Oso planning to go pro
Outcomes are still very good for kids.
The largest hospital in Louisiana is currently at full capacity, with all ICU beds occupied due to the COVID surge. They acknowledge they are no longer able to provide adequate care to some patients. That means if a person needs an ICU bed, for a reason other than COVID, they are unable to get one. Someone may die, because you didn't want to get a vaccine and took their ICU bed.In that hospital, 25% of all beds are occupied by COVID patients. 25% of all beds, same preventable diagnosis.
Yep. Some of those who are shrugging their shoulders now about "the unvaccinated are only punishing themselves; it's a personal choice; yada yada yada" ... I sincerely hope none of them will have a loved one denied a bed because the hospital is overwhelmed by selfish and/or misinformed anti-vaxxers.
Do you know if the hospitals in Louisiana have shut down elective surgeries to help free up additional beds?
It's just freakin unfair.
Whether we shrug our shoulders at it or not, what difference does our opinion or posts make with the vaccinated % in Louisiana.Seems like something their gov or our federal leadership should be focusing on.
Yes, for over a week, because of a COVID surge.If you want to help, here's a step in the right direction, refuse to ever support any politician, or media enterprise that spreads lies regarding the vaccine. Refuse to support any politician, or media enterprise that perpetrated lies that this was "just the flu" or it was a giant hoax. Speak out against them.These are the people that led to the current situation. They sacrificed peoples lives and the good of the nation for political points.Science and medicine aren't politics. Peoples lives aren't pawns in some political game.
It is completely unfair. We’re all living with the consequences of people’s choices like it or not.
Guys, it time to stop talking about this as a pandemic, and start accepting that Covid is going to be endemic.We're going to see this every year for the rest of our lives, and short of some super vaccine that can stop all known variants, and it being administered worldwide within a couple week period, this is our world now.
Ya I think you’re exactly right and that is why it’s becoming even more important to figure out the origins.
Uh, no, that'd be a waste of time and money. Casting blame is pointless. I assume what you're getting at is that the virus leaked from the lab in Wuhan. Okay, great, we find that out and then what? Do you think that IF it leaked from there that the lab hasn't adjusted it's safety protocols in the last year and a half? Do you want to be punitive? Do you think the US doesn't have 'research' sites that do the exact same thing?Literally, no point in finding out the origin as some matter of urgency.
He's merely trolling you, hards.
The 'Mr. Brightside' band?
How is that trolling. To not look into the origins of what caused millions of people to die seems silly. Not great analogies but after JFK was assassinated we didn’t throw our hands up and say, “welp we already got a new president and the secret service has made the necessary adjustments to ensure this won’t happen again so who gives a rip why this happened”With 09/11, we didn’t say “ahh shoot, we’ve already gone to war and are making the necessary changes to ensure sure this doesn’t happen again so forget the why, who, how”This has been a once in a lifetime pandemic that is ongoing and we don’t find it important to figure out how the hell this happened and who played a role? I just can’t get on board with that.
Regarding virus origin tracking: I think you guys underestimate how much animal -> human virus transmission there is in SE Asia. There's a reason that so many people in countries over there wear masks all the time. It's because of the pollution. But also because they can't afford to get sick because many are desperately poor. And also because there are novel viruses more frequently than there are in the West.
I think it’s important that we learn what happened so we can help prevent it in the future. I also don’t think it’s a top priority thing right now. More pressing issues like stopping the Delta variant, potential future variants, and increasing vaccinations.