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A lot of people seem to be getting panicked that a real way of defeating the pandemic is at hand, and is happening in spite of a massive, failed vaccine program, face diapers, lock downs that have destroyed hundreds of thousands of businesses and led to the worst inflation this country has seen in 5 decades. Their opportunity to profit from the vaccine producers, and to exercise dictatorial powers, is quickly coming to an end.
Hence the FUD-packing seems to get more screechy and desperate all the time. It's like listening to a Bernie Sanders speech.
Tomorrow the Chicago Public School System will shut back down and return to distance learning (on-line). Quite a few other districts are doing the same due to fear of Omicron.
I think it's time to face the fact that we will all be exposed to it eventually and now seems like a good time to get it over with since hospitals are no longer overwhelmed.
Tomorrow the Chicago Public School System will shut back down and return to distance learning (on-line). Quite a few other districts are doing the same due to fear of Omicron.
I think it's time to face the fact that we will all be exposed to it eventually and now seems like a good time to get it over with since hospitals are no longer overwhelmed.
Yep, and since the symptoms are about like the common cold. Do your part, get the sniffles and help end the pandemic! The effects of Omicron seem to be a lot less severe than the side effects from the jab.
Agree. And yet, here we are with our town’s schools going back to half days, with the advisory that we may go back to full remote. Our sports teams are still competing, but no spectators allowed. And get this...
As an especially moronic decision, one of the local swim schools/clubs will not allow kids to use the bathrooms or locker rooms, and have instead placed Porta-a-Potty units outside. Because we all know having no running water for hand-washing and making kids go outside in the dead of winter in wet bathing suits is super conducive to good health.
No, sadly, I am neither lying nor exaggerating. My husband says you know at least one of the kids has peed in the pool.
Edited to add details: This is Berkeley Aquatic Club in NJ. Please shame them.
Outhouses are nasty, gross and a Petrie dish of nasty viruses that are just as deadly as covid.
Each region, state and city in the US is different anyway. So declaring it a certain percent of cases is not so easy.
National and state numbers are meaningless. What matters is region and county within region.
As of 12/29 more than half of the ICU beds in my state were unoccupied. Yet there were regions with the state with only 5-6 beds available. And those are likely full, by now.
I recall during the first surge, Wisconsin was air lifting Covid patients. If one was lucky enough to survive, they had to figure out how to get home on their own.
South Dakota was airlifting Covid patients to Minnesota. Similar deal with getting back home. Then Minnesota told them to pound sand as they had no excess capacity.
In my state, 90% of Covid hospitalizations are unvaccinated.
no, it's the state and neighboring states, depending on where you are. FL isn't sending Miami patients to Georgia, but they might send Tallahassee patients to Alabama if they needed.
IL has, IIRC from your link yesterday, 7 hospital regions. IIRC, 3 of them are or bound Chicago. Why wouldn't we expect a Covid patient to be transported an hour to a CHI hospital from one of those other regions?
God and nature are taking care of us. It's time for the government to go back to worrying about getting our economy up and running and getting these supply chain issues worked out.
Gas and food prices have really skyrocketed. Time to address that.
God and nature are taking care of us. It's time for the government to go back to worrying about getting our economy up and running and getting these supply chain issues worked out.
Please god no. The government can't work its way out of a paper bag. Time for the government to go back to doing absolutely nothing. I can live with that.
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Gas and food prices have really skyrocketed. Time to address that.
Whatever the government does to address the issue, they'll screw it up.
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