CitizenVectron Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 1 in 5 Educators Say They've Experienced Long COVID WWW.EDWEEK.ORG Many educators say they've experienced painful, debilitating symptoms months after contracting COVID. Some may have to quit their jobs. People are lining up to be teachers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Maybe a quarter of people are masked at Raleigh airport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I think the number of people at Intel who are masking is 1 in 10 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Literally the only people I see in masks now are the occasional old person and international students. Everyone else has given up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I finally decided to try going maskless at work. We’re usually slow and feel mostly safe with it off, but one of my managers caught it again. His daughter had it and then he got it and he lost his sense of taste/smell. He also had a minor concussion after being rear ended in a parking lot just a week before Covid as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 5 hours ago, gamer.tv said: Literally the only people I see in masks now are the occasional old person and international students. Everyone else has given up. I sometimes see younger people masked up while walking at the park outside. So it truly runs the gamut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Amazon to end paid leave for COVID, replace with 5 unpaid days off: Amazon ends paid COVID-19 leave policy for workers FINANCE.YAHOO.COM As of May 2nd, Amazon will no longer offer paid time off for workers who test positive for COVID-19. This brings up the issue with "endemic" COVID: if most people are going to catch this a few times per year...how do they afford the time off? Over 20% of American workers have no paid sick leave at all. Many only have a few. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 29 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: This brings up the issue with "endemic" COVID: if most people are going to catch this a few times per year...how do they afford the time off? The same way they deal with any other illness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 38 minutes ago, sblfilms said: The same way they deal with any other illness Don't get sick? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 3 hours ago, marioandsonic said: Don't get sick? Go into work sick. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted May 2, 2022 Author Share Posted May 2, 2022 On April 14th, the Ontario Science Table projected that by the beginning of May Ontario would have between 350 and 600 people in the ICU with/from Covid. Today there are 206 (or less than 60% of their "low estimate of transmission"). Those projections led to the media accusing the government of "not following the science". Those projections only matter if they are accurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 11 hours ago, sblfilms said: The same way they deal with any other illness (I was going for the simpsons osaka flu but eh this works) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 27 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said: On April 14th, the Ontario Science Table projected that by the beginning of May Ontario would have between 350 and 600 people in the ICU with/from Covid. Today there are 206 (or less than 60% of their "low estimate of transmission"). Those projections led to the media accusing the government of "not following the science". Those projections only matter if they are accurate. Projections aside, we need to figure out how we're going to deal long-term with 100-200 people in ICU all the time from COVID. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted May 2, 2022 Author Share Posted May 2, 2022 20 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Projections aside, we need to figure out how we're going to deal long-term with 100-200 people in ICU all the time from COVID. Wastewater signals suggest that with Omicron 8% of the population is getting Covid every two weeks, those kind of infection rates aren't sustainable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 It seems a bit premature to presume Covid will be infecting everybody multiple times a year when in year 3 the vast majority of people haven’t been infected more than once, and many still not at all. We also don’t know how future mutations will affect the virus, we don’t know how future vaccines will affect the virus, and we don’t know how future therapeutics will affect things like hospitalization rates and lengths. It could all get worse, stay roughly the same, or improve. Unfortunately right now there is decent enough reason to believe any of those three 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreePi Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Felt a little congested with a slight headache this morning so I took an at-home test. They finally got me. I don't feel too bad physically, but I shared a car with my brother on Friday and feel like shit if I exposed him since he's got a newborn. I was also at my mom's house yesterday. They're all vaxxed and boosted and my mom previously had covid and her booster was more recent so I hope she's well protected. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Omicron subvariants BA.4, BA.5 evade protection from earlier omicron infection ARSTECHNICA.COM Data suggests possibility of new infection wave, though vaccination boosts protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Jokes on you suckers I’m covid free* and can head back stateside *test protocol lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 So apparently had my first known COVID exposure this weekend, the event organizer sent an email just now saying someone tested positive upon returning home. Just did a rapid test that I'm waiting on result from, and will do a PCR in a couple of days either way. At least if I got it I got it doing something I really wanted to do, not at the supermarket or something stupid like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 First rapid test negative. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Boomers growing up with leaded air to get covid now 😬 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dualhunter Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 'What is going on in Shanghai': Horror as elderly man taken to morgue in body bag -- while still alive WWW.CTVNEWS.CA An elderly Shanghai resident was mistakenly declared dead and taken to a morgue in a body bag, in the latest sign of dysfunction in the COVID-stricken city where millions of people remain under government-enforced lockdown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jason Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 54 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pickle Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said: So this is why we are losing employees to America. Lots of job openings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marioandsonic Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 33 minutes ago, Captain Pickle said: So this is why we are losing employees to America. Lots of job openings. You joke, but it’s 100% true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pickle Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 35 minutes ago, Uaarkson said: You joke, but it’s 100% true I’m actually not joking. A bunch of professors are moving state side because of the huge offers in the states. Oddly in southern states where people take Covid very seriously. oh, ok that’s a joke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Yeah, I’m not sure PhDs are the ones kicking the bucket in notable numbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 BBC News - Covid: World’s true pandemic death toll nearly 15 million, says WHO Covid: World’s true pandemic death toll nearly 15 million, says WHO WWW.BBC.CO.UK These include deaths from Covid and from the indirect effects of the pandemic over two years worldwide. Quote The measure used by the WHO is called excess deaths - how many more people died than would normally be expected based on mortality in the same area before the pandemic hit. These calculations also take into account deaths which were not directly because of Covid but instead caused by its knock-on effects, like people being unable to access hospitals for the care they needed. It also accounts for poor record-keeping in some regions, and sparse testing at the start of the crisis. But the WHO said the majority of the extra 9.5 million deaths seen above the 5.4 million Covid deaths reported were thought to be direct deaths caused by the virus, rather than indirect deaths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 wow who could have possibly predicted this 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 Live your life; Get a booster when you are eligible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 So yeah gonna dust off that one-off Pfizer vax card from last July from before boosters were approved and just lie my ass off that I had some stupid whatever reason for never coming back for my second shot until suddenly now, yeah, seems worth it. So that I'm good until hopefully multivalent boosters become available this fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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