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Postby meow » Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:37 am

It's called Corona, of course it's coming from Mexico.

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Postby meow » Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:37 am

Dude. New page. Again.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:42 am

meow and litt:

serious question from a serious poster:

what is the overall vibe at your place of employment regarding the virus at the moment? Is this more or less business as usual? The sun is setting on the pandemic? We are making progress? something else?

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Postby Morkle » Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:48 am

Our company basically just said WFH and we'll call you back. Only like 10% of our workforce has been called back into the office, and haven't heard a peep since. My assumption at this point is that we're never going back to the way it was and people are going to WFH full time if they can.

As far as mentality, a lot of people I talk to just want it to be over. Myself included, it's really starting to feel like prison mentally here through the winter months.

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Postby King Colby » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:06 am

Read 50 pages. Motion to make @LITT be the only one allowed to continue posting in this thread.

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Postby dodint » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:09 am

meow and litt:

serious question from a serious poster:

what is the overall vibe at your place of employment regarding the virus at the moment? Is this more or less business as usual? The sun is setting on the pandemic? We are making progress? something else?
The DoD issued a max telework order until 30-JUN. So everything kind of feels the same all the time. There are engineers and stuff that have been whining and complaining about not being able to work at our HQ building (not field engineers, planners and other bean counters) but those of us on the IT side tend to be pretty self-sustaining socially and don't mind the continued WFH.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:23 am

My Dad's second shot got moved from this morning to Saturday because of supply problems. Could be worse, I guess.
I don't know about your side of the state, but nearly all the folks I know who have received the vaccine have gone to other counties to get them. Our county (York) has been atrocious. Chester, Lancaster, Cherokee, and Union have done great.
Folks from Lancaster have been coming over the border to get it in NC by the masses. That is probably helping their situation in a big big way. Cherokee, Chester and Union are outside our catchment area, so I don’t have any insight on them.
I wonder though how many of those Lancaster people already go to the doctor in Waxhaw, etc...

The people I know who got it in Gastonia already had their primary care physicians associated with Caromount.

Though most people around here would rather die on the way to Pineville or Gaston Memorial than go to Piedmont.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:24 am

What's with military personnel declining to be vaccinated? Around 1/3 or so are refusing to get it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mili ... ing-2021-2

Why is it optional?

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Postby meow » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:42 am

My Dad's second shot got moved from this morning to Saturday because of supply problems. Could be worse, I guess.
I don't know about your side of the state, but nearly all the folks I know who have received the vaccine have gone to other counties to get them. Our county (York) has been atrocious. Chester, Lancaster, Cherokee, and Union have done great.
Folks from Lancaster have been coming over the border to get it in NC by the masses. That is probably helping their situation in a big big way. Cherokee, Chester and Union are outside our catchment area, so I don’t have any insight on them.
I wonder though how many of those Lancaster people already go to the doctor in Waxhaw, etc...

The people I know who got it in Gastonia already had their primary care physicians associated with Caromount.

Though most people around here would rather die on the way to Pineville or Gaston Memorial than go to Piedmont.
A lot already go to Waxhaw.

We live about 6 minutes from Caromont. I told mrs meow to take me to Pineville in any emergency. I’d rather try to hang on to life for the extra twenty minute drive than be treated at Caromont.

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Postby dodint » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:45 am

What's with military personnel declining to be vaccinated? Around 1/3 or so are refusing to get it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mili ... ing-2021-2

Why is it optional?
No idea. When I signed up the vaccination requirement list was long and distinguished.

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Postby meow » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:46 am

meow and litt:

serious question from a serious poster:

what is the overall vibe at your place of employment regarding the virus at the moment? Is this more or less business as usual? The sun is setting on the pandemic? We are making progress? something else?
I have left the testing/diagnosis arena to engage in the vaccination effort so my opinion is probably not the best for commenting on the pulse of the pandemic in regards to hospital morale. litt will be able to comment better than ya boy meow

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Postby meow » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:46 am

What's with military personnel declining to be vaccinated? Around 1/3 or so are refusing to get it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mili ... ing-2021-2

Why is it optional?
No idea. When I signed up the vaccination requirement list was long and distinguished.
So is my johnson

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:53 am

Dammit, meow. :lol:

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Postby LeopardLetang » Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:45 am

classic back to back meow posts

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Postby genoscoif » Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:54 am

What's with military personnel declining to be vaccinated? Around 1/3 or so are refusing to get it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mili ... ing-2021-2

Why is it optional?
No idea. When I signed up the vaccination requirement list was long and distinguished.
So is my johnson
Hey meow, ya big stud, sneeze in my butthole or lose me forever.

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Postby meow » Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:56 am

Show me the way home, geno

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:57 am

this convo is giving me covid

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Postby King Colby » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:07 pm

Its giving me a raging covid

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:11 pm

https://www.wsj.com/articles/well-have- ... 1613669731

Really interesting read.
Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted?

In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing. Testing has been capturing only from 10% to 25% of infections, depending on when during the pandemic someone got the virus. Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity.
But the consistent and rapid decline in daily cases since Jan. 8 can be explained only by natural immunity. Behavior didn’t suddenly improve over the holidays; Americans traveled more over Christmas than they had since March. Vaccines also don’t explain the steep decline in January. Vaccination rates were low and they take weeks to kick in.

My prediction that Covid-19 will be mostly gone by April is based on laboratory data, mathematical data, published literature and conversations with experts. But it’s also based on direct observation of how hard testing has been to get, especially for the poor. If you live in a wealthy community where worried people are vigilant about getting tested, you might think that most infections are captured by testing. But if you have seen the many barriers to testing for low-income Americans, you might think that very few infections have been captured at testing centers. Keep in mind that most infections are asymptomatic, which still triggers natural immunity.

Many experts, along with politicians and journalists, are afraid to talk about herd immunity. The term has political overtones because some suggested the U.S. simply let Covid rip to achieve herd immunity. That was a reckless idea. But herd immunity is the inevitable result of viral spread and vaccination. When the chain of virus transmission has been broken in multiple places, it’s harder for it to spread—and that includes the new strains.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:17 pm

Edit: Sorry, I just saw Laura Ingraham's "take" was shared on this in the PDT. This is great news.

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Postby nocera » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:20 pm

It feels like this is the third time we've gone through this sudden decline in cases...

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Postby LITT » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:24 pm

meow and litt:

serious question from a serious poster:

what is the overall vibe at your place of employment regarding the virus at the moment? Is this more or less business as usual? The sun is setting on the pandemic? We are making progress? something else?
I have left the testing/diagnosis arena to engage in the vaccination effort so my opinion is probably not the best for commenting on the pulse of the pandemic in regards to hospital morale. litt will be able to comment better than ya boy meow
At the peak in November December my hospital had close to 60% of its inpatient census either COVID+ or COVID recovered (still testing positive with a PCR test but no longer infectious by CDC standards - some very sick). This number is much lower now, less than 15% combined for both buckets. We have decommissioned all of our COVID units and are treating these patients in typical negative pressure isolation rooms.
It’s not “business as usual” because I’m not sure we will ever be there - testing delays getting patients discharged for facility placement, procedural antigen testing, etc - but it’s the closest we’ve been in a year.
From an actual business perspective, it’s interesting to try and parse the data to try and understand what our actual census would be right now. We have seen 0 flu, like tens of thousands of tests and less than 10 positives probably - so there would be some admissions due to respiratory illness. And sick people getting covid that would have been admitted for non COVID issues but I feel that overall volume would be down compared to prior year but that’s just my 02

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:29 pm

Edit: Sorry, I just saw Laura Ingraham's "take" was shared on this in the PDT. This is great news.
It feels like this is the third time we've gone through this sudden decline in cases...
Cases have declined 77% in 6 weeks............ and we're still averaging more daily cases than we did in October-November.

There's light at the end of the tunnel, but WSJ home slice is an oncologist; if you recall, we had an oncologist running point on the federal response to this 4 months ago and it was quite the extraordinary s**tshow. Virologists and pulmonary specialists are still firmly in pump-your-brakes mode.

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Postby willeyeam » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:35 pm

nobody is salivating

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Postby King Colby » Fri Feb 19, 2021 12:58 pm

6.5x reported cases seems high. Plus it assumes you cant get it twice.

I will say though that of the 3 homes in my family that it went thru (including my own) only 4 people were tested (positive) and its very highly likely that all 13 people had it.

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