COVID-19 (f/k/a "the Coronavirus")

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Putting conservative in quotes tells me all I need to know about your post.

If that quote was from any liberal commentator, it wouldn't have been posted.

Nads thought he had a gotcha with Sykes, not realizing that grifters gonna grift. 

[MU82]

If that quote was from any liberal commentator, it wouldn't have been posted.

Nads thought he had a gotcha with Sykes, not realizing that grifters gonna grift.

Capt. Obsessive:

Sykes has been a conservative for decades ... but if you want to deny that, knock yourself out. Rather than making repeated passive-aggressive jabs at the messenger, though, how 'bout taking a stab at refuting what he said?

I didn't think so.

[jficke13]

If that quote was from any liberal commentator, it wouldn't have been posted.

Nads thought he had a gotcha with Sykes, not realizing that grifters gonna grift.

Area man interprets information in manner most likely to confirm biases. News at 11!

[Pakuni]

ad ho·mi·nem
/ˌad ˈhämənəm/
adjective
(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Capt. Obsessive:

Sykes has been a conservative for decades ... but if you want to deny that, knock yourself out. Rather than making repeated passive-aggressive jabs at the messenger, though, how 'bout taking a stab at refuting what he said?

I didn't think so.

I don't disagree with what he said.  I'm very pro Vax.

Sykes is a grifter, just like the pedos at Project Lincoln.  That was my point.

You thought you had a gotcha, but no one cares what chucky sykes has to say. 

[MU82]

I don't disagree with what he said.  I'm very pro Vax.

Sykes is a grifter, just like the pedos at Project Lincoln.  That was my point.

You thought you had a gotcha, but no one cares what chucky sykes has to say.

Thanks for agreeing. Have a great day!

[Pakuni]

More COVID hospitalizations in Florida today than at any point of the pandemic, and it's not particularly close.

[MU82]

More COVID hospitalizations in Florida today than at any point of the pandemic, and it's not particularly close.

Don't worry ... Gov. DeSantis has things well under control! It's not like Florida is running out of emergency equipment to deal with this crush of infected patients or anything.

Oh wait ...

Florida to receive hundreds of ventilators from U.S. government to help state’s record hospitalizations

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/11/florida-ventilators-covid-hospitalizations/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3460ffb%2F6113f26f9d2fda2f47ef9f59%2F5f8d147cae7e8a56e5b732a4%2F54%2F72%2F6113f26f9d2fda2f47ef9f59

The federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators and other equipment to Florida — a response to the record number of coronavirus hospitalizations in a state that has become the epicenter of the U.S. pandemic.

At Florida’s request, the Department of Health and Human Services approved sending 200 ventilators and 100 smaller breathing devices and related supplies earlier this week, an agency spokesperson told The Washington Post. The devices came from the U.S. government’s Strategic National Stockpile, the federal repository for medical response.

[Uncle Rico]

Don't worry ... Gov. DeSantis has things well under control! It's not like Florida is running out of emergency equipment to deal with this crush of infected patients or anything.

Oh wait ...

Florida to receive hundreds of ventilators from U.S. government to help state’s record hospitalizations

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/11/florida-ventilators-covid-hospitalizations/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3460ffb%2F6113f26f9d2fda2f47ef9f59%2F5f8d147cae7e8a56e5b732a4%2F54%2F72%2F6113f26f9d2fda2f47ef9f59

The federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators and other equipment to Florida — a response to the record number of coronavirus hospitalizations in a state that has become the epicenter of the U.S. pandemic.

At Florida’s request, the Department of Health and Human Services approved sending 200 ventilators and 100 smaller breathing devices and related supplies earlier this week, an agency spokesperson told The Washington Post. The devices came from the U.S. government’s Strategic National Stockpile, the federal repository for medical response.

Amazing

[Dr. Blackheart]

While COVID gets the news, there is an outbreak of a new RSV, starting in the South were many schools are back in session. This usually comes in a winter wave. Nor, will help hospital situation either.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wric.com/news/local-news/local-hospitals-see-unusual-increase-in-rsv-cases-among-children/amp/

[tower912]

Governor DeathSentence.   

[Spotcheck Billy]

Just talked to someone @ work that had covid 10 months ago, his sense of smell and taste is still unnatural carnal knowledgeed up.

Many foods taste the same, crappy, like onions, tea and Pepsi or Coke. Gasoline, diesel fuel, dogcrap, even dead skunks all smell the same etc.

[tower912]

Just talked to someone @ work that had covid 10 months ago, his sense of smell and taste is still unnatural carnal knowledgeed up.

Many foods taste the same, crappy, like onions, tea and Pepsi or Coke. Gasoline, diesel fuel, dogcrap, even dead skunks all smell the same etc.

Welcome to my world.    My sense of taste is mostly OK.    My sense of smell is still a disaster.     There are two things I can consistently smell.    Poop and Chlorine.  All poop smells like acrid baby poop mixed with diaper creme.    And almost anything that smells remotely like poop; porta-johns, water filtration plants, fertilizer, etc., smells exactly the same.     I have smelled exactly one floral scent since November.    A female co-workers perfume at a union meeting.    And it was overwhelming.   
      There are days I smell nothing.    There are days I get surprised by a random smell.    For example, today while driving around, I smelled freshly cut wood where a tree removal service was taking down pine trees.    First time I had smelled that since November.
I will also frequently play 'guess the smell' with my family.    I will get hit with a smell and have absolutely no idea what I am smelling.    I will ask my family what they smell.     Diesel smoke, hot brakes, tar, usually fall into this category.   
    Some days I smell the Burger King across from my fire station.    Most days, no.    Some days I smell for a nanosecond the pizza i just picked up.    Usually for the amount of time it takes for me to buckle my seatbelt and start the car.     The upside is I am completely oblivious to my 14 year old sons teenage boy funk.    I am told by my wife that his catcher's gear reeks and that he has BO after a workout or a game.    No idea.   I can't smell coffee, cigars, pipe smoke, cigarette smoke.

I sympathize with your co-worker.   I have co-workers and friends (including the teenaged older sister of one of my son's travel baseball teammates) who have no sense of taste or smell.    It reminds me that it can always be worse.    COVID didn't kill me.   

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Governor DeathSentence.

Noem is jealous, but she knows that in two to three weeks she can take credit for the Sturgis Surge.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Welcome to my world.    My sense of taste is mostly OK.    My sense of smell is still a disaster.     There are two things I can consistently smell.    Poop and Chlorine.  All poop smells like acrid baby poop mixed with diaper creme.    And almost anything that smells remotely like poop; porta-johns, water filtration plants, fertilizer, etc., smells exactly the same.     

You should visit a GI specialist and a urologist, aina?

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/08/vaccine-mandates-republicans-democrats/619735/

"The vaccinated, across party lines, have kind of had it with the unvaccinated, an array of new polls suggests.

...

These new results, shared exclusively with The Atlantic by several pollsters, reveal that significant majorities of people who have been vaccinated support vaccine mandates for health workers, government employees, college students, and airline travelers—even, in some surveys, for all Americans or all private-sector workers. Most of the vaccinated respondents also say that entry to entertainment and sporting arenas should require proof of vaccination, and half say the same about restaurants.

All of this suggests that as the Delta variant’s “pandemic of the unvaccinated” disrupts the return to “normal” life promised by the vaccines, a backlash may be intensifying among those who have received the shots against those who have not. And that could leave Republican leaders who have unstintingly stressed the rights of the unvaccinated—including Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy—in an exposed position.

As a political calculus, it’s “a risky one,” says Matthew Baum, a public-policy professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a co-founder of a multi-university study of public opinion on the outbreak. “Over time, this general sense may grow of ‘Why are we who are vaccinated enduring this in order to coddle this liberty fantasy of the unvaccinated?’ And I think that is going to get stronger as the inconvenience grows, and as the wind goes out of the getting-back-to-normal sails, which is clearly happening. Everybody I know is pissed off.”

[MU82]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/08/vaccine-mandates-republicans-democrats/619735/

"The vaccinated, across party lines, have kind of had it with the unvaccinated, an array of new polls suggests.

Good. Need to keep up the campaign. It definitely will help when these are more than "emergency" vaccines -- at least I hope so.

In related news ...

The largest U.S. teachers’ union announces support for vaccination or testing for educators

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/world/teachers-union-vaccine-mandate.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20210812&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=headline&regi_id=108420427&segment_id=66079&user_id=d36dcf821462fdd16ec3636710a855fa

The nation’s largest teachers' union on Thursday offered its support to policies that would require all teachers to get vaccinated against Covid or submit to regular testing.

It is the latest in a rapid series of shifts that could make widespread vaccine requirements for teachers more likely as the highly contagious Delta variant spreads in the United States.

“It is clear that the vaccination of those eligible is one of the most effective ways to keep schools safe,” Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, said in a statement.

The announcement comes after Randi Weingarten, the powerful leader of the American Federation of Teachers, another major education union, signaled her strongest support yet for vaccine mandates on Sunday.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Canada v USA

https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1426201990644727808?s=21

Must be nice to live in a place where this hasn’t been politicized and smart people understand the purpose of vaccines.

[JWags85]

Canada v USA

https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1426201990644727808?s=21

Must be nice to live in a place where this hasn’t been politicized and smart people understand the purpose of vaccines.

Hasn't Canada normally been about a month behind the US on spikes and COVID cases trends?

And has Canada had issues with vaccine distribution or availability?  Cause if its so much better than the US in this regard and vaccines are embraced I'd think the numbers would be higher...

Again, its not excusing any of the BS domestically, but it gets annoying when certain countries get glorified for COVID numbers or response with half the story See: India, Belgium, really many of the Western developed countries but SE Asian countries aside)

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Hasn't Canada normally been about a month behind the US on spikes and COVID cases trends?

And has Canada had issues with vaccine distribution or availability?  Cause if its so much better than the US in this regard and vaccines are embraced I'd think the numbers would be higher...

Again, its not excusing any of the BS domestically, but it gets annoying when certain countries get glorified for COVID numbers or response with half the story See: India, Belgium, really many of the Western developed countries but SE Asian countries aside)

We will see. They started trending up at the same time.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Hasn't Canada normally been about a month behind the US on spikes and COVID cases trends?

And has Canada had issues with vaccine distribution or availability?  Cause if its so much better than the US in this regard and vaccines are embraced I'd think the numbers would be higher...

Again, its not excusing any of the BS domestically, but it gets annoying when certain countries get glorified for COVID numbers or response with half the story See: India, Belgium, really many of the Western developed countries but SE Asian countries aside)

They have the highest percent of fully vaccinated people in the developing world…plus the numbers include everyone.  Not everyone eligible (under 12 ~15% of pop).  So I’m not sure what number would be high enough but it’s pretty impressive overall and speed wise since they started in earnest after the US, UK & Israel.   

We will see if the delta wave there gets muted — I hope so since my state has similar vaccine stats. 

[JWags85]

They have the highest percent of fully vaccinated people in the developing world…plus the numbers include everyone.  Not everyone eligible (under 12 ~15% of pop).  So I’m not sure what number would be high enough but it’s pretty impressive overall and speed wise since they started in earnest after the US, UK & Israel.   

We will see if the delta wave there gets muted — I hope so since my state has similar vaccine stats.

I thought I saw Belgium and Portugal or Spain were both higher as well as a few South American countries.

But regardless, not that its not good work by Canada, I just find it amusing that 10-12% of the population is what separates something as a shining example of admiration and a supposed total embarrassment. 

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

I thought I saw Belgium and Portugal or Spain were both higher as well as a few South American countries.

But regardless, not that its not good work by Canada, I just find it amusing that 10-12% of the population is what separates something as a shining example of admiration and a supposed total embarrassment.

You said the last part not me. 

The death rates are a little less than three times less in Canada.  So in my mind that is the proof they have done a lot better at being more cohesive across this whole thing.

I think we will see how much it matters.  Measure the hospitalization and death rates after these surges.  Both UK and Israel saw significantly less of both.

15% is 50M americans. That’s a huge amount of people — at our best clip of vaccinations would take two months to vaccinate and become immune if we started today. 

[shoothoops]

Tale of two Worlds:

No more room at VU Medical Center:

https://twitter.com/nc5philwilliams/status/1426259119200251906?s=21

Meanwhile, across the street, on the West End, at The Parthenon:

https://twitter.com/nick_hessler/status/1426394952427266049?s=21

[forgetful]

Children dying that didn't need to die.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mississippi-8th-grader-whod-only-135946616.html