I read through the abstract of the linked study (to get around the Politco factor). It doesn't paint a better picture. They caveat heavily about how relatively imprecise this measurement is, but all the same. Those numbers are enraging.
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Covid 2023
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I read through the abstract of the linked study (to get around the Politco factor). It doesn't paint a better picture. They caveat heavily about how relatively imprecise this measurement is, but all the same. Those numbers are enraging.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Interviewed for a position last week. After I was told 4-5 staff were out at any given time with COVID, I was grateful not to get the position.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Not sure you Branch Covidians caught Dr. Fauci's testimony before Congress earlier this week ...
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
Not specifically due to Covid, but one of the hospitals in my system is over 100% capacity and is constantly dancing around diverting non-life threatening ambulances to other EDs. No beds, reducing elective surgeries to allow overflow, and a ton of admits are just boarding in the ED for their entire stay. All the other hospitals are near capacity, and pulmonary units are completely swamped, along with every urgent care.
Rough winter for respiratory infections.
Rough winter for respiratory infections.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Good time to break out the masks again.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
Fewer boomers in the villages around to vote!
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
We opted for masks back around early December. Ain't worth missing the holidays for a NIOSH-rated scarf that protects you from the cold.
Chuck Murray
WIS & Effingwoods Hockey Almanac
I woke up this morning with body aches and a little sniffle. Immediately went to the Minute Clinic to get tested before going to see my elderly mother. Who wants to be the one to kill Grandma?
When is the new booster coming out? Any updates would be greatly appreciated. I think we are still trying to save Democracy, am I right?
When is the new booster coming out? Any updates would be greatly appreciated. I think we are still trying to save Democracy, am I right?
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
It never goes away. That's how this is -- it's another flu, added to the pile. People have been dying from the Spanish flu, H1N1, for the last 106 years. Just not as many as during the peak.
People will continue to die from Dump's Disease forever.
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Fixed your post to make it accurate.
dxmnkd316
Lucia Apologist
I think we need to move past the idea that this is trump's fault. What we know about Covid now is that worldwide endemic status was inevitable. It was too transmissible and not deadly enough to evoke a true worldwide response aimed at eradication. And frankly, I'm not sure the latter would have mattered.
even wild type Covid was going to take a worldwide lockdown until vaccines could be rolled out to literally everyone. We also know that animals like deer and mink (and I'm sure many others) are natural reservoirs. Once they happened it was over. There's literally nothing we could do.
Now if you want to blame trump for some number of deaths during his term, sure. But since then, not really.
even wild type Covid was going to take a worldwide lockdown until vaccines could be rolled out to literally everyone. We also know that animals like deer and mink (and I'm sure many others) are natural reservoirs. Once they happened it was over. There's literally nothing we could do.
Now if you want to blame trump for some number of deaths during his term, sure. But since then, not really.
MichVandal
Well-known member
Two things can be blamed on the moron. One is the cut to the emergency response program for events like this. That would have accelerated investigation and research to better understand what it was and how to deal with it. And second the main response. Especially turning it into a political theme instead of a scientific response.
We will never know how many lives that could have saved. Or continue to save thanks to the political nature of how this has played out. Thanks to chucky, we are constantly reminded how this is political.
We will never know how many lives that could have saved. Or continue to save thanks to the political nature of how this has played out. Thanks to chucky, we are constantly reminded how this is political.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
I assumed anyone calling it his virus meant he owned his response. Which was pitiful and cost millions of lives.
from a pathogen perspective the worlds fate was sealed in the fall of 2019
By this, you mean Fauci, correct? The person in charge who KNEW all about it because he was funding it. Who KNEW it was from a lab and covered it up.
At this point, you cant disagree that HE, more than anyone, is to blame. Too much evidence, and it all points to HIM.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
I like the idea of tarring Dump with it, since after all his lack of response cost about a half million American lives.
Famously, the Spanish had nothing to do with Influenza either, but the name stuck, and I think Dump and the GOP deserve to be immortalized, particularly in a way that will be meaningful for Gen Zers forever.
We're fighting Nazis. A little name-calling is warranted.