[COVIDelta-19] Remember To Mask Up Between Bites

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Thoguh: Nov 8, 2002; College Slice

Well, being on the downslope was fun while it lasted. Good thing the governor is forcing school districts to send students back in to classrooms now that COVID is over.

# ? Jan 9, 2021 16:27

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Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005; Can't post for 9 years!; Buglord

I guess it wouldn't matter if I got it anyway because I could just switch which room I'm working in every 14 minutes and then it wouldn't spread. legally.

# ? Jan 9, 2021 16:31

Gripweed: Nov 8, 2018; ASK ME ABOUT MY
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SKULL.GIF posted:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1347734996056825858

We were worried about the UK Strain and the SA Strain, but in the end America will be destroyed by the Q Strain

# ? Jan 9, 2021 16:33

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

SKULL.GIF posted:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1347734996056825858

a storm surge is coming

# ? Jan 9, 2021 16:34

Owlofcreamcheese: May 22, 2005; Can't post for 9 years!; Buglord

here is me at work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzfsfYnuc8c

# ? Jan 9, 2021 16:35

Lord of Pie: Mar 2, 2007

https://twitter.com/amarfrd/status/1347437671019204609

:rip:

your animes

# ? Jan 9, 2021 16:43

nikosoft: Dec 17, 2011; ghost in the shell, but somehow much worse; College Slice

Good news! It's been 11 months, and only now are we finally rolling out asymptomatic saliva tests for employees at work. You can make an appointment to go down and get tested!

Except the results won't be available until 48 hours later! And testing is currently only available 1 day a week, on Mondays.

I work for a massive academic research hospital that also serves the indigent/state medicaid patient population of the region. We have the resources to fly to the moon if we wanted to, yet it's almost like we don't want employees to get tested...?

# ? Jan 9, 2021 16:44

FORUMS USER 1135: Jan 14, 2004

crepeface posted:

since we're doom cross-quoting:

[COVID-19] Horrid, bad, still not enough: this is the way

# ? Jan 9, 2021 17:00

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Shifty Pony posted:

"is it ok if I send every kid with symptoms to have an in person chat with the superintendent as long as they keep it to 14:58?"

# ? Jan 9, 2021 17:19

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

SKULL.GIF posted:

does circulated air from a fan increase or decrease the speed at which the 15 minutes ticks?

if you draftmog a positive case in the hallways does that count as exposure?

does uncirculated air in a place like the bathroom count as exposure? like if a positive case is in the bathroom and leaves how long does it take before the air officially uncontaminates?

too bad draftmogging never took off

# ? Jan 9, 2021 17:20

Paradoxish: Dec 19, 2003; Will you stop going crazy in there?

Lord of Pie posted:

https://twitter.com/amarfrd/status/1347437671019204609

your animes

Wow it turns out doing absolutely nothing except asking people to wear masks won't stop a loving pandemic!

# ? Jan 9, 2021 17:28

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

Homeless Friend posted:

thats the old thread, say hello to the new thread (e: fkn beaten by skull)

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1347745261670584321
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1347745279320186880
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1347748461094039555
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1347756082794532864
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1347863184049393664

wonder if the generation of children who spent their middle school years running active shooter drills and their high school years dropping dead from the plague are gonna be radicalized at all. lol.

# ? Jan 9, 2021 17:32

mistermojo: Jul 3, 2004

Paradoxish posted:

Wow it turns out doing absolutely nothing except asking people to wear masks won't stop a loving pandemic!

theyre also very shy and quiet

# ? Jan 9, 2021 17:33

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Paul Revere 3000 posted:

https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1344373788180410369

# ? Jan 9, 2021 17:49

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Giga Gaia posted:

# ? Jan 9, 2021 17:57

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

In Training posted:

wonder if the generation of children who spent their middle school years running active shooter drills and their high school years dropping dead from the plague are gonna be radicalized at all. lol.

the teens i have this year are depressed tarkov addicts on twitter suspension for death threating terfs

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:01

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

no one has mentioned that we're above 800,000 cases daily worldwide now

the coveted 1 million mark approaches...

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:25

tuyop: Sep 15, 2006; Every second that we're not growing BASIL is a second wasted; Fun Shoe

In Training posted:

wonder if the generation of children who spent their middle school years running active shooter drills and their high school years dropping dead from the plague are gonna be radicalized at all. lol.

slightly more readable version:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347860038661140483.html

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:28

Pryor on Fire: May 14, 2013; they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

It is pretty wild that a whole bunch of maskless right wing virus deniers all got on airplanes and converged on the capitol building for a few hours and then congress went back inside and immediately called recess afterwards and everyone went home. Like if you were going to design a bio attack to be as disruptive as possible in the era of COVID and spread it to as many different places as possible it's hard to imagine a better plan.

California looks like they will break 1,000 deaths/day any day now.

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:34

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Pingui posted:

You can't spell divorce without covid.

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:35

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

MorrisBae posted:

I almost broke down and hooked up with someone on Christmas, but thought better of it

Thought they ghosted me...turns out they have COVID!

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:37

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Rasczak posted:

heh alright so we sell yarn (both natural fiber and synthetic), knitting needles & crochet hooks, roving & drop spindles, weaving looms, yarn bowls, and a poo poo ton of other accessories (stitch markers, tapestry needles, etc)

�best� is pretty subjective, however cashmere is expensive and also super soft so possibly that? while 100% cashmere would probably be prohibitively expensive for most projects, something like a MCN (merino cashmere nylon) blend would be a somewhat more practical choice for your typical project

im going to buy the blend eat it

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:38

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

COV19 the ultimate Cockblockula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=watch

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:38

Ham Cheeks: Nov 18, 2012; Feeling hammy

Pingui posted:

You can't spell divorce without covid.

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:54

Strep Vote: May 5, 2004; أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

Real hurthling! posted:

the teens i have this year are depressed tarkov addicts on twitter suspension for death threating terfs

A definite improvement over the teens we had when I was growing up.

# ? Jan 9, 2021 18:56

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Lovelyn posted:

Can I be the bonghitz of animal pics

please untimg the animal pics, destroy the scrollwheels

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:02

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

fermun posted:

new page cat tax

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:02

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

fosborb posted:

half a million cubic feet of americans have died of covid so far

for point of reference, thats the part shaded in purple:

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:05

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

Thoguh posted:

Please clap.

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1346451719228710912?s=19

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:06

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Have no Fear CSPAM, our superstar Jeb! is safe from COV19...

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:07

Delta-Wye: Sep 29, 2005

please inoculate

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:13

BONGHITZ: Jan 1, 1970

FizFashizzle posted:

At the rural level no.

Healthcare as an industry has moved away from a model where treating rural populations is profitable. Healthcare money right now is in elective procedures. These are all done in major cities, or at larger regional hospitals. Being a hospital/urgent care that just manages diabetes can't survive. All these hospitals are simply acting as urgent cares, meaning they're sending things off to larger hospitals. They don't make any money. And once this infrastructure is gone, it's gone.

In Jamestown, Tennessee, the hospital has closed. I did a rotation at the family care across the street. The town is one of the poorest in america with a population over like 10k or whatever. One of the biggest expenditures in the town is keeping THE ACTUAL BUILDING FUNCTIONING in the hopes that someone comes in and opens it back up. That means they're just going in and like making sure the pipes haven't burst, or that the mold hasn't gotten too bad, or that the elevators are still up to inspection. They're doing that just so they HAVE a hospital that can be reponed. And this is a town where the only source of money coming in is from medicare. The only jobs are in healthcare, and they're mostly low level; home aides and CNAs.

While I was at that urgent care, I had a patient come in with just a MASSIVE loving heart attack. Like, just the biggest heart attack you've ever seen. We got IV access, we had morphine for some reason, and threw him a NTG tablet. Then waited 20 minutes for an ambulance from Crossville, that then had to take him down there because it's the closet cath lab. I doubt that dude lived.

Had another girl whos foot was rotting off from a brown recluse bite. Like not exaggerating, foot is rotting off. She was only coming in so she could get free samples of her COPD inhalers. She could not take time off work (home aid) to go to wound care to get her bite debrided. She will lose her foot. There was no wound care clinic near enough to her. Again, the closets is in Crossville. And wound care clinics are loving free money.

Couple towns over is Selina. I slept in a converted doctors lounge there while I completed my surgery rotation. That hospital has also closed, but some guy who is a complete scam artist is trying to reopen it. I mean he's a nice guy, don't get me wrong, but he's a scam artist. No idea where the gently caress he got his money. like this place has a CT and a lab somehow, but no cath lab or anything like that.

Clay County is roughly 8k people, all miserably unhealthy, that all work at like a chicken plant or something. The only thing open is the ER, and this is staffed by one travel nurse and one travel doc. Or it was at the time, just googling it now it says its closed.

Once all this is gone, it's gone. And the states can't afford to keep this open. People have been poisoned for too long by GOP rhetoric. They see these hospitals closing, they KNOW it's bad, but they just can't wrap their heads around a better way.

yeah we poo poo on the olds, and they're loving awful. but they have no idea how bad things are. they get their medicare, they get their social security, they get poisoned by fox news, and they do the same thing every day they've been doing for twenty years. hate them, sure. but they're also the only source of income for these towns. like once they finally die off, Jamestown tennessee is gone. Selina Tennessee is gone. And they will never come back.

And the worst, the loving worst, is the younger people trapped in these town. It is loving heart breaking. There is nothing coming to help them, and if they didn't thread the needle perfectly in high school and get out for college, there's nothing. All they have left is drug addiction. And it's worse for the women.

the most depressing thing I saw while I was there was at the CVS across from Selina regional. I became friendly with the two women who worked there every single day. There were never any other customers. All they wanted me to do was just to tell them about Knoxville. Imagine how poo poo life is when you're enamored by that poo poo hole. One night I went in just to buy a six pack of PBR to get drunk on by myself and they just straight up asked me for one. I sat there drinking PBR at the CVS counter with two other people in their 20s who looked like they were in their 40s.

This is a rant and I've lost the thread a little bit. It loving breaks my heart when I'm in these towns. we poo poo on all these people because of who they vote for but they're just in hopeless situations. they're my loving people and i have no idea what to do for them. like they're all just loving dying in front of me.

im in a posh little resort town called asheville now. I drive thirty minutes in any direction and the only difference between now and depression era Appalachia is they all have flat screens

to answer your question it would take a massive federal program on the scale of the New Deal or TVA.

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:14

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Pryor on Fire posted:

It is pretty wild that a whole bunch of maskless right wing virus deniers all got on airplanes and converged on the capitol building for a few hours and then congress went back inside and immediately called recess afterwards and everyone went home. Like if you were going to design a bio attack to be as disruptive as possible in the era of COVID and spread it to as many different places as possible it's hard to imagine a better plan.

California looks like they will break 1,000 deaths/day any day now.

Baked Alaska was livestreaming as he broke into the Capitol building and was ransacking senator's offices. He's currently COVID positive and he was licking their phones and stuff.

https://twitter.com/WANaziWatch/status/1346911916480884736

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:16

Arsenic Lupin: Apr 12, 2012; This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.

Rasczak posted:

heh alright so we sell yarn (both natural fiber and synthetic), knitting needles & crochet hooks, roving & drop spindles, weaving looms, yarn bowls, and a poo poo ton of other accessories (stitch markers, tapestry needles, etc)

�best� is pretty subjective, however cashmere is expensive and also super soft so possibly that? while 100% cashmere would probably be prohibitively expensive for most projects, something like a MCN (merino cashmere nylon) blend would be a somewhat more practical choice for your typical project

I'm going to need some yarn soon; can you drop the shop's URL so I can see if there's stuff you have I can use?

# ? Jan 9, 2021 19:16