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compshateme85 posted:It's not a fantasy. Triage is already happening and if I was making those calls, the person who is screaming between coughs that it's a hoax and we're all a bunch of pussies for wearing masks is going to go to the bottom of my list for the next available ventilator. Sounds like the right call to me. Pretty tragic, no?
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Hopper posted:Just leave. I wish. Can't jeopardize this job though because there's little chance of getting anything as decent as this crappy one, and my wife's employer cut her hours, so we're just barely scraping by as-is. And we haven't even paid any utilities in months. Lol. On the plus side, I work outside for the most part and not with the public. Although nobody I work with gives a gently caress about anything and we frequently pile into trucks and, obviously, offices. Just know that if I die, I caught this disease while watching a video narrated by a cartoon pirate, warning us of the dangers of email scams. The video broke five minutes in and none of the office workers could figure out how to replay it. Sarah Cenia fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Nov 18, 2020 |
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Achtane posted:Currently in the front office at work, waiting for the other crew to show up so we can all watch a training video. Probably been here 25 minutes now. Me and one other person are wearing masks. It's 15 people in a small room. Dang that's bad. Back in March when people were starting to get really nervous our management was still insisting on having daily stand up meetings in a circle that conclude with everyone saying what they are grateful for. Just blind cargo culting of something they saw in a Ted Talk, I knew how much I wanted to get out of there and it was double or tripled for coworkers with health issues or spouses with compromised immune systems.
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Strategic Tea posted:I mean I don't doubt for a second that he would launch a coup if anyone would support him. Holy poo poo,how did I miss this news story? Trump was sniffing around with generals trying to see if he could start some kind of military junta? How was this not the biggest story for the past year?
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coronavirus posted:Holy poo poo,how did I miss this news story? Trump was sniffing around with generals trying to see if he could start some kind of military junta? How was this not the biggest story for the past year? To you the day that Donald Trump tested the loyalty of his military leaders to test out the possibility of a coup to support a dictatorship was the biggest news event for the past year. For him it was a Tuesday.
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compshateme85 posted:It's not a fantasy. Triage is already happening and if I was making those calls, the person who is screaming between coughs that it's a hoax and we're all a bunch of pussies for wearing masks is going to go to the bottom of my list for the next available ventilator.
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Hospitalizations are absolutely exploding here. Is this all just from people being more lax?? Is this Halloween's doing?
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Achtane posted:I wish. Can't jeopardize this job though because there's little chance of getting anything as decent as this crappy one, and my wife's employer cut her hours, so we're just barely scraping by as-is. And we haven't even paid any utilities in months. Lol. Can you buy a proper respirator? Even if you can't wear one with customers, you can wear it in meetings like this and it should protect you sufficiently when combined with glasses.
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pro starcraft loser posted:Hospitalizations are absolutely exploding here. Is this all just from people being more lax?? Is this Halloween's doing? School and business reopenings with insufficient social distancing, bad ventilation and lax safety measures, Halloween parties, people getting used to relatively safe outside visits thinking it can't be that bad to do the same visit inside and with a couple more people even as rates were already riding higher, in person voting and yeah basically being more lax in just enough little ways that the net result is R > 1. Like here on Vancouver Island things stayed mostly quiet until school reopenings created a consistent handful of new cases a day, then someone went to a Halloween party on the mainland and really lit it off one of our sub regions. The net result? Where we were down to zero new cases for extended periods of time, we've clicked over to triple digit active cases today. It's more active than it's ever been here, but people don't seem to be taking it as seriously as they did in the spring.
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Stunt_enby posted:you aren't triaging. you aren't treating patients. you aren't even loving talking to doctors or anyone working in a hospital. you're comfortably sitting on a computer fantasizing about how much you want to kill people Sympathizing with people more or less directly responsible for bringing about and prolonging vast amounts of unnecessary suffering? gently caress those people. If they desire it, let them burn. Your concern is neither wanted nor appreciated, and should be reserved for the victims of selfishness, not the loving perpetrators.
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More good followup data from Pfizer--uot to 95% effective with more data, 94% in older adults. We're also past the two month mark for enough patients to have a pretty decent safety readout. A really good study taking a look at immunity in some covid patients over time gave a look at immunity that seems to indicate it will be very durable for most people. Both nicely reviewed here https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/18/vaccine-possibilities Things have gone better than I dared to hoped on this, and I was pretty optimistic about it.
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Scarodactyl posted:More good followup data from Pfizer--uot to 95% effective with more data, 94% in older adults. We're also past the two month mark for enough patients to have a pretty decent safety readout. Didn't they also update that the deployment would be easier? I don't know if that means the temp requirements are easier to hit or the refrigeration problem was resolved.
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Small Gay Planet posted:Sympathizing with people more or less directly responsible for bringing about and prolonging vast amounts of unnecessary suffering? These people are stupid brain-scrambled sad sacks who have been manipulated into killing their family members and themselves. They deserve sympathy. And it doesn't matter whether one's sympathy is wanted/appreciated, sympathy isn't a transaction.
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Small Gay Planet posted:Sympathizing with people more or less directly responsible for bringing about and prolonging vast amounts of unnecessary suffering? drat someone is real salty for getting kicked out of the CNA program lmao
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Small Gay Planet posted:Sympathizing with people more or less directly responsible for bringing about and prolonging vast amounts of unnecessary suffering? Just out of curiosity have you left the house for anything other than food, medicine, or outdoor exercise since this started?
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Much like ICU beds, sympathy isn't limitless. After a certain point, I have to start rationing it. The easy part is determining who gets the last bits of what I can muster each day. gently caress off with this sanctimonious bullshit.
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Lmao gently caress off with this "lets empathize with chuds because they're victims of propoganda." I grew up in a conservative area and we covered WW2 and propoganda, guess what? The suburban CHUDS still ate up Fox News because they lived and still live in lilly-white Christian and Catholic neighborhoods. Mommy and daddy payed for their college but they don't think higher education should be affordable or free for anyone else. They get to smoke weed in high-school, black kids who do the same thing are thugs. This is the suburban CHUDS who own used car lots and poo poo, I do have empathy for the conservatives living in rural blight, they've been ignored and abused for a long time. The ones I grew up with recieved an education and know better. They actively choose to be wretched pieces of poo poo.
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Elderbean posted:Lmao gently caress off with this "lets empathize with chuds because they're victims of propoganda." ACAB works here too
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I feel like the current situation in the US is like watching two rocket propelled, monkey navigated drag racers, one marked "VACCINES" and the other marked "MAH RIGHTS", blasting towards the finish line and whoever wins gets a few hundred thousand lives one way or the other.
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Elderbean posted:Lmao gently caress off with this "lets empathize with chuds because they're victims of propoganda." I doubt the people you're talking about would agree with you/me that Fox News is propaganda... which means they're victims of propaganda. So blame their ignorance and insularity, this is what made them more vulnerable to propaganda and now they will reap what they sow. Sure, to the extent that open-mindedness is a willed, voluntary part of one's personality. In my experience it's mostly circumstance. What is it about you that set you apart from them, saved you from becoming a chud?
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indiscriminately posted:I doubt the people you're talking about would agree with you/me that Fox News is propaganda... which means they're victims of propaganda. Being gay, I think. It's pretty evident that conservatism is horseshit when you've never hurt anyone but you're told that you deserve to burn in hell by someone who got their stomach pumped a week ago. Sorry, but I loving hate these people and that's not going to change. They have so much comfort and more than enough material privilege to educate themselves. They're dogshit people with a dogshit culture and the sooner FYGM suburban Christianity dissapears the better. Elderbean fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Nov 18, 2020 |
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I've learned with most repubs it's usually best to turn the other cheek And fart on em
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greazeball posted:Much like ICU beds, sympathy isn't limitless. Compassion is not, in fact, a limited resource.
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Whether you're a don't tread on me flag toting "Patriot" conservative chud cocksucker , or a blue haired "lefty loony", one thing can't be denied that across all groups and races and wage gaps, there is a vast majority of us in America that eat like dog poo poo and don't take care of our own bodies. Covid is already a horrible wildcard, coming into it with those odds, it's no wonder it's killing so many here. Fargin Icehole fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Nov 18, 2020 |
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vyst posted:ACAB works here too All Republicans Are Bastards ARAB Hmm, I don't think that acronym will catch on.
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Castaign posted:Compassion is not, in fact, a limited resource. "Fucks" on the other hand are pretty much depleted. Back in 2016 we reached "peak fucks" and if you turn your attention to this graph you'll note...
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all gop are bastards? agab? all humans are bastards, ahab
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Castaign posted:Compassion is not, in fact, a limited resource. It is if you actually pay attention to what's going on in the world.
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I assume most people here aren't doing large Thanksgivings but are any of you doing small things?
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Stunt_enby posted:you aren't triaging. you aren't treating patients. you aren't even loving talking to doctors or anyone working in a hospital. you're comfortably sitting on a computer fantasizing about how much you want to kill people I'm not killing anyone, the virus is. The lack of resources to treat the number of infected people right now isn't my fault either. The deniers made a choice. In this hypothetical situation I have to make one too. I actually am talking to doctors right now, and the ones I've talked to have voiced similar opinions, although it's not that bad here yet (1 ER doc and 2 anesthesiologists).
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Pennywise the Frown posted:All Republicans Are Bastards There was a cool rock band called KARP - Kill All Redneck Pricks. That one suits me fine.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:all gop are bastards? agab? We get it, Ishmael.
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Castaign posted:Compassion is not, in fact, a limited resource. there are very few people enlightened enough to manage infinite compassion, man. some of us have been waking up every day and extending compassion to the people we interact with to the point where we come home and we don't have any left for our families and ourselves. the well is dry over here and I gotta ration some of my goodwill and kindness and make sure the people I love and care about aren't the ones I lose my patience with. some people don't want my sympathy and I got good news for them.
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Over the last 4 years my compassion has absolutely tanked. Not only do I not care about a lot of people, I actively wish suffering on them. I'm a changed person now and I really hate it. pro starcraft loser posted:I assume most people here aren't doing large Thanksgivings but are any of you doing small things? My parents invited me over. It'd just be the three of us. I turned them down. They're old. 
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Pennywise the Frown posted:My parents invited me over. It'd just be the three of us. My sister and I are going to my mom's so its a tiny group. I still feel a little off about it.
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pro starcraft loser posted:My sister and I are going to my mom's so its a tiny group. I still feel a little off about it. Yeah the 3 of us would be perfectly fine. I figured it was going to be bigger though with my brother's family but I guess that's not the case. I already bought stuff for a lonely Thanksgiving myself so I just figured I'll stick with my plan. I'm sure my parent's will miss me greatly but hey, it's just one day. I can see them whenever. The traveling is going to still be crazy this year and I guess it'll just make myself feel better to not be a part of it. Then I can be high and mighty and remain better than other people.
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We just cancelled visiting my parents. You can hand wave a case rate of 1/1000 for two households but we've been 10 times higher than that all month.
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I work in the pharmacy of a drugstore in Ohio. We just made masks mandatory for everyone...but employees aren't allowed to say anything to customers; management has to. Then this past week, a woman that works in the customer service desk next to the pharmacy tested positive for Covid AFTER she was already coming in to work sick. Now today I find out that the live-in boyfriend of our pregnant pharmacy tech tested positive. She's self-quarantining, but corporate said she could work until she got results. I just finally broke down crying at work because I'm probably going to catch this poo poo because I'm the only one that actually has their mask on (correctly) all day at work here. I'm afraid of getting my Mom, who I live with (lol economy) sick. I'm just so loving sick of it all, being around assholes and rear end in a top hat-apologists that are actively killing us.
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