genericnick posted:

Always seemed kind of meme to me.

navyjack posted:

Just want to take a second and say how much a appreciate Rubby’s artwork. These are really something special and I always brighten up when my doomscrolling takes me past a fed-up penguin.

Real Mean Queen posted:

Please keep doing these, they’re really good

https://dfr.vermont.gov/sites/finreg/files/doc_library/dfr-covid19-modeling-083121.pdf posted:

Vermont August Data
Among Fully Vaccinated People (423,508 people):
• ⁠Tested Positive: 0.36% (1,550 cases)
• ⁠Hospitalized: 0.009% (36 cases)
• ⁠Died: 0.003% (13 cases)

Schnorkles posted:

the word from on-high, based on that nyt piece, has obviously come down that the risk of vaccinated spread is completely exaggerated and you need to get back to them bennies.

Caseman posted:

I don't think the tested positive percentage is all that helpful since who knows how many people were actually exposed. But uh, 2.3% of those that tested positive being hospitalized is fun.

empty whippet box posted:

haha just in time for midterms nice

Caseman posted:

I don't think the tested positive percentage is all that helpful since who knows how many people were actually exposed. But uh, 2.3% of those that tested positive being hospitalized is fun.

AceOfFlames posted:

I don't get revenge. I don't get anger. I just don't get it.

I guess I just want someone else to be sad with.

Salt Fish posted:

The total population of Vermont is 600,000 so what they're saying here is that 1 in 300 of ALL vaccinated people have had breakthrough cases already.

edit: math

Schnorkles posted:

this would imply the vaccines are dramatically better than advertised, tbh.

Fireside Nut posted:

Yeah, I totally understand. Delta is certainly a different animal than the earlier variants/wild type, but the risk to you is truly very, very small in this setting. If you are wearing a good mask, others are masked (even if they are crummy masks), and you are fully vaxxed (or boosted), the chances of a really poor outcome are pretty remote. You also have to weigh that risk against whatever other medical conditions you might have. Think about it this way, it's better to try and treat your medical conditions before they become something that could exacerbate a Covid infection (not saying yours would in this case, but just saying this generally).

Also, you can do things like wait outside if you want. When I went to the dentist last week the waiting room was packed (and had some unmasked people), so I asked them to get me from outside when it was my turn. They said cool, no problem.

durrneez posted:

I’m pretty scared before I go to the doctor, too, and I freaked out for a while before I went to the dentist. I usually psych myself up when I’m doing my negative and positive pressure checks—ONLY YOUR RESPIRATOR TRUST.

It’s ok to call ahead and ask about their safety precautions.

Edited to add: unsolicited advice: in my area, and most likely in yours too, hospitals are full as gently caress and residents are being asked to staff more shifts to respond to the surge. So while administrators fumble over where else to pull staff from, now would be a good time to see a PCP before they’re all staffing ICUs.

bowser posted:

let's go back to work
let's keep working
keep working
KEEP loving GOING TO YOUR JOB
keep going to your job that you hate
keep making money for us
KEEP.
GOING.
TO.
WORK.

BEAR GRYLLZ posted:

In this house we
GET the vaccine
TRUST the science
APPLAUD our health care workers
EAT at applebees
GO to loving work
IGNORE fully vaxxed deaths
WANT our kids to die

Salt Fish posted:

If everyone had been exposed, because that is only useful in measuring against the people who haven't been vaccinated getting covid during the same time interval, but maybe you already have that number handy.

Rubby posted:

oh hey, wow. That really means a lot, thanks a whole heap!

AceOfFlames posted:

I once tried Ritalin and it didn't work. MY parents were so angry about having to wait in the car for so long during the sessions to get that diagnosis that I never tried again.

Salt Fish posted:

If everyone had been exposed, because that is only useful in measuring against the people who haven't been vaccinated getting covid during the same time interval, but maybe you already have that number handy.

Thoguh posted:

My concern at this point is very low for getting a severe case and low to moderate for getting long COVID, but high for giving it to my wife or infant because one is vaxxed but high risk because her parents smoked in the house when she was growing up so respiratory stuff always knocks her on her rear end, and my infant because she's unvaxxed.

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Floor is lava posted:

0 deaths reported in Indiana today



oh...

also why does this notice say 9/17 on it

mod sassinator posted:

lmfao

Floor is lava posted:

0 deaths reported in Indiana today



oh...

also why does this notice say 9/17 on it

Schnorkles posted:

more importantly this is a pretty imprecise measure, its the only one we actually have, but it has all sorts of confouding information in it. Just comparing vaccinated to unvaccinated doesn't tell us much without a whole series of other controls that probably add up to way too much of a thumb on the scale.

Rah! posted:

jack in 2 the matrix

Schnorkles posted:

this would imply the vaccines are dramatically better than advertised, tbh.

Floor is lava posted:

0 deaths reported in Indiana today



oh...

also why does this notice say 9/17 on it

quote:

Another issue they say is the federal money being allocated by the state for travel nurses which is $12.3 million in total, meaning they could make more than the nurses currently at UAB.

Platystemon posted:

Now they’re just rubbing it in.

Louisgod posted:

my kids are going back to school this Friday, what are the best and not insanely expensive at-home COVID tests I can buy so when I get the inevitable "a child in your classroom has been exposed to COVID" email I can act right away

Golli posted:

https://twitter.com/wsfa12news/status/1435052228876853248?s=20

Bar Ran Dun posted:

lmao

guess what there ain’t loving nothing. “We’ve been out for weeks”. and good luck getting a test at any location either. my youngest has a runny nose. welp better get him tested. nobody has take home tests for sale because they are out. lol the public testing sites have scaled back on testing availability because there are private providers. no private providers open for testing on the holiday. my wife is currently in line for a drive up for my son, apparently there is a very very long line and the site isn’t even open yet.

awesome that this is now every runny nose my toddler will have.

Caseman posted:

I don't think the tested positive percentage is all that helpful since who knows how many people were actually exposed. But uh, 2.3% of those that tested positive being hospitalized is fun.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

I mean, while my freak outs in this thread and others have probably helped make it clear I'm the last person on Earth to say the risk is either negligible or acceptable, I was under the impression that as a general rule we can assume the number of people who have caught COVID and either recovered or died without it ever being identified - even without the various states and nations involved deliberately massaging the numbers - was probably vastly higher than the official number simply because in most places testing is so low?

Schnorkles posted:

i don't get to watch dune in the theaters and that sucks op