to the truth, you know it's gonna get way worse.
Yeah the only bad parts were once again trying to avoid responsibility and giving himself a 10/10 on the admins actions so far lol
A month ago he said it was a liberal hoax and his borderline retarded supporters backed him.
Church folks still think it's a hoax.
You know what's not a hoax
cruise line stock
I just bought 10k of carnival at 14.92
it was 52 a year ago
damn you is rich
Quote from: ice grillin you on March 16, 2020, 05:56:07 PM
You know what's not a hoax
cruise line stock
I just bought 10k of carnival at 14.92
it was 52 a year ago
Yep. I'm buying them and Norwegian. 52wk high of $59 and a tad over $11 right now
San Fran on 24hr lock down
They can't leave except for doc appointment or the grocery store
Houston is following the lead of LA/NYC and others and closing sit down restaurants. Only drive through or take out. Plus gyms are shut down too.
Our shteinbag governor...Mr Hot Wheels sez
QuoteA spokesperson of Governor Greg Abbott released a statement on Sunday saying Abbott is confident that cities will make the best decision for their communities. However, he believes closing bars and eateries would drive panic and complete societal breakdown.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 16, 2020, 07:15:14 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on March 16, 2020, 05:56:07 PM
You know what's not a hoax
cruise line stock
I just bought 10k of carnival at 14.92
it was 52 a year ago
Yep. I'm buying them and Norwegian. 52wk high of $59 and a tad over $11 right now
What platform do you use? Thinking about firing up TD Ameritrade for the first time in a decade hah
I use Fidelity.
Our 401k used to be with them and I really liked their customer service.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/on-fox-news-suddenly-a-very-different-tune-about-the-coronavirus/2020/03/16/7a7637cc-678f-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html
https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1239718305616646144
https://twitter.com/nydailynews/status/1239685585675194368 21
Kentucky
Mississippi
Alabama
Dumbest goddamn states in the nation
this country farging deserves this
https://twitter.com/stevekornacki/status/1239767947528343553
farging hell
Certainly explains the different tone from the Admin today
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 16, 2020, 11:29:05 PM
https://twitter.com/nydailynews/status/1239685585675194368 21
Kentucky
Mississippi
Alabama
Dumbest goddamn states in the nation
They should introduce that guy to this guy:
https://twitter.com/djrodgers1231/status/1239782690855030784
Can any of you answer/link to source for:
What is the shortest possible timeline for the production of a vaccine?
A year with proper testing.
So, if everything goes to plan, best case scenario is a year.
Swell.
My wife is a recovery nurse at a globally celebrated hospital. She just went in for a normal 12 hour shift, recovering general population patients from elective surgeries. To the best of our knowledge, these patients have not been tested. My wife has not been tested. She will not be required or able to wear full protective gear.
And I'm the fargin' bad guy for not letting my kids visit with the frail boomers next door.
https://twitter.com/NatashaFatah/status/1239714703338766336
Quote from: Munson on March 17, 2020, 02:13:17 AM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 16, 2020, 11:29:05 PM
https://twitter.com/nydailynews/status/1239685585675194368 21
Kentucky
Mississippi
Alabama
Dumbest goddamn states in the nation
They should introduce that guy to this guy:
https://twitter.com/djrodgers1231/status/1239782690855030784
haha...if it makes me an awful person for laughing at this...then so be it.
I looked at his bio and he's a NASCAR fan which means southerner and a Trumper.
Since I have been a vocal critic of Larry Hogan, I feel a responsibility to also be vocal in praise when it's due. He's doing as good a job as I could hope any Governor would do, and I'm very thankful to be a resident of Maryland rather than Texas or Alabama or any of many States currently led by anti-science demagogic iceholes.
I wish Hogan had entirely repudiated the Republican brand that beshat itself by embracing the would-be Mussolini in the White House, but at this point my complaints are academic only. He's doing good work and I'm thankful for it.
Better get your drink on fast, Rome.
https://twitter.com/FOX13News/status/1239934490094559234
https://twitter.com/shomikdutta/status/1239918905461600257
Sounds like the Repubs have caved on trying payroll tax cuts according to this press conference. We're gonna be getting straight cash, homie
Quote from: Geowhizzer on March 17, 2020, 12:09:05 PM
Better get your drink on fast, Rome.
https://twitter.com/FOX13News/status/1239934490094559234
After the CWB videos yesterday this was a lock to happen. Good.
Send the dude bros back and get them off the beaches
Quote from: Munson on March 17, 2020, 12:17:33 PM
Sounds like the Repubs have caved on trying payroll tax cuts according to this press conference. We're gonna be getting straight cash, homie
trump stimulus checks will be sent to fox news viewers only.
Quote from: hunt on March 17, 2020, 01:49:39 PM
Quote from: Munson on March 17, 2020, 12:17:33 PM
Sounds like the Repubs have caved on trying payroll tax cuts according to this press conference. We're gonna be getting straight cash, homie
trump stimulus checks will be sent to fox news viewers only.
It does suck that he's gonna get credit for a progressive idea and his total botch job of the testing/not taking it seriously will be forgotten by November.
Early reports are WH is proposing $250 Billion in a "first round of checks" which averages out to $700 to each individual. It won't be spread that way though so maybe $1000 per?
Senate Dems starting to coalesce around a more generous longer term thing:
https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1239981577813331968
This farging blows. Hate not having access to the gym. Pumped out 100 pushups (not all at once) then took my dog for a 4 mile walk. Parks are closed for some dumb reason. I understand closing the picnic areas down but for people like me who hike it sucks and is pointless. Drove by Target and it's a farging zoo. Stopped in Wawa to get food for my daughter and the ignorant lady at the counter is complaining to the cashier because they ran out of the water she likes.
Whining intensifies
i live across the street from a small park and kids are out on the swingset all day
im at the point where we should just go about our lives normally, the weak will die and will have some needed population control...we cant live in prison anymore. lets just farg it who cares really
if i go i go
Kevin Durant got the CODIV
Quote from: MDS on March 17, 2020, 05:43:47 PM
i live across the street from a small park and kids are out on the swingset all day
im at the point where we should just go about our lives normally, the weak will die and will have some needed population control...we cant live in prison anymore. lets just farg it who cares really
if i go i go
I'm talking about state parks
I'm with you farg it kill me I had a good run
Florida students now out of the buildings until April 15. All standardized testing cancelled for the school year.
Online classes are being planned by individual districts.
https://twitter.com/KeeleyFox29/status/1240031697674080260
Quote from: Geowhizzer on March 17, 2020, 06:21:38 PM
Florida students now out of the buildings until April 15. All standardized testing cancelled for the school year.
Online classes are being planned by individual districts.
My daughters school sent optional school work...it's through google classroom. She's an honor roll student...lives with me 100% of the time. All homework/projects/tests etc. are done under my supervision. So Baby's momma - who's never once assisted my daughter in doing her school work or bothered to attend a parent teacher conference - texts me today telling me I need to make sure my daughter is doing a few hours of school work a day. I didn't bother responding.
The kids aren't going back this year at all, book it.
Also, I get y'alls frustration, and it's easy to say if it kills you, oh well...when you both know damn well that you're at very low risk of serious illness or death yourselves. It's boomers. Grandparents of our kids. People with diabetes, heart conditions, recovering from cancer, etc.
If you going out put only you at risk and you decide to take that chance...fine with me. But that's not the case.
i was mostly kidding about all that
im just wondering how long this is supposed to last for realistically. south korea got under the curve by testing testing testing. we are not testing. we have an illiterate moron president. 8 weeks of some half assed quarantine isnt going to do shtein. i am social distancing but still venturing out to bike or walk to get some air. i see groups of people. i see buses taking people sitting next to each other. i saw a mailman not wearing gloves.
we either need to go full lockdown where nobody leaves unless you need medical care or are essential personnel....or just resume life and let this weed out the weak and the old
Quote from: MDS on March 17, 2020, 07:27:14 PM
i was mostly kidding about all that
I know. Not sure about
SD.
We have to keep it up long enough for the hospitals to handle a steady intake of patients for the next year to 18 months, when we should have a vaccine....
We have to keep it up a very long time or your buddy with sickle cell, your aunt with the diabetes, your friend who just finished chemo....etc...are goners.
id being willing to lose all them if it takes out trump
I'd honestly expect death numbers to start jumping real high by next week. We're barely prepared for everyday medical needs, this is going to get super ugly.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 17, 2020, 07:32:45 PM
Quote from: MDS on March 17, 2020, 07:27:14 PM
i was mostly kidding about all that
I know. Not sure about SD.
We have to keep it up long enough for the hospitals to handle a steady intake of patients for the next year to 18 months, when we should have a vaccine....
We have to keep it up a very long time or your buddy with sickle cell, your aunt with the diabetes, your friend who just finished chemo....etc...are goners.
I was kidding I'm just frustrated. I get the big picture. I tried finding volunteer work but even that's hard to come by.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 17, 2020, 06:45:22 PM
The kids aren't going back this year at all, book it.
That's my guess. It would almost be better just to do it now. This piecemeal shtein just drags it out.
Mrs. Rome is a cancer survivor with a compromised immune system thanks to the drugs she took to beat that corksucker of a disease.
I'd really rather not "just get it over with" where she's concerned, thanks.
Maybe I'm a terrible parent but I already told my kids they probably aren't going back at all this year, that I'm not too concerned about them finishing their lesson plans, and we'll deal with it all in time. All I can do right now is focus on surviving the day without murdering them or killing myself.
My wife is full time nurse, and full time grad student, both at wicked famous, challenging institutions. I'm effectively single-parenting this show, and in the middle of my biggest (stalled) job ever. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, teaching....I'm f'n miserable.
BTW...does anyone really believe that Russia has only 115 or so cases? That's just not credible.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 17, 2020, 08:21:22 PM...but I already told my kids they probably aren't going back at all this year...
Not that much actual education occurs there, but: the state of Kansas has called school for the rest of the academic year.
They won't be the only State to do it.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 17, 2020, 08:29:08 PM
BTW...does anyone really believe that Russia has only 115 or so cases? That's just not credible.
A lot of potential carriers died of sudden lead poisoning.
https://abc13.com/society/galveston-co-judge-calls-restaurant-closures-illegal/6021155/
Sigh.
So dumbshteins from here will drive down there.
gun stores are nuts right now, if you care. :paranoid
When aren't gun stores having a rush lately, anyway? Honest question. Gun nuts seem to do nothing but panic buy no matter what the news is.
https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/1240074570264002560
https://twitter.com/jeremycyoung/status/1239975682643357696
Thread that summarizes the report.
12-18 months of suppression or millions of Americans die.
Quote from: Munson on March 18, 2020, 10:47:15 AM
https://twitter.com/jeremycyoung/status/1239975682643357696
Thread that summarizes the report.
12-18 months of suppression or millions of Americans die.
its just the flu bro
Remember when Trump scrambled the National Guard to the border for the imaginery caravan
https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/1240257063504281602
Not kidding don't feel well. My tinnitus gets real loud when I start getting sick and right now it's insane. Took the dog for a 5 mile walk, got back and felt like I was gonna pass out. No appetite and really irritable. Mild headache.
Too much :CF
Watch SB LII two times and check back with us in three days.
https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1240414144504856577 21
Apparently, the first representative to test positive is mine:
https://twitter.com/MarioDB/status/1240409251471937537
Employee at my cousins work tested positive so she's being tested. shteins about to really hit the fan. Two weeks from now.
First death in MD reported.
Quote from: AO1 on March 18, 2020, 08:10:14 PM
Employee at my cousins work tested positive so she's being tested. shteins about to really hit the fan. Two weeks from now.
my buddy had the same thing happen to him. someone he works with and last interacted with maybe 5 days ago had it. hes fine. but that doesnt mean he doesnt have it. so hes gotta go complete lockdown.
this is crazy times kids
https://twitter.com/mrkmully/status/1240692940848029696 20
We haven't had widespread testing here until today. And even this is not enough. The line waiting, at 10am, was a mile long. This shtein is crazy.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1240723469140140033
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1240662835933384707
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1240762728450531329
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1240732200888414209
lol...can't remember the last time I bought a game on some of physical media
shteinbag
https://twitter.com/cmarinucci/status/1240360659583291392 21
Baltimore ain't panicking, I can report that.
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1240734052157657088
Fingers crossed for this one.
Steal Malcolm Jenkins and get the bug
They set up a huge white CODIV tent a few miles from my house
Richest nation in the world and this is what is going on. God forbid the president, who today basically said it's the states jobs and he's not a shipping clerk, actually uses his power to get more.
https://twitter.com/alandrummond2/status/1240008793167192066 21
Yikes
https://twitter.com/michaelsderby/status/1240805923389669377 21
Morning grocery run report: walk in around 7:20, it's already packed. Bread aisles are bare. Meat practically non-existent. Got my hands on some chicken breasts. There were two filet mignons and nothing else on the steak shelve so I said farg it and grabbed it. Fruits were either plentiful or completely gone. My daughter eats a lot of strawberries/blueberries etc...of course there were barely any left and they were organic so I had to pay double the price. Toilet paper/paper towel aisle is hilarious People are iceholes. Smashing carts into one another, no excuse me, blocking the entire farging aisle when you know the stores crowded. Heard people coughing left and right. Acme had two cashiers on so check out was 10 carts deep which just added to the mess. I lucked out because another cashier came on and pulled me and another lady into her lane. Cashier said meat delivery comes in around 9am and shelves are stocked around 11...probably heading back at lunch to see if I can grab some more meats. Spent $200 which is average for me.
people in Baltimore doing better than that, thankfully...but all the same it might be time for the National Guard to kiss their families goodbye and post up everywhere.
if people can't hold the line themselves, it needs to be enforced by guns because without order we are well and truly farged
Another racist pig
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/kansas-gop-official-says-lack-of-chinese-people-has-spared-his-state-from-coronavirus/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
The whole speech today is xenophobic bullshtein
If you put sensors on my body and played tape of that man's voice, the stress level would register like an electric shock was applied to my balls. I can't bear to hear his voice, and won't tune in if I know he's there.
You listen to Cuomo speak, he's confident, looks at the camera and addresses his audience, he doesn't use notes because he already knows his message.
Now turn to Trump
He reads off a sheet of paper with his head down...every once in a while he'll adlib and say something useless so he appears smart. Then he hands it off to people who have a semblance of a clue. Pence is at least prepared but because his head is so far up Trumps ass he keeps saying "at the Presidents direction" knowing damn well Trump hasn't a clue.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 20, 2020, 12:18:48 PM
If you put sensors on my body and played tape of that man's voice, the stress level would register like an electric shock was applied to my balls. I can't bear to hear his voice, and won't tune in if I know he's there.
Yep. I do not watch the press conferences and I try to even avoid video clips of them.
Pence is subtly throwing that orange shteinbad under the bus with the repeated "under the presidents direction" remarks.
As for the grocery stores...its pretty much the same at my spot. Meat aisle was relatively picked over (all chicken breasts gone so I got thighs and tenders) and ground beef was only 80/20. No 93/7 lean.
I hit the lotto and got one of the last six packs of paper towels. No TP to be found. No cleaning products to be found.
We're down the street from a distribution center and there's a lot of other stores in the city and suburbs that I could go to if I had to really push it.
I have 3 rolls of paper towels left. Amazon has 24 rolls for $40. Everything else is sold out. I splurged.
In case you weren't watching:
NBC News' Peter Alexander: What do you say to millions of Americans who are scared?
Donald Trump: "I say that you are a terrible reporter."
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1241042063929548802
Seriously,farg this mother farger so much. He can't take being questioned at all. Thin skinned loser baby.
So a malignant narcissist is incapable of expressing empathy you say?
Gee, if only someone had warned us about him beforehand.
Quote from: AO1 on March 20, 2020, 12:53:24 PM
I have 3 rolls of paper towels left. Amazon has 24 rolls for $40. Everything else is sold out. I splurged.
In case you weren't watching:
NBC News' Peter Alexander: What do you say to millions of Americans who are scared?
Donald Trump: "I say that you are a terrible reporter."
scumbag of the highest level possible
https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1241049308587339776
Yeah his was annoying too. Basically blaming hospitals and their workers for not having all the supplies they need
https://twitter.com/zekejmiller/status/1241050564437385219
farg that's grim
Quote from: Munson on March 20, 2020, 01:30:49 PM
https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1241049308587339776
Yeah his was annoying too. Basically blaming hospitals and their workers for not having all the supplies they need
That's farging horseshtein. farg this administration with a rusty pitch fork.
On of my friends I work with - he's in our DFW location - thinks his 3yr old son has it. They had a layover in SEA last week coming back from Hawaii. His wife is from there. She's also been in recovery from breast cancer. She beat it but is still a high risk to contract COVID.
He cannot get his son tested because DFW doesnt have testing unless in direct contact with someone who has it. I feel so bad for him. The flu and strep tests were negative which means its likely the COVID and you'd think that because they connected through WA state and because he's a child they'd prioritize the test. Nope. Basically stay home for 14 days.
This is obviously a hoax Joe Biden put together to make Trump look bad in an election year.
QuoteAll:
Unfortunately our testing has been halted due to a shortage of laboratory testing supplies and processing limitations. We are back to only testing for COVID-19 for the high risk patients.
This is effective immediately.
High risk criteria are as follows:
Patients must have symptoms (fever, cough, shortness of breath) AND have one of the following risk factors:
•Older than 65
•People who have serious underlying health conditions (heart disease, diabetes, lung disease/ asthma, HIV, immunocompromised)
•Healthcare workers with suspected exposure
One of the clinics here
Quote from: Eagaholic on March 20, 2020, 02:03:25 PM
This is obviously a hoax Joe Biden put together to make Trump look bad in an election year.
Can you imagine the conspiracy theories if a Dem was President? They created this virus so they could stay in office longer!
theres a reason why its the greatest city on earth...
QuoteLiquor stores will remain open in New York as they are deemed essential businesses.
Cheeto Dick's buddy is farging UK up too
https://twitter.com/scott_gilmore/status/1240997925964185600 21
My sister's boyfriend works at Target over in Oaks and they had to issue a paper to their employees showing they are allowed to be out if they are stopped by police.
Odds on Fauci getting fired for basically calling Trump's BS today?
What did he say?
trump started saying some jibberish about how some malaria drug works and he basically jumped in and said thats not true.
Trump starting talking about the deep state and Fauci put his hand over his face in shame
lol...good for Fauci
If he's not fired, he's definitely checked out.
A couple I know in north Jersey have it. Husband definitely has it, wife only had the dry cough so far.
Which of us at :CF will be the first?
My first instinct would be matty because he's the kind of guy who will smoke crack to try it out. But he also the kind to smoke crack and not turn into a crackhead, so the virus probably just recognize him and carry on to the next victim.
I'm going with Eagles_Legendz. Lawyers are filthy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/coronavirus-heaven-frilot-mark-frilot.html?action=click&algo=top_conversion&auth=login-email&fellback=false&imp_id=20978296&imp_id=789284970&login=email&module=Most%20Popular&pgtype=Homepage
So we're all just assuming everyone at the border camps is dead, right?
Quote from: Diomedes on March 20, 2020, 08:02:31 PM
Which of us at :CF will be the first?
My first instinct would be matty because he's the kind of guy who will smoke crack to try it out. But he also the kind to smoke crack and not turn into a crackhead, so the virus probably just recognize him and carry on to the next victim.
I'm going with Eagles_Legendz. Lawyers are filthy.
Who here is still working around people?
I am. I wouldn't be shocked if I get it
https://twitter.com/hrmoroz/status/1241025578527903750
https://youtu.be/kHUuWq6y8F0
https://twitter.com/cathleendecker/status/1241080115200745473
I am still working but our exposure is limited. We're taking precautions as suggested and socially distancing as much as possible.
That said, I have no doubt I'll get this bug. I thought I had it a few days ago but it turned out to be the massive influx of pollen that hit all at once.
Good lord this is terrifying
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patients?
first piece I've seen about Russia's situation:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/europe/putin-coronavirus-russia-intl/index.html
in short, Putin closed border w/ China immediately, started testing immediately, etc.
Putin owns Trump in every imaginable way
Quote from: Diomedes on March 20, 2020, 08:02:31 PM
Which of us at :CF will be the first?
My first instinct would be matty because he's the kind of guy who will smoke crack to try it out. But he also the kind to smoke crack and not turn into a crackhead, so the virus probably just recognize him and carry on to the next victim.
I'm going with Eagles_Legendz. Lawyers are filthy.
Ha, probably. Our office is closed now. But I am at municipal meetings usually 3 nights a week so, deal with a lot of completely random farging people.
Probably less exposure than dealing with a lot of random people farging.
Sex club workers holla
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1241411870189182976 21
Cheeto Dick's approval rating on this is 53-55%
Morons. Absolute morons.
So ten percent higher than normal.
His overall approval ratings haven't changed though.
So my guess is some indies/dems giving him minimal credit for getting his ass moving this week
I'm running out of ways to call this piece of shtein stupid
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1241422580675829760 21
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_bdc4e802-6b90-11ea-a747-832e94bc7f56.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
Was wrong, state parks are open. Did a 10 mile hike with my dog today at Tyler. Arrived around 11 and it was empty. Came back to my car 3 hours later and the park was packed. People are in good spirits which was nice to see. Perfect day for a hike.
Have had a dry cough on and off this week that now has a sore throat to go with it.
Quote from: Munson on March 21, 2020, 06:39:20 PM
Have had a dry cough on and off this week that now has a sore throat to go with it.
Nice knowing you bud
RIP Munson
Good luck. Don't take anyone else down with you.
You can take me out, I give a farg. Kids will be fine with whoever my wife finds as replacement.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 21, 2020, 07:32:00 PM
You can take me out, I give a farg. Kids will be fine with whoever my wife finds as replacement.
IN
Quote from: Diomedes on March 21, 2020, 07:32:00 PM
You can take me out, I give a farg. Kids will be fine with whoever my wife finds as replacement.
She's a nurse, right? Maybe wait until she makes it through this first.
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_bdc4e802-6b90-11ea-a747-832e94bc7f56.html
She may have died while waiting for her results, but the important thing is the son in law in chief got paid and not some filthy World Health Organization commie.
U.S. now top three confirmed infections behind only China and Italy
I keep running the mortality rate and it keeps going up, around 4.2% by JHU figures. That will come down as some point, right? Because we'll find a lot of people who got it and recovered, without notice?
The range in mildness to severity of this thing is really incredible. How many hundreds of thousands of people have been infected and evidently recovered while a healthy 39 yr-old woman succumbs from it in five days?
Scary freaking disease.
Cuomo to NYC - get me a plan in 24hrs to reduce the number of people crowding parks.
He's done a fantastic job. And Cheeto Dick would be wise to watch how he handles it including the press conferences. But that'll never happen.
And you're right Romey - the range of severity is wild.
I went down to the beach to see if people were being smart.
Turns out they're not. It's like a summer day down there. These are Trumpers. No doubt about it in my mind.
No doubt. I'm also not shocked about reports coming out about the icehole college kids who were spring breaking there are now testing positive.
I can't say enough good things about how well administered Andrew Cuomo's press conference was today. THAT is a leader.
Speaking of Florida
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgCCXSrwHA&feature=youtu.be
Trumpers gonna Trump
cuomo saying maybe 9 months until life returns to normal
ill see you on the other side
Quote from: MDS on March 22, 2020, 12:50:48 PM
cuomo saying maybe 9 months until life returns to normal
ill see you on the other side
Happy holidays?
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 22, 2020, 12:34:26 PM
Speaking of Florida
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgCCXSrwHA&feature=youtu.be
Trumpers gonna Trump
Omari Hardy is the guy who held that wretched woman's feet to the fire. I hope you Floridians here vote for him.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 22, 2020, 12:59:15 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 22, 2020, 12:34:26 PM
Speaking of Florida
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgCCXSrwHA&feature=youtu.be
Trumpers gonna Trump
Omari Hardy is the guy who held that wretched woman's feet to the fire. I hope you Floridians here vote for him.
None of us can. He's not running for any of our seats. None of us live near Palm Beach County.
Damn. Well hopefully people do vote for him en masse
More Florida!
https://twitter.com/billycorben/status/1241740081343447040 21
That icehole Rand Paul has tested positive.
He's asymptomatic and was tested anyways. Imagine that. He gets a test and most people who need one don't.
https://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20200322/coronavirus-against-tide-some-locals-going-about-their-business-hating-hype
Selfish. Ignorant. Foolish.
We are so farging doomed.
ITS A HOAX BRO
https://twitter.com/kristin__wilson/status/1241836726768852993 21
Here I am, holding it down, doing my best, cleaning the kitchen, taking in the weekend NPR program All Things Considered...and it gets interrupted by Trump, who can't get ten sentences out before dropping the phrase "Chinese Virus."
This worked last time I said it so I'll try again, with a different subject:
If someone is somehow able to kill Donald Trump, I will attend Mass. I also pledge to donate to that persons legal defense and or prison commissary fund, and celebrate that person as an American Hero for the rest of my life.
There, I said it. First time I made the promise, Eagles won a Super Bowl.
News media needs to stop broadcasting these updates. They are full of falsehoods and racist antagonism. NPR and other are not doing us a service by giving this son of a bitch their platform.
GODDAMNIT...all the chinese americans who hear this, and rightly fear for their well being....god farging damn him.
Preach.
He's a disaster. An unmitigated disaster.
He's doing it for his base. That's is. farg everything and everyone else. It all for those redhatted scourges on society who walk amongst us.
Even that shteinfarg Governor we have here can act mature. He's wrong on things but he's not a goddamn bearded lady on a carnival midway side show like Cheeto Dick is.
And sycophants like this dumb shtein here need to go out along with him
https://twitter.com/realcandaceo/status/1241853040967200770 21
No one licks boots like Candace Owens.
Delaware announced the stay at home and closure of nonessential business orders. Starts Tuesday at 8 AM.
Well, there's the scumbag mocking Romney for being in isolation
Look at Rambo Diomedes and shtein over here.
🤣😂
Here's the vid
corksucker
https://twitter.com/podsaveamerica/status/1241857752579764225 21
Quote from: Rome on March 22, 2020, 06:44:28 PM
Look at Rambo Diomedes and shtein over here.
Got under your skin did I?
Keep saying stupid shtein, I'll keep pulling your covers.
not all bad news...Harvey Weinstein got the covid in prison...wish him dead, save some taxpayer money
You'd think with all these GOP senators and staffers isolating and getting the virus that Cheeto Dick would have it or be getting it soon. They all drag their nuts over his face to support him so hopefully the virus does it's work on him soon
Sampling of comments from people I know;
This is going to start WWIII with China. We should nuke them.
Go buy a gun. Martial Law is coming and it's going to be complete anarchy.
We can't shut the country down for 2-3 months
SS is broken anyways. Thin the herd.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 22, 2020, 07:39:29 PM
Go buy a gun.
Been saying that for a while now. I have two guns and my daughter knows how to use one. Let's party.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 22, 2020, 07:22:26 PM
Quote from: Rome on March 22, 2020, 06:44:28 PM
Look at Rambo Diomedes and shtein over here.
Got under your skin did I?
Keep saying stupid shtein, I'll keep pulling your covers.
You should know me better than that after all these years together.
Was planning on getting one before the election just in case things got crazy.
As it is, had to get a person close to me to loan one, which I assume is illegal. Our state doesn't have very strong gun laws though.
That being said, martial law probably wouldn't be a huge deal in terms of riots starting unless the supply chain broke down. As long as farms and processed food makers are able to continue to put food on the shelves...
Quote from: Munson on March 22, 2020, 08:07:45 PMAs it is, had to get a person close to me to loan one, which I assume is illegal.
Now that's friendship. Hell of a gesture.
Bless these Italian mayors losing their shtein lol
https://twitter.com/protectheflames/status/1241403715036291072 21
that's great..."who the farg is supposed to even see you?" lol
Larry Hogan gonna shut the State of MD down to essential business only at press conference at 11 a.m. today.
Been stalled with red tape and other bullshtein-architects are the worst-on the biggest project of my career. Can't move along until the concrete sub does his thing, and finally got him scheduled for...you guessed it....today. He's rained out for today, which is a good thing because the last thing we need is to dig half a footer and then be shut down for weeks upon weeks. Frustrating.
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1241892278949404672
I'm trying to do "professional development" to prepare for distance learning (since we were on spring break last week, we're a week late getting started). My wife is trying to run her classes remotely. My two kids are trying to keep focused on their school assignments. Every computer is playing some video.
If I'm not dead or in jail at the end of this process, it will be a minor miracle...
Quote from: Diomedes on March 23, 2020, 07:22:43 AM
Larry Hogan gonna shut the State of MD down to essential business only at press conference at 11 a.m. today.
Been stalled with red tape and other bullshtein-architects are the worst-on the biggest project of my career. Can't move along until the concrete sub does his thing, and finally got him scheduled for...you guessed it....today. He's rained out for today, which is a good thing because the last thing we need is to dig half a footer and then be shut down for weeks upon weeks. Frustrating.
DC doing the same thing at 11 - might even be the same press conference.
I had to take a quick drive through the city this morning and construction sites are all going on like nothing has changed.
the park across the street from me was farging packed yesterday. I wanted to run over there and start kicking people in the face.
This is why you will continue to see construction going - my boss made sure to send this out this morning since my county is expect to follow DFW and shut down
QuoteHomeland Security Declares Wood Products Industry Essential
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced March 16, 2020 that workers that support the manufacture and distribution of forest products, including, but not limited to timber and other wood products, are deemed essential critical infrastructure workers. These workers "have a special responsibility" to maintain their current work schedule according to guidance issued by the President regarding COVID-19. See U.S. Department of Homeland Security
I get the social distancing but why not use this as an opportunity to pave the all the roads? The workers are outdoors and already wear gloves and masks.
phew
QuoteMaryland restaurant and alcohol carryout may continue, Md Commerce secretary Kelly Schulz said.
Quote from: AO1 on March 23, 2020, 10:59:02 AM
I get the social distancing but why not use this as an opportunity to pave the all the roads? The workers are outdoors and already wear gloves and masks.
its not infrastructure week yet
Our governor announced yesterday a stay at home order that begins tomorrow at 8 AM.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on March 23, 2020, 10:01:17 AM
I'm trying to do "professional development" to prepare for distance learning (since we were on spring break last week, we're a week late getting started). My wife is trying to run her classes remotely. My two kids are trying to keep focused on their school assignments. Every computer is playing some video.
If I'm not dead or in jail at the end of this process, it will be a minor miracle...
Our district still hasn't announced official plans yet. They're worried about the equity problem with kids not having devices or internet access at home. Still not sure what the final verdict is gonna be.
My district was ahead of the curve on that one. All of our middle and high schools already have Chromebooks, the district was able to purchase extra to distribute to elementary students, and have made hotspots available to families that need it.
On top of that, teachers are being instructed to make a hard copy available (how I am supposed to supply that from 30 miles away, I'm not sure) for any student that asks for one.
All of you teachers and administrators are sorely mistaken if you think parents are going to accomplish even a third of the instruction that happens under your direction at school.
We are doing our level best to keep the children on task but there's a reason I send them to school. I'm not a professional teacher. Morevoer, the children behave very differently with their parents than they do with you, and we can't kick them out.
On good days, we get some work done. On bad days, we completely let go. Fighting with my children to get schoolwork done does far more harm to them, and us, than whatever good might come from a few lessons in a workbook.
I encourage you to send that message to your bosses, and to the degree they insist on pushing you, to disobey them.
We have much bigger issues to deal with than keeping up with school work.
Trust me, I'm expecting very little. We're in survival mode right now.
If nothing else, I'm hoping to give my students a little sense of... normalcy (all apologies to Warren G. Harding)?
At this point, I think that we're not going back this school year (though some of Trump's latest rumblings makes me wonder). I think your kids are younger, which makes it that much harder. I have mainly advanced 8th graders... and I'm still expecting a lot of hiccups in this process.
One of the mantras today has been "grade with grace," so my guess is that any student attempting to get work done will be given a lot of leeway.
Really, what gains are made in this stretch is gravy. We're all just hanging on.
Kids are scared shteinless right now. Expecting them to do school work during this calamity is the height of stupidity. I'd say farg it and let them play all day long. If they * want * to do some school work, great. Have at it. Meanwhile mom and dad will be over here figuring out how to keep the lights on and a roof over your head for the next year or so.
Coronavirus: Pandemic is 'accelerating', WHO warns as cases pass 300,000
"It took 67 days from the first reported of Covid-19 to reach 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000, and just four days for the third 100,000."
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/23/cdc-coronavirus-survived-in-princess-cruise-cabins-up-to-17-days-after-passengers-left.html
We are so screwed.
Basically, everyone is going to get it. It's a matter of how quickly that happens.
ah, the good old days
Quote from: Diomedes on February 03, 2020, 09:00:42 PM
This new coronavirus got me thinking: Really just a fantastic year for that virus...one little jump to a different species and what a ride they hitched! Big growth, new regions, global in a day! The future is bright!
Not so good from our point of view, of course, but the universe doesn't much care about our point of view.
Quote from: QB Eagles on February 03, 2020, 09:31:17 PM
I don't think making the jump to humans is a wise move for a virus, especially if it's deadly. There's plenty of bats out there, and they don't have the means to eradicate you.
Herpes has the right idea. Lay low for years at a time, spread around when people don't even realize it, and make a big bet on people hating condoms.
If the mortality rate is 5% and a hundred million of us get it, that's FIVE MILLION dead.
I've been checking JHU's numbers daily and the mortality keeps creeping up. At 4.3% right now. Five days ago, it was like 3.2 (from memory). The figure should be inflated because theoretically, there have been a great number of people infected who did not get sick and so weren't noticed, and have since recovered. And theoretically, people shouldn't get sick more than once from it. But we don't know either of those are true yet. There have been sporadic reports of cases of re-infection. The idea that this thing can survive 17 days...holy crap.
if corona doesnt kill us, trump will
there is just no way this thing gets handled with this idiot...it cant
I spent the day arguing with people on Reddit bc I was bored and couldn't take the horse shtein MAGA responses.
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1242245135129346050
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/italy-bans-internal-travel-stop-virus-spread-live-updates-200322235532945.html
Some interesting things to note here.
Bottom line... stay home if possible. Avoid unnecessary contact. Wash your farging hands.
Quote from: Munson on March 23, 2020, 08:41:52 PM
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1242245135129346050
Ha. You first, icehole.
I farging HATE that icehole.
He's worse than Abbott.
If 50% of the population gets infected because we refuse to stop the spread there won't be much of an economy or country left anyway.
Having government-hating morons running the government probably wasn't the best idea.
In short, well done, America.
PS: But her e-mails.
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1241898681139331078 21
Quote from: Rome on March 23, 2020, 08:58:46 PM
If 50% of the population gets infected because we refuse to stop the spread there won't be much of an economy or country left anyway.
Having government-hating morons running the government probably wasn't the best idea.
In short, well done, America.
PS: But her e-mails.
its not about that...its about getting trump re-elected
the economy being, i guess good for rich people and survivable for everyone else, is his only calling card. trump we know is a sociopath of beyond understandable proportions who wouldnt care if every single person around him dies - including family - so long as he gets to be president again.
what we are seeing is the inevitability of cults. when they are faced with a problem, they ask you if you are so committed to the cause are you willing to die for it. welp. here we are. trump wants you to die for him.
Our useless governor isn't shutting down the state because not all areas in Florida have been affected yet.
Oh and it's "not advisable" either.
We are literally doomed.
if you dont think we deserve this....try again
having an easily defeatable pandemic destroy the nation because of the hoards of brain dead morons we elect as leaders twisted incompetence....i mean 2120 geo is gonna have a fun time teaching that one
I'm into a twitter hole reading people defending what that fool Dan Patrick said.
America is so farged
Quote from: MDS on March 23, 2020, 09:48:56 PM
if you dont think we deserve this....try again
having an easily defeatable pandemic destroy the nation because of the hoards of brain dead morons we elect as leaders twisted incompetence....i mean 2120 geo is gonna have a fun time teaching that one
Depends on how quickly we can develop bionics.
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EDIT: Damn, I knew I had the wrong word.
Phreak are you in Harris Co? They're getting the stay at home order tomorrow it sounds like
I think we're at the point now where how badly we get hit by covid has at least as much to do with us as individuals as it does the politicians.
Quote from: Munson on March 23, 2020, 10:32:16 PM
Phreak are you in Harris Co? They're getting the stay at home order tomorrow it sounds like
Yessir. I was just reading it now. I figured it would be today or Tuesday. Two of the surrounding counties issued today too.
They're finalizing the list of essential businesses tonight
Quote from: Eagaholic on March 23, 2020, 10:46:15 PM
I think we're at the point now where how badly we get hit by covid has at least as much to do with us as individuals as it does the politicians.
I mean, the real only solution because people are idiots is a govt enforced complete lockdown like they have in Italy now (China as well but they went to extremes we never would).
If you can't do that, then you gotta test at South Korea levels so at the very least you're identifying all carriers and getting them the farg off the streets
https://twitter.com/craig_a_spencer/status/1242302400762908685 21
https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1242151818014216193
i had to go to a meeting this morning and they are basically fixing all of the roads in dc all at once right now. pretty smart move.
https://twitter.com/mjs_dc/status/1242485863918993408
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1242503104349769728
https://twitter.com/geoffreyfowler/status/1242487862966157317
so basically all the anti government never forget ruby ridge militia guys are purposely not social distancing as a big middle finger to washington
Quote from: General_Failure on March 24, 2020, 02:07:28 PM
https://twitter.com/geoffreyfowler/status/1242487862966157317
Not surprising to me. We are the bluest city in the country by a mile. Crazy how not being an awful human goes along party lines these days.
Also I love how Trump throws Bill Barr's fat ass on stage now for no reason other then to make himself look smaller.
to be fair texas and louisiana both got A's and west virginia and mississippi got B's
i think this has more to do with libertarianism than right vs left, R v. D, progressive v. conservative etc
the only places lower than a C are those timmy mcveigh type kooks in the northwest who always do the opposite of what the government says
https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1242515065120657411
The wife of a guy in my office was running a fever and had all the symptoms, so of course he comes in to work today. Leaves at three to take her to the ER to get tested and just texted me to say it will be 7-10 DAYS to get the results back from the CDC.
Enjoy your two weeks off, jackass.
About the same at my place today.
Shipping manager is coughing and sick. Swears it's a sinus infection. His assistant is also sick. Boss sends them home and can't come back until they're cleared. Of course that's if they're allowed to get tested. And then we have to wait for results. And of course if they're positive we get shut down.
And I'm sitting there listening to their coughs trying to determine if they're dry or wet coughs. This is our life now.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/party-zero-soir-e-connecticut-121910043.html
Amazing how fast it spreads. For anyone doubting how serious this is send them this link
Not only are we at the capricious mercy of the virus; were also exposed to the willful ignorance of humans. Talk about a toxic combo.
QuoteWhom do you trust for #coronavirus info:
Dems:
CDC 87%
Your governor 75%
National media 72%
Friends/family 72%
Religious leaders 44%
Trump 14%
Republicans:
Trump 90%
CDC 84%
Friends/family 81%
Religious leaders 71%
You governor 65%
National media 13%
-CBS/YouGov
That can't be right.
half the shtein with polls these days is how can i answer this so that it pisses off the other side farg what someone truly believes
People will always double down when you show them they're wrong.
https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/1242916701102112769 21
Good lord
Good policy, put it in the employee handbook and move on.
The Vulcan Science Academy approved of this message.
https://twitter.com/JxnFreePress/status/1242847220598276097
Living in Jackson isn't enough: you're still in Mississippi
I sent a note to Larry Hogan informing him that though I'll still never ever vote for him, I'm grateful for his decency and a-political service during a crisis. Where you live matters and holy farg I'm thankful to live in Maryland not farging Alabama or Mississippi.
Yeah...I saw a thing yesterday that ranked the states on their aggressiveness in combating the pandemic and Texas was 49th and the other MAGA states were all towards the bottom.
The way this is playing out, Republicans may literally die as a party because of this. As it is, they have a dwindling headcount, but if they send their people into the covid19 muck, we may all come out of this a much, much better civilization as a result
Go to church, Deplorables! Hugs and handshakes, peace out.
Camera man who worked the Pistons Jazz game on the 7th is in a medically induced coma
my dealer one of the real heroes ... he still making runs
if I can't keep my viper mother in stock, covid would be a coup de grace for her
https://twitter.com/PittsburghPG/status/1242959976307531777
To be fair it's only about a grand to get cremated, so she saved everyone money.
https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1243204940144750600
Charge people like this with acts of terrorism.
NEPA...scumbag.
File that under "you break it, you bought it."
Quote5:19 p.m. As of Thursday evening, the U.S. now has more confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus than any country in the world, surpassing Italy and China, according to numbers from the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine tracker.
There were 82,404 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. by the end of the day Thursday.
WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
March 16th we had 16,000ish cases.
March 26th we have 82,404
What a crazy hoax. We only have 15 cases, and soon it'll be down to zero.
Cheeto Dick is back on denying and blaming Obama
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1243296009482055688 21
He's a clear and present danger to this country.
Someone has to take him out. That's what the 25th Amendment is there for if not for this EXACT scenario.
For the love of Christ - what the farg are they waiting for?
🤷♂️🤷♂️
https://twitter.com/rawstory/status/1243265481601093637 21
With any luck, he planned to vote in person, didn't fill out an absentee ballot.
Good riddance.
https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1243252341756669953
Friend posted on fb his buddy died from coronavirus. Guy was only in his 40's.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/bridgewater/bridgewater-dad-dies-family-hospitalized-coronavirus
JFC
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Quote from: AO1 on March 26, 2020, 10:23:20 PM
Friend posted on fb his buddy died from coronavirus. Guy was only in his 40's.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/bridgewater/bridgewater-dad-dies-family-hospitalized-coronavirus
Holy crap that's sad. And his wife and kids are hospitalized. That's farging brutal.
Remember the death panels the GOP prattled on about during the Obamacare implementation?
They're here. And they're the Trump Death Panels
I cannot fathom how this country is so farging stupid and crass to where hospitals have to make these choices.
https://twitter.com/nicholas_bagley/status/1243354739926093827 21
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 26, 2020, 10:42:04 PM
I cannot fathom how this country is so farging stupid and crass to where hospitals have to make these choices.
Okay, come on. Sure you can.
When you marry profit to medicine, there will be neglected children.
You can't make money selling groceries if you keep an extra 15% of shelf capacity unused in case of an emergency. You keep every square inch stocked.
Hospitals are no different. They operate at capacity as all other businesses do.
Boris Johnson got the covid
seems like forever ago I was saying people my age shouldn't be worried about this even though it was only like a week ago. seeing a lot of stories about healthy people in their 30s leaving us. crazy times.
QuoteCatholic bishops say it's okay to eat meat on Fridays during Lent because of the coronavirus
lol
it's a sin until it's not a sin and then it's a sin again later
idiots
Is it still ok to molest alter boys?
Quote from: Diomedes on March 27, 2020, 07:40:17 AM
Boris Johnson got the covid
Maybe Cheeto Dick can get it now too
Quote from: AO1 on March 27, 2020, 10:09:16 AM
Is it still ok to molest alter boys?
Mixed messages on that. You're not supposed to but if you do, they'll find work for you out of the spotlight, or behind the walls of the Vatican, safe from worldly justice.
https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1243499303705944064
This is fascinating
https://twitter.com/MikaelThalen/status/1243281598037913600
Quote from: General_Failure on March 27, 2020, 11:26:13 AM
https://twitter.com/andrewkimmel/status/1243499303705944064
Sickening
2 people at my office tested positive
Odds for SD being first :CF case just leapfrogged Eagles_Legendz.
Odds for SD being the first :CF we pour one out for also on the rise.
Munson hasn't posted in awhile I don't think...maybe he got the bug?
Got a test done yesterday after not sleeping the night before because I felt some burning sensations in my upper chest. I also have bad anxiety about health issues though so there is a chance it's just my anxiety driving me up a wall and manifesting symptoms that aren't there. I still haven't spiked a fever and today is day 7 of cough+sore throat, and day like 12 of the cough itself.
Hoping it comes back negative. But of course the testing center itself was not drive thru so I had to go into the same building as other sick people. There was only a handful there and I kept my distance as best as possible, but still had to walk by a few people going in and out of a few spots. They gave us all masks before we went in but still. So now I'm paranoid I got exposed there. It sucks. But yeah I tend to post less when my anxiety is eating me up. Hard to get excited about anything or joke around.
Oh shtein - hopefully it is just anxiety and a common cold. Good luck man.
https://twitter.com/Revolvermag/status/1243543615479169027
Quote from: Diomedes on March 27, 2020, 12:14:06 PM
Odds for SD being first :CF case just leapfrogged Eagles_Legendz.
Odds for SD being the first :CF we pour one out for also on the rise.
I work from home 5 days a week. Haven't been in the office since December. My social distancing skills are legendary and it has nothing to do with the coronavirus
In that case, I'll cancel the go fund me for your baby mama.
Quote from: Diomedes on March 27, 2020, 03:27:02 PM
In that case, I'll cancel the go fund me for your baby mama.
Back to paying her $20 a shot then?
Quote from: Diomedes on March 27, 2020, 03:27:02 PM
In that case, I'll cancel the go fund me for your baby mama.
Funny meme I just saw: Before you complain about your current situation, just remember, someone is quarantined with your ex
I guess he thinks his oncologists are full of shtein too?
https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1243586823080808462 21
an entry from a "baltimore life during covid" feature in the Sun
(https://www.baltimoresun.com/resizer/SyXsLNUrLDJyue1iSCwztcn5QXg=/800x600/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/ZBYJJHONKJBSNOZBYM6KRLYUWU.jpg)
QuoteHow does a family survive sudden job loss? With a lot of help and kindness.
Ours is a family of five with four of us living in Edgewood. Our patriarch, Joe, is a retired Army staff sergeant. We aren't as worried about money as most paycheck-to-paycheck families, since he gets retirement and disability funds. He is a truck driver who works nights. He has already received an employer letter allowing him to travel and work when isolating becomes mandatory.
Mom Mary — that's me — was the first to lose a job, my part-time job as a street advertiser. That was on Friday, March 13. I'm not eligible for unemployment.
John "JT" Thomas, our 18-year-old son who works as a YMCA lifeguard and is a full-time college student, was laid off two days later. His classes recently moved online. He's already tried to apply for unemployment online, but the site kept crashing. One day, he called 59 times and finally got through. The representative was amazingly patient.
Joseph, 22, a fast casual chain restaurant pizza maker, was laid off on Tuesday, March 17. He applied for unemployment on a Sunday morning and had no issues.
David, 21, a self-supporting full-time college student and telecommunications salesman, has been driving all over the coastal South on spring break. He decided to mosey back to Harford County, germs and all, on March 22. He is the only one who is not taking this crisis seriously. I hope he's right because he aged out of our Tricare for Life health insurance at 21, and cannot re-enroll because he took a semester off after graduating from Harford Community College. Although he has been accepted at Towson University, he cannot schedule classes until he attends orientation this summer, and he can't get back on our insurance policy without a schedule. Other insurance is cost-prohibitive for him, so he has decided to risk going uninsured for a few months.
Thanks to food giveaways at the Epicenter community center, Mountain Christian Church and Bel Air Methodist Church, we have plenty of food. We have six neighbors over 60, one in cancer remission, one recovering from surgery and one with diabetes. Three adults from our house go to each giveaway, then we give our homebound and other neighbors their share.
Our neighbors reciprocate. For his calculus class, JT must now print out a quiz, fill it out, then take a phone snap or scan it, to turn in within one hour. We don't own a printer since the college and the local library each do. With both now closed, JT was out of luck. We asked a neighbor if he can email them the quiz each Wednesday at 2:40 p.m., run over and grab it, then do his part. These lovely retired pharmacists said yes, of course.
We are allowing another neighbor to use our washer and dryer, so she does not have to leave home for the communal laundromat. She's diabetic and had her hip replacement surgery postponed due to COVID-19.
We are working together and I think the experience is good for my boys.
Mary Paramore, Edgewood
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-ed-op-0327-maryland-coronavirus-stories-20200327-zzqijgowh5ei7nlx3fhif6qnmy-story.html
https://twitter.com/hexpositivee/status/1243648042613518336
Houston's cases tripled today now that test results are coming back.
Good luck Munson
the death charts in this article are bonkers
https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441
Too bad the red states are ignoring the scientists and doctors.
I'm not against some red state population control
Quote from: ice grillin you on March 29, 2020, 12:47:34 PM
I'm not against some red state population control
The problem is it doesn't stop there.
My office is still open. We are not essential at all. Not even close. Yet here we are. Open.
People are going to farging die because of Republicans. There's no other way to say it. If you're an elected one, and you're following Trump's playbook, you're likely already a farging murderer.
if a few people like you gotta be sacrificed to get rid of a whole bunch of cranial lumps then im for that as well
That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
If you were here I'd kiss you right on the cheek. No homo.
im blushing and have a weird feeling in my bathing suit area
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1244119212701990913
that was two days ago
confirmed cases as I type are 710,000...almost 300k more in only two days
more testing each day...more confirmed cases but still....
go to church all you Deplorables...peace unto you into your graves
Imagine how many there'd be if we were actually testing people and getting results back immediately instead of waiting the convenient 7-10 days it's taking now?
"[W]hen you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done." -- Dr. Trump
And yet he's now in a statistical dead heat with Biden for re-election.
If it weren't so terrifying it would be hilarious.
Apparently country music singer Joe Diffee died from Covid-19.
who?
One of the guys responsible for country singers wanting to farg trucks instead of get into saloon fights.
https://twitter.com/amanbatheja/status/1244350227705987072
God is punishing them.
Trump saw his shadow, 4 more weeks of quarantine
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1244591876101021697
How dare they demand a safe workplace AND a living wage?!?
farging ingrates!!
Can't wait until they get replaced by interment camp women wearing ankle monitors who are told they will never see their kids again if they don't meet quota.
Good to see workers stand up.
However with so many people out of work they can be easily replaced.
In other news;
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-reportedly-fears-early-114530961.html
please let them get their nuts sued off
MD Governor just put the entire State on "stay at home" orders. Allowed out only to get food and medicine.
Good. Hopefully enforced by the police.
Our douchebag governor has begun instituting mandatory two week quarantines for people arriving from certain destinations via air. And he also closed the border with Louisiana to personal travel with an order that anyone coming into TX must self quarantine for two weeks. Commercial and other situations are exempt.
https://popculture.com/trending/2020/03/29/hobby-lobby-closes-stores-layoffs-following-god-is-in-control-coronavirus-pandemic/
I hate this organization. We actively avoid them
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 30, 2020, 11:25:45 AM
Good. Hopefully enforced by the police.
Our douchebag governor has begun instituting mandatory two week quarantines for people arriving from certain destinations via air. And he also closed the border with Louisiana to personal travel with an order that anyone coming into TX must self quarantine for two weeks. Commercial and other situations are exempt.
misdemeanor punishable up to a year in jail and/or 500 dollar fine
It's up to a year/up to $5,000
good. dc has been shut down for a while but i still see a shtein load of people walking around.
one tiny silver lining of the next few weeks is all the michelin star restaurants now doing take-out and delivery.
https://twitter.com/Manda_like_wine/status/1244602911084154880
https://twitter.com/mj_lee/status/1244712946225340417
People often visit their own cemetery plot, amirite?
I'm rooting for the virus now.
https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1244344119545208834
Big Mike done had enough!
https://twitter.com/backaftathis/status/1244787103281508352 21
Ah, the Republican standard holds true. It doesn't matter until it happens to me.
Scumbag
https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1244761657114591234 21
My shipping managers wife was admitted into the hospital and they believe she has it.
He came in sick last week and his doc said he didn't have the symptoms and diagnosed him with a sinus infection. He was not tested for COVID.
Yesterday he left bc she was having trouble breathing. My boss finally took it serious and has everyone working from home and the will call portion of our business shut down. We are delivery only now.
In addition to the shipping manager having to quarantine so does his step son and nephew who work in our warehouse. No word yet if they are going to shut us all down. If they do then I'll likely get furloughed.
https://twitter.com/connie_walker/status/1244663821433810944
if the tribe had shot them on sight, I'd have been okay with that
hopkins tracker creeping slowly but surely towards 5% mortality rate...not quite there yet
40k + fatalities
825,000 + confirmed cases
Trying to reassure myself by believing it's a function of not everybody being tested
https://fortune.com/2020/03/30/usps-postal-service-stimulus-package-no-funding-post-office-mail-delivery-could-shutter-june-coronavirus-relief-bill/
Ummm...
https://twitter.com/TREAR12/status/1244946648259756037
Pressure wash your farging driveway, you animal.
No shtein?!
https://twitter.com/nydailynews/status/1245062083856695307 21
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8173363/Wuhan-doctor-went-public-spread-coronavirus-goes-missing.html
QuoteA Wuhan doctor who was among the first to alert other medics to the spread of coronavirus has disappeared sparking concerns that she has been detained, reports suggest.
Dr Ai Fen said she faced 'unprecedented, extremely harsh reprimanded' by officials at Wuhan Central Hospital after she shared a picture of a patient report labelled 'SARS coronavirus'.
The image was widely circulated and made its way to whistle-blower Li Wenliang who raised the alarm about the bug, which has killed more than 41,000 people worldwide.
Dr Li was reprimanded by authorities for 'illegally spreading untruthful information online'.[/quote
Nbd just the flu right?
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1245175132055842819 21
Meanwhile you have shteinbags like DeSantis and other governors shrugging it off.
Test came back negative. 6 days between test and results.
I'm still a little spooked about being at the testing center so I'm gonna take a few more days to make sure I don't spike a fever but still a relief.
Great news, Munson. My colleague's wife also got a negative result today which was administered seven days ago.
Florida finally told to stay at home, will promptly go out and buy more ammo in response.
Quote from: General_Failure on April 01, 2020, 02:54:47 PM
Florida finally told to stay at home, will promptly go out and buy more ammo in response.
The Collier County Sheriff's Office issued a Facebook post to my neighborhood about "shooting responsibly." I'm sure there are bullet holes in many computer screens around here now.
We are still "essential."
Still, nice of Governor Dipshtein to finally remove his nose from Trump's ass long enough to see his constituents starting to die by the truckloads.
Hopkins tracker inched over 5% mortality...has been steadily increasing for days and days...I recall 3.2%
920k+ confirmed cases
46k+ confirmed dead
I fully expect 1M / 50k+ when I check tomorrow morning
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1245433474569457664
I ran into a friend of mine who works at emergency mgmt for the county. May 3rd is the forecast peak for this based on CDC data. No coincidence then that Governor Dipshtein threw the locks on for thirty days.
I went to the market to pick up fresh fruit and stuff and it was eerily quiet. No wait in any of the lines and it was fully stocked except for toilet paper. Someone some day needs to explain the insanity of hoarding toilet paper during a pandemic.
It's been a month since this started for God's sake.
DeSantis issued an executive "order." Basically, it's "Stay home, pretty please."
So how's everyoen doing their grocery shopping?
I'm trying to keep my mom (who works at a grocery store) off the store floor since she's always trying to buy shtein for us. I'm gonna start doing online order and pick up. I don't want to do the other services that just drive more people into the store, I'd rather do stores that do it right there with their employees and I can roll up and they can pack it in the trunk.
I see that WalMart and Target do it. Target also does "Shipt" to deliver them. Anyone have any experiences with any stores they like?
Double check which items you don't want equivalent replacements for.
I go to the store and buy groceries. $313 tonight. They had no cheese, no tp, no rice, no flour, no yeast, no isopropyl alcohol 91%. Slim pickings on meats. I got a lot of boneless chicken thighs on two for one, am going to be freezing those up for half a dozen very inexpensive and tasty meals. The "prepared" meats / lunchables area completely sold out. No hot dogs, but still had kielbasa. Produce well stocked and fresh. Cheap bread gone but plenty of good stuff. Eggs were low...I paid way too much for a couple dozen happy chicken eggs. I have a friend who keeps chickens in a coop I built. I'm calling it essential to pay him a visit in about a week.
First of the month is a bad day to go shopping, especially now.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/engineer-tried-crash-train-usns-mercy-los-angeles-233500380--abc-news-topstories.html
What in the ever loving farg
Quote from: Munson on April 01, 2020, 08:48:05 PM
So how's everyoen doing their grocery shopping?
I'm trying to keep my mom (who works at a grocery store) off the store floor since she's always trying to buy shtein for us. I'm gonna start doing online order and pick up. I don't want to do the other services that just drive more people into the store, I'd rather do stores that do it right there with their employees and I can roll up and they can pack it in the trunk.
I see that WalMart and Target do it. Target also does "Shipt" to deliver them. Anyone have any experiences with any stores they like?
Curbside pick up or delivery services are good if you want to avoid the stores. Like GF said make sure you notate there equivalent replacements for items. Shipt people will sometimes text or call while shopping for you to make substitutes.
I went to HEB today. No TP, paper towels or cleaning products. No peroxide or rubbing alcohol or handsoap either. I didn't need anything of those things thankfully.
They had more water than I've even seen during hurricane prep. I was pleasantly surprised at how the store was stocked for the most part.
They have the lines marked off where to stand. Some dipshteins ignore them though. It wasn't crowded at all. Their procedures are now you wait to be waved up. Then unload your cart. While the checker is scanning you stand in a red square and the checker is protected by a plexiglass shield. She tells you when to make your payment so she rotated back a bit to stay away from you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jft5E7em858&feature=youtu.be
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on April 01, 2020, 10:29:47 PM
Quote from: Munson on April 01, 2020, 08:48:05 PM
So how's everyoen doing their grocery shopping?
I'm trying to keep my mom (who works at a grocery store) off the store floor since she's always trying to buy shtein for us. I'm gonna start doing online order and pick up. I don't want to do the other services that just drive more people into the store, I'd rather do stores that do it right there with their employees and I can roll up and they can pack it in the trunk.
I see that WalMart and Target do it. Target also does "Shipt" to deliver them. Anyone have any experiences with any stores they like?
Curbside pick up or delivery services are good if you want to avoid the stores. Like GF said make sure you notate there equivalent replacements for items. Shipt people will sometimes text or call while shopping for you to make substitutes.
I went to HEB today. No TP, paper towels or cleaning products. No peroxide or rubbing alcohol or handsoap either. I didn't need anything of those things thankfully.
They had more water than I've even seen during hurricane prep. I was pleasantly surprised at how the store was stocked for the most part.
They have the lines marked off where to stand. Some dipshteins ignore them though. It wasn't crowded at all. Their procedures are now you wait to be waved up. Then unload your cart. While the checker is scanning you stand in a red square and the checker is protected by a plexiglass shield. She tells you when to make your payment so she rotated back a bit to stay away from you.
HMm...so shipt requires someone going into the store for me, not a store employee doing it? May avoid that then. Don't want to put some other poor sap in danger and add another person to the store just for me. Curbside pickup may be the way to go.
Yeah they're a service like grub hub and uber eats
They were in the news recently for threatening to strike if they weren't provided better protections
lol you can see her listening in her ear to the control room going ape shtein screaming at her to get him off the air
https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1245571199146442754
People with bigger brains than I have published recent estimate of actual mortality rate from Covid-19: 0.66%
link (https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-lower-death-rate/index.html)
That's far far lower than what JHU is reporting on their daily tracker, currently at around 5.07%.
Difference is the source of the data: JHU is getting only confirmed cases and not doing any fancy maths.
5% of 327 million (population of U.S.): 16,350,000
0.66% of 327 million: 2,158,000
https://twitter.com/watermeIIen/status/1245512135918182400
Quote from: Diomedes on April 02, 2020, 07:43:44 AM
People with bigger brains than I have published recent estimate of actual mortality rate from Covid-19: 0.66%
link (https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-lower-death-rate/index.html)
That's far far lower than what JHU is reporting on their daily tracker, currently at around 5.07%.
Difference is the source of the data: JHU is getting only confirmed cases and not doing any fancy maths.
5% of 327 million (population of U.S.): 16,350,000
0.66% of 327 million: 2,158,000
On the other hand...
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1245560150561361920
This is terrifying. But I suppose the amount of people out there infected but not counted is probably higher than the amount of deaths not being counted as covid19
https://twitter.com/russ1mitchell/status/1245502082511036417
Every day our data gets better but we're a long way from having good data.
Grim days.
https://news.yahoo.com/didn-t-know-until-last-122146774.html
1. He's either a complete dumbfarg
2. He's lying and hoping people forget that they've heard the opposite for months
sadly i believe him
https://twitter.com/morethanmySLE/status/1245813808301518849
Wasn't the whole point of the navy ship so that things like that could go there instead?
It was the initial plan. I haven't followed closely but it strikes me as a rotten idea. No way that ship stays virus free.
If the White House is going to tell Americans to wear face masks/coverings ... does that mean Trump will start wearing one at his daily look--at-me shows?
Will Hannity and Rush wear them when they bury themselves up his ass?
As for the navy ship; that's going to handle non COVID patients. I like that plan better honestly.
So my shipping managers wife did test positive. And they're making us come back to work tomorrow. They're cleaning the building tonight they said. But all normal office staff must report and if we are uncomfortable with that then we have to use PTO.
Never mind that we can work remotely. And have been for the last several days. And the Texas Governor said in his EO yesterday that all essential people who must work if they can do the job via teleworking then it should be done. And yet here we are.
Makes no sense to me. Five of us now have to go in tomorrow.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on April 02, 2020, 07:01:01 PM
As for the navy ship; that's going to handle non COVID patients. I like that plan better honestly.
I get that it's not for treating COVID patients, but it's ridiculous to think the ship won't be infected.
First week I was on the Reagan I had a 103 degree fever, was throwing up, dizzy, headaches etc. Sick as shtein. Come to find out a bunch of people were experiencing the same thing. You put 5000 people into a metal ship that's what happens. Navy ships are worse at spreading germs than even cruise ships. You share open berthings (individual rooms are only for officers and they share one room) and bathrooms. Air flow is controlled in case there's a fire, flooding or CBR attack. I was stationed aboard the Mercy (Comforts sister ship), it's more like a floating hospital than a battle ready ship but you're still sharing everything and in extremely close quarters. FTS.
The horses asses where I live *finally* decided to close the beaches starting tonight at midnight. You know, when everyone is down there getting moontans.
Seriously, if you tried to find a more backwards & farged-up response, you'd fail hard.
You'll find some cousin farger down there fightin' for their Freedoms.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28988496/tony-boselli-recalls-hospital-stay-want-die-here
Thrilling story of an extremely wealthy white guy getting immediate testing, top notch treatment and surviving.
See? No big deal if you're just like that guy.
Quote from: AO1 on April 02, 2020, 08:10:21 PM
First week I was on the Reagan I had a 103 degree fever, was throwing up, dizzy, headaches etc. Sick as shtein. Come to find out a bunch of people were experiencing the same thing. You put 5000 people into a metal ship that's what happens. Navy ships are worse at spreading germs than even cruise ships. You share open berthings (individual rooms are only for officers and they share one room) and bathrooms. Air flow is controlled in case there's a fire, flooding or CBR attack. I was stationed aboard the Mercy (Comforts sister ship), it's more like a floating hospital than a battle ready ship but you're still sharing everything and in extremely close quarters. FTS.
Might be a dumb question.....Would it be possible to use tents and such to set up field hospitals on aircraft carriers? Obviously outdoor hospitals aren't ideal but, as the weather gets nicer...
Carriers have a huge medical facility and a designated area for mass casualties. The hangar bay and flight deck would be the alternates. Tents can go up pretty fast (the poles hook into the deck so they're sturdy as hell), I've set them up a million times. When we were in Vancouver they wanted to put on a show for their ambassador so I got tasked with leading the set up and drills. We had MOPP gear, wash down stations, stretchers, tents with beds etc. set up in a few hours.
Quote from: AO1 on April 02, 2020, 11:04:17 PM
Carriers have a huge medical facility and a designated area for mass casualties. The hangar bay and flight deck would be the alternates. Tents can go up pretty fast (the poles hook into the deck so they're sturdy as hell), I've set them up a million times. When we were in Vancouver they wanted to put on a show for their ambassador so I got tasked with leading the set up and drills. We had MOPP gear, wash down stations, stretchers, tents with beds etc. set up in a few hours.
Interesting. Seems like something that could maybe be done for coastal states getting hit hard, hopefully.
I know our state has a bunch of places they might set up emergency hospitals but they haven't done it yet which is dumb IMO.
this is a special kind of torture
Apparently the coronavirus has led to a halt in the production of... Corona. (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/business/corona-beer-production/index.html)
Houston is juking the stats.
That and no testing
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/houston-hasn-t-reported-surge-coronavirus-cases-its-hospitals-tell-n1175291
There's going to be an amazing amount of money traded for "simple cloth masks."
https://twitter.com/DorsaAmir/status/1246077693889851392
The higher the death toll the more the ignorant MAGAts double down on their idiocy.
Can't speak for Rome's neck of the woods, but to see traffic on the main road in my neighborhood, DeSantis' executive order didn't make a damn bit of difference. Rednecks speeding in large numbers, just like always.
Oh yeah. That's not a shock. The southern states are dealing with the "but muh freeduhm" crowd.
The map in the NYT showing basically every state in the south not adhering to it wasn't surprising.
A little late night viewing...
https://twitter.com/thedailyshow/status/1246146713523453957 21
Quote from: Geowhizzer on April 04, 2020, 12:15:27 AM
Can't speak for Rome's neck of the woods, but to see traffic on the main road in my neighborhood, DeSantis' executive order didn't make a damn bit of difference. Rednecks speeding in large numbers, just like always.
I went for a walk last night before it got dark. It was dead quiet out. No people, no traffic. A car here or there but it was a Friday night and no one was around.
We're down to about 10 people in our office now. Everyone else is working from home. All the other businesses in our park are shuttered. Starbucks in my neighborhood is closed. That happened yesterday.
shtein just got real here and it's about time.
Went to chic fil a yesterday, was about the 40th car in line. They got us through in under 10 minutes.
The GOP/FoxNews crowd continues...
https://twitter.com/rjfoley/status/1246163122718728202 21
Reported US coronavirus deaths via CNN:
5 weeks ago: 0 deaths
4 weeks ago: 17 deaths
3 weeks ago: 49 deaths
2 weeks ago: 249 deaths
1 week ago: 1,588 deaths
Right now: 7,152 deaths
hopkins numbers still creeping up, fatality rate at 5.29%
https://twitter.com/cortmanteau/status/1246399132316487683 21
Life comes at ya fast...
Holy shtein - I pulled that lady's FB up and she's from right up the road here.
All that jive about it being a hoax and she got got
Deplorable Karen and her ilk aren't helping matters by ignoring science, but luckily we are so socially riven that most of us don't come into social contact with the other side, if you will. Let her friends all gather for a funeral, cry in each other's arms..and go home to die. I'm good with Fox news spreading lies to cultists who die from them.
This is very true. If it weren't for twitter which I try not to look at much anyway, I wouldn't know that these people exist. I can guarantee you I haven't been within 100 yards of a corona hoaxer in the last several years.
scratch that I went to the maryland live casino a few weeks ago that place was likely full of them.
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1246146713523453957
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on April 04, 2020, 09:01:47 AM
https://twitter.com/cortmanteau/status/1246399132316487683 21
Life comes at ya fast...
I thought that was satire. Welp... we all know plenty of Karens. Sadly for her and her family's sake, she bought the right-wing bullshtein and now she's dead.
Yep.
Hopefully now her stupid friends and family take it serious
They're not. Read the comments in posts from her acquaintances. It's mind-numbing.
Dio is right.
farg em all.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1246302481350561792
John Prine has been hospitalized for a while with Covid-19, is on ventilator, pneumonia in both lungs.
Marianne Faithful also hospitalized with it.
https://twitter.com/chrismurphyct/status/1246796303935422464 21
https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1246811253726679043
https://twitter.com/soapachu/status/1246793653294686208
U.K.'s version of Trump hospitalized with the Covid
Republican politicians are the enemy of the people:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/05/wisconsin-republicans-are-exploiting-pandemic-grab-power-its-dangerous-precedent/
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1247038512899096576
Yikes
https://twitter.com/marklevinenyc/status/1247155043171741696 21
I donate blood every 56 days. Today is day 62, leaving at 2 to donate. I managed to find a face mask. If I ever get coronavirus it'll be today. Coincidentally enough it's at my gym
https://twitter.com/Jamin2g/status/1246145580402966528
I'd love to have one of them. I'd send it out in normal times. In fact make that a dozen.
https://twitter.com/TheMendozaWoman/status/1247121283264978947
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1247581001079021570
I learned to sew when I was a kid. I have a pair of jeans where the seam came apart. They've been sitting on a chair for weeks waiting for me to take them to the tailor.
This evening I got a needle and thread and repaired them myself.
I'm actually pretty damn proud of myself right now.
https://twitter.com/WithSpandex/status/1247275399018618892
This also doesn't shock me. The GOP goes lower every farging day
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1247335425074696199 21
Quote from: Diomedes on April 05, 2020, 08:15:19 AM
John Prine has been hospitalized for a while with Covid-19, is on ventilator, pneumonia in both lungs.
Marianne Faithful also hospitalized with it.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1247699138998927361
WTF
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-nurse-bought-protective-supplies-for-her-colleagues-using-gofundme-the-hospital-suspended-her/amp?__twitter_impression=true
At what point do doctors and nurses just say farg it and walk?
Their treatment has been utterly criminal.
Yeah, they're not gonna do that.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 07, 2020, 10:48:36 PM
Yeah, they're not gonna do that.
I know. Their dedication is pretty goddamn remarkable.
I'm reasonably sure my wife would choose her patients over us, and her peers are pretty fierce too. They'll keep doing it to the end.
yeah im pretty sure you dont get in that profession to dip when things get tough
Quote from: Geowhizzer on April 07, 2020, 09:37:41 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on April 05, 2020, 08:15:19 AM
John Prine has been hospitalized for a while with Covid-19, is on ventilator, pneumonia in both lungs.
Marianne Faithful also hospitalized with it.
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1247699138998927361
I have no idea who this guy is but there's a good story out today about how Roger Ebert wrote the first review about him way back in the 70s after leaving a movie because the popcorn was too salty.
https://twitter.com/behindyourback/status/1247895492383522825
Is it too much to ask that one of the Fox corksuckers get it?
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1248030066996588555 21
the best part of that is...billo and sean loathed each other. two arrogant megalomaniacal mics from long island. fighting over who has the best ratings or most influence with daddy roger. real big shtein.
so billo finally gets axed for his loofah thing after like 15 years of getting away with it. hes a complete nobody now. cant get a job. completely irrelevant. 5 years ago he never in 1 million years would appear on sean's TV show. his radio show? please. a joke. but here he is, calling into sean's radio show dismissing deaths.
its good to see bad people sink lower in the abyss
John Prine died and those two are still spewing verbal diarrhea.
There is zero good that comes from those two still stealing oxygen.
it's fascinating how they figure this shtein out
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/08/funeral-birthday-party-hugs-covid-19/
Yeah that's a great read.
Should send it to every farging idiot who isn't taking it serious
Do you think they'll have more funerals or just make them retroactive to the original?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dixVghuVC6k
Quote from: phattymatty on April 09, 2020, 05:30:25 PM
Do you think they'll have more funerals or just make them retroactive to the original?
Definitely retro
Or download the ZoomFuneral app
I don't know what's going on around here, but there were far too many people out driving and shopping.
Ain't gonna take away their freedomzzzzz
https://twitter.com/JeffSkversky/status/1248324935774359556
Quote from: General_Failure on April 09, 2020, 07:28:26 PM
I don't know what's going on around here, but there were far too many people out driving and shopping.
I said the same thing to Mrs Rome. She reminded me that tomorrow is Good Friday and no one wants to be out shopping then.
I will say that my commutes home are taking less than half the regular time now. Traffic is crazy light for this time of year. Everything is closed except supermarkets, though. Restaurant drive-thrus are still open but even those have thinned out.
People *might* be finally taking the hint about the seriousness of this disaster.
My commute is killer right now. It's about 10 feet from my computer space to the couch.
Idiot
https://twitter.com/kevincate/status/1248359799080865792 21
I booked Disney (Animal Kingdom Lodge) June 24-30. Our season passes are set to expire, I'm not renewing so wanted to get one last trip in. If the park stays closed so be it you only have to put a 20% deposit down and get a full refund as long as you cancel within 10 days of your vacation.
Anyway feeling pretty good the park will be open with Desantis in charge
same shtein every day
https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor/status/1248446334106890241
https://twitter.com/npratc/status/1247988083376549888
I wonder which sociopath decided that the feds' paying for testing was a bad thing? Miller? Jared??
Beyond incredible.
I think that decision got reversed late last night thankfully
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1248698754556923904
It's almost as if he's an idiot who had to have someone explain what germs and antibiotics are to him ten minutes ago.
https://twitter.com/JimsSouthStreet/status/1248768569913102336
https://twitter.com/phillyTRU/status/1248675229288878083
3 SEPTA drivers have died from the Coronavirus. My buddy is a driver, he said yes they're mandatory.
This story from S. Mitra Kalita caught me in the feels. (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/11/us/quarantine-coronavirus-diary-kalita/index.html)
https://twitter.com/jkbjournalist/status/1249138171117539328
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6879-2020-covid-19-red-dawn-rising/66f590d5cd41e11bea0f/optimized/full.pdf#page=1
Staggering. Just, I mean... my god.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1249384804627263491
https://twitter.com/greenhousenyt/status/1249331164445380609
Everything is fine, guys.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-retweeted-threat-fire-fauci-015357617.html
The tinfoil hatters think Fauci and Gates are working to microchip everyone for population control. You can't make this shtein up.
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1249686839532957697 21
https://twitter.com/katiephang/status/1249575643492356097 21
Some nimrod from the Air Force called my phone on Saturday mistaking it for my daughter's. He asked to speak to her and was all polite and yessir/no-sir etc.
Serve a country where a young woman like her isn't even considered an actual person by the scum currently in charge?
Yeah, no thanks.
https://www.christianpost.com/amp/43-people-fall-ill-at-illinois-pentecostal-church-after-revival-10-test-positive-for-coronavirus.html?__twitter_impression=true
"We didn't know..."
All that garlic will at least make him safe from vampires, I suppose...
Kim Jong Cheeto Dick
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1249822595031224320 21
And he gets called on his bullshtein and lashes out
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1249827244995796993 21
Stop covering those ridiculous lie-fests entirely.
Just ignore him.
I'd love it if only FOX and that dumbshtein from OANN were the only iceholes who showed up
I don't care if they cover them. But broadcasting that garbage live does a disservice to the people they claim to wish to inform.
Trump lies every farging time he opens his mouth. STOP COVERING THE LIES AND START REPORTING THE TRUTH.
There's no money in truth.
dirty jerz yo
https://www.phillyvoice.com/toms-river-wawa-man-arrested-new-jersey-stephen-breza-mask-coronavirus-threats/
How dead would that guy be if he was anything other than a white male?
you can tell he's in the process of a racial slur during that mug shot.
They made him take his MAGA hat off
Speaking of MAGA...
https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/1250201712763080704
The McMahons are heavy Republican donors, aside from Linda having a position in the Cabinet and now the Cheeto's re-election campaign.
https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/1250099171656261633
Have any of these big companies who talked up PPE and ventilators actually delivered?
No. And nobody who donated to the restoration of Notre Dame has sent a dime. It's just a nice PR boost with no downside because nobody cares two days after they say the thing.
https://twitter.com/Coelasquid/status/1250345150787674112
Don't look at me. My church has been online only since mid-March.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250491829155500032
farging crying over fertilizer and hair
I hate our yuppie dystopia.
https://twitter.com/StevieBuckley/status/1250445771088056320
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1250807416872189952 21
My school has 1100 kids and 100+ staff. So (forgive me here, I teach social studies, not math):
1200 X 3% = 36 deaths. Just in my school.
Holy smoke.
So the GOP wants granny and gramps to bite it as a sacrifice and now this clown is ok with offing the kids and teachers too.
I'm going to permanently damage my children if I have to continue as their teacher. This is an impossible task.
I want to drop the teachers off on the job site and tell them to build the addition, I'll check in once a day to see how you're doing. Concrete sub scheduled to pour day after tomorrow, get him his elevations and boundary lines.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 16, 2020, 01:36:29 PM
I'm going to permanently damage my children if I have to continue as their teacher. This is an impossible task.
I want to drop the teachers off on the job site and tell them to build the addition, I'll check in once a day to see how you're doing. Concrete sub scheduled to pour day after tomorrow, get him his elevations and boundary lines.
I am a teacher, and working with my kids at home is threatening to send me into lunacy.
And no one... NO ONE wants me building or fixing anything. I can barely change the oil in my car.
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1251221795123998720
Also yeah I think about what the hallways of my school look like between bells, how full my classes are, and my own health and coming home to my infant son and, well...sorry not sorry, you can keep your kids at home and make them do the work their teachers are providing.
Today, I was given five minutes notice of my 4th grader being expected to attend a class. Wasn't his fault. Teacher just added it to schedule last minute. Teacher is having a hard time learning the technology, etc. etc. I get it, it's cool. Gotta be patient and generous with people. Thing is, he hasn't had lunch. That was planned for 1, cooking only just underway. And he's got a spelling bee in an hour and a half, which he was going to study for after eating lunch.
Yo, I'm trying to run a household here. Cook three meals, clean up from three meals. Teach two children. Find some way not to kill myself.
Just understand, you can assign work all you want...if we can't do the work we can't do it.
I am doing my best but my best isn't very good at all--that's why I didn't become a teacher-- and I'm letting them off the hook more and more easily as we go because I need peace in my home.
This f'n groundhog day routine is insane.
Yeah unfortunately a big hiccup is teachers not knowing how to use the tech. Hopefully a lot of them take the summer to familiarize their selves with it.
Luckily most all of my lessons are, with the help of screencastify for my lectures, pretty schoology (our online platform) friendly. The work I make them do is usually pen and paper, but our directive is to keep things easier so when I get back from parental leave I imagine I'll have to be making simple 10 question check in "quizzes" for them to do at the end of the lessons for their grades.
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1251265885026877446
wasnt romey trying to say jacksonville was a cool place that you just didnt know about
Basically, our Zoom sessions are not required. I ask the kids to come if possible (Each Tuesday) so I can see them and check on things, but there is no penalty for missing it. And there is no primary instruction on the Zooms - that all comes through the assignments on Google. The Zoom is mainly for checking for understanding and trying to be there for the kids.
I do one "open house" session on Thursday, just telling the kids to drop by if they need anything. Had about a half dozen show up, but all they wanted to do was talk. So we talked.
I push my assignments out for the week on Sunday at about 10pm. Everything is officially due on Friday, but I'll basically take it as it comes. It's all we can do at this point.
Quote from: Munson on April 17, 2020, 06:27:58 PM
https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1251265885026877446
Beaches in Collier County and the City of Naples are still closed. The Marco Island city council voted to open theirs a week ago, but the city manager used emergency powers and vetoed it.
Maybe that whole bugs bunny sawing off Florida thing wasn't such a bad idea. Good lord.
Idiot governor. Idiot people. But mahhh freedomzzzz. Oh and while we are at it farg those imbecilic nazi corksuckers in Michigan who were "protesting" and blocking streets to hospitals.
I couldn't have picked a better time to get out of there.
Utter farging insanity.
I'll be honest: These illegal protest gatherings are scaring me.
If you're a Governor, what do you do? The people who think they are exercising their constitutional rights to free speech are directly threatening actual constitutional rights to not die, not to mention the law (shelter in place). They're armed. The clown in the White House is encouraging them.
What do you do? You can't afford for the disease to be spread further by large gatherings. You can't afford to allow the law to be flouted. You send people in to cite or arrest, you risk actual bloodshed.
What the farg do you do?
Fine them. Ticket then for illegal parking, and next week go tow all their trucks.
Ron DeSantis: Florida Man in Chief!
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1251300355582935046
https://twitter.com/mannyNYT/status/1251550418510979072
Very long, very deep sigh
Yeah there are some gems at the Annapolis carnival too.
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1251282912349007873
Don't treat anyone who went to these rallies and gets sick. If they blocked the streets, call it endangering the public by blocking emergency vehicles and seize their cars. Proceeds from auctioning them can go to ventilators.
DeSantis gave the official word: School's online through the rest of the year.
Damn. I mean, it's obviously the right thing to do, but... damn.
https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3u8eb/an_annapolis_protestor_works_with_seniors_in/
vaccines with microchips in them
winning so much they forgot how to spell losing, I guess
(https://i.redd.it/1dndu5d75mt41.jpg)
"Loosing."
That precisely sums them up.
https://twitter.com/Diacritic/status/1251655362031300608
Quote from: Diomedes on April 18, 2020, 08:07:28 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3u8eb/an_annapolis_protestor_works_with_seniors_in/
vaccines with microchips in them
winning so much they forgot how to spell losing, I guess
(https://i.redd.it/1dndu5d75mt41.jpg)
Reminds me of the redneck in front of me at a stoplight when the Ebola thing was going on.
He'd written on his tailgate "is ebloa hope and change? Can't fix stupid!"
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1250670256810573826
Hoyda Frenchman! Letting a virus beat you like that.
https://twitter.com/kevinmkruse/status/1251872238799933440
Thankfully these people are in the far minority but still
/r/Maryland with a great new organization
https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3yf8o/new_organization_close_maryland/
Quote...On May 5th we will all make clear our support by not gathering in Annapolis. The rally will start at 8 or whenever you wake up and continue for as long as you want. With the stay at home order simultaneous rallies will also not be held in Baltimore, Bethesda, and Frederick...
some great comments, like, "Can I bring a -1?"
https://www.facebook.com/695359572/posts/10159743098064573/?d=n
Love this
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/nyregion/coronavirus-jjbubbles-joe-joyce.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1251726587210412032
https://twitter.com/OhSnapitsScott/status/1251979199314661377
https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/29069582/djokovic-opposes-compulsory-coronavirus-vaccination
I just can't anymore with these goddamn ignorant entitled iceholes.
"Opposes vaccinations" should be grounds for immediate sterilization.
the ignorance is never ending
The world has basically stopped without ONE vaccination.
But sure, he "opposes" them.
Ignorant isn't even the word. Deadly is.
The levels of stupidity and ignorance continue to grow.
Anyways here's a vid clip of the counter protest in Denver. I love it.
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1252065710165106689 21
I love how the dumb white chick is pissed off that her gridlock protest has been jammed.
Go die alone deplorable brood mare.
lol exactly
Now - lets flip this around. Its all rhetorical because we KNOW how she would act but hey what else do we have to do?
Lets say her kid was sick and minorities were protesting something by wanting to block lanes to hospitals like the mouth breathers in Michigan were doing and these yahoo's were trying to do. And a line of minority protestors were holding signs saying LAND OF THE FREE. How tolerant would she be of their freedom to protest?
More "fun facts"
There's a group of iceholes doing this in Harrisburg now too.
Cruella DeVille Betsy DeVos' family has been linked to the Michigan protest.
The whole "liberate and open back up" calls online are all originating from one person
https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1251926697487687680 20
ive been mostly beaten down for the last 3.5 years almost to the point of giving up but these confederate flag waving covid protests got my blood boiling
who the farg yells at nurses during any time much less in a pandemic
Yeah yelling at a nurse to go to China...what a farging moron.
The fake grassroots protest has hit Harrisburg today
Putin and the other global opponents of liberal democracy are eating this up. Chaos and in-fighting like this serves them very well.
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1252157557092675589
https://twitter.com/shanedunlap/status/1252273164274536449
oh look, snowflake whiteys playing Call of Duty dress up
with any luck, they die alone of The Covid, before filling out absentee ballots
Looks like Twitter got around to PA with these fake protesters.
Guns in the streets. Who would have ever guessed?
🤔
https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1251998419389943808
Quote from: Rome on April 20, 2020, 06:02:42 PM
Guns in the streets. Who would have ever guessed?
🤔
"Very fine people on both sides"
- Cheeto Dick
Those corksuckers protesting are the first to tell minorities and liberals to "just follow the rules" and yet here we are. They're out screaming because they can't go to Billy Bob's Bar to drink Budweiser and talk about their klan meetings.
Trump is the one who egged them on. He's anti-government to the quick. If only someone could explain to him that HE IS THE GOVERNMENT.
https://twitter.com/venturecommunis/status/1252297337155641345
I'm so sick of liberals being such push overs. we can be decent and still fight back. small things like don't black out that guys name - if he's going to blast out his idiocy to the world, people should share his name and let people find him.
and then more important things like places like Georgia opening up on Friday. It's going to end up being blue states paying for the red states once things go to shtein. Just like every other aspect of the country - the good guys paying for the bad guys mistakes.
It makes me so angry. farg Republicans so much.
farg lives ok? Billy Bob here just wants a refill or six.
https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1252277972901527555 21
America was a mistake.
It gets better! PENNSLVANIA! PEAPLE!
https://twitter.com/joe_manniello/status/1252362847905955844 21
Liberty currently unavailable: Temporary recall for harmful defect.
You're welcome to some death, though. Please, have some.
https://twitter.com/GovLarryHogan/status/1252404969669488640
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/559173374737047/?vh=e
https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1252775153903206402 21
Finally some good news.
We need to up the battleground states numbers
dont get me wrong the people there are cretins but these rallies are a joke...theres like two dozen people at most of them and the biggest ones have maybe a couple hundred...call me crazy but there may be some larger more important things to stress over right now
I just hope and pray they hate mail in ballots and love one another real good.
Trump is egging them on to distract everyone from his utterly disastrous response.
Of course the media lemmings lap it up and Trump's cronies laugh their asses off. It's the same as the briefing bullshtein. There is no reason for them to be covered live but the media does so because money, money, money.
farg em all straight to Jesus's trailer park in purgatory for all I care.
please please please read this then send it to all your facebook friends...this is what its all about...
https://twitter.com/DavidMasterson6/status/1252770923008016384
January 22: "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. It's going to be just fine."
February 2: "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
February 24: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA... Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
February 25: "CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus."
February 25: "I think that's a problem that's going to go away... They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we're very close to a vaccine."
February 26: "The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero."
February 26: "We're going very substantially down, not up."
February 27: "One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear."
February 28: "Now the democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, you know that right? They're politicizing it...they have no clue...they dont have any clue...this is their new hoax."
February 28: "We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical."
March 2: "You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?"
March 2: "A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they're happening very rapidly."
March 4: "If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better."
March 5: "I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work."
March 5: "The United States... has, as of now, only 129 cases... and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!"
March 6: "I think we're doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down... a tremendous job at keeping it down."
March 6: "Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They're there. And the tests are beautiful.... the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good."
March 6: "I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it... Every one of these doctors said, 'How do you know so much about this?' Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president."
March 6: "I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."
March 8: "We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus."
March 9: ""The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant,"
March 10: "It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."
March 13: National Emergency Declaration
March 13: "I don't take responsibility at all"
at present (U.S. figures): 825,000 confirmed infections, 45,000 dead
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1252960661585436673
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 22, 2020, 09:52:11 AM
please please please read this then send it to all your facebook friends...this is what its all about...
https://twitter.com/DavidMasterson6/status/1252770923008016384
Yep. Sadly he is right.
Its the same with any of these states who are opening back up too soon. We had this discussion the other day about TX.
Our Lt Gov wants people to die. He has said it.
Opening these stores and places up mean low wage workers. Which means minorities and they don't care about the black and brown folk.
What are they going to do, mail in their ballots to vote him out before they die? Good luck with that when there's no postal service.
Quote from the mayor of Las Vegas Carolyn Goodman (Independent, but Democrat through 2009):
Quote from: Carolyn Goodman"I am not a private owner. That's the competition in this country. The free enterprise and to be able to make sure that what you offer the public meets the needs of the public," Goodman, an independent, told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"Right now, we're in a crisis health-wise, and so for a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That's their job. That's not the mayor's job."
Source: CNN Article. (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/las-vegas-mayor-social-distancing-cnntv/index.html)
Doesn't have this line, but more from that mayor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p4Bhzeu9vA
Her husband, Oscar Goodman, was mayor there too. He played DeNiro's lawyer in Casino and he's from Philadelphia.
Our local county judge (not a legal judge but some weird Texas shtein where the "mayor" of the county is called judge) is named Lina Hidalgo. We voted her in during the last blue wave. She replaced a good ol boy.
So every time she makes a declaration people who were in love with the prior Judge rip her. And the GOP lovers blast her bc she's like AOC; young and Latina and not experienced in politics. She does and has done a good job. She's science based. Unlike the pray the gay away GOP people.
Anyways - this morning she announced, like MANY other locations nationwide, a mandatory people over 10 must wear a face mask order.
The corrupt smarmy local police officer union head and the Lt Gov who wants people to die just came out and said;
"We are not asking people to wear a medical mask or an N-95 mask," Hidalgo said. "You can use an old t-shirt perhaps ... the idea is just to cover your nose and mouth."
Violations will be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called Hidalgo's order "the ultimate government overreach."
"These kind of confused government policies fuel public anger — and rightfully so," Patrick tweeted.
The Houston Police Officers' Union called the rules "draconian," adding that they are seeking an opinion from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on whether the measure is legally sound.
"Everyone should be wearing a mask in public, I wear 1 everyday," HPOU president Joe Gamaldi said in a tweet. "But making not wearing 1 punishable by law, and asking our officers to enforce it, will do irreparable damage to our relationship with the community. We are already stretched too thin without having to enforce this."
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, warned that Hidalgo's order could "lead to unjust tyranny."
"Should guidelines for masks in confined spaces be emphatically promoted? Absolutely," Crenshaw tweeted. "But we will NEVER support 180 days in jail or $1,000 fine for not wearing a mask."
Quote from: Geowhizzer on April 22, 2020, 03:53:07 PM
Quote from the mayor of Las Vegas Carolyn Goodman (Independent, but Democrat through 2009):
Quote from: Carolyn Goodman"I am not a private owner. That's the competition in this country. The free enterprise and to be able to make sure that what you offer the public meets the needs of the public," Goodman, an independent, told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"Right now, we're in a crisis health-wise, and so for a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That's their job. That's not the mayor's job."
Source: CNN Article. (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/las-vegas-mayor-social-distancing-cnntv/index.html)
Doesn't have this line, but more from that mayor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p4Bhzeu9vA
I don't think China or any other country will ever invade us because they'll be scared of the absolute insanity of Americans who are just like "welp better let the market decide if I die from a deadly disease". You just don't farg with that kind of crazy.
This is so so bad.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1253035921152159749
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes?fbclid=IwAR2D4scJ1EEefYe0EoM4oggqr0uf2BrCj-1HtAfSrlygY5_Ysrtt4bwlb2k#
It's just the flu bro. Don't tread on muh freeduhmz
i feel like i posted this here but i cant remember....anyway i was reading an article the other day about a bunch of studies done on survivors in China
its a small sample size so far and more studies need to be done but the results of the early ones are pretty horrific...basically they say that while all the attention is being put on the number of deaths the studies are showing survivors with permanent lung damage where they need will need to live on ventilators the rest of their lives or if not on ventilators theirs lives are irreparably harmed...they were talking about people who used to run three miles a day and now cant walk from their living room to kitchen without losing breath and while they dont know a whole lot about this disease they know what permanent lung damage is
basically the moral of the story is dont take this thing lightly because the mortality rate is 4% and you think the chances of dying from it are tiny
This dude Larry Hogan getting shtein done: just landed another Korean Airlines (https://www-wbaltv-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.wbaltv.com/amp/article/second-korean-air-flight-bwi-marshall/32238457?usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D&_js_v=0.1#aoh=15876124364787&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wbaltv.com%2Farticle%2Fsecond-korean-air-flight-bwi-marshall%2F32238457) plane at BWI, reportedly bearing 5.9 million surgical masks (1 million Kn-95 masks), surgical gowns, facemasks, and 1000 ICU beds (https://www.facebook.com/146221808914855/posts/1351413561729001/?d=n).
In related news, Our Dear Leader demands explanation why it wasn't shot down.
:sly
https://twitter.com/PoliticusSarah/status/1253450176510992384
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1253448500676898818
(https://media.tenor.com/images/6e4480a0425174ca80ead46f2877acac/tenor.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9psFtbw4Gg
I'm cringing as much as I thought I would...
Let's have an animated mannequin in a football costume standing in a row boat with a fishing rod casting at a buoy with a Bengals jersey on it...
Yeah, great idea.
So... the maker of Lysol has to come out with a statement that basically says don't listen to the President of the United States. (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/494454-lysol-maker-issues-warning-against-injections-of-disinfectant?fbclid=IwAR3wCv1zhPQZYj03SwmNtGsWJe7RUIWwyyiO8YHxdP6yc9Afg4DV2TbE2dI)
https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1253584928077307906
Oh look at that, I was posting in the wrong thread.
5th grade comes back to me now:
https://youtu.be/Sumb3GYuAT8
Please, Deplorables: go home and drink bleach
Quote from: Geowhizzer on April 24, 2020, 08:54:07 AM
So... the maker of Lysol has to come out with a statement that basically says don't listen to the President of the United States. (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/494454-lysol-maker-issues-warning-against-injections-of-disinfectant?fbclid=IwAR3wCv1zhPQZYj03SwmNtGsWJe7RUIWwyyiO8YHxdP6yc9Afg4DV2TbE2dI)
The memes this morning are gold
What the farging farg.
My plumber calls me. My mom called him. About replacing her ornamental gas fireplace. He wants dimensions.
What the farg.
What part of essential is confusing to you farging people?
I've been persona non grata for keeping our households apart, despite the fact that my wife literally treats Covid positive patients...and I'm supposed to help the plumber on a by-definition non-essential project, or refuse to do it and suffer further heartbreak and division within my family?
God damn you people who are out driving around and doing your so-called essential stuff. I'm being eaten alive by isolation and disatrous failed attempts at teaching my young children, making no goddamn money while others in my trade conveniently read themselves and their renovation projects into the definition of essential....
GOD fargING DAMNIT
Your new project is to build a Grim Reaper to put on her lawn, complete with scythe and hourglass. That should keep you sane for a couple more hours.
https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1253531322578059264
Yeah every time I talk to my mom she talks about how she just got back from CVS or Wawa. So frustrating.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 24, 2020, 10:43:13 AM
What the farging farg.
My plumber calls me. My mom called him. About replacing her ornamental gas fireplace. He wants dimensions.
What the farg.
What part of essential is confusing to you farging people?
I've been persona non grata for keeping our households apart, despite the fact that my wife literally treats Covid positive patients...and I'm supposed to help the plumber on a by-definition non-essential project, or refuse to do it and suffer further heartbreak and division within my family?
God damn you people who are out driving around and doing your so-called essential stuff. I'm being eaten alive by isolation and disatrous failed attempts at teaching my young children, making no goddamn money while others in my trade conveniently read themselves and their renovation projects into the definition of essential....
GOD fargING DAMNIT
Yep. ANYTHING that is construction related is being twisted into the DHS directive about essential business.
Quote from: General_Failure on April 24, 2020, 12:33:51 PM
Your new project is to build a Grim Reaper to put on her lawn, complete with scythe and hourglass. That should keep you sane for a couple more hours.
some lawyer dressed up as the reaper and sat in a lifeguard chair at a beach so people walking by would see him
We've had a couple of people come out to either run the cable to the house for internet or fix the oil burner. Cable guy wasn't allowed to enter the house at all by company policy, HVAC guys were masked and gloved up before they got out of the truck at least. Nobody's shaking hands, signing paperwork, or asking for checks. I'd like to think we'll keep some of these things next year when life is back to normal, but we won't. Boomers are gonna want their handshakes and checks.
PA people, which state marks up near/in the mountainous regions would be the most abandoned even during a pandemic where people are looking to get outside? Think we might take a day trip to a park up in the mountains somewhere just to go somewhere where people aren't, if possible.
Quote from: General_Failure on April 24, 2020, 01:49:15 PM
We've had a couple of people come out to either run the cable to the house for internet or fix the oil burner. Cable guy wasn't allowed to enter the house at all by company policy, HVAC guys were masked and gloved up before they got out of the truck at least. Nobody's shaking hands, signing paperwork, or asking for checks. I'd like to think we'll keep some of these things next year when life is back to normal, but we won't. Boomers are gonna want their handshakes and checks.
This does not sound like you. Should check the water for arsenic and shtein.
Quote from: Munson on April 24, 2020, 06:48:38 PM
PA people, which state marks up near/in the mountainous regions would be the most abandoned even during a pandemic where people are looking to get outside? Think we might take a day trip to a park up in the mountains somewhere just to go somewhere where people aren't, if possible.
All parks are safe I hit my local parks up a few times a week with my dog and everyone maintains their distance even on narrow hiking trails. I usually go to Tyler because it's close to my house. If you're looking for a cool park to hit up ringing rocks is awesome
http://www.buckscounty.org/government/ParksandRecreation/Parks/RingingRocks
I used to get high as a kite off shrooms here. I took a tumble trying to climb without gear when I was in la la land
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pennsylvania/high-rocks
This was posted by The Onion... a month ago.
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1242899581924446212
Odd update on the stim checks: I hadn't gone on the IRS site all week. Too busy and I got tired of seeing the same stupid message.
Anyway, checked it a while ago and got a request for more banking and 2018 tax return info.
Evidently on the other site they didn't have a category for what you paid out or received as a refund and that was fouling things up.
In other words, if you haven't checked it lately, try it now. It may work. Mine said it was successfully submitted and the dough will be transferred into my checking account.
Baltimore County (suburbs) and City are separate entities entirely. County is around 825k people. City is just under 600k.
Following tweet from the head of Baltimore County today:
https://twitter.com/baltcoexec/status/1253751228120485888 21
The farg is whipped coffee?
It's gross.
I signed up for the dole today.
Gimme some of that free free money!
https://twitter.com/jen_rice_/status/1253900083868958720
Jay get your people
https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1254034199453085696
Quote from: AO1 on April 24, 2020, 07:02:26 PM
Quote from: Munson on April 24, 2020, 06:48:38 PM
PA people, which state marks up near/in the mountainous regions would be the most abandoned even during a pandemic where people are looking to get outside? Think we might take a day trip to a park up in the mountains somewhere just to go somewhere where people aren't, if possible.
All parks are safe I hit my local parks up a few times a week with my dog and everyone maintains their distance even on narrow hiking trails. I usually go to Tyler because it's close to my house. If you're looking for a cool park to hit up ringing rocks is awesome
http://www.buckscounty.org/government/ParksandRecreation/Parks/RingingRocks
I used to get high as a kite off shrooms here. I took a tumble trying to climb without gear when I was in la la land
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pennsylvania/high-rocks
I'm just extra paranoid about being around people right now. Any idea how crowded that one is getting these days?
I've been checking out a few online but unfortunately it's hard to get a good idea of how frequented they are just by looking. Been looking as 'close' as just north/west of Reading to even further north/west than that. People probably would think we're insane but we did a cross country road trip so driving 3 hours to spend a few hours in a park and driving 3 hours back wouldn't really phase us that much hah. It would screw up the baby's sleep schedule though.
Quote from: Munson on April 25, 2020, 02:59:24 PM
https://twitter.com/jen_rice_/status/1253900083868958720
Jay get your people
Jesus Christ. This place is in Hedwig Village which is a little enclave of rich people literally along the side of I-10. We have a few places like that here. So no shock they're completely out of touch.
Civil disobedience and comparing breaking a pandemic distancing to Rosa Parks. Good grief
I try to donate blood 3-4 times a year. Usually just go on the app and schedule an appt for a day/time/place near me. I donated today, had to make the appt over a week in advance. No walk ins allowed. Red Cross is at capacity. Restored my faith in humanity slightly.
https://twitter.com/BrianFargo/status/1254545202322128896
https://twitter.com/jamesfallows/status/1254955368217796610 21
https://twitter.com/kathbarbadoro/status/1255159129607454720
Well of course.
On the one hand, maybe this person will drink some bleach, which looks like it would be a net gain for humanity.
On the other hand, don't believe everthing you read on the Internet.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1255222303962603520
I hope he farging dies in agony. Piece of shtein.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/29/gilead-reports-positive-data-on-remdesivir-coronavirus-drug-trial.html
Seems like okay news at least, but lack of control arm makes it iffy at best for now. Need more studies.
trumps team is so fargin pathetic. but props to this guy for pulling it off.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/after-one-tweet-to-president-trump-this-man-got-69-million
https://twitter.com/smegmatorture6/status/1255277356375212032
https://twitter.com/linamichi/status/1255619456153378816
That's great news.
I'm no doctor, but the idea shedding damaged lung tissue just does not sound good.
I'm no doctor either, but it sounds good to me...we shed dead skin cells. Sounds similar.
Everything's going to be great!
Got a text and voicemail letting me know Jacksonville is doing free walk-up COVID testing, and where to go for it.
i got a similar one from michelle obama yesterday.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/a-man-dressed-as-the-grim-reaper-is-touring-florida-beaches
False alarm, that was just an ISIS bride.
Our state had the protesting idiots today
https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1256601113605705733
I drove around and did a bunch of errands today. I've been outside maybe five minutes prior today in the last two weeks. The amount of people not wearing masks is amazing. The number of stupid people outweigh the number of responsible people hence trump and I just don't see how this is going to end any time soon. I'm almost to the point where I hope I get it soon just to get it over with. the Spanish flu or black plague or whatever killed more people in round 2 than round 1 and that shtein is happening again. have a great weekend.
I was out today. I've been either home or at work for nearly two months. Anyway, it was incredibly busy everywhere. Not a single mask in sight. The beaches are entirely open and it's as if this is completely over.
We truly are utterly farged.
Quote from: phattymatty on May 02, 2020, 08:10:41 PM
I drove around and did a bunch of errands today. I've been outside maybe five minutes prior today in the last two weeks. The amount of people not wearing masks is amazing. The number of stupid people outweigh the number of responsible people hence trump and I just don't see how this is going to end any time soon. I'm almost to the point where I hope I get it soon just to get it over with. the Spanish flu or black plague or whatever killed more people in round 2 than round 1 and that shtein is happening again. have a great weekend.
Worst part is, people aren't going to notice the consequences of this until 3-4 weeks later. Takes shtein time to kick in and by the time people who feel sick actually feel sick and get a test and end up in the hospital, it's close to Memorial Day. Which means those first few weeks of May people are even more brazen because, hey, no spike yet!
Only hope is the studies about the sun wrecking this virus within seconds are correct so the people gathering outside won't be a huge problem
Same reports here.
People out and about without any care. I will say I did see more people than not masked up in the stores today.
Last night the drag strips opened up under the guise of following strict social distancing lol yeah right
Nothing says essential quite like drag strips.
I've been home. I have no idea what it's like out there.
My wife has treated Covid patients and will again. Our family above most others can't mix safely.
This is torture.
Hiked 7 miles in the park with my dog yesterday morning then went to my friends house for a cookout. There were 20 something people there. I'm over the stay at home bullshtein
Quote from: AO1 on May 03, 2020, 09:38:31 AM
Hiked 7 miles in the park with my dog yesterday morning then went to my friends house for a cookout. There were 20 something people there. I'm over the stay at home bullshtein
Don't give a shtein about anyone else, eh? I'm not surprised. I'm staying home to keep people like you and yours from getting sick, and you're out partying. icehole.
Quote from: AO1 on May 03, 2020, 09:38:31 AM
Hiked 7 miles in the park with my dog yesterday morning then went to my friends house for a cookout. There were 20 something people there. I'm over the stay at home bullshtein
marginassi being anti science was off the board...couldnt even get odds on it in vegas
Living with a cancer survivor whose immune system was destroyed by the treatment she received gives one a perspective that most others don't have.
She's been out of the house twice. If she gets this, she's farging dead. No two ways about it. Her doctors at Moffitt have told her that she's in the ultra-risk group and to do whatever she can to avoid catching this thing.
People gotta do their lives. I get that. But being a selfish ignoramus often leads to unintended consequences.
Just something to think about while you're out there whooping it up.
US endures worst one-day death toll yet as states reopen
(https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/495826-us-endures-worst-one-day-death-toll-yet-as-states-reopen)
End of January when we were at Disney my daughter got sick, stayed in bed last few days and kept her home from school for two days when we got back. She had a dry cough, was really fatigued, and had a 101 temperature...she was never tested for rona but I'm 99% sure she had it. I got sick a few weeks later, I probably had it. I'm going swimming today, can't wait.
im assuming this is a troll, which again, great stuff
if its not then i really dont know what to say
Quote from: AO1 on May 03, 2020, 10:30:13 AM
End of January when we were at Disney my daughter got sick, stayed in bed last few days and kept her home from school for two days when we got back. She had a dry cough, was really fatigued, and had a 101 temperature...she was never tested for rona but I'm 99% sure she had it. I got sick a few weeks later, I probably had it. I'm going swimming today, can't wait.
Have her get the antibody test. Just to be safe.
A friend of mine had something that wasn't strep or the flu in January. Hung with him for several weeks and really kicked his ass.
He was sure he had it too. Went and had the antibody test last week and it was negative for COVID
Quote from: MDS on May 03, 2020, 12:22:04 PM
im assuming this is a troll, which again, great stuff
if its not then i really dont know what to say
I guarantee it's not.
Quote from: MDS on May 03, 2020, 12:22:04 PM
im assuming this is a troll, which again, great stuff
if its not then i really dont know what to say
I survived chicken pox at age 42. Pool time.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 03, 2020, 12:37:10 PM
Quote from: AO1 on May 03, 2020, 10:30:13 AM
End of January when we were at Disney my daughter got sick, stayed in bed last few days and kept her home from school for two days when we got back. She had a dry cough, was really fatigued, and had a 101 temperature...she was never tested for rona but I'm 99% sure she had it. I got sick a few weeks later, I probably had it. I'm going swimming today, can't wait.
Have her get the antibody test. Just to be safe.
A friend of mine had something that wasn't strep or the flu in January. Hung with him for several weeks and really kicked his ass.
He was sure he had it too. Went and had the antibody test last week and it was negative for COVID
Herd immunity and monitor high risk is the only way through this. I've read/watched/talked to doctors, we have to hope the initial quarantine suppressed the first wave but with summer coming up more people like me are going to enjoy the outdoors.
I guess since it's just the old, poor, sick, financially desperate and otherwise "weak", who gives a farg, right?
If nothing else this has become quite the study (not to mention referendum) on eugenics theory.
Quote from: Rome on May 03, 2020, 01:20:01 PM
I guess since it's just the old, poor, sick, financially desperate and otherwise "weak", who gives a farg, right?
If nothing else this has become quite the study (not to mention referendum) on eugenics theory.
High risk should be monitored, their families should also stay quarantined. The virus isn't going to magically ago away and a vaccine is still far off. At this point we're just delaying the inevitable of how this is going to get solved.
Having Herd immunity as your official policy is just another way of saying you're willing to kill a few million Americans that otherwise don't have to die if you take other measures.
The absolute minimum % of Americans infected needed to reach herd immunity is 60% (it's probably higher than that but that's the low end of estimates)...with a 1% fatality rate, that would be 1.92 million dead. The real number would probably be higher because the hospitals would get overwhelmed and treatment for not only covid but other things would be severely rationed by the demand.
If you think the economy is coming back and people will live lives as normal while all that is going on, you're crazy.
I hope everybody outside in the summer dies painfully.
You don't think sunlight kills it?
You have to trap the sunlight in antifreeze, then drink that to kill it.
And here I was about to inject bleach.
Inject the lysol, drink the bleach.
Most effective just after a seven mile hike.
Our county judge is coming under fire again because she extended the stay at home order.
The racists are out in full force. I'm sick of this shtein.
I wonder what would happen if JJ Watt kneeled prior to a game during the anthem to protest the stay at home orders? Would the Cheeto Dick Militia call him a Sonofabitch or hail him as a hero?
Obviously he'd be a hero because Muh Freedoms are under attack by these fascist liberals.
Maher on point as usual
https://youtu.be/Lze-rMYLf2E
*wrong as usual.
Hey look, even the lord and Savior of the protestors and people refusing to cooperate knows their actions are gonna start killing more people in the next month.
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1257337329028653057
Quote from: Munson on May 04, 2020, 12:53:23 PM
*wrong as usual.
Here's Dr. Katz's resume, post yours and let's compare who's more of an expert
QuoteDavid L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM earned his BA degree from Dartmouth College (1984); his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993). He completed sequential residency training in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Public Health.
He is the founding director (1998) of Yale University's Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative, a non-profit organization established to promote messages about healthy, sustainable diet and lifestyle in the service of adding years to lives and life to years around the globe.
Katz directed the development of the Overall Nutritional Quality Index® used in the NuVal® nutritional guidance system, the world's most robustly validated nutrient profiling system. He is the Founder (2016) and CEO of his own start-up company, developing a disruptively innovative approach to dietary intake assessment, and diet coaching – known as Diet Quality Photo Navigation (DQPN; DQPN™, LLC). He serves as Senior Science Advisor to Better+ Therapeutics, a digital therapeutic platform devoted to the use of diet and lifestyle for the treatment and reversal of chronic disease; and Senior Wellness Advisor to Indigo Ag.
The recipient of many awards for his contributions to public health, he has received three honorary doctorate degrees. Dr. Katz has held faculty positions at the Yale University Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, and as adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He served as Director of Medical Studies in Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine for nearly a decade.
He holds 5 U.S. patents with other patents pending. He has published roughly 200 scientific articles and textbook chapters, and 17 books to date, including multiple editions of leading textbooks in both Preventive Medicine and nutrition. His most recent book is The Truth about Food, with all proceeds going to support the True Health Initiative. His next book, with co-author Mark Bittman, is due out in the spring of 2020 (How to Eat; Houghton Mifflin).
Dr. Katz invented the meta-research method known as "evidence mapping;" the behavior modification construct called "impediment profiling;" a multi-site clinical trial approach to community-based participatory research called the multi-site translational community trial (MTCT); and most recently, "evidence threshold pathway mapping," a method for applying diverse evidence sources in particular to questions about lifestyle practices and lifelong health effects.
Prominent as a journalist and commentator addressing matters of health and medicine, Dr. Katz has been quoted in most major magazines and newspapers and has appeared widely on radio and television – and served as a regular on-air medical contributor for Good Morning America/ABC News for over two years. He has delivered addresses at major universities and conferences throughout the United States and countries around the world on six continents.
Widely recognized for his abilities as an orator, Dr. Katz has been hailed by peers as "the poet laureate of health promotion." In 2018, Katz was named conference chair for the annual Art & Science of Health Promotion conference. He has served as one of the expert judges for the annual rankings of diets by US News & World Report for much of the past decade. Katz was a 2019 finalist for a James Beard Foundation Award in the category of health journalism for two pieces in New York Magazine co-authored with Mark Bittman.
Recognized globally for expertise in nutrition, health promotion, and the prevention of chronic disease, he reaches a social media following of nearly one million.
One can do the same with Fauci and the blowhards who think they know better than him.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 04, 2020, 01:30:26 PM
One can do the same with Fauci and the blowhards who think they know better than him.
Fair enough. I directed that post towards munson because he obviously didn't take the time to watch the video but was quick to post some random twitter page. It's like arguing with a Trump supporter. Dr. Katz gets away from group think and gives his medical opinion. You can watch the video and argue his opinion and options and disagree but he makes some valid points and mirrors my thoughts that we're just delaying the inevitable.
I saw it live, don't need to rewatch it. I also don't need to post my resume because there are hundreds and thousands of doctors and virologists and immunologists who are saying differently. And the science tends to agree with them. So when we're choosing which well endowed resumes to listen to, I tend to err on the side of the resumes who have the backing of most of the medical community and research. And, you know, the ones not clamoring to sacrifice millions chasing some sort of herd immunity that we don't even know will exist or last yet. Also, not being a part of "group think" doesn't automatically make you correct or a sage or etc. Alex Jones "gets away from group think". Sometimes being an idiot just makes you an idiot, not correct.
Also the tweet I posted was mostly unrelated to what you were saying, just wanted to post it. But I guess it does show that yes, wanting to charge head first into herd immunity and ending lockdowns is gonna kill a lot more people.
https://twitter.com/toley88/status/1257353590638772224
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1257306327769964544
I'm sure they were some of those "very good people" in the protests
Quote from: Munson on May 04, 2020, 01:47:49 PM
I saw it live, don't need to rewatch it. I also don't need to post my resume because there are hundreds and thousands of doctors and virologists and immunologists who are saying differently. And the science tends to agree with them. So when we're choosing which well endowed resumes to listen to, I tend to err on the side of the resumes who have the backing of most of the medical community and research. And, you know, the ones not clamoring to sacrifice millions chasing some sort of herd immunity that we don't even know will exist or last yet. Also, not being a part of "group think" doesn't automatically make you correct or a sage or etc. Alex Jones "gets away from group think". Sometimes being an idiot just makes you an idiot, not correct.
*wrong as usual
May the 4th be with you
Except, you know, the part about the evidence and the medical community being largely on the side of the doctors and virologists not named Dr. Katz *shrug*
https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1257366957608878083
Now, both of these tweets are very spot on.
Quote from: Munson on May 04, 2020, 03:06:03 PM
Except, you know, the part about the evidence and the medical community being largely on the side of the doctors and virologists not named Dr. Katz *shrug*
He's not the only medical expert with that opinion...I mean...you know that's something you'd of known if you watched it.
If you're interested here's the op ed piece he wrote in the NYT that spawned the new discussion
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html
I know he's not the only one with that opinion. I've seen the right wing freak out over the doctor in California whose video "got censored" (lol) and that other individual doctors and nurses and etc have said things that go against the general consensus of the experts. The point was that they're less numerous than the doctors/nurses/virologists/pandemic experts and, generally, those folks have way more evidence to support their stances than the dr. Katz's of the world.
Also, just a heads up, he argues in that op ed that the flu is deadlier for young people but the people studying this thing all kind of accept that this is 10-15 times deadlier across all age groups, not just older people.
As of right now the predicted fatality rate for people under 50, depending on the age range, is .1 to .5%, where as its .01 to .05% for the same age ranges for flu.
U.S. has more than 25% of Covid19 deaths globally.
U.S. population amounts to 4% of the world population.
Maybe a smaller fraction of the world's population when SD and his kid are done licking lamp posts.
bill maher is a piece of garbage
Is anyone really going to go out to a restaurant and eat? I mean Jesus farging Christ what is wrong with people? DeSantis should burn for this.
Quote from: Rome on May 05, 2020, 09:46:12 AM
Is anyone really going to go out to a restaurant and eat? I mean Jesus farging Christ what is wrong with people? DeSantis should burn for this.
Yes
Waiting for the shareholders meeting to finish up today to see what Disney's plans are for their parks going forward. Reservation is June 24-July 1st
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1257701696538660864
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1257730562963288064
They really are just going to literally give up right smack in the middle of a pandemic, throw their hands up, and say welp, let's just let people die. Insane.
I'm trying to think of another example of such a brazen abdication of responsibility by a sitting POTUS and I can't really think of one. Hoover refusing to use the FedGov to do anything about the start of the Great Depression and basically asking JP Morgan nicely to save the economy pretty please? That's all I got.
You mean other than Reagan with the whole AIDS thing?
Just kidding, he didn't even start working on that.
i mean he's already got his sheep up in arms about not being able to get their belly buttons pierced or guns shined or whatever they would normally do monday-friday so mission accomplished.
Quote from: General_Failure on May 05, 2020, 02:24:23 PM
You mean other than Reagan with the whole AIDS thing?
Just kidding, he didn't even start working on that.
True...but even with that, you could make the argument that the rate of transmission and etc meant it was only going to impact a certain amount of people before they finally actually did something about it. This thing is so contagious it's gonna rip through tens of millions of Americans before we even get to next fall. We're prob gonna be at 100K deaths by June and I don't think AIDS has ever been able to do that in an entire calendar year.
But yes point well taken. Thankfully someone got to Cheese Brain Ron in 87
as Geo mentioned I think...Buchanon did farg all to prevent civil war
Lol true, another good one.
https://twitter.com/oliviamesser/status/1257761195899133953
Shanghai Disney opening May 11
Appropriate, considering the number of Chinese citizens that'll be Shanghai'd into showing how safe and happy they are there.
Quote from: Munson on May 05, 2020, 05:00:00 PM
Lol true, another good one.
https://twitter.com/oliviamesser/status/1257761195899133953
He just announced barber shops and other things can open now too
fargin fraud
Look man, too many of you Hoyda freeloaders are stealing unemployment money from Jeff Bezos. Get back out there, make daddy his money, and if you die try to do it in a corner where nobody can see you.
The Amazon propaganda is disgusting. I don't use their system, so farg em. I hope Bezos and the rest of the oligarchs die gasping for air.
Only if the lowest bidder builds a shoddy space station for them to live in. I think that's the next step in the William Gibson dystopian future checklist.
They'll need some Rastas on board too, but can probably just upload all the Super Ape, Scientist, Augustus Pablo, Terrorists, from Amazon Music before they blast off
Wildwood beaches, parks, playgrounds to open may 8
Gonna be a shteinshow unless they find a way to limit it to locals. As long as rentals aren't allowed it probably won't get super overrun but day trippers will just increase.
Quote from: Munson on May 05, 2020, 08:19:52 PM
Gonna be a shteinshow unless they find a way to limit it to locals.
You'd think a virus that could potentially kill your kids, Meemaw, and Uncle Derrik who had the butt cancer would do that, but here we are.
honestly opening up Disney World and the beaches in may could be a blessing in disguise. thinning the herd as quickly as possible so the smart people can go back to making things happen in the fall.
Half a million dead and twenty-five million infected in the US seems like a reasonable projection right now.
Have fun at the beach, though. Yippee!
Quote from: phattymatty on May 05, 2020, 09:16:39 PM
honestly opening up Disney World and the beaches in may could be a blessing in disguise. thinning the herd as quickly as possible so the smart people can go back to making things happen in the fall.
We should be thankful people are willing to risk exposure so herd immunity can start taking its toll. That's the only way out of this. Enough healthy people gain immunity, suddenly it stops spreading on such a grand scale. A vaccine is a pipe dream. It sucks but opening things up is inevitable. People with underlying conditions and their families should stay quarantined and take extreme caution. It's a perfect median between the two extremes.
stay home if you want to, people say, and let me go out!
Ok sure. That's fine.
However the people saying this don't give a shtein about the retail people at the stores they just have to go to. Nor do they give a shtein about the barbers, stylists, waitresses or whatever other employee is given the "come to work or lose your job" ultimatum.
Billy Joe needs to saddle up to that Applebee's bar and Cyndi needs her tips frosted and a pedicure!!
How do you see this ending? The curves flattened, you can continue to keep drastic restrictions in place but it's not going to magically disappear. It's going to spread at some point. Even Fauci is talking about a second wave in the fall. Better to start herd immunity in the summer when the weathers hot meaning the virus contamination period is lessened and more people are spending time outside where the virus doesn't spread like it does indoors. Knock it out now, otherwise you're delaying the inevitable. I'll gladly listen to any counter arguments that don't have us with the impossible scenario of the US being quarantined until 2021.
Quote from: AO1 on May 05, 2020, 10:36:54 PM
We should be thankful people are willing to risk exposure so herd immunity can start taking its toll.
thank you for your service.
(https://i.imgur.com/dwEE1Lxg.jpg)
Quote from: AO1 on May 05, 2020, 10:49:27 PM
How do you see this ending? The curves flattened, you can continue to keep drastic restrictions in place but it's not going to magically disappear. It's going to spread at some point. Even Fauci is talking about a second wave in the fall. Better to start herd immunity in the summer when the weathers hot meaning the virus contamination period is lessened and more people are spending time outside where the virus doesn't spread like it does indoors. Knock it out now, otherwise you're delaying the inevitable. I'll gladly listen to any counter arguments that don't have us with the impossible scenario of the US being quarantined until 2021.
It wouldn't be impossible to quarantine (such as it is, what we're doing is really a half measure of "Quarantine") if the fed gov was at all interested in making it possible, not to mention using this time to find ways to make it possible to loosen some restrictions. South Korea has been able to figure it out. We gotta stop talking about it like it's impossible, it just gives this Admin a pass on their abject failures.
The federal government is interested, they passed a $2.6 trillion stimulus, ordered stay at home, closed businesses, made wearing masks mandatory...hell even dum dum was giving a nightly press conference. The cats already out of the bag. Containment is impossible. SK started early and had it somewhat under control. Saying we should be like them makes no sense because our situations aren't comparable. Aside from mass testing (no complaints here) you either shut it down and wait it out only to have it spread later or get it over with now.
Your plan is sociopathic.
Quote from: General_Failure on May 05, 2020, 02:24:23 PM
You mean other than Reagan with the whole AIDS thing?
almost any president j edgar hoover worked under did worse things
the tuskegee experiments went on for like 50 years
oh and there was that whole slavery thing
to follow the medical scientific consensus (not some camera-loving quack put forward by teevee personalities)
Stay home unless absolutely necessary.
Wear a mask at all times outside the home.
Tentatively Re-open businesses in stages, triggered by objective, measureable reductions in ICU admissions, deaths, and only in combination with
Free plentiful and accurate testing combined with exhaustive contact tracing and quarantine (under force of law) for infected and exposed (but not immune) individuals
Universal basic income until vaccine is widely available
something like that...evidence and research guided, could change as we learn more
What you want to do is kill my mother and my aunt because you think they're weak and you want to go to Disneyland
I echo what Dio said.
It will never happen because of the clown show GOP people from the federal level all the way down to the local level. The whole "mah freedomz" crowd is exhausting.
The GOP doesn't believe in science. So therefore they are not willing to take scientifically rooted steps in eradicate or control this.
But since Cheeto Dick and his band of ignorant idiots ignored this early on - putting the shtein back in the goose has become impossible. Had they addressed this, and also not taken active steps to dismantle any sort of pandemic related committees, in January/February then we'd be WAY past this.
Unrealistic utopia that prolongs the problem
Look up utopia, I think you don't know what the word means.
The dystopia I describe is our best case hope, and it's preferable to the holocaust you would embrace. Had we hospitals that run for the protection and care of health rather than for the collection of wealth, this hell would not take so long to wade through. Had we leadership, etc. etc.
But we don't.
So we can either hunker down, grit our teeth, take it on the chin for a year or two, and save tens of thousands of lives (my way) or we can follow the Trump/ SD plan, best summed up as, devil take the hindmost.
Oh I'm definitely right:
u·to·pi·a
/yo͞oˈtōpēə/
noun
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
"misplaced faith in political utopias has led to ruin"
Our plans aren't much different you'd just rather paint my plan as extreme because that's what you do
Quote from: AO1 on May 06, 2020, 05:35:09 AM
The federal government is interested, they passed a $2.6 trillion stimulus, ordered stay at home, closed businesses, made wearing masks mandatory...hell even dum dum was giving a nightly press conference. The cats already out of the bag. Containment is impossible. SK started early and had it somewhat under control. Saying we should be like them makes no sense because our situations aren't comparable. Aside from mass testing (no complaints here) you either shut it down and wait it out only to have it spread later or get it over with now.
The Fed gov actually did none of those things. The CDC issued guidelines but the Admin has taken a hands off approach and left it to states and localities to enforce what they want, which is of course stupid.
Also the stimulus was pretty trash and wasn't meant to sustain a long, true, quarantine. 3-9 months of monthly income, suspension of rent/mortgage, etc. These ideas were proposed and would actually make it possible to shelter in place longer.
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 06, 2020, 07:51:15 AM
Quote from: General_Failure on May 05, 2020, 02:24:23 PM
You mean other than Reagan with the whole AIDS thing?
almost any president j edgar hoover worked under did worse things
the tuskegee experiments went on for like 50 years
oh and there was that whole slavery thing
We weren't talking about worse things, we were talking about total abdication of your responsibilities of governing and leadership.
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1257891917737734152
Everyone who's a big baby and bored at home should be allowed to fill out a form to waive all rights to treatment for them and their families if and when they get the virus. Anyone outside without this form or paperwork signifying they're an essential worker should be considered a biological terrorist and shot on sight by the police. You know those guys are super bummed about the number of people they haven't been able to shoot the last few months, throw them a bone.
Quote from: Munson on May 06, 2020, 11:44:37 AM
Quote from: AO1 on May 06, 2020, 05:35:09 AM
The federal government is interested, they passed a $2.6 trillion stimulus, ordered stay at home, closed businesses, made wearing masks mandatory...hell even dum dum was giving a nightly press conference. The cats already out of the bag. Containment is impossible. SK started early and had it somewhat under control. Saying we should be like them makes no sense because our situations aren't comparable. Aside from mass testing (no complaints here) you either shut it down and wait it out only to have it spread later or get it over with now.
The Fed gov actually did none of those things. The CDC issued guidelines but the Admin has taken a hands off approach and left it to states and localities to enforce what they want, which is of course stupid.
Also the stimulus was pretty trash and wasn't meant to sustain a long, true, quarantine. 3-9 months of monthly income, suspension of rent/mortgage, etc. These ideas were proposed and would actually make it possible to shelter in place longer.
Governors fall under the same category as the federal government. If you're talking leg/exec branch I'd rather be subject to the guidance of Wolf/Cuomo etc. than I would the orange moron. Not sure why you're so willing to give total control to Trump.
I was against the stimulus altogether so no argument from me. Instead of delaying rent/mortgage 3 months and having to be paid in full at the end of. 90 days: mortgage payments should be tacked on and extended to the end of the mortgage for those that want to opt in, for rent the amount should be prorated over the course of the rest of the rental agreement. Expecting a lump sum after 90 days makes zero sense.
Governors are part of state governments not Fed so no they don't count as the federal government. That's why some of them are just deciding to do the opposite of what the CDC is saying to do.
No I don't like Trump having control either but CDC suggestions being mandated and having the weight of the federal government behind them gets a lot more people to take them seriously and increases the chances of actual enforcement. CDC and medical experts should be running the show and having a uniform policy across the country gives you A much better chance of actually lowering infection rates than having one state do something and having the state next to it shrug its shoulders and not care.
The idea of stimulus isn't bad, just the way they did it was. Makes no sense to do a one time payment and then try to shift the burden of the biggest part of the bailout to state Unemployment offices that have been chronically underfunded for decades now being expected to handle claim loads they never had to before.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1258104480534495233
Can't be eliminated.
https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1258039342246887426
i hope they open up disneyland but none of the workers marganissi doesnt give one iota of a farg about - janitors, laborers, parking attendants, security guards, stand workers, the dude who plays goofy, etc - show up
so go to disneyland. wait in never ending lines because only 3 rides are open. only 1 works because the people who safety check them are gone. theres trash everywhere because your janitors arent there. and theres no food. and only one toilet works. because. no janitor.
have fun
Disneyland's in California, disneyworld is in Florida...duh
you should go to one of those open my state rallies, meet some cool people and see what happens
Quote from: Munson on May 06, 2020, 03:37:28 PM
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1258104480534495233
Can't be eliminated.
low population density in Hong Kong? is he making a joke? I'm confused.
I guess it's sarcasm but terrible delivery.
nm
Lol yeah he posts stuff like that all the time, he's a complete dweeb but posts stuff like that in earnest as like a way to mock right wingers with extremely bad takes. My bad, forgot to mention that
haha
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXXRWhiUcAEgcKn?format=jpg&name=medium)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/why-everyone-you-know-is-convinced-that-they-had-covid-19-already/2020/05/05/aef406ac-8a38-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html
https://twitter.com/billycorben/status/1258230370656542720
Lol farg this guy.
I wonder if he feels his constitutional rights are violated by no shirts no shoes no service policies too.
One day people will figure out that stores are private property. Probably whenever we get around to oil riots.
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 07, 2020, 09:07:01 AM
haha
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXXRWhiUcAEgcKn?format=jpg&name=medium)
I love that. Good on them.
Wolf extends red until June 4th...what a load of shtein
https://6abc.com/gov-wolf-extends-stay-at-home-order-for-some-pa-counties/6161575/
Probably for the best. One of the models the White House is using basically says holding out until June instead of mid-may will probably do wonders for the numbers. If you can do that+ramp up testing and tracing, you may actually have a chance at crushing it.
Been following the Chester County numbers since I have family there/my cousin has it. Seems like their positive tests per day are starting to drop a bit. If they can keep people in until June it seems like they've got a legit shot.
First it was April then May now June. Wait till summer hits and everyone says farg you.
I mean, yeah, it's not like you can just drop an end date on it and expect the virus and the pandemic to cooperate. You keep extending it until you got shtein under control.
Please, this is the nicest part of the year. When we hit mid June and we've got 90 degree days and high humidity, people are gonna be scurrying back inside to be in their air conditioning anyway. The beaches are gonna be trouble though.
That's the thing...there is no end date. They're just delaying the inevitable. Unless you're banking on the magic vaccine it's time to grip the reality that opening the world up and monitoring the high risk is a happy median. There is no perfect solution but there is a balance.
It isn't about an end date, it's about not overloading hospitals so the people in them have a chance to recover. I know you don't care about other people, but thankfully your opinion doesn't count.
I live with a hospital nurse who treats Covid patients (from time to time, not routinely, mostly with proper PPE, not always). We have two children. We live next to Grands that are 70+ and have high risk conditions. Given the nature of the disease, I cannot in good conscience let my children visit their own family in the house next door. Every time my wife goes to work, the clock re-sets on whether or not we are infected.
So when do you think it's a good idea for me to go back to work? And how do you propose I pay my bills in the meantime? I've got a signed contract, permits in place to build a fancy porch. I stood down on that because I can't call that essential and sleep at night. I stay home because I don't want to push this bug around to people I don't know. I also stay home because school is closed, through the end of the year. Summer camps are not available. There's no end in sight for me.
My savings are running out. I've applied for unemployment for the first time in my life. Two weeks, nothing. No communication, no money. I've been independent and productive my whole life, putting more into the kitty than I take out year after year after year. Now I'm being asked to stay home and idle, and being given zero support to do that.
Am I to be bankrupted so I can protect iceholes like SD, who don't give a farg about me or my family?
Are you going to put a yellow star on my house so you can go to Disneyland? Are you going to send me the $4000 per month I would otherwise normally bring in?
Are you going to come clean my brains off the wall and hold my crying children?
You piece of shtein?
My story times millions...abandon us at your own peril.
If we gonna have guns everywhere, then this makes sense and I welcome it:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/07/michigan-lawmaker-armed-escort-rightwing-protest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Hootsuite&fbclid=IwAR3SC-QFsPpmJX8WWf4HNF9edYOaJhDM70iWle_wG2kOfcYymJDOkRrp92s
Quote from: General_Failure on May 08, 2020, 08:27:09 AM
It isn't about an end date, it's about not overloading hospitals so the people in them have a chance to recover. I know you don't care about other people, but thankfully your opinion doesn't count.
Hospitals aren't overloaded, they're starting to do elective surgeries again.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-covid-19-putnam-county-hospital-elective-surgeries-nuvance-health/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elective-surgeries-set-resume-complications-concerns-n1190461
https://www.aha.org/standardsguidelines/2020-04-17-roadmap-aha-others-safely-resuming-elective-surgery-covid-19-curve
Again ITS NOT GOING TO MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR...there needs to be a balance. Unemployment just hit a record high.
Find a balance, he says, while his kid coughs into the face of some Estonian art student dressed up like a Disney Princess who hasn't seen her family in six months.
Or you know...she could maybe wear her mask in public like she has been doing and practice proper hygiene...balance grasshopper
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 07:19:46 AM
That's the thing...there is no end date. They're just delaying the inevitable. Unless you're banking on the magic vaccine it's time to grip the reality that opening the world up and monitoring the high risk is a happy median. There is no perfect solution but there is a balance.
That's very clearly not true, as evidenced by places actually able to test and contact trace.
What you're proposing isn't a "happy medium", it just leads to morr people dying faster.
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 09:41:09 AM
Quote from: General_Failure on May 08, 2020, 08:27:09 AM
It isn't about an end date, it's about not overloading hospitals so the people in them have a chance to recover. I know you don't care about other people, but thankfully your opinion doesn't count.
Hospitals aren't overloaded, they're starting to do elective surgeries again.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-covid-19-putnam-county-hospital-elective-surgeries-nuvance-health/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elective-surgeries-set-resume-complications-concerns-n1190461
https://www.aha.org/standardsguidelines/2020-04-17-roadmap-aha-others-safely-resuming-elective-surgery-covid-19-curve
Again ITS NOT GOING TO MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR...there needs to be a balance. Unemployment just hit a record high.
...you do realize they haven't gotten overloaded specifically because of the policies that you're now clamoring to end, right? And if you end too soon with people out there infected and not being tested/traced...the hospitals could then get overloaded very quickly?
Until people realize that then yeah, there will not be an end in sight.
The distancing measures and lockdowns were the reasons the systems have not been overrun.
Texas is opening back up. They can spout off the whole 25% capacity bullshtein but that is being ignored. So lets see how this works out. If the second wave hits and the ICU's become overwhelmed then we'll know. Unfortunately I hate to be part of the GOP's farging science experiment. Actually, no, that is wrong. They don't believe in science. So I am part of their ridiculous desire to 1) wear a mask [the horrrrorrrr] 2) eat out at a restaurant 3) get a farging manicure and a hair dye
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 10:36:54 AM
Or you know...she could maybe wear her mask in public like she has been doing and practice proper hygiene...balance grasshopper
Cool. Do you think Elsa's gonna get to wear a mask? I know you don't care if she dies a painful death, but do you think the other ten million kids she's got to hug every day have parents as super smart and responsible as you?
Quote from: Munson on May 08, 2020, 11:02:47 AM
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 07:19:46 AM
That's the thing...there is no end date. They're just delaying the inevitable. Unless you're banking on the magic vaccine it's time to grip the reality that opening the world up and monitoring the high risk is a happy median. There is no perfect solution but there is a balance.
That's very clearly not true, as evidenced by places actually able to test and contact trace.
What you're proposing isn't a "happy medium", it just leads to morr people dying faster.
So when's the end date? Germany lifted their extreme restrictions and so far so good.
https://news.yahoo.com/no-evidence-second-wave-germany-134011367.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb
What I'm "proposing" is masks, proper hygiene, and limiting restrictions. You guys act like I want people to start spitting in each other's mouths. Get a farging grip.
Woodstock occurred in the middle of a pandemic
https://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/
If you could count on the people in this country to follow your sensible common sense plan, this should would already be over. Since they can't, we all get to stay the farg home.
Americans always know better. Until we don't which is every single farging time. It's insanity pure and simple.
We dwarf every other country in deaths and infections BECAUSE we're stubborn, ignorant, arrogant fargheads who elect iceholes like Trump.
So how do we respond after we mock science and laugh at warnings? We double the farg down on our stubbornness, ignorance and arrogance.
Like I said.. purely insane.
Need to get me one of those sweet facebook shirts with a Five Finger Death Punch skeleton on it that says "My PPE comes from Smith & Wesson."
Quote from: General_Failure on May 08, 2020, 12:03:28 PM
If you could count on the people in this country to follow your sensible common sense plan, this should would already be over. Since they can't, we all get to stay the farg home.
Just got back from target, everyone was in masks, theres wipes for carts which everyone was using, there's plastic barriers between register/customers, everyone stood on their red dot 6 ft back, all self checkouts were wiped between customers. Aside from the every once in a while story of someone without a mask in public or acting stupid most people have been following guidelines.
Quote from: Munson on May 08, 2020, 11:05:32 AM
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 09:41:09 AM
Quote from: General_Failure on May 08, 2020, 08:27:09 AM
It isn't about an end date, it's about not overloading hospitals so the people in them have a chance to recover. I know you don't care about other people, but thankfully your opinion doesn't count.
Hospitals aren't overloaded, they're starting to do elective surgeries again.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-covid-19-putnam-county-hospital-elective-surgeries-nuvance-health/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elective-surgeries-set-resume-complications-concerns-n1190461
https://www.aha.org/standardsguidelines/2020-04-17-roadmap-aha-others-safely-resuming-elective-surgery-covid-19-curve
Again ITS NOT GOING TO MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR...there needs to be a balance. Unemployment just hit a record high.
...you do realize they haven't gotten overloaded specifically because of the policies that you're now clamoring to end, right? And if you end too soon with people out there infected and not being tested/traced...the hospitals could then get overloaded very quickly?
What is "too soon" munson? Please tell me the date. They're going to lift restrictions soon. I can't see PA going past June 4th without major blowback.
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 11:59:02 AM
Quote from: Munson on May 08, 2020, 11:02:47 AM
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 07:19:46 AM
That's the thing...there is no end date. They're just delaying the inevitable. Unless you're banking on the magic vaccine it's time to grip the reality that opening the world up and monitoring the high risk is a happy median. There is no perfect solution but there is a balance.
That's very clearly not true, as evidenced by places actually able to test and contact trace.
What you're proposing isn't a "happy medium", it just leads to morr people dying faster.
So when's the end date? Germany lifted their extreme restrictions and so far so good.
https://news.yahoo.com/no-evidence-second-wave-germany-134011367.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb
What I'm "proposing" is masks, proper hygiene, and limiting restrictions. You guys act like I want people to start spitting in each other's mouths. Get a farging grip.
Germany had aggressive testing in place as well! We don't, at least not yet, but we're finally getting close. That's the whole point everyone's been making as to why the Trump Admin response has been such a failure: if they had taken it seriously and ramped up testing and locked down the country earlier and were more aggressive like Germany and like South Korea, we could be on the same trajectory they are in terms of safety reopening. But because Trump felt the need to lie about it, we aren't. The solution to that isn't to just simply reopen everything anyway and possibly throw people and the doctors and nurses to the wolves. Because all that does is increase the chances you'll have to do another more harsh lockdown in a month or two.
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 12:24:55 PM
Quote from: Munson on May 08, 2020, 11:05:32 AM
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 09:41:09 AM
Quote from: General_Failure on May 08, 2020, 08:27:09 AM
It isn't about an end date, it's about not overloading hospitals so the people in them have a chance to recover. I know you don't care about other people, but thankfully your opinion doesn't count.
Hospitals aren't overloaded, they're starting to do elective surgeries again.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-covid-19-putnam-county-hospital-elective-surgeries-nuvance-health/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elective-surgeries-set-resume-complications-concerns-n1190461
https://www.aha.org/standardsguidelines/2020-04-17-roadmap-aha-others-safely-resuming-elective-surgery-covid-19-curve
Again ITS NOT GOING TO MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR...there needs to be a balance. Unemployment just hit a record high.
...you do realize they haven't gotten overloaded specifically because of the policies that you're now clamoring to end, right? And if you end too soon with people out there infected and not being tested/traced...the hospitals could then get overloaded very quickly?
What is "too soon" munson? Please tell me the date. They're going to lift restrictions soon. I can't see PA going past June 4th without major blowback.
Please refer back to my post about how just picking a date and hoping it's okay by that date isn't how pandemics work and certainly isn't how public policy should or will be shaped.
Quote from: Munson on May 08, 2020, 12:28:27 PMlike Germany and like South Korea
I can imagine that eventually we'll have enough testing, diagnostic and anti-body (and that eventually we'll know for sure whether people who have the anti-body are immunized by it, and whether they can communicate the virus or not), but I cannot imagine that the U.S. will ever establish the level of tracing that South Korea and others have adopted. A., that requires leadership but we have a rotten Joffrey child in power, served by Wormtongues and Villeforts and B. idiot America thinks freedom means liberty to do anything you want regardless how it affects others.
Testing, maybe. Tracing...not gonna happen.
Quote from: Diomedes on May 08, 2020, 12:34:27 PM
Quote from: Munson on May 08, 2020, 12:28:27 PMlike Germany and like South Korea
I can imagine that eventually we'll have enough testing, diagnostic and anti-body (and that eventually we'll know for sure whether people who have the anti-body are immunized by it, and whether they can communicate the virus or not), but I cannot imagine that the U.S. will ever establish the level of tracing that South Korea and others have adopted. A., that requires leadership but we have a rotten Joffrey child in power, served by Wormtongues and Villeforts and B. idiot America thinks freedom means liberty to do anything you want regardless how it affects others.
Testing, maybe. Tracing...not gonna happen.
Unfortunately you are probably right on a national level. On a state level though at least some governors are taking the contact tracing part seriously. So at least some areas of the country will be able to do it somewhat well. Most of the idiots are all bark no bite I'm sure you know, so they might jack themselves off about their freedums and liburties but the minute they get the diagnosis of having a virus that could kill them or their family, I'm sure they'll be willing to tell the nice state government worker where they shot whiskey with Hoss and Billie Bob last weekend. Can't get em all of course but most of them.
Our governor just announced last hour that we'll be able to test 80,000 residents a month going forward. That's a huge farging deal in a state of 950,000, and great news.
Maryland has been working for weeks to develop a tracing plan. We'll do better than many other states, but there's a lot of room for that to be not good enough.
No f'n way you get buy in from the ignorant white people of the Eastern Shore. No way you get buy in from the ignorant black people of the Baltimore ghettos. Both of these groups of people, to the delight of Powerful folks like Trump and Putin, utterly detest and distrust government officials, and "elites," (i.e., scientists, doctors, etc.)
Every traced contact that can be identified, and will comply, is of course better than none, and I fully support a massive attempt to do it....would not suggest we don't try with everything we've got. But I'm pessimistic.
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 12:20:54 PM
Quote from: General_Failure on May 08, 2020, 12:03:28 PM
If you could count on the people in this country to follow your sensible common sense plan, this should would already be over. Since they can't, we all get to stay the farg home.
Just got back from target, everyone was in masks, theres wipes for carts which everyone was using, there's plastic barriers between register/customers, everyone stood on their red dot 6 ft back, all self checkouts were wiped between customers. Aside from the every once in a while story of someone without a mask in public or acting stupid most people have been following guidelines.
That's nice. You're in a Philly suburb. I can absolutely assure you it's not like that everywhere. And certainly not where I live.
Hit the grocery store yesterday for some needed supplies. I'd say that 1 in 3 were wearing masks. At best.
Yeah I know we're giving SD a hard time for wanting to open things up but really the bad part is deciding Florida is the first place you want to go while this is still happening haha. Go to like a lake in Maine!
Not but forreal hopefully the heat/humidity really does make it harder for the virus to transmit. But the potential crowds at a place like Disney probably cancel out most of that advantage. Especially some of the indoor areas/rides.
Quote from: Rome on May 08, 2020, 12:53:09 PM
Quote from: AO1 on May 08, 2020, 12:20:54 PM
Quote from: General_Failure on May 08, 2020, 12:03:28 PM
If you could count on the people in this country to follow your sensible common sense plan, this should would already be over. Since they can't, we all get to stay the farg home.
Just got back from target, everyone was in masks, theres wipes for carts which everyone was using, there's plastic barriers between register/customers, everyone stood on their red dot 6 ft back, all self checkouts were wiped between customers. Aside from the every once in a while story of someone without a mask in public or acting stupid most people have been following guidelines.
That's nice. You're in a Philly suburb. I can absolutely assure you it's not like that everywhere. And certainly not where I live.
I was at the Target on the BLVD in northeast Philly. Not exactly what I'd call a clean area.
Quote from: Munson on May 08, 2020, 01:09:30 PM
Yeah I know we're giving SD a hard time for wanting to open things up but really the bad part is deciding Florida is the first place you want to go while this is still happening haha. Go to like a lake in Maine!
Not but forreal hopefully the heat/humidity really does make it harder for the virus to transmit. But the potential crowds at a place like Disney probably cancel out most of that advantage. Especially some of the indoor areas/rides.
My buddy invited me down to Florida for any weekend I chose. He lives in St Augustine. Round trip is like $200. Disney springs is opening in a limited capacity on the 20th. I'm monitoring the park policies for when they open. Not sure about wearing a mask in Florida in June.
We stopped in St. Augustine on our road trip, that was a neat little town. We did the lighthouse and the old fort national monument while we were there, pretty cool stuff.
Yeah mask in Florida in June is just gonna be sweat through in minutes
Granted, I'm a lot further down the peninsula than Orlando, but we've been in the 90-94 ranger more days than not since about mid-April. Hot, muggy, sticky.
I fully admit I haven't worn a mask when I'm going for walks in the neighborhood because of the heat and humidity. Of course, I live in an area where there is very little foot traffic, so social distancing really doesn't come into play very often, and the few times I come across people I give a lot of room.
But in an air-conditioned grocery store where there are more old people than you can shake a stick at? Wear your damn mask, people!
Our gov said in addition to the 80,000 tests a month and announcing contract tracing efforts on Monday, the hope is they'll shift into "phase 1" on June 1st assuming all goes well. Doesn't seem like Phase 1 is very different from what we're doing right now with the exception that maybe some restaurants can open but all it says is "restaurants will have strict guidelines", not that they'll actually be open
Driving home this evening was the busiest it's been since this started. Everything is open. No one is wearing masks or social-distancing.
Some Republican hack is running for county chair. He was out on the foot of the bridge to the island politicking with his supporters. No masks. No social-distancing. LOTS of Trump hats. Every car had Florida's "Choose Life" license plates on their vehicles.
I'm saying it out loud now: Everyone who is scoffing at this plague deserves to farging die outright for their recklessness. Thin the herd.
Quote from: Rome on May 08, 2020, 05:39:59 PM
Thin the herd.
Exactly
Herd immunity
Finally someone who gets it
He means you.
I'm assuming he's acting rationally for his daughter's sake.
So no, not him.
Also - I've been working straight through this whole time. My position is deemed essential, so I haven't been fortunate enough to work from home. Our office remains closed except for appointments (we've had none). We're doing daily temperature checks of employees, practicing social distancing, washing hands frequently, etc.
We're doing our part. So far we've been fortunate. I'm sorry, I meant wildly lucky that no one has fallen ill.
But watching motherfargers scoff at this is enraging to me. I'm sick of the selfishness and goddamn dumbass ignorance on wide display. You want to risk getting sick? Fine. Go lick stripper poles for all I care. Just take precautions for those of us who don't.
https://twitter.com/miniondeathcult/status/1258581571323351040
Be Afriad, be very Afriad
Brave the Afraid, 24/7.
Quote from: General_Failure on May 08, 2020, 07:07:33 PM
https://twitter.com/miniondeathcult/status/1258581571323351040
Any time these dipshteins do things like this they always misspell things.
It's almost like...they're mentally challenged? Just guessing. Taking a shot in the dark.
Land of the covfefe.
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1258790669474299908
Can't imagine what happened in Florida over the last couple weeks that would cause a possible spike in cases and hospitalizations.
If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infections-would-plummet-new-study-says)
QuoteThe day before yesterday, 21 people died of COVID-19 in Japan. In the United States, 2,129 died. Comparing overall death rates for the two countries offers an even starker point of comparison with total U.S. deaths now at a staggering 76,032 and Japan's fatalities at 577. Japan's population is about 38% of the U.S., but even adjusting for population, the Japanese death rate is a mere 2% of America's.
This comes despite Japan having no lockdown, still-active subways, and many businesses that have remained open—reportedly including karaoke bars, although Japanese citizens and industries are practicing social distancing where they can. Nor have the Japanese broadly embraced contact tracing, a practice by which health authorities identify someone who has been infected and then attempt to identify everyone that person might have interacted with—and potentially infected.
Quote from: Munson on May 09, 2020, 12:15:08 AM
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1258790669474299908
Can't imagine what happened in Florida over the last couple weeks that would cause a possible spike in cases and hospitalizations.
DeSantis has ordered them to stop reporting Covid deaths. Some are obviously ignoring his Nazi bullshtein.
'Summer is not going to make this go away': Temperature has little or no impact on spread of coronavirus, new study suggests (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-summer-temperature-warm-hot-spread-study-pandemic-a9506201.html)
Quote"We had conducted a preliminary study that suggested both latitude and temperature could play a role. But when we repeated the study under much more rigorous conditions, we got the opposite result," he said.
By contrast, school closures and other public health measures had been an effective curb on coronavirus, Dr Juni added. "Our results are of immediate relevance as many countries, and some Canadian provinces and territories, are considering easing or removing some of these public health interventions," he said.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1259003903393312769
https://twitter.com/bbclbicker/status/1258989194497519616
Imagine this except widespread throughout the entire country and none of the early cases get caught because we're not testing and contact tracing and suddenly wave 2 is here and hospitals start getting the NYC treatment of not having any capacity and stacking up dead bodies in fridge trucks parked outside.
Sending people inside to spend extended time within the same airflow of other people is going to lead to some really bad outbreaks.
Quote from: General_Failure on May 09, 2020, 10:12:57 AM
'Summer is not going to make this go away': Temperature has little or no impact on spread of coronavirus, new study suggests (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-summer-temperature-warm-hot-spread-study-pandemic-a9506201.html)
Quote"We had conducted a preliminary study that suggested both latitude and temperature could play a role. But when we repeated the study under much more rigorous conditions, we got the opposite result," he said.
By contrast, school closures and other public health measures had been an effective curb on coronavirus, Dr Juni added. "Our results are of immediate relevance as many countries, and some Canadian provinces and territories, are considering easing or removing some of these public health interventions," he said.
they arent sure about temperature yet but on 60 minutes last week they had disease experts that have 100% concluded that direct sunlight kills it
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 09, 2020, 05:05:49 PM...disease experts that have 100% concluded that direct sunlight kills it
Something something joke about Our Dear Leader encouraging people to cut out the roofs of their homes.
i sorta misspoke saying "disease experts" like they are people who are doing a msnbc interview...these are actual disease scientists from fort detrick who did the tests themselves that determined this
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXmvZxTUEAEZ8Sq?format=jpg&name=large)
this chart tells me the maga states are farging things up and the east coast is of course where the smart people are
Well, they opened the Naples beaches on Wednesday... and will close them back up tonight because of overcrowding.
https://twitter.com/davidlparsons/status/1258988672084373505
https://twitter.com/ExcitableBoi/status/1259089204165980160
https://twitter.com/Coelasquid/status/1259404789214937089
marganassi: oPeN uP dA cOuNtReE
usa: no
south korea: ok
*one week later*
south korea: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/asia-today-korea-counts-18-cases-club-visits-70592093
Quote from: MDS on May 10, 2020, 10:27:16 AM
marganassi: oPeN uP dA cOuNtReE
usa: no
south korea: ok
*one week later*
south korea: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/asia-today-korea-counts-18-cases-club-visits-70592093
marganassi: they should ease some restrictions and let people get back to work
CF: *OMG* -typical overreaction- you want people spitting in each others mouths and killing everyone do you can get a haircut!
Like I said to Munson. Get a farging grip
Not one person here has said anything close to that to you. They have pointed out to you that "letting people get back to work" is about as safe as having people spit in each other's faces, though.
Quote from: Munson on May 10, 2020, 12:03:48 PM
Not one person here has said anything close to that to you. They have pointed out to you that "letting people get back to work" is about as safe as having people spit in each other's faces, though.
I'm for a medium. People go back to work, social distance, wear masks, proper hygiene....just like I see at target. Spreading is inevitable. Again I'll ask, how long do you tell people they can't make a living?
People would stop whining about "not making a living" if the FedGov would do its job and pass an actual support bill. You'd have a few diseased brain holdouts who have fully bought into the myth of American exceptionalism and individualism that would still pretend to be the Sons of Liberty reincarnate, but for the most part of $2000 per person per month started showing up in people's bank accounts, most of them would be content to chill for a while. Especially if they also cancelled rent/mortgage payments for the duration.
Basically, presenting it as a binary choice between working and dying or not working and financially dying is just ignoring that there's a whole range of polices out there that just require some leadership from the FedGov.
Eight of ten shoppers at the supermarket this morning were not wearing masks. Mostly old people who idolize Trump, I assume. They've given up so farg em all.
https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/1259553740551569414
https://twitter.com/mc_of_a/status/1259904421778976768
officially more than 80k Americans dead and counting
Quote from: Diomedes on May 11, 2020, 07:54:22 PM
officially more than 80k Americans dead and counting
farg off Hoyda
i wanna go to disney world
Quote from: MDS on May 11, 2020, 07:57:20 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on May 11, 2020, 07:54:22 PM
officially more than 80k Americans dead and counting
farg off Hoyda
i wanna go to disney world
Shanghai Disney opened last night
Quote from: Diomedes on May 11, 2020, 07:54:22 PM
officially more than 80k Americans dead and counting
"It's only the flu and .00000015% have died!!"
On another note: why has Bill Gates and his wife become targets of the anti vaxxer/"real patriot"/hoaxers on Facebook?
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Have a haircut appt Thursday. This lady my aunt knows owns a hair place in the city. She's been cutting people at her house for the past 2 weeks because she's about to go under. Any way she's so busy she's only taking appts. from friends/family and their referrals.
Quote from: AO1 on May 11, 2020, 09:06:28 PM
Have a haircut appt Thursday. This lady my aunt knows owns a hair place in the city. She's been cutting people at her house for the past 2 weeks because she's about to go under. Any way she's so busy she's only taking appts. from friends/family and their referrals.
theres nothing wrong with this...2 consenting adults can do whatever they want in their own homes during or not during a pandemic
but guess what
she cant open her non essential business because its not farging important enough
The thing is it's not ok. It's grotesque. People shouldn't have to decide between risking death or insolvency. No one cares, though, so I'll shut the farg up.
maybe instead of yelling at the govt to "oPeN uP" you should yell at the govt to give everyone a universal basic income so no one needs to risk their lives to cut some greasy wop's hair
Grow your skullets out, you old cowards.
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1259846966063833089
Obviously he meant going down as in happening. Corona's going down everywhere, soon we'll have made enough progress that SD won't have to walk as far from his car to the Disney entrance.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 11, 2020, 08:18:32 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on May 11, 2020, 07:54:22 PM
officially more than 80k Americans dead and counting
"It's only the flu and .00000015% have died!!"
On another note: why has Bill Gates and his wife become targets of the anti vaxxer/"real patriot"/hoaxers on Facebook?
Probably because of this. (https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/What-you-need-to-know-about-the-COVID-19-vaccine)
https://twitter.com/nickgourevitch/status/1260183929916710912
"We need to open everything up! People need to get back to work!"
People out of work: "Listen please just help us out and don't send us back into the plague. Please."
Those are just the lazy welfare queens, not the real economic heroes. Send them back out there at gunpoint for our freedoms.
Quote from: Rome on May 11, 2020, 09:19:59 PM
The thing is it's not ok. It's grotesque. People shouldn't have to decide between risking death or insolvency. No one cares, though, so I'll shut the farg up.
or just shave your farging head yourself....thats what i did....
you know whats def not essential right now...a tight ass fade
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 12, 2020, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Rome on May 11, 2020, 09:19:59 PM
The thing is it's not ok. It's grotesque. People shouldn't have to decide between risking death or insolvency. No one cares, though, so I'll shut the farg up.
or just shave your farging head yourself....thats what i did....
you know whats def not essential right now...a tight ass fade
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/49zC0Bm1kbu36/giphy.gif)
im agreeing with him you stupid using memes that werent funny in 2007 farg
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 12, 2020, 02:17:22 PM
Quote from: Rome on May 11, 2020, 09:19:59 PM
The thing is it's not ok. It's grotesque. People shouldn't have to decide between risking death or insolvency. No one cares, though, so I'll shut the farg up.
or just shave your farging head yourself....thats what i did....
you know whats def not essential right now...a tight ass fade
I disagree
Memorial Day bbq coming up and need a tight fade for da bitches
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1260290626677018636
Luckily in the classroom my students and I only talk in quiet voices and our classroom is open air outdoor where 25-30 kids aren't sitting a foot away from each other.
https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-report-shows-coronavirus-235200812.html
Shocking news
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 12, 2020, 03:27:11 PM
im agreeing with him you stupid using memes that werent funny in 2007 farg
Then it matches you.
https://twitter.com/ronaldklain/status/1260237560334487552 21
(https://i.imgflip.com/4189ly.jpg)
Cali announced yesterday state universities wouldn't be open for fall semester. I imagine we're gonna get a lot more announcements like that as we get into summer unless something drastic changes
I like the sound of the government sending me $6,000
I got bills to pay while I sit home allowing motherfargers to safely visit Disneyland
I take a walk at the local spot. Roads there all closed so people can have space. There are some exercise machines / stations that are closed, taped off, etc. Today, more than 15 or so dudes working out on them...not even attempting to put a brown bag over the bottle...just banging away at their workout....
What's the right thing to do? Call the cops on these guys? I ain't gonna try to reason with them. I don't think they ought to be arrested. But goddamn, they need to knock it off.
Almost all black dudes, too. They got family at home, they got old ones, they are one of the communities being hit hardest....sigh
Vote made via video conference, of course. https://twitter.com/MollyBeck/status/1260691610485964800
whatever just let the marginassi's of the world run wild. let them infect each other, kill each other, and we can have a more intelligent electorate going forward
Is that case going higher, or is the Wisconsin decision a state specific thing and it's a done deal?
It went into effect immediately.
https://twitter.com/MollyBeck/status/1260694987789877249
In potentially better news, Sitting in a freezer for years, potential SARS vaccine now ready for trial on usefulness against coronavirus (https://www.journalstandard.com/news/20200513/sitting-in-freezer-for-years-potential-sars-vaccine-now-ready-for-trial-on-usefulness-against-coronavirus)
QuoteThe SARS vaccine, known as RBD219N1, was developed by Bottazzi and colleague Peter Hotez, co-director of Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development.
It works by targeting the key mechanism used by both SARS and the new coronavirus to infect cells.
Both viruses use their spike protein to dock onto the outside of human cells, specifically onto one part of the cell, a receptor called ACE-2. Once the protein has docked, the virus is then able to penetrate the cells.
The vaccine hinders this connection between the virus and human cell by blocking the portion of the spike protein that latches onto an ACE-2 receptor.
Bottazzi said the vaccine has been tested on animals. It has also been tested successfully on a pseudovirus, a lab-made virus that closely resembles SARS-CoV-2 but is incapable of causing disease.
But in definitely worse news, Virus 'eminently capable' of spreading through speech: study (https://www.france24.com/en/20200514-virus-eminently-capable-of-spreading-through-speech-study)
QuoteResearchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) had a person loudly repeat the phrase "Stay healthy" for 25 seconds inside a closed box.
A laser projected into the box illuminated droplets, allowing them to be seen and counted.
They stayed in the air for an average of 12 minutes, the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) showed.
Taking into account the known concentration of coronavirus in saliva, scientists estimated that each minute of loudly speaking can generate more than 1,000 virus-containing droplets capable of remaining airborne for eight minutes or more in a closed space.
If even one person in this crowd is Covid positive...
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Finally got my haircut. Feel like $100. Guy getting his hair cut when I walked in was an off duty Philly cop. Lady told me she gets at least two cops a day. Go lockdown
https://twitter.com/KristinThorne/status/1261044124024791040
"Encourage sick people to stay home."
"Ummm... farg you. I'm hoping to get sick now. I'm taking everyone with me. That's my right as an American!"
- 30% of the population. Probably.
Quote from: AO1 on May 14, 2020, 06:47:43 PM
Finally got my haircut. Feel like $100. Guy getting his hair cut when I walked in was an off duty Philly cop. Lady told me she gets at least two cops a day. Go lockdown
northeast white trash gonna northeast white trash
i hope those cops feel good now so they can crack some black skulls in nicetown tonight
I teach 30+ per class. It's going to be interesting to see how we'll try to make social distancing work with huggy 11-15-year-olds in middle school.
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downlow white people in green bay just have to depressingly drink miller in someones basement bar
Past 85 thousand Americans dead now. Will surpass 90k by Sunday easily....looking at beyond 100k by this time next week.
F'n brutal.
But...OBAMAGATE Dio. Don't lose focus here ughkay?
Quote from: Geowhizzer on May 14, 2020, 08:20:25 PM
I teach 30+ per class. It's going to be interesting to see how we'll try to make social distancing work with huggy 11-15-year-olds in middle school.
My biggest class this year was 31. So 32 of us in a classroom that's not that big....yeah I want no part of schools being in person in the fall unless things are much more under control.
Quote from: Diomedes on May 14, 2020, 09:22:29 PM
Past 85 thousand Americans dead now. Will surpass 90k by Sunday easily....looking at beyond 100k by this time next week.
F'n brutal.
I was thinking 100K by June but you might me right, we might hit that shtein next week
Found a speak easy...going tomorrow night.
Wrap it up before you plow whatever 45 year old divorcee you pick up. Wouldn't want you to catch anything while you're out.
Completely unrelated, not sure why I even linked this. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1260939739454193665
look at that cuck dweeb...the only vegetables real men eat are beer
I bet his wife sent him out to get tampons. What a beta.
His wife! You mean his Master bruh. Married men are just neuters...eunuchs if we're being honest.
If you're not slamming a bitch and kicking her conniving ass to the curb as you nut on her whore face, you are a fake man.
You let her touch your seed? She's going to scoop that up and make a baby to trap you. Rookie move.
Damn, you a pro. What to do then? Peg long haired nancy boys?
Political correctness turning Real Men into homos. Men's Rights!
You can't trust the sissies, either. They might sell it to the females. Just puke it right back up, freeze it, and she shoves the whole cube right up there. The only way to be safe is to watch your neighbors from outside the window.
Quote from: General_Failure on May 15, 2020, 09:44:44 AM
Completely unrelated, not sure why I even linked this. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1260939739454193665
Fellas, is it gay to die.
That's also true. A man dug that grave. You want to put me in a man's hole against my will? Sounds suspect. Better cremate me, so I can go out flaming.
It's funny to me that there's such a big overlap of tough guys who don't want to wear masks because they aren't scared of the virus but yet also want to have a gun on them because they're scared of the bad guys. bad guys meaning non-whites.
Well see this virus kills non-whites at a higher clip so, for a lot of these guys, they just assume the virus was under one of the hoods at their, uh, "meeting" last Friday.
https://twitter.com/bbclbicker/status/1261165548940873728
Quote from: phattymatty on May 15, 2020, 12:30:54 PM
It's funny to me that there's such a big overlap of tough guys who don't want to wear masks because they aren't scared of the virus but yet also want to have a gun on them because they're scared of the bad guys. bad guys meaning non-whites.
Guns are for protecting people from unseen threats. Masks are communism. Obviously.
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1261368663254249472
Quote from: Munson on May 15, 2020, 12:39:26 PM
https://twitter.com/bbclbicker/status/1261165548940873728
I neEd A hAiRcUt
They don't do haircuts in nightclubs, stupid.
Quote from: Munson on May 15, 2020, 05:22:14 PM
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1261368663254249472
I loathe that lady.
Speak easy was incredible. Walk through front door...$30 all you can drink. Head to the back yard, there's lights set up, a hot tub, Wu tang playing. No #town but got some digits. Heading back tomorrow
Some good news/bad news here.
Bad news first: were in all likelihood a long way from any 'herd immunity'. Spain study found only 5% of their population has likely been exposed. Indiana did a similar study in their state and only got 2%. Means we're definitely looking at millions dead to get to SD's herd immunity.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1261658479305031680
Good news which seems like pretty great news. This study seems to be confirming that you do indeed get at least some sort of lasting immunity if you catch it and survive. Beyond that, if I'm reading this tweet correctly, I think they're saying that exposure to other coronaviruses that cause common colds infers are least some partial immunity to SarsCov2. Though I guess the flip side of that is antibody tests may be giving people false hopes that they've already had it and are thus completely immune now.
https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1261053426475003904
https://twitter.com/fahrenthold/status/1262029906512404480
"Georgia opened up and their numbers are going down!"
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1262479848859197440
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1262484050964631557
Lmao :-D
Trump lying about taking a med that can cause cardiac problems to own the libs.
Truly the dumbest time to be alive.
I have never rooted for a malarial treatment to kill someone.
Until now.
Go, hydroxychloroquine, Go!!
His favorite are the grape ones.
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millions of kids eat those every day still
I bet the Flinstones franchise has made more money off Vitamins than cartoons.
Quote from: Munson on May 17, 2020, 01:09:48 PM
https://twitter.com/fahrenthold/status/1262029906512404480
"Georgia opened up and their numbers are going down!"
https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/1262605173479874560
"Florida opened up and they're doing just fine!"
We are not fine here. Cases have spiked and now they're planning on re-opening everything June 1st.
Bottom line is I chose to live here, so if I get it or my family gets it, it's our fault.
I can't believe you're keeping SD from Disney, you son of a bitch.
Nearly 200 people arrested, two shot during 'Go Topless Jeep Weekend' in Texas (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nearly-200-people-arrested-two-shot-during-go-topless-jeep-n1210651)
QuoteA raucous Texas beach event known as "Go Topless Jeep Weekend" ended with two people hospitalized following a shooting and nearly 200 others arrested for various crimes.
Galveston County Sheriff Henry Trochesset said two men were airlifted to the hospital after both of them were shot in the torso during the annual event on Bolivar Peninsula that brings together thousands of Jeep lovers and 4-wheeler enthusiasts.
A group of men and women were arguing when the fight escalated and gunshots rang out, Trochesset told NBC News. The two men are hospitalized and their conditions haven't been released.
Good to see they didn't yee their last haw.
That jeep weekend down there is always a clusterfk
MAGAts doing magat things
Galveston is trash too. zesty beaches and shtein brown water
https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/1262833283127226368
He woke up in a free country, guys.
"I live in a free country"
And you're in a private business douchebag
if it makes anyone feel any better, the guy got roasted on reddit, found out about it, threw a temper tantrum and got mad online responding to comments
I wish more stores would do this.
I'm here for all the whiners bellyaching about wearing a mask.
Quote from: MDS on May 19, 2020, 10:48:23 PM
if it makes anyone feel any better, the guy got roasted on reddit, found out about it, threw a temper tantrum and got mad online responding to comments
link?
Waffle House shooter was told to wear a mask, Colorado police say (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/waffle-house-shooter-was-told-wear-mask-colorado-police-say-n1210951)
QuoteAn arrest affidavit alleges suspect Kelvin Watson, 27, attempted to purchase takeout food when he was told by a cook that he could not order without a mask.
The suspect allegedly returned later that night with a mask, which he was not wearing, and was again turned away by the same cook. He then placed a gun on the counter and told the man, "I can blow your brains out right now," a witness told police, according to the affidavit.
He returned Friday, was rejected a third time, and slapped the cook before opening fire, the affidavit alleged.
The victim was running when he was shot in the chest or abdomen, the report says.
The suspect, described in the affidavit as a regular customer, was tracked down through witness descriptions and a 2013 BMW sedan people in the restaurant said the shooter used, police said in the affidavit.
No one could have foreseen that a BMW owner would be an entitled icehole and an idiot.
https://twitter.com/Toniob38/status/1263077278294163457
Quote from: General_Failure on May 20, 2020, 06:53:21 PM
Waffle House shooter was told to wear a mask, Colorado police say (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/waffle-house-shooter-was-told-wear-mask-colorado-police-say-n1210951)
QuoteAn arrest affidavit alleges suspect Kelvin Watson, 27, attempted to purchase takeout food when he was told by a cook that he could not order without a mask.
The suspect allegedly returned later that night with a mask, which he was not wearing, and was again turned away by the same cook. He then placed a gun on the counter and told the man, "I can blow your brains out right now," a witness told police, according to the affidavit.
He returned Friday, was rejected a third time, and slapped the cook before opening fire, the affidavit alleged.
The victim was running when he was shot in the chest or abdomen, the report says.
The suspect, described in the affidavit as a regular customer, was tracked down through witness descriptions and a 2013 BMW sedan people in the restaurant said the shooter used, police said in the affidavit.
No one could have foreseen that a BMW owner would be an entitled icehole and an idiot.
Probably didn't use his blinkers either. Lock him up!
welcome clarity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/21/virus-does-not-spread-easily-contaminated-surfaces-or-animals-revised-cdc-website-states/
I've been working at the office since this started. We've had WFH in place for most employees although that's ebbed as things have opened up a bit.
Anyway, I was talking with my colleague and we have not heard of a single co-worker in our entire department who's been ill. I'm not talking about with COVID either. I mean just sick with a cold.
It's the oddest thing. Obviously with fewer bodies around there's fewer germs but I think the intense adherence to social distancing and frequent hand-washing has been a great success for us.
We've been lucky too, no doubt, but if this nightmare has taught us anything, it's that hygiene and discreet distancing makes for a healthier workforce.
And if history has taught us anything, it's that our children(your children) will grow up to teach their children to swim in pig shtein.
MAGAt McTrumpers doing what they do
https://twitter.com/paulblume_fox9/status/1263970505482067968 21
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1263836535041994753
Congratulations to Brazil on the hard fought race to overtake the US. You can get there guys, just keep doing what you're doing.
I was recently stupifed to learn that Brazil is 90% the size of the U.S. Including Alaska.
The maps I've been seeing all my life make things look ... different than things really are.
They skew hard towards the northern hemisphere.
I tend to think the world didn't really exist until I did and won't after I go, and since I was born in CT, it's been rather nice to have maps that favor the Northern Hemisphere.
My tender ego is bruised by this revelation. I prefer life before it happened.
Yeah but don't forget we got Texas. That's supposed to be even more bigger than the US. and Brazil for sure.
CT is greater than TX
not larger, but greater
Chris Murphy is from CT.
Plus a chick I banged at Spring Break hailed from New Britain.
CT > TX
Quote from: Eagaholic on May 23, 2020, 07:58:11 AM
Yeah but don't forget we got Texas. That's supposed to be even more bigger than the US. and Brazil for sure.
Listen to the good ol boys here and they'll tell you "ain't no other countries. Just Texas. We don't need nobody else"
The feeling is mutual. They can have it.
I've heard some mind boggling stories over the years about Texas education, especially the teachings of Texas history. I guess it's easier to delete evolution theory when you are missing an opposable thumb.
Speaking of Texas:
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1263937751872868353
bleach cocktails afterwards?
But yeah driving through most of Texas sans the western panhandle and the southern border area, I can conclude it is mostly a barren wasteland of awful.
Even the diner food at the Midpoint Cafe was subpar compared to other diner food. The place itself was cool though. Austin was pretty cool too, though I wouldn't say it had anything that made me like it more than any other city tbh. The LBJ Presidential Library was great though.
Texas is just Australia, but with Mexicans instead of Indonesians.
Quote from: Munson on May 23, 2020, 02:16:21 PMAustin was pretty cool too, though I wouldn't say it had anything that made me like it more than any other city tbh. The LBJ Presidential Library was great though.
If Austin were in a civilized State, it would be nothing special, just another big college town with a lot of artists, etc. But since it's in Texas, everyone is crazy for it. I wasn't impressed.
Put St. Louis in the middle of Syria and it would seem fantastic, too.
Quote from: Diomedes on May 23, 2020, 02:16:00 PM
bleach cocktails afterwards?
Lol. I know trump doesn't like alcohol. Not sure if he realized or not that his choice of bleach as a disinfectant is a make everything whiter innuendo.
Roughly half the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers found (https://www.businessinsider.com/nearly-half-of-reopen-america-twitter-accounts-are-bots-report-2020-5)
QuoteCarnegie Mellon University researchers analyzed over 200 million tweets discussing COVID-19 and related issues since January and found that roughly half the accounts — including 62% of the 1,000 most influential retweeters — appeared to be bots, they said in a report published this week.
That's a far higher level of bot activity than usual, even when it comes to contentious events — the level of bot involvement in discussions about things like US elections or natural disasters is typically 10% to 20%.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/24/us/ozarks-missouri-party/index.html
Nice to know where the epicenter for the next avalanche of infections will be located.
https://twitter.com/sherrisantosmsn/status/1264686960309927937
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Despite our best efforts, Brazil has passed the US in daily corona deaths.
Welcome to the SD Memorial Thread. Where U.S. coronavirus cases are on the rise (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trends-graphic-idUSKBN2321WY)
QuoteTwenty U.S. states reported an increase in new cases of COVID-19 for the week ended May 24, up from 13 states in the prior week, as the death toll from the novel coronavirus approaches 100,000, according to a Reuters analysis.
South Carolina had the biggest weekly increase at 42%. Alabama's new cases rose 28% from the previous week, Missouri's rose 27% and North Carolina's rose 26%, according to the analysis of data from The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the outbreak.
New cases in Georgia, one of the first states to reopen, rose 21% after two weeks of declines. (Open tmsnrt.rs/2WTOZDR in an external browser for a Reuters interactive)
Nationally, new cases of COVID-19 fell 0.8% for the week ended May 24, compared with a decline of 8% in the prior week. All 50 states have now at least partially reopened, raising fears among some health officials of a second wave of outbreaks. The increase in cases could also be due to more testing.
It would be nice to know how much of the increase can be attributed to increased testing, and how much to relaxed public health protections.
Not every state reports shtein in a way that makes sense so hard to tell...but from what I can tell on North Carolina's website, looks to me like the big worry is their hospitalization rate has increased over the last 7-10 days.
It would also be nice to know real numbers and not some suppressed, edited and juked stats by MAGAT governors.
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1265976577898274817
The powers that be have decided you're not allowed to see what their economic forecasts say.
America just keeps getting greater, just take their word for it.
You guys were ready to stay home until next March, right? https://twitter.com/fox4kc/status/1266510972925153282
My sister is sick, presenting symptoms that could be The Covid. Free test available at local CVS, but it's paired with an app they ask you to install, which she does.
It spams her phone with ads and notifications.
farg you CVS.
All the best to your sis. Hopefully she recovers quickly.
CVS phone app is like one of their receipts. One little bit of info you need and 26" of pointless paper wasting shtein.
She's probably Covid negative...and very unlikely to get in trouble even if she's got it. Healthy non-smoker, etc.
I've only known one person to be positive so far...boomer male, non-smoker...so far, mild symptoms, but he's not out of the woods yet.
Test came back positive.
thinking about her dio
shes gonna be good
zesty. Hoping for the best.
Good luck homie
Oh god. Sorry Dio. Hope she's ok.
If your parents try to go see her, shoot them. It'll be less painful for them. And also good luck to her.
Y'all are kind afterall, thanks.
She's healthy and strong, will likely be okay. She's got health insurance and a network of friends and neighbors who can support her in quarantine. We're hopeful.
sorry man, hope shes gets better soon.
afraid that this second round is going to be much worse than the first in terms of numbers. DC has been surprisingly responsible in terms of social distancing and masks - until the last week.
May she beat it, and quickly.
Best wishes to her, Dio!
Check back in a coupe days Dio to let us know how she is coming along.
Sister started feeling poorly last Thursday, 5/28.
Got a free test via CVS on Friday, 5/29.
Positive result reported to her Monday, 6/1.
So far, she's been unable to speak to her/a doctor, despite having decent health insurance (Aetna). Nor has anyone contacted her about tracing out her contacts. She has no idea where she contracted the virus, and no officials have done any footwork to notify her contacts of their exposure. She's made her own efforts to let everyone know, of course.
She continues to suffer mild fever, general body aches, but is otherwise comfortable, etc.
Does she have a pulse ox monitor to keep an eye on her blood oxygen levels?
glad she's doing okay so far, dio. :yay
Negative, Munron. No breathing difficulty at all. I'll speak to her about it next time we chat.
State of CT did contact her late today, walked her through the few days of her life before she noticed symptoms, took down locations, names and numbers that she could provide, etc. So to be clear: they do have a contact tracing program in place in CT...and in this case it took about 60 hours between positive test and that process to commence.
Oh, one other note: participating in the contact tracing is optional. She was told that she did not have to answer questions, and that indeed a good number of Covid positive patients who are contacted refuse to cooperate.
Yay humans.
I was actually wondering that the other day - they can't make people provide that info. I imagine the covid patients who think its a government hoax are not very helpful in tracing.
Or who don't want to admit they were picking up runaway teens at the bus station bathroom.
One thing I don't understand yet is how they notify people of their proximity to a known case. They probably don't reveal the patient's identity, even when the person notified deduces it correctly. HIPAA rules. But of course, people will often know. I've read news bits about people being shunned in their communities after being sick. Surely some who decline to participate in the tracing regime do so for fear of being stigmatized and worse on account of having been sick alone, nevermind for getting caught out, or for being a snitch. Tricky business.
How is your sis now Dio? Sounds like she is around that symptomatic 10 day range from what you said. I think things start looking a bit brighter now if she hasn't gotten really acute yet. Not out of the woods of course, but optimistic.
She reports no change for better or worse. Low to mid grade fever comes and goes, and she's very tired. Test came back on her teenage step son, positive. He's totally asymptomatic. Result for her boyfriend/partner not back yet.
Her State Health Department case manager checks on her every day by text or phone. It took less than 24 hours for them to notify people she gave them info for.
Reading the stories about the people who are still having symptoms 60-90 days into the sickness are farging terrifying.
Quote from: Diomedes on June 07, 2020, 03:48:47 PM
She reports no change for better or worse. Low to mid grade fever comes and goes, and she's very tired. Test came back on her teenage step son, positive. He's totally asymptomatic. Result for her boyfriend/partner not back yet.
Her State Health Department case manager checks on her every day by text or phone. It took less than 24 hours for them to notify people she gave them info for.
That sounds encouraging all things considered, legit glass half full. Glad the state seems on top of it.
The daily check-ins from the Health Department have been regular. They want to know her temp, if symptoms have changed, and if today is worse, better, or the same as yesterday. So far not much change for her, so no follow up phone calls. Interesting that they aren't just running down her contact, but are also tracking her health. If you've got the virus and you don't have family members or friends checking on you regularly, that's probably a life saver for some.
It has the benefit of being research material.
one of my closest friends just got it...from his barber cause Black people care way too much about their hair....so far just super chills and feels weak...just got back from an IV at the hospital...he describes it as the super flu
Sorry to hear that. He lives in MD?
110k+ dead nationally, 400k+ dead globally
When was the last time we heard anything from the White Supremacy House about this?
Also - no one is bothering with masks or social distancing here anymore. shtein is gonna skyrocket.
They're still using them at stores here, at least, but there's way too many parties going on at people's houses. One of my neighbors had a yard sale last week. A couple of the older folks were wearing masks, but nobody else.
Went to the dentist this morning. Out comes a geriatric with a walker... no mask.
Fauci said last time he talked to Cheeto Dick was May 18th.
interesting: asymptomatic vs. presymptomatic...very different
Asymptomatic carriers are not spreading the disease much.
Pre-symptomatic people are.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-asymptomatic-expla-idUSKBN23A21S
Yeah the right wing idiots on my social media timelines already jumped all over that. Dumbasses don't know the difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic. And to be fair, the WHO once again does a bad job communicating.
"The WHO is intentionally misinforming us!"
- Trumpers
"Just socially distance the 35 kids in your classroom!"
https://twitter.com/TB_Times/status/1271121991504928768
If that's the plan, I'll keep my kids home thanks.
Yeah I expect that unless things get worse here again this summer that there gonna send us in full bore in the fall. Then someone will get sick in a few weeks and we'll get shut down again.
Quote from: Diomedes on June 11, 2020, 03:01:42 PM
If that's the plan, I'll keep my kids home thanks.
Hopefully, Maryland's governor isn't a full-out Trumper like DeSantis.
21 states are seeing huge increases.
Texas is one. Since they opened it back up the icu and hospital systems are getting overloaded. And tomorrow is when restaurants are allowed to go to 75%.
Our local officials hands are tied but they're still putting forth effort. Today the county judge, which is isn't a real judge (think commissioner) and whom the rednecks and racists like to demean bc shes a young Latina, introduced a threat level system to try to warn people. I applaud her and the mayors effort.
If kids start dying in droves because of this, those Republican motherfargers better arm themselves. That's all I have to say.
https://twitter.com/mollyjongfast/status/1271255485749121024
farging certifiable morons.
Big thanks to Trump and right wingers for politicizing public health. Good stuff.
My friend/colleague's daughter tested positive today. She was exhibiting no signs at all. She did a test to go back to work in the aerospace industry and clicked positive. She hasn't seen her daughter since last Tuesday but she's now under quarantine until next Friday.
Ugh. We are all getting this bug.
Brazil has overtaken the U.K. for second place in the death count, at just under 42k.
U.S. still leads all though, at almost 115k.
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
Austin and Houston are really spiking
Common denominator in UK, US and Brazil? Three idiots in Boris, Cheeto Dick and Bolsanaro.
If the USSR and North Korea were tracking they'd be up there too.
https://twitter.com/jimvertuno/status/1272958367846277126
It's okay J, it's just young people's fault for going to the bars they were told are open and totally safe and that we need to support our businesses to get the economy going again. Stupid young people.
yeah he's so full of shtein. Needs his colostomy bag emptied.
My sister tested negative a couple days ago, is awaiting results of second test to (practically speaking) rule out false negative. She's had no symptoms for a week now, but is still exhausted. Testing negative might mean you no longer have the virus, but it doesn't mean you are well, or recovered. I'm hopeful she takes it easy and doesn't try to shake the fatigue off by charging back into life, but grown ass people do what they do.
That's good that she's recovering. The exhaustion is the one thing that seems to be a constant in what I have read so perhaps that will keep her from going too hard too fast.
Within minutes of posting that, my boomer Mom wrote to ask if it's okay for my sister to touch my kids if she comes to visit....
*sigh*
No Mom, I don't think it's a good idea for the just-tested-negative Covid patient to drive 6+ hours to visit immuno-compromised elders, and hold children in her lap. No, I think that's probably unwise.
...I tell her that and I'm the farging bad guy again. This shtein is cruel.
I'm starting to wonder if the virus wasn't specifically created to kill old people for the reasons DIO cited above.
I mean seriously. No. It's not a good idea, DIOMOM. For farg's sake already. And I only say that because it's exactly what my mother would say if she were still alive.
You don't need to engineer a virus to kill old people, you just need to take warning labels off products.
We're all old enough now that we're watching/already watched our elderly parents get stupid. We say they're stubborn, or set in their ways, but no. They're just getting stupid. There's no stopping it, there's only giving them safety scissors and doing what we can to redirect them away from the bad decisions they want to make.
Month ago my cousin tells me my aunt tested positive for COVID, then they called her two days later and said they made a mistake. She kept having issues with her lungs but none of the doctors took it seriously. She went to an allergist to see if that was her issue, they send her for a chest x ray and come to find out she has lung cancer. She already beat breast cancer. Doesn't drink or smoke. Nicest person you'll ever meet.
Quote from: General_Failure on June 17, 2020, 11:37:19 PMWe're all old enough now that we're watching/already watched our elderly parents get stupid
That sinking feeling when you realize you're the grown-up in this conversation with the person who raised you....
Sinking further when you notice they are turning into your long dead grandparents, physically, tempermentally...
And the drowning feeling when you recognize it happening to yourself, can actually see yourself turning into your parents...the worst of it a ways off....but it's coming, unavoidable...repulsive.
Yeah...we're doing great.
Quote from: AO1 on June 19, 2020, 08:03:55 AM
Month ago my cousin tells me my aunt tested positive for COVID, then they called her two days later and said they made a mistake. She kept having issues with her lungs but none of the doctors took it seriously. She went to an allergist to see if that was her issue, they send her for a chest x ray and come to find out she has lung cancer. She already beat breast cancer. Doesn't drink or smoke. Nicest person you'll ever meet.
damn...thats rough. wishing her the best
Yeesh...yeah that's some zesty luck. Maybe the one time you're hoping it's Covid instead. Hopefully she can stay safe from covid now too, can't imagine lung cancer and covid together would go well
Quote from: AO1 on June 19, 2020, 08:03:55 AM
Month ago my cousin tells me my aunt tested positive for COVID, then they called her two days later and said they made a mistake. She kept having issues with her lungs but none of the doctors took it seriously. She went to an allergist to see if that was her issue, they send her for a chest x ray and come to find out she has lung cancer. She already beat breast cancer. Doesn't drink or smoke. Nicest person you'll ever meet.
Sorry to hear. Praying that she beats it.
I have spent my entire adult life trying not to become what my mother was at that age.
My dad died at 43, so I've got him beat.
My mother died at 76, so I've got 20 yrs left to avoid being an angry, selfish, abusive, racist bitch.
My dad also got a lung cancer diagnosis recently. He's had a rolle rcoaster the last five years with a brain tumor, a divorce, a fourth grand kid, and now a great grand kid, and right now he seems resigned to just let it happen and ride it out for as long as he's got.
My colleague with the daughter with Covid returned yesterday. I don't know what happened to her in the last two weeks but she went straight cray cray with the, "this is all a hoax" thing on me today because we may have to have to wear masks in the office.
I was literally staring at her in disbelief considering, you know, her child has the virus she's convinced is a hoax.
Get better friends, Rome.
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1274355082402955269
Death cult
no one talks to these cretins as well as that tall white dude with the beard from the Daily show...he kills it with them
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1274408516149751808
What a surprise!
Testing is for Hoydas.
Quote from: Munson on June 20, 2020, 12:38:23 PM
https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1274355082402955269
Death cult
Ignorant hillbilly dumbfargs
IT gets worse:
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1274466720120549376
Is this a suicide cult? Are they all going to drink cups of bleach?
Friends nephew graduated from Judge and him and a bunch of his friends rented out this place in wildwood. There were 40 people in their unit and 40 in the other unit. A few of them got sick, they all got tested and were positive for Covid. Parents had to pick them up. 80 people all tested positive.
Quote from: AO1 on June 21, 2020, 01:14:46 AM
Friends nephew graduated from Judge and him and a bunch of his friends rented out this place in wildwood. There were 40 people in their unit and 40 in the other unit. A few of them got sick, they all got tested and were positive for Covid. Parents had to pick them up. 80 people all tested positive.
Wait...
all 80 people there tested positive?
Florida is unofficially the new worldwide epicenter with 4,049 new cases just yesterday. We're quickly approaching 100,000 total cases and have soared over 3,000 deaths.
No one was wearing masks yesterday. The beaches, bars, restaurants and stores? All packed.
Governor Dickface is directly responsible for this.
Voting matters.
Brazil might have Florida beat for unofficial worldwide epicenter. Just saying.
It's not from a lack of trying, though.
People are just as stupid out here in Lancaster. Went to the store yesterday, half of these people aren't wearing masks, the other half aren't wearing them right. The only other customers I can remember wearing them right were a dad and his 8ish year old kid.
A lot more were wearing them yesterday. But a whole bunch must think that Covid comes in through the chin.
Just the first chin.
I blew my knee out last weekend. I haven't been anywhere but the office and the couch. I was stunned to see that yesterday. 4,049 positives is a terrifying number but even more scary is the median age of those infected. The same farging dumbasses going to bars and restaurants are the ones spreading it, and they couldn't care less.
I said a few weeks ago this will be an interesting case study in eugenics. Well here we are.
Quote from: Munson on June 21, 2020, 01:19:16 AM
Quote from: AO1 on June 21, 2020, 01:14:46 AM
Friends nephew graduated from Judge and him and a bunch of his friends rented out this place in wildwood. There were 40 people in their unit and 40 in the other unit. A few of them got sick, they all got tested and were positive for Covid. Parents had to pick them up. 80 people all tested positive.
Wait...all 80 people there tested positive?
Yes
I asked are you sure and he said yes both places are now empty and everyone there is home in quarantine. His nephew has no symptoms
Quote from: General_Failure on June 21, 2020, 09:25:22 AM
It's not from a lack of trying, though.
People are just as stupid out here in Lancaster. Went to the store yesterday, half of these people aren't wearing masks, the other half aren't wearing them right. The only other customers I can remember wearing them right were a dad and his 8ish year old kid.
You're not allowed in a store near me without a mask. Every store has a person at the entrance enforcing masks and there's now only one entrance.
There's someone at the door, but no one inside is saying anything because they're busy running registers or stocking shelves.
Quote from: AO1 on June 21, 2020, 11:11:32 AM
Quote from: Munson on June 21, 2020, 01:19:16 AM
Quote from: AO1 on June 21, 2020, 01:14:46 AM
Friends nephew graduated from Judge and him and a bunch of his friends rented out this place in wildwood. There were 40 people in their unit and 40 in the other unit. A few of them got sick, they all got tested and were positive for Covid. Parents had to pick them up. 80 people all tested positive.
Wait...all 80 people there tested positive?
Yes
I asked are you sure and he said yes both places are now empty and everyone there is home in quarantine. His nephew has no symptoms
Holy shtein. I wish they'd post that story in the papers, get people to pay more attention
I had an interesting chat today with an acquaintance who is a pathologist at a local teaching hospital. She performs autopsies. One of the comments she made was that she has found the virus in every organ. She might have actually said, routinely finds it in all organs, but I don't quite recall the exact words. It penetrates everywhere. Or whatever it does. I don't know the science of it. Point was, it's unusual. She also emphasized that it's not just old folks dying, said she initially had plenty of PPE because SARS was a lesson and she's kept a good stock on hand as a standing practice since then, but suffers occasional lack of supply for other things, like bleach. First I've heard that.
She's swamped with researchers, everyone working a lot, not taking vacations, etc.
Just ate at Texas Roadhouse. Outdoor seating only, tables were far apart, no masks required. Staff all had gloves and masks. Food took forever but it was nice eating at a restaurant and having some drinks again.
https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1275095890064261120
Quote from: Geowhizzer on June 22, 2020, 01:25:40 PM
https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1275095890064261120
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Juking the state is the GOP way.
On another note - I'm sitting in my truck waiting to be tested. Received a call this morning from a customer telling me they're shut down because they have four positive tests. One of which is a girl in their office who went home Thursday afternoon with symptoms and tested positive.
I was close to her desk while she was there.
I don't have symptoms (yet). I've been sitting here waiting going on four hours now.
5.5 hours total.
Waited two hours to have someone acknowledge me. That was done by me calling and saying I'd been sitting outside for two hours and I needed to come in to piss. They almost didn't allow me. But finally relented.
Took my license and insurance card and said they'd call me soon.
An hour later they called and read me the consent forms.
Said another person would call back and triage me.
Waited until about 4pm for that call. Then they assigned me a parking spot to wait in. They came out and took my temp and vitals and then had me blow my nose but not wipe it. Then they used the short swabs and crammed them in my nose.
Doc comes out a short while later and listened to my lungs and looked down my throat and said I'd hear back in 3-5 days. Used to be one day but since we are spiking it's crazy. He said they've had some serious cases come in lately.
Back two back days of 5000+ new cases.
Abbott is crab walking his way backwards. Still trying to appease the base but starting to realize, I think, that he farged up.
Yeah did I see that he asked people to stay home? Wonder how much longer before he goes full stay at home order
I've got mid July in the pool with friends.
Two weeks after the 4th. Rapidly increasing cases and then we will have the "but mah freedum" crowd out showing their patriotism on the 4th crowing about how the dirty libtards supported protesting but not out slamming Natty Lights and dogs on Murica's bday.
good luck man. do they still jam the swab into your brain through the nose or is there a better test yet?
Dickhole test...much less intrusive.
I know our state invested in the mouth swab tests. I haven't read anything about them being more or less accurate though
Quote from: phattymatty on June 24, 2020, 08:42:57 AM
good luck man. do they still jam the swab into your brain through the nose or is there a better test yet?
Thanks man
Still up the nose. But they gave me the short one and not the one that pokes the brain so I was thankful for that
Brain...lol.
I'm surrounded by the smell of warming horse shtein all day, every day, but boy am I glad to be out of Florida. https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1275854598146871296
5,511 positives today, so we got that going for us.
NY, NJ & CT: Floridians visiting there must self-quarantine for 14 days.
Goose. Gander. Whatnot.
The beach towns downstate here that people were in facebook comments of the towns a month ago screaming "we need to open up fully right now!" and claiming it was about saving small businesses....well, It's been 24 days since we started Phase 1 and moved into Phase 2, and already 3 of the restaurants are closing back down to take out only voluntarily because the people down there aren't taking precautions nearly at all, especially on weekend nights.
Of course, the "we care about the small business!" crowd is also the not wearing masks crowd and judging from what I see in the comments today...well, they're proving it was definitely about their worry for small businesses and not at all their own selfish want to have people serve them food and drinks whenever they want ::)
This virus and the GOP corksuckers who politicized this or stood by nutless and spineless as others in their party politicized it can farg off. They've turned this into a true clown show.
This is embarrassing. There's too many to name but I'm sick of it already.
We have a lot of dumbfargs living amongst us.
You can always count of Florida to make a bad situation worse.
I'm waiting for the first instance of someone shooting a guy and then claiming to stand your ground because the said guy wasn't wearing a mask.
Add in some bath salts, and that would be the perfect Florida situation.
Phreak...you might wanna get out of Texas.
If the 'Rona doesn't get me, trying to mow in 112 heat index will.
Quote from: Munson on June 25, 2020, 12:20:02 PM
Phreak...you might wanna get out of Texas.
been telling this cat this for years
I tried moving to Austin once - surrounded by nice liberals in the core but 10 min outside of town and it was already back to gross texas.
only lasted a month - the heat and the need to drive a car everywhere were my main cons.
Florida hit 9,000 new cases in a single day. That's some commitment right there.
DeSantis closed the bars today. For some reason, no big press conference about it...
Is he still demanding apologies and praise like he was a month ago? Lol
https://twitter.com/capgaznews/status/1276477061515956224
He won't help the Health Department fight the virus, but he will expect to be given a bed in ICU if he needs one.
The party of personal responsibility.
Quote from: Munson on June 25, 2020, 12:20:02 PM
Phreak...you might wanna get out of Texas.
Our local govt has tried again to lobby for a stay at home but Abbott won't let them. All the while he's walking back his openings by shutting things down. It's so stupid.
So all the locals can do is suggest people stay home.
I'm still waiting for my test results. Hope to hear by tomorrow.
Last trip tot he store was basically no customer except me wearing a mask. Neighbors are all having garage sales this weekend, so they're getting all up on each other to sift through 2002's hottest fashions.
In Baltimore, masks are everywhere. Some piss poor discipline about them on the street, but no one is allowed inside anywhere without wearing one, and compliance hasn't been an issue to speak of.
Johns Hopkins reporting more than 125,000 dead in U.S.
I think the 9,000 figure scared some mouth breathers here yesterday.
They finally instituted mandatory masks inside govt bldgs.
OTOH I went to CVS (place where sick people tend to appear) and I was the only customer wearing a mask. I got the usual look from some old dumbass, and I politely said, "yep I'm wearing a mask to protect people like you." I think I startled him because he just shuffled off.
The woman at the register actually said thanks to me quietly when I was checking out.
I went through the chic fil a drive through yesterday. I noticed most people pulling up to get their orders weren't wearing masks. I never wear a mask when I drive but ones always in my car. When I pulled up to get my order I threw my mask on. The store manager and asst manager were at the window (first time I've ever seen that), they both said thank you for wearing your mask when getting your order and gave me a gift card for a free sandwich.
I haven't been wearing a mask while walking my dog since this is a rural area and I don't have to deal with other people walking very much. This morning I had to slalom through a street full of old people with no masks waddling up to rummage through a garage sale. Thankfully my dog is a deaf idiot who wants to bark and lunge at everyone, so I had plenty of space, but man.
9,600-plus today. That's half the occupancy of a hockey arena. So in two days an entire arena filled to capacity tested positive here.
It's not even mind-numbing at this point. It's just a matter of time before we catch it. It's unavoidable.
The WWE brought fans in for the last taping in Orlando, yelled at them to take their masks off, and had 30 employees test positive afterwards.
I've been laid up with a farged up knee. Work and home only. Doctor on Thursday, MRI next week etc. Advanced degenerative Arthritis was his diagnosis actually.
Anyway, a friend of mine was in town from Fort Lauderdale last weekend. He asked me to go have a couple beers with him last Friday night. Couldn't make it because of the knee.
He called me a little while ago. He's got the COVID. Figures he got it last weekend at the outside bar. He has asthma and a host of other non life-threatening health issues. He called me to apologize for being stupid and almost getting me sick (he knows my wife's health issues). I'm like, dude... just get better.
He's got a low grade fever and aches but that's it so far. His wife is an RN, so she's keeping a close eye on him. Scary farging times, everyone. You never know...
His wife is a nurse and he still went out to the bar?
Nurses aren't all hip to science and husbands don't all listen to their wives.
Quote from: General_Failure on June 27, 2020, 09:26:54 PM
His wife is a nurse and he still went out to the bar?
Yes. She's rich, though. Daddy left her a bundle.
Rich people don't get sick from the "flu," silly.
Quote from: Diomedes on June 27, 2020, 09:40:33 PM
husbands don't all listen to their wives.
Wait, what?
farg the drug cartels. farg them right in the ass.
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1277568895973560320
Donated blood Monday, Red Cross is now testing blood donations for COVID (I'm negative). Only took a few days to get results back. Anyway free test if anyone is interested. I really thought I had it in February when we got back from Disney but nope.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on June 29, 2020, 03:45:09 PM
farg the drug cartels. farg them right in the ass.
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1277568895973560320
Wow
That's the cost of two stimulus payments. I hope you guys saved yours.
Holy shtein this San Diego Karen bitch is batshtein crazy (Trumper/anti Vaxxer/whites are the most discriminated race etc.). Someone started a gofundme for the Starbucks barista and it's almost up to $100k
https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/amber-lynn-gilles-san-diego-karen/
Here's her fb profile she's full blown wacko
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=601056948
She doesn't know the difference between your and you're.
I deal with enough stupid people in real life. I'll pass on engaging that turnip.
Maybe I'll freak out one day and get a six figure gofundme.
Someone film me watching the Phillies
Start a reaction youtube channel, ham it up, and reap the benefits.
people have to stop giving these anti vaxxers a platform
this is like a contest or a game theyre playing. they are going maskless into places and throwing temper tantrums on purpose with little to no provocation to see who can get like the biggest reaction or something. its a weird in person troll these white women are doing
There's some New York dudes on IG who narrate fights and whatnot...they're good. I aspire to be at that level.
Quote from: General_Failure on June 29, 2020, 09:18:44 PM
Start a reaction youtube channel, ham it up, and reap the benefits.
Literally the easiest money grift right now is pretend to be a former left winger who realized "the truth" that "they didn't want you to know", and now you're hear to expose the hypocrisy of the liberal elite. Dave Rubin, Candace Owens, etc....it's easy money. Definitely bonus points if you're not white too.
For anyone keeping track, it's been a couple weeks since my sister got two negative coronavirus results.
She returned to work slowly, suffering from fatigue, but was doing well.
Then early Teusday morning, she went to work (literally, time to make (https://youtu.be/BwSdXbkflV0) the doughnuts at her shop), and three hours later found herself standing at her own front door, confusedly trying to operate the latch. No recollection of leaving work...no car. She walked home, abandoning the shop unlocked, etc.
Off to ER, suspected stroke, possibly Covid related. That has not been ruled out, but while scanning, they found a mass in her brain. It has to come out soon, if not immediately...we're waiting for more tests.....one of which came in late yeserday afternoon...a positive for Covid19.
So, she's now in her third day at the hospital, the first in ICU, the second on a Covid ward. They're hoping it's a false positive, getting more tests, etc. Don't know that the colloid mass in her brain is the cause of the fugue state episode, or if it was exhaustion/covid related. She's alone, scared....can't read well because of extreme learning disability....my hot nurse wife is her lifeline, but she's a full time grad student and full time working nurse, in MD not CT, etc...
It's a fargin' mess.
Quote from: AO1 on June 29, 2020, 04:17:57 PM
Donated blood Monday, Red Cross is now testing blood donations for COVID (I'm negative). Only took a few days to get results back. Anyway free test if anyone is interested. I really thought I had it in February when we got back from Disney but nope.
would their test show if you've already had it (vs currently have it)? just curious.
Quote from: hunt on July 01, 2020, 10:07:15 AM
Quote from: AO1 on June 29, 2020, 04:17:57 PM
Donated blood Monday, Red Cross is now testing blood donations for COVID (I'm negative). Only took a few days to get results back. Anyway free test if anyone is interested. I really thought I had it in February when we got back from Disney but nope.
would their test show if you've already had it (vs currently have it)? just curious.
Yes
QuoteWhat Does My Test Result Mean?
A positive test result indicates that you may have had a previous exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19 and your body has developed specific antibodies to the virus, regardless of whether you developed symptoms. A positive antibody test does not confirm infection or immunity. It is currently unknown whether the presence of COVID-19 antibodies will provide immunity to future infection, although this has been shown to be the case in similar viruses for a period of time. If your test result is positive, the Red Cross may contact you to request additional information and conduct further testing as part of a research study. If additional testing occurs, you will be notified of the results by mail.
A negative test result means that you probably have not been exposed to COVID-19 and therefore have not developed antibodies to the virus. It also could indicate that antibodies are present but at levels below the test's threshold for detection, or that the test did not recognize those antibodies. It is possible that you can still contract the virus, if exposed. It takes one to three weeks after an infection for antibodies to be present.
Damn, Dio... I'm sorry.
May the doctors find the answers your sister (and your family) needs, and quickly.
Hospital is telling her that the recent COVID positive test is in fact a result of damaged cells shedding, and they do not consider it a recurrence of the virus, it does not subject her to a requirement to be quarantined again, etc. Although they cannot state with certainty that she is not contagious, they report that there is no evidence that someone who has recovered has subsequently communicated the virus to anyone else, so they are operating under the assumption that it does not. Even to the point that their own staff, recovered from COVID with two negative tests, and returned to work after proper quarantine, have had similar positive tests, and they are not sent home.
As for the mass in her brain, and the zombie episode, we have more to learn, don't know if they are related to each other or not, or to COVID or not, etc. A lot of unknowns.
That's a whole lot of mess to deal with at any time, let alone now. Good luck to you guys.
Jfc Dio that's terrible. And scary. Hard to believe it wouldn't be covid related with all the reports of blood clots and strokes and etc. Hope she pulls through man.
Good God, Dio. Hang in there and my best to your sister too.
Thanks. I've got it easy, really. I feel terribly for my sister, who is alone and scared...and also for my wife, who is carrying a heavy load with grace and strength.
https://twitter.com/EW/status/1278471001546919936
We didn't have Corona in the 90s, but I'm willing to bet there's a huge overlap between the people who won't wear masks for this and people who wouldn't have touched someone with HIV/AIDS in the 80s.
Quote from: Diomedes on July 01, 2020, 09:27:34 AM
For anyone keeping track, it's been a couple weeks since my sister got two negative coronavirus results.
She returned to work slowly, suffering from fatigue, but was doing well.
Then early Teusday morning, she went to work (literally, time to make (https://youtu.be/BwSdXbkflV0) the doughnuts at her shop), and three hours later found herself standing at her own front door, confusedly trying to operate the latch. No recollection of leaving work...no car. She walked home, abandoning the shop unlocked, etc.
Off to ER, suspected stroke, possibly Covid related. That has not been ruled out, but while scanning, they found a mass in her brain. It has to come out soon, if not immediately...we're waiting for more tests.....one of which came in late yeserday afternoon...a positive for Covid19.
So, she's now in her third day at the hospital, the first in ICU, the second on a Covid ward. They're hoping it's a false positive, getting more tests, etc. Don't know that the colloid mass in her brain is the cause of the fugue state episode, or if it was exhaustion/covid related. She's alone, scared....can't read well because of extreme learning disability....my hot nurse wife is her lifeline, but she's a full time grad student and full time working nurse, in MD not CT, etc...
It's a fargin' mess.
Oh no. Damn. I'm sorry. Wishing her all the best man.
What the ever-loving farg?
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1278430344392388611
could say its alabama what do you expect but its just the utter and complete idiocy of zoomers
i feel rightfully old complaining about the younger generation but jesus christ these tik tok teens
https://twitter.com/thesarahkelly/status/1278427592824102915
I read that tweet yesterday. The amount of shtein that woman takes from the Neanderthals out there is just incredible.
As for the Alabama iceholes COVIDing each other, they should just be systematically sterilized because there's no therapy or counseling or educating that kind of stupidity out of them. Just line em up and give them the needle.
Florida keeps winning, and has now broken the unbelievable mark of 10,000 cases in a single day.
Quote from: General_Failure on July 02, 2020, 09:22:00 PM
Florida keeps winning, and has now broken the unbelievable mark of 10,000 cases in a single day.
BUTTDAPROTESTORS!!!1!!!
romey my homey and geo the morman dont leave your homes
Abbott made masks mandatory today. First time you're caught without one it's a warning and then each other time thereafter is a $250 fine.
The zesty beaches in Galveston are closed this weekend too. And no gatherings greater than 10.
I'm sure it made for a great press conference, but who's enforcing it?
A last update on my sister's situation:.
The growing consensus: her episode was not related to the mass they found in her brain. It is there, it does probably have to come out, though not urgently, but her zombie experience was almost certainly not related to the growth in her brain. The symptoms just don't match.
They are putting the episode on either Covid directly, as some kind of neurological problem, or on Covid indirectly, as a consequence of going back to normal activity before proper rest and recovery. In truth, they don't know what happened, and don't know enough about Covid to positively state one way or another whether her bout with the disease is related to her fugue state blackout.
The moral of the story appears to be: don't get Covid19.
DeSantis STILL won't take measures to stop the spread of this vicious monster. The farging beaches are still open. I mean just farging wow.
Voting has consequences. This would be one of them.
And it's back to work then home then rinse then repeat for me. Been that was for a few weeks actually.
So far me and mine have lucked out. I felt like shtein on Wednesday and woke up with aches especially in my lower back, but that's eased up a bit now. Still no fever or classic signs, but when there's this much rampant spread going on around you, every little thing makes you wonder.
Quote from: General_Failure on July 03, 2020, 12:08:25 AM
I'm sure it made for a great press conference, but who's enforcing it?
Well I know it won't be HPD bc their little weasel union leader refused to enforce it last time
Quote from: Diomedes on July 03, 2020, 08:57:05 AM
A last update on my sister's situation:.
The growing consensus: her episode was not related to the mass they found in her brain. It is there, it does probably have to come out, though not urgently, but her zombie experience was almost certainly not related to the growth in her brain. The symptoms just don't match.
They are putting the episode on either Covid directly, as some kind of neurological problem, or on Covid indirectly, as a consequence of going back to normal activity before proper rest and recovery. In truth, they don't know what happened, and don't know enough about Covid to positively state one way or another whether her bout with the disease is related to her fugue state blackout.
The moral of the story appears to be: don't get Covid19.
Glad that the mass doesn't have to be removed urgently. Hopefully it's a benign deal where once out there's no lasting impact.
I read a story in the WaPo about what pathologists are seeing in bodies they examine. The thing that stuck with me is this seems to be very similar to dengue fever.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/01/coronavirus-autopsies-findings/%3foutputType=amp
Quote from: Rome on July 03, 2020, 09:14:57 AM
DeSantis STILL won't take measures to stop the spread of this vicious monster. The farging beaches are still open. I mean just farging wow.
Voting has consequences. This would be one of them.
And it's back to work then home then rinse then repeat for me. Been that was for a few weeks actually.
So far me and mine have lucked out. I felt like shtein on Wednesday and woke up with aches especially in my lower back, but that's eased up a bit now. Still no fever or classic signs, but when there's this much rampant spread going on around you, every little thing makes you wonder.
DeSantis is going down with Cheeto Dick
We're stuck with him for a while, as the next gubernatorial election is 2022. No recall in Florida for governor.
farg.
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Good news for him, anyone who cares will be dead from this by then. He'll win 7 votes to 5 against an Alligator named Gus-Gus.
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1279036566791426048
Get take out.
learn how to cook lazy sons of bitches
Excuse me, Dio, but my freedom to eat a microwaved bag of shrimp scampi at the Olive Garden outweighs the lives of your children.
My kids, sure. They don't weigh much yet....maybe I should be pouring fast casual down their throats, instead of fresh pan-sauteed collards with onions, and salmon-mushroom casserole (last night's dinner).
We cook dinner almost every night and have done since they were born. Hard to believe how much people eat out.
I get tired of having to cook every night, but not cooking usually means throwing some frozen pizzas in the oven.
https://twitter.com/platini954/status/1279038342596890624
Normally you have to pay an idiot like five bucks to lick a door on film
https://twitter.com/danioliver/status/1279155358666305541
Absolutely terrifying to think about, I want nothing to do with this disease.
11,445 new cases today. I went out to Ace Hardware to pick up something this morning. Most people were at least wearing masks. Not everyone. It's old people who are mostly ignoring the requests. I can't understand why it's not mandatory but ok. Everyone I know is scared and beyond raging at this right now. Our governor has basically thrown his hands up and said farg it and his minions are following him off the cliff.
Seriously. No exaggeration if I had the money I would leave here and never look back.
We got us a case of the bubonic plague in Mongolia now.
Without going into still another update about someone you don't know...this thing sucks.
My family is suffering. Please be careful y'all.
Hang in there, Dio.
Just told my mother that we were not going to visit her this summer due to Covid. Went better than I expected - I really thought she'd protest. I just couldn't live with myself if we brought it to her - she has COPD and a pacemaker.
I lost a friend to this farging nightmare this weekend. She didn't die. She's not even sick. I cut loose on her because she's a willfully ignorant dumbass who made one too many stupid remarks.
All over her adamantly refusing to wear a mask because the iceholes she listens to on Facebook told her she would die from wearing one.
Amazing.
One less Christmas card I'll have to buy, I guess.
lol at dying from wearing a mask. Dumbshtein.
Look...its hot here. Especially these last few days with the humidity. And yes the masks make it hotter. I pour sweat when wearing one outside. But JFC its a small sacrifice.
It's amazing how many doctors we go through every year because they keep dying to their masks.
we skipped my brother's 4th of july cookout after finding out he invited friends (in addition to family). of course, my mother still went...and goes to stores, restaurants, & everything else like covid-19 isn't even happening.
10,000 farging positives A DAY(!) and I still have people in my life arguing it's a hoax.
Most of them aren't friends. They're colleagues and acquaintances, but still, that's more taxing to me than the actual threat of the virus. We have few close friends as it is here and most of them have been really disappointing through this.
Wherever, though. Stick with your loved ones. You can always make better friends.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1280198836397506566
That's the county I teach in. Woo.
Florida's Education Commissioner issued an order today. All schools fully open beginning in August.
https://twitter.com/CBSMiami/status/1280306194549219330
Quote from: Munson on July 06, 2020, 03:58:29 PM
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1280198836397506566
Oh my god. Lock the mother up. Like I mentioned in the DeSean thread; the world has gone mad.
One of my customers told me his experience today. Spent three weeks in bed. Fever, fatigue like he never experienced before, loss of taste and smell, urges to vomit, etc.
I've come to some minor acceptance that I'm going to get it. It's too rampant to not. I can't lock myself inside so the best I can do it increase my distancing and sanitizing. I just hope that my, OT what I believe to be, rock solid immune system shuns it. I don't get sick. I used to maybe get a cold a year if that. I've had the full blown flu once back in 2008.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on July 07, 2020, 12:01:44 AM
Florida's Education Commissioner issued an order today. All schools fully open beginning in August.
https://twitter.com/CBSMiami/status/1280306194549219330
DeSantis must hve seen that coronavirus party story and decided "hey, what if we have coronavirus parties with two thousand kids at a time, all over the state?!"
Don't worry guys, you'll only be at risk for a couple of weeks before a couple thousand kids and adults get it and you're all sent home again.
Quote from: General_Failure on July 07, 2020, 09:54:30 AM
Don't worry guys, you'll only be at risk for a couple of weeks before a couple thousand kids and adults get it and you're all sent home again.
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Quote from: General_Failure on July 07, 2020, 09:54:30 AM
Don't worry guys, you'll only be at risk for a couple of weeks before a couple thousand kids and adults get it and you're all sent home again.
Trying to tell parents who are insistent schools go back in the fall around here that this is by far the most likely scenario and their kids are gonna end up at home anyway has been great.
I don't usually solicit parenting advice because my kid is only 1, especially to parents of school age kids, but...is it out of line to say that most of these parents just don't want to put in the month or two of work it would require to get their kids to take at home school seriously? Obviously for poorer parents there are some differences but most of the whining I'm seeing are from middle class White parents who just dont want to deal with being the "bad guy" and taking away their kid's games and iPads and etc for a few weeks until their kids learn to sit their ass down in front of their computer and attend their teacher's zooms and do the work just like you would in class.
They'd all much rather just sacrifice a few teachers (and possibly students?) lives for a few weeks of peace before their kid is back home again and not at all prepared to get the most out of at home
Learning because their parents didn't bother preparing them for it.
Our district is rumored to be releasing a plan next week I think.
Let us know what color crayon the plan is written in.
Lol might as well be considering it'll probably have to be scrapped by September anyway the way our cases are growing here.
https://twitter.com/shattered_earth/status/1280373218369392641
:boom
Most of the parents just see the need to get back to work to pay the mounting bills.
Also, it would take nothing less than a complete and total catastrophe for the state of Florida to shut down the schools again. This is a hill that DeSantis is willing (for citizens) to die on.
He's gone full Lord Farquaad.
My kids had between one and two hours of zoom based class each day until school was out. They did well in it, I've since learned that our school really has done better than most. My almost 8 year old daughter is Title One, getting 10 hours zoom instruction per week. She calls it her meeting and is kicking ass. I think we're lucky.
But if the kids can't go to school, I can't work. That's not just a stress on income, it's a stress on family life.
I am not a teacher. Not my training, not my skills.
Your kid's whining is annoying; my own kids' whining makes me want to stab eyeballs out.
I'm desperate to not have them all day every day, to go work again, etc.
You may in fact just have a bunch of shallow worthless people but I think it's safe to say that this home schooling is real trouble in many homes.
I honestly can't say that we're leaning one way or the other right now, depending what plan is announced,and how things go in near future.
Quote from: Munson on July 07, 2020, 03:33:25 PM
Lol might as well be considering it'll probably have to be scrapped by September anyway the way our cases are growing here.
https://twitter.com/shattered_earth/status/1280373218369392641
:boom
Saw a few people boasting about this on FB.
Between that and the ignorant jerks who wear them wrong on purpose - they can all farg off.
If PA implements a 14 day quarantine I'm not going to be able to come home for my grandmothers funeral. She's in bad shape right now.
Quote from: Diomedes on July 07, 2020, 06:44:13 PM
My kids had between one and two hours of zoom based class each day until school was out. They did well in it, I've since learned that our school really has done better than most. My almost 8 year old daughter is Title One, getting 10 hours zoom instruction per week. She calls it her meeting and is kicking ass. I think we're lucky.
But if the kids can't go to school, I can't work. That's not just a stress on income, it's a stress on family life.
I am not a teacher. Not my training, not my skills.
Your kid's whining is annoying; my own kids' whining makes me want to stab eyeballs out.
I'm desperate to not have them all day every day, to go work again, etc.
You may in fact just have a bunch of shallow worthless people but I think it's safe to say that this home schooling is real trouble in many homes.
I honestly can't say that we're leaning one way or the other right now, depending what plan is announced,and how things go in near future.
That's a good summary of what many are facing. Hell, my wife and I are both teachers, our kids are teens and fairly self-motivated, and we still had trouble keeping up with everything. Of course, middle school US History and High School Honors Chemistry are two entirely different things.
There is a legitimate need for most families to get to work. Without some sort of safety net, they are on the precipice of economic disaster. Of course, the problem is that we are far from being done with Covid.
My wife's school is fairly small, and they can reasonably retain social distancing. My school is a large public middle school, and we'll be hard-pressed to maintain that, especially since I am certain that the state will not allow us to mandate masks.
Florida does have a virtual option, and I guess a few more families will take advantage of that. But I believe firmly that the vast majority will keep things as-is, and I'll be looking at 30+ in my class.
We've got hard decisions to make. And I can't blame families for doing what they need to do. The system has failed farging spectacularly in this entire sordid affair. And I am afraid that the final tragedy is only beginning to unfold.
I understand the financial aspect of it and that's almost definitely the biggest problem. It's also the one that's easiest to solve if the government wasn't totally crippled by conservative idiocy. Send people checks to stay at home.
It should be happening now, instead it'll maybe happen in late September after a few teachers and students die and teachers start refusing to go to work.
https://twitter.com/charlesornstein/status/1280902751233421312
Depressing
Yikes.
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1281424163891224577
Absolutely terrifying.
The mouth breathers who spout the "its just the flu" or "but the death rate!"...they fail to factor in the long lasting effects.
My zip code and the two surrounding are the highest in this area. Its chock full of the "mah freedom" types and the money folks who think that being confined to their 5000sqft houses is oppressive.
https://twitter.com/charlesornstein/status/1281653807433150464
fan-farging-tastic.
We had a pop up hospital built in the NRG parking lot but it was dismantled. Time to get that mofo back up.
I should note it was dismantled when things were on lockdown and we had staved off the explosion of cases.
In the next step into our boring dystopia, I've been seeing these weird ads intending to be inspiring about the Army Core of Engineers building hospitals for the overwhelming number of people getting sick..
https://twitter.com/CarlosGSmith/status/1281699379422941184
Quote from: General_Failure on July 10, 2020, 03:23:10 PM
In the next step into our boring dystopia, I've been seeing these weird ads intending to be inspiring about the Army Core of Engineers building hospitals for the overwhelming number of people getting sick..
Lol yeah it's inspiring to have to build them bc Dr Cheeto Dick said this was all going away
https://twitter.com/fritschner/status/1282091215463354373
Who knew MAGA would come to mean Making Americans Gasp for Air?
https://twitter.com/jmartnyt/status/1282307509953470465
Just normal pandemic response stuff, sending out oppo research on your top infectious disease expert
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/nyregion/lorna-breen-suicide-coronavirus.html#click=https://t.co/Bht7PkXW2J
Sad article.
A coworker texted tonight that three ladies in his family died this weekend from the virus. Age range was 45-67.
Is there any way you can work from home Phreak? I'd be demanding it at this point. Ridiculous.
https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1282462242378706946
Seriously, farg these people.
This is what we have become...a nation full of dumb farging idiots.
https://twitter.com/nbits60/status/1282035541903577090
Anyone identified at one of these stupid things should be denied medical attention.
Agreed.
Go to one of these or one of those dumb farging COVID parties? No medical care.
The "they're just doing this to hurt Trump" crowd are a special breed. Yes it's a global conspiracy to take down Trump you farging imbeciles.
When this first started the Trump nuts on my fb would ask mockingly "do you know anyone that actually has COVID" a bunch of Trump nuts (to their credit) actually chimed in to say yes and they're not doing well. The Trump nuts would then act like they were just asking and would walk back their mocking.
That's morphed into "do you know anyone who's actually died from COVID, to which they're getting overwhelming responses of yes with people tagging deceased people. You really can't make this shtein up.
Quote from: AO1 on July 13, 2020, 03:14:47 PM
The "they're just doing this to hurt Trump" crowd are a special breed. Yes it's a global conspiracy to take down Trump you farging imbeciles.
When this first started the Trump nuts on my fb would ask mockingly "do you know anyone that actually has COVID" a bunch of Trump nuts (to their credit) actually chimed in to say yes and they're not doing well. The Trump nuts would then act like they were just asking and would walk back their mocking.
That's morphed into "do you know anyone who's actually died from COVID, to which they're getting overwhelming responses of yes with people tagging deceased people. You really can't make this shtein up.
Oh yeah the talking points and "lol gotcha" points have moved.
Its the just the flu!
But do you know anyone who actually has it?!
Can't ruin the economy you dumb marxist libruhl
Shut downs don't work!
But mah freedum! I ain't wearing no mask.
But does xxxxx have underlying medical conditions?!
So their current reason is an actual death panel, then. Who could have guessed that?
They did!*
*when railing against Obamacare
on cbs evening news last night they were interviewing a nurse at a hospital where a 25 year old died of the rona after going to one of the rona parties...he also was a rona hoaxer
she said his very last words to the ICU nurses before he died was "i think i made a big mistake"
I've read that survivors of suicide attempts from the Golden Gate bridge report the same thought being the last thing they remember after jumping
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 14, 2020, 08:43:59 AM
on cbs evening news last night they were interviewing a nurse at a hospital where a 25 year old died of the rona after going to one of the rona parties...he also was a rona hoaxer
she said his very last words to the ICU nurses before he died was "i think i made a big mistake"
Yep - in San Antonio.
https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1282335498380414976
USA! USA! USA!
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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1283137964072005632
Heyyy, farg you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/14/need-some-good-news-about-covid-19-here-are-six-reasons-optimism/?hpid=hp_opinions-for-wide-side_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
I'll take some good news thank you.
https://gothamist.com/news/dispatch-morgue-truck-worker-coronavirus-covid-nyc
Jesus
i have not been to a walmart or target in years but how have they not required facemasks until this week. my grocery store has required them since march. i just assumed that was standard practice wtf.
Georgia's governor has banned local governments from making masks manditory.
Quote from: phattymatty on July 16, 2020, 11:11:45 AMi just assumed that was standard practice wtf.
You live in civilized bubble by comparison to most of America. Have you not been reading that even in PA,
Big Brother reports being the only person in the grocery store wearing a mask, or the comments coming from our :CF correspondents in FL and TX?
I avoid WalMart like mds avoids common sports sense
However...I cannot wait for the videos of the southern states mouthbreathers screaming they cannot get their Diet Dr Thunder and Ol Roy dog food without a mask.
Quote from: General_Failure on July 16, 2020, 11:18:42 AM
Georgia's governor has banned local governments from making masks manditory.
I feel like him and DeSantis are having a fleshpop-measuring contest. Of course, they're both coming up short. iceholes.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 16, 2020, 11:32:13 AMI avoid WalMart like mds avoids common sports sense
I'll take this opportunity to state a point-of-pride fact:
I have never spent a dime at Wal Mart.
https://twitter.com/AllanBell247/status/1283767677195091968
Dade & Broward are horror shows right now. My buddy's wife is an RN and walked out last week.
They were issuing substandard PPE, refused to upgrade it, so she said farg you and walked out. She's not the only one either.
Florida is a nightmare right now.
Bigger nightmare, at least.
Kemp should be arrested and charged with negligent homicide. Same goes for DeSantis. His inaction is beyond criminal imo.
that dumbfarg chuck woolery deleted his twitter account after announcing that his son tested positive for covid-19.
Quote from: hunt on July 16, 2020, 03:58:01 PM
that dumbfarg chuck woolery deleted his twitter account after announcing that his son tested positive for covid-19.
He'll be back in 2 and 2.
i get the reference and i want to slit my wrists
Quote from: MDS on July 16, 2020, 09:02:30 PM
i get the reference and i want to slit my wrists
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1284145844871200768
Can't read the article, but if I zoom in I think I'm in one of the dark areas.
Johns Hopkins count pushing 140k dead in United States
And yet the government is sprinting away from acting or even hardly acknowledging it. Unless Bimbo Barbie is on the podium lying about how great their response is.
Or worse: Activtely fighting
against our interests in dealing with this disease.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1284596072330002434
Quote from: WaPo ExcerptThe Trump administration is trying to block billions of dollars for states to conduct testing and contact tracing in the upcoming coronavirus relief bill, people involved in the talks said Saturday.
The administration is also trying to block billions of dollars that GOP senators want to allocate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and billions more for the Pentagon and State Department to address the pandemic at home and abroad, the people said.
well this is pretty terrifying
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-doctor-reinfected-with-coronavirus-3-months-after-recovering-635550
Have heard mumblings of anti-body effectiveness being short lived. Not happy to read about these cases.
Going grocery shopping with these people has turned me into a huge icehole. Before all this, I was polite to a fault and did my best to stay out of everyone else's way. Forget all that, I have no patience for people anymore. I've got things to do and I'm tired of old people breathing near me.
You and your old friend Gertrude sitting in the middle of the aisle catching up? Beep beep, I've got a cart full of dog food and I'm not stopping. Trying to come into the aisle that's marked one way from the wrong way because you're not taking anything seriously? Don't care, fargin' move. I slalomed through the aisles, you can too. You're behind me in line with just a couple of things? Sucks to be you, put you mask on idiot. There's one item left on the shelf and we both want it? I will fight you and your ugly child.
The Covid done broke GF!
QuoteFlorida alone was seeing more new infections a week than China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Australia, and the European Union combined.
QuoteAfter Dr. Nancy Messonnier, a top CDC official, told reporters in February that the coronavirus would spread in the U.S., Trump threatened to fire her. (Messonnier briefly became a hate figure on conservative talk shows, owing in part to the odd coincidence that her brother is former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein.) Messonnier retained her job but stopped speaking publicly. Dr. Rick Bright was not so lucky and was forced out of his role running the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which works on vaccines.
A quarter to a third of the public already does not intend to take a vaccine when it becomes available.
Some of these episodes played out clumsily. When CDC director Robert Redfield predicted a second wave of coronavirus infections in the fall, Trump marched him before the cameras. Redfield stood at the pressroom podium, Trump glowering nearby, trying to quibble with the headline his interview had produced. Dr. Deborah Birx has navigated the chasm between the evidence and her boss's public line. "Doctor, wouldn't you say there's a good chance that COVID will not come back?" Trump asked her at one briefing. "We don't know," Birx began, before Trump interjected, "And if it comes back, it's in a very small, confined area that we put out."
It was as if Trump thought he could bend reality to his will by forcing his advisers to endorse it. "I disagree with @CDCgov on their very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools," he tweeted in July. "I will be meeting with them!" It doesn't take a great deal of imagination to predict that such a "meeting" would be unlikely to involve Trump prevailing upon the CDC to alter its guidelines through sheer force of reason and data. The only outcome of such a public threat is the undermining of his own government's credibility.
Republicans goaded Trump to ramp up his attacks. "Dr. Fauci remains steadfast in his bureaucracy. Dr. Fauci's a conformist," announced Rush Limbaugh. "Here's the difference between a health-professional bureaucrat-expert and Donald Trump." This line reflects the view of science closest to Trump's own perspective. He does not dismiss science wholesale as a field of study; he is not the medieval Church persecuting Galileo. Rather, he understands science as a kind of revelation accessible to a lucky genetic elite (naturally including himself, as evidenced by the genius MIT-professor uncle he often cites).
"I really get it," he boasted during one visit to the CDC. "Every one of these doctors said, 'How do you know so much about this?' Maybe I have a natural ability." That conviction is what gave Trump the confidence to deliver his on-camera brainstorming session, in which he suggested his science experts research the injection of light or disinfectant into the human body
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/republican-response-coronavirus.html
Maryland has been far better than most. In the last week, our case numbers are jumping. We're back to late May numbers, and rising.
At this point, I'm a hard no on my kids returning to school. That's saying something, too, because it extends my less-than successful relegation to Mr. Mom/Daddy Teacher status, and I hate it. I want to go dig some ditches.
Baltimore City schools announced today: no in-school classes until at least mid October. School year begins with at-home classes. Howard and Harford Counties already made similar announcements.
My kids attend Catholic school---don't get me started on how and why, suffice it to say I have precious few options in Baltimore City, and I'm not the only person involved in the decision--and they've been talking like they plan to have kids in classrooms.
Not my kids.
Are they really gonna try to "just a couple more weeks guys" the school year again?
Fauci is throwing out the first pitch for Nats vs Yanks
Betcha that grinds Cheeto Dick's gears
Quote from: Rome on March 23, 2020, 09:43:24 PM
Our useless governor isn't shutting down the state because not all areas in Florida have been affected yet.
Oh and it's "not advisable" either.
We are literally doomed.
Note the date...
My superintendent this afternoon officially proposed to move our start date back 2-3 weeks. The calendar committee is meeting tonight.
It'll be interesting to see if the school board (usually very timid against state officials) actually follows the recommendation.
Additionally, the Collier County Board of Comissioners called an emergency meeting tomorrow to reconisder a mask mandate.
Local crazy businessman Alfie Oakes is trying to put together a massive protest to prevent a mandate.
Just think, the next time your union goes to negotiate they're gonna tell you how much money you saved not buying gas or your own school supplies while all the classes were online.
just buy a hazmat suit youll be fine
Quote from: MDS on July 20, 2020, 07:48:41 PM
just buy a hazmat suit youll be fine
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Well that's fine if he's looking to paint his house, I guess.
Down here that damn suit better be air conditioned.
Official stats: 360,000 confirmed cases. Everything is still open except bars. Over 5,000 deaths.
Figure that first number is off by a half And the actual death count is triple.
All because Ron DeSantis is a Hoyda corksucking Trump bitch.
So we're up to a full tenth of the US population now?
Quote from: General_Failure on July 20, 2020, 08:47:12 PM
So we're up to a full tenth of the US population now?
A little over 1/1000ths.
I'm really good at math.
Amazingly you're both right. This is a post that Rusty would love!
Dead customers can't buy grape soda and pork rinds
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/07/20/mask-policy-changes-southeastern-grocers-winn-dixie-bilo-coronavirus/5475688002/
QuoteSoutheastern Grocers, parent company of Winn-Dixie, BI-LO and Harveys Supermarkets, is reversing course and says it will require that shoppers wear masks in its hundreds of stores throughout the Southern states.
Dio, I think it's time you man up and tell your kids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/1285199041417158663
Also, Winn-Dixie is one of the nicer grocery stores in the south. I'll go there 10 times out of 10 over Walmart.
operative words "...in the South."
A thing can be super down there...and still sub-par by rural Pakistani standards.
So our organization has set up private testing for any employee who has symptoms or came into close contact with someone infected with Covid.
You simply contact the nurse, and based on the interview assessment, you'd be granted a test or not. No waiting, no searching for testing sites... just an immediate response.
Almost every single person in my department met that news with a sense of relief and thankfulness (including me).
I had one person absolutely refuse to take a test under any circumstances because doing so violated her rights (it doesn't - it's a term of employment). She went on to say that she's "had friends" who waited in line, left and never got tested, yet received positive test results from the (presumably deep) "state". They were then "put on lists" that will be used against them at some point.
That is literally the first thing I heard this morning. Hadn't even put my coffee mug down on my desk. I actually said, I really don't care what you do. I've been away for a week and I'm still recovering from surgery, so if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if I could get my morning started.
I just can't with this anymore. shtein is starting to get to me and very little gets to me in my job.
Yeah those broad generalized stories about a friend or they heard about the tests being counted as Covid despite not being there are a product of the right wing GOP social media screech wing.
I heard one from someone who said "someone told me they went for a test and got tired of waiting and then a week later were notified they tested positive"
It's such a farging joke.
I bet ya that woman has zero issue with the Cheeto Dick Brigade sweeping citizens off the streets in Portland. THAT is a direct violation of rights. Not taking a test. Oh and while I'm at it her political heroes are the ones who push for at will workplaces so if she doesn't like it she can farg off and get another job.
https://twitter.com/kittynouveau/status/1285105006631440385
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 21, 2020, 07:51:36 PM
Yeah those broad generalized stories about a friend or they heard about the tests being counted as Covid despite not being there are a product of the right wing GOP social media screech wing.
I heard one from someone who said "someone told me they went for a test and got tired of waiting and then a week later were notified they tested positive"
It's such a farging joke.
I bet ya that woman has zero issue with the Cheeto Dick Brigade sweeping citizens off the streets in Portland. THAT is a direct violation of rights. Not taking a test. Oh and while I'm at it her political heroes are the ones who push for at will workplaces so if she doesn't like it she can farg off and get another job.
Saw someone on the new EMb say that same shtein about the getting out of line and still getting counted positive when I paid a visit last week. That shtein is def a fake story floating around somewhere on Facebook and they're all repeating it now or something
People love nothing more than sharing stories of huge conspiracies to mildly inconvenience them.
Our district voted to push the start date back to mid-September, and now our state union came out in favor of virtual learning to start the year.
A kid I know has to go with her whole family to get tested because someone who works with her father continued to go to work while a family member was sick, and the company hasn't been doing temperature checks.
I think my mom has it.
Her, her husband and my sister went to get tested today. She's had headache since Monday and now has sore throat and gets hot and cold like crazy.
Her husbands mother just died (not Covid related) and they went to the funeral. Her husbands brother must've been the carrier because he's now in the hospital with it.
I really hope she doesn't have it. Sorry to hear that.
I'm getting pressure from all sides to loosen up and allow the kids to mix with the elders. They're not willing to stop going out though, so tough luck..no kids until they agree to stay home (at the least).
My dad's gone completely into the "Guvurnment wunts to control you with maks" camp. He's got to wear one for work, and they do temperature checks, so at least he's probably not going to spread it to anyone there, but he's absolutely going to wind up with it and pass it on. Welp, good luck to him if he catches it, because his doctor just found a tumor in his lung.
Yes, the government Wants to control you by keeping you healthy.
THOSE. RAT. fargS.
Quote from: Diomedes on July 23, 2020, 07:42:04 AM
I really hope she doesn't have it. Sorry to hear that.
I'm getting pressure from all sides to loosen up and allow the kids to mix with the elders. They're not willing to stop going out though, so tough luck..no kids until they agree to stay home (at the least).
Thanks dude. I checked on her today and about the same as yesterday. So if she got it and stays like this then that's good since it's not unmanageable
Sorry to hear about your pops, GF. That sucks. Wish him well in treatment
https://twitter.com/newschannelnine/status/1287421167985467392
Another group of Mah Freedom idiots who just don't get it.
National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien caught the covid at a family gathering.
Friends dad (Florida) died over the weekend from Covid. He had an underlying condition (think it was his heart).
Other friends dad is in bad shape (PA)...he's hanging on by a thread. She's the nicest girl you'll ever meet and I feel really bad for her.
Friends aunt (PA) has diabetes and a few other health issues, a friend or relative stopped over her house last week and they tested positive for Covid so now she's being closely monitored.
We can't pay you to stay at home because someone who has to go to work is paid criminally less than what they need to a reasonable standard of living. Meanwhile, https://twitter.com/amanda_m_macias/status/1287876514311098369
Herman Cain went to Trumps Tulsa rally, got COVID a week later, has been hospitalized ever since. That's the way you own the Libs
I wish everyone could read this. This is horrifying.
https://twitter.com/ahandvanish/status/1287525539859910657
We told our kids' school that we'll be keeping them home. It's not safe. Unemployment about to run out, can't work without assuming unacceptable health risks...so angry with our anti-science leaders and citizens...Republicans, please kill yourselves, all of you.
For the brief time they're open, schools are going to be such a shteinshow. Kids running around playing Corona Tag, spitting on the ugly kid, trading their mask for someone else's lunch, pedos coming out in the wraparound masks to pick off stragglers whose parents were late, the loud obnoxious kid with the idiot parents saying they don't have to wear a mask at all, the creepy kid with poop stains on his mask when he comes back from the bathroom.
Definitely keep your kids home.
So... you're saying that middle school won't change.
emb'er captain f...now what the f is currently hospitalized with covid & giving periodic updates. sounds pretty damn serious.
Jesus really? Last I checked in over there I saw him say he had it and had given some updates on general mild Illness symptoms, didn't seem like he was one of the serious cases.
I do remember early on in the outbreak there was a lot of reporting about how people would have mild illness for like a week and then suddenly drop off a cliff. I think since then they've kind of concluded that path sounds like the cytokine storm situation. It's amazing to me they haven't found a way to prepare/treat for that yet. I guess they're still afraid of dampening the immune system too much and letting the virus farg up the body itself
Quote from: Munson on July 29, 2020, 01:53:49 PM
Jesus really? Last I checked in over there I saw him say he had it and had given some updates on general mild Illness symptoms, didn't seem like he was one of the serious cases.
I do remember early on in the outbreak there was a lot of reporting about how people would have mild illness for like a week and then suddenly drop off a cliff. I think since then they've kind of concluded that path sounds like the cytokine storm situation. It's amazing to me they haven't found a way to prepare/treat for that yet. I guess they're still afraid of dampening the immune system too much and letting the virus farg up the body itself
yeah, it went from mild symptoms to him being hospitalized & his doctor recommending a ventilator, which he refused.
shtein. That's terrifying. He said he was previously healthy/no preexisting conditions too, right? Any idea how old he is?
Quote from: Munson on July 29, 2020, 02:06:10 PM
shtein. That's terrifying. He said he was previously healthy/no preexisting conditions too, right? Any idea how old he is?
yeah...no prior health issues that i remember him mentioning. idk his age but i'm guessing older than you but younger than me.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on July 29, 2020, 01:35:25 PM
So... you're saying that middle school won't change.
Well now you'll be sending the girls home to change because their masks are distracting the boys.
never thought i would need to have a mask hook next to the key hook in my house.
https://twitter.com/CharlieGileNBC/status/1288525505881350144
RIP United States
Cause of Death: Rampant Stupidity
I hope he dies. I mean, I really really hope he dies. He and his party are literally responsible for tens of thousands of dead Americans, not to mention the hell of daily life for millions of people who are being held hostage by Republican science denial.
I hope they all die.
He will probably be fine, sadly.
Its the people who shouldn't be dying who are dying.
reports that herman cain has passed away due to coronavirus.
good riddance
Quote from: hunt on July 30, 2020, 10:33:43 AM
reports that herman cain has passed away due to coronavirus.
Democratic hoax
No one deserves to die of this wretched virus. But if it's taking all comers, the deniers, truthers, anti-vaxxers & other death cultists should go first. We'll never convince everyone because humans are stupid, fickle idiots, but if enough high profile dipshteins die, maybe we'll save the lion's share.
If you're still Republican, you're trash. Kill yourself. When you die, I will smile.
Welp, a school board member from one of the districts around here told a teacher to find a new career if they can't handle the risk of in person schools.
plot twist: board member was on a zoom call when he said it
They people pushing for in-person school won't be the ones in the schools.
I hope a lot of teachers peace out and leave schools in a shortage.
I hope all the teachers start up private classrooms on something like Onlyfans, which I'm told isn't just for camgirls.
We are opting out in part so we don't contribute to the pressure they may feel to report for duty in person. It ain't safe for anyone yet.
im pretty sure all public schools in high pop areas are all online or in the least hybrid
Quote from: MDS on July 30, 2020, 08:55:20 PM
im pretty sure all public schools in high pop areas are all online or in the least hybrid
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https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/30/a-huge-experiment-how-the-world-made-so-much-progress-on-a-covid-19-vaccine-so-fast/
Good link to share with your "im nervous about the vaccine because of how fast it's being made" friends
I don't have any of those.
You people associate with some retrograde lowlifes. My friends and associates are, to an individual, educated thoughtful, intellectually curious people. It's a baseline requirement for getting any of my attention. I have a couple subcontractors who are probably this dumb, but I don't break bread with them.
I was astonished at how quickly my supposedly liberal friends and acquaintances embraced Trump. What's nice is how easily I excised them from my life.
I still read their drivel on social media and many of them have stayed aboard the S.S. Trumptanic, but thankfully a few have come to their senses.
Had 102 fever yesterday, cold sweats all day long, achy body like someone beat the shtein out of me. Was 99% sure i had it but got the test yesterday and I'm negative for covid but positive for strep throat. obviously happy but i have not been close to anyone other than my wife in weeks, and definitely no kids. weird shtein.
also i hear people waiting weeks for results but I got the rapid test done at urgent care in 20 min.
Couple weeks ago it took more than 7 days for us to get test results on a sick elder.
https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1289565103159799808
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1289630646130810881
Mexico's finally gonna pay for that wall to keep us out.
Our governor officially recc'd hybrid openings for schools. Said districts can choose to be more strict than that if they want to.
Here's hoping my district does.
I don't believe for even a moment that Barbara Birx or anyone else in Trump's orbit gives a shtein about Atlanta or Baltimore.
Deborah, Barbara... Whatever. Trump's mouthpiece either way.
Honestly, I am not at all the self loathing end is nigh sky is falling type. But this has me reconsidering my position.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/florida-man-arrested-for-spitting-at-boy-who-refused-to-remove-his-mask-2020-08-06?mod=MW_article_top_stories
Drunk or not, just for this to even be in someone's wheelhouse is unfathomably repugnant and poignant, and sadly could probably happen in Philadelphia just as easily as FL.
Good lord. I'd have broken his jaw.
This shtein is making people lose their farging minds. And the GOP and Cheeto Dick are complicit.
Went into Lowe's this morning. Getting some electrical upgrades done. My buddy is an electrician so we went to pick up some stuff. I shtein you not at least half the iceholes in there were not masked up. It's a requirement now. You have to have a face covering on at all times. People are just defying it.
So here's the deal... if I get sick with this despite taking every precaution, I'm taking motherfargers with me. I'm done being nice about it too. Put your fargING MASK ON.
One of the big benchmarks for "re-opening" is to test enough that you get a positivity rate below 5%. Our Republican Governor has been touting the fact that MD has been below that rate for a long time, and that as testing increases, it's dropping futher. That's well and good...we're certainly doing better than the idiots in Texas and Mississippi, though one can't congratulate themselves too much for doing well by comparison to such low standards, and we're not doing nearly as well as NY, currently getting positiveity rates below 1% and testing about double the volume....but I'd like to highlight a game Larry Hogan is playing with the numbers:
from the Baltimore Sun (they've been pointing this out for weeks)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-maryland-numbers-coronavirus-saturday-20200808-wghtrktahfc4dbgtlgjslyqnqi-story.html
QuoteThe state's reported testing postivity rate of 4.03% is up slightly from Friday, when the rate was under 4% for the first time after several consecutive weeks of decline. Maryland calculates positivity rate using the number of positive tests divided by total testing volume, which include individuals receiving multiple positive or negative tests.
Johns Hopkins, which tracks positivity rates across the country with a different formula from Maryland, measured the state's rate at 5.7% Saturday. Maryland calculates positivity rate using the number of positive tests divided by total testing volume, whereas Hopkins' rate is determined using the number of people with confirmed cases divided by the number of people tested, meaning individuals receiving multiple positive or negative tests are counted only once in the calculation.
In other words, MD is well over 5%, and has been for all this time that Hogan is singing happy songs about re-opening. Why in the hell you would count multiple negative tests for the same individual I can't imagine....other than to cook the numbers into the kind of dessert you're selling to fatty dumb dumbs.
Quote from: Rome on August 08, 2020, 01:57:51 PM
Went into Lowe's this morning. Getting some electrical upgrades done. My buddy is an electrician so we went to pick up some stuff. I shtein you not at least half the iceholes in there were not masked up. It's a requirement now. You have to have a face covering on at all times. People are just defying it.
So here's the deal... if I get sick with this despite taking every precaution, I'm taking motherfargers with me. I'm done being nice about it too. Put your fargING MASK ON.
I'm actually shocked people are masking up here. Each time we go out to the store I see everyone wearing masks.
Same thing again tonight. Went to a seafood takeout joint (Hull's Seafood). Everyone behind the counter is masked up. Some fat bald Trump MAGAt walks in and he was asked to put his face covering on. He refused. The manager walked from behind the counter and told him to get the farg out.
The guy stormed out, got in his grotesque luxury shteinbox and burned out of there.
I threw an extra ten in the tip jar and said thanks to the girls behind the counter.
Seriously. This is every farging day for those folks. And we're all losing our patience with these funholefaces. Something is gonna happen and soon.
the easy solution is dont live in florida
Scumbags.
https://twitter.com/saletan/status/1292296700154056706 21
shteinhole country
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/sturgis-motorcycle.html?
QuoteBut I don't know one person in a six-state radius who has had Covid. I think it is all just political."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-timeline.html
sit back, grab a drink - you'll need one to take the edge off - and read how Cheeto Dick has screwed this up
Honestly, I don't think I need to read it. I watched it happen.
Nothing like a good recap!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/10/health/children-long-covid-symptoms-intl-gbr/index.html
https://twitter.com/yoda/status/1293203872362778626
The best one of these so far (sound up)
This is mildly surprising.
Just landed in PHL and more people here aren't wearing masks or are wearing them wrong that in Houston. Didn't expect that.
Had a meeting of school leadership yesterday.
My school/district is offering three options for parents:
1. Full face-to-face (governor wouldn't allow any blended online or face to face, so this is all five days a week)
2. "Home Connect" - Basically the students will "attend" a class virtually. They must still follow the normal schedule. Each core academic teacher will have one separate section of home connect per day. Student remains enrolled in my school.
3. Virtual School - still district affiliated, but will be withdrawn from my school.
Students are locked into their choice for the full first quarter, unless given permission by the principal.
At this point, it looks like about 55-60% are returning to face-to-face. Abut 30-35% are choosing Home Connect, and about 10% are choosing the virtual option.
Just remembered: We'll have having students eating in the gym and outside tables in order to be able to properly social distance during lunch.
Masks are mandatory all day (other than lunch and outdoor PE). Teachers are expected to sanitze desks between periods (There is supposedly a three-minute spray that does the job. That'll be interesting, since we normally only have three minutes between periods.). Bathrooms will be sanitized once per period on a rotating schedule.
All this in schools that are underfunded and understaffed. This is going to be a clusterfarg.
Unless that spray is bleach, it isn't doing shtein.
teachers: sanitation experts
time for a nationwide strike
just nope out ... farg these people
Imagine trying to enforce a bunch of kids to keep their masks on all day and to social distance. No chance in hell. Not sure why first semester online (if the school can accommodate) is such a big deal. My daughters going into 7th, the super intendant is recommending virtual first semester and you'd think he was telling parents they were serving barbecued kittens for lunch
Can't speak for other states, but in Florida the governor has specifically forbidden schools to do either all distance or a hybrid model.
https://twitter.com/ErinBanco/status/1293360310154403840
Quote from: AO1 on August 13, 2020, 08:17:54 PM
Imagine trying to enforce a bunch of kids to keep their masks on all day and to social distance. No chance in hell. Not sure why first semester online (if the school can accommodate) is such a big deal. My daughters going into 7th, the super intendant is recommending virtual first semester and you'd think he was telling parents they were serving barbecued kittens for lunch
Look, it's impossible to keep track of all these kids to see who's wearing their mask and who isn't. I mean, how many kids are in this school? 300? 400? It's ridiculous to even suggest- Is that girl wearing a shirt with no sleeves? Her bra strap is sticking out, the boys are going mad with lust! Get that whore out of here!
Quote from: Diomedes on August 13, 2020, 08:02:23 PM
time for a nationwide strike
just nope out ... farg these people
I wish they would/could. Pensions in state are tied to anti striking rules. Strike and lose it.
Give it enough time, they'll look to drain those pensions, too.
Already begun in Florida.
farg the pensions... they gonna let everyone starve? Hell no.
Refuse to participate in the madness. Just farging don't go in, stop paying your bills, and let them squirm.
I could see a situation like the ATCs and Regan wheee they're all fires and then a bunch of QAnon dolts hire on as teachers
There are far too many teachers for that to play out, and I'm talking bigger than just teachers.
We don't have to reopen just because they say it's happening. They're pushing us into ruin. General strike is warranted. Let the rat-lickers have their re-opening. The rest of us can cripple their world by noping out...and what are they gonna do when we refuse to go to work, stop paying all of our bills? They gonna let 90 million people starve? Evict everyone?
They're doing that now to 30 million. You think they give a shtein about another 60 million?
They didn't care enough to stop a deadly virus when they had the chance. It's a farging death cult and his supporters are happy to run right off whatever cliff he points to.
Also: how drunk was Jay on that last post?
Quote from: Diomedes on August 14, 2020, 06:55:05 AM
There are far too many teachers for that to play out, and I'm talking bigger than just teachers.
We don't have to reopen just because they say it's happening. They're pushing us into ruin. General strike is warranted. Let the rat-lickers have their re-opening. The rest of us can cripple their world by noping out...and what are they gonna do when we refuse to go to work, stop paying all of our bills? They gonna let 90 million people starve? Evict everyone?
Build 90,000 new prisons, most likely.
Welp, we're staying remote until November at the earliest. Whew.
Just in time for a thousand kids to get it from trick or treating, then pass it along to elderly family members at Thanksgiving.
Quote from: General_Failure on August 17, 2020, 09:55:34 PM
Just in time for a thousand kids to get it from trick or treating, then pass it along to elderly family members at Thanksgiving.
Huge issue at Halloween for the anti maskers
They'll be sending the kids out without them to own the libzzzz
Yeah I mean I assume it'll get extended. Makes no sense to have the kids in before the holidays so then they get sick and can't go see grandma and grandpa.
Our midterms and 2nd marking period are at the end of January, I think we'll go back then assuming the numbers improve....big assumption of course.
Whose letting their kids see the grands?
We live immediately adjacent to mine, and they haven't touched the kids since 14 March. My position is, if someone gets sick while I'm doing everything I can to prevent it, well then, I tried. But if I dial back our precautions and someone gets sick...that is not something I care to try to live down, especially if one of the kids ends up with a lifelong health problem.
Now that the extra 600 is long gone, I'm facing the same choice so many are: go back to work and risk your families health, or protect your families health and prepare for financial ruin.
I'm going with the latter.
Quote from: Diomedes on August 18, 2020, 07:31:18 AM
Whose letting their kids see the grands?
You know the answer to this one. Thanksgiving travel is going to be a nightmare, and some major outbreak will be traced to the hot dog warmer at some BP in South Carolina.
i never knew two of my grands and havent had one alive in almost 20 years...just be happy you have any
kids on the other hand...
Right now my mom only sees our 1 year old through the front door but that's for our protection actuslly because she's an essential worker and has been working through all this. She's taking about 10 days off and getting tested twice this upcoming week so she can at least come here and spend a few days with us and her grandkid.
Time to pull a Santorum on the conspiracy dorks. https://twitter.com/offbeatorbit/status/1295040666901282816
Made the decision to not drive up to see my parents this summer. My mom has COPD and major heart issues, so we didn't want to take any chances.
She was disappointed but understood that it was for the best. I just hope that we are able to get up to see her either Christmas or next summer. Just don't know how much time is left for her, with or without COVID.
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 18, 2020, 10:15:16 AM
i never knew two of my grands and havent had one alive in almost 20 years...just be happy you have any
kids on the other hand...
To be clear...it's my Mom next door, not my grandmother. I'm talking about my children (not) seeing their "Mimo," and vice versa.
I had no loving grandparents, and only knew two of the four. My kids have been lucky, they have three grands who are nuts for them. One of whom won't wear a goddamn mask. And lives next to us. My Mom. It's not an ironic Mom tattoo I have. I love this lady. But she won't farging behave.
And now I'm forced to basically tell her, no mask no kids. WTF.
yeah I know what you meant ...when I said you I meant you as a family
No one could have predicted this. https://twitter.com/wingoz/status/1296486281405501440
https://twitter.com/dannolan/status/1297142305778876416
In today's You Don't Say news, https://twitter.com/histoftech/status/1299980291902189569
Good Christian conservative here lemme tell ya
https://twitter.com/benjaminpdixon/status/1299914167525216256 21
I think I've shopped at that Walmart.
It's not a shock to me he's wearing Texas stuff.
This is tearing my family up.
The elders next door, one severely compromised, refuse to quarantine, insist on shopping despite our offer to do it for them, are going about life, etc. They've now decided to sell the house and move away from us because we have kept the kids from them. We can't quarantine/ wife goes to hospital for work. I have to go about life as well. I take reasonable precautions -- I wear a mask -- but I can't make the concrete guy's crew wear masks.
I'm essentially being bullied into relenting and allowing the households to re-combine, or the family gets broken apart.
If someone gets sick right now...what the farg, I did my best. If I relent, combine the exposures of both households, and someone gets sick...a kid gets lifelong lung damage....I have to live down the self-reproach and hatred for letting up too soon.
Awful shtein.
You can't fix stupid, you can only keep it from harming your kids. Had they, like every other FOX News watching dope in the US, done what they were supposed to we could have reasonably been done with this shtein in May. That house probably isn't selling any time soon, so good luck to them.
Stupid fargs like them are the reason your wife has to risk her life on a daily basis, don't forget that and maybe let them know it too.
Reason doesn't apply here.
My options are simple. Relent and combine, increasing the risk my children will be exposed and possibly harmed (admittedly, not a great risk), or hold the line until there's a vaccine, and let my family break apart (to include my children never seeing their grands again).
Impossible situation.
None of this had to be this way, and surely I'm not the only family suffering extreme dysfunction thanks to it.
Seems like a clear choice to me, but I'd happily cut off family for less than that. I don't know, I think you probably had a better family dynamic that I did and don't have much experience prior to this in dealing with greedy, scheming family members who don't get called out on their bullshtein and guilt everyone else into doing what they want.
sounds like the the elders are tearing your family up not the Rona
That is a tough spot to be in and undoubtedly one that a lot are facing.
Reason and Science vs Conspiracy and "Fake News"
The division sown by those who support the deniers is sad. All because some grifting huckster is wedge in the oval office. If there was any reasonable sane human sitting in that chair this would not have been what it is.
Your decision is agonizing. However the grandparents are the ones at fault here. Them and their choices alone.
Without the pandemic, we don't suffer this schism.
humans choose how to handle their shtein not viruses
if i farg a chick with aids and then give it to my girl and she dies i killed her not the virus
The best possible outcome with the choices you're given is that you keep them away, they somehow don't get sick, they get over their big baby bullshtein when this finally goes away, and spend the rest of their lives telling you what a dope you are for believing that whole China Flu Hoax. Thankfully, in this scenario you didn't potentially expose your family to not only a potentially deadly virus, but a potentially crippling one if you live.
To be clear, these are not Trumpers, by any stretch. They don't deny the science. They just don't care if they get sick themselves, or apparently if their proximity makes the children sick. They think it's so unlikely, that I'm just being crazy. They wear masks when they go out (though not always around the children in the yard), etc. But they do go out, and not for necessary trips only. They're just old people in their second childhood, losing their agency and independence, and their willingness to consider others...normal shtein but in extremely abnormal times, with consequences that though they are very unlikely, couldn't be more grave.
These are people I love dearly, etc.
I've got very bad choices to make here.
Yes that is tough. An unenviable situation.
Perhaps you can attempt another discussion with them?
I'm eating at a restaurant right now for the first time since mid March. No one cares, so farg em. I'm wearing a mask but you can't when you eat. That's the risk. If I get it, it's bad luck on my part. All we can do is what's right. I have. For five months. I'm sick of seeing seemingly everyone else scoff at me too. I'm the paranoid icehole because my wife has no immune system, I guess.
Whatever. If I die because I wanted a hot turkey sandwich today, it's been real fellas.
Compromise: They're allowed to come over, but you get to slap them as hard as you can in the face every minute they're not wearing a mask.
this is exactly what I'm trying to protect and limit possibility for, from today's WP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/08/31/our-teen-was-diagnosed-with-covid-19-april-months-later-worries-headaches-remain/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-low_kidcovidaftermath-1120am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
https://www.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html
If you're young and healthy it's no big deal. Open everything up, wear a mask, and isolate the old and sick.
As my old baseball coach used to say, "Rub some dirt in it and get back in there!"
No one could have predicted that the world's largest gathering of divorced Boomers would lead to this. https://twitter.com/SDSUCHEPS/status/1302480031638147074
Harley Covidson
Not a shock on that at all
One of the boneheads I watch the Birds with went to that event. I haven't talked to him in several months because he went straight Trumper on me. Goddamn juvenile icehole.
I am not surprised a Trumper who willingly lives in Daytona would go to Sturgis during this.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-knew-coronavirus-deadly-bob-woodward-book-1057051/
His deliberate lies have led to the needless deaths of almost 200,000 Americans. There's a direct causal link. He admitted it on tape.
Why is this guy not in farging chains right now?
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on September 08, 2020, 02:29:27 PM
Harley Covidson
Not a shock on that at all
Lolol. But now I have an image stuck in my mind of like the 4 bikers of the apocalypse. Maybe trump in one of those little spiked nazi helmets flanked by jared and pence, maybe bannon or whoever.
Miller or Mitch
McConnell is the helmet, since it's turtle shaped.
Quote from: Eagaholic on September 09, 2020, 08:07:07 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on September 08, 2020, 02:29:27 PM
Harley Covidson
Not a shock on that at all
Lolol. But now I have an image stuck in my mind of like the 4 bikers of the apocalypse. Maybe trump in one of those little spiked nazi helmets flanked by jared and pence, maybe bannon or whoever.
Haha I picture him riding in a side car
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1304011512915296256
I'm still trying to process yesterday and one of the things that really hit my hard is....this is probably going to become endemic and if it does...I don't think we can fully comprehend the damage this icehole has done, all in the name of winning re-election and keeping himself out of jail.
Between the fatality rate and the long term health consequences this has on survivors, were talking trillions and trillions of costs AND lost economic activity. Like...we're farged.
We're only farged for a couple generations, as long as the health issues aren't something that can be passed on to the next generation.
https://twitter.com/jimmybing/status/1305513168530223113
These people sure are in touch with what child molesters seem to love.
That clip just gets worse and worse. The scripted flu kid, the George Floyd comment...then onto child molestors.
Quote from: AO1 on September 14, 2020, 03:25:17 PM
That clip just gets worse and worse. The scripted flu kid, the George Floyd comment...then onto child molestors.
It really is just a cascade of awfulness that gets worse every second.
America was a mistake.
https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1/status/1305553407214747653
farg this administration
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1306614873502224385 21
Some Chiefs fans told to quarantine after person at game tests positive for COVID-19 (https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article245804410.html)
QuoteThe Kansas City Health Department has told 10 fans to quarantine after possibly being exposed to COVID-19 at last week's Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium, health officials announced Thursday.
The fans may have been exposed to a person who attended the game and tested positive for the coronavirus the next day, the health department said. The health department's disease investigation team was activated and tracked down those who had close contact with the person.
I'm sure they'll be fine.
With your help, we can make it to #1! https://twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/status/1308240816570204162
Eh. A nuclear mass extinction event is so much quicker and easier to put together. Everybody who is anybody joins in. The social event of the season. Hosted by debutante Kim Jong Un.
Not until Moon Base Klept is fully operational.
add this site to your doomscrolling short list
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america?view=total-deaths&tab=trend
Had a Doctors appt today, the doc I usually see just had his thyroid removed. He contracted COVID, spent 29 days at Jefferson Hospital on a respirator (longest at their hospital). Thyroid removal was a complication from COVID. He's 62 no other health conditions. 6'0 165 lbs.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who, as Republicans do, values money more than all except unborn life, won't stop crowing about the State being under 5% positivity, so he can open everything up and run in 2024.
The f'n scientists, who have no such conflict of interest, are using math math, not Republican math. They get a much different figure than he does:
Quote from: Baltimore Sun
Hopkins calculates the seven-day positivity rate for Maryland and the other 49 states by determining the percentage of people who test positive for the virus in a weeklong span. Through Tuesday's data, Hopkins had Maryland's seven-day positivity rate at 6.00% for a second straight day, the 24th lowest among states and more than double the 2.95% figure the state itself reported Tuesday.
The two entities calculate positivity differently from each other. While Maryland determines positivity using the percentage of tests conducted that return a positive result, Hopkins uses the people tested, meaning individuals who are tested multiple times, regardless of their results, are counted only once in the university's calculation. Maryland has performed the 27th most tests per capita, according to Hopkins.
Which number do you think is more accurate? The one that counts every time a test is taken, meaning Lamar Jacksons daily tests all and each count, or the one that counts just that Lamar Jackson has tested negative?
That's a rhetorical question.
Maynard James Keenan on recovering from COVID-19, new Puscifer music and anti-maskers (https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/09/maynard-james-keenan-covid-puscifer/5929660002/)
QuoteQ: What was it like to have your plans for the entire year upended?
A: Well, I'm not a delicate flower. You make the adjustment. "OK, well, we can't do that. So what are we gonna do? Are we just gonna take this opportunity to unplug and kind of step back and reevaluate everything?" It was good. I mean, I was still recovering from having gotten COVID at the end of February. I'm still dealing with the residual effects. But it was ugly. I survived it, but it wasn't pretty. So I definitely had to deal with that.
Q: Wow. I didn't realize you had COVID.
A: Um... yeah. I kind of didn't want to run around screaming it. But it's real. And there's after-effects. I had to go through some major medications to undo the residual effects. Still coughing. There's still lung damage.
Q: Oh man, I'm really sorry to hear that.
A: Several of my friends, too. Very not old people, young people, in shape, runners, who contracted it as well. And they're still dealing with some of the after-effects. I lost a few family members.
Q: Man, I'm so sorry to hear all that. Are you feeling all right now?
A: Well no. I still have the cough. Every other day, I have these coughing fits because my lungs are still damaged at the tips. And I just got over the inflammation that was going on with my wrist and hands. I had an autoimmune attack on my system in the form of, like, a rheumatoid arthritis. Basically, from what I understand, it attacks weird spots and it's random. So that's what I got. That was my prize.
Anyone shocked by this?
https://twitter.com/taylorlorenz/status/1315793901551198210 21
why is this crazy?
Because it's exactly not crazy? That is, one could easily guess that states led/populated by Trumpers would end up worse off than others because they don't follow science, but the coronavirus does. Well, here's a stark visualization that one would be right to guess that.
Buckle up. First Confirmed Cases of COVID-19 Reinfections in US (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/939003?src=mkm_covid_update_201012_mscpedit_&uac=168522FV&impID=2616440&faf=1)
QuoteA 25-year-old man from Nevada and a 42-year-old man in Virginia experienced second bouts of COVID-19 about 2 months after they tested positive the first time. Gene tests show both men had two slightly different strains of the virus, suggesting that they caught the infection twice.
Researchers say these are the first documented cases of COVID-19 reinfection in the U.S. About two dozen other cases of COVID-19 reinfection have been reported around the globe, from Hong Kong, Belgium, the Netherlands, India, and Ecuador. A third U.S. case, in a 60-year-old in Washington, has been reported but hasn't yet been peer reviewed.
IMMUNITY!
Eh, we have a lot of new drugs now that instantly cure it and make you feel better than you did 20 years ago.
Quote from: Eagaholic on October 13, 2020, 12:18:51 PM
Eh, we have a lot of new drugs now that instantly cure it and make you feel better than you did 20 years ago.
^^^^^
so bonkers you cant tell if they are serious or not
That's just cocaine.
The spikes are happening as predicted they would in the fall.
KC has hospitals overwhelmed and some have to turn ambulances away.
El Paso has had to walk back openings.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 16, 2020, 11:45:04 PM
The spikes are happening as predicted they would in the fall.
KC has hospitals overwhelmed and some have to turn ambulances away.
El Paso has had to walk back openings.
It is what it is.
I really don't care, do u?
The UF head dipshtein who demanded a packed stadium last week has the Covid.
One arrested in threat to kidnap and kill Wichita mayor over COVID-19 mask mandate (https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article246513655.html)
QuoteA Wichita man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening to kidnap and kill Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple over frustrations with the city's mask ordinance, the mayor and police said Friday afternoon.
Meredith Dowty, 59, was booked into Sedgwick County Jail at 6:05 p.m., Friday, booking reports show. Police confirmed he is the suspect and said he could face a charge of criminal threat.
Whipple said he had been read a series of text messages received by another city official that asked about Whipple's address and contained a detailed threat against his life.
The apparent motive was the suspect's opposition to "masks and tyranny," Whipple said.
"He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman — me and everyone who, something about tyranny," Whipple said.
Not great, Bob.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1318013485217927168 21
Add Howard Eskin to the list of positives
Said he's got mild symptoms
numbers getting uglier by the day....everything is up..cases, hospitalizations, deaths...
WaPo:
QuoteIn the past week in the U.S....
New daily reported cases rose 14.2%
New daily reported deaths rose 11.9%
Covid-related hospitalizations rose 9.9% Read more
Among reported tests, the positivity rate was 5.8%.
The number of tests reported rose 3.8% from the previous week.
There's an incremental return to "normal," by a millions slight pressures, all premature, and I'm sitting in my house like Bartleby in his offices staring at a wall, saying "I prefer not to."
Highest case count in MD since early August. Even here, it's creeping up up up.
I just had an invite from a friend whose family we adore. Wonderful, generous people we very much enjoy visiting. Outdoor bonfire. Five families invited. We had to decline. No way I can drink beer through a mask. No way I can keep my kids safe running around a farm with other kids. I want nothing more than to drink beers and let my kids run free with a gang of other kids...so we'll have yet another weekend inside, at home, with each other.
Just learned that other friends with cool kids, single mom....breast cancer. How the F can I help her in a pandemic without exposing her family / my family to higher risk, possibly unacceptable risk? Lady is going to need some help. In normal times, we'd take her kids for dinners, bike rides, drive them to school, etc. Now...?
It didn't have to be this way. Anti-science leaders, I wish death upon every one of them.
Well, here's something to really help that depression set in. https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1320969710209507328
That's a hard one to answer as how to help the lady with cancer. The only thing you could do would be help out with food and leave it outside for her in a cooler or something. Otherwise any other way would be a potential exposure.
Texas is now the number one state. And our county is number one in the state. SO we're the hotspot.
Yesterday was my bday so my girlfriend wanted to take me out Saturday for a couple drinks. It took us driving around awhile before we found one of our old spots that wasn't packed to the gills. Our normal hangout was nuts to butts because of the stupid UFC meatheads in there watching the fights. We turned around and left. Finally we found a spot that had about six people inside and we went in there and sat at the bar. We were the only ones on the side of the bar so that felt safe enough.
But as a whole you'd think there was no pandemic here. People just out and about.
The farged up thing is that even when Cheeto Dick is thrown out of office the division he's created with the "bUt maH fre3dom" types will linger. Biden's administration isn't going to be able to snap their fingers and put the toothpaste back in the tube. If this had been addressed properly 7-8mo's ago we'd be alright. But nope.
Every day I get closer to thinking the smoothbrains are going to have their way with this and we're just going to have to live with people dying from this forever.
Quote from: General_Failure on October 27, 2020, 12:22:33 PM
Every day I get closer to thinking the smoothbrains are going to have their way with this and we're just going to have to live with people dying from this forever.
Well the solution is only as good as the dumbest people not doing it, so...yeah, of course.
My niece has been feeling sick since Friday, tested positive. The rest of her family is getting tested tomorrow.
Ugh. Sorry man. Good thoughts.
The virus is roaring through Florida again. A lot of businesses have simply stopped enforcing the rules and aren't even bothering to pretend anymore.
"If I get it I get it" is the prevailing thought here.
Amazing.
Any way to get out of Florida.
Pretty much. My colleague is an anti-masker and delights in telling me how her and her husband go out to places where there's no precautions being taken.
Meanwhile last Friday I took my wife for her yearly cancer scans in Tampa and every person I saw in every place I went was wearing a mask. I mean Florida is a shteinhole, yes, but in larger cities with more educated populations there seems to be more common sense and decency being shown.
My buddy lives in Ft Lauderdale and he says the same thing. It's highly restricted and everyone is following the cdc guidelines. Weird but I get it. There's a lot of northerner expats down there.
https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1321929445897371655 21
Today will log the highest new daily reported cases yet.
That record will last what, 24 hours?
Oh don't worry, it won't become a public safety concern until Election Day when someone will surely try to shut down certain voting locations in certain districts.
https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1322527556126605313 21
Too bad those aren't all Deplorables. We could stand for a few hundred thousand of them to drink bleach and stop spreading this farging disease.
All three of my older sister's kids tested positive this week. I'm sure it'll be fine. They'll continue to have people come in and out of the house when they recover, and there's definitely nothing that will happen to my nephew's 1 year old. Yes sir, outlook is good.
I'm sorry to hear it.
What a farging mess we're in.
So, if it comes to that, I'm not going to a baby funeral during this.
shtein man. Sorry to hear that.
Like Dio said this is one helluva mess. Maybe tomorrow is a step back to sanity.
All Danish mink must be killed for fear of virus mutation (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/alle-danske-mink-skal-aflives-af-frygt-virusmutation)
QuoteAll Danish mink must be killed.
This is what Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) says at a press conference and calls it an "extremely serious situation".
- The virus is mutated in mink, and the mutated virus has spread to humans.
It could be a bomb during an upcoming coronavirus vaccine .
- The mutated virus among mink may involve the risk that the upcoming vaccine will not work as it should, says the Prime Minister.
Corona has been observed today on 207 mink farms in Jutland. The Statens Serum Institut has found five examples of mink farms and 12 examples in humans where mutated viruses show reduced sensitivity to antibodies .
Its the day after the election and the virus is still raging.
Where all those dopes at who thought it would magically disappear?
Baltimore Sun:
QuoteThe coronavirus pandemic is surging in Maryland, with daily cases, hospitalizations and the state's testing positivity rate reaching their highest levels Wednesday in months.
Maryland health officials reported 1,000 new coronavirus cases Wednesday — the highest daily total since Aug.1 — and 10 more deaths tied to COVID-19.
And the state's seven-day rolling testing positivity rate was 4.1% Wednesday, up from 3.93% Tuesday and the first time the rate has been above 4% since Aug. 7.
Every day a new record in how much pressure I can take.
For the first time, more than 100k new cases reported in one day nationwide.
Assuming Biden wins, pour one out for all those who went to the polls and end up paying the ultimate price.
no one is talking about it for obvious reasons but its wild how out of control covid is right now in the US
Quote from: ice grillin you on November 05, 2020, 04:11:16 PM
no one is talking about it for obvious reasons but its wild how out of control covid is right now in the US
Biden just addressed it publicly like a true leader
People legit dgaf
Hopefully once the adults take back over it can be addressed appropriately
Yeah, half the population is suddenly going to stop being giant idiot babies.
Fair point.
MD reporting 3rd highest new daily cases count since pandemic began.
the last four days:
771
1000
1198
1541
Not regretting my call to keep the kids home from school, which reopens Monday for any families who want to go back. We were among the approximately 28% who opted out. I doubt the school operates for ten days before everyone is sent home again.
Pfizer early look under the hood is showing up to 90% efficacy of the vaccine so far. Still early but good news
It's not the only vaccine showing promise either. Welcome news. Most Covid news is bleak as farg.
MD now reporting pandemic-highest two week average of daily new cases, and is back above 5% positivity rate. All metrics rising rapidly, bad times ahead.
El Paso is getting in more mobile morgues - so that's how they're doing.
Great news on vaccine. Even greater that it came out after the election.
A big liberal pharma conspiracy, no doubt.
The bigger the conspiracy, the more likely it is to be legit. Millions of people working together in secret.
this winter is going to be beyond brutal
nobody is going to all of a sudden care about covid or get stricter with it if they laxed....trumpers are purposely going to want to spread to hurt biden.
geo and romey need peace out on florida and fast
Texas hit the million case mark today.
My gf is bummed out because her dad is hedging on her coming home for Christmas. She hasn't seen him in a year. We'd planned to come back and spend time with my family and then head down to Wilmington.
But since this shtein has spiked up I don't blame him for being worried. Hell three weeks ago I told her that we needed to make sure we didn't let our guard down.
This sucks. If people had don't what was needed and the corksucking loser MAGAts had taken this seriously we'd be in a better place
Thanksgiving is what, two weeks away? Nobody in my family is talking about getting together at all. I'm sure as hell not cooking for anyone this year.
COVID 'super-spreader' wedding that infected 34 costs country club its liquor license (https://abcnews.go.com/US/covid-super-spreader-wedding-infected-34-costs-country/story?id=74125307)
Get your shtein together, Hawaii. https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1326566347556446208
400k dead by March totally possible
likely even
We're up to what now, 125k new cases per day? They're gonna have to make a national holiday for all the deaths by the time this is done.
it's f'n nuts. pretty much breaking the daily record for new cases every single day but cheeto is hiding in a bunker somewhere queef tweeting about imaginary voter fraud & hasn't mentioned covid since the election. his lame duck temper tantrum is going to wind up costing lives...and he doesn't give one shtein.
Republicans generally don't give a shtein. They're a f'n death cult.
That would be fine if they could keep their death to themselves.
It would be downright delightful.
When they rejected the science around climate change it was easy enough to give them their space because the consequences of their position were, though grave, extremely diffuse. You can't put actual individual deaths on red hatters who disbelieve that humans beings have caused a climate catastrophe, and must act to mitigate its effects, slow and eventually eliminate human contribution to the process, etc.
But now they're rejecting science that doesn't just hurt kind of everyone in the broadest sense. Now they are literally killing individual people by refusing to credit the science.
I can't put it any simpler: Average, everyday Republicans, not just their elected leaders, are literally killing us.
one of my co workers got married over the weekend....indoors....she posted pics in teams and there was not a mask in site. in fact had the audacity to complain about people who bailed on the wedding at the last minute, like she was gonna power through this unfairness.
i dont think shes a trumper, shes just farging stupid and selfish. thats the biggest problem in this country. even beyond the anti science maga morons we have a massive population of ignorant people who dont vote, dont care and cant comprehend and dont want to comprehend a deadly airborn virus
Correct. The anti science MAGAts combined with the dumbfargs is why we are where we are.
She's square in the mahhhh freeeedum camp
this one is not even like that...shes just braindead
you cannot underestimate how many stupid people there are who are just unwittingly going about their lives. just pure ignorance and selfishness. not even malicious or trying to score points on their anti-vax facebook groups. just cranial lumps who dont get it.
As much as I want to put all of this on the anti-science Republican death cult, I have to admit you're right. It's more satisfying to hate on the barbarians, but the reality is they aren't the only ones spreading the disease because humans are basically just hairless monkeys at the end of the day.
In Baltimore City, in a State that's doing much better than most, elective surgeries are being gradually, programatically cancelled to make room for Covid patients, who are now being pushed into surgical recovery beds because capacity on general units is scarce or non-existant. Nurses will soon be re-assigned from their fields of specialty in order to care for the Covid patients. I know for a fact that at even the highest, most prestigious institutions, 9 months into this farging catastrophe, PPE supplies are being rationed. My wife has to re-use N95 masks. She doesn't work for bumfarg hospital in nowhereville.
It didn't have to be this way. I may not in good conscience be able to lump everyone into my hate orgy for anti-science Republicans, but it's true that Democrats have not been telling people this is no big deal, and it's true that they have not been in a position to direct the response. The stink of COVID death clings to Republicans in America.
there are 330 million americans...75ish voted for biden. subtract people with disabilities and small kids and you have like 250 million people who are in an anti-science cult or willfully ignorant buffoons.
we are the minority in this country - normal responsible people.
New tagline. CF: Home of the normal, responsible people.....
Amazing, considering how this place started because I was a garbage idiot baby.
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1327032993031069701
Honestly, this thread title is getting less sarcastic by the day.
Quote from: Diomedes on November 13, 2020, 10:26:01 AM
As much as I want to put all of this on the anti-science Republican death cult
how could you...since march theres been a thousand videos of bars, lakes and beaches, etc packed with hundreds or evens thousands of young idiots shoulder to shoulder who dont even know what a republican is...
just about all republicans are stupid but not all stupid people are republican
that being said i would bet even these dolts if polled would overwhelmingly be trumpers even if they dont really know why
Publix is our local supermarket chain here. They have mask-wearing requirements to shop in their stores. I counted no less than 10 customers in there last night without masks. And it wasn't children either. They were white, black, male, female, older and younger.
I'm done being angry or outraged anymore. It's a waste of time because no one is going to do anything about it here.
I personally think they should all be made to work Covid wards without masks or PPE until they become infected. Then just put them in a room together and let nature take its course. Throw DeSantis, Scott, Gaetz, Rubio and the rest of the deplorables in there with them for good measure.
November 4th was the first day we reported over 100k new cases in a day. Metrics have not dropped below that since. Yesterday, we were above 150k. That's one week to go from 100k to 150k.
So, question: how long before we see more than 200k new daily cases? Tomorrow? Early next week?
How high does it go? 300k new daily cases before Thanksgiving?
Jesus farging Christ this is a disaster.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/coronavirus/ice-cream-shop-employees-say-couple-violently-attacked-them-over-mask-policy/2469635/?fbclid=IwAR20k9_X-UkavS4xlWbZwOWMIGAPm6sBIoLQ18slI_v_LW4FRIYmqHt46Sg
But muh freedum
iceholes. And made to feel powerful bc of the GOP and the idiot Q morons
I know that area. Not surprising that something like this happened there.
U.S. Adds 184,000 Coronavirus Cases In 1 Day, With No End In Sight (https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/14/934973850/u-s-adds-184-000-coronavirus-cases-in-one-day-with-no-end-in-sight)
I think 320 million could qualify as an end in sight.
Well, we all knew this day would come. Or already did some time ago.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/south-dakota-emergency-room-nurse-says-some-patients-insist-covid-19-isnt-real-even-as-theyre-dying-from-it-2020-11-16?mod=MW_article_top_stories
Edit: I TOLD YOU IDIOTS I DON'T HAVE COVID GODDAMMIT! It must just be some lung cancer or sompin.
I just read the WaPo version of that article. I guess I'm a ghoul, but I hope more people like that just farging die. farg them, farg their families. They are people who fire guns into a crowd and blame the bleeding victims for not dodging the bullets while whining "muh rights." I want to shout it from the mountaintops: let them all die. It's good when bad things happen to bad people.
Perhaps we can take solace in some Darwinian effect going on here. But it doesn't account for the lost lives of healthcare workers trying to help these mouth breathers tracheal breathers.
Don't count on all those healthcare workers to faithfully execute a suicide mission. My wife is a nurse of more than a dozen years experience at a world renown hospital, and she is hella dedicated to her work. But she's not in the armed services. She didn't sign her life away. If her work environment becomes unsafe, she will resign. We will not sacrifice the health of our family on the alter of willful ignorance and Republican indecency.
Buckle up, she's about to have a rough December.
Quote from: Eagaholic on November 17, 2020, 07:52:15 AM
Well, we all knew this day would come. Or already did some time ago.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/south-dakota-emergency-room-nurse-says-some-patients-insist-covid-19-isnt-real-even-as-theyre-dying-from-it-2020-11-16?mod=MW_article_top_stories
Edit: I TOLD YOU IDIOTS I DON'T HAVE COVID GODDAMMIT! It must just be some lung cancer or sompin.
I saw this and immediately thought about how stupid people must be to have believed this administration and their outright lies about the virus. Politicizing it has been disgusting. Every GOP, QAnon, FoxNews, OANN and Newsmax idiot who has shrugged this off have blood on their hands. Not that they give a shtein. Even when they get it, or die from it, their followers still think its some bullshtein.
And the people whom this nurse speaks of...shame on them too for being so blinded by their dear leaders. If they're listening to Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity or any of those iceholes they deserve what they get. The problem is their ignorance isn't just killing them. And they don't get that. The mantra of "its my right not to wear a mask..." would be fine if this weren't something they could pass on.
Such a farged up situation exacerbated by dumbfargs
I had someone say (again) that it's all a hoax.
If losing my pension wasn't an issue I probably would have punched that motherfarger in the face this morning. As it is I will probably get a call from HR for what I did say, but farg it... wear a mask or get the motherfarging hell OUT.
I'm so over these imbeciles.
Quote from: General_Failure on November 17, 2020, 09:19:31 AMBuckle up, she's about to have a rough December.
She might be unemployed by then, which would be fine with me. I'll take poverty over COVID.
The worst part is it didn't have to go this way. It still would have been bad but not like this. We did it to ourselves. It's a self-inflicted wound that this society will never overcome.
This is America. It's full of Americans. It was always going to go stupid.
You know there are a bunch of news organizations prepping big headlines and feature coverage for the big 250 k in a couple days.
Ima bet Fox News doesn't start blaring milestones until Jan.21st, at which point they will immediately shift to putting the number on Biden, so they'll lead with something about three votes cast by the same dead person in Arizona.
oh absolutely.
It'll then become Biden's Virus and why isn't he doing enough? Why is he letting the red states cook themselves to death?
SD's already flying at half mast for his infected brethren. https://twitter.com/judahariel/status/1327777462802116609
https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-truthers-try-to-invade-utah-valley-hospital-where-patrice-grossman-died
how does 438,000 dead (in the U.S.) by March 1 sound to you?
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america?view=total-deaths&tab=trend
https://twitter.com/jake_zuckerman/status/1329545888037965825
I've never heard someone Porky Pig their way through a Fruedean Slip before. https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1329796911583404032
We did it, guys. All our licking doorknobs paid off, we passed 200,000 new cases in a single day! USA! USA! USA!
if im reading this right almost one out of every ten people in ND has covid?...is that right?
Total cases per 1M/pop.:
1. North Dakota 95,377
2. South Dakota 82,591
3. Iowa 66,730
4. Wisconsin 60,915
5. Nebraska 58,431
6. Utah 55,265
7. Montana 52,097
8. Illinois 51,792
9. Idaho 51,287
10. Tennessee 49,856
Yeah.
They don't give a farg
Happy Thanksgiving from your Supreme Court. https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1331840656696877057
Get used to it until Biden packs the farg out of the court.
Yeah, I'm not holding my breath on that. I'll believe he won't be a moderate centrist who spends all his time pandering to and placating the Republicans when I see it.
no shot to pack the court. hopefully thomas gets covid at a super spreader party today...thats literally the only hope
good look at vaccine distribution
https://t.co/GU9N6Uj9Xq?amp=1
i have a very bad feeling about how this is going to go. between people not going back from their 2nd shots and the anti vax propaganda AND how right wing media would rather see the world burn than biden get credit for ending the pandemic....we very well might be in a situation where not nearly enough people get this to have a return to normalcy.
All I know is that my family and I will be getting the vaccine as soon as it is available. That's all I can really control.
Unfortunately, I can easily see it swinging your way, especially in my area. My nephew was spouting the "Bill Gates" horseshtein the other day. His wife is a rabid anti-vaxxer anyway... :boom
Millennial Trumpers...
between the people off the grid/low information and the anti vax lunatics its really easy for us to not hit the numbers we need as a country. though really at that point open it up, we're vaccinated, if they get it and die MEH
im not getting it for at least a year and im super pro vaccine...of course unlike maga ill still mask up wherever i go and not really go anywhere until i get it...in fact me and wifey are both masking up for the rest of our lives...take the vid out of it if everyone masked up and cleansed properly we could limit the flu to a crazy degree
Not getting it for a year is dumb. You're not going to know anything more after a year about the safety that you won't already know by the time it's available to us normal people anyway. It'll be this spring and the tens of thousands of people that got vaccinated in the trials will have been had it in their system for 8-10 months at that point. If something hadn't happened to them by then, it's not happening
Definitely keep the mask though. Not just because you're a horrible monster who frightens children, but because we absolutely need to normalize that for people when they're sick, and also because it'll rustle the jimmies of Vanilla Isis.
Vanilla Isis, lol
I think I'll replace 'American Taliban' with that from now on.
There's also Y'all Queda, but I refuse to say y'all.
I love y'all and use it routinely. The English language has a weak point on the second person plural pronoun game.
After damn near 30 years of my life South of the Mason Dixon-line, that's the least of my problems with the South.
I like how Vanilla Isis calls attention to the snowflake white complexion of the targeted group...which "y'all" doesn't quite capture.
I'll stick with yous.
This is what the "I'm an adult and can choose what I want to do" iceholes still don't get. They don't get that their ignorance and icehole behavior affect others. They still say this is the flu. Or whatever other shtein they come up with.
Now this young person didn't die. But they're going to have to live with this forever.
https://twitter.com/rileybehrens/status/1333230792206553089 21
https://twitter.com/houpublicsafety/status/1334234905962754050 21
A friend of mine was telling me about her Thanksgiving dinner fiasco. They had one for her work, her fault for attending in the first place I guess. Maybe it was one of those mandatory things, I don't know. Anyway, some idiot goober showed up, announced halfway through that he hadn't been feeling well and was waiting on the results of his test. He hadn't even informed his own family, nevermind all these people at a big dumb office dinner. Just up and decided, "I'm super sick, I don't know if it's the flu or the corona, I'm just gonna go to this party and load up on mashed potatoes."
I can't believe I still can't believe these kinds of things actually happen. I mean, I know there's tons of total shteinheads out there and I'm sure plenty enough of these stories are true, but I still just can't wrap my head around it.
Anything's possible if you don't value other people's lives.
When these folks were denying climate science, it was easier to look the other way, because the consequences of their actions/inaction were too diffuse to elucidate simply. Now, we have basically a one-to-one relation between refusal to behave in accordance with science, and literal actual harm/death to other, identifiable people.
The line igy quoted in another thread, about the Reagan era Republicans realizing best and soonest how fundamentally selfish the American people are applies well here. Selfish even to the point of self-extinction, it turns out. I would argue that those Republicans were hardly the first to know it. The founders themselves (and innumerable other thinkers for millenia prior) well knew how base human nature is, and attempted to devise a system that accounted for our failings, and create institutions that would militate against our worst behaviors. Unfortunately, they couldn't imagine circumstances as bizarre and extreme as the ones we now face, nor a leader so thoroughly corrupted and petty.
So, here we are.
New MD cases in last 24 hours totally blows up the previous record.
3,792 today / 2,910 (11/10)
Again the after effects are a problem which the idiots still don't understand
https://twitter.com/jeff_legwold/status/1334926455390810118 21
DeSantis is directly responsible for the needless deaths of tens of thousands of Floridians. Typically if a person kills that many people, they're hunted down and thrown into a jail cell. He's getting invitations to the White House.
When this is all over there *should be* Nuremberg-style trials. There won't be but there should be.
good luck with that...10% of the country doesnt think covid exists...over half thinks its not serious and biden just said he wished trump would come to the inauguration so the country can heal
It's just the flu. I heard that today. Again. Imma go fargtard on someone soon. I can feel it.
Quote from: Rome on December 04, 2020, 05:32:35 PM
It's just the flu. I heard that today. Again. Imma go fargtard on someone soon. I can feel it.
Masks don't work
It's tyranny
99% of people survive
The vaccine was only announced after the election for political reasons
Curios how many of you will take the vaccine. At first I was a hard pass but 2 years ago I got chicken pox and that week and a half sucked ass. If I could have just taken a shot and not have gone through that I'd have done it.
Taking it. I'd be first in line if I could.
I drink tap water and eat fish out of the Chesapeake.
If the vaccine is good enough for the masses it's good enough for me.
I've read enough about the vaccine and its development at this point to be way more scared of long term complications from COVID than anything from the vaccine. Being a teacher I assume I'll be in "wave 2" of the vaccine after the hospital workers and elderly/compromised, so. Shoot me up.
I'll take it. I don't want this damn virus.
I'm guessing it'll be April or May before I get it
id 100% take the vaccine...the only way it works is if we all take it
Wouldn't the anti vaxxers and redneck MAGAts who refuse just get sick then?
Natural thinning of the herd
There's a percentage of people who can't get it for various health reasons who rely on herd immunity that are going to continue to be boned for a while.
I wonder if some of the older Trumpers who think this is a hoax or whatever we're around when polio was rampant? I'd like to ask them if they were happy they received that vaccine
its something like 80% of the population needs to do it...the % of people who *cant* is not close to 20. the % of people who believe science is the jews doing is more than 20
Your Abrahamic alchemy won't catch me with my guard down.
I hesitate to say it, but there are some legit reasons to be skeptical about the vaccine(s).
Are they being rushed? I mean, obviously the answer here is, yes. Nevermind that the rush is for good cause, a rush is a rush. Things can be missed when you're rushing. It's encouraging that test groups of ~40k have shown, depending on the type of vaccine, between 70 and 95 percent effectiveness. But let's be clear, 40k is not many people to test a vaccine against when you're about to administer the thing to billions of people. There will be surprises. Do you really want to be in the early groups of millions to bear out those surprises?
There's also the question of these new mRNA drugs. They are very very new. The technology is exciting, and the results so far are also great...but this is not something we have any serious record for. The old way of making vaccines--which is the type of COVID vaccine the U.K. is developing--have well established sets of data and track record. Thousands of studies, many many millions of vaccinations, decades of data. We don't have any of that record for mRNA. We have a couple rushed studies, on a very small number of subjects. Of the 75k or people in the two studies for the mRNA vaccines...start breaking those down into groups....you're going to have to vaccinate millions and millions of African Americans, from vastly different places and communities...does the 8 or 10 k subjects in the testing really give you a reliable read on how that will go writ large? The consequences of these vaccines may not be known for years...is it smart to give the entire population a vaccine that you have only several months worth of history for?
I'm a guy who sings the praises of science, and I'm just normal fool, so I'm willing to be vaccinated as soon as it's my turn, but I'm not doing so blindly. There are risk here. In my judgment however, the alternative is unacceptable. But I'm not going to be down on informed people--informed people--who decline to be vaccinated, especially by the mRNA types of vaccines.
My wife's hospital sees this problem as well, and though they will recommend that their staff be vaccinated, and provide vaccination for free, they won't require it. It's one thing to require the flu vaccine, which is legit, airtight science, that can stand up in court, and another entirely to require people to take these new ones.
p.s. right or not, plenty of people remember the Polio vaccine not so much for how successful it was, but for the contaminated Cutter vaccines, which literally gave Polio to those who were given it. You don't have much margin for error with vaccines...even a relatively small oversight can have an outsize affect on the willingness of the public to adopt it.
Good read and all fair points.
Being part of the non essential people who get this will help my comfort level. If the distribution from Dec-Apr goes well with people then I won't have worries. Now if people start having debilitating side effects it will be a different conversation.
Speaking of essential vs non. The GOPers in OK have decided that elected officials are higher up the ladder than teachers. You know, the people they're forcing to be in class around kids.
Quote from: Diomedes on December 06, 2020, 09:16:30 AM
I hesitate to say it, but there are some legit reasons to be skeptical about the vaccine(s).
Are they being rushed? I mean, obviously the answer here is, yes. Nevermind that the rush is for good cause, a rush is a rush. Things can be missed when you're rushing. It's encouraging that test groups of ~40k have shown, depending on the type of vaccine, between 70 and 95 percent effectiveness. But let's be clear, 40k is not many people to test a vaccine against when you're about to administer the thing to billions of people. There will be surprises. Do you really want to be in the early groups of millions to bear out those surprises?
There's also the question of these new mRNA drugs. They are very very new. The technology is exciting, and the results so far are also great...but this is not something we have any serious record for. The old way of making vaccines--which is the type of COVID vaccine the U.K. is developing--have well established sets of data and track record. Thousands of studies, many many millions of vaccinations, decades of data. We don't have any of that record for mRNA. We have a couple rushed studies, on a very small number of subjects. Of the 75k or people in the two studies for the mRNA vaccines...start breaking those down into groups....you're going to have to vaccinate millions and millions of African Americans, from vastly different places and communities...does the 8 or 10 k subjects in the testing really give you a reliable read on how that will go writ large? The consequences of these vaccines may not be known for years...is it smart to give the entire population a vaccine that you have only several months worth of history for?
I'm a guy who sings the praises of science, and I'm just normal fool, so I'm willing to be vaccinated as soon as it's my turn, but I'm not doing so blindly. There are risk here. In my judgment however, the alternative is unacceptable. But I'm not going to be down on informed people--informed people--who decline to be vaccinated, especially by the mRNA types of vaccines.
My wife's hospital sees this problem as well, and though they will recommend that their staff be vaccinated, and provide vaccination for free, they won't require it. It's one thing to require the flu vaccine, which is legit, airtight science, that can stand up in court, and another entirely to require people to take these new ones.
p.s. right or not, plenty of people remember the Polio vaccine not so much for how successful it was, but for the contaminated Cutter vaccines, which literally gave Polio to those who were given it. You don't have much margin for error with vaccines...even a relatively small oversight can have an outsize affect on the willingness of the public to adopt it.
ditto times a thousand
FTR from what I've read I believe we've been poking people with rna vaccines (ie testing new ones) for 15ish years now. It took them a while to figure out what they needed to alter to make it not send immune system into overdrive, but they did
Yes, I'm aware that mRNA research has been under way for decades. It's not mad science.
Nor however has it been used on a large scale, nevermind global.
True, but hard to believe there'd be more to fear from that than the typical dna-based vaccines that are out there. mRNA without the rest of the building blocks is pretty useless from what I understand. It'll instruct your cells to build the spoken proteins, your immune system will go after said proteins, and then it's not in your system anymore.
TBh the old school ways of just injecting altered viruses into the body freaks me out a lot more haha. Maybe I've seen too many movies/read too many zombie books but just feels like one of these days we're gonna make an altered virus for a vaccine that wipes us out lol
I'd be fine with that. We all gotta go. Let nature recover with the monkeys in charge.
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Welp... one of us turkeys was bound to lose this lottery, just from the law of averages.
I guess I'm that turkey... Gobble gobble.
Tested positive Saturday after having some symptoms that felt like a sinus infection.
To this point, all my symptoms have been thankfully mild. Fever off-and-on (up to 100), a bit fatigued at times, a sporadic dry cough. Actually, I feel a bit better today than I had yesterday.
Being a teacher (and the spouse of another teacher), living in Florida, I've been about as careful as I can be under the circumstances. Mask everywhere public, try to keep distance as best I can. I'll be ZOOMing with my classes as my energy level allows. Depending on how symptoms progress, I can go back in the classroom on Dec. 16.
To this point, my wife and children have tested negative. I'm trying to keep distance, but we live in a fairly small house. Wearing a mask in my own home sucks, but it's what we need to do right now. My wife had a bad bout of pneumonia a few years back, so I worry about her.
Best part is that I have an answer to this question:
"What did you get for your 50th birthday?"
"COVID."
Damn Geo! Best wishes man. Hope it stays mild and hope your family stays in the clear.
Happy Birthday despite having to deal with that shtein
Hey, there's no way we could have predicted a teacher would catch this. But seriously, good luck.
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1336078192944291843
Sorry to hear it and I'm hopeful you'll be fine Geo, like most eventually are.
get well get well soon we want you to get well....geo the morman
send any bills to deathsantis or mar a lago
Lost taste today. Thought I had dodged that since it didn't happen early.
shtein... still, if that's the worst thing to happen, I came out better than many.
No fever and less cough than yesterday.
10 teachers and 100 students out of my school today for COVID protocol.
Hang in there, buddy. I'm sure I'm right behind you considering it seems like it's only a matter of time for us "essentials."
Damn...like Romey said hang in there.
Glad you don't have the fever and body aches
Just know that if you do wind up with the headache, fever, and a chill, we're not sending a singing nurse to your door to restore your pluck.
We're not? What the farg?
We're helping with the GoFundMe for the funeral.
Singing nurse? No fun if you have to socially distance.
It's fine, they bring two of those condoms from The Naked Gun.
Ho hum
https://twitter.com/choo_ek/status/1336483107009007617 21
https://twitter.com/randyjcruz/status/1338584655914786822
https://twitter.com/chrisgayomali/status/1339242530903379974
That's it. Perfectly illustrated in one article. The sheer ignorance and cavalier attitude that people have.
I had a conversation with someone the other day about this. About the whole peoples "freedoms" to not wear a mask or adhere to guidelines don't matter because it's not just them they're infecting and or killing. They still don't get it! Nor do they get that it's not just the flu or they spout off the mortality rate while ignoring the life altering after effects.
farg these people sideways. Selfish corksuckers.
You need to understand that other people aren't real like I am. I wish you could, but as you're not an actual person with hopes, dreams, and critical thinking skills, you will never understand why my sons Kaiden, Aiden, Braiden, Jaiden, and Iron Maiden need to be in school right now with no mask. And no, we will not be taking your mind control vaccine.
Lolol true
highest daily new case count yesterday at 252k+
highest daily death count yesterday at 3,406
on track for 560k+ dead Americans by April Fool's Day. That's basically a year of the Covid life in America.
in 2019 the flu killed about 22,000 Americans.
22k v. 560k.
I think we should start just putting people who say it's just another flu into re-education camps. Throw a bag over their heads, drag them off to a prison camp somewhere...be done with this bullshtein.
I switched jobs mid-pandemic, up in the air if that was a smart choice or not, and my new job is based in Arizona. I think 10% of our workforce currently have covid.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 08, 2020, 11:32:06 PM
Ho hum
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Pearl Harbor was a hoax
Geo check in buddy - how you livin? Everything alright?
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 21, 2020, 09:40:06 PM
Geo check in buddy - how you livin? Everything alright?
I'm doing well.
I tried to isolate after testing positive, but it was probably already too late. My wife and both kids tested positive later in the same week. I was worried about my wife because she had a bad case of pneumonia 10 years ago and some lingering breathing issues, but thankfully all of us had only mild symptoms. Mine was a mild fever (never topped 101) and cough that lasted about three days. Never had to use more than OTC flu medicine.
I will say that my walks have been drastically shortened - I was out of energy after one mile last night. This summer I did up to seven, and routinely was going 4-5 daily.
Did the obligatory 10-day quarantine and was back in the classroom just in time for the students to mentally go on Christmas break for three days before going officially. They were sweet, though - they worried about the old guy getting COVID. Of course, being a teacher, I was still working remotely. I had a sub in the room to meet that requirement, but I checked into the class via ZOOM. It was weird, but at least I could better keep some sort of instructional momentum.
We're all alive, relatively healthy, and extremely thankful. My wife has a former student that went into the hospital the other night with her symptoms, and she's only in her 20s. Feels like playing a sort of Russian Roulette - thankfully all of our chambers were empty. And on the plus side, we should
hopefully have some degree of immunity until we can get the vaccine.
Dude, so glad to hear you and yours are doing well.
Glad to hear you guys are doing okay.
its a good thing youre doing well geo, now you get to live through another immensely disappointing phillies season
My running line for years was that I knew exactly the year the Eagles won the Super Bowl - the season after I died.
I saw 2 Phils World Series, the Sixers win one, and Foles hoist up that damned Lombardi*. Everything else is gravy.
*Technically I was alive for the two Flyers Cups, but I was four for the second one.
Glad to hear things are ok, man. Hopefully it stays that way. And hopefully your energy comes back and doesn't stay zapped.
It took several weeks for my sister to recover her stamina. She is a see-a-hill-take-a-hill kind of woman, and not looking for any reason to lay around, but for weeks after she recovered, she would suffers occasional bouts of fatigue that forced her to stand down for a day at a time.
Gradually, these became less frequent and less debilitating. She's back to normal now.
My staff got me a gift card for Academy Sports for Christmas. Went to buy some things this morning. It is MANDATORY to wear masks in there. You literally cannot enter without one.
No less than half the customers were maskless, mostly in the gun section. I'm really starting to pray for their suffering. If I believed in a higher power I'd ask for it to strike them down hard and leave the rest of us alone.
Anyway, my fault for going to a store on the day after Christmas in this redneck hellhole.
I'm sure you'll all join me in shock that the feds have farged this up too.
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Warp Speed!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/l-a-county-hospitals-at-the-breaking-point-turn-away-ambulances
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344115043491831813
I wonder if the flu would have killed him
"But did he have underlying conditions?!"
- MAGAts asking their favorite question as if it matters
Letlow wasn't a Covid denier, but he flouted the medical advice he told others to follow, putting himself and others at risk of infection.
Then he got it and died.
Sad for his family but honestly, good riddance.
WaPo:
QuoteAs the coronavirus ravaged Louisiana, Letlow urged residents to follow social distancing guidelines and to listen to doctors...But photos on his Twitter page show he had an inconsistent record of wearing masks while campaigning, sometimes covering his face at meet-and-greets but also speaking indoors without a mask on to rooms of mask-free residents. At a candidate forum in October, Letlow urged the state to ease pandemic restrictions, saying, "We're now at a place if we do not open our economy, we're in real danger."
After his symptoms worsened earlier this month, Letlow was first taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, where he sounded a hopeful note on Dec. 21, tweeting that he was "confident" in his recovery. Two days later, he was taken to a Shreveport hospital and placed in an intensive care unit, where he was treated with remdesivir and steroids, according to a statement from his office.
This week, he was in critical condition but showing signs of recovery, G.E. Ghali, the chancellor of LSU Health Shreveport, told the Advocate. But on Tuesday, he suffered a "cardiac event" and died, Ghali said. Asked whether any underlying conditions might have contributed to his death, Ghali said, "None. All covid related," the Advocate reported.
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Yesterday the nation logged the highest daily death toll on record.
My hot nurse wife got her vaccine appointment for Wednesday the 6th.
This is good.
My daughter and I were in St Augustine yesterday. It was packed like I've rarely seen before. Very few masks being worn. We looked at each other and said see ya and got the farg out of there.
I will never ever in my entire life understand the utter farging selfish stupidity being displayed right now. To say we deserve every bit of what's happening is an understatement.
We did see a caravan of UPS trucks being escorted by law enforcement. I assume they were carrying vaccines, which I suppose is good news. The fact that this retarded regime has botched even that isn't surprising in the least either.
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1344071898150424579
Quote from: Diomedes on December 31, 2020, 10:10:07 AM
My hot nurse wife got her vaccine appointment for Wednesday the 6th.
This is good.
Awesome. Get those health care workers and those in the most danger done.
This is where patience and persistence would be the key. Unfortunately, many Americans seem to lack a spirit of compassion, unity and community.
Wife has a former student who was in ICU with COVID for nine days. She's out now, but is expected to take months to recover. In her 20s, no known comorbidities. And here is my fat ass at 50, basically suffering a mild head cold because of it. No rhyme or reason, it's like playing a game of viral Russian Roulette.
Stay safe, folks.
Quote from: Diomedes on December 31, 2020, 10:10:07 AM
My hot nurse wife got her vaccine appointment for Wednesday the 6th.
This is good.
Wonderful. It's a great relief. But she should know not to let her guard down. Moderna's vax takes about 10 days to kick in and a few more to reach 95% efficacy (I expect Pfizer's is the same). Some other good news is that in phase 3 trials, of the 15,000 who got the vaccine, there have been none to date who have developed severe covid symptoms, which is remarkable. (about 5% still get it). On the down side, maybe 50% get moderate to severe side effects which usually mitigate in 3 weeks.
Assuming you haven't already caved on this issue, the grandparents are going to be thrilled that they still can't see the grandkids because they're not vaccinated yet.
https://twitter.com/jacobgrier/status/1344417406505033728
Lol are they farging serious?
Someone better override that
Glad your wife is getting the vaccine, Dio.
And what Geo mentioned is why we have anti maskers and science deniers. They just don't get that this isn't some flu.
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1344992533466804225
This is a broken country full of broken people. Sigh.
https://twitter.com/dats/status/1345182127860506625
Larry King caught the Rona. Our last memory of him might be him being confused as to why Danny Pudi doesn't have a private jet.
I honestly thought he was dead.
No, that's just how he's looked for the last 30 years.
You guys might want to take a peek at your checking accounts. The $1,200 hit mine this morning.
https://twitter.com/balleralert/status/1346524001615695873
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yesterday was first time more than 4k deaths reported for one 24 hour period....so far today, new cases reported already above 7 day average, with hours more to go before close of business...will certainly be the highest total count to date, might approach or even surpass 300k new cases
a second, different, mutation of the virus identified, also more contagious than the original, but thankfully it appears they are both blocked by the vaccines
Mrs. Dio got her vaccine on Wednesday as planned, and is already booked for the booster in a couple weeks. She's worried about that one, as reportedly a lot of people are suffering flu-like symptoms for a day or two following the booster shot.
Houston region COVID hospitalizations have more than doubled since Thanksgiving. We're on pace to exceed July's peek in 1-2 weeks.
Elective surgeries have been shelved.
Bars closed (but they're loopholing by offering "food" at some of them)
restaurants reduced to 50%
The bars are offering some microwave shtein to be considered food sales. A lot of restaurants are not heeding the deal either.
One f my customers has it now. She and her family had a big NY party. So big shock there...
And the have our first confirmed case of the UK variant here. And apparently the dude lied to the health dept and told them he did not travel but indeed had been to Colorado.
Quote from: Diomedes on January 05, 2021, 06:24:17 PM
https://twitter.com/balleralert/status/1346524001615695873
And now the remix.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJw3WN0gbwl/?igshid=1gregnrwld1v8
https://youtu.be/Cs7CCcmm5vc
I was talking to some friends today and finally took a look at the numbers for Lancaster county. It was doing relatively okay for most of the year, there were even a couple of days where there were zero new cases. September 13th, zero cases. September 14th, 1,409 cases. Once schools opened up and holidays came around, it started spiking hard. It took a whole two months to go from zero new cases a day to 12k.
Thanks to the brave men of Vanilla Isis, it spiked back up again this week. Instead of days where the high was closing in on a thousand, we've had a whole two days in the last month in a half where the new cases dipped below 5k. And these dumb motherfargers are still gonna walk around without a mask yelling about muh freedoms.
It's getting worse here too. But of course we have the deniers.
This shtein is never going away. Look at the images from Tuscaloosa last night after Bama won. Nuts to butts packed everywhere
Quebec is gonna pull an England and farg things up. Quebec to allow 90-day delay before second vaccine doses, more than double what national panel advises (https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-to-allow-90-day-delay-before-second-vaccine-doses-more-than-double-what-national-panel-advises-1.5267173)
QuoteQuebec announced in late December it would be delaying second doses or "booster shots" of the vaccine, but the province hadn't said until Thursday what kind of delay it had in mind.
Provincial officials now say the second dose should come between 42 and 90 days after the first.
Such a schedule would allow the province to give the vaccine to more people who would otherwise have to wait for their first dose, said the health officials.
A delay of 90 days is much longer than what's been recommended by Pfizer (21 days, for its vaccine), Moderna (28 days, for its vaccine), and federal public health advisors in their recommendation on Wednesday (up to 42 days for both vaccines).
However, that national advisory panel, called NACI, said Thursday that provinces have some leeway to make their own decisions and they aren't opposing Quebec's 90-day timeline.
There's gonna be a lot of people who straight up won't get their second shot.
So for months now we've been combating Trump's idiocy - from Faucci on down - trying to build public trust by saying we're following the science. That's been a rallying credo, to follow the science. Now Canada, and a good number of officials in the US, are saying know what? Throw the science out the window. Forget the research protocols demonstrated to be safe and effective. We're gonna just take a guess here. And wear some garlic around your neck too, to make up for the increased interval. Trust us.
Didn't Canada procure more vaccine doses than they have people? I swear I saw a headline to that affect recently?
Quote from: Diomedes on January 15, 2021, 12:32:17 PM
Didn't Canada procure more vaccine doses than they have people? I swear I saw a headline to that affect recently?
I don't know if production is keeping up with purchases. Either way, imagine Quebec as French Texas whenever they're in the news.
Quote from: General_Failure on January 15, 2021, 12:41:53 PM...imagine Quebec as French Texas whenever they're in the news.
This much I've gathered over the years.
Quote from: General_Failure on January 15, 2021, 12:41:53 PM
Quote from: Diomedes on January 15, 2021, 12:32:17 PM
Didn't Canada procure more vaccine doses than they have people? I swear I saw a headline to that affect recently?
I don't know if production is keeping up with purchases. Either way, imagine Quebec as French Texas whenever they're in the news.
is Ted Cruz from there?
He is from Canada. Which makes a compelling argument to put up a Canadian wall.
Edit: He is from Calgary. Years ago my family went on vacation there. It such was beautiful country. Once we stopped at a gas station to use the restroom and I saw scribbled on the wall "here I sit with my icehole hurtin. I just gave birth to a new alburtan." It's what makes me think of Cruz.
We have surpassed 400k dead now.
So the size of an American city has now died.
New Orleans is 390k pop
Deaths per month in 2020/2021;
Feb 20 - 1
March - 3768
April - 58,960
May - 42,099
June - 23,416 (reduction from the effect of closures and working from home)
July - 26,164
August - 30,234
Sept - 23,341
Oct - 23,691
Nov - 37,172
Dec - 77,124 (them dadgum holiday get together but muh freedom)
Jan 2021 - 54,166 (as of the 19th)
Had to take another test today and I have a feeling I've got it this time. I feel like I'm coming down with a cold.
Why am I in this position? Three coworkers are sick. One didn't come in Monday. He called ahead and said he had a sinus infection and wasn't coming in. Two others had the same symptoms. They showed up at work. And my boss didn't send them home. Oh and they both came back into work Tuesday. Finally around 4 yesterday I told the guy to go get tested. He calls me last night to say he's positive.
My boss flips out because "why did they come to work?!" And I'm like why didn't you send them home!!
So we are all having to get tested. The girl who also came in? She's positive (her fiancé is negative though).
I thought I was getting a rapid test today at CVS but they said they didn't have them so I had to do the PCR. I'll see results in 2-3 days.
But I have that feeling that ya get before you get sick. Little itchiness in the back of my throat. Little bit of a runny nose. Little bit of tiredness. Hopefully I'm just trippin and it's nothing.
But got damn...why did they come to work? And my boss not sending them home was no bueno.
Get well soon.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 20, 2021, 08:42:54 PM
Had to take another test today and I have a feeling I've got it this time.
Sorry to hear it.
I hope you'll be fine but I'm ok with you suffering a bit first.
Best of luck, Phreak.
Thanks fellas. Much appreciated.
It's frustrating to have done what was needed by staying home and not going out and sacrificing social activities or going home for Christmas and then because of people not staying home I may have it.
damn hentz you gotta get outta that state
Reuters, on a variant that has been found to evade anti-body treatment...researchers frantically trying to figure out if it also shrugs off the vaccine. Same link as drunk igy posted elsewhere:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-safrica-variant-idUSKBN29Q0SK?taid=60093f171a90330001f1cb8c&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
But wait, there's more. In Brazil, a similar sounding variant...but they aren't calling the Brazil one "501Y.V2," they're calling it "P1," noting that it bears 20 mutations from the originally identified strain. I'd love to know if these are the same new strand or if we have multiple variations on the theme of "farg your vaccine" percolating out there.
"This new variant, called P1, has about 20 mutations, including one that's especially concerning. In laboratory settings, this mutation helps the virus avoid or evade antibodies."
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/19/958472446/scientists-worry-about-coronavirus-variant-spreading-in-brazil
this article lists some of the names of strains...it's gonna get confusing
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/brazil-a-new-covid-variant-has-been-discovered-heres-what-we-know-so-far.html
the OG - SARS-CoV-2
UK variant - SARS-CoV-2 VOC 202012/01
South Africa variant - 501Y.V2
Brazil variant - traced to B.1.1.248 strain and has 12 mutations in the spike protein - is this the same one as what the NPR piece called "P1?" I have no idea.
There's a kid I know who found out her anti-masker mom caught the Rona on an interstate car trip with a stranger. The mom already had issues that had her at 50% lung capacity, and she's been fighting a respiratory infection for months. They sent her home because her oxygen levels were just at the cutoff for keeping her, but they want her to go back tomorrow because she's at risk for blood clots.
Anybody with a hot nurse wife, what's the odds this kid is going to lose her idiot mom?
Survey says: High.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 20, 2021, 09:47:57 PM
Thanks fellas. Much appreciated.
It's frustrating to have done what was needed by staying home and not going out and sacrificing social activities or going home for Christmas and then because of people not staying home I may have it.
Hang in there, buddy.
Thanks man...I don't have my PCR tests back yet so I'm headed to go get a rapid here in a bit. I took the PCR swab on Wednesday. But I believe my first exposure was Monday now so today makes day five since exposure.
Even if I am negative I know I've got a little cold going on. Runny nose still and overall tiredness.
The two from work are still having a helluva time. Bet ya the girl, whom I'm friends with, believes this shtein is real now.
Debbie Birx is on Face The Nation telling everyone she did what she could to prevent this catastrophe.
Maggie Brennan is drilling her hard.
strap on?
I tested negative on both tests thankfully.
Still had some minor congestion but no other symptoms developed.
Dodged a bullet. But I'm sure it'll happen again since no one gives a farg.
I was pretty sure I had covid beginning of December. On again off again sore throat...fatigued as all hell...congested...2 family members I had seen a few days prior tested positive. I was at my brothers bachelor party the prior week and we only wore masks in the casino. Was in my brother's wedding Jan 8th...it was in Montgomery county, masks were optional. Staff was fully masked but 100 guests maybe 5 had masks on. Donated blood Wednesday...test came back negative.
It is once again time to eat the rich. https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1353330538292121602
Quote from: Rome on January 24, 2021, 11:21:22 AM
Debbie Birx is on Face The Nation telling everyone she did what she could to prevent this catastrophe.
Maggie Brennan is drilling her hard.
Sure glad she said something when it was happening...
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1353401007472959489 21
farg her and her scarves. She's a goddamn coward and so are the rest of the "scientists" who didn't have the backbone to stand up to that Orange fargface and his band of Nazi thugs.
Mrs. Dio got her COVID booster today.
We're up to six infected.
One had it and is negative.
Three are still positive
Two others likely have it and are awaiting tests (the guys wife had to be taken to the hospital bc of her breathing)
Fun times. We're still busy as farg and now have a skeleton crew to do the same volume of business.
Update: Still no plans to vaccinate "essential" workers here in fargtopia. Everything is wide open. No restrictions. People aren't even bothering with masks for the most part. I've given up any hope of making it through this without getting infected simply because of the stupefying selfishness and willful ignorance of people here.
Anti-vax protesters showed up at Dodgers Stadium, so the police shut it down. The vaccinations, not the protest.
Meanwhile, their Twitter account put this up. https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1355641909176270850
Scumbag idiots.
What the farg is wrong with people? How do they become so god damn stupid? Is it because they're lonely fargs who sit around digging to the deepest parts of the internet to find whack job shtein?
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He should run for Congress
Baltimore Sun headlines today
Q: Should I sign up for the vaccine in more than one system? Like, with the County and also with my Hospital system? Or just with one list?
MD State Officials: Hmm...goood question. We don't know. We'll get back to you on that in a week.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-schrader-vaccine-list-20210202-qwsh42pipfg35j5adoifygr6hy-story.html
Also:
Maryland facing shortage of second COVID vaccine doses, health secretary says
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-vaccine-second-dose-shortages-20210201-lsx5bh6rjfh7ra3rhpjh247kxi-story.html
https://twitter.com/vincentrk/status/1358411628149170176
Good thread
That's strange, the guy is completely wrapped head to toe in PPE, except his hands, which actually handle the swab.
Quote from: Eagaholic on February 07, 2021, 02:25:43 PM
That's strange, the guy is completely wrapped head to toe in PPE, except his hands, which actually handle the swab.
It's probably in Florida.
It's probably DeSantis.
https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1358810151663370243
Anyone surprised?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-team-suppressed-covid-tests-161314625.html
Got news a couple weeks ago that a friend of a certain age, the female cohort of a couple who became something like adopted parents to me during college, has pancreatic cancer. An otherwise healthy 72 year old. The cancer was caught as early as you can catch it without accidentally discovering the tumor by direct obervation during surgery, but it's bad bad news. She'll have the Whipple procedure, and then 6 months of chemo. Grim shtein.
I'm doing what I can to help them, of course.
The first tangible task I've been given is to help the husband get his vaccine. He's not quite as together as the cancer victim, and she can't manage that for him given her condition and impending treatment.
What a shteinfarg this rollout is.
Mr. Adoptive Dio Dad is signed up with his county health department, and also his hospital network, on a list that acts as standing request for an appointment. Being of a certain age and health profile, he's emminently elibigle, but so are hundreds of thousands of others.
But wait, vaccines aren't going only through the health department and hospitals. They're also available through pharmacies. Allegedly.
I've just spent the day going down rabbit holes, trying to find out how to get him an appointment. In short, it's a scrum not unlike the first 60 seconds of Ticketmaster sales for the Led Zeppeline reunion tour, with the remaining Beatles opening. A tiny amoutn of appointments become available at each pharmacy that offers them, and if you happen to be online, in that particular pharmacie's system, different from all the others, and you have the kind of luck Sam Bradford's agent had...you get a date.
Everyone else, back to refreshing the screen compulsively....
More than 2M Marylanders currently qualify for the vaccine...the state gets about 11k shots per day.
FML
Makes me glad I'm not at risk and can wait it out in a rural area. Good luck to you guys.
Quote from: Diomedes on February 11, 2021, 02:42:47 PM
Got news a couple weeks ago that a friend of a certain age, the female cohort of a couple who became something like adopted parents to me during college, has pancreatic cancer. An otherwise healthy 72 year old. The cancer was caught as early as you can catch it without accidentally discovering the tumor by direct obervation during surgery, but it's bad bad news. She'll have the Whipple procedure, and then 6 months of chemo. Grim shtein.
I'm doing what I can to help them, of course.
The first tangible task I've been given is to help the husband get his vaccine. He's not quite as together as the cancer victim, and she can't manage that for him given her condition and impending treatment.
What a shteinfarg this rollout is.
Mr. Adoptive Dio Dad is signed up with his county health department, and also his hospital network, on a list that acts as standing request for an appointment. Being of a certain age and health profile, he's emminently elibigle, but so are hundreds of thousands of others.
But wait, vaccines aren't going only through the health department and hospitals. They're also available through pharmacies. Allegedly.
I've just spent the day going down rabbit holes, trying to find out how to get him an appointment. In short, it's a scrum not unlike the first 60 seconds of Ticketmaster sales for the Led Zeppeline reunion tour, with the remaining Beatles opening. A tiny amoutn of appointments become available at each pharmacy that offers them, and if you happen to be online, in that particular pharmacie's system, different from all the others, and you have the kind of luck Sam Bradford's agent had...you get a date.
Everyone else, back to refreshing the screen compulsively....
More than 2M Marylanders currently qualify for the vaccine...the state gets about 11k shots per day.
FML
As vaccines become more available you might try talking to pharmacies to see what they would do with any waste of the vaccine, which can occur for a number of reasons (eg Pfizer's has a substantial amount of overfill built into the vials, Moderna's is only good for 6 hours at room temp after the first dose is taken out of the vial). Depending on what is practical for you and the short notice for MAD (Mr Adoptive Dad) they might be able to call on short notice if there is any pending waste. Kind of like flying stand by. I think going in person > calling, and talking the the pharmacist > than the tech. Depending on your sales skills you might be able to chat them up so they'd be willing to keep your card handy just in case, and you may get different answers from different chain stores unless maybe your state has universal guidelines.
This is good counsel, thanks. I've read about people hanging around mass vaccination sites at the end of the day to try to scoop up doses that would otherwise be wasted. Unfortunately, I live about an hour away, and I've got my kids most days, so while I'm free to hit F5 and play the vaccine appointment lottery on their behalf online, I'm not able to jump up and be there if a call comes.
I tried the usual suspect as midnight rolled over, hoping some appointments might reset on the clock...no luck. There are millions of people doing the same thing I am right now, in Maryland alone.
And now, after all my caterwauling about how difficult it is to land an appointment, based on only one full day of trying....I got one this morning.
First attempt failed because it took me too long to enter all the details, by which time the slot I had selected must have been taken, because on my second attempt I selected a time slot later in the first available day, rather than the earliest available appointment listed...and jackpot. Confirmation of appointment, including booster shot appointment....done. Kinda hard to believe it worked. Holding my breath until Mr. Adoptive Dio Dad gets email confirmation...
Oh and by the way, because this is how the world works: first day slots are available is the day of Mrs. Adoptive Dio's Whipple procedure....of course.
Still, I'm relieved.
They did a study of 523,000 fully vaccinated Israelis. Zero deaths and only (4) severe illnesses.
That is beyond incredible.
Motherfarging science, bros. That's our way forward in all things.
Sheep trust the elites. Drink bleach.
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1360595747708809218
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1363970450381041665
USA! USA! USA!
Got my first jab yesterday. The state has been dragging its feet (though a lot of it is just not getting enough vaccines), and been concentrating on people 65*. They've allocated a small amount to teachers every week and it took them a month just to get through all the most vulnerable teachers. So instead of waiting around for my invite from DOE I've been searching the small mom and pop pharmacies and finally found one and me my wife and my mom all got in.
I feel kind of "blah" right now but I also only got about 5.5 hours of sleep so. Expecting to feel much worse on my 2nd dose considering what I've read from other people who got Moderna.
Not sure how it will work since I had the positive in December, but DeSantis supposedly said that the vaccine will be made available to teachers over 50 "very soon."
I've had no after-effects that I've noticed. A friend of mine (early 40s) who had it a month or so before me had a mild heart attack this week, and the doctors said he had lung and heart inflammation from COVID.
Quote from: Munson on February 25, 2021, 06:43:37 AM
I feel kind of "blah" right now but I also only got about 5.5 hours of sleep so. Expecting to feel much worse on my 2nd dose considering what I've read from other people who got Moderna.
I got the Moderna. My first dose was fairly noneventful, just tired for a day but also had this weird scalding icy hot sensation when running my hands under hot water. The second dose kicked my ass though with full-blown flu type symptoms, 80% of which were gone within a day and a half. But it took a full 2 to 3 weeks for minor but annoying things like a bit of flushing, light sweats and joint aches to completely go away. I suggest to people to schedule the second dose for when they have the next day off if it's possible. The 18 to 55 group tend to get more severe symptoms.
Yeah my arm is hurting like a bitch right now. Def hurting worse than the flu vaccine, but otherwise no other side effects yet 24 hours later.
We scheduled our 2nd shot for a Friday so at the very least well have the weekend to hopefully recover
https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1365707774643036160
Also a year ago today Saudi Arabia cancelled Hajj
https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1366869525971562498
Cue DeathSantis in 3...2...1...
I saw a piece last week that over 400 healthcare workers died from coronavirus during the post holiday surge, yet after the vaccine first became available. The real number is undoubtedly higher and doesn't include those who likely contracted it from a community source. Many of these folks dodged the corona bullet for months caring for others, only to contract and succumb to it a few days to a few weeks before the vaccine would have been available to them. It is also unknown how many of those deaths directly resulted from caring for CV patients who couldn't be bothered to wear a mask or give up socializing or whatever. Here's a site that tries to document these front line workers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/aug/11/lost-on-the-frontline-covid-19-coronavirus-us-healthcare-workers-deaths-database
It's a cheap political stunt. Private businesses have the right to enforce mask wearing if they choose. If a business owner refuses to protect his or her employees and customers, hopefully they'll start dying and people who are smarter than a virus will take over.
That's honestly what it's come down to for me. So few businesses here are requiring them it's getting harder to find a place to shop for groceries. I've deliberately stopped frequently restaurants that aren't enforcing mask-wearing and I hope every last one of them goes belly up.
People farging suck. News at 11.
Stupid hilbillies
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seems like half the people I know finally got their first shot in the last week. not me yet but it's starting to feel like being able to snort something off of a dirty bar toilet again is not too far away.
philly's rollout has predictably been a mess
last night they started an underground call for people to come by and get it since they had 500 extras. so i go down there and but there are already too many people in line. then a story comes out that yes they have extras but the leftovers are only for 1a and 1b.
the links to sign up are not private so people share them and ive been sent it 2 different times. there are no rules if you happen to sign up...its only supposed to be for 1a and 1b but theyre not asking for any proof or anything. so basically if you dont give a shtein you can easily line cut. so many people are doing this.
damn my morals i just feel super dirty signing up and taking a spot from someone who needs it even if they always have leftovers
Get ready for a lot of MUH FREEDUM videos coming out of TX.
Today is when the mask mandate ends.
https://twitter.com/katiedrumm/status/1369324358997602309
They're wary because they believe in dumb ass religious bullshtein. So do millions of American Christians. They both believe in some retarded farging fairy tale, but not science, and we sit here in this ghastly position exactly because of that.
I mean, the CIA fake vaccinating them to hunt down Bin Laden probably didn't help.
Well, hiding a mass murderer from an "ally" probably earns you some negative attention from said ally, no?
The lines get fuzzy when you're hidng a mass murderer from another mass murderer, who is using robots and doctors to kill.
Especially when the robots and doctors are killing people who aren't the ones hiding the mass murderer
But they grow poppies and my niece Crystal OD'd and died on that shtein!
Quote from: phattymatty on March 10, 2021, 10:22:25 AM
seems like half the people I know finally got their first shot in the last week. not me yet but it's starting to feel like being able to snort something off of a dirty bar toilet again is not too far away.
got mine on monday...moderna. had a couple mild side effects on tuesday...cold symptoms & very low grade fever...but back to normal today.
lucked out in that my dr's office has the vaccine (for their patients only)...plus i ate my way into being eligible due to my bmi. :paranoid
Was it just your first shot hunt? I felt kinda crappy for 24-36 hours after my first and I was wondering how many other people were getting similar reactions on their first shot.
I'm convinced I had covid back last January/feb before everything blew up, and apparently people who had it have stronger reactions to the first shot than others so.
Quote from: Munson on March 11, 2021, 11:33:55 AM
Was it just your first shot hunt? I felt kinda crappy for 24-36 hours after my first and I was wondering how many other people were getting similar reactions on their first shot.
I'm convinced I had covid back last January/feb before everything blew up, and apparently people who had it have stronger reactions to the first shot than others so.
yeah...it was my 1st shot.
On Saturday I get to drive to the Y'all part of Florida to get my first shot. Right off Lake Okeechobee.
I could have gotten one through the district, but I wanted my wife to get one as well, so we scheduled it together.
Pfizer.
Quote from: Munson on March 11, 2021, 11:33:55 AM
I'm convinced I had covid back last January/feb before everything blew up, and apparently people who had it have stronger reactions to the first shot than others so.
Great... It's be hilarious if I get more symptoms from the vaccine than I did from the 'rona.
Dude - you got fat?
I'm so proud of you!
Quote from: Rome on March 10, 2021, 07:11:28 PM
They're wary because they believe in dumb ass religious bullshtein. So do millions of American Christians. They both believe in some retarded farging fairy tale, but not science, and we sit here in this ghastly position exactly because of that.
one of the more frustrating (and racist) things about our current process is that vaccines are being provided in conservative, rural areas (likely with a much higher % of anti-maskers and covid hoaxers) than in predominantly urban and poor areas. trump is gone but we still suck ass.
Quote from: hunt on March 11, 2021, 10:25:23 AM
got mine on monday...moderna. had a couple mild side effects on tuesday...cold symptoms & very low grade fever...but back to normal today.
lucked out in that my dr's office has the vaccine (for their patients only)...plus i ate my way into being eligible due to my bmi. :paranoid
lol yeah I did the calculations and my BMI is right at the level needed to be considered obese and eligible. at least I accomplished one thing over the last year. they still won't call me to schedule though for some reason.
Quote from: Rome on March 11, 2021, 12:36:34 PM
Dude - you got fat?
I'm so proud of you!
the wife is too good of a cook, man. :-D
VA called yesterday saying they had vaccine appointments available. Scheduled me for this morning, just took the Johnson and Johnson one and done deal shot.
That's great.
Zero pain at the injection site. Extremely mild headache yesterday. Zero other side effects. Taking the dog on a 10 mile hike today.
Moderna available here. Wifey is on the registry. Nothing for me yet. Too healthy now. I guess I shouldn't have lost all this weight. Damn veggies!
Also - I overheard someone say that the vaccine is a hoax yesterday. Took every ounce of restraint on my part not to punch that motherfarger in the temple.
One down, one to go. No side effects, as far as I can tell.
I got a text Friday that I could get mine through the hospital I go to. I go Thursday for my first one. They use the Pfizer.
Quote from: Rome on March 14, 2021, 10:20:34 AMTook every ounce of restraint on my part not to punch that motherfarger in the temple.
LOL....if I had five bucks for every time you've said something like this, I could buy a ticket to fly down there and test your restraint in person you big tough talking blowhard. 100% guaranteed you ain't punching anyone in the temple, anywhere, anytime.
Wifey got her first Pfizer shot scheduled for Friday. Second is automatically scheduled for two weeks later. CVS has their shtein together. Publix, on the other hand, is a steaming pile of Republican dogshtein.
Half my staff just got called in to get their shots. I deferred until everyone else gets theirs.
Stimulus checks hit tomorrow.
First round of Pfizer is in my arm. I'm sitting in the 15 minute observation area where they have nurses walking around making sure none of us die.
I wonder if I'm gonna have any side effects. People at work said headache and chills. The chick giving me the shot said headache and nausea for her. My sister got really sick with flu like stuff for a day. But then others I've talked to had nothing.
I rarely get sick. Can't even remember the last time I had a cold. I've only had the flu 1-2x in my life and last was in 2008. So hopefully that means i won't feel anything.
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1373401463796293640
Florida man. It's farged up here. I went to pick up dinner for the family at a place called Charlie Horse here tonight. There wasn't a single seat open. Waiting line out the door and people in there packed to the gills. Not one mask on any of the diners.
The staff was mostly complying but this is the first time since this started I was spooked. I won't be back till I'm fully vaccinated (get my first dose of Pfizer on Monday).
I can only imagine how many of the 75 people in there were infected. I truly felt bad for the staff.
I'd be expecting DeSantis to reverse that in three... two... one....
He can't do jack shtein. Home rule. Cities can impose whatever restrictions they deem fit if a state of emergency is declared.
Quote from: Rome on March 20, 2021, 08:31:00 PM
Florida man. It's farged up here. I went to pick up dinner for the family at a place called Charlie Horse here tonight. There wasn't a single seat open. Waiting line out the door and people in there packed to the gills. Not one mask on any of the diners.
The staff was mostly complying but this is the first time since this started I was spooked. I won't be back till I'm fully vaccinated (get my first dose of Pfizer on Monday).
I can only imagine how many of the 75 people in there were infected. I truly felt bad for the staff.
Honestly it's like that here as well....ever since the vaccine started rolling hard it's like the Vid doesn't exist
Found out I'm getting the Moderna tomorrow. Weird. I guess they switched based on availability. Fine by me either way.
Got my shot. Pfizer after all. Walgreens gives all second doses 28 days later. It's easier for them from a scheduling standpoint. Wifey asked me how I felt... I said, relieved.
Yay science.
Good news.
Any side effects yet?
I had a low grade fever for a couple hours and felt lethargic for about 18hrs and that was it
Got my 2nd moderna yesterday around 4:30 PM. At some point over night I developed bad aches all over. Woke up today feeling like I had a really bad hangover or just worked out for the first time in months. Around noon-2o clockish I developed a fever of 100.4, been hovering around there ever since. Still lots of aches.
My mom got a pretty bad reaction to the 2nd Moderna shot as well. I hope that you get better quickly.
I took one Tylenol (bottle said take 2), so i cheated a little bit, but....fever finally broke by 7ish. Aches were starting to subside by the time I fell asleep....woke up today completely fine. Had a slight headache for a short period of time but that's it.
Having a strong reaction to the second shot may well be good news in that is shows your immune system is reacting with a robust response, which was programmed after your first shot. Likewise, a strong reaction after your first shot could be the effect from previously being exposed to covid, even if there were no symptoms.
I got a 12-hour Twitter time out for suggesting to an anti-vaxxer that they should feel free to die of Covid if they were intent on spreading their lies.
We are truly through the looking glass when it's acceptable to spread dangerous anti-science propaganda but not to encourage freedom of choice in proving science wrong.
finally got my first poke today. anyone still looking in the area check out Luminis Health - I've been on every government list, every hospital list for weeks, then signed up through Luminis just a few days ago and already got the email for this morning. Some big mega church in PG County, super organized in and out in 30 min including the 15 min observation period.
Are you forty-plus? shtein man we all getting gray up in here.
The only people who aren't are MDS and Munson, probably.
But thanks to having red hair, I have exactly 0 gray hair. Suck it, olds.
Quote from: General_Failure on April 03, 2021, 06:52:46 PM
The only people who aren't are MDS and Munson, probably.
But thanks to having red hair, I have exactly 0 gray hair. Suck it, olds.
95% of my gray is in my beard. It's a damned Santa Claus beard now.
I unfortunately am 40 plus. MD is open to anyone over 16 now though. basically the rural hick parts of MD have like 250 appointments a day that go unused yet everyone in the urban (democratic) areas is still struggling to get one.
I have red hair also but still gray like a mf these days.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on April 03, 2021, 06:59:22 PM
Quote from: General_Failure on April 03, 2021, 06:52:46 PM
The only people who aren't are MDS and Munson, probably.
But thanks to having red hair, I have exactly 0 gray hair. Suck it, olds.
95% of my gray is in my beard. It's a damned Santa Claus beard now.
same. not gray anywhere except for my face.
I've been killing myself getting into some semblance of shape over the last year. I'm down 46 pounds so I don't look like a grotesque whale anymore, but my hair is now pretty much gray with streaks of brown.
No beard, though. Gave that up years ago. Too much work.
Damn, 46 pounds is impressive.
I'm 34 but my facial hair is about 60% white. My sideburns are 50/50 now too. Going to probably be all white before 40.
Quote from: Rome on April 03, 2021, 07:32:13 PM
I've been killing myself getting into some semblance of shape over the last year. I'm down 46 pounds so I don't look like a grotesque whale anymore, but my hair is now pretty much gray with streaks of brown.
No beard, though. Gave that up years ago. Too much work.
Impressive. I had actually dropped about 15-20 during the quarantine, walking about 5 miles a day. Then school kicked back up again... and that was the end of the long walks.
lol I put on 25 during the last year. I finally broke and bought a peloton now that I'm going to have to start traveling for work again in the near future.
Got the second Pfizer yesterday. Mild fever (99.3), somewhat sore throat, tired. Nothing major.
My daughter got her first shot at Walgreens this morning. They got shtein down in there. So easy and efficient.
She's 20 and in a few weeks she'll celebrate her 21st with a beer and her second Pfizer dose.
got the 2nd moderna on monday morning...feel fine so far. slept a little weird on tues night so i might have had a very mild fever but that's about it.
oh, and my doctor's office where i got my vaccines was all over the local news here for charging some people's insurance and charging co-pays for the vaccine...which is supposed to be 100% free. bastiches.
I think most doctors don't give a farg about their patients. Most go into medicine for the money.
Considering it costs anywhere from a half a million to a million bucks to become an MD, can you blame them?
Got the second Pfizer shot yesterday.
The first one left me lethargic and had a fever for a little bit but overall not bad. This one though...it feels like someone punched me in the arm several times and I have the full blown flu like body aches and tiredness. No fever yet though.
Complicating things is that for the first time in I don't know how long I have a cold.
Hopefully I'll shake it off as the day goes on and if not the. I'll go home and sleep.
Florida
https://www.rawstory.com/anti-mask-2652455498/
shot 1 on 4/17
at the rite aid across the street from johns roast pork
Wonderful:
six people in nearly 7 million who got the J&J shot suffered unusual blood clots, so FDA now recommending that use of the vaccine be paused so they can look into it
of course....thats the one im waiting for
Covid has infected 30 million people. Six people out of seven million develop clots, so sure, let's put the brakes on it.
Utterly farging ABSURD.
All women too...always causing problems
they're (scientists and doctors) so farged:
if they say it's nothing, and carry on jabbing people, they invite republican castigation for ignoring the science/being hypocrites, and get to watch people decide that Trump was right and it's all a hoax
if they shut it down over fewer than one case in a million having some problem, tens of thousand more will get sick and hundreds more will die, minimum...and oh, yeah, they'll be castigated by the Republicans for making it harder for people to get the shot
nothing should ever be done with even a small concern over what MAGA will think
they will never again not be foaming at the mouth over everything and anything the other side does
perfect example is hysterical MAGA saying how covid isnt real or at best the deaths from it are greatly exaggerated and it not really a thing....and because of this no one should be getting the vaccine because it will either kill you or be used by the deep state to track your soul
but tell them their fuhrer and his family got the vaccine right after it came out and you wont hear a god damn thing out of them
everything they do is based on either racism or owning the libs...literally no other reality exists or matters...they are worthless pieces of human being shtein and should not ever be considered when doing anything
I have Covid.
Despite being vaccinated I'm positive.
March 18th first shot
April 01-04 exposed to Covid
April 08 second shot
April 10 symptoms began fully
My gf has it too. We believe she got it at an event on 31 March and felt like she was getting a cold Sunday the 4th. She went and got a rapid test that Sunday and it was negative. So she went too soon after exposure.
Last Friday after my second shot I really felt fatigue. I chalked it up to side effects from the shot. But Saturday I felt the cold. So I'm just thinking I have the respiratory infection she had.
I cannot describe the feeling I had from Saturday through yesterday. Never in my life have I felt that exhausted.
The shortness of breath and sweating and brain fog...have them all. Last night I had one of the brain fog events (don't know how to describe it other than I was just not right).
I decided to go get tested this morning and I'm positive. Never thought I'd get it since I was vaccinated. One thing I've read is that it may have helped me to have the vaccine so the symptoms weren't worse. So that saved my butt a little I'm sure.
Just a weird farging situation.
Holy shtein, dude. Hang in there. Feel better soon.
Thanks man!
I do wonder now about the lungs long term. I'm trying to do deep breathing exercises to keep my lungs at capacity and working. Definitely noticeable. Hopefully once I can kick it I won't have long term side effects and will be able to do cardio.
The doctors at the clinic I went to were baffled. They didn't know what to say when I told them I was vaccinated.
Rather than hitting low odds and winning the lotto I win the low odds of getting Covid despite being vaccinated.
wow j first off hang in there
second you are in a pretty small % of people so congrats? if you want post your experience on OAN facebook and let the anti vaxxers run wild
Thanks dude. Feel ok right now so hopefully it stays calm.
The chick I work with already started on me with "that government vaccine gotcho ass!"
I pray that you and the lady friend stay strong.
It's didn't last as long, but I felt worse from shot #2 than I did when I had the 'Rona.
Thanks Geo!
I've read that 5800 people total have been reported to have contracted it after full vaccination.
I wasn't considered full because I got it around the time of my second shot and you need two weeks post shot two to be considered fully vaccinated.
The data for contractions after shot one isn't easily found. But I've read a few that said the efficacy in studies ranged from 52-86%.
Crazy thing is Sarah was getting her first shot today as I was testing positive. So I called her and that's when she went to get tested too and found out right after her first shot. We don't know what'll happen to her now as far as the vaccine goes.
Her symptoms aren't as bad as mine. She has the cough and some congestion and fatigue but no smell and limited taste.
My congestion has cleared a bit but the god damn cough sucks. My smell hasn't really been affected but my taste has a little. I can taste some things but others just seem really bland.
The fatigue and sweats tho...I just took the garbage down to the curb and it feels like I've been working out for a half hour. Crazy.
Pfizer Dose #2 for me tomorrow at 12:30. I'm sure I'll be off Tuesday to recover but who knows?
The pollen count has been astronomical this year but it's started raining again down here, so it's been trampled down a bit.
Every time I start sneezing I'm thinking oh no, here we go.
I'm sure like everyone else I just want to be able to go out to eat or even see a zesty movie in a theater again. If people would just comply and take the shots, we'd be back to some semblance of normalcy again, but I guess that's just not in our spoiled society's DNA. Gotta be contrarian no matter what.
have you really not been out for a meal or a beer or whatever since march 2020?
We haven't here. Not worth the risk at all. Curbside take out. Just stepped foot inside a grocery store earlier this week for the first time in over a year.
I actually hope take out drinks stick around. I'll be excited to hit a bar again soon but also wouldn't mind picking up some good drinks
Quote from: ice grillin you on April 18, 2021, 01:26:35 PM
have you really not been out for a meal or a beer or whatever since march 2020?
Not really. I get take-out a lot. Bars are a non-starter for me these days. Wifey's fully vaccinated now and my daughter is a couple weeks out from her second dose. Once we're all fully dosed, we'll start going out again. My wife hasn't been anywhere but the Supermarket and Lowe's since last March. Her immune system was destroyed by her cancer treatments, so Covid would have likely killed her. She hasn't been in her work office since last April either.
I've also limited my drinking almost entirely aside from an occasional glass of truly delicious Irish whiskey I bought a while ago.
Honestly, the thought of going out now makes me sick anyway. I can barely go to a store without getting enraged at iceholes refusing to mask up down here. Better just to avoid it altogether.
yeah i guess if i lived down there i probably would go out a ton less...i didnt think of that part of it
in general tho its just insane to me that someone hasnt been out in over a year
I can honestly say that quarantine has not changed my social habits in any way. Actually that's not true, I'm definitely less pleasant to people not wearing masks when I go shopping.
The one thing I continue to do is get my hair cut regularly. The woman who cuts it is nice (hot too - perv alert) and she's compliant about wearing masks if you request it from her. I didn't see her for several months back in the beginning of this, but eventually I just said farg it and started going again.
That's about it, though. I haven't missed work because our boss is has made mask-wearing mandatory in public spaces. We're free to remove them in offices (like mine) or cubicles for the staff, but everywhere else it's mandatory. I can't tell you how rare that is in govt in this state.
thats funny cause i started shaving my head a month into covid and havent stopped...barbers freak me out but ive been to at least 50 bars and restaurants in the last six months
My county rescinded the mask requirement this week. The school district will more than likely make masks optional in the next school year (which basically means no student will wear it).
Most businesses have signs that say masks are required, but many are not really enforcing it.
People are morons.
I actually don't mind wearing a mask unless I'm talking in one. I have no idea how you do it all day, Geo.
50% of the 18+ pop has 1 shot...in about 2 months pretty much everyone who wants one will have gotten one
once we hit that, if you get covid that shtein is on YOU. aint my problem
It's your problem when, given the kind of breathing room Hitler was looking for, the virus lives so freely among the non-innoculated that a variant of it jumps the vaccine firewall.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on April 15, 2021, 11:40:08 PM
Thanks Geo!
I've read that 5800 people total have been reported to have contracted it after full vaccination.
I wasn't considered full because I got it around the time of my second shot and you need two weeks post shot two to be considered fully vaccinated.
The data for contractions after shot one isn't easily found. But I've read a few that said the efficacy in studies ranged from 52-86%.
Crazy thing is Sarah was getting her first shot today as I was testing positive. So I called her and that's when she went to get tested too and found out right after her first shot. We don't know what'll happen to her now as far as the vaccine goes.
Her symptoms aren't as bad as mine. She has the cough and some congestion and fatigue but no smell and limited taste.
My congestion has cleared a bit but the god damn cough sucks. My smell hasn't really been affected but my taste has a little. I can taste some things but others just seem really bland.
The fatigue and sweats tho...I just took the garbage down to the curb and it feels like I've been working out for a half hour. Crazy.
How are you holding up?
Thanks for asking, man.
The congestion has pretty much cleared up. I still have a cough (just took some Delsym - it's been helpful) but the frequency seems to be dying down. Which is good bc the coughing fits rolled into some shortness of breath. I've been doing deep breathing exercises too to make sure my lung capacity stays up. Up until today when I'd take the deep breaths they usually would immediately trigger a coughing fit. Now I'm able to get some in.
When I was examined on Thursday my pulse/ox was 97% so I have t had any issues there thankfully. But I can definitely feel it in my lungs despite the levels being normal.
The biggest thing has been the fatigue. That shtein is next level. Last week I didn't sleep well for most of the week despite being exhausted. Last night I had my first night of solid rest in awhile. And about two hours after getting out of bed I was beat. I made it through the Phillies game and had to take a two hour nap.
I've also experienced a couple episodes of the "brain fog" that people have talked about. The best way I can describe it was after a few of my mild concussions back in the day I'd feel a little out of it or have brief moments of confusion. Wednesday evening was the worst one and I had one on Friday too. But none since so hopefully they're subsiding along with the congestion and cough.
Fingers crossed that by Wednesday or Thursday I'm on the other side of it fully. I'll go get a PCR test then and see.
Good. Glad to hear that you're improving a bit. shtein is scary. Take care of yourself.
I went for dose 2 at Walgreens a little while ago. It was closed because someone, I kid you not, drove their vehicle right through the front doors. Thankfully no serious injuries.
Anyway, I told the guy I was there for my second dose and they opened up the side entrance for us. Got my shot and now I'm eating a mothafarging Wawa meatball parm hoagie.
Life is great, fellas!
I was tired yesterday after the shot but I woke up with no side-effects.
Guess I got lucky.
Ted Nugent was at Seed To Table, a local grocery/restaurant owned by right-winger anti-masker Alfie Oakes (https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/02/04/florida-supermarket-owner-believes-coronavirus-pandemic-is-a-hoax/), last week in a mask-less event with local politicians (including the Lee County Sheriff).
Today, Nugent announced that he has Covid. (https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/2021/04/20/ted-nugent-says-he-has-covid-one-week-after-live-show-alfie-oakes-restaurant-store-naples/7300569002/)
Side note: Yeah, Oakes financed a bus from Naples to the Jan. 6 insurrection. (https://www.naplesnews.com/get-access/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.naplesnews.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2F2021%2F01%2F07%2Fcollier-county-business-owner-calls-d-c-trip-trump-protests-amazing%2F6586279002%2F)
Flori-duh.
EDIT: If you want to torture yourself by watching the podcast of the event...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATvVy3muw8E&ab_channel=tednugent
Ted Nugent dying gasping for air wouldn't be the worst news I've ever read. He's a colossal piece of vile shtein.
Just learned today that he owns a condo down here. Fits right in with a large percentage of the population.
Eat shtein, Nugent.
Warms my heart to read that article.
Talking to my sisters in a group chat about going to get my first shot tomorrow, this is how I found out my older sister is an anti-vax idiot.
Surely you already knew she was an idiot?
There's idiot and then there's Microchips and Autism idiot. Looks like her and her husband are going right into the Fox News pipeline.
I'm not the best at keeping up with my family. I text with my mom once or twice every couple of weeks, my sisters when we need to figure out group presents. I've seen them all once in person in the last year.
My condolences. Have fun at Thanksgiving.
Start acting weird and scratching your arm and complaining about 5G and the Bill Gates Chip
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Makes me think of The Wire
"shot and a beer, Delores"
(https://charlieterris.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/wire-all-due-respect-bunny_article_story_main.jpg)
so the (expected) news that we wont reach herd immunity pretty much means the virus is going to eventually mutate to the point where it defeats vaccines, those of us that survive are going to have to re quarantine and the anti science lunatics are going to grow bigger and louder to the point where there is going to mass death in the millions
do i have this right
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 03, 2021, 04:16:46 PM
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I always brown bag my quarts and 40's.
Quote from: MDS on May 03, 2021, 07:08:29 PM
so the (expected) news that we wont reach herd immunity pretty much means the virus is going to eventually mutate to the point where it defeats vaccines, those of us that survive are going to have to re quarantine and the anti science lunatics are going to grow bigger and louder to the point where there is going to mass death in the millions
do i have this right
Pretty much.
The bros and MAGAts with the "Covid is over" shtein are the ones who wanted herd immunity in the beginning. The ones saying "hey if you don't want it stay home and let us live our lives"
Now the places and events placing vaccine restrictions on attendees have the same idiots crying about it. So I like to tell the ones who whine "hey stay home if you don't like it and let us vaccinated and people with antibodies live our lives"
Tested negative last week and each day I feel better. There are still some lingering things (shortness of breath and fatigue and cough) that I hope don't hang around too long.
The cough seems to be subsiding but will flare from time to time. I've read that the fatigue and shortness of breath can take several weeks to months.
The chick I work with said her "Covid lungs" lasted about two months.
It's disheartening to see how blase people still are about this. I had a relatively mild case and it still farging sucked.
Lolol
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Daughter had a fever Tuesday so I kept her home from school, took her to get a test and she tested positive. She's fine now just a bit stuffy. Glad I kept her home and away from soccer and softball practice. I've had some very mild symptoms like a minor sore throat. The vaccine is doing its thing.
Sorry that she's positive. Hope it stays mild!
And yeah the vaccine helps keep your symptoms down.
Four weeks post Covid diagnosis and two weeks post negative test:
I'm still fatigued, something have brain fogginess and have shortness of breath after mundane tasks that before were no big deal. But last night my cough was so bad that I thought I was going to have to have my girlfriend take me to the ER. I was at my wits end.
I woke up about 3am and coughed for two hours straight. It was wheezing and I could hear and feel it in my chest. Kinda like you have some phlegm in there and need to cough it up - but I don't have anything in my lungs. There's nothing to cough up.
Finally around 5 it calmed down and I was able to get back to sleep. My chest hurt from coughing and I was googling just about everything from how long Covid symptoms last to pneumonia symptoms.
This shtein is frustrating.
I feel fine today and haven't coughed much at all. It's crazy how it comes and goes but that episode last night was a bit worrisome. Like am I going to have that shtein happen all the time? Will I ever be able to go do intense cardio again? I'm sure it'll get better but damn. The girl I work with said her "Covid lungs" lasted two months.
Damn, Jay. I hope your immune system kicks that shtein out once and for all, and at least there is some consolation knowing the symptoms can leave just as quick as they recur.
Thanks, man. Yeah me too!
Today I feel totally fine. Hopefully it stays that way. I'm going to keep doing breathing exercises and walking. One loop around the lake in our neighborhood is a mile so that'll be a good barometer to use as we walk.
The girl in our office I mentioned? She's a proud anti-Covid vaxxer and anti-masker. She thinks she has Covid again. Her first time was January and now likely has it again four months later.
Good and good.
I'm starting to feel like a terrible liberal because I was extremely careful, safe, etc for 15 months, but now that I'm fully vaccinated just don't really care anymore, I need to get back to real life. I'm still wearing a mask as much as possible for the sake of others but definitely over the constant worrying.
Just spent a week in Scottsdale AZ for work and it's like a different world. Masks every now and then but pretty rare. Was at a packed bar for Cinco de Mayo with 100s of people and not a single mask. Thought I would be much more anxious but I guess all the booze made me calm. Although I do think they're mostly idiots and selfish, everyone was so much happier. I kinda am starting to see that there needs to be a little bit of balance between physical and mental health - everyone out there was so happy and the DC area right now is still pretty miserable.
I also went to the Sixers Pelicans game Friday and god damn did it feel good to hug some friends and watch live sports.
1/3 of PA is fully vaccinated and over half have received one shot. Factor in people who already had the virus and we're approaching the 70% herd immunity target. It's still a real threat and we should still be cautious but the scare of overwhelming hospitals etc. is over. I'm glad they're lifting restrictions because I agree the mental health aspect is serious. Did a week at Disney mid April, they were very strict in the parks with masks etc. but it was farging nice to feel somewhat normal again. At this point the vaccine is readily available, if you don't take it that's on you...you don't want to wear a mask in public and you get sick that's on you. The Government has done more than enough to protect us so life should get somewhat back to normal. I say this with a covid positive daughter still in quarantine who's going nuts without school and her sports.
Florida is a hellscape of selfish ignorant fools. I'm fully vaccinated over two weeks since the last dose and I'm still wearing masks everywhere I go. I'm not scared. I'm not even concerned anymore at least for me and mine. I'm compliant and following CDC guidelines because it's the right farging thing to do.
And honestly if I could be a carrier without getting anyone I care about sick, I would gladly infect every anti-vaxxing covid-Truther icehole I see. They all deserve to die.
15 months of this nightmare because of selfish iceholes. Let em all choke for all I care.
dc and nyc both announced restriction limit end dates...rest of the east coast cant be far behind
i get shot 2 on saturday...after that i dont care and i wont feel bad about it. if you dont want one thats on you and if i give you covid and you die oh well sorry shouldnt have listened to dr tucker carlson
I was in Wawa yesterday and saw two guys not wearing a mask, one guy who wore one of those stupid tacticool scarves that he then pulled down to drink his iced coffee, and one idiot kid wearing a mesh mask.
Quote from: phattymatty on May 10, 2021, 02:19:53 PM
I'm starting to feel like a terrible liberal because I was extremely careful, safe, etc for 15 months, but now that I'm fully vaccinated just don't really care anymore, I need to get back to real life. I'm still wearing a mask as much as possible for the sake of others but definitely over the constant worrying.
Just spent a week in Scottsdale AZ for work and it's like a different world. Masks every now and then but pretty rare. Was at a packed bar for Cinco de Mayo with 100s of people and not a single mask. Thought I would be much more anxious but I guess all the booze made me calm. Although I do think they're mostly idiots and selfish, everyone was so much happier. I kinda am starting to see that there needs to be a little bit of balance between physical and mental health - everyone out there was so happy and the DC area right now is still pretty miserable.
I also went to the Sixers Pelicans game Friday and god damn did it feel good to hug some friends and watch live sports.
Totally get it.
Outside of a few get togethers or trips to outdoor bars and a couple dinners the last year plus has sucked. I've been getting stir crazy. I want to go out and do things. I figure that being vaccinated and having it gives me some damn near rock solid protection (barring some sort of mutant strain).
I want to go to Vegas and New Orleans and come back to PA. We have a trip to ATL in June to visit some of her family. I am tired of wearing a mask. I still do it but it sucks.
I want this shtein to go away. But it's not. I told a friend of mine today that mentioned (he's from Canada) how Newfoundland and eastern parts have gone under heavy lock downs again) outbreaks that there's no going back. Because of the politics we will never ever be locked down again. The hospitals could wheel the dead into the street and we'd still be open for business.
Quote from: phattymatty on May 10, 2021, 02:19:53 PM
I'm starting to feel like a terrible liberal because I was extremely careful, safe, etc for 15 months, but now that I'm fully vaccinated just don't really care anymore, I need to get back to real life. I'm still wearing a mask as much as possible for the sake of others but definitely over the constant worrying.
Just spent a week in Scottsdale AZ for work and it's like a different world. Masks every now and then but pretty rare. Was at a packed bar for Cinco de Mayo with 100s of people and not a single mask. Thought I would be much more anxious but I guess all the booze made me calm. Although I do think they're mostly idiots and selfish, everyone was so much happier. I kinda am starting to see that there needs to be a little bit of balance between physical and mental health - everyone out there was so happy and the DC area right now is still pretty miserable.
I also went to the Sixers Pelicans game Friday and god damn did it feel good to hug some friends and watch live sports.
Being a responsible thoughtful adult really is the fargin' worst. Especially when a significant portion of the population has decided to tell everyone outside of their own skull to go farg themselves and is wallowing in their own selfish dipshteintery.
Now that you're back can we start the keeper league back up?
Thx.
No.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 10, 2021, 10:53:48 PM
Quote from: phattymatty on May 10, 2021, 02:19:53 PM
I'm starting to feel like a terrible liberal because I was extremely careful, safe, etc for 15 months, but now that I'm fully vaccinated just don't really care anymore, I need to get back to real life. I'm still wearing a mask as much as possible for the sake of others but definitely over the constant worrying.
Just spent a week in Scottsdale AZ for work and it's like a different world. Masks every now and then but pretty rare. Was at a packed bar for Cinco de Mayo with 100s of people and not a single mask. Thought I would be much more anxious but I guess all the booze made me calm. Although I do think they're mostly idiots and selfish, everyone was so much happier. I kinda am starting to see that there needs to be a little bit of balance between physical and mental health - everyone out there was so happy and the DC area right now is still pretty miserable.
I also went to the Sixers Pelicans game Friday and god damn did it feel good to hug some friends and watch live sports.
Totally get it.
Outside of a few get togethers or trips to outdoor bars and a couple dinners the last year plus has sucked. I've been getting stir crazy. I want to go out and do things. I figure that being vaccinated and having it gives me some damn near rock solid protection (barring some sort of mutant strain).
I want to go to Vegas and New Orleans and come back to PA. We have a trip to ATL in June to visit some of her family. I am tired of wearing a mask. I still do it but it sucks.
masks honestly dont bother me at all...even when ive gone out and ive gone out a shtein ton since September...i wear my mask even when im seated at a bar or restaurant...its on the whole time unless im sippin that sizzurp....even after this is all over ill probably still wear masks in bars and restaurants when not seated and ill for sure never not wear one again on public transpo
the worst part about the mask experience for me has been remembering them...ive probably wasted a few tanks of gas just in having to turn around and drive back home because i forgot my mask
I've been doing more since I got my 2nd but not going crazy with it. Numbers are still too high for me to feel comfortable in a bar or whatever, but ive gone into grocery stores (at strategic times) for the first time since last March. Also did the mall once, a couple of drug stores, etc. Done takeout at a few spots where I actually went in to grab the food vs. curbside pickup, etc.
Still masking up everywhere, usually double masking. I'm way behind used to it now after having to teach with them on for the last few months.
Quote from: ice grillin you on May 11, 2021, 02:38:42 PM
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 10, 2021, 10:53:48 PM
Quote from: phattymatty on May 10, 2021, 02:19:53 PM
I'm starting to feel like a terrible liberal because I was extremely careful, safe, etc for 15 months, but now that I'm fully vaccinated just don't really care anymore, I need to get back to real life. I'm still wearing a mask as much as possible for the sake of others but definitely over the constant worrying.
Just spent a week in Scottsdale AZ for work and it's like a different world. Masks every now and then but pretty rare. Was at a packed bar for Cinco de Mayo with 100s of people and not a single mask. Thought I would be much more anxious but I guess all the booze made me calm. Although I do think they're mostly idiots and selfish, everyone was so much happier. I kinda am starting to see that there needs to be a little bit of balance between physical and mental health - everyone out there was so happy and the DC area right now is still pretty miserable.
I also went to the Sixers Pelicans game Friday and god damn did it feel good to hug some friends and watch live sports.
Totally get it.
Outside of a few get togethers or trips to outdoor bars and a couple dinners the last year plus has sucked. I've been getting stir crazy. I want to go out and do things. I figure that being vaccinated and having it gives me some damn near rock solid protection (barring some sort of mutant strain).
I want to go to Vegas and New Orleans and come back to PA. We have a trip to ATL in June to visit some of her family. I am tired of wearing a mask. I still do it but it sucks.
masks honestly dont bother me at all...even when ive gone out and ive gone out a shtein ton since September...i wear my mask even when im seated at a bar or restaurant...its on the whole time unless im sippin that sizzurp....even after this is all over ill probably still wear masks in bars and restaurants when not seated and ill for sure never not wear one again on public transpo
the worst part about the mask experience for me has been remembering them...ive probably wasted a few tanks of gas just in having to turn around and drive back home because i forgot my mask
Yeah don't get me wrong - I wear mine all the time when I'm out. Except if we sit down for dinner or in a large outdoor area with plenty of distancing.
I'm just getting tired of wearing it. I welcome and support the masking up of everyone.
pandemic been the longest stretch i've ever experienced without any illness at all...I got used to feeling good..2nd moderna shot was yesterday and I feel awful
I'm not kidding here... drink as much Pedialyte as you can stomach. It did wonders for the folks in my crew who got the Moderna.
Yeah...hot nurse wife gave me coconut water to drink. Electrolytes, etc. Blech.
Coffee now and beer later should do the trick, and if not there's lots of tequila on hand.
Quote from: Diomedes on May 13, 2021, 09:04:30 AM
pandemic been the longest stretch i've ever experienced without any illness at all...I got used to feeling good..2nd moderna shot was yesterday and I feel awful
Got 2nd moderna last Thursday. Thursday night I was fine. Woke up with cold sweats, had a 102 fever all Friday. Felt terrible. When I woke up Saturday I felt normal again.
everyone I know who got moderna had side effects and everyone I know who got Pfizer had none.
I had Pfizer. Followed medical advice from dr. friends to well-hydrate and get extra zinc prior to the second shot, and had zero issues.
Quote from: phattymatty on May 14, 2021, 01:35:08 PMeveryone I know who got moderna had side effects and everyone I know who got Pfizer had none.
admittedly a small sample size but same here
I always break out in angry hives when I'm sick or overheated working in hot weather...full flower last night, pink and puffy across torso and inside of arms, etc...yay. had a hard time sleeping last night, wife came to bed at like 1 a.m...couldn't really get back to sleep after that..she's snoring away
finally get up, feeling physically better but grumpy and groggy from interruptions and poor sleep...making morning coffee, open trash bin cabinet, dumping yesterday's paper filter and grinds into the trash can--NO LINER! GODAMNIT NO BAG IN CAN--reflexes not fast enough, too groggy, whatever, can't recover, but because of the attempt, instead of the mess just going in the empty can, I upend the farging thing and it bounces off the edge of the can, then slips from my hand...farging mess everywhere..in the empy can, on the counter, on the stovetop, on the floor...
WHO THE farg EMPTIES THE TRASH WITHOUT PUTTING ANOTHER BAG IN IT GODDAMN YOU
cats yowling to be fed, ancient dog desperately needs her walk...
farging give me COVID and bury me farg this
had you given me on option to kill every living thing this mornign, like a button or something, I'd have mashed it
oh yeah...and shivers...had a fit of shivers so bad I'm wondering if I have MS....no fine motor control at all, hard time breathing....I looked like a caricature of someone suffering from D.T.s, took five minutes or so to pass...awful....total lock up of my torso, it was hard to breath.....farg this, let me die
about 10 hours since shot 2
felt mostly fine until late afternoon when i got pretty tired. slept some, now i have a head cold.
even if things were worse or get worse i am more than ok with it. covid you bitch
One of my colleagues died of brain cancer not too long ago. Great guy. Funny, acerbic & smart as hell. He's missed greatly.
Anyway, they had a celebration of life for him at a beach resort yesterday. It was supposed to be held outside on the pool deck but evidently it was too windy so they held it in one of the guest rooms. There was probably 25 people jammed in there, and even though I'm doubled up, and have been for a while, it still freaked me out. I got the hell out of there after a few minutes.
I was just sitting here wondering how many of those people have been vaccinated. I know one of them has been for sure, but the others - I highly doubt it. It was a perfect breeding ground for Covid too.
That's the sort of lunacy we're up against. People are blissfully gathering in confined spaces and remembering a dead guy during a pandemic that has killed 600,000 people. We are well and truly fubar.
I have one employee in my district left who hasn't been vaccinated. Our policy is if you've been vaccinated you do not have to wear a mask in the office. That goes for everyone. If you haven't, you must continue to mask up and socially distance.
He came into my office and suggested he was being discriminated against, so I gave him the number for HR and told him any further discussions regarding the office policy will be held with an HR rep in the room with us.
That's what we're up against. People are so farging backwards they think they're the ones being discriminated against by endangering others.
I was never a big fan of people before the pandemic hit. Imagine how I feel about the species now.
QAnon and these people (prob one in the same) need to be exiled to some farging island
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My sister was spouting that shtein to my mom last week. Who could have guessed that someone who never moved out of their home town would be easily manipulated?
We're back to wearing masks again in the office.
Why?
People are farging dumbasses.
I got a feeling we'll be back to wearing them at work here before the end of the year. Good luck getting the public to wear them again any time in the next hundred years, though.
I was just about to come on here and ask how long til we see masks required, large gatherings banned and lockdowns?
The Biden admin will fail because of the seeds planted and dissent fostered by Cheeto Dick's admin along with the disinformation online and on the MAGA News Channels.
i dont see it go past indoor mask mandates
what that means for night clubs and concert venues where its people packed into a tight space spreading germs, i dont know. but i just cant see the country going back to significant restrictions or capacity limits.
we're all just going to have live with this thing. i got my shot, the odds of me dying or getting super sick are insanely low. if you get the delta and croak oh well
Tha's all fine and good so long as the vaccines continue to work.
http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_archive/covid19-data/covid19_data_latest.pdf
Staggeringly horrendous. Meanwhile farghead DeSantis is mocking Fauci openly and going on performative safaris to the southern border in Texas instead of governing.
Quote from: Diomedes on July 19, 2021, 11:57:30 AM
Tha's all fine and good so long as the vaccines continue to work.
if Pfizer offers a booster I will take it - even if the CDC says its not needed.
I don't want a boost of the same vaccine at this point, I'd rather just wait until they get the variant specific one out there.
That's what I'm referring to.
I just got an email that Houston Methodist, the hospital I go to, has their first case of the lambda variant. To go along with the delta. Lambda is the South American one that originated in Peru.
Hospitalizations have increased 70% over the last week there.
can these things mutate, take out the unvaccinated and then we can all stop worrying about this shtein
That would be nice, but we'd lose a lot of great people. It's not all MAGA fools who are unvaccinated.
I had a bit of bellyaching from my staff yesterday. I took everyone outside for a field trip and explained two things.
First... masks are now mandatory in the office. No one likes it but any further discussion about it is pointless and counterproductive.
Second... if I hear of anyone complaining about the directive I will stop you in your tracks and have you speak directly with our big boss about it. No second chances either. You bitch or create an issue for me you're going in front of the man.
I'm done with grown ass adults crying like children. Either comply or get the farg out. I also told them I couldn't care less what they do after 5:00PM.
I then told them I'm taking the rest of the week off because if that sort of thing annoys me as a manager, it's time for a mini-vacay for this middle management-governmental functionary/tyrant.
Read that thread. We are a country of dumbfargs.
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https://twitter.com/ggreeneva/status/1418217446121512960
now we're supposed to manage their feelings?
the people who put "farg your feelings" on their kids tee shirts and celebrate "owning the libs" by using their freedom of speech to say racist shtein?
okey dokey
fargin' let 'em die
Quote from: Diomedes on July 22, 2021, 04:18:29 PM
now we're supposed to manage their feelings?
Yes, that's exactly what they expect of you and me and everyone else in the farging world.
The naked hypocrisy of that expectation doesn't matter to them because they are the most entitled spoiled humans to ever grace the planet and their whiney titty baby demands will be met or they'll burn this motherfarger down with tantrum after tantrum until there's nothing left.
We beat them in 1865
We beat them in 1945
Are they really going to makes us do it again?
And if yes, can we agree beforehand to actually eliminate them this time, and not leave a cohort of survivors to spring this shtein on us all over again in another eighty or hundred years?
IN
Quote from: Diomedes on July 20, 2021, 12:01:19 AM
That would be nice, but we'd lose a lot of great people. It's not all MAGA fools who are unvaccinated.
This is true. I saw a poll last month that north of 20% of healthcare workers are not vaccinated. One of the smartest people I know is a doctor and didn't get vaccinated until a few weeks ago.
One of my customers today told me his brother, who is a doc in Michigan, refuses to get vaccinated.
Like wtf
shtein got real really fast for this fella
https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1418264247616819203 21
Hope you all are ready for the next lock down and no sports or any social lives
https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1418210466656972808 21
Michael Irvin cracks me up
"I don't care about the conspiracy theorists, 'oh they're trying to kill us.' If the government wanted you dead, our asses would all be dead right now. So just shut up with all of that."
I get a perverse sense of enjoyment reading the tweets of Covid and vax deniers after they've been stricken with it
https://twitter.com/nc5philwilliams/status/1418532336283627520 21
The fact that people STILL have no clue how the vaccine works is frustrating. If I read/hear one more time some kind of "gotcha" when people talk about a vaccinated person being positive I'm gonna go nuts. They still do not get that the vaccine isn't a guarantee you never get it.
Anyone with any sort of outreach to people needs to keep pounding this into their brains.
you cant teach algebra to a lizard
Bad Covid Takes Part One Million
Where an ex NFLer tells Ron Rivera it's his fault he had cancer
https://twitter.com/bossward43/status/1420202341278490628 21
My mom - who I love dearly - went to Disney with us last week. Daughter and I are fully vaxxed...daughter also had covid. Masks aren't mandatory except on buses. My mom's not an anti-vaxxer but refused to get the vaccine because she believes in natural immunity ...now she's got covid and is extremely sick. She's 62...5'7 normally bout 117 lbs and she's dropped 8 lbs since Saturday. Over 100 fever and said she's never felt so sick in her life. Prior to leaving for Disney I told her my philosophy for getting vaccinated: I never had chicken pox...3 years ago I got it and was sick as all hell. If I could have taken a vaccine for it and avoided that week and a half from hell I would 10x outta 10. So not pulling the "told you so card" out now because it won't help her situation but once she's recovered I'm going to ask the question. And just for clarification she's very liberal.
https://people.com/health/central-florida-theme-park-area-in-covid-crisis-according-to-orange-county-executive/?amp=true
sorry to hear bro. same here - liberal mom in her mid 60s who is not vaccinated and can't even give me a single reason why. so strange since they literally got the polio vaccines as children, and I was always fully vaxxed with MMR etc as a child.
hope she gets better soon.
Thankfully both my parents took it seriously and vaxxed up. My mom has major heart issues and COPD already, so it would pretty much be a death sentence.
My daughter was the last to get the shots due to age, but now my family is all done.
Still have a nephew and his wife that refuse. Strident anti-vaxxers. They have two very young girls, so I guess we'll see what happens.
The most pleasant surprise of the past year was my conservative father vaxxing up and fully stopping all politics talk. He saw, belatedly, what Trump was and the danger he and his cult presented. Better late than never I guess and now he gets to see his grandkids.
My mom was always going to get it but not being able to see her grandchild until she did was a good Motivator.
My slightly conservative dad who got covid was hesitant at first but also got it
Sorry about your mom, Mike. I hope she gets better and also that she doesn't have any long term after effects. Do they know if it is the delta variant?
This shtein sucks. I never want to feel that way again. I'd go though cervical disc replacement surgery a hundred times again over having Covid again.
I was talking to an uber conservative customer of mine yesterday. Good ol boy from the sticks. He's in his 60's and while not a Trumper he does t exactly loathe him. But I almost dropped the phone when he was going on about unvaccinated folks. Him and his wife got it as soon as they could - I surely expected him to rant the other way.
Quote from: phattymatty on July 28, 2021, 10:53:21 AM
sorry to hear bro. same here - liberal mom in her mid 60s who is not vaccinated and can't even give me a single reason why. so strange since they literally got the polio vaccines as children, and I was always fully vaxxed with MMR etc as a child.
hope she gets better soon.
Thanks and also sorry to hear. Ran to see her at lunch...she's frail and running a 101 temp. I just wanted to see if she needed to go to the hospital because she's stubborn but she's breathing fine and extremely fatigued. She said food tastes horrible which is why she isn't eating. She's ultra healthy, works out 5 days a week and only eats fruits/veggies/quinoa and fish. Doesn't drink or do drugs (except weed).
Quote from: rjs246 on July 28, 2021, 12:12:12 PM
The most pleasant surprise of the past year was my conservative father vaxxing up and fully stopping all politics talk. He saw, belatedly, what Trump was and the danger he and his cult presented. Better late than never I guess and now he gets to see his grandkids.
How did that miracle happen? I know Republicans who soured on Trump but never Trumpers. Even after he backed Putin and after the insurrection they were still licking his ass.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 28, 2021, 12:57:55 PM
Sorry about your mom, Mike. I hope she gets better and also that she doesn't have any long term after effects. Do they know if it is the delta variant?
I only know she tested positive. If I had to guess I'd say it's the delta variant because it's running rampant in Florida and we just spent a week there surrounded by thousands of people without masks.
Quote from: TAFKASD on July 28, 2021, 01:04:37 PM
Quote from: phattymatty on July 28, 2021, 10:53:21 AM
sorry to hear bro. same here - liberal mom in her mid 60s who is not vaccinated and can't even give me a single reason why. so strange since they literally got the polio vaccines as children, and I was always fully vaxxed with MMR etc as a child.
hope she gets better soon.
Thanks and also sorry to hear. Ran to see her at lunch...she's frail and running a 101 temp. I just wanted to see if she needed to go to the hospital because she's stubborn but she's breathing fine and extremely fatigued. She said food tastes horrible which is why she isn't eating. She's ultra healthy, works out 5 days a week and only eats fruits/veggies/quinoa and fish. Doesn't drink or do drugs (except weed).
Quote from: rjs246 on July 28, 2021, 12:12:12 PM
The most pleasant surprise of the past year was my conservative father vaxxing up and fully stopping all politics talk. He saw, belatedly, what Trump was and the danger he and his cult presented. Better late than never I guess and now he gets to see his grandkids.
How did that miracle happen? I know Republicans who soured on Trump but never Trumpers. Even after he backed Putin and after the insurrection they were still licking his ass.
Good that you checked up on her - keep that up since she is stubborn. Hopefully the breathing issues stay away and don't come around.
Quote from: TAFKASD on July 28, 2021, 01:04:37 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on July 28, 2021, 12:12:12 PM
The most pleasant surprise of the past year was my conservative father vaxxing up and fully stopping all politics talk. He saw, belatedly, what Trump was and the danger he and his cult presented. Better late than never I guess and now he gets to see his grandkids.
How did that miracle happen?
I don't really know.
Just like most boomer-ass conservative white men, he still thinks of the GOP as the party of grown-ups, even though it is clearly just a cult of personality that leverages every possible wedge issue for the sole purpose of cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations. He's a hunter and spends all of his copious free time around other boomer-ass hunters so his tendency towards 2a paranoia is real. Despite marrying a liberal and raising two educated, liberal children, he bitches about liberals all the time.
But somehow, through the fog of his deeply ingrained cultural identity, he retained some contact with reality. Fox News is never on at the house because of my mom, so that probably helps. He still reads the Washington Post every morning. That probably helps too. But ultimately I think it was two things. He's terrified of dying (so the Trump admin's total lack of response to the pandemic infuriated him) and he wanted to salvage some level of respect from his wife and children.
Sorry to hear about your mom. Hopefully, this story has a happy ending and she gets on board.
i have a house in a little town in upstate ny that isnt like the deep south (trump was "only" 57% against hillary) but it is mos def white trashy and old and very conservative...lots of trump flags around....however while i was up there for two weeks this month i found not a single anti vaxxer even from the old doods at the bar who ask for fox news on the tv...they were all pretty matter of fact about it...almost to a person they were basically like im old fat and generally not very healthy and if i get covid ill probably die
that was ruined by a talk i had with a waitress about the child tax credits and she was getting mad at the people in town who were getting the credits when they shouldnt be having kids to begin with...im like ok at least she isnt going all trump or going crazy about sleepy joe or pelosi until right as shes leaving me she says they just want that stillupfront cash
My favorite are the "we don't know the long term effects of the vaccine yet". Well we do know short term you don't get overly sick and die like covid. Plus we know the long term effects of covid can be bad.
The problem is people either don't know or choose to ignore the long term effects of Covid. It's apparent when these chuckleheads pull out the "it's just the flu bro" comparisons.
Vegas is reinstating the mask mandate (well the Governor is but that means Vegas)
I'm sure other places will follow.
Meanwhile this thread is scary. All because trumpfargs wanted to politicize a god damn deadly virus. I get angrier by the day about this. We lost a year of our lives because of this and it's gonna happen again.
Oh and kids are on ventilators now in Houston.
https://twitter.com/coo_ray/status/1420060053206413314 21
i feel terrible for mike and subsequently his moms but like....this is what happens when you dont vaxed. i hope she pulls through but im guessing facebook radicalization here about vaccines in general? its gotten a lot of people, even liberal ones.
thats very kind of you to not want his mother to die
i do what i can to help the peoples
Found out that my nephew's stepsister just passed from COVID this afternoon. She was 43. We'll see if this opens his (or more importantly, his wife's) eyes. I wish I could say I was optimistic... but I'm not.
Governor DeathSantis is refusing to go along with the CDC recommendations regarding masks. He will refuse to allow the school districts to reimplement the mask mandates from last year. He is emphasizing the "rights" of the parents to decide that for their children.
My guess is that I will see very few students masking up.
Also, no district-based online learning this year. The state-run virtual school will still be available.
Quote from: MDS on July 28, 2021, 08:31:00 PM
i feel terrible for mike and subsequently his moms but like....this is what happens when you dont vaxed. i hope she pulls through but im guessing facebook radicalization here about vaccines in general? its gotten a lot of people, even liberal ones.
Appreciate it. She's just stubborn. I was against taking the vax when all this first happened but back to my chicken pox story farg going through that shtein plus I read up enough on it to know there's minimal risk. I wish people would dive into the science about how it works.
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 28, 2021, 08:33:48 PM
thats very kind of you to not want his mother to die
lol...In fairness I know his mom passed when he was young so I don't doubt his sincerity
Quote from: TAFKASD on July 28, 2021, 09:30:46 PM
I wish people would dive into the science about how it works.
Um no. No no farging no. This is literally the problem.
I'm not trying to pick on your or your mom but do either of you, or anyone you know, work in epidemiology? Are either of you research scientists? Do either of you work in medicine? Do either of you work researching infectious diseases? Are you a microbiologist?
If the answer to any of those is no then no, you shouldn't be "doing your own research". This farging lunacy needs to end. Having access to the internet does not make us all equally qualified to make a decision about what is and is not the right thing to do in every situation. We're all so convinced of our own farging brilliance on every goddamned topic that we've managed to elect a serial sex offender, con-man, gameshow host, tax fraud, sociopath to the farging presidency.
Do your own research on topics that you are an expert in. Do your own research on topics that you are well versed in professionally or scholastically. Do it. Knock yourself out. For everything else, rely on the experts. Otherwise we're just hurtling inexorably towards stupidity and chaos.
And for the love of god, stop farging encouraging people who have already illustrated poor judgment on subjects that they are not experts in to "do their own research". farg. Come on.
i cannot functionally understand how people think they know more than doctors and infectious disease experts
i get the people who inherently dont trust the government and go the other way if theyre pushed to do something. theres some justification there albeit they are very wrong here. the people who think reading a few websites or watching some tik tok videos makes them smarter than a epidemiologist with 3 decades of experience...no. NO.
What I'm saying is some understanding about how they work would go a long to people realizing they're not much different than the way other vaccines work. It's nice to live in a country where we can decline life saving vaccines
https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/VaccineInformation/HowVaccinesWork
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/how-they-work.html
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/different-types-of-covid-19-vaccines/art-20506465
https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine/how-covid-19-vaccines-work.html
I mean. You don't need to link to the information and research on vaccines that experts have done for me. I already believe in science and scientific expertise. I'm not an epidemiologist so, as a normal rational human, I rely on the expert consensus. Which overwhelmingly says "get vaccinated dummy".
Telling every dumbass to just read about the vaccine will lead to WILDLY varying outcomes. Which is quite literally the opposite of what is required to defeat a pandemic. We need everyone in lock step. Sorry edgelords, just get vaccinated and shut the farg up.
But, as Americans, we think we're entitled to argue against doctors and researchers and scientists who are trying to save everyone's lives. At what point did an ethos of individualism morph into the belief that we're all equally fit to make life or death decisions on every single subject? This country is so farging stupid.
There's already wildly varying outcomes and I'll guarantee you the % of anti covid vaxxers who've actually read the basic info is less than 1%
Yeah they get their news from some fat housewife with a bowl cut on FB or one of the many politicians who wouldn't look their way if they were dying in the street.
I always use the polio vaccine as the comparison. Imagine if that shtein was cranking up now. Would people be as stupid? Probably. But I'd like to think they'd take it seriously.
If that shtein stain Trump would've taken it seriously his magat minions would've listened and we'd be "back to normal". But no. He farged off bc he thought the market would tank (it did) and he'd owe the election (he did). I mean JFC leading up to the election he was pimping the vaccine! And he had his advisors also pimping it as the Trump vaccine. They were all about it then.
Quote from: TAFKASD on July 29, 2021, 12:00:52 AM
There's already wildly varying outcomes and I'll guarantee you the % of anti covid vaxxers who've actually read the basic info is less than 1%
To Rusty's point, the problem is we've all underestimated just how many people are out there who could read that information that you're linking too and understand jack shtein about it. I think we have to come to terms that hundreds of millions of Americans are literally just stupider than we may have assumed. I don't mean that as a insult, I mean that literally they lack the capacity to understand some things that we would consider generally easy to understand. I can't even begin to describe how many times i've faceplamed in the last 2 years at people just having no understanding of science that, while it's not basic, it's also not hard to understand if you're at all capable. Thinking about these people reading about how mRNA vaccines work, and I just...can't see them getting it.
The example I keep coming back to is masks and smell. I've seen so many people say something to the effect of "Well if I can smell someone's fart through the mask, obviously they don't work to block viruses!"...and these people just don't understand that the methane air particles coming out of your icehole are extremely small compared to even a single viral particle of COVID. Their brains literally can't fathom that difference. It's terrifying to realize how many people out there lack the capacity for that,
(The other explanation is they COULD understand if they WANTED to, but prefer not to understand and also just don't want to deal with the cognitive dissonance that would come with having to admit their chosen political side and hero is wrong, so they prefer to just dig in and pretend they're right no matter how wrong they are)
Pharmacists report that people are wearing disguises at the pharmacy when they come in for the shot.
Red hatters who don't want their friends to know they got it.
Disney back to making guests wear masks. Oh this will go over well
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/29/disney-world-and-disneyland-to-require-parkgoers-to-wear-masks-indoors.html
Quote from: MDS on July 28, 2021, 11:14:05 PM
i cannot functionally understand how people think they know more than doctors and infectious disease experts
i get the people who inherently dont trust the government and go the other way if theyre pushed to do something. theres some justification there albeit they are very wrong here. the people who think reading a few websites or watching some tik tok videos makes them smarter than a epidemiologist with 3 decades of experience...no. NO.
no one thinks they literally know more....they have a pre conceived notion of something...whether its a mistrust of government or a conspiracy theory and they seek out outlets that spew information to back up those notions then they say the doctors are wrong...but they dont actually think they know more than the doctors...you dont ever hear arguments or debates from these cranial lumps over cell therapy or auto immune diseases
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 29, 2021, 08:36:56 AM
Quote from: MDS on July 28, 2021, 11:14:05 PM
i cannot functionally understand how people think they know more than doctors and infectious disease experts
i get the people who inherently dont trust the government and go the other way if theyre pushed to do something. theres some justification there albeit they are very wrong here. the people who think reading a few websites or watching some tik tok videos makes them smarter than a epidemiologist with 3 decades of experience...no. NO.
no one thinks they literally know more....they have a pre conceived notion of something...whether its a mistrust of government or a conspiracy theory and they seek out outlets that spew information to back up those notions then they say the doctors are wrong...but they dont actually think they know more than the doctors...you dont ever hear arguments or debates from these cranial lumps over cell therapy or auto immune diseases
I know that we run in different circles but I completely disagree. I've talked to more armchair epidemiologists over the past year and a half than I care to remember.
maybe i just dont pay attention but im talking about even online i dont notice it....i certainly have never met anyone like that...
but online i see them say the doctors are wrong and post a tucker carlson link or a link to some crazy right wing article or meme...but i dont see individual people say that they know more than the doctors and try to argue the science...i guess im lucky
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 29, 2021, 09:07:08 AM
maybe i just dont pay attention but im talking about even online i dont notice it....i certainly have never met anyone like that...
but online i see them say the doctors are wrong and post a tucker carlson link or a link to some crazy right wing article or meme...but i dont see individual people say that they know more than the doctors and try to argue the science...i guess im lucky
This describes 99.9% of the population and 100% of anti covid vaxxers. I tried breaking down the way the vaccine works to several anti covid vaxxers and it all went back to "we don't know the long term effects"..." can't trust the g'bment". My point to them was you've already been administered a similar type of vaccine...here's why it's similar...but it fell on deaf ears. Whatever...enjoy getting sick. Checked in on mom a bit ago...she's doing a bit better. I sent her the Disney new mask rule link and she said she can't believe my cousin is still having a party (25th anniversary for our really good friend...roughly 100 will be in attendance). I didn't say anything but 99% of the people going are vaxxed and it's outdoors. Not to mention she just went maskless and unvaxxed to the current epicenter of covid.
Id love to read the story about the pharmacists seeing people in disguise. I'm lol'ing about MAGA Karen disguising herself to go get vaxxed.
My biggest customer told me this morning they had an outbreak in their shop. About 15 people tested positive. A few went to a house party, got it and then came to work and spread it.
A woman I work with walked into my office this afternoon and told me she had Covid a month ago. She was out for three solid weeks. She was double-vaxxed and wore masks religiously. I thought she was on vacation. Never even knew she was sick. She told me she got the same treatment as Trump (infusions) and that saved her life.
Meanwhile in Florida we had 16,000 positives for Covid today alone and 92 deaths. Hospitals are way past capacity and ambulances are lined up outside them waiting to drop off more Covid patients when the beds empty.
Yet despite ALL THIS, the piece of shtein Trumper icehole Governor refuses to do anything at all.
I can honestly say the rage building here against these motherfargers is spiraling upwards right now. shtein is gonna hit the fan soon here.
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253119138.html?__twitter_impression=true
17,589 new cases today. Not 16,000 as previously reported.
I'm just farging exhausted and a little despondent right now.
I wish the doctors and nurses would legit just strike somehow/someway. Put pressure on Desantis
The very thing that made them want to be doctors and nurses would keep them from doing that.
A lot of them are unvaccinated, Munson. It's incredible down here. It truly is the dumbest place in the country. It's not like Alabama or some other shteinhole state either. There's smart people here but millions of them have been brainwashed into believing the GOP Fox News bullshtein. Doctors, lawyers, bankers, professionals of all sorts railing against vaccines and suggesting repeatedly (STILL!) that it's just a hoax or a Democrat plot.
That's why so many of us are just exhausted here. We're doing the right things but so many people aren't that it just doesn't seem to make a dent.
yea i dont think theyre smart
https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1420929102253641728 21
Quote from: rjs246 on July 29, 2021, 10:17:24 PM
The very thing that made them want to be doctors and nurses would keep them from doing that.
Yeah yeah I know. I just cant think of anything else other than the people who have been on the front lines of this for 19 months just driving to his office and saying "alright farg it, you treat them, icehole"
florida numbers are worse than before vaccinations...desantis should be in farging prison...he trying to kill people and is succeeding
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7lgx9IXEAYgWC1?format=jpg&name=medium)
The farger is surely trying:
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1421212850991808512
NOTE: And he's tying funding to it, to make sure that school districts don't go rogue.
Another case of "I should've gotten the damn vaccine"
https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/father-of-5-dies-of-covid-19-after-texting-i-should-have-gotten-the-damn/article_527bc1aa-f0ec-11eb-9a47-273d1d8d32ac.html
I read the gofundme summation his fiancée posted. farging maddening.
https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1421304193529237512 21
https://twitter.com/seancasten/status/1421090471766548486 21
why does anyone care if these mouth breathers kill themselves....yea i dont want crazy variants getting out there either but if i read another story of some woe is me i shouldve got the vaccine im going to shoot myself
I read them to hear their reasoning and their wishing they wouldn't have been so god damn stupid.
one thing is not gettng the vaccine because you say you dont know what is in it or what the long term effects are or they rushed it and im scared....im not on any grounds defending that thinking...its completely ignorant
but saying you didnt get it because you are a good conservative is just other worldly stupid
My female friend got mad at me yesterday because I disagreed with her about "illegals" causing the spike in cases in Florida. I simply reminded her that she remains unvaccinated & she and those like her are the problem.
Oh well... time to get better friends, I guess.
Quote from: MDS on July 31, 2021, 12:11:50 AMwhy does anyone care if these mouth breathers kill themselves....yea i dont want crazy variants getting out there either but if i read another story of some woe is me i shouldve got the vaccine im going to shoot myself
The people to care about are, in order:
the children who can't get a shot
the immuno-compromised who can't get a shot or for whom the shot is far less effective,
ignorant/fearful adults, mostly minority, who have never had much good reason to trust established authorities anyway, and so their resistance is not batshtein crazy, it's just terribly unfortunate
the rest of us in the event this thing jumps the vaccine firewall because it had so much room to stretch it's legs amongst the unvaccinated
ideological/political people who choose not to get the shot are worthless scum, a direct mortal threat to everyone else, and their demise is cause for celebration..let them all die holding a photo of their dear (vaccinated) leader
the date.....
https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1285629892445515776
Quote from: Diomedes on July 31, 2021, 09:10:32 AM
Quote from: MDS on July 31, 2021, 12:11:50 AMwhy does anyone care if these mouth breathers kill themselves....yea i dont want crazy variants getting out there either but if i read another story of some woe is me i shouldve got the vaccine im going to shoot myself
The people to care about are, in order:
the children who can't get a shot
the immuno-compromised who can't get a shot or for whom the shot is far less effective,
ignorant/fearful adults, mostly minority, who have never had much good reason to trust established authorities anyway, and so their resistance is not batshtein crazy, it's just terribly unfortunate
the rest of us in the event this thing jumps the vaccine firewall because it had so much room to stretch it's legs amongst the unvaccinated
ideological/political people who choose not to get the shot are worthless scum, a direct mortal threat to everyone else, and their demise is cause for celebration..let them all die holding a photo of their dear (vaccinated) leader
POTY
https://www.thedailybeast.com/las-vegas-father-of-five-michael-freedy-wished-hed-gotten-damn-vaccine-just-before-dying-from-covid-19
21,683 new cases on Friday. I'm just speechless.
Probably from a lack of air thanks to the covid.
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Houston superintendent is talking about making them mandatory and bypassing Abbott's "no mandate" ruling. The fine for ignoring it is $1000. Hope the school board approves it.
1/3 of all new cases are from Texas and Florida. That seems like a great idea
Governor fargface isn't even in Florida right now. He's got money to raise elsewhere.
All of these motherfargers will get theirs eventually. Karma is a nasty bitch.
No they won't. Karma is fake, like Zeus, Thor, and Jesus Christ.
Karma is not fake and neither is the golden rule. We're not savages and if simply treat each other and our world better, it wouldn't be nearly as farged up as it is right now.
My two cents anyway.
Saw my plumber today. He told a familiar tale of shooting the shtein at the supply house, only guy in the place wearing a mask. One dude gives him the "you don't have to wear that in here," and another says "if God wants me to get sick, I'll get sick, etc." It's all jocular and he's letting it slide but they push him a bit more than they ought to, and so he replies to one of them, "I'm wearing this to protect you iceholes because I have the Covid now."
All four dudes step back, move a few steps away.
"Should I take the mask off? Maybe God wants you to get sick today."
"No man, really?"
"Yeah really. The Delta. I got the shot so its mild. Wanna kiss?"
Further social distancing suddenly seems wise to the morons, who aren't smiling anymore.
sigh
He ain't got it, btw. He's just a bastich who knows how to call a bluff (and respect others by masking up).
Lol good for him
I may do that too if someone questions me
Just got some blood money from the Florida DOE. Of course, Florida Orange Man has to have his name emblazoned on it, just like his hero.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8X9fcMXMAQ3Yr_?format=jpg&name=900x900)
28,317 cases.
There's a kid at work who's heading back to Gainesville for college. He's got his shots, so he'll probably be fine. He's aware of what kind of shteinshow he's got ahead of him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/09/dick-farrel-dies-covid19/
I guess God wanted Dick back.
Our governor just announced a mask mandate for the schools. Whew.
Read the thread and feel the ignorance and stupidity ooze through your screen. The amount of medical professionals speaking against masks and vaccines is sickening. Oh and even that clown Clay Travis made an appearance.
https://twitter.com/brinleyhineman/status/1425214791480758288 21
Read that whole thread...what a nightmare.
Just saw this today from what looks like the aftermath of that meeting:
https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1425449438202548224 21
"keep it calm. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE."
philly going back to an indoor mask mandate tomorrow. im going to literally punch every anti vaxxer i find.
50% of my staff is out with Covid. One returns Friday. All are vaxxed. The reason they were infected is because anti-vax iceholes refuse to give a damn about anyone else.
my office just closed for 10 days due to a positive case. it's fun to go back in time an entire year.
also this:
Researchers found the effectiveness of Moderna's vaccine against infection dropped from 86% in early 2021 to 76% in July when the delta variant became dominant. The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine fell from 76% to 42% over the same period.
I guess us Pfizer folk are not the cool kids anymore.
I'm actually the only Pfizer vaxxee who hasn't gotten a breakthrough infection. That's awesome news, Matt. Thanks Buddy!
"effectiveness" is an operative word
its extraordinarily effective against significant infection. i know we're all not anti science morons here but the language around vaccination stats is just awful
Quote from: phattymatty on August 11, 2021, 05:42:51 PM
my office just closed for 10 days due to a positive case. it's fun to go back in time an entire year.
also this:
Researchers found the effectiveness of Moderna's vaccine against infection dropped from 86% in early 2021 to 76% in July when the delta variant became dominant. The effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine fell from 76% to 42% over the same period.
I guess us Pfizer folk are not the cool kids anymore.
I have Pfizer too. Happen to have a link to read?
My man!
https://twitter.com/travon/status/1425524961029013512 21
Geo...you're in for some shtein this year, pal. Wishing you all the best.
440 students in Palm Beach County are now quarantining after contact with someone with Covid. 51 confirmed cases in the school district.
Th school year started just TWO days ago.
The cucks down here issued a mask "requirement"... with a parent opt-out.
This isn't going to end well.
Don't worry, they'll probably pull their kids out of school when they hear you're teaching critical race theory.
Georgia County Shuts Down All Schools Amid Major Student COVID Outbreak (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ware-county-georgia-schools-shut-covid-delta_n_6118377fe4b0454ed70e5c52)
QuoteAs of Friday in Ware schools, 76 students had tested positive for COVID-19, and another 679 students were quarantined, out of a total of 5,900 students. Smith said 353 students were quarantined because of exposure outside of school, according to WJXT.
Among the district's 950 school employees, 67 have tested positive and an additional 150 have been quarantined.
Only 29% of people in Ware County have been fully vaccinated. Georgia ranks among the bottom eight states in terms of vaccination rates, with just 39.4% of its population fully vaccinated.
So the kid at work left today to get back to Gainesville for college and got a message from them saying they're probably going back to online classes.
coincidently 29% of the county voted for biden
this county is slightly nw of jacksonville in a part of the south that really should just be napalmed
My kid goes back to UNF on Friday. She's vaccinated and will mask up but she's young and healthy and should be fine. I'd prefer it if she'd wait until this wave passes, but it's never going to end. I think we all know that now. Just gotta move on with our lives and do the best we can.
farging heartbreaking. But please, anti-vaxxers, MAGAts and QAnon freaks, how vaccines and masks aren't needed.
https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1427066912543019013 21
And the Texas Supreme Court has put a block on counties and school districts implementing mask mandates (which were implemented despite our dipshtein Governor banning them)
We are farged. This country is utterly farged.
Floriduh
https://twitter.com/WFLA/status/1427342683559825409
I'm sure my county will be surging soon.
https://twitter.com/jeffschultzatl/status/1427276980987338752 21
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/abbott-tests-positive-covid/2021/08/17/12664ee4-ff9e-11eb-85f2-b871803f65e4_story.html
QuoteA spokesman for Abbott said the governor is "fully vaccinated against COVID-19, in good health, and currently experiencing no symptoms."
Abbott also is receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment, the spokesman said.
Oh, how nice that is for him. Is this special monoclonal antibody treatment available to your average Texan, or just for the rich ones?
I thought people like Abbott were supposed to sacrifice themselves for the good of the economy? So confusing.
Oh well. Here's hoping it doesn't work and he dies suffering in agony.
That may actually make it worse for Texas: Dan Patrick.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9Bc_YtVIAEUukR?format=jpg&name=medium)
Quote from: Diomedes on August 17, 2021, 05:50:19 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/abbott-tests-positive-covid/2021/08/17/12664ee4-ff9e-11eb-85f2-b871803f65e4_story.html
QuoteA spokesman for Abbott said the governor is "fully vaccinated against COVID-19, in good health, and currently experiencing no symptoms."
Abbott also is receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment, the spokesman said.
Oh, how nice that is for him. Is this special monoclonal antibody treatment available to your average Texan, or just for the rich ones?
My first thought when I saw the news was "good".
I texted my friend that I'd guess he ended up with the regeneron treatment that DeSantis has been pushing (follow the money there btw - biggest donor has a connect to regeneron).
And sure enough...he's taken it.
I also heard he had a third vaccine booster shot.
But like Geo says if he bites the dust we get that scumbag Patrick who is worse than Hot Wheels.
Also - if he's not suffering severe symptoms he's gonna pull the "see? Nbd."
https://twitter.com/marcelinokhou/status/1427842354724151302 21
nothing rational about that person...reason will not reach her...abandon attempts at it
mandates, verifiable ID cards, lock them out of stores, offices, etc until they comply....I'm good with publishing an end date: after xx/xx/xx if you haven't gotten a shot, and you get COVID, stay home with it and get better or don't, your choice, your problem.
Pretty sure the farg your feelings crowd would lose their minds over such socialism meanness.
Quote from: Diomedes on August 18, 2021, 07:40:06 AMI'm good with publishing an end date: after xx/xx/xx if you haven't gotten a shot, and you get COVID, stay home with it and get better or don't, your choice, your problem.
lol......Alabama Doctor lurking on :CF.
Glad to see it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/18/alabama-doctor-unvaccinated-patients-valentine/
MAGA chud with a bomb (supposedly) parked in from of the Library of Congress. which I'm sure he thought was the White House.
rambling about Afghanistan or something. seems like they just got him.
Got him got him, or just arrested him?
he was an old white man so take a guess.
Well he was white, so I'm going with the usual result of carefully escorted off the premises.
They sent Merrick Garland in to talk him down, a few manly tears were shed, and he submitted peacefully to the authorities?
White guy builds an atom bomb and parks it in front of the Pentagon. Does he get Burger King or Mickey D's on his way home?
That's an Arby's man if I've ever seen one.
I have 8 people working directly under me on my staff. All 8 are vaxxed. I have now had 5 go down with the Delta. 2 are out as of today. 3 are back and fine. Meanwhile my best non wife friend remains unvaxxed and amazingly enough tested positive today. And it is kicking her ass right now too.
I just need to not get sick tomorrow since I'm moving my kid into her college apt tomorrow. After that I can just go ahead and look forward to catching this virus.
Thanks Trumper funholefaces.
This thread is another glimpse into the White Terrorist whom the GOP as courted and encouraged.
https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1428395576157249541 21
Yeah, time to order some new, nicer masks.
Ready to die then surrender peacefully. They are such Hoydas.
Floriduhhhhhh
https://twitter.com/alexkramers/status/1428784100463333380 21
Do what now?
https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1428844501053882371 21
Quote from: Diomedes on August 17, 2021, 05:50:19 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/abbott-tests-positive-covid/2021/08/17/12664ee4-ff9e-11eb-85f2-b871803f65e4_story.html
QuoteA spokesman for Abbott said the governor is "fully vaccinated against COVID-19, in good health, and currently experiencing no symptoms."
Abbott also is receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment, the spokesman said.
Oh, how nice that is for him. Is this special monoclonal antibody treatment available to your average Texan, or just for the rich ones?
It turns out that yes, the average Texan, or any other American, does have access to monoclonal antibody treatment. They work, and are free:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-monoclonal-abbott/2021/08/19/a39a0b5e-0029-11ec-a664-4f6de3e17ff0_story.html
Also turns out he's a hypocritical scumbag piece of filth.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1429229865144922120
Both had been vaccinated.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 23, 2021, 10:59:21 AM
I get a perverse sense of enjoyment reading the tweets of Covid and vax deniers after they've been stricken with it
https://twitter.com/nc5philwilliams/status/1418532336283627520 21
Valentine became a voice for reason by dying from COVID today.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/21/us/conservative-talk-show-host-phil-valentine-dies-covid-19/index.html
Guess god and all those thoughts and prayers really don't stop the Covid.
But hey - farg yo vaccines, libs! We got ivermectin and the lord!
farged around. Found out.
https://twitter.com/joshuahol/status/1429227764767465472
I guess Trump had a klan rally in bama yesterday. He told the crowd they should get vaccinated and got boooo'd. I hope they all die from covid.
So we're basically back at square one now, right? Mask up with everyone you don't live with, everywhere?
Dropped my kid off yesterday. I was leaving the complex when some grotesquely fat piece of trash starting bitching about the university handing out stickers merely encouraging vaccinations.
The kid at the desk handled it beautifully. Basically told her if she didn't want one to just walk on by. She started to mouth off at him again and he just told her to leave immediately. She waddled out cursing at him.
Multiply that by about six million. That's Florida right now.
Four of the ten people at work didn't get vaccinated and don't want to. Guess which ones are the biggest complainers about masks coming back for employees tomorrow?
Also, read this shteinshow. https://twitter.com/schmutzie/status/1429555157247926278
FDA approved the Pfizer shot. I'm hoping it becomes mandatory for government employees soon.
Quote from: General_Failure on August 23, 2021, 10:42:32 AM
FDA approved the Pfizer shot. I'm hoping it becomes mandatory for government employees soon.
We have to take some survey tomorrow about whether we're vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1429922750030880772
I had one return today. No covid thankfully. We had another in the office test positive. SOP at this point.
Also - my bestie's husband is not doing well at all. She's not great but he's in big trouble.
Get vaccinated. The end.
My district office has closed due to COVID.
The schools are still open.
:sly
https://twitter.com/tizzyent/status/1430658074377924618 21
DeSantis has decided the best way to fight Covid is to blame Biden for not ending it sooner.
Elections always matter. Your daily reminder.
Forgot to mention my friend's husband was rushed to the hospital yesterday morning. The hospital is fully locked down and as of last night she's had no contact with him. Sad but predictable.
It is sad. Sorry to hear it.
https://www.news4jax.com/health/2021/08/20/jacksonville-mother-loses-2-sons-to-covid-19-in-12-hours/
This is sickening
https://twitter.com/davidbegnaud/status/1431264120989523971 21
Conan still got it
https://twitter.com/conanobrien/status/1431297119995015175 21
https://twitter.com/MarcBernierShow/status/1421072368529780740 20
This was his final tweet. He died of Covid yesterday. Unvaccinated and used his platform to drag down an unknown number of his moronic followers. Now he's nothing but a statistical footnote.
And I'm fresh out of compassion for anyone like him too.
Hey, at least it's an awful way to go. Owned the libs straight into suffocating to death. Congrats, Republican idiot.
There's now that much more horse dewormer for the rest of us free thinkers.
I met him several times. He was as smug and insufferable as you can imagine. Now he's farging dead and boy do I ever feel owned over it.
just a remarkable tweet from what is supposed to be the paper of record
https://twitter.com/NYTNational/status/1431663383032606725
I laughed out loud when I read that bullshtein.
deathsantis made a strong push to make himself the non trump front runner for 2024
Well he'll certainly get a few votes with "Biden would have destroyed my state if not for me."
two of the top five or six highest new-cases-reported in a 24 hour period have been in the last last week or so...even as numbers of tests are declining, and it's the middle of summer when everyone is out doors....this winter is going to be brutal
Sign me up for shot 3 if they're offering it.
Today, the superintendent of my school district announced that masks would be mandatory, with no opt-out. There is a board meeting tonight. It's been the expected shteinshow, with doctors shoved trying to get into the building, and red necks fighting each other in the parking lot.
DeSantis has promised to issue vouchers for private schools for parents that want to pull kids out because of mask mandates.
farg this state.
What a depressing and exhausting time we live in.
i know its not easy to just pack up and move your life but you two really should
https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1432478919299641348 21
Is this your district Geo?
https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1432470273488474113 21
Yep. Both of them.
My friend's husband is still in the hospital and has been intubated. I talked to her today and tried to be supportive but I could sense she was in no mood to talk. I don't know if he's going to make it either.
She sounds terrible and she's going on two weeks with the virus.
I tried to get her to listen to reason but she wouldn't farging have any of it. It's so farging stupid. They just needed to get vaccinated but wouldn't budge.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on August 30, 2021, 08:29:27 PM
Yep. Both of them.
first red flag was naming it after a confederate general
Quote from: Geowhizzer on August 30, 2021, 08:29:27 PM
Yep. Both of them.
You need a raise. I don't know how you do it.
My liberal mom who was as anti covid vaxx as you get didn't bother waiting the 90 days post sickness to get her first dose. She took moderna last week. Her words "I'm not going through that ever again". At least she's a big enough person to admit it.
Flip side my uncle (Trump supporter - brother of my wacko Trumpcle) - who has 4 kids who have never received a vaccine shot for anything ever - has convinced by Aunt who has several severe medical conditions to not get vaccinated. She gets covid she's dead. I told her last week I'll cry at her funeral but don't expect any sympathy. You wanna listen to a chiropractor over medical experts that's on you.
First day of school yesterday, both kids had to stay home because one is sick and COVID tests were pending.
Results came in last night, both negative.
I wonder how long they'll all be in school before there's a major disruption.
Less than a month, surely.
I wonder what odds the bookies are offering.
Russell?
My Buffalo buddy yanked his 11 yr old and 9 yr old girls out of school here in DeathSantisville.
He's selling his house and moving back to upstate NY. Can't blame him one tiny little bit either.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/pbvcdu/uhh_are_any_of_these_unvaccinated_patients_in/
This is beyond enraging. And it's the same story over and over.
I'd like to hear that black and latino folk have wised up and are getting the shot while deplorables are doubling down and getting sick.
Please please let that be the case.
We started back full bore all students yesterday. Masks mandated.
Even with the masks, it doesn't feel safe
That's because it's not. At least you're in Delaware. I must be out of my mind for allowing my kid to walk into a high school right now but she's 21 and fully vaxxed and will be masked up come hell or high water.
Yeah it could definitely be worse. But having classes of 30 and 32 (and only 29 desks in my room VERY moderately spaced out lol) in my room that has my co-teacher's desk taking up space is driving me insane. And then seeing the hallways between classes is...yeesh.
Really hoping we at least get another social studies teacher unit added so we shrink down some of these classes.
Here are couple of the highlights of the board meeting last night:
https://twitter.com/i__m__kered/status/1432749954808881163
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1432728173293211650
Oh, and my school has nearly as many positive cases this year as we did all of last year... and we're three weeks in.
Holy Karen alert
jesus christ geo you can stay in my extra room
run for your life
We got room for you in Baltimore. Lovely people for the most part.
joe rogan has covid and is taking his horse goo
man oh man would this be a big box to check
I learned what a biPap machine is yesterday. I also learned that when a person's blood ox level is 84 and they've spent 4 straight days and nights in the Covid ICU ward, it's probably a good thing to avoid it by getting VACCINATED before you end up there.
SMGDH
averaging about 1,400 deaths daily at present (and rising)
at this pace, we'll easily hit 750k dead Americans by Thanksgiving...if Republicans keep working hard, we might get to a million before end of the year!
Oh those numbers will absolutely skyrocket for Thanksgiving.
My pregnant unvaccinated sister just tested positive
Sorry to hear that.
Sorry dude.
I know there's nothing I could have done different with my friend and her husband but I'm feeling oddly homicidal right now. I got a call at 2:00 from her and she was crying. The hospital called and told her they were putting her husband on a ventilator. I saw them both two weeks ago and they were perfectly fine. Now she's recovering slowly and he's got a tube down his throat in a medically induced coma. It's just enraging thinking these two people I care about failed to listen to anyone but the right-wing fargheads who insisted and continue to insist Covid is a hoax. I thought about how she and I got into a raging fight over it after I begged her to get vaccinated and she basically told me to farg off and that she would never ever get vaccinated. I mean, was it my fault that she turned so adamant about it? Did I harden her stupid stance by pushing too hard?
I'm just exhausted watching friends I've had for decades end up like this. Seriously, it feels like survivor guilt to me.
Anyway, that's where things stand. And I could use a big farging drink right now.
many thoughts and prayers
I'm honestly distraught but thanks for the support.
might i recommend forming friendships with people that arent avid tucker carlson devotees
i guess thats tough in florida where every other person belongs in an mental institution
Quote"The Mu variant has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape," the WHO said in a statement Tuesday...
I should have bought stock in funeral homes. I probably still should.
Can you do that, buy stock in an industry entire, like undertakers? You probably have to call some greasy icehole and give him part of the cut, but who do you call? A stock broker? A bookie? What's the difference?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/03/mu-coronavirus-variant-explained/
Sorry to hear about your friends, Rome.
To be fine a couple weeks ago and be like that now is sobering.
Quote from: MDS on September 03, 2021, 07:58:48 PM
might i recommend forming friendships with people that arent avid tucker carlson devotees
i guess thats tough in florida where every other person belongs in an mental institution
That's just the thing... they weren't when we became friends. She wasn't political at all. She was funny, profane, kind and just nice, you know. Then about 5 years ago she got caught up in the Trumper shtein. Best way I can describe it is it's like she became a holy roller for Trump.
She's still my friend, but yeah, it's been awful to watch.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on September 03, 2021, 09:22:57 PM
Sorry to hear about your friends, Rome.
To be fine a couple weeks ago and be like that now is sobering.
Thanks man. That's been the common theme here for a couple months. Perfectly fine one minute and then a few days later, bam, you have a tube jammed down your windpipe.
They have all truly lost their goddamn minds.
School Update: We've already passed last year's total of COVID cases. We're four weeks in.
any dead kids yet?
My daughters school just made masks mandatory again. The deplorables are going nuts. There's a meeting next week...I just have zero interest in being around these people. My daughter had covid, she's fully vaxxed, she'll wear her mask and not bitch and moan like the red iceholes running rampant around these parts. I really hope they all get sick.
Quote from: Diomedes on September 04, 2021, 09:06:38 AM
any dead kids yet?
Thankfully, not yet. We do have a teacher that's been out a full month now. Not hospitalized (yet), but pretty sick.
you gotta admit this is really funny
QuoteA woman died of the virus, and as her family was planning the funeral, her mother was also struck down. An aunt took over arrangements for the double funeral, only to die of COVID-19 herself two weeks afterward.
Yeah they've got no one but themselves to blame.
Of course they're the one whose family would shtein themselves if the coroner lists Covid as the cause of death. Some of the wingnuts are showing up at hospitals with letters from attorneys demanding their people get the horse paste meds. Idiots.
On a side note my coworkers four year old has it.
no matter how many crazy school board meeting videos i see i still cannot believe these are real people in the world
some of it is fake....theres like a head lunatic in charge who recruits and encourages people to come out and gives them a speech to give
but really this element of insanity has always been out there, but now its all just there for the taking on facebook. they see other people doing it and they want to do it too. like how racists were emboldened under trump to do a charlottesville, lunatics are emboldened now to go to school board meetings and scream about 5g.
And I mean, go ahead, show your ass. You know? Fly that Trump flag. Drink the bleach. Thanks for the heads up to steer clear.
4,000,000 cases in just the last 4 weeks alone. But freedom though.
Unfortunately, in Covid hot spots, now some vaccinated patients don't have the freedom to have surgeries, or even get an ICU bed when they are critically ill, because those beds are already being consumed by the massive influx of Covid patients. For some reason we don't see those statistics - the colaterral damage and deaths caused by inadequate resources available because of their allocation given instead to Covid patients.
the Republican motto: Devil Take the Hindmost
I just had to take my mom to the hospital last week. Essentially had to keep her in the ER area for 24+ hours as there were no beds available in the entire hospital.
That sucks. Hope she's ok now, Matty. There have been regions where hospitals are saturated with no beds available including the ER, and sick patients got stuck having to wait in the ambulance for a number of hours until the hospital can discharge someone to create a bed (sometimes before they are really ready to go home). Ambulances aren't meant for that so it's to the detriment of the patient, but also that rig is taken out of service and can't go get others, like someone having an MI.
Biden has run out of fargs to give. It's about time.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/09/us/ozarks-missouri-covid-vaccine/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
Dumbass hilbillies
"They shafted my President," Bland said. He thought the vaccine was delayed intentionally to hurt Trump, a baseless claim. "They wouldn't give it to him because they know damn good and well he'd be reelected, and there'd be nothing nobody could do. So, they had to swindle around and scheme around and keep it from him, and just as soon as the election was over, Bam! There we got it."
"I'm so bullheaded. You shafted me out of my President. I ain't taking your medicine," he said. "I'll take what they gave him, but I'm not taking yours."
When reminded Trump had actually urged people to get the vaccine, Bland said he hadn't seen that. Indeed, Trump himself got the vaccine, and while he had teased there could be a shot by the 2020 election, vaccine developers and federal officials were always clear that the timeline depended on when the data came in. "I don't watch the news because you'uns have all pissed me off so bad," Bland said. Still, he was down to hang out with our CNN crew over a few beers on Rodebush's front porch.
the dc elite media loves nothing more than going to a diner in the middle of nowhere and asking some farging idiot what they think about ___
great to broadcast and print such relevant information
Just wait til they treat Cheeto Dick as a legit 2024 candidate for ratings
They shafted his President. I wonder if that dipshtein has even the vaguest notion of how little Trump gives a shtein about him or the millions of other rubes who support him?
https://twitter.com/npr/status/1436501681194381314 21
Hillary was good and correct in her basket of deplorables line
It's always been about the cruelty. Name a single Republican in our lifetime who *wasn't* interested in farging working people over just for the fun of it. And that includes the war hero too because even though he talked like a decent guy, he routinely voted like a farging monster.
Oh, you mean the "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" guy?
got our first positive (Baltimore City elementary middle school w/ approx. 800 kids) today, a fourth grader.
close contacts required to quarantine 10 days, extra cleaning, etc...these are gonna start happening a lot once weekly testing starts.
So I found out from a colleague that Biden is personally sending trucks around, but instead of spraying for mosquitoes, he's actually spraying Covid and infecting everyone *including* the vaccinated.
Someone actually said that.
But I was then told by this same person that I'm too mean to anyone who dares share the truth with others. You know, because their beliefs are just as valid as mine are.
I'm literally not kidding. This happened.
I told this person to immediately report me to HR if I'm being mean. She said there was no reason for that because we're all in on it anyway.
Another employee overheard the exchange and immediately walked into my office and said she'd file a complaint against the person who initiated the exchange if need be.
This is my life right now.
honestly we all deserve to die
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1437581359418068992
Quote from: Rome on September 13, 2021, 08:02:59 PM
So I found out from a colleague that Biden is personally sending trucks around, but instead of spraying for mosquitoes, he's actually spraying Covid and infecting everyone *including* the vaccinated.
Someone actually said that.
But I was then told by this same person that I'm too mean to anyone who dares share the truth with others. You know, because their beliefs are just as valid as mine are.
I'm literally not kidding. This happened.
Jesus.
Well, besty's husband died last night. He died alone, hooked up to a farging machine. It's senseless, enraging, appalling and completely farging predictable.
Anyone involved in the disinformation campaign that's causing this nightmare to continue should be thrown into the deepest, darkest hole in the land.
My boss and I made a coworker end her shift literally shaking in anger the other day. What we said to her was "yeah, they're probably going to mandate vaccines for state employees at some point and you should probably get it," but what she heard was "Hail Dark Father, we offer you this defiant sacrifice who did her own research."
Sorry about your friend's husband.
That's a shame, Rome. Sorry to hear it.
Do you have a nice mask to match your funeral suit?
Sorry Rome. You're right - it is all of those things.
GF - I hope your coworker stands her ground against this oppressive tyranny of public health and ends up jobless.
Quote from: Diomedes on September 14, 2021, 09:35:54 AM
That's a shame, Rome. Sorry to hear it.
Do you have a nice mask to match your funeral suit?
I don't do funerals. I've sworn them off because they're barbaric rituals. I'll just hoist a glass in his memory.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32208394/sources-nba-players-required-get-covid-19-vaccination
Coddled millionaires are exempt from societal responsibilities.
News at 11:00!
a rare Florida man is a hero story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/florida-landlord-requiring-covid-vaccine-proof/
Paywall, Dio. Please summarize.
- Or -
I ain't paying for no liberal hoax rag bullshtein!!
sorry
80 year old covid-survivor landlord of 1200 units announces he'll no longer offer leases to unvaccinated
current residents who don't get vaccinated will not be offered renewals
says its not fair to his employees and their families, etc.
That is outstanding. Get vaccinated or get out. I love it.
You don't have to get the shot, but neither do I have to rent you a living space.
Good luck.
Freedom!
Two positives close to my older child. One on the (worst) soccer team (on the planet) and another in his "pod" at school. So far, no symptoms and apparently he's not close enough to the case at school for them to ask us to keep him home, so he's going in today.
If he gets sent home for 10 days quarantine, I think I'm just taking him to work with me because I can't not work anymore. I had like a full year of being unable to work...I guess he's education might be a little unconventional, but these are the times.
Correction: kid has been sent home for 10 day quarantine
So, society at large: how I'm supposed to work and pay bills like this?
Society to Dio: farg you
Not for nothing but at least you're not in Florida. My kid started her internship in a high school here on Tuesday and those fargheads are largely ignoring the mask requirements because their parents are inbred pieces of shtein.
Two hours later, younger child sent home complaining of headache and chills. No reported contacts with a positive case..but we gotta get her tested asap. Doctor's office, closed for the day. Back up office closed for lunch. Testing appointments at pediatric clinics all booked up (and available only by using a goddamned computer). Can't just roll up to a location, you have to book in advance, etc.
Done everything right, followed all the rules and protocols, lucky enough to have health care, wheels, and computers....and this is still a goddamn mess. What's it like for everyone else, who have only phones, or the bus, who ain't got a doctor to call (even if the office closed).
Royal shteinfarg.
Marry medicine to profit and this is what you get.
Oh shtein. Sorry Dio. I hope they're both ok.
They're fine. He shows no symptoms. Was tested Monday, results pending, getting another Saturday. Probably negative.
The other not showing fever, gets headaches anyway. We'll hold her home and see where we are tomorrow.
It's all such a pain in the ass. Avoidable, yet unsurprising.
Damn Dio I also hope they're ok.
And you and your wife as well.
You're right - you can do everything right and still get farged because of the iceholes anti vaxxer and people whom have entrusted their lives with known shteinbirds like Rand Paul, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boobert and Large Marj.
Hope they (and you) stay clear, Dio.
https://twitter.com/evren__7/status/1438922034671546368 21
aww, he died doing what he loved. his own research.
As expected, son is negative for COVID, and my income flow from staying home is also negative.
He goes to work tomorrow and if he doesn't get his homework done, oh well. Teacher will give him As or fight me.
good to hear man.
so DC is requiring all municipal employees to get vaxxed. they received 475 religious exemptions. and almost 420 of them are dc firefighters. I mean I guess I knew firefighters leaned trumpy but that number really surprises me.
I won't actually fight a teacher of course. They can dock him whatever they have to and it's cool. The kid is gonna be fine, don't care two shteins about his grades.
Glad he's negative Dio.
Matty yeah the cops and firefighters are most of the time on the conservative end of the spectrum. Which is funny bc they want that first responder praise and love but by being unvaxxed they put first responders and their colleagues at the emergency rooms in danger.
420 of them huh? 419 and the stoner who sends out the press release was like ...
Anyway...call their bluff and fire them. Reagan did it to f'n air traffic controllers for worse cause and got lionized for it. Fire the motherfargers. They can be replaced.
A week ago, DeSantis got a judge to rule in his favor, and our district backed down. Students no longer have to wear masks... teachers do, but not students.
Yesterday, his new surgeon general issued a new emergency rule that gives parents the option to quarantine or not if their child is contract traced.
However, we still have to spray our desks with a weak-ass citrus acid water solution each period. THAT WILL STOP COVID! :crazy
I don't know how you do it man.
I wouldn't be able to live in Florida. farg that noise.
I got my first contact tracing email today about a student in one of my classes. Fun stuff.
Quote from: Munson on September 23, 2021, 09:53:39 PM
I wouldn't be able to live in Florida. farg that noise.
I got my first contact tracing email today about a student in one of my classes. Fun stuff.
I had five go out of my class on Tuesday. Three of them were back today after the order. We'll see tomorrow about the other two.
I went to Walgreens to get my flu shot and first dose of the Shingles vaccine today.
Keep in mind I got BOTH Covid shots there. With insurance (Aetna).
I'm waiting to get the shots when the pharmacist comes over and hands me a piece of paper that stated "Pharmacy Not Contracted" meaning they don't accept Aetna for basics like a flu shot.
I'm like... uh, it literally says Walgreens on the card, ma'am. And she just turns and says sorry and walks away.
So... went across the street to CVS and asked them if I was qualified to get the shots there. The pharmacist looked at me like I was a lunatic and said, "of course you are. They're free with all insurance coverages."
Ten minutes later I had one shot in each arm and off I went.
Point of all this is we are truly farged up in this country when you can't walk into any pharmacy and get vaccinated for anything. That's one reason why we are never going to get past this Covid nightmare. It's bad enough we have stupid fargs who refuse to get vaccinated. The unbelievable bullshtein we have to get through just to get minimum basics like flu shots will be the death of us all one day.
wait did she pretend you were qualified for a free thing in order to avoid giving you the free thing because facebook meme
Quote from: MDS on September 24, 2021, 11:35:17 PM
wait did she pretend you were qualified for a free thing in order to avoid giving you the free thing because facebook meme
I went there because I was registered already for Covid. Our county government typically has a health fair where everything is there. Just walk up and get your blood work, vaccines, etc.
Covid has scotched all of that for the past two years so we're on our own.
Just for fun I called Publix, Target and Wally World and I got the same answer as CVS. Come on in, you're covered for every vaccine under the sun.
It's just insane that a company puts people through that. It's like when ESPN has a fight with DirecTV and takes it off the lineup over money. Only in this case it's actually important.
I feel bad for old people who have trouble easily going somewhere else, actually. I just said ok and went across the street, but what if their options are extremely limited? Just buck up, bitches?
Insanity.
i think you ran into an anti vax pharmacist who lied about you not being covered in order to prevent you from getting a flu shot
id go to the mattresses on this...call up corporate hq and get her name and her job
Quote from: Rome on September 25, 2021, 12:41:41 PM
...Wally World..
Lol .. what is that? F'n Florida..
In other news I'm home isolated from my family awaiting results from a test today. I don't think I have it but I'm not well and the kids aren't vaxxed.
Walmart. People have been calling it Wally World for as long as people have been calling Target Target but with the French pronunciation.
Yeah first time I ever heard that was the late 80's when we first moved to Alabama.
Wally World must be some hicktown shtein never heard it
Ah, ok. I was fully prepared to learn that in Florida there is a pharmacy chain with a petting zoo name.
Quote from: Diomedes on September 25, 2021, 07:04:05 PM
Ah, ok. I was fully prepared to learn that in Florida there is a pharmacy chain with a petting zoo name.
If there is, their best-selling product is bath salts.
Quote from: MDS on September 25, 2021, 02:55:41 PM
i think you ran into an anti vax pharmacist who lied about you not being covered in order to prevent you from getting a flu shot
id go to the mattresses on this...call up corporate hq and get her name and her job
TBH she was kinda hot. Might be a bit stalkeriffic of me.
Also - you guys have never heard the term Wally World applied to WalMart? That's funny.
I used to go there once a year when I worked at the Car Show. It was the only thing open at 5:00AM and I'd pick up my supplies for the week. That was more than enough for me.
Quote from: Rome on September 26, 2021, 08:33:40 AM
TBH she was kinda hot.
We know your taste.
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My tastes are well-documented.
Vuke's wife says hi
WaPo headline: The pandemic death toll is now the equivalent of all of Boston dropping dead.
95% of readers: farg Boston
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32341148/warriors-andrew-wiggins-explains-decision-get-covid-19-vaccine-options-were-get-vaccinated-not-play-nba
He's a victim. A victim I tells ya!
Seriously. Humans are the worst.
Anyone get a booster? I got J&J which has the lowest efficacy rate. Was contacted yesterday boosters are ready and available. I'd get the moderna booster because with J&J that'll provide the most antibodies.
I'll get mine in early January. I should get it in mid December, but I want to spend as little time in public as possible during holiday shopping season.
I've been meaning to get mine but haven't yet. Maybe I'll go next week. I got the text two weeks ago that my hospital was offering them.
I get my Pfizer tomorrow at noon at Walgreens.
Quote from: TAFKASD on November 04, 2021, 07:06:27 AM
Anyone get a booster? I got J&J which has the lowest efficacy rate. Was contacted yesterday boosters are ready and available. I'd get the moderna booster because with J&J that'll provide the most antibodies.
I need to do it. I did my Shingles in September, and need to do Flu and COVID now.
I was ok on Friday - just a little tired. I was really tired on Saturday and achy. Yesterday was pretty awful. Chills, sweats and exhausted. Just back to tired today. The weather was weird the last few days so that contributed.
All in all I'll take feeling like shtein for a couple days over long haul Covid. One of my colleagues has it and it's not pleasant. He's just getting his taste back and he's suffering from chronic exhaustion from it too. He's in his late 50's and in very good physical shape otherwise.
People are farging nuts.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1459220786414292994
There was probably 25 or so of them on the bridge to the beachside where I live tonight.
I slowed down just enough for them to see me flipping them off and saying farg you farg you farg you to every last one of them.
I hope they all die because the human race simply cannot take their kind much longer.
More than 760k Americans have died from Covid.
Cases are rising again, and we're still over 1,000 deaths per day.
At a thousand a day, we'll hit a million dead around mid July.
Thank goodness there isn't a national shopping shteinshow coming up any time soon to make things worse.
Quote from: Diomedes on November 16, 2021, 08:12:08 AM
More than 760k Americans have died from Covid.
Cases are rising again, and we're still over 1,000 deaths per day.
At a thousand a day, we'll hit a million dead around mid July.
Mostly unvaccinated deaths...you don't want to get vaxxed at this point you deserve what you get.
If only it were only instead of mostly.
My fargface Governor called a special session of the legislature to fight vaccine mandates.
60,000 dead on his watch weren't enough to own the Libs.
Welcome to the Omicron Variant
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/europe-south-africa-variant-coronavirus/2021/11/26/0f7f5a78-4e99-11ec-a7b8-9ed28bf23929_story.html
Quote"This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning," the WHO said in a statement Friday afternoon. "Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other" variants of concern.
Still, major questions remain about the variant's transmissibility, whether it might make people sicker and whether it might be able to evade vaccines, but Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser to Britain's Health and Security Agency, warned that the new variant found in southern Africa is the "most worrying we've seen."
Delightful.
Ten times more virulent than the Delta is what I've read.
It's too late to stop it, though. It'll spread like wildfire and needlessly kill millions just like its predecessors.
Meanwhile there's still iceholes out there protesting mandates and refusing to get vaccinated.
Don't jump the gun yet on comparisons to Delta---Delta had pretty much wound down in South Africa so it was easier for this one to outpace it right now. We'll have to see how it does in other places in comparison to Delta
Great.
Meanwhile people will continue to whine about vaccinations and masks
When one of these things mutates to bypass the vaccines it's going to get bloody interesting.
can't say how many quotes or headlines I've read in the past few days something like "don't panic yet," or "it's premature to panic," etc.
Someone gonna stand up and say, now is the time to panic? Is there a good time to farging panic? Shut the farg up.
I think the scientists are trying to tell themselves not to panic because they are frightened.
They're scared because they know that there's a strain coming thanks to mutations that will be resistant to the vaccine.
Meanwhile fascist (fully vaccinated and boosted) politicians are out there saying the variants are all bullshtein.
these maps are unreal and just show how unconscionable the right is in their anti vaxx propaganda...they are literally murderers
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Imagine how much lower Bucks County would be if not for Lower Bucks.
Quote from: General_Failure on November 29, 2021, 08:20:18 PM
Imagine how much lower Bucks County would be if not for Lower Bucks.
Sadly true
another one bites the dust
QuoteProminent Christian televangelist and anti-vaccine advocate Marcus Lamb died after being hospitalized with Covid-19, his family announced Tuesday.
Have lost count at this point.
At what point does the increasingly Red portion of the body count start to actually affect their ability to win elections? How can Republican leaders think this strategy will work when their voters are literally dying faster than the other sides' voters are?
Gerrymandering is still a thing, they'll be fine.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/12/severe-covid-tied-high-risk-death-mostly-other-causes-within-year
Pretty horrifying
Also, did anybody here get an antibodies blood test done? I just had one done this week and my number was high enough that it pretty much convinced me that I did have covid back in January of 2020
Are we living in some sort of alternate farging world? Like what the farg.
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The number of gullible people has stayed at the same percentage, more or less, throughout history. You just have access to more information about them than ever before.
Finally got the booster scheduled for next week. 3 shots + 1 case of COVID = lots of implanted chips?
You're basically a cyborg now.
Got my booster today at the Waverly Giant. Props to the staff there...they are working at a furious pace, dealing with some of the rudest, most impatient people you'll ever meet.
What you think is gonna happen when you roll up to get a shot as a walk up? Thnk you just gonna step right into the chair with no wait? It's been an hour? Oh, the horror.
Quote from: Munson on December 02, 2021, 12:14:12 AM
Also, did anybody here get an antibodies blood test done? I just had one done this week and my number was high enough that it pretty much convinced me that I did have covid back in January of 2020
I was actually wondering this recently - can they still tell that even after you got the vax or is it just more of a probably?
Omicron variant confirmed in Baltimore metro. *sigh
Quote from: Diomedes on December 03, 2021, 01:31:25 PM
Got my booster today at the Waverly Giant. Props to the staff there...they are working at a furious pace, dealing with some of the rudest, most impatient people you'll ever meet.
What you think is gonna happen when you roll up to get a shot as a walk up? Think you just gonna step right into the chair with no wait? It's been an hour? Oh, the horror.
For my first two shots, I had to travel halfway across the state (like I'm sure many did) and was glad to do it. An hour at CVS just seems like nothing.
Then again, with the state of our society...
florida just introduced a state run militia using a civil war era slogan so im surprised theyre allowing vaccinations
i got my flu shot last week and they told me to wait 2 weeks. other people have gotten them at the same time. i dont know.
Part of the reason I've waited a bit longer was that I had to get my shingles vaccine.
Damned 50s.
Quote from: phattymatty on December 03, 2021, 03:17:51 PM
Quote from: Munson on December 02, 2021, 12:14:12 AM
Also, did anybody here get an antibodies blood test done? I just had one done this week and my number was high enough that it pretty much convinced me that I did have covid back in January of 2020
I was actually wondering this recently - can they still tell that even after you got the vax or is it just more of a probably?
So there actually is a test that can differentiate antibodies because apparently you make a different type of antibody from infection than you do just vaccine. I have no idea how to get that test or if it's even commercially available. I'm basing my assumption on just my total number that came back. Everything i was able to find about what antibody levels are when someone is freshly vaccinated or has recovered from the virus seemed to indicate that my levels are way too high for someone who is 8+ months out from my 2nd shot. So either my immune system is ridiculous or, more likely, my antibodies have stayed this high because the vaccine was actually the second time my body saw the virus.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on December 03, 2021, 06:14:36 PM
Part of the reason I've waited a bit longer was that I had to get my shingles vaccine.
Damned 50s.
I get my second dose on Friday of next week. The first one kicked my ass, bro. I've had three Covid jabs and they were nothing in comparison. I'm not sure if this is why but I haven't had Covid (although I was sick as hell in Feb 2020) but I have had chicken pox (50 years ago).
I'll be getting my third shot next month. Meanwhile, my boss is refusing to get his shots and won't wear his mask half the time, not counting his 17 smoke breaks, and spends all his time complaining that he can't go to concerts.
We're starting temperature checks again today.
Quote from: General_Failure on December 04, 2021, 09:07:39 AM
not counting his 17 smoke breaks, and spends all his time complaining that he can't go to concerts.
Lol
Got the third stick (as well as the flu vaccine) last week. No reaction at all.
Of course, with Florida, masks are out, and now the students are back to eating face-to-face in the cafeteria.
Post-Christmas may be quite interesting.
https://twitter.com/jim_gardner/status/1471627781075255300 21
Jim Gardner from the top rope
Quote from: Geowhizzer on December 16, 2021, 09:01:32 PM
Got the third stick (as well as the flu vaccine) last week. No reaction at all.
Of course, with Florida, masks are out, and now the students are back to eating face-to-face in the cafeteria.
Post-Christmas may be quite interesting.
I got the Pfizer booster this week. little arm soreness but haven't had any reaction to any of them.
Wife wants to take kids and 72 year old (healthy) MIL to sit down restaurant.... I'm vetoing the plan because omicron... We're all vaxxed but I'm spooked, don't want to get sick even if we are protected from serious illness
Am I being too cautious?
Your wife's a nurse and knows what's up. It's pretty likely that at this point she just wants to enjoy an evening out and/or capitulate to the nagging parents. If the kids have their shots, you can either let them go or start building a cabin in some remote woods.
I just spent a week at Hershey medical center, they are obviously good there but once you leave campus, there is not a mask to be seen in sight. much different from where I live in dc.
Quote from: Diomedes on December 18, 2021, 01:34:24 PM
Wife wants to take kids and 72 year old (healthy) MIL to sit down restaurant.... I'm vetoing the plan because omicron... We're all vaxxed but I'm spooked, don't want to get sick even if we are protected from serious illness
Am I being too cautious?
I don't think so. It's bad out there again.
Quote from: Diomedes on December 18, 2021, 01:34:24 PM
Wife wants to take kids and 72 year old (healthy) MIL to sit down restaurant.... I'm vetoing the plan because omicron... We're all vaxxed but I'm spooked, don't want to get sick even if we are protected from serious illness
Am I being too cautious?
Go for it. If you're all vaxxed you're good. Healthy 72 worst that happens is some sniffles.
Quote from: Diomedes on December 18, 2021, 01:34:24 PM
Wife wants to take kids and 72 year old (healthy) MIL to sit down restaurant.... I'm vetoing the plan because omicron... We're all vaxxed but I'm spooked, don't want to get sick even if we are protected from serious illness
Am I being too cautious?
its up to you...i personally just cannot live in this fear
ive got 3 shots ima do my thing. but you do you
I just don't see the worth in that risk. To eat out at a restaurant? Yawn.
If I'm risking it, I'm risking it for something that I can't do at home.
i dont really see it as a risk....its just normal shtein
going to a packed club in some maga hellhole can qualify as a risk
I bought a chair today at a furniture store. I wore a mask for the first time in weeks. Not so much because it was required (it wasn't) but more because this was a small place, it was crowded and the store owner requested it.
I'm triple-vaxxed. Every person on my staff has gotten it now. I'm getting it for sure but I reallllly don't want to die from it, so masking up again and keeping my distance otherwise.
I've seen enough Pennsyltucky customers at work coughing, wiping their runny noses, then handing cashiers soggy money while their inbred kids run around touching everything and screaming. I'm sanitizing my hands every five minutes while I'm there, really enjoying all the papercuts every single time. I ain't going anywhere again without a mask, don't care what time of year it is or who else is there.
No one except workers wear masks here. I mean no one. It's amazing. I had someone actually say out loud that the only people getting Covid are vaxxed up. The ones who aren't vaxxed are in the clear now. I just said, "cool... I hope you get it and die" and walked away.
That's pretty much my feelings now about this virus.
Quote from: Rome on December 18, 2021, 06:54:17 PM
No one except workers wear masks here. I mean no one. It's amazing. I had someone actually say out loud that the only people getting Covid are vaxxed up. The ones who aren't vaxxed are in the clear now. I just said, "cool... I hope you get it and die" and walked away.
That's pretty much my feelings now about this virus.
Yeah, pretty much. Florida gonna Florida.
Quote from: Munson on December 18, 2021, 04:36:36 PM
I just don't see the worth in that risk. To eat out at a restaurant? Yawn.
If I'm risking it, I'm risking it for something that I can't do at home.
What's the risk exactly if you're vaccinated? A minor cold maybe?
Update from stick #3 (Eight days later): Absolutely zero side effects other than a sore arm.
My guess is that it will turn into a yearly thing.
Quote from: TAFKASD on December 18, 2021, 09:02:31 PM
Quote from: Munson on December 18, 2021, 04:36:36 PM
I just don't see the worth in that risk. To eat out at a restaurant? Yawn.
If I'm risking it, I'm risking it for something that I can't do at home.
What's the risk exactly if you're vaccinated? A minor cold maybe?
Fair question really. Assuming because we're vaxxed that we can't get seriously ill, what really is the risk?
For me, one of the big answers is I ain't got time for COVID. Ain't nobody got time for getting tested and kids not being allowed to go to school for x number of days, etc. I got a life to live, I need to not get sick and for my family to not get sick. For me, the cost benefit analysis for tonight's proposed dinner was easly to calculate. We did not go and I'm glad. We did order from them, so I saw the dining room, and I want no part of that much of other people's breathing, thank you. Not if I can avoid it. If I can't avoid it, then you know, that's life and luckily I'm vaxxed so I should be okay. But for now, with omicron just starting to blush across the face of the country, we noped out and had a fine time eating at home.
Quote from: TAFKASD on December 18, 2021, 09:02:31 PM
Quote from: Munson on December 18, 2021, 04:36:36 PM
I just don't see the worth in that risk. To eat out at a restaurant? Yawn.
If I'm risking it, I'm risking it for something that I can't do at home.
What's the risk exactly if you're vaccinated? A minor cold maybe?
Long covid, which going by the name lasts well after the infection. Some folks have it a year, some have it longer. It now counts as a disability according to the ADA.
Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
Tiredness or fatigue
Symptoms that get worse after physical or mental activities (also known as post-exertional malaise)
Difficulty thinking or concentrating (sometimes referred to as "brain fog")
Cough
Chest or stomach pain
Headache
Fast-beating or pounding heart (also known as heart palpitations)
Joint or muscle pain
Pins-and-needles feeling
Diarrhea
Sleep problems
Fever
Dizziness on standing (lightheadedness)
Rash
Mood changes
Change in smell or taste
Changes in menstrual period cycles
Current estimate is being fully vaccinated cuts your chances of that in half.
So overall minimal risks. Hospitalization for vaccinated people is practically nil.
Went to Ruth Chris last week it was fantastic. Highly recommend we stop living in crazy scared town when we're vaccinated. My biggest fear isn't the virus it's that people are sick of it and only one sides making it an issue. One more reason Trump 2024/apacolypse is happening.
Worth remembering that "Mild illness" just means you didn't require hospitalization. You can still be pretty damn sick with "mild illness", and after having what I now believe was COVID and seeing the effects it had on my body in the months afterwards, I'd rather not chance that again right now for the sake of eating out at a restaurant when I don't have to. We got back to semi-normal this past may/june, and I imagine we'll do so again when the numbers drop back down. But right now they're ridiculously high and hospitals are getting back close to "if something bad happens to you or your family, you're kinda farged right now because we don't have the room for you". Until we're out of that situation, we could use a little more people living "scared" right now so their asses don't end up clogging up a hospital bed.
All that, and I have an unvaccinated toddler in the house.
Your unvaccinated toddler will be fine. Mild sniffles at worst. I never wear a mask...been fatigued all week with a slightly runny nose and mild sore throat. Might be omicron don't know dont care. If you're near me and get sick because you're unvaccinated your fault not mine. I did my part.
Yeah, I'm just not as cavalier as you are. Enjoy mixing with the deplorables while the rest of us cower in fear.
Quote from: TAFKASD on December 19, 2021, 12:42:10 AM
Your unvaccinated toddler will be fine. Mild sniffles at worst. I never wear a mask...been fatigued all week with a slightly runny nose and mild sore throat. Might be omicron don't know dont care. If you're near me and get sick because you're unvaccinated your fault not mine. I did my part.
Considering we just spent last friday night in the children's hospital for a non-covid/non-flu/non-RSV respiratory illness that also has a low rate for hospitalization, I'd rather not risk it for...eating food at a table surrounded by strangers when I can just eat the same food at home lol
(we also spent a few hours in the children's hospital back in February of 2020, a couple weeks after I first had what I think was covid, when he was only 8 months old. I'm somewhat convinced he had covid then but can't know for sure)
The willingly unvaccinated aren't the ones you're taking precautions for (like staying home when you're sick or wearing a mask). It's people like this you're doing it for:
https://twitter.com/WajahatAli/status/1472678031584026634 20
covid outbreak at the work xmas party....my boss was patient zero because of his dumb kid. i tested negative today and have felt nothing while a bunch of other co workers got it. feel im in the clear. 3 gucci moderna shots baby.
between that and the married girl i had an emotional affair with last summer actively ignoring me, id say it was a good time
Emotional affair?
Details needed
I need to get my booster.
basically we were in contact 24/7 except when she went off birth control so her goober husband could knock her up. seems like a healthy thing to me...endlessly hit up and flirt with your charming co worker while letting the husband youre iffy on shoot up the club.
women! im with marginassi
All girls have a dod (dongs on deck) in case shtein doesn't work out with their significant other...you're hers. Erase "emotional affair" and add she needed a self esteem boost and it'll make more sense.
oh for sure thats true...i was hooking up some haitian girl at the time so its not like i was sitting around waiting for this broad to text. which she did. endlessly.
she was absurdly hot though. oh well. now shes got a kid and is locked into a marriage shes meh on. have fun.
So you were the sex version of PH in baseball
You'll probably hear from her again
Advice you already know but usually you take girls like that to #town when you least expect it. She'll be having a low self esteem week or get into a stupid fight with the hubby then screw your brains out as revenge or for a pick me up. Something similar happened with me a few weeks ago...bf not husband. He's mr nice guy and their relationship is hangin by a thread.
Wear a condom, Todd. That's my advice.
Quote from: MDS on December 20, 2021, 11:24:35 PM...so its not like i was sitting around waiting for this broad to text. which she did. endlessly.
lol
There was definitely a third guy she was banging before she went off birth control.
if thats the case she was simultaneously texting me while blowing him...impressive.
Quote from: Rome on December 21, 2021, 06:01:24 AM
Wear a condom, Todd. That's my advice.
i always do except when i dont
https://twitter.com/DefenseOne/status/1473445633726062596
QuoteEconomist Robin Fransman, a Prominent Coronavirus Vaccine Skeptic, Has Died From COVID
"Corona positive. It's about time too," he tweeted.
Fransman was unvaccinated and had been highly critical of the COVID-19 vaccines on social media, often downplaying their effectiveness
https://www.newsweek.com/economist-robin-fransman-prominent-coronavirus-vaccine-skeptic-died-covid-netherlands-1664069
You can't fix stupid
Covid can
Pretty sure we have it. Waiting on our pcr test to confirm
It's covid going to kill enough deplorables to save the Union?
Quote from: Diomedes on December 30, 2021, 05:04:15 PM
It's covid going to kill enough deplorables to save the Union?
I was wondering this myself.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate
Does it make a dent in the potus election who knows.
Don't worry, the democrats are making sure the vaccinated don't have enough faith in them to bother voting again until 2024.
Quote from: Munson on December 30, 2021, 03:46:47 PM
Pretty sure we have it. Waiting on our pcr test to confirm
I got my shingles booster the other day. I was flat on my back with a lot of the same shtein as Covid except the loss of smell/taste. Woke up today and felt better. My arm is still hella sore, red and warm to the touch but it's better.
If I lose my sense of smell or taste, I have rapid tests at the house to let us know. My wife has been down since Christmas, but no Covid. Our kid is fine.
People get sick still. I hope you and yours are ok, Munson.
PS: Guy at my office got it again. That's twice. He was double-vaxxed and was getting the booster until he found out he was positive again. This one is much less severe than the last, thankfully.
I have it again.
Got home from PA last night. Felt tired yesterday but when I woke up this morning around 530 had a massive sore throat, body aches and congestion.
Took the at home test, which my girlfriend luckily got the other day just to have bc they're all sold out now, and it's positive.
I haven't gotten the booster yet. We were planning on going Saturday to get it.
Last night in both airports it was incredibly crowded. At the gate in PHL I even texted to her that I was amazed at the number of people coughing and sneezing.
So I'm quarantined in my man cave and use a mask when I need to go to another part of the house.
The omicron in terms of spread is no joke I think I knew like two people who got the delta and I know two dozen that have gotten this one
Yep
And it's true that it isn't as bad as the OG Covid and Delta but it still sucks. Thank god I'm vaxxed. The first time took me three weeks to get over it and my lungs still have issues
This one does have that feel of the cold/flu thing but the difference to me is the got damn body aches.
I'm wearing masks everywhere now. I'm getting it for sure considering the incredible numbers we're seeing here in fargville.
Meanwhile no one has seen or heard our governor in 12 days. Pretty sure he's on a vent somewhere. Go Covid.
We're all back in school on Monday. By MLK day we could be looking like a scene from Mad Max.
(https://64.media.tumblr.com/6a4bb39fcd4772a8e1f34f3e023d41ff/tumblr_ohfbhl1DgS1u2ragso3_400.gifv)
This one seems pretty unavoidable. My son has it as of this morning, so we'll see what happens. Almost hoping to get it over with, honestly. I'm two weeks in from my booster, so we'll see how things go.
Once again, being a huge loser who doesn't go anywhere pays off.
At least it's all white peoples dying
Is it? I mean if so, cool. Suicide by owning the libs. But I think plenty of minorities are still not vaxxed.
Yeah since September 70% of deaths are white
Day two
Definitely different than round one back in April. Although the body aches are the same. Good thing there's football on all weekend bc I'm not moving.
Quote from: ice grillin you on December 31, 2021, 11:21:51 AM
Yeah since September 70% of deaths are white
Got a source? Would like to repeat this but want to know it's legit
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 31, 2021, 11:27:22 AM
Day two
Definitely different than round one back in April. Although the body aches are the same. Good thing there's football on all weekend bc I'm not moving.
I highly recommend against sitting still. Get up and at at least go for a brisk walk. I know it sucks but don't stay stationary.
And I'm pretty sure I had it even though the rapid test said negative. There's no way a shingles vac made me feel that bad for five straight days.
PCR says negative. I'd love to go get a flu test but every place I'd get one of those would be a cesspool of Covid positive people sitting around with their noses stickign out of their masks waiting to get covid tests and etc.
But I've basically been sick for 8-9 days straight now. Pretty sure it was two separate sicknesses because I was feeling slightly better on the 25th and 26th before nosediving on the 27th again and getting really bad the 28th/29th, 3 days after our covid exposure.
My entire winter break from school has been me being sick the entire time. farging awful.
https://twitter.com/MissNepotism/status/1476969554895114240 20
This is the roast of all time.
farg Greg Abbott straight to hell.
Quote from: Munson on December 31, 2021, 05:56:30 PM
PCR says negative. I'd love to go get a flu test but every place I'd get one of those would be a cesspool of Covid positive people sitting around with their noses stickign out of their masks waiting to get covid tests and etc.
But I've basically been sick for 8-9 days straight now. Pretty sure it was two separate sicknesses because I was feeling slightly better on the 25th and 26th before nosediving on the 27th again and getting really bad the 28th/29th, 3 days after our covid exposure.
My entire winter break from school has been me being sick the entire time. farging awful.
That's not omicron. Sounds like Delta and it might not be measurable after 9 days on a PCR test.
Sorry you got hit hard, dude.
Quote from: Rome on December 31, 2021, 06:18:51 PM
Quote from: Munson on December 31, 2021, 05:56:30 PM
PCR says negative. I'd love to go get a flu test but every place I'd get one of those would be a cesspool of Covid positive people sitting around with their noses stickign out of their masks waiting to get covid tests and etc.
But I've basically been sick for 8-9 days straight now. Pretty sure it was two separate sicknesses because I was feeling slightly better on the 25th and 26th before nosediving on the 27th again and getting really bad the 28th/29th, 3 days after our covid exposure.
My entire winter break from school has been me being sick the entire time. farging awful.
Well I got a PCR on the 23rd after symptoms had appeared and that one was negative. Was feeling a little bit bette the 25th and 26th. We went to new york to see the inlaws and by the night of the 27th i was feeling like total shtein again.
Just a terrible week and a half all around. Really don't get the people that won't even get a shot that would lessen the symptoms of something, because being sick sucks.
That's not omicron. Sounds like Delta and it might not be measurable after 9 days on a PCR test.
Sorry you got hit hard, dude.
Is it possible to have Covid and the flu?
JFC this shtein hit hard today. Felt like I was on the other side of it yesterday but it's roaring back today. The fatigue and body aches are whipping my ass. No fever though.
just saw this earlier today.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/flurona-israel-records-its-first-case-of-patient-with-covid-and-flu-at-same-time/
Oh great!
Just got back from getting tested again. Still positive.
After the body aches and fatigue got worse yesterday I started to wonder if I have the flu. Nope just Covid. More time in quarantine in my man cave I suppose.
Amazingly enough we're back to wearing masks in the office as of tomorrow. Two people in my office tested positive today.
One in three are now Covid positive in Orange County (Orlando).
Staggeringly insane.
Both these statements are true:
1. My district has decided a 45-person field trip with masks and social distancing procedures built-in scheduled for this weekend is too dangerous and will have to be canceled, even though a refund will not be available.
2. My district has decided that our 5th-grade evening open house, featuring approximately 500 parents + their younger children will be on campus in full Floridian maskless is fine and dandy, and will happen in two weeks.
Running into a weird bug while posting with a question mark inside quotation marks, but only on the desktop version and just quick reply dealie. Very weird. Anyway, here's what I was trying to post before I hit a billion Internal Server Errors.
So here's a little conversation that plays out twenty times a day for me.
"Oh, I forgot my mask, do I need to go get it?"
"Employees are required to wear one, not customers."
"It's okay, I've had my shots."
I've turned into a germaphobe because of people the last few months. My mask is on before I'm out of the car, doesn't come off until I'm back in it, and I'm cleaning my hands ever five minutes.
Naturally I picked up a cold at home, so I get to enjoy my two days off coughing up a lung and doing my best Dr Girlfriend impression.
Quote from: Rome on January 04, 2022, 08:08:38 PM
Amazingly enough we're back to wearing masks in the office as of tomorrow.
same. no more mask exemptions for the vaccinated.
i tested positive last thursday & have only had cold symptoms..with a little bit of fatigue over the weekend. christmas weekend was a super spreader for my family with at least 9 testing positive afterwards...some with cold symptoms, some with a sore throat, some with no symptoms at all...no fever for any of them as far as i know.
f the rona!
Mother f'r! Got it.
Tested on Tuesday. Results came in yesterday at 1 AM. The testing group used the term "DETECTED" and the disclaimer in small print - If Detected indicative of active infection but do not rule out bacterial infection or other viral infections.
So WTF? I called the Hawaii Pacific Health Covid help desk and they said you got it. Was sick before Xmas, had my first colonoscopy on 12/20 so went to urgent care to get tested day before and to be safe. Negative, Doc gave me a Z pack, damn, flet 100% two days later. Colonoscopy went great, all good! Had mild relapse day before New Year's Eve. Cases out of control here, better safe than sorry and BOOM.
Can't blame the high school soccer team as due to amount of rain and surge in cases haven't practiced since 12/29. Blaming my son. Restaurant business, they all go out after work to other bars, restaurants for late night drinking and dinner. He got tested today. Awaiting results. Wife later today.
I just got the booster last week. Not worried just pissed off as I did everything to prevenmt this shtein. Feel ok, think I'm worn out from the stress and anxiety. Didn't want to be the one infecting the team, lot of pressure form the school and league.
Stay safe and healthy my brothers!
My advice if you catch it?
Kiss a Trumper square on the mouth as long as she's hot.
Hang in there, brudda. 🤙
https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert/status/1479113317503299587 21
Got in trouble today for both coming in to work and for saying I'm taking the next two days off sick. Throat's still raw, but I can talk a little bit now. Only came in today because it's truck day, and the only two people scheduled besides me were the slow guy and the new guy. I've been on a steady tea and soup diet since Monday, and frankly I don't feel like driving a half hour to go help out at a different store.
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 06, 2022, 10:59:13 AM
https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert/status/1479113317503299587 21
Good for him. Most of those clowns rail against the vax and are anti science...until they're sick and they go running to the hospital.
At this is fargin whackadoo stood his ground and died at the crib
Quote from: General_Failure on January 06, 2022, 03:46:11 PM
Got in trouble today for both coming in to work and for saying I'm taking the next two days off sick. Throat's still raw, but I can talk a little bit now. Only came in today because it's truck day, and the only two people scheduled besides me were the slow guy and the new guy. I've been on a steady tea and soup diet since Monday, and frankly I don't feel like driving a half hour to go help out at a different store.
So they didn't want you there sick but somehow want you to be there and not take off? Does your boss wear a MAGA hat?
It was the district manager in this case, who might be a little stressed because all she does all day now is make phone calls to see who can cover shifts for all the sick people. I was supposed to be covering for someone else at another store who's out sick.
Lesson learned, don't try to be considerate and just call out.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 06, 2022, 04:13:42 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on January 06, 2022, 10:59:13 AM
https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert/status/1479113317503299587 21
Good for him. Most of those clowns rail against the vax and are anti science...until they're sick and they go running to the hospital.
At this is fargin whackadoo stood his ground and died at the crib
He spent ten days in the hospital and died there
"Found unconscious Christmas Eve"
Jesus doesn't love you
I appreciate their suffering and dying all to own people like me.
Stupid Libs! I'll show them!
Considered me shown.
Honestly, good riddance.
oooops there go another one
https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-star-cirsten-weldon-who-said-only-idiots-get-vaccinated-dies-of-covid
Keep knocking off their voter base, Rona.
Does someone keep a comprehensive list of these cases? I feel like I've read a dozen or so of them.
I went looking.
Marcus Lamb
Kelly Ernby
Herman Cain
Bob Enyart
Marc Bernier
Phil Valentine
Dick Farrel
Tod Tucker
Jimmy DeYoung Sr.
Caleb Wallace
Cirsten Weldon
the only name on this list I knew was Hermain Cain the pizza huckster.
Quote from: Diomedes on January 07, 2022, 03:58:31 PM
Does someone keep a comprehensive list of these cases? I feel like I've read a dozen or so of them.
r/hermancainaward is a good place to start but its mostly just idiots on facebook who post dumb memes about never being vaxed then x months later their spouse posts on their account to say they died. its pretty funny actually
We had one of them here locally who made the news early on about being anti vaxx and ended up dying and of course the gofundme associated with it. No I'm not giving money to your family.
Quote from: Diomedes on January 07, 2022, 03:58:31 PM
Does someone keep a comprehensive list of these cases? I feel like I've read a dozen or so of them.
The HermanCainAward subreddit probably has a list somewhere, though they mostly document the regular dead people.
While I haven't read the HermanCainAward sub it sounds like infringement on the Darwin Award. A lot of people went into making that into something, and their memory shouldn't be disrespected.
Bernier was from Daytona. He was a colossal icehole but then again most of the Barnums who taunted Covid got what was coming to them anyway. I don't weep for them or the idiots who were swayed by them either.
Quote from: Eagaholic on January 07, 2022, 11:23:08 PM
While I haven't read the HermanCainAward sub it sounds like infringement on the Darwin Award. A lot of people went into making that into something, and their memory shouldn't be disrespected.
There's some crossover, but the Darwins are specifically for people who ended their line when they died stupidly. Most of the Herman Cain winners have kids who will be paying their medical debts for year.
And the Darwin winners usually die by accident, as it were. That is, no one explicitly warned them not to smear blood on themselves before diving with the sharks, just seemed like a good idea at the time.
These Henan Cain winners are a different breed.
https://twitter.com/KUT/status/1479609294261833730
Babysitters are the economy's new Heroes.
Good friend of mine of 35 years who's a Trumper...anti covid vax...conspiracy theorist believer of everything anti dem had covid from dec 11-27. He's built like a truck strong as an ox, runs daily...never smoked or did drugs, only drinks occasionally...went from 237 to 210 in that time frame. He's back up to 217 now. Great dude...probably one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. His politics suck but glad he's ok.
Quote from: TAFKASD on January 08, 2022, 06:10:50 PM
Good friend of mine of 35 years who's a Trumper
Quote from: TAFKASD on January 08, 2022, 06:10:50 PM
Great dude...probably one of the nicest people you'd ever meet.
Great guy. Nazi. But real nice.
I worry about SD. We all love him but Jesus.
good friend of mine worked the camps at auschwitz....he really went down the rabbit hole of propaganda and exterminated a bunch of jews and gypsies. really good dude though, im visiting him at nuremberg next month
Quote from: MDS on January 08, 2022, 10:00:45 PM
good friend of mine worked the camps at auschwitz....he really went down the rabbit hole of propaganda and exterminated a bunch of jews and gypsies. really good dude though, im visiting him at nuremberg next month
I literally lol'd
He's a goof
look at rand paul as fauci explains whats been happening to him personally...this is look of a soulless sociopathic ghoul. like a murderer on trial happy he committed the murders.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1480937036135677956
Peace out
https://twitter.com/downwithtyranny/status/1480961748731453441 21
US kicking ass with a world record with 1.35 million new covid cases monday.
Please look forward to this study being brought up by every ditchweed-smelling loser you've ever met. https://twitter.com/drowbb/status/1480713705885102085
Got J&J shot last March, lowest efficacy rate so got the Moderna booster today. Had zero side effects with J&J so hoping for the same with Moderna.
when i got my booster in december, because i dont play around like you trumpers, they told me i wouldnt feel anything because i already had 2 modernas. they were right. if you didnt have it, very well might knock you out.
7 day rolling average deaths per day is like 1850 right now, and rising. Almost 850,000 people have died from Covid in the U.S. with no end in sight.
New England Journal of Medicine just came out with a major pediatric study on teens 12-18. The upshot is that of all the several hundred patients studied, virtually all who were admitted to the ICU, needed life sustaining intervention, or died were unvaccinated. It's been since May that the vaccine has been approved for this age group.
this is nothing totally new but still staggering every time you see the numbers and why anti vaxx propagandists like tucker Carlson are literally murdering people
https://twitter.com/ourworldindata/status/1486076680619937795 21
Culpability ought to rise higher than the huckster in the tent, to the actual carnival owners, who never fold up operations for lack of a barker. I appreciate Neil Young telling Spotify to pull his music if they're gonna keep Joe Rogan because he's putting a spotlight on the fact that the bigs are making money off the death, not just the personalities doing the talking.
It helps that it takes a thousand song plays for any artist to see a single penny from Spotify.
As of this week masks are no longer mandatory for state employees. Most of us are still wearing them, and we're all pretty confident they'll be mandatory again as soon as the next major spike happens. Going by last year, that'll probably be late this month, slow down in late May, and pick back up when the schools open in the fall.
My dad caught the Rona a few weeks ago, he had his shots and was fine. My sister's granddaughter caught it at the hospital for leukemia treatment, they're all antivaxxers and she's too young for her covid shots. I assume she's doing as okay as can be considering the circumstances, since I haven't heard any new bad news there.
Otherwise, it was honestly nice not having a ton of Rona news every day.
Florida's "surgeon general" just said that healthy kids should NOT get the vaccine.
:boom
Anyone hired by or in DeSantis' orbit is a dumbfarg
The latest study on the brain impacts of covid isn't very comforting
farg everything
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/03/09/giant-joro-spiders-east-coast-may
They eat stinkbugs. I hope they like lantern flies, too.
Here we go again. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1502675479077130240
its an endemic you liberal parasites
we have to live with it
Not true, some of us have to die from it.
Thing is shrinking brains and killing T-cells but we "have to live with it".
Man is the human population fuuuuuckdd
what do you want to do...its happening with or without your mask mandates and restrictions
most people are farging over it, not to mention the people who never cared in the first place. ill take the hit from slapping some reality at you msnbc watching shtein libs
Shrinking brains?
Any good article on that? I know the news is dominated by Russia and Ukraine and people are fed the farg up with Covid but long haul Covid is something I'd be interested in reading about.
If another wave comes and knocks off more idiot MAGAts then...
The article came last week from the journal "Nature"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00503-x
However, both the authors and critics have expressed "using caution" in interpreting the results. Also, looks like older people are more at risk.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 13, 2022, 10:49:43 PM
If another wave comes and knocks off more idiot MAGAts then...
theres going to be another wave if one hasnt started already...and another one after that and one more and then another
get your vaccines and if youre susceptible to it be god damn careful where you go and who you go with. otherwise we gots to live our lives.
My feeling is we're going to find out a few years down the line here that we made a huge mistake not going full Contagion in our response, instead of 6 weeks of half assed "lockdowns" followed by months of half measures. The studies coming out on t-cell damage are pretty horrific and point to a human population whose immunity to a lot of things is completely shot. The increase in brain diseases and cancer rates in the next decade will probably be scary.
But those studies are just now starting to trickle out, so, gonna be a few years before it becomes a big news story.
Quote from: Munson on March 14, 2022, 05:15:20 PM
My feeling is we're going to find out a few years down the line here that we made a huge mistake not going full Contagion in our response
And I've got a feeling we might really regret the 2016 election in a few years. Call it a hunch.
Quote from: General_Failure on March 14, 2022, 06:44:02 PM
Quote from: Munson on March 14, 2022, 05:15:20 PM
My feeling is we're going to find out a few years down the line here that we made a huge mistake not going full Contagion in our response
And I've got a feeling we might really regret the 2016 election in a few years. Call it a hunch.
You're just a scorned libruhl! MAGA!
Quote from: General_Failure on March 14, 2022, 06:44:02 PM
Quote from: Munson on March 14, 2022, 05:15:20 PM
My feeling is we're going to find out a few years down the line here that we made a huge mistake not going full Contagion in our response
And I've got a feeling we might really regret the 2016 election in a few years. Call it a hunch.
lol
Quote from: General_Failure on March 14, 2022, 06:44:02 PM
Quote from: Munson on March 14, 2022, 05:15:20 PM
My feeling is we're going to find out a few years down the line here that we made a huge mistake not going full Contagion in our response
And I've got a feeling we might really regret the 2016 election in a few years. Call it a hunch.
Lmao. Unfortunately I don't think most people are realizing the shtein storm we may be walking into in terms of the health of the population yet. I mean shtein just look at the replies to this thread.
i realize it but what do you want to do
you stupid libs just want to whine and freak out on the internet while making sure your doordash and amazon are delivered within hours because farg those people
weeks or months before you buy your first confederate flag on amazon?
did you know black men actually fought for the confederacy....
anyway new zealand is opening up its borders now but lets go to a contagion lockdown so munson the dem-o-rat feels better
(trolling libs is kinda fun i really get the appeal)
Excuse me, but they're called Leftists now.
I thought we were all socialists now? Or communists again?
Quote from: General_Failure on March 16, 2022, 11:50:38 AM
Excuse me, but they're called Leftists now.
Lauren Boebert, Large Marge and Matt The Underage Girl Banger frown upon you not being correct in saying "radical leftists"
Daughter is fully vaxxed and had covid previously, she wasn't feeling well today and had a 100 degree temp...just gave her the at home test and it came up positive. I'm now out of tests but my throat is a little sore so probably have it too. Fully vaxxed (J&J) and boosted (Moderna). Good stuff
Not having an Omicron specific vaccine yet when the entire hoopla around mRNA vaccines was how fast they could be updated and on the market is rage inducing
We finally got it
Kids are positive, mild symptoms
Hot Nurse wife feeling poorly but testing negative so far
I'm also negative but mild cold symptoms, feeling much better than her
You guys had a good run, considering the wife and kids go to literal germ factories on a daily basis. Get well soon.
We lost our guidance secretary yesterday. Had Lupus, caught Covid last year and never fully recovered.
One of the kindest women I've ever met. Great with the kids and patient with the asshat teachers like me. Worked with her for 25 years.
farg.
Quote from: General_Failure on May 09, 2022, 09:13:19 PM
You guys had a good run, considering the wife and kids go to literal germ factories on a daily basis. Get well soon.
Right? It's almost a relief in a way, because it's been feeling pretty inevitable for along time. I'm thankful we managed to avoid it until after everyone had their shots. I'm sure we'll be fine. No one with immune system troubles or antyhing like that.
Sorry to hear about your loss
Geo.
So I can now say with firsthand experience, COVID sucks. Try not to get it.
Got my 4th Covid shot on May 2nd. Had a sore arm for a day and I was really tired for the first couple days after but no ill effects.
I'm not sure how or why but none of us have gotten it yet. Everyone I know has to one degree or another. Those who've been vaxxed have experienced nasty cold symptoms but that's it.
The un-vaxxed have been blasted by it (hospitalized/long Covid/dead). Found out my pal at work who lost her husband lost her former mother-in-law. Not vaxxed and so now she's lost her husband and both in-laws to it. So many needless deaths. So farging tragic.
Hope you and yours are ok, Dio.
Glad you're back to feeling good Dio.
We got out first boosters a month ago. And yes it does suck. I've had it twice and both times is was different but zesty.
Yeah, not feeling better yet. The others are, but I'm in the thick of it. I want to keep sleeping but I've slept so much I can't. Frustrating.
Oh man. How many days into it are you?
During my second time it was like two phases. Four of feeling like a cold and then four like I had the flu. Two of the days I slept like 18 hours. I'd never been that tired before.
You'll start coming around soon. 💪💪
Third day today...woke up feeling a bit better.
Hot Nurse Wife has lingering, pestering cough but otherwise much better. Kids over it.
Just chatted with some friends who are elderly. 77 and 78. Done everything right, got all their shots....years into this and they're basically prisoners in their own home. Much like my friends (plural, unfortunately) who are cancer patients. F'n infuriatingg.
Uncle Joe is releasing more free Covid tests.
Eight per order.
https://www.covid.gov/tests
Free of charge sent right to your hizzy.
Covid caught Eric Clapton.
https://twitter.com/zalaly/status/1529494830820335617 21&t=7OnTymAL0U8ec-g8SLWsfQ
https://twitter.com/lisa_iannattone/status/1531260203546591232 21&t=BxmnEB5n96d5eIySeWm4pg
See if you just pretend it doesn't exist, it goes away and creates no disruptions in economic activity or commerce, because it's jus the flu now.
https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1536003543139684359 21&t=rgkUxEfvEM8QHsc0npoS3g
Personal anecdote time:
I went to see Flogging Molly last nite. Great show. The Interruptors were *supposed* to be the co-headliners but someone (all?) got Covid so they begged out
Anyway - before the show we ran into a friend of my buddy at the show. He's a decent sort (or so I thought). He's in the rock and roll business and works with promoters and whatnot. Anyway, I happened to say it's too bad we were going to miss the Interruptors and Covid really sucks.
The guy stopped dead in his tracks and let loose with a conspiracy laden rant the likes of which even I have never heard. Covid is a hoax. It's all bullshtein. No one is dying from it. The Bill Gates shtein. The vaccine is actually what's killing people. On and on. I was stunned. Actually speechless. I've known this guy for 30 years and I had no idea the rot went as deep as it did with him.
So that's not really the story here. Before his rant he mentioned he was going to Norway (And Paris, Amsterdam, etc.) this summer. I'm certain they require vaccines and clear Covid tests, so after he got done venting his spleen, I asked him how he thought he was getting into Europe without documented evidence of vaccinations and boosters.
He then told me there's a network of resistance among workers at vaccination sites who are actually not administering the shots. This one was at a Walgreens in Port Orange. He walked in fully prepared to just take the shot and be done with it. He was told to just tell the guy that he was terrified of the shot and all the "poisonous/deadly side effects." His story concluded with him telling me the tech simply shot the vaccine into the trash can and he handed him the completed vaccine card and said come back for your booster as recommended and we'll do this again.
Now, I'm not saying for sure that this happened especially since it's strictly anecdotal evidence, but it doesn't surprise me one damn bit that this sort of utter lunacy is occurring out there.
I couldn't get him to tell me where it was happening other than a Walgreens in the city I mentioned but what the farg am I supposed to do here? Do I report it to the CDC because I know the local Florida Health Department is run by anti-vaxxer lunatics?
I'm just sickened to my stomach right now and filled with blinding rage over it. My wife survived one plague and now has severely impaired immunity and has spent the past 2 years living in fear of catching this virus. I know there's iceholes out there refusing to get vaccinated but I had never considered there were people engaged in this sort of deplorable professional misconduct.
I'm truly at a loss, fellas.
Sounds like it might take a life for hateful eyes to glisten once again. You found yourself in the same old mess Singin' drunken lullabies
I do not doubt the Walgreens story.
There were people selling cards on social media and Antonio Brown also did the fake vax thing. So yeah knowing that plus knowing a RN who works at one of the biggest hospitals in this state who is a full blown conspiracy nutjob I could see it happening. The person whom I know is just like your buddy...but maybe worse. The shtein he posts on FB is mind boggling.
social media has ruined people. From the election shtein to the racism and now to the covid...ruined.
FDA panel finally recommends vaccines for 6 months-5 year olds
after 2+ years it finally got me
im not sure how i got it....maybe hooking up with this girl on saturday or just something innocuous like being at a bar or the phillies game. started to feel weird wednesday night, but it just felt like a cold. runny nose, minor headache. cough. lost a lot of my appetite. on friday i took some dayquil, burned up like during vaccine 2, and i figured oh man. sure enough today - positive.
feel like i could easily function. just my energy levels are lower, mostly because of the lack of food ive consumed. but maybe the covid. on the bright side now i dont have to go out for fathers day.
Wifey has Covid. She's tested negative 3 times but she literally has every symptom. The tests are having trouble spotting whatever farged up variant is out there right now so it's not a surprise.
I'm still good. The kid is ok too. I felt like dog shtein last weekend but I also tested negative twice.
Ugh.
Wishing for the best for your wife, Romey. Hopefully she kicks it quick.
Same for you lil guy. But was the hookup worthy or getting the Rona? Or nah.
ironically she had an unrelated covid scare this week, tested negative, so i was like whatever...and now i probably gave it to her lol
Thoughts and Prayers
I'm assuming all you sick people got better and everything is great.
Now that we got through all this, let us welcome the newest sub variants, which don't care about your vaccination status or anti-body response from prior infection...they comin' for you regardless.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/health/ba4-ba5-escape-antibodies-covid-vaccine/index.html
Great.
Flight operations being affected
Ortho clinic I go to has half their people out
My girls former workplace has to close tomorrow because everyone is sick
Customer came in the other day with a test kit in her bag, we went and wiped down everything they touched when they left. And yet, only half of us are still wearing masks, and that includes the new hire who is required to wear it for a week after recovering from covid.
Lady Rome went back to work today. She's much, much better. Still had the lingering cough but other than that and mild fatigue, she's alright.
i was thinking about something tonight...what % of people who say they have never had Covid because they have never had symptoms and/or have never tested postive actually have had Covid....id like to say ive never had it but im pretty liberal with where i go even if i mask up all the time i still go around a good amount of people who dont mask and for a while now ive only wore masks when i'm stationary...my opinion is that i have def had the Vid and maybe even multiple times...i dont even know if its possible to get accurate numbers on people like me but id be interested to know the results if there were
As far as I know, you'd only be able to find out with people who haven't been vaccinated.
There's tests to determine if you've had it but I'm not sure if the test would show it if you had it say at the beginning of this mess.
I've said this before but I'm pretty sure I had the earliest version in early 2020.
Considering where I live and the number of people around me who've had it multiple times, I honestly can't see how I haven't had it before. I've been vaccinated and boosted now three additional times, but still... maybe there is a degree of natural resistance in some folks that along with the vaccine prevents infection entirely?
Quote from: Rome on June 25, 2022, 10:18:30 AM
Considering where I live and the number of people around me who've had it multiple times, I honestly can't see how I haven't had it before. I've been vaccinated and boosted now three additional times, but still... maybe there is a degree of natural resistance in some folks that along with the vaccine prevents infection entirely?
i feel pretty much the same...i dont know anyone who has had it twice and people near me are still id say 70% masked at grocery stores and 90+ on public transportation but when you go to bars its the wild west and i go to bars...im the same as you vaxxed 4 times but i just have to believe ive have had it
I know a couple of people who have had it twice, one wasn't vaccinated the last time I talked to them. Neither of them are wearing masks.
My daughter and I had it twice. We were both vaxxed early and had a booster
I had it twice.
First time I had one vax shot when I got it but didn't feel sick til after the second. Got the second on a Thursday and felt tired on Friday and then on Saturday I felt worse. By Monday I knew something was wrong. My girl gave it to me I'm sure. This was April 2020 and it sucked. Three weeks I felt like shtein.
Second time was January this year. I got back from PA and next morning I woke up and knew I had it again. Tested positive on at home and clinic test. Had both shots obv but wasn't boosted yet. I'm boosted with one now though. This omicron episode was weird...four days of feeling like a cold and then four days like I had the flu.
I'll probably jinx myself but I still haven't gotten it yet. and I've basically been back to normal life for the last year or so. wifey is high risk so I've basically been doing all the grocery shopping and shtein forever and still nothing. I've been to nba games, baseball games, once concert, flew across country a few times, and still covid free. I also haven't gotten the flu in about 30 years so maybe years of alcoholism has made my body strong.
Breaking news from the no shtein department: https://twitter.com/ahandvanish/status/1541509969400532992
I can already hear the antivaxers being smug, completely incapable of realizing they're the ones incubating all these variations.
https://twitter.com/StephTaitWrites/status/1545185794041581568
They're doing the incubating here, but in other places of the world it's proliferating because of better reasons than rank wilfull ignorance: no access to vaccine, no functioing public health system, etc....and unless we shut down all international travel for long enough to vaccinate all people at the same time, then we're stuck with whatever nasty variant springs up wherever it has the chance because we're all downstream from each other, all mucking around in the same pigsty.
Pretty frightening thread....am reconsidering an outdoor event for this weekend I had thought would be ok.
always take a twitter thread from some rando to the bank
To be fair, it was also on NPR. Unrelated, my dad started listening to NPR out of the blue.
Been feeling like shtein this week. I partied pretty hard Friday-Monday so knew Tuesday/Wednesday was gonna suck. Woke up Friday feeling worse. Decided to take the weekend off from drinking. I'm up workdays 5-530, weekends I rarely sleep past 8. I slept until 11 Friday (called out), Saturday and this morning. I spent the whole weekend eating healthy and hiking. I still feel off. We're so far post covid craze I didn't take it into consideration but motherfarger got me again. I was on mile 7 of my hike today when I felt like I was gonna die and it hit me. Vaxxed and boosted and this is my 3rd bout with this bullshtein. This one feels worse for some reason. Throat is soarer, more sinus issues and overall just feel worse.
ba4 probably
i recommend not getting annihilated with maga chuds
I specifically didn't go out with my work friends last night because Covid is spreading like wildfire again down here. It's unbelievable that we're going thru this for what seems like the millionth time.
Quote from: MDS on July 10, 2022, 08:50:28 PM
ba4 probably
i recommend not getting annihilated with maga chuds
Not sure why you assume I associate with MAGA chuds. Some are family which I can't do anything about some are friends of friends. I couldn't take a MAGA person serious enough to hang with them on purpose. That said pretty sure you're right it's this new strain.
The b.5 variant is outcompeting b.4 a bit but I think they both are pretty bad. Seems like initial studies are showing they improved on the infectiousness of omicron, but got some of the pre-omicron properties back, like causing cells to fuse together and being more attracted to lung cells again, all while being super immune evasive.
Quote from: TAFKASD on July 10, 2022, 09:55:22 PM
Quote from: MDS on July 10, 2022, 08:50:28 PM
ba4 probably
i recommend not getting annihilated with maga chuds
Not sure why you assume I associate with MAGA chuds. Some are family which I can't do anything about some are friends of friends. I couldn't take a MAGA person serious enough to hang with them on purpose. That said pretty sure you're right it's this new strain.
all of your stories are like "my uncle jeff says the n word and was at j6" or "i was at thanksgiving and the entire table was shouting lets go brandon and bragging about being unvaxxed" lol
i hope youre ok and dont blame you for living your life...i do the same. i just dont know any maga'ers
I have one Trumpcle and I haven't seen him in years. He'd post unhinged MAGA shtein and I'd share. I've never heard him say the n word. My dads side is somewhat Republican but they're not MAGA chuds more like conservatives who'll vote for anyone who's not a dem. Some of my work friends (ex military) lean slightly right but not MAGA chuds. I have a friend who's a south Philly firefighter who's Republican but again not a MAGA chud. Haven't heard anyone use the n word in quite some time
How you know the n word is coming
https://youtu.be/w8b81UM74Ow
Quote from: MDS on July 11, 2022, 04:28:55 PM
Quote from: TAFKASD on July 10, 2022, 09:55:22 PM
Quote from: MDS on July 10, 2022, 08:50:28 PM
ba4 probably
i recommend not getting annihilated with maga chuds
Not sure why you assume I associate with MAGA chuds. Some are family which I can't do anything about some are friends of friends. I couldn't take a MAGA person serious enough to hang with them on purpose. That said pretty sure you're right it's this new strain.
all of your stories are like "my uncle jeff says the n word and was at j6" or "i was at thanksgiving and the entire table was shouting lets go brandon and bragging about being unvaxxed" lol
i hope youre ok and dont blame you for living your life...i do the same. i just dont know any maga'ers
You live in a liberal bubble. Of course you don't know any magas. I know them and work with them, but I don't typically socialize (on purpose anyway) with them. The Republicans I do know understand me well enough not to broach the subject of Trump because they will just get put on blast or I'll just politely say I'm not talking about that shtein.
The husband of one of my girl pals cut loose on me on my birthday about DeSantis and she actually told him to shut the farg up in front of about a dozen other people. He's a farging tool and she told him she'd walk home if he didn't cut the political shtein.
Bottom line is I'm not changing their minds or their votes so I'm not going down that road with any of them.
I can get along fine with most people including "normal" Republicans, but MAGA fargnuts are nowhere near me ever. I just won't tolerate them.
Quote from: Rome on July 11, 2022, 05:19:26 PM
You live in a liberal bubble.
and thats by design
i have some repubs in my family, or really anti-dems, and thats all fine theyre not insane. but i could not associate with a maga'er, i have no idea how people do it. even if you dont talk politics, just knowing what they are is enough to disassociate.
Had the sniffles and felt tired this afternoon.
Tested positive twice with two different tests.
Five days in quarantine starting today. Lovely.
Quote from: MDS on July 11, 2022, 07:26:26 PM
Quote from: Rome on July 11, 2022, 05:19:26 PM
You live in a liberal bubble.
and thats by design
i have some repubs in my family, or really anti-dems, and thats all fine theyre not insane. but i could not associate with a maga'er, i have no idea how people do it. even if you dont talk politics, just knowing what they are is enough to disassociate.
isn't your pops still a straight up trumper?
Hope it doesn't get too bad man.
Is this your second bout?
So we're no longer getting hazard pay if you catch the Rona, you must have a doctor's note saying you have it, and when you come back it's only suggested that you wear a mask for a couple days.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on July 11, 2022, 10:48:26 PM
Hope it doesn't get too bad man.
Is this your second bout?
Nope. First time.
I had the sweats this evening but slept a few hours. Just have a sinus headache right now. It's pretty bad, actually. And I ache everywhere. Kinda feel like I got into a car wreck.
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 11, 2022, 10:48:24 PM
Quote from: MDS on July 11, 2022, 07:26:26 PM
Quote from: Rome on July 11, 2022, 05:19:26 PM
You live in a liberal bubble.
and thats by design
i have some repubs in my family, or really anti-dems, and thats all fine theyre not insane. but i could not associate with a maga'er, i have no idea how people do it. even if you dont talk politics, just knowing what they are is enough to disassociate.
isn't your pops still a straight up trumper?
hes a pre-trump fox news republican but not a maga'er....he hates democrats unless theyre jews from abington. he didnt vote for trump and has never worn maga gear. if he did we wouldnt be talking.
maybe a lets go Brandon t-shirt at least?
Feel a bit better today. Still stuffy but the aches are gone. Went for a long walk this morning.
Still tired but if I'm through the worst of it, I'll gladly kiss the people who created the vaccine.
my breaking news banner from the local paper is about how this new variant has a strong case of "farg yo vaccines"
So its nice to know that I can expect to get it...AGAIN
Quote from: MDS on July 12, 2022, 08:26:33 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 11, 2022, 10:48:24 PM
Quote from: MDS on July 11, 2022, 07:26:26 PM
Quote from: Rome on July 11, 2022, 05:19:26 PM
You live in a liberal bubble.
and thats by design
i have some repubs in my family, or really anti-dems, and thats all fine theyre not insane. but i could not associate with a maga'er, i have no idea how people do it. even if you dont talk politics, just knowing what they are is enough to disassociate.
isn't your pops still a straight up trumper?
hes a pre-trump fox news republican but not a maga'er....he hates democrats unless theyre jews from abington. he didnt vote for trump and has never worn maga gear. if he did we wouldnt be talking.
he was definitely maga there for a while
fortunately hes never been red pilled...last family thing my liberal ass cousin for some reason engaged him in politics talk, i asked him how bad was it, he said pretty mild.
if i was like in marginassi's circle id never go to a passover again
Quote from: MDS on July 13, 2022, 08:29:30 PM
if i was like in marginassi's circle id never go to a passover again
Religion is a crutch for the weak
if it wasnt for other people picking up the check on these meals youd never see me at a family gathering....maybe i am jewish after all
Woke up this morning feeling a bit better. Aches are pretty much gone although I'm old as farg so regular aches are to be expected. Must have slept with my mouth open because it's dry as hell right now. Just staying hydrated and I've been taking Day-quil/Ny-quil for the congestion. Not really coughing very much and no weird temperature swings like I've heard so many people talk about.
Three more days in quarantine but I'm pretty hopeful right now.
Feeling back to normal this morning. Slept great (weird in itself) and woke up with no remaining symptoms.
Stuffy nose is all but gone too.
The vaccines have pretty much saved my ass. That much I'm sure of.
Glad you're feeling back normal!
No doubt the vaccines are helpful.
One of my old buddies is has gone full blown wacko posted the old USSR logo on FB the other day with the hammer as a needle as his opposition to "the jab". He's gone so far into nutball territory that no one of our old group really talks to him anymore. He's a full blown conspiracy guy who (with his wife too) is super religious too. They are both registered nurses at one of the biggest hospitals in the state.
People like that should be kept as far away from the health care system as possible.
If it were me I would send his insane social media activity to his employer.
I had to take my mom to Hershey medical center a few months ago and she had some surgery. when she was coming to after the anesthesia some really well respected surgeon (supposedly) was asking her questions to see if she was with it, whats your name, what day is it etc. and asked who who the president is. she said Biden and the guy was like well I guess technically. the nut jobs are in every level of our country.
Symptoms are gone. I went to Starbucks for coffee this morning and wore my mask per CDC guidelines. A young guy in scrubs opened the door for me on the way in and asked me if I was ok. He was wearing a mask too. We were the only people in the entire place (other than employees) who were wearing masks.
I said, yep... all good. Just ending isolation.
He shook his head in agreement and said, me too.
I'm wearing this mask for another five days even though no one else in this godforsaken hell hole gives a shtein.
Glad you're on the mend.
Hopefully you don't have any lasting issues
The last time I was sick in any way was Feb 2020 and that was way worse than this. Not even comparable.
Did you lose your smell/taste? Everyone I know who's had this has lost both but not me thankfully.
I'm telling you guys the vax/boosters saved my old ass. I'm beyond grateful because I knew this was coming sooner or later.
You prob had an early case of it.
I didn't lose either both of the times I had it. The first time my taste was a little dull when eating a few things but never lost anything completely.
My girl lose her smell though. She knew she was farged when at her clinic a dog had rocket diarrhea and she couldn't smell that mess lol.
I didn't lose it. Both my kids lost their sense of smell, but only for a couple of weeks.
We have four district offices and in one of them half the staff was out with Covid last week.
All, like me, fully vaxxed and now back to work today.
How many hundreds of thousands of souls could have been saved if people took it seriously and got vaxxed and boosted?
The mind reels...
https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/1549768004233314306 20&t=izuTShFzySVVUc8-546nDQ
Amazing typo.
https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1549742435189886976 20&t=izuTShFzySVVUc8-546nDQ
After two weeks this bug has decided to make a cameo appearance. I can't believe how zesty I felt yesterday. Headache, chills, fatigue and fuzzy head all made a comeback. I feel better today but it's still lingering.
We continue to live in the stupidest timeline. https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1556402111008710661
the rona finally got me. felt like I got hit by a truck last weekend, just achy all over. Tested positive on Sunday so I guess I'm on Day 5 and almost back to normal. wasn't all that horrible, fever and aches at first and that turned to pretty gross cough for a few days. never lost my taste or smell, although I have a bad case of paxlovid mouth right now from the medicine. tastes like rotten pennies sitting in the back of my tongue.
of course I made it 2 1/2 years no problem, but within a month of having a tiny human in the house I get it and give it straight to him. tested negative Saturday, little guy slept inches from my mouth for hours, then I tested positive the next day. he ended up getting a 102 fever so we took him to ER, they hospitalized him out of precaution but he's back home today. seems to be mostly asymptomatic and doing fine.
so far I'm terrible at this father stuff. wifey positive now today too so I covered everyone.
Quote from: phattymatty on August 25, 2022, 08:18:19 PMso far I'm terrible at this father stuff.
Truly, it gives me no joy to say it: Welcome to the club.
Six weeks after I tested positive I have no symptoms and the brain fog that had me feeling completely unlike myself for at least four of them has disappeared. I didn't realize how bad it was until I realized how bad it was. Like majorly forgetful and mostly disinterested in anything that was going on from moment to moment.
Also - my former co-worker died of ALS last week. A year ago this month he was as healthy as a horse. Not a single symptom. He was one of those people who always ate salads at work, exercised regularly, didn't smoke or drink, and rarely cheated in terms of his diet. He had the shakes one day at a meeting and he said he was just cold. A week later he got diagnosed with a death sentence. And now he's gone. 59 years old.
Makes you think, ya know?
Even worse news for you, the brain fog mis gone but the lung damage might not be, and if for some reason you can no longer work because of it you will be denied disability for having tested positive for covid.
Finally tested negative after 8-9 days. that shtein really kicked my ass.
https://twitter.com/KunstJonas/status/1565684530589192201
I have 2 friends that have been debilitated by lyme disease for decades now. People get shingles decades after the initial chicken pox episode. I don't see how we'll know for years to come how long covid may persist. In fact Japanese microbiologists revived bacteria that have been dormant for 101 million years in an environmentally hostile area under the seabed of what is considered a dead zone, and are now reproducing. (The microbes, not the scientists. thank god).
It's well known that the Japanese are not reproducing, it's a serious problem over there.
That's very true, and true for a majority of countries. China is especially farged in that regard. But for the US, thank god for millennials, at least if they keep working. Optimistically, that is the only saving grace for social security survival.
Do you have a link about the old bacteria? That sounds interesting as hell
I first saw it on a youtube but here's an article
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53575103
Quote from: Eagaholic on September 02, 2022, 08:57:01 PM
That's very true, and true for a majority of countries. China is especially farged in that regard. But for the US, thank god for millennials, at least if they keep working. Optimistically, that is the only saving grace for social security survival.
Much like everything else on earth, we're gonna be here to prop the system up for boomers but then we're gonna be farged when it comes our time....unless Gen Z fargs and produces like rabbits. Because right now young millennials and oldest Gen Zers are very much OUT on having kids hah.
Don't worry, the fundies are having dozens and dozens of kids.
Pandemic 2: Polio's Revenge
https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1568302638030270466
Home "schooling" has worked out great for the fascists.
Quote from: Munson on September 03, 2022, 08:30:33 PM
Quote from: Eagaholic on September 02, 2022, 08:57:01 PM
That's very true, and true for a majority of countries. China is especially farged in that regard. But for the US, thank god for millennials, at least if they keep working. Optimistically, that is the only saving grace for social security survival.
Much like everything else on earth, we're gonna be here to prop the system up for boomers but then we're gonna be farged when it comes our time....unless Gen Z fargs and produces like rabbits. Because right now young millennials and oldest Gen Zers are very much OUT on having kids hah.
There is hope though. Right now China is probably working in secret labs on genetically modified babies that don't shtein, vomit or scream, and like to share everything, and will institute a 2 mutant policy for families.
A 2 mutant policy would make my life so much easier here in Pennsyltucky.
LOL
Tis the season...
To have Covid for the third time.
Had a bad headache and itchy throat last night. I've been feeling worn down and burnt out from work but the last few days were extra. Figured I was just getting my once a year cold. But now it's basically once a year Covid. Piece of shtein virus that it is.
I went to work today but left early. My girl made me go get tested after an at home test was inconclusive. And sure enough...farg me.
We are supposed to fly out to PA on Tuesday. We have to hope she stays symptom free and I test negative on Monday.
But this is by far the easiest of the three times. April 2020 was brutal. December 2021/January 2022 was pretty zesty. This time it truly feels like a cold.
But farg this virus. We haven't been able to do shtein for a few years basically and we planned this trip home for a year now and it's in question.
So I'll be locked in my sports room and sleeping alone until Monday. And hope I test clean.
Get paxlovid if you can, anything to reduce the chances of long term symptoms or more deadly side effects
Felt like shtein myself the last few days. No Covid thankfully but just general chills and fatigue. It comes and goes since I had the farger in August. Not awful, though.
Get better soon, Jay.
Thanks man.
Munson the doc yesterday mentioned that but said something about if I took it then it could prolong the symptoms and cause me to miss the potential negative test Monday. I wasn't listening great bc all I could think about was how zesty my luck is to get this shtein again.
Overnight I woke up quite a bit and thought it was getting worse but I'm still about the same. Like I have a bad cold. Thankfully my nose isn't too stopped up.
I'm about to overload on vitamin C and Zinc this weekend. I have to get this shtein out of me.
Yeah the rebound possibility is there for sure with paxlovid so it is a roll of the dice. Everything I've read basically says you wanna wait until at least day 3 of symptoms to start it because doing so gives your body's immune system enough time to kick in and help eliminate it
Yeah I'm gonna have to just let it play out. I've got about 48 hours to hope I kick into negative status.
Drinking OJ, taking zicam gummies and have emergen-c too
https://twitter.com/MeetJess/status/1626396520969916418
Random work story time. I'm at work yesterday, still masked up because farg you, this older lady comes in going "Oh, I heard they were coming back. I got three sick with it right now. One of my kids is in the hospital and two of the grandkids got it. That's why I'm here getting my drink."
Alright, cool. So your stupid ass has been exposed to something that's got one of your adult-ass kids in the hospital and two of your grandkids are sick, and you still can't be assed to do the bare minimum to protect them, yourself, or anyone else. I hope they all die and you learn nothing. Go home, be drunk,lick your grandkids faces or something.
Unrelated, whenever I get some dumb hick asking me why I'm wearing a mask I tell them it's so they don't fall in love with me. It makes my day every time.
The hoax is over GF! Damn libs and their masks that don't work!
A second cousin of a coworker died this week from it. Lungs were all farged up from a previous bout and apparently got it again and it killed her.
I still mask up wherever I go but been much more relaxed about it the last couple months because we all just had it in February (I tested positive the night of the NFC chip game), and the numbers across the board are as low as they've ever been here. Part of that is poor people not getting tested now but even among the people testing, the test positivity rate is really low right now.
They put something in the vaccine that makes you a librul. I figured that out all by myself.
Actually, after holding out for over 3 years, I finally got covid recently. It hit me like a sledge hammer but mostly resolved in less than a day. I think it broke as quickly as it came on because of the vaccines, and my immune system was already primed and ready to go once it hit.
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1654477334139863041
More people are gonna die from covid this year than last year, but hey. We won!
https://twitter.com/MeetJess/status/1663542878772264962
The Air Force has basically invented Skynet and the AI decided to kill the operator despite specific instructions not to... wait for it... kill the operator.
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/
Mrs Rome just left the hospital. She had the latest strain of Covid and it damn near killed her. She was sick on Tuesday but tested negative for Covid. Woke up on Wednesday and again tested negative.
I came home on Wednesday night and she had no idea who I was or what my daughter's name is, so I called 911 and got her out to the hospital.
The doctor pulled me aside on Friday and told me I saved her life. She had zero sodium in her body. That causes extreme mental confusion, and she was so dehydrated she almost died right then and there.
The latest strain has almost none of the same symptoms in her case. The only thing she has right now is a stuffy nose. All of her labs came back perfect this morning so she's back home like nothing happened.
Truly terrifying experience. Start wearing masks again, boys.
Oh no...damn man I'm sorry she went through that. Thankfully you acted quick and she's on the road to recovery. That's scary as shtein. Terrifying really when you see someone who is so out of it they're not coherent.
I'm afraid this is going to be around for a long time. I've been reading about new variants and strains and one of the guys wives at work has it. I sent him home bc I'm not taking any chances.
She was fine on Monday. We went and grabbed dinner and she was just as right as rain. She came home on Tuesday and she was dog tired. It happened like a snap of your fingers. She usually sleeps these things off, (wish I could) but when I had her sit up on Wednesday night and I started asking her the usual questions, she had no idea who I was or what my daughter's name was.
Just saying, if it happens to one of yours, don't farg around. Call 911 and get an ambulance there immediately.