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Fuck off with this “politicized by both sides for non public health reasons” and “manipulation and control being done politically” bullshit. “Everyone should get vaccinated to protect themselves and everyone around them and thus the rest of society” is 100% a public health position, not politicized manipulation. Trauma Babe isn’t offering to pay for people to get the vax because she thinks it will turn them into a Democrat. It’s not to win votes, or score political points on talk radio. It’s in the interest of public health. Full stop. That’s it.21 points
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We have multiple reinfected/unvaccinated patients in my hospital's COVID ICU. Delta doesn't give a fuck about the COVID you had in the winter. Please get vaccinated. I will venmo you $20 to do it.20 points
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This was posted by an ER doc from a local hospital: I have been mostly silent on the COVID surge but I feel it’s a duty and responsibility for healthcare professionals to report what we are seeing and confront some of the unbelievable and irresponsible mis-information out there. This is long and reflects many opinions and observations. Those opinions and observations are mine and mine alone and do not reflect upon any healthcare institution or governmental agency. I admit that I did not consider Facebook memes or posts by non-healthcare workers, nor conspiracy websites in formulating my opinions. My opinions are based on possessing an actual medical degree and board certification as well as over 30 years of medical experience (28 of which have been in Emergency Medicine). Hospitals in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas (as well as many other areas) are overwhelmed with COVID cases right now. Of the COVID, about 75% is delta variant. Delta is much more contagious than the previous strains were. Sadly, the majority of the really sick people I have been seeing are presenting 7 to 10 days AFTER diagnosis and after failing “treatments” that don’t work such as Rocephin, Zithromax, Levaquin, Augmentin, and the ever-present and thoroughly debunked hydroxychloroquine [emoji849][emoji849] all prescribed by folks who apparently do not understand what a virus is. (The jury is still out on ivermectin…. I personally do not believe it works, but there is some junk science saying it does. You can judge for yourself). In my opinion, if your PCP is treating you with antibiotics or hydroxychloroquine for the COVID virus, you need a new PCP. A concomitant bacterial pneumonia with COVID (which is a viral pneumonia) in the outpatient setting is exceedingly rare and the risk vs benefit ratio on hydroxychloroquine isn’t a debate anymore. The relevance of the time course I am frequently seeing from diagnosis to severe illness is important because by that time, people are out of the window for monoclonal antibody therapy which was in my opinion (including my own personal experience) beneficial for non-delta COVID. This means there isn’t a lot we have to offer unless you’re critically ill. There seems to be a misconception about what this COVID surge and hospital capacity means to the average person. First of all, when the COVID units and the hospital beds are full, admitted patients back up into the ER waiting on beds to open up. This occupies ER beds and ER nurses and leaves sick patients in the lobby with no where to put them and few staff members to take care of them. Only the most critical people can be seen. This doesn’t mean urgent cases, this means critical. Sadly, this means that your kid’s broken arm, won’t be seen quickly and you will have to wait. We don’t like it either, but it’s reality right now. Second, when tertiary referral centers are full (which they are), they refuse transfers for sub-specialty care (which they are). So, if you (or your family) develops a condition (including serious trauma) that a community hospital can’t manage, you may be held at a hospital that can’t take adequate care of you because there is nowhere to send you (yes, this is happening). During the previous surge of COVID, several things were different than they are now: 1) VOLUME: Patients stayed home and didn’t come to hospitals. So hospitals saw far fewer patients than normal and only the sickest patients came. Volumes are now back close to pre-COVID levels. 2) STAFFING: Before, both state and federal agencies paid for and sent staff (nurses, techs, respiratory therapists) to hard hit areas to help. Healthcare workers were offered very good money to travel and those who could left in droves. These assistances are largely no longer available and hospitals and ERs are having tremendous staffing trouble. 3) CURVE: Lots of misconceptions surrounded the “flattening the curve” terminology. It was not an attempt to eradicate COVID. It was an attempt to spread out the infections over time so that the health care system was not overwhelmed. With the re-opening of our society and few people masking, we are seeing a surge like we did not see before. We’re seeing the spike that was feared and somewhat mitigated before. 4) FATIGUE: As health care workers, we are tired. We are short-staffed, overwhelmed, over-worked, and we are tired of getting yelled at and complained about when we are barely holding things together. This is leading to attrition of personnel which only compounds the problem. If you’re in the ER or the hospital, you may not get your drink or your warm blanket in a timely manner while we are off tending to critical patients. If you’re there for non-urgent issues, attention, or hypochondria, we’re probably not gonna be very accommodating. Recognize that the people there working are doing the best they can during some very challenging times. If you’re our priority at any given moment, you’ve got problems! As for the vaccine: 1) This was developed and encouraged under the Trump administration and continues to be encouraged by the Biden administration. It is NOT a political issue. 2) The vaccine is NOT “experimental”. The technology used to create the vaccine has existed for years and was developed in order to allow rapid creation of vaccines for just such a scenario. The vaccine was tested on thousands and determined to be safe before release. True, it was rushed to market due to the circumstances and true, we aren’t certain there will be no long term effects but it is doubtful there will be any. 3) The vaccine DOES provide protection against delta variant. I have personally not seen a single COVID patient who has been immunized and I have seen and admitted a lot of COVID patients recently. When last I checked, our hospital did not have a single admitted COVID patient who was immunized. I do know of people who have gotten sick and provider stories of vaccinated patients with COVID, but the overwhelming data shows that these folks have a mild illness. Of the COVID deaths during this surge, a tiny fraction (less than 1%) have been fully immunized. 4) People getting COVID even though vaccinated isn’t unexpected or unusual. NO vaccine is 100% effective. This is NOT a logical reason not to be vaccinated. 5) There are NOT large numbers of people having severe reactions to the vaccine. Don’t be misled by isolated cases and propaganda. As with any medication or vaccine, there will be side effects in a small number of people and even death in a tiny fraction. In medicine, we always consider risk versus benefit for any therapy. To make an analogy here, every year there are people injured and killed BECAUSE they were wearing a seat belt. But a vast majority more are saved from serious injury by the belt. Using the small number of people harmed by the belt as justification not to wear it is illogical. 6) There is so much misinformation out there about the vaccine that it is hard for non-medical people to separate the facts from the fiction. Consider that the overwhelming majority of healthcare experts support the vaccine and we have NO agenda to promote it. We are not paid to promote it. We are making our recommendations based on understanding the effects of a pandemic and understanding the science behind the vaccine, as well as our own observations. There is some extremely crazy (and frankly downright stupid) stuff out there quoted by lay people with a Facebook medical degree. Before you make a decision about the vaccine, consider all of the information you can find and consider the credentials of those who are making the recommendations. Please do your research with an open mind and don’t look for and consider only sources that agree with your a priori opinion. I have long tired of the statements that masks don’t work promoted by folks who don’t want to wear one. Of course they work. They are also not harmful to your health. (If they were, surgeons and OR nurses would have been dying off for years.) I would point out that this last winter because of masks, social distancing, & sanitizing, we saw very very few cases of flu and RSV (like COVID, these are also viruses). As soon as masks started coming off, we began to see large numbers of cases of RSV in children. In 30 plus years of medical practice, I have NEVER seen a summer outbreak of RSV. In addition, I would point out that shortly after mask mandates ended, the COVID surge began. Clearly, they did work. Like anything else, masks weren’t 100% effective but that doesn’t mean they were ineffective. To be clear, I am not advocating closing our society again, mask mandates, or mandatory immunization. But I think if more people believed those of us on the front lines and paid attention to what is happening right now and listened to reputable authorities on vaccines and masks, maybe we could mitigate the current situation without those mandates returning. Those of us in healthcare are not lying to you or trying to misconceive you. We have NO incentive to do that. This is not a conspiracy or attempt to control your behavior or inject you with trackers or alter your DNA. That is completely illogical and frankly crazy. The virus isn’t and never was political. The virus is some RNA floating around out there surrounded by spike proteins that are neither red or blue. Those of us on the front lines of healthcare have no agenda except to keep you and your family safe and healthy. Please take heed and if nothing else, please stop calling us liars, conspirists, and reactionaries. To my observations, the current hysteria is coming from the anti-COVID, anti-vaccination crowd. We are merely reporting what we’re seeing and what we have concluded based on knowledge, training, and expertise. PS: calling an ambulance for non-emergent issues will NOT get you seen faster. If you are less ill than those waiting in the lobby, you will be sent to the lobby to get in line. If you have managed to make it this far through my musings, thank you for your consideration.16 points
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This death feels symbolic representing the death of the College football we grew up on16 points
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His reasoning is he cherry picked a single, non-peer reviewed, study that confirmed his already held belief.16 points
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I don't work at Dell Children's so I can't say anything about how many kids they have admitted with COVID, but four is more than earlier in the pandemic. We went from zero ICU COVID patients to 66% full of COVID pts in our medical ICU in about two weeks. Three or four were admitted just last night. No telling what it is tonight, but I promise it's more than the twenty that were there when I left on Saturday morning. Many of them under 40. Some in their 30s. A few in their 20s. There are fewer nurses right now in Austin than there were previously in the pandemic, and we seem to lose more every week. We can't hire new nurses and train them fast enough. There's a rumor going around that our "cost of living raise" that has long been promised is going to be about +$0.02/hr to our current hourly rates, which are already the worst in Texas when adjusted for CoL. I don't know if the hospital systems have the money to pay for the huge travel contracts ($100+/hr) that got us a lot of extra sub-par nurses to help out last summer. We didn't have the vaccine last summer. We didn't have a safe, reliable, and effective tool to dramatically weaken the spread of the virus. But now we do. We have a way out. And so many of our fellow citizens spit in our faces with their attitudes towards public health and the collective good, all because their second cousin on Facebook heard from their co-worker's best friend that the vaccine caused someone to have a stroke. Meanwhile, we are treating patients for strokes that were caused by COVID. I try my very best to put myself in my patients' shoes when I'm caring for them, because that's the only way I know how to be a good nurse. But over the last three nights, I frittered away our available ICU beds for scooter accidents (corporate CEO in town for a conference), alcoholics who can't decide if they want to stay in rehab or check into a motel and drink 2L of vodka in six hours, psychotic-with-grief families who are torturing their loved ones against their loved one's legal wishes, or a middle-aged man who snorted a ton of meth six months after a CABG and ignored the increasingly painful symptoms of mesenteric ischemia for three days before coming into the hospital, et al. So many people think that there will always be a hospital bed available for them. They think this mostly because before COVID there always has been. You can't count on that anymore. You can't count on there being nurses to care for you or your loved ones. Nurses now aren't just leaving to go somewhere else. They are leaving the profession altogether, because you can't escape COVID because at least a third of America believes we are trying to enslave and/or kill them. I'm really struggling to maintain my desire to serve. My heart is hardening. I can't wait until I start crying before my shifts again. I did not sign up for this when I became a nurse. None of us did.15 points
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The devil went down to Texas, he was lookin for a crippled bitchmade motherfucking piece of shit cuntnose chud baby.11 points
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Could post this in any number of threads. Hell, probably needs to be anyway.11 points
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Incredibly selfish and short-sighted, but not at all surprising. I hope you're at least willing to be proactive with other precautionary measures, for the sake of every other person you're ever around, most of which are much more annoying and could be gotten rid of if you'd get a completely safe and effective vaccine and even be paid for your time.11 points
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You're a piece of shit if you don't get vaccinated, or allow your children to be vaccinated, for any reason other than a compromised immune system.11 points
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I received a call from the apartment office yesterday. They had been communicating with corporate who authorized full exemption of the one year lease that was just signed (would’ve started at the end of this month), waiver of the cancellation agreement ($6,000), and pro rated the final months lease payment from $1900 to $1,668. Paid the $1,668 and done completely. I can’t say thank you enough to those of you who contacted a friend or a spouse in Camden Corporate and asked a favor on behalf of somebody you don’t even know. This has been a tough transition for all involved not to mention expensive. The apartment resolution is a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders for my Mom. Thank you!10 points
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If the church really gave a shit, they wouldn’t have had indoor services packed with people. But, they gotta keep those hands in the pockets of the gullible.10 points
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I hope so. The set backs of the past two years have sent hi. Through some bouts of depression, and his mental health is a real battle and concern. It’s no freaking joke.9 points
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Speaking of which, DeSantis doesn't seem to realize that COVID is killing off his voter base. Recall that he won in 2018 by about 33K votes, and there have been 40K deaths and counting from COVID in Florida.9 points
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All those words, and I did not hear a cogent reasoning for WHY you wouldn't get the vaccine. You've claimed that you are protected against future infection thanks to your past infections, and that may be true - but why not get the vaccine for free to get extra protection? Answer that question. WHY do you not want to get the vaccine? If it's simply because "IvE aLrEaDy HaD cOvId" then you should take your own advice and get off of social media and do some actual cost/benefit analysis. Fuck man, it's like I'm dealing with my 2yo nephew in this thread. Just balling up your fists and screaming "NOOOOO!!!" for no reason but toddler-level digging in your heels9 points
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Deserves it's own thread imo - if only to inform. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31986091/long-florida-state-football-coach-bobby-bowden-dies-918 points
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If you’re gonna be late don’t bother showing up.8 points
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All the conference needs to succeed is Ed Orgeron and automatic closed captioning:8 points
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1. USA: Fuck yeah 2. china: fuck you 3. Japan: You're cool 4. Great Britain: You're cool 5. 'russia': fuck you8 points
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Meh. You’re trying too hard on this one, RD. Step away from the keyboard for a while and enjoy your Sunday. For the record, Mu is awesome.8 points
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This might be the worst analogy I’ve ever read on this website.7 points
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This is starting to feel like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when all the arrogant Nazis are super jazzed to harness the power of God for their own stupid shit and then He melts their faces off.7 points
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