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Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7048046000212118790

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DickParasite
Dec 2, 2004


Slippery Tilde
My parents are going to a wedding today. I tried to talk them out of it but got the usual boomerisms. They both boosted in early December but both have several comorbidities. Guess we'll see how hungry the reaper is!

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

DickParasite posted:

My parents are going to a wedding today. I tried to talk them out of it but got the usual boomerisms. They both boosted in early December but both have several comorbidities. Guess we'll see how hungry the reaper is!

Don't fear the reaper!

mystes
May 31, 2006

2020 (version 3.0)

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

My parent's house deed in Vancouver said you couldn't sell to a Chinese person. At one point you could only immigrate to Vancouver by travelling from the east to prevent Asians from doing so. We literally stole everything Japanese Canadians owned and put them in concentration camps east of the Rockies in the 40s, while at the same time my German born grandfather fought for the Canadian army. And of course there were many race riots back home too. North Americans saying Australians are particularly sinophobic is hilarious.



oh no canadians are garbage too we get that

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Lmao at how dems keep on preaching about booster shots / "Vaccines as a silver bullet solution" when so many of their leadership ended up with breakthrough infections.

one-time fee
Sep 29, 2021

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
.So, little back of the envelope calculation here for the UK, feel free to call me out if I got this all wrong.

So using 7 day moving averages, the Delta wave pushed out about 45k confirmed cases on October 25th, corresponding to a 1050ish hospitalization spike on November 2th.
There's now been some accumulation of evidence that hospitalization rates from Omicron are in the ballpark of 0.33 of Delta's.
So that means, from the 190k 7 day moving average as published December 31, one would infer about 1300 daily hospitalizations around Jan 10th ?

Did I get that right ?

* This is assuming Delta is almost entirely out of the picture by now.
* This is not accounting for their HCW that have been quitting in droves over the last month.

=> Then why is the 7 day moving average of hospital admissions for the UK already 1644, discounting Scotland, on December 29th ?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/uk-daily-covid-admissions?time=2021-12-04..latest

=> Tentative Answer : The guestimate in the first paragraph does not take into account that if more people would have been waiting in line for a PCR in this spikey boi holiday period, the confirmed cases would be perhaps double of what got reported, a skewing that did not happen under Delta since the Rt was less dramatic and the testing apparatus was sufficient (England Positivity rate @25% Dec 26, before Christmas superspreader impact, as opposed to +-10% during previously referenced period)


We'll see I guess, after all the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Bon appétit.

one-time fee fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jan 1, 2022

Fluffy Bunnies
Jan 10, 2009

etalian posted:

Lmao at how dems keep on preaching about booster shots / "Vaccines as a silver bullet solution" when so many of their leadership ended up with breakthrough infections.

In this AMERICAN FREEDOM NATION we have to fight to get 4th shots because OH YOU WON'T NEED THEM.

and I laugh and laugh until I start choking because my lungs already suck.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

703 posted:

I think pft has a gif of the cup rotating, what a collectors item

He tried to post it yesterday and hosed up the bb code :v: (or at least it wouldn't work on my PC until I separated out the url)

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Happy new year! Here's some incredibly cursed poo poo from early 2021, courtesy of a local fast food place

https://i.imgur.com/mDPEbn4.mp4

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

Fame Douglas posted:

Don't feared the reaper!

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017


https://twitter.com/DerfBackderf/status/1477040852853739524

Zeroisanumber
Oct 23, 2010

Nap Ghost

etalian posted:

Lmao at how dems keep on preaching about booster shots / "Vaccines as a silver bullet solution" when so many of their leadership ended up with breakthrough infections.

I'm already planning my 4th and 5th shots. If that one dude can get 30 over a short period and not die then I'll be fine.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Zeroisanumber posted:

I'm already planning my 4th and 5th shots. If that one dude can get 30 over a short period and not die then I'll be fine.

We are all Wang Commanders now

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar

very happy that pandemic ended in 1922 and we don’t deal with its ramifications today

Durf
Aug 16, 2017





was a fan of this new years baby cartoon myself

as grim as Biden's run has been, I doubt the new cover will have as many fun characters in it

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
the amount of hope people had in biden is insanely funny

Strep Vote
May 5, 2004

أنا أحب حليب الشوكولاتة

Frosted Flake posted:

Well I think I just crack pinged on American Protestantism. Martin Luther called for a robust state response, quarantine, and care for the sick during pandemics.



Martin Luther, Whether One May Flee From a Deadly Plague (1527). Translation from Luther’s Works, Vol. 43

Yeah baby, that's the good stuff.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
https://twitter.com/Econ_Marshall/status/1477277699726999554

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar

Judakel posted:

the amount of hope people had in biden is insanely funny

I love it

StratGoatCom
Aug 6, 2019

Our security is guaranteed by being able to melt the eyeballs of any other forum's denizens at 15 minutes notice


https://twitter.com/JoannaMasel/status/1476606333432451085

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

illegal search, where were the warrants? checkmate

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Watching
Bread Liar
why did the guy who told me nothing would fundamentally change not change things, fundamentally

Blaziken386
Jun 27, 2013

I'm what the kids call: a big nerd
welcome to the new year, same as the old year

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
I just quit on the spot and am not going back (self.nursing)

quote:

Tested positive for Covid. Feel like crap, but just a headache and fatigue. Called out and told them. Was told I could still come in if I wear a mask and I don’t have moderate to severe symptoms and I’d get penalized for calling out on a holiday.

I kind of blacked out in anger and said “Ok. That’s fine. You can take me off the schedule because I am not coming back.” I’m so done. Signed a travel contract starting in January anyways.

I r never not given a two week notice though. How hosed am I?

Asproigerosis
Mar 13, 2013

insufferable

weird how when I go to twitter for this thread all the below the fold tweets are loving jordan peterson and chuds. Almost as if the twitter algo works as intended to feed the far right.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS


Another /r/Nursing post

Their red blood cells are only mildly saturated.

Forseti
May 26, 2001
To the lovenasium!

That sure is some polite black out anger

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
My unit banned all visitors on Christmas Eve (self.nursing)

quote:

I work in a large ICU. Apparently at some point last week, a COVID positive family member (who knew they were positive) came to visit and exposed a lot of nurses/patients. We now have 10+ nurses out with COVID and have banned all visitors starting Christmas Eve. I feel for these families & gently caress that guy for ruining visitation so close to Christmas, but I can’t say I don’t feel safer now without visitors. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

Forseti posted:

That sure is some polite black out anger
probably too exhausted to do anything else

WarEternal
Dec 26, 2010

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!

Platystemon posted:

My unit banned all visitors on Christmas Eve (self.nursing)

Yeah, let's blame it on the individual moron and not the hospital for allowing visitors in the first place. Glad we haven't learned that yet.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

WarEternal posted:

Yeah, let's blame it on the individual moron and not the hospital for allowing visitors in the first place. Glad we haven't learned that yet.

systems can't fail, only scapegoats can fail

Cabbages and VHS
Aug 25, 2004

Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.
we're keeping our kid out of preschool for at least an extra week


something that's going to make us all unhappy and stressed, mostly


means I get to see kid more because she hangs out in my office while I work, but she'd rather be playing Homework Girl with her friends. Yes, a superhero who does homework. I am disturbed by this kind of roleplaying, I didn't even think about homework until I was 19 and in college

Pillowpants
Aug 5, 2006
Happy New Year guys!

HHS data has us hitting 98k hospitalizations sometime yesterday, but there’s also 100 less hospitals reporting on that than normal and NY is showing a decrease which is counter to what NY published.

We are ~29k from hitting the hospitalization record set on 1/17/21

Several states have already passed the wild type hospitalization record

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

WarEternal posted:

Yeah, let's blame it on the individual moron and not the hospital for allowing visitors in the first place. Glad we haven't learned that yet.

Some Republican states have new Covid-era laws where hospitals have to allow visitors, lmao

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009


you can see why this person needed a lot of editing

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

WarEternal posted:

Yeah, let's blame it on the individual moron and not the hospital for allowing visitors in the first place. Glad we haven't learned that yet.

The whole spectrum is represented in the comments.

quote:

Visitors shouldn’t have been allowed all along. It’s most like nobody is actually interested in stopping the spread of a deadly disease 🤷🏻‍♂️

quote:

I wish my unit would ban visitors again. We have a 1 visitor policy that isn’t respected. I worked yesterday and the family members were horrible. One patient ended up with four visitors in the room. Every time I looked up, someone else at the nurses station was wanting blankets, cups of ice, straws, socks, diaper rash cream. Just constant nit picky items that interrupt my workflow and weren’t requested when I was in the patient room. Then I actually caught a family member tying a tourniquet on my patient and looking for veins herself.

quote:

I would love to go back to no visitors again. I would also like to ban the employees with exemptions who went to mega church today. Also the employees who pull off the mask when they talk in the unit phone. I have people at home I need to protect. I don’t need a bitch rear end coworker or visitor getting me sick.

quote:

We are allowing visitors for all patients, covid or not. We are supposed to provide PPE (gown, gloves, N95, face shields) to all visitors for covid rooms and they have bags outside them to store/reuse their N95s and face shields. You go in 95% of these rooms and family members are in there eating, drinking, just chilling with NO masks on (some even straight up refuse) while the patient is just sitting their aerosolizing their covid cooties on BiPAP or hiflow blender. It is mind blowing to me. Considering that most of critical covid patients are not vaccinated, I just assume that all visitors fall into the same category and hope they don't get admitted next week.

quote:

In Germany visitors need to be fully vaccinated and have to get tested on that day(except those who already have a booster). And every visitor is required to wear a mask the entire visit, if they don't we throw them out.

quote:

We've never allowed COVID patients to have visitors since the beginning (except end of life), but somehow this patient's husband made it past security and walked all around the unit complaining to everyone about his wife's care. He was escorted out, but not before infecting several staff who are now out sick. Merry loving Christmas.

Bonus:

quote:

I’m sure they all wear masks. But until the CDC admits this is airborne and your regular mask gives little protection against it, nurses are screwed.

I got infected at work. I wore my mask. I still got it. I will scream from the roof tops, covid is not droplet, it’s airborne. It was simply classified as droplet because there were no where near enough N-95s for healthcare workers.

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


Cabbages and Kings posted:

she'd rather be playing Homework Girl with her friends. Yes, a superhero who does homework

what in tarnation

edit: I think this technically means you kicked rear end at parenting but still what the heck

Sextro
Aug 23, 2014

I no longer have any sympathy for any HCW, just loving quit if you’re having such a bad time.

snake and bake
Feb 23, 2005

:theroni:
Interesting thread/paper

https://mobile.twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/1477227929557999617
https://mobile.twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/1477227938949050370
https://mobile.twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/1477227948101021700
https://mobile.twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/1477227957814976512
https://mobile.twitter.com/PeacockFlu/status/1477227962927828998

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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Sextro posted:

I no longer have any sympathy for any HCW, just loving quit if you’re having such a bad time.

omicron is taking care of that

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