Winnie the Flu

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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[BrotherMan]

They don't seem to care much about living in fear of a kid walking in with a gun tho.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

My list of ‘Things That Anti-Vaccine People Say Are In Covid Vaccines Which Are Not Actually In Covid Vaccines’ has got somewhat longer since I last shared it.

I’ve seen all of these at the Royal Facebookshire Hospital and the Twitter Do Your Own Research Institute. pic.twitter.com/c2hnpCbDTy

— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) January 30, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Nurses talking about the unlucky one who survive.

"...a slow burn for years to come." Nurses discuss working with patients that survived hospitalization for severe COVID : DeathsofDisinfo

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The pandemic's true death toll: millions more than official counts

[JoeP]

I was about to say congrats to Peru (and Brazil) for not hiding excess deaths ... but they could just be reporting every death remotely linked to covid as covid ... for political reasons. Just a different political strategy from Russia.

[beyelzu]

From the beginning of this pandemic, people with disabilities understood that the disease would target them and would swell their ranks. Disability historians knew that there was a penumbra of ill health to previous mass-death events. Health economists warned that, as with tuberculosis, HIV and other diseases, morbidity would stalk mortality. Too many others have clung stubbornly to a belief that COVID-19 is something from which a minority of people die, and that most bounce back quickly and intact, with only their immune system updated. The longer the pandemic drags on, the harder it is to maintain that fiction.

While I think covidiots are a big reason why long term effects of covid are ignored, this is something that I’m guilty of as well.

Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore

The article examines other pandemics and their proven and suspected long term effects while also exploring the current and future covid disability wave.

I read a poll that on 43 percent of Americans want to keep the mask mandate even though almost 2k Americans died yesterday (not even considering long covid effects).

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by beyelzu

A lot of these people are probably the same people who think Windows updates are harmless.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by beyelzu

While I think covidiots are a big reason why long term effects of covid are ignored, this is something that I’m guilty of as well.

Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore

The article examines other pandemics and their proven and suspected long term effects while also exploring the current and future covid disability wave.

I read a poll that on 43 percent of Americans want to keep the mask mandate even though almost 2k Americans died yesterday (not even considering long covid effects).

Life Unworthy of Life

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Carnival Cruises relaxing mask mandates March 1

[JoeP]

Restrictions are being tossed aside everywhere.

Countdown to the next wave and return of restrictions ...

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Restrictions are being tossed aside everywhere.

Countdown to the next wave and return of restrictions ...

This is the best graph:

My favourite graph from Robson Fletcher showing the effects of COVID restrictions. : alberta

And it’s our lives now.

[Sock Puppet]

I will continue to avoid disease-ridden, floating petri dishes (i.e., cruise ships).


Oh yeah, they have COVID now as well.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Big Dick Energy

People are asking me why I endorsed the use of "We're Not Gonna Take It" for the Ukrainian people and did not for the anti-maskers. Well, one use is for a righteous battle against oppression; the other is a infantile feet stomping against an inconvenience.

— Dee Snider���� (@deesnider) February 27, 2022

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Do not worry, my introvert friends, the masks will return soon.

— Werner Twertzog (@WernerTwertzog) February 27, 2022

[beyelzu]

I’m not sure when I’ll be ready to walk about inside unmasked with other Hoo-mons but it’s going to be awhile.

[viscousmemories]

I went to the local food co-op yesterday and thought "I'm wearing a mask, I don't care if nobody else is" and it was such a relief to see a "please wear a mask" sign on the door and everyone inside complying.

[Pan Narrans]

Panini, mrs Narrans and I all tested positive

[JoeP]

Just a small observation, now the pandemic is "the before times".

[SharonDee]

This morning I went to the first healthcare appointment in recent memory that didn't require masks.

Are MRI technicians automatically immune or something?

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by SharonDee

This morning I went to the first healthcare appointment in recent memory that didn't require masks.

Are MRI technicians automatically immune or something?

I'm mildly surprised, because in Washington state, everybody's still wearing masks in healthcare here. Do you live in a state where they've relaxed all the rules and you got a shitty anti-mask MRI technician?

(It probably - probably - doesn't affect their ability to conduct an MRI, but that doesn't make them less shitty if they're anti-mask.)

[Stephen Maturin]

Originally Posted by specious_reasons

I'm mildly surprised, because in Washington state, everybody's still wearing masks in healthcare here.

Same here. Yesterday I set up an appointment with my cardiologist in MAY and they said be sure to wear a mask.

[SharonDee]

Tennessee hasn't had the greatest track record when it comes to masking and vaccinations. But most healthcare places I've been to always ALWAYS required masks even when vaccinated.

Maybe this is behind the relaxation:
HealthWeather for my area

For the click-shy, the link shows an illness risk of 38%.
In the midst of the pandemic that number was 99% every day.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I fired my pharmacy over that. The very day mask mandate dropped because the pandemic was over last summer I went in to pick up a script, no one wearing masks. In a pharmacy. Where sick people go for medicine. In my head I immediately called into question every aspect of their judgment and assumed everything they did was bare minimum and only grudgingly.

I could just roll my eyes at wait staff maybe, or cashiers, but nope, I hold medical professionals to a higher standard than that, especially when it's for services that are frequented by the immunocompromised.

I just picked up my script, paid for it, never sent my scripts there again. I wasn't even going to argue with them as A: they should know better. B: you never know when some of these guys will abruptly go nuts in your face.

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin

Same here. Yesterday I set up an appointment with my cardiologist in MAY and they said be sure to wear a mask.

Things can change. Two months ago, I scheduled my procedure for this past Monday, they also booked a COVID screening, but then they cancelled the screening. I still had to wear a mask.