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My employer cannot pass my health information along, but I can do with it what I want. So when they send out a notice that you were in contact with somebody and need to quarantine, they don't tell you the employee who tested positive.
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King Colby
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Today i texted a handful of people I know whom have not received the covid vaccine to politely suggest they reconsider. Maybe I worded it well but none of them reacted viscerally so I guess that's a start.
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shafnutz05
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What percent chance would you give for mask mandates returning in the fall?
Our daughter's school just announced that masks are required on buses, but not in school. That seems silly to me, but whatevs.
Our daughter's school just announced that masks are required on buses, but not in school. That seems silly to me, but whatevs.
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The thing that is really heartbreaking here is that these people have been on the pointy end of the spear for the last 18 months, and seeing this absurd surge in unvaccinated COVID patients is just utterly demoralizing. Last year, getting COVID was a lottery. This summer, it's optional. And too many people are opting in, for reasons that make absolutely no sense at all.
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MalkinIsMyHomeboy
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Depends on your state I’d guess. In NC I’d be very surprised if we went back to masks but I would bet that most Dem states would move back to mandatesshafnutz05 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:51 pm What percent chance would you give for mask mandates returning in the fall?
Our daughter's school just announced that masks are required on buses, but not in school. That seems silly to me, but whatevs.
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Troy Loney
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Yes, plenty of states will be happy to do nothing while the death counts pile up.MalkinIsMyHomeboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:11 pmDepends on your state I’d guess. In NC I’d be very surprised if we went back to masks but I would bet that most Dem states would move back to mandatesshafnutz05 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:51 pm What percent chance would you give for mask mandates returning in the fall?
Our daughter's school just announced that masks are required on buses, but not in school. That seems silly to me, but whatevs.
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MalkinIsMyHomeboy
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there’s already been a large chunk of employees quitting their jobs for many reasons (bad pay, can’t wfh, etc). I’m guessing the numbers are gonna shoot up even further with mandatory vaccines
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meow
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I wish. I am a sheep and was fully vaccinated by the end of February.
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Good. Honestly I think this is one of the toughest ways to push the vaccine. You are going to have teammates looking at you if you cause an outbreak and aren't vaccinated.
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Like I said yesterday: If CA were still using the tier system, LA County would be back on full lockdown.......... but we aren't, because the surge in cases is almost entirely limited to unvaxxed dingleberries. I think we just hit something like 14 or 15 consecutive days where 100% of reported deaths were unvaxxed/"chooses not to answer" nimrods.
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The problem with not taking any measures because it's only the nimrods is that it escalates the risk to those that can't get the vaccine, either due to a pre-existing condition or the young who aren't cleared to receive it yet.tifosi77 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 1:49 pm Like I said yesterday: If CA were still using the tier system, LA County would be back on full lockdown.......... but we aren't, because the surge in cases is almost entirely limited to unvaxxed dingleberries. I think we just hit something like 14 or 15 consecutive days where 100% of reported deaths were unvaxxed/"chooses not to answer" nimrods.
In the case of the latter, on average they luckily only have to put their lives on hold for two weeks and cancel all their plans. The former are actually at risk of severe health complications.
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I don't disagree with you in the broad sense, CBear. But U12/ineligible for vaccination aren't being asked the question if they've gotten the shot yet; the fact that 95+% of new cases are 'no' to the vax question by definition means it's not the ineligible who are exerting any influence on new cases right now. That's why their isn't any real push by health officials to take proscriptive measures (at least at the moment). If they start seeing a change in demographics among patients, I'm sure there will be a move to dial things back again. But right now, the biggest change in patient demos is that it's a huge increase in the proportion of young folks - 18-34 - among those being admitted to the hospital.... voluntarily unvaxxed nimrods. County-wide, we're at something like 85+% of high-risk people fully vaxxed up, so they aren't really getting sick now. This really is an outbreak of the unvaccinated.
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HIPAA applies to health-care providers, health insurers, health-care clearinghouses (which the drafters of the law thought would become a thing but never did), and "business associates" of the foregoing entities, which are third-party contractors like lawyers, auditors, etc. who need to access and use protected health information to do their jobs for the health-care entities. Business associates must have contracts in place outlining their duties. HIPAA doesn't apply to anyone else.
Before I transitioned over to litigation, I did health law for years. I have a certificate in health law from Pitt law, I've served as an instructor for CLE classes on HIPAA and medical records law, and I literally wrote my firm's manual on the HIPAA security rules. Yet people will still try to argue HIPAA stuff with me.
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Oui oui.