Coronavirus

[Avery]

I'm being a jerk here but it's absolutely mind boggling that people are ok and actually need to be told how to live. Its soooo blatantly obvious it's all an act of flat out power. These people want to own you. They DO own you


"Political theater"- Rand Paul

Or by all means explain how not wearing a mask except for a photoshoot helps. You all non-questioning Yes Man and Women are extremely confusing. You literally just change to science as you go.

Politicians do photo-ops and it drives me crazy as they're all very insincere. There's countless examples of these throughout the years and administrations and they're all garbage.

This one's no different - either wear the mask or don't. To be vulgar, kind of like putting on a condom after you've already starting, stopping to put one on so you can show people you're practicing safe sex, but immediately discarding it and going back to business.

Yeah, there's probably a better analogy, but just what came to my demented head.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Co worker of mine just got out of the hospital. He is in his 30's. Very very healthy. Great shape. No underlying conditions. Was having a very hard time breathing so he went to the ER. Got to the hospital and they had no beds available and told him to sit in the waiting room while they called around trying to find him a hospital that could admit him. He waited in the waiting room for 9 hours when they finally found a hospital that had a bed for him. Drove him there in an ambulance. He was in the hospital for 4 days. Couldn't breathe good at all and was very scared. Had a fever for 11 days. Cost him a lot of money and sucked bad.
I wouldn't want to go through that.

Sooooo it’s not just a flu? It doesn’t just affect the elderly? Glad he made it. I wonder what his medical bills are going to be like?

 

[fishonjazz]

Sooooo it’s not just a flu? It doesn’t just affect the elderly? Glad he made it. I wonder what his medical bills are going to be like?

I mentioned the cost. He said that its going to be crazy expensive. He said that he was told the ambulance ride to the location with a bed available would be free but then they charged him for it anyway.

 

[Deleted member 365]

I mentioned the cost. He said that its going to be crazy expensive. He said that he was told the ambulance ride to the location with a bed available would be free but then they charged him for it anyway.

Yes, most ambulance rides are outside of health insurance network. My neighbor had an ambulance ride that cost him a few thousand bucks. One four day hospital stay has got to be thousands upon thousands. Frankly, I’d be shocked if he didn’t have a $20,000+ dollar bill waiting. Glad he made it. But man, our health care system is just so ****ed up.

I have high blood pressure and am fearful one of these days I’m going to have a heart attack. Good ****ing luck.

 

[JazzyFresh]

It's booster time for the lab rats


"We believe that increased force of infection resulting from Delta, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) fatigue, and seasonal effects (moving indoors) will lead to an increase of breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals," Moderna said on Thursday. "While we see durable Phase 3 efficacy through 6 months, we expect neutralizing titers will continue to wane and eventually impact vaccine efficacy. Given this intersection, we believe dose 3 booster will likely be necessary prior to the winter season."

 

[fishonjazz]

Texas GOP Official Mocked COVID Five Days Before He Died of Virus

Texas GOPA GOP official from Texas who regularly espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask views online has died from COVID-19, five days after posting a meme on Facebook questioning the wisdom of getting inoculated against COVID.Dickinson City Council member and State Republican Executive Committee...

www.yahoo.com

A GOP official from Texas who regularly espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask views online has died from COVID-19, five days after posting a meme on Facebook questioning the wisdom of getting inoculated against COVID.

Apley is a staunch conservative and devout Christian. But based on his social media activity, Apley didn’t believe COVID was going to affect him or his family.

Apley’s untimely passing comes as COVID skeptics across the country have died or become extraordinarily sick after rejecting the constant calls by public health officials to get vaccinated and mask up. In Nashville, a right-wing radio host who repeatedly spread misinformation about the virus and mocked the vaccine, is now hospitalized as he fights for his life. A Brooklyn woman who called COVID a “fraud” died after rejecting the vaccine in favor of natural supplements like zinc and Vitamin D.

The family of a Florida woman who refused the COVID vaccine and died in June still refuses to get the jab. A Florida track coach who had resisted calls by friends and colleagues to get vaccinated finally agreed to make an appointment for his shots. However, he contracted COVID a day or two before getting his first dose and died in the hospital after slipping into a coma, leaving behind a wife and four children.

So sad.

 

[Miggs]

Yes, most ambulance rides are outside of health insurance network. My neighbor had an ambulance ride that cost him a few thousand bucks. One four day hospital stay has got to be thousands upon thousands. Frankly, I’d be shocked if he didn’t have a $20,000+ dollar bill waiting. Glad he made it. But man, our health care system is just so ****ed up.

I have high blood pressure and am fearful one of these days I’m going to have a heart attack. Good ****ing luck.

My very basic understanding is a hospital bed is about 10K a night, at least out here in NJ. And I’m probably basing that off of **** from 10-15 years ago,

 

[FalseFlagg K]

meanwhile in the state of Victoria 6 cases trigger a full state hard lockdown of 6.5 million people

 

[Deleted member 365]

How the **** does this help anything? Like is there another country in the world that is intentionally trying to spread this virus and ****ing prolong this pandemic more than red states in America?

I mean good god. What the **** are we even doing here?

 

[Red]

Vaccinated people are getting sick — but some counterintuitive math puts it in context - The Boston Globe

It’s a mistake to measure vaccine effectiveness by the percentage of hospitalized patients.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[Deleted member 365]

Some basic common sense from Kristol

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Vaccinated people are getting sick — but some counterintuitive math puts it in context - The Boston Globe

It’s a mistake to measure vaccine effectiveness by the percentage of hospitalized patients.

www.bostonglobe.com

There is a reason the Provincetown, Massachusetts outbreak happened and why it is an outlier. Media is extremely reluctant to provide the important detail. I’m not even comfortable bringing it up for how it can be misconstrued because I sincerely don’t intend anything negative toward those who would attend this type of party.

The vaccines do not have 100% efficacy. They help your immune system but they aren’t magic. If you are indoors, packed together like sardines, dancing so as to get you breathing harder while face to face with people you don’t know during a pandemic spike, you’re asking a lot from the vaccine. This is the Tea Dance at the Boatslip in Provincetown where the outbreak happened:

One interesting thing I found in the data from the outbreak was that those who received the J&J vaccine were over represented in breakthrough cases. In the area only 7% of the population had received the J&J vaccine, but 14% of the breakthrough cases where J&J vaccine recipients. I think one of the important takeaways here is that most party goers were vaccinated and zero of them died. Even in doing practically everything to spread COVID, the vaccines still had a 100% rate of keeping people from dying. That doesn't shake my confidence in the vaccines at all. It makes me feel pretty good about it, but I would push people toward the mRNA vaccines.