COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such

[Radical Larry 28498]

This is why I could never be a doctor, because if a cancer patient needed space at my hospital, and I had one or more unvaccinated MAGA assholes taking up capacity, I'd dump one of those patients in the basement in favor of the cancer patient.

[BrazilHorn 6575]

5 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Hope so, but AISD and RRISD haven't even finished their second week of school yet.

I have this concern as well. Also with the UT home game coming up. We shall see.

[CycleTex87 2952]

This will all be behind us by the Rice game, right?

[South Austin 51976]

3 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

This will all be behind us by the Rice game, right?

[CycleTex87 2952]

What about my Credence?

[atomheartbevo 89304]

31 minutes ago, CycleTex87 said:

This will all be behind us by the Rice game, right?

West Nile has been found in a couple of places in Austin, so with the way 2021 is going, if Delta cases started dropping rapidly, there's always something else ready to take it's place.

If we could get more people to get vaccinated/get boosters though, it could make a dent in the next few months.

[Herbie Hancock 7296]

[South Austin 51976]

42 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

West Nile has been found in a couple of places in Austin

[Armybrat 40648]

This shit better moderate soon, as I might be up for aortic valve replacement in a couple of months.

[InkaUtexas 25289]

7 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

This shit better moderate soon, as I might be up for aortic valve replacement in a couple of months.

Shit man, this is #8 for you right? You got this. 

[gmr548 16427]

And I mean even more than Sooners.

To be fair, pretty significant overlap there

[Deej 76396]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

West Nile has been found in a couple of places in Austin, so with the way 2021 is going, if Delta cases started dropping rapidly, there's always something else ready to take it's place.

If we could get more people to get vaccinated/get boosters though, it could make a dent in the next few months.

Does horse paste work against West Nile?

[DaysOff 7785]

When did Lobo become an aggy, or is anyone under the delusion that sitting in 114 degree heat watching a nail biter with ulala sounds fun.

[dcar00 14002]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

West Nile has been found in a couple of places in Austin, so with the way 2021 is going, if Delta cases started dropping rapidly, there's always something else ready to take it's place.

If we could get more people to get vaccinated/get boosters though, it could make a dent in the next few months.

Locusts inbound, amirite?  gonna need to work on some lambs blood.  

[Guest Lobo]

13 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

When did Lobo become an aggy, or is anyone under the delusion that sitting in 114 degree heat watching a nail biter with ulala sounds fun.

I think the game is gonna be a blast.  I merely attempted to let some folks know about making a bit of a more conscious plan about ingress/egress.  Obviously my "tone" was not appreciated and I own that.  Could be some transmission events in some of the more crammed, unventilated areas.  But I really don't care any more.  Stupid gonna stupid.  I'll be up at the open bar waiting to count the dead bodies from heatstroke and whatever else goes around in the days following.  They had their chance to prepare and hydrate, fuck 'em.

Edited August 27, 2021 by Lobo

[Redneck Mutha 7888]

5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

The restrooms at Kyle Field are always super spreader events, even before COVID-19.

Well, not ALWAYS.

Shitter's full!

[Eskimohorn 5593]

This shit better moderate soon, as I might be up for aortic valve replacement in a couple of months.

Does horse paste work for heart disease?

[dcar00 14002]

apparently Arkansas Corrections is team horse paste

https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/anti-parasite-drug-ivermectin-used-as-covid-treatment-for-arkansas-jail-inmates-despite-fda-warning/

[South Austin 51976]

So I’m a bit of a supplement geek, and have read various recommendations of supplements that can bolster the immune system and decrease the risk of severe symptoms in the age of COVID. In addition to horse paste (duh), I’ve been taking lysine, Vitamin D, and NAC during the pandemic (I was taking NAC before for liver function, but it’s on a lot of lists for COVID supplements.)

Anybody else taking anything? Or am I the only one here with expensive urine?

[utee94 15733]

Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc.

And horse paste, obviously.

[Liquor and Poker 3659]

12 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So I’m a bit of a supplement geek, and have read various recommendations of supplements that can bolster the immune system and decrease the risk of severe symptoms in the age of COVID. In addition to horse paste (duh), I’ve been taking lysine, Vitamin D, and NAC during the pandemic (I was taking NAC before for liver function, but it’s on a lot of lists for COVID supplements.)

Anybody else taking anything? Or am I the only one here with expensive urine?

I’ve been making tea out of pennies. Costs just pennies a glass. 

[South Austin 51976]

10 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc.

And horse paste, obviously.

Ah yes, zinc as well. I’ve been taking that for years.

[hookemATL 11585]

Lysol, zyclon B, ecstasy, and benzos. It’s the only way to be sure. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26174]

43 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Anybody else taking anything? Or am I the only one here with expensive urine?

Elderberry, ZMA, Vitamins D&C, garlic, and a little bleach as a treat 

Edited August 27, 2021 by Bozo_Casanova

[Anastasis 23328]

Zinc + Vit D 

[dcbc 14367]

"Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my ‘back pain’, Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine... Well, because it's awesome." 

And Lemons.

Edited August 27, 2021 by dcbc

[Radical Larry 28498]

A couple of edibles after dinner helps, as well.

[Snake Diggity 4607]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

So I’m a bit of a supplement geek, and have read various recommendations of supplements that can bolster the immune system and decrease the risk of severe symptoms in the age of COVID. In addition to horse paste (duh), I’ve been taking lysine, Vitamin D, and NAC during the pandemic (I was taking NAC before for liver function, but it’s on a lot of lists for COVID supplements.)

Anybody else taking anything? Or am I the only one here with expensive urine?

I have seen varying evidence that Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Quercetin, Bromelain, Zinc, Melatonin, and Turmeric/Curcumin all may help, but nothing all that compelling other than for people with D deficiency.  There is also some evidence that Pepcid helps avoid worst outcomes.
 

Over the last 18 months I have taken zinc and Vitamin D supplements whenever there’s increased risk to me, who knows if it’s helped.

Edited August 27, 2021 by Snake Diggity

[MissingInAction 24746]

15 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

Thats where my sister works as a RN. She says people are quitting every day and she is currently working mandatory OT. 

Shes tough as nails and loves seeing her savings triple every couple of weeks so she is in good spirits.

[atomheartbevo 89304]

12 hours ago, Deej said:

Does horse paste work against West Nile?

Do you have evidence that it doesn’t?  Have you done your own research?

[Herbie Hancock 7296]

Anything with a higher protein profile (red meat, poultry, dairy) also contains a high amount of Lysine. Unless you are in a caloric deficit or on a restricted diet like vegetarian or vegan you are most likely getting well above the daily recommended dose of Lysine. That said, without looking it up I’m pretty sure you would have to consume enough to choke Linda Lovelace to exceed the upper permissible daily dose

[Herbie Hancock 7296]

Thats where my sister works as a RN. She says people are quitting every day and she is currently working mandatory OT. 
Shes tough as nails and loves seeing her savings triple every couple of weeks so she is in good spirits.

$600 bonus + time and a half for every extra day shift you pick up and $800 bonus + time and a half and shift diff for every night shift you pick up.

And down the street at Baylor health system they’re offering $15k sign-on bonus for RT’s with a 2 or 3 year commitment. Craziness

[Trey3216 15321]

20 hours ago, Sessamoid said:

Not just Austin, but all the colleges hosting home games. The restrooms are going to be superspreader events. Close contact, poor ventilation, and stupid air blower hand dryers aerosolizing covid that was on its way to the floor.

COVID is already aerosolized, so it's not aerosolizing it, rather it's just adjusting it's flight path.  

[Trey3216 15321]

3 hours ago, Liquor and Poker said:

I’ve been making tea out of pennies. Costs just pennies a glass. 

"Brew the tea, tuppence a glass.

Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a glass"  

[MissingInAction 24746]

You'd have to be a paint chip eating regard to go to a crowded stadium right now.

[CHIEF 5052]

3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Zinc + Vit D 

Those are my two as well. Whole family takes them.

CHIEF

[South Austin 51976]

3 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

You'd have to be a paint chip eating regard to go to a crowded stadium right now.

Do those come in jalapeno flavor?

[Captainant 27250]

11 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

You'd have to be a paint chip eating regard to go to a crowded stadium right now.

I went to the 'stros game on Tuesday, and honestly it felt decently safe in the seating area since folks were still generally spread out. Not a packed arena, but ~50% full.

But every time I needed to pee or get another beer, I sure as shit masked up. Loads of people all shoulder to shoulder in the concession and restroom areas

[crash_davis 23076]

Guess he found out. 

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-anti-mask-freedom-rally-045722778.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

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Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

 Texas man who helped organize protests against pandemic restrictions is fighting for his life after being hospitalized for nearly a month with COVID-19, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported.

His wife, Jessica Wallace, wrote Wednesday on Facebook that she had a “heartbreaking update” about her husband, Caleb.

“He’s not doing good. It’s not looking in our favor,” she said. “His lungs are stiff due to the fibrosis. They called and said they’ve run out of options for him and asked if I would consent to a do not resuscitate. And it would be up to us when to stop treatments.”

“My heart just can’t. I can’t imagine my life without him.”

Caleb Wallace, a 30-year-old father of three, has been unconscious, ventilated and heavily sedated in the ICU at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo since Aug. 8, the Standard-Times reported. His wife said on a GoFundMe page for household and medical bills that he was was intubated multiple times, had high fevers, infection and bleeding in his chest.

In July, Caleb Wallace reportedly helped organize “The Freedom Rally,” an event that billed itself as a protest against the “government being in control of our lives.” He also founded “The San Angelo Freedom Defenders,” which hosted a rally last year to “end COVID tyranny.”

He wrote a letter in April to the San Angelo Independent School District and published by a local news outlet demanding that the school district “rescind ALL COVID-related policies immediately.” He falsely claimed that wearing masks had harmful effects on children and that there was “little evidence that masks worked for anyone.”

When he first felt symptoms on July 26, his wife told the Standard-Times, he refused to get tested or seek medical care. He instead began treating himself with a cocktail of Vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that has been falsely promoted as an effective treatment for COVID-19 by conservative media. He was taken to the hospital on July 30.

Jessica Wallace told the Standard-Times that she was “less conservative” than her husband and personally wears a mask.

“Caleb would tell me, ‘You know masks aren’t going to save you,’ but he understood I wanted to wear them,” she said. “It gives me comfort to know that maybe, just maybe, I’m either protecting someone or avoiding it myself.”

The Wallace family’s story comes amid a mask debate across Texas, where Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has issued an executive order banning mask mandates. Some local officials have fought back or defied the order, creating a confusing patchwork of rules across more than 200 counties.

This has gone on amid a new wave of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across Texas, driven by the virulent and highly contagious delta variant of the virus. Roughly 47% of Texas’s eligible population has been fully vaccinated.

 

[Herbie Hancock 7296]

[gsoda3 3214]

his death would not bother me.  

[XYZ 2154]

4 hours ago, South Austin said:

So I’m a bit of a supplement geek, and have read various recommendations of supplements that can bolster the immune system and decrease the risk of severe symptoms in the age of COVID. In addition to horse paste (duh), I’ve been taking lysine, Vitamin D, and NAC during the pandemic (I was taking NAC before for liver function, but it’s on a lot of lists for COVID supplements.)

Anybody else taking anything? Or am I the only one here with expensive urine?

WTF is “NAC”?

[Sessamoid 2]

9 minutes ago, XYZ said:

WTF is “NAC”?

N-acetylcysteine. It’s primary use is as a mucolytic for patients with chronic lung diseases and as an antidote for Tylenol overdose.

[South Austin 51976]

18 minutes ago, XYZ said:

WTF is “NAC”?

 

6 minutes ago, Sessamoid said:

N-acetylcysteine. It’s primary use is as a mucolytic for patients with chronic lung diseases and as an antidote for Tylenol overdose.

What he said (whatever "mucolytic" means).

I started taking it a few years ago as a supplement that's supposed to help your liver process alcohol better.  I'm not a lush, but I like to imbibe every know and then, and since the liver is one of the more important organs in the body for metabolism, I figure I'll try to do what I can to help it out in my older age.  

Turns out it's on a few lists of supplements to better equip your body for COVID.

[South Austin 51976]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

Guess he found out. 

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-anti-mask-freedom-rally-045722778.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Texas Anti-Mask 'Freedom Rally' Organizer Fighting For His Life With COVID-19

 

So was he vaccinated?  The article doesn't say, but the quote below leads me to believe that he wasn't.

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When he first felt symptoms on July 26, his wife told the Standard-Times, he refused to get tested or seek medical care. He instead began treating himself with a cocktail of Vitamin C, zinc, aspirin and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that has been falsely promoted as an effective treatment for COVID-19 by conservative media.

I'll say it again, I'm not happy that this guy, like others before him, is going to die and leave three children fatherless.  But I'm not sad.  Play stupid games . . . .

Edited August 27, 2021 by South Austin
you ate sand???

[dcbc 14367]

10 minutes ago, South Austin said:

 

What he said (whatever "mucolytic" means).

I started taking it a few years ago as a supplement that's supposed to help your liver process alcohol better.  I'm not a lush, but I like to imbibe every know and then, and since the liver is one of the more important organs in the body for metabolism, I figure I'll try to do what I can to help it out in my older age.  

Turns out it's on a few lists of supplements to better equip your body for COVID.

Have you seen a difference in your liver numbers?

[Jiggy-Z 3427]

7 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Have you seen a difference in your liver numbers?

4.5 pints out of 5.  Not bad.

[Pato del Muerto 52232]

3 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said:

$600 bonus + time and a half for every extra day shift you pick up and $800 bonus + time and a half and shift diff for every night shift you pick up.

And down the street at Baylor health system they’re offering $15k sign-on bonus for RT’s with a 2 or 3 year commitment. Craziness

So are hospitals just trading staffs so that they can all get that signing bonus money?  Or are they also offering that for nurses to stay, and sign a similar commitment letter?

[Huckleberry 32660]

4 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Have you seen a difference in your liver numbers?

Still has just the one

[crash_davis 23076]

13 minutes ago, South Austin said:

So was he vaccinated?  The article doesn't say, but the quote below leads me to believe that he wasn't.

I'll say it again, I'm not happy that this guy, like others before him, is going to die and leave three children fatherless.  But I'm not sad.  Play stupid games . . . .

Pissed that health professionals have to treat this fuckstick. Pissed that he's taking up an ICU bed for so long. He stood against everything the medical community has been trying to do to beat this shit. Assholes like him are why we are still dealing with Covid.

Edited August 27, 2021 by crash_davis