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Covid 2023

My wife tested positive yesterday, thought it was a cold as that’s what idiots, I mean fellow employees said. Tested negative on Monday, tested positive on Tuesday.We hope Paxlovid gets rid of it quickly. Wicked headache on Tuesday which is why she tested again. Hopefully I don’t get it but staying away from folks in case. Supposed to get business taxes from Acct. today, he said don’t come in. when I went to get paxlovid, pharmacy said stay in car and we will bring it out.

Exactly how it went down for us. Negative negative negative. "Man, I've got an axe through my head"
positive


anyone who says "it's just a cold" can get hit by a bus. With WFH nowadays just stay home.


hope you guys get through it quickly
 
Everybody is always the hero in their own movie. blah blah blah blah ...

Oh, again with the irony. The utter lack of self-awareness is prodigious in this one.

If there's indeed a manifesto in the works from any of the Faculty Lounge regulars, you are the odds-on favorite.

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You have no clue what you're talking about and no clue how Covid, and the Covid vaccine operate. Get back to us when you actually know something.

Stay scared, Scoobs. Your choice. And keep that obedience mask on at all times, Big Brother is keeping score.
 
Funny how the party of "free speech" is also the party of book banning...

Question: Do you have kids of elementary school age (or younger) in a public school, right now?

Thought not. Proceed as you wish, but I'm free to ignore your opinion on this issue as irrelevant.
 
There are only two people being dramatic in this thread, and as a hint it is not the people discussing how evolving expert medical information on the most recent variant might affect the efficacy and timing of their next booster shot (the process of which takes at most 10-15 minutes out of one's day) and otherwise waiting to see how other expert medical information on the variant evolves before they make further decisions on how it might or might not affect their activities.

Just as it’s been since 2020. Crazy how worked up the antivaxxors when people pass basic info, or when other people take personal responsibility in a way they don’t like. It’s one thing that they don’t want to wear masks, it’s a very different thing when they force others not to.

And arguing vaccine effectiveness is as old as the vaccine, and the data has always shown the gross majority of hospitalizations and deaths are from antivaxxors even when they are a minority of the population. But they ride on the fact that the vaccine isn’t 100% effective- as if that’s new data. In their mind not 109% = 0%.
 
At this point, it's a campaign issue...

DERP is losing 60/40 and they realize it. But the R's are beholden to what the MAGAs scream about... They are gonna drive the party right off the cliff in '24.

Just let them go and enjoy some popcorn while the clown show continues on it's path.
 
Question: Do you have kids of elementary school age (or younger) in a public school, right now?

Thought not. Proceed as you wish, but I'm free to ignore your opinion on this issue as irrelevant.

Yeah, they make them pizz in litter boxes. And chant how much they hate whitey.
 
Yes, and **** Moms For Liberty and every other right wing nut jobs who want to ban books.

I have no idea where you live, but a lot of you folks are targeting the Florida situation, so we'll begin there. A majority of voters there apparently don't want their young kids exposed to certain things that go against their beliefs or their religion, so when they encounter radical leftists trying to indoctrinate their young impressionable kids with stuff they don't believe, they have a right to voice their objections. And sometimes even pass laws to codify the school's obligations to their students and their families - stuff that used to be common sense, until leftists decided to keep on pushing as far as they could until they got a reaction. And eventually, that reaction happened, laws were passed, and were since enacted and implemented. The school districts/libraries have every right to file an appeal on whether the legislation is constitutional.

Mind you, there are zero (0) "right wing nut jobs" who are talking about taking these books entirely out of circulation. So, if you feel so strongly about having your 6 yr. old kid - not someone else's kid - read something about CRT or gender theory (notice how both are theories - not facts), you can jump on-line and order it for delivery to your very own doorstep for your very own 6 yr. old kid via amazon.com. Right now, even.

Try it, I promise, it will work, and better yet, you'll have that book in your household for as long as you want it, and you never have to return it, or share it with anyone. All yours.

So now, here's the part where you can agree, understand that folks can disagree, but we all agree books shouldn't be destroyed ... OR you tell me this is simply not good enough for you, and you want to force your theoretical leftist views on other kids, and other kids' parents, and exactly why you feel you have the right to override the rights of those parents to shield their kids from what they may view as half-baked leftist propaganda - not even remotely approaching anyone's idea of what constitutes core currciculum, i.e. reading, math, history, science, etc.

If you disagree with Moms for Liberty, then by all means, go out there and have your say, attend school board meetings, heck, run for the school board yourself and if you get a majority of folks to agree with your position, then presto - you get elected, and you get to make the local decisions and have input into possible future laws, just like the folks down in Florida did. This is what real representative democracy looks like. Power to the people, etc. The best school districts have the most voter interaction, and the worst have the least. Go make a difference, man!!!
 
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At this point, it's a campaign issue...

DERP is losing 60/40 and they realize it. But the R's are beholden to what the MAGAs scream about... They are gonna drive the party right off the cliff in '24.

Just let them go and enjoy some popcorn while the clown show continues on it's path.

The rate they are don't off because of disease, old age and natural disasters in a few years they will long for the 60/40 split.
 
It’s why I, with an actual advance degree from a good institution, will not get into fights with people who have their mph from qanon channel

DGF, I also know people with advanced degrees from good institutions who dont want to get into fights with people like me. Know what I call them? My employees.
 
Just as it’s been since 2020. Crazy how worked up the antivaxxors when people pass basic info, or when other people take personal responsibility in a way they don’t like. It’s one thing that they don’t want to wear masks, it’s a very different thing when they force others not to.

And arguing vaccine effectiveness is as old as the vaccine, and the data has always shown the gross majority of hospitalizations and deaths are from antivaxxors even when they are a minority of the population. But they ride on the fact that the vaccine isn’t 100% effective- as if that’s new data. In their mind not 109% = 0%.

This has been a right wing rhetorical trick for ever. I used to use it myself (I still might, though I'm working on that).

"<Policy I don't like> isn't 100% effective, and therefore bad!" is then transposed onto anything.
  • Moving from ICE to EV? not 100% clean, therefore bad!
  • Handing out stimulus during covid, then offering loans to business? not 100% effective, therefore bad (unless they're taking these loans, of course)
  • More restrictive gun regulation! won't eliminate all gun crimes, therefore bad!
On and on, and nothing is fixed, because the people thqt call everyone else snowflakes are offended.
 
I really don’t get why public schools are under such attack. I would send them in a heartbeat. I went to public school, and two different state universities, and I turned out fine. Sure, there are individual schools and districts that suffer, but that is more a case of r’s cutting instead of investing for the long term than not.

And I’m also smart enough to know that public schools can do a far better job than I can teaching.

As for the diverse input, that gives us something to talk about. Maybe I can even learn something if I listen.
 
I really don’t get why public schools are under such attack. I would send them in a heartbeat. I went to public school, and two different state universities, and I turned out fine. Sure, there are individual schools and districts that suffer, but that is more a case of r’s cutting instead of investing for the long term than not.

And I’m also smart enough to know that public schools can do a far better job than I can teaching.

As for the diverse input, that gives us something to talk about. Maybe I can even learn something if I listen.

The right is deconstructing the entire Deep State. That includes all Government run Institutions. Public Schools are a HUGE one in this area. They would rather privatize everything (which is always more expensive overall), then work towards the common good. Privatizing also allows them to line the proper pockets with tons of cash.
 
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