COVID-19

[faftorial]

^ why this is never going away.

[King Colby]

ICUs are at max capacity thanks to these morons. The alternative would be to lock down everything for everyone.

I'm just telling you unless you take extreme measures, these people have businesses to run and many don't have the luxury to turn away money (admittedly idk much about german economics).

[Gaucho]

ICUs are at max capacity thanks to these morons. The alternative would be to lock down everything for everyone.

I'm just telling you unless you take extreme measures, these people have businesses to run and many don't have the luxury to turn away money (admittedly idk much about german economics).

I hear you. As I said, mistakes have been made at earlier stages of the pandemic.

[King Colby]

What should I be rooting for with omicron?

Do I want it to be able to outcompete delta but be more mild?

[count2infinity]

I don’t think there’s enough data for that just yet.

[shafnutz05]

You underestimate how utterly fed up the vaccinated are with the anti-science bubble. That said, there's a fairly substantial number of people who will get the vaccine thanks to the new rules, people who so far have only been to lazy or indifferent to do so. It isn't nearly as draconian as it sounds. Gestapo would be fun, seeing as how radical anti-vaxxers go on about being treated worse than the Jews in the Third Reich.

[CBear3]

What a freaking joke this has become.

[meow]

…Missouri has to conduct their own research on the topic? What a waste of taxpayer money

[faftorial]

Conduct their own research and when they don't like the results don't share it with their citizens.

[Morkle]

First business trip to CA in a little over two years. I have a nervous excitement.

[NTP66]

BuT cLoTh MaSkS dOn’T wOrK

[robbiestoupe]

First business trip to CA in a little over two years. I have a nervous excitement.

I travel to CA and the first omicron case is where I am. Coincidence?

[dodint]

BuT cLoTh MaSkS dOn’T wOrK

Mmmm, moist.

[MR25]

BuT cLoTh MaSkS dOn’T wOrK

He got into yet another argument on the old board (accidentally clicked my link for that instead of here) spouting the same BS and completely misinterpreting/selectively interpreting data. He got called out for it there, too. Hilarious.

[Willie Kool]

I have a nervous excitement.

Better than a nervous excrement, which is what I first read that as...

[NTP66]

BuT cLoTh MaSkS dOn’T wOrK

He got into yet another argument on the old board (accidentally clicked my link for that instead of here) spouting the same BS and completely misinterpreting/selectively interpreting data. He got called out for it there, too. Hilarious.

You will be shocked to learn that this does not surprise me one bit.

[eddy]

What a freaking joke this has become.

Wonder how many dead they are responsible for? These subhumans are complete garbage and I have no reason to tell them apart from the murderers and rapists, I sincerely hope the worst for them. This planet is a better place without them.

[faftorial]

BuT cLoTh MaSkS dOn’T wOrK

He got into yet another argument on the old board (accidentally clicked my link for that instead of here) spouting the same BS and completely misinterpreting/selectively interpreting data. He got called out for it there, too. Hilarious.

That was a fun read. theblackarts was having none of his nonsense and bluster.

[count2infinity]

Our local hospital has stopped accepting ambulances... they're all being diverted to other locations. 1/5th of the hospital is occupied by COVID patients. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but hospitals don't tend to operate with a ton of extra space. Small disruptions can cause issues... 20% more patients due to a pandemic can cause major problems, like what we're seeing.

[AuthorTony]

Our local hospital has stopped accepting ambulances... they're all being diverted to other locations. 1/5th of the hospital is occupied by COVID patients. I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but hospitals don't tend to operate with a ton of extra space. Small disruptions can cause issues... 20% more patients due to a pandemic can cause major problems, like what we're seeing.

UPMC apparently has a policy that they won't divert patients, so Somerset is catching the overflow from other hospitals. Monday there were ambulances from 9 different companies. My friend works in admissions and said the hospital looks like a MASH episode. The ER is overflowing, patients are on gurneys in the halls, etc. Suck a trainwreck.

[count2infinity]

Suck a trainwreck sounds like the name of a heavy metal band...

[AuthorTony]

Suck a trainwreck sounds like the name of a heavy metal band...

[NAN]

UPMC apparently has a policy that they won't divert patients, so Somerset is catching the overflow from other hospitals. Monday there were ambulances from 9 different companies. My friend works in admissions and said the hospital looks like a MASH episode. The ER is overflowing, patients are on gurneys in the halls, etc. Suck a trainwreck.

My wife's cousin up there in Bedford, who was spouting off that COVID is a hoax, he's not getting vaxxed, blah, blah, actually sounded somewhat concerned over Thanksgiving when we were up there. His sister in laws brother isn't doing so well (another antivaxer) and I think it actually scared him. So hopefully he and his family will start looking at things differently. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

[Troy Loney]

Tell him to **** post through it. Can't give in to the libs and their fauci shots.

[AuthorTony]

My wife's cousin up there in Bedford, who was spouting off that COVID is a hoax, he's not getting vaxxed, blah, blah, actually sounded somewhat concerned over Thanksgiving when we were up there. His sister in laws brother isn't doing so well (another antivaxer) and I think it actually scared him. So hopefully he and his family will start looking at things differently. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

Yeah, don't hold your breath. Somerset has the highest per 100K case rate in the area, 90+ cases yesterday, hospitalizations up 28%, and almost everyone still acts like it's a big joke. The acquaintance I mentioned yesterday whose family is sick but won't get tested posts almost hourly updates about horrible she feels, yet her husband is still making comments like, "Glad we didn't get jabbed or we'd probably be dead by now. Our immune system will get us through."