Iron Crowned posted:

I'm back home

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Sad.

Posting this basement shot so you can see my bean stockpile in the background.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Sad.

Posting this basement shot so you can see my bean stockpile in the background.

Iron Crowned posted:

Goddamn it

McNugget Buddy posted:

mastershakeman like every day for a month

Coldrice posted:

Ok another update on Covid Sim.

Whoolighams posted:

Hey I've been too drunk in there before weird

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Today


Yesterday


covidactnow.org

Lake Co is still loving up TN from running the table. NV is the biggest change I notice.

Coldrice posted:

Ok another update on Covid Sim.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Sad.

Posting this basement shot so you can see my bean stockpile in the background.

jetz0r posted:

huh, i would have guessed you'd have a more expensive bike, since you're a computer toucher

still nice enough, and good on you for riding it enough to get in better shape

Zurtilik posted:

loving Mr. Hollywood over here with his basement!

(I miss my basement)

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

It's a 21 lb aluminum bike with a Shimano 105 drivetrain, a full carbon fork + steerer, and a tubeless tire setup.

it's as nice as you're going to get without going to carbon fiber, functionally speaking.

My wife has the same bike.

quote:

Alberta’s school boards and parents are relying on goodwill and gossip to protect students and staff from the novel coronavirus now that the province has stopped universal contact tracing and no longer alerts administrators when someone tied to their institution tests positive for COVID-19.

This school year, Alberta will only inform parents of a potential outbreak at their child’s school when 10 per cent of students miss class owing to illness. Alberta Health Services has sent some parents letters warning of potential outbreaks, but the government would not confirm how many schools have crossed the 10-per-cent threshold. The coronavirus, however, is circulating in schools that have not hit the trigger, and some local officials and parents have created makeshift warning systems to fill the information vacuum.

This disjointed approach means parents and staff have varied access to information about potential COVID-19 exposures, depending on their school district and social networks. Even if information is available, it is incomplete because administrators are relying on parents and staff to volunteer their health status. Critics argue the Alberta government, by not disclosing infection information to administrators, is putting pupils and staff at risk of contracting the virus that is ripping through the unvaccinated population, including children under 12 who are ineligible for shots.

Prairie Rose Public Schools (PRPS), which serves rural communities in southeastern Alberta, is one of the few boards taking an aggressive approach to distributing information. The district posts online bulletins disclosing, to the best of its knowledge, how many cases of COVID-19 are active in each school and which classes may have been exposed.

Roger Clarke, the district’s superintendent, said PRPS believed it would be unfair to withhold such information from the community. The district relies on the honour system to gather data.

“Parents want to look out for the health and safety of their children,” Mr. Clarke said. “If they don’t know there’s COVID-19 in their child’s classroom or their child’s school, how can they make the informed decision they may want to make?”

He views the decision through a moral lens: “I certainly wouldn’t want, as a superintendent, spread to happen in our schools where a student got very, very sick and potentially died and we didn’t inform the parents that there was COVID in the school.”

So far, children in Alberta have been spared from severe outcomes after contracting COVID-19. The youngest person to die of the illness was 20. Alberta counts 27 children between the ages of 5 and 9 who have been admitted to hospital with COVID-19, and 12 of them ended up in an intensive-care unit. Another 181 people between the ages of 10 and 19 have been admitted, with 24 of them landing in an ICU.

Alberta’s hospital system is struggling under the fourth wave, forcing AHS to cancel all elective surgeries in Calgary and some operations in other areas. This surge, coupled with Alberta’s new policy of withholding information about COVID-19 exposures in schools, makes parents such as Vanessa Porteous nervous. Her child, who is too young to be vaccinated, attends an elementary school in Calgary.

“How are we being asked to make our ‘personal responsibility’ decisions in the absence of any information?” she said. “That doesn’t even add up.”

Ms. Porteous relies on gossip to gauge whether her child is at risk. But gossip, she noted, is unreliable. She said the “language of individual freedom and privacy” has hijacked the public-health debate.

“My child could get long-COVID to preserve my neighbour’s privacy,” she said.

The Calgary Board of Education announced on Friday that schools would notify parents in the event of a positive case, but only if families report those cases themselves; the information will not come from AHS.

Alberta in August said it would not require masking or other public-health measures in schools, but local school trustees were free to implement further restrictions. This resulted in a patchwork of rules that are shifting quickly as COVID-19 cases rise in Alberta. Frustrated school boards are angry the provincial government left it to local education officials to set contentious health policies. Alberta late last week reinstituted a provincewide mask mandate, but schools are exempt.

Mark Davidson is the superintendent of Medicine Hat Public School Division, which has identified COVID-19 cases in all of its schools. But the division is not distributing specific information to parents, such as what classes may have been exposed.

“Alberta Health Services cautioned us against doing that,” he said, adding AHS warned of “challenges we could face with respect to confidentiality of student information.” The health authority did not reply to questions about Mr. Davidson’s statement.

AHS shifted its COVID-19 reporting policies for schools because “outbreaks in schools could be caused by a number of different respiratory viruses, not just COVID,” spokeswoman Lisa Glover said in a statement.

“AHS is no longer informing school authorities or administrators of individual cases of COVID-19 within the school setting, as notification to the school is not required for the management of that individual,” she wrote, noting people who test positive for the virus must still isolate.

AHS may declare “an outbreak of a respiratory illness at the school” if 10 per cent of students are absent because they are sick. “A reporting framework for respiratory illness outbreaks in schools is expected to be finalized soon.”

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

It's a 21 lb aluminum bike with a Shimano 105 drivetrain, a full carbon fork + steerer, and a tubeless tire setup.

it's as nice as you're going to get without going to carbon fiber, functionally speaking.

My wife has the same bike.

jetz0r posted:

yeah, it's a fine bike. i was expecting something like a $8k cervelo based on the bikes owned by the techies i know

VROOM VROOM posted:

hm yes well I have a dura ace fleshlight but that's cool too I guess

(anyone who sees 105 and thinks "good enough" instead of "the best tier for commuters, if you can swing it" needs to send me money)

Sphyre posted:

it's a nice bike. i like the bike

Asproigerosis posted:

If you see anyone genuinely promoting horse paste in cspam pm me their post so I can loving ban them. Jesus christ I will not tolerate that poo poo as cspam cop.

I'm already super mad at work. They cancelled the spine mri, but instead they added an MRCP on an 80 year old with acute cholecystitis so bad she has reactive inflammation of the adjacent liver and reactive colitis of the hepatic flexure. Good loving god do want me to just hold her down here until her gangrenous gallbladder explodes and puts her in septic shock? Doctors are just beyond worthless.

No ultrasound tho, I mean why would you need the gold standard evaluation of the gallbladder for signs of gangrenous perforation when you can do M. R. I!

Asproigerosis posted:

If you see anyone genuinely promoting horse paste in cspam pm me their post so I can loving ban them. Jesus christ I will not tolerate that poo poo as cspam cop.

I'm already super mad at work. They cancelled the spine mri, but instead they added an MRCP on an 80 year old with acute cholecystitis so bad she has reactive inflammation of the adjacent liver and reactive colitis of the hepatic flexure. Good loving god do want me to just hold her down here until her gangrenous gallbladder explodes and puts her in septic shock? Doctors are just beyond worthless.

No ultrasound tho, I mean why would you need the gold standard evaluation of the gallbladder for signs of gangrenous perforation when you can do M. R. I!

Iron Crowned posted:

empty whippet box posted:

tuyop posted:

lol Alberta really stepping up

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-goodwill-and-gossip-leaned-on-in-alberta-schools-to-protect-against/

lmao

Asproigerosis posted:

If you see anyone genuinely promoting horse paste in cspam pm me their post so I can loving ban them. Jesus christ I will not tolerate that poo poo as cspam cop.

I'm already super mad at work. They cancelled the spine mri, but instead they added an MRCP on an 80 year old with acute cholecystitis so bad she has reactive inflammation of the adjacent liver and reactive colitis of the hepatic flexure. Good loving god do want me to just hold her down here until her gangrenous gallbladder explodes and puts her in septic shock? Doctors are just beyond worthless.

No ultrasound tho, I mean why would you need the gold standard evaluation of the gallbladder for signs of gangrenous perforation when you can do M. R. I!

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I bought a set of chains off Amazon last year and they were counterfeit and trashed my jog wheels, good poo poo.

Iron Crowned posted:

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Never get tired of looking at this:

Asproigerosis posted:

So I went back to specifically look at what the note says and all it says is mri spines to evaluate back pain, outpatient follow up to discuss wishes regarding further systemic therapy (patient has already stopped all treatment a month ago and was considering xeloda but strongly leaning towards comfort care only)



Oh woah no way he has mets in his spine, a clown shoe for a 4th lumbar spinous process. Case solved, source of back pain has been determined! (This was all previously seen on a CT 2 weeks ago and nothing has changed).

$20,000 well spent, god bless america.

Asproigerosis posted:

This is why some techs treat patients kinda rough, when you get 300 pound patients you're trying to move around and they are absolutely sandbagging and crying like they are going through quadruple labor worth of pain after they fell or some bullshit.

paperwind posted:

Remind me to never buy tires from Amazon (or anything that is responsible for making sure I don't die).

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Never get tired of looking at this:

100 degrees Calcium posted:

my husband won’t even try his respirator and he’s officially at “everyone is going to get covid.” when I die, leave my body at fauci’s house