LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:

What could changing the names possibly do other than cause confusion / feed conspiracy theories? I don’t get it

LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:

What could changing the names possibly do other than cause confusion / feed conspiracy theories? I don’t get it

Zugzwang posted:

They should come out with alternate names like MagaVax and OwnTheLibs so we can see how that changes vaccine uptake.

Stink Billyums posted:

https://twitter.com/GovCanHealth/status/1438521798761517056

OgNar posted:

I had a person who was once my friend come over last weekend.
When she last moved, it was into a smaller apartment so I chose to store some of her items in my place since I had room.
Sadly over the past year she has fallen into the Trump cult mindset and has become intolerable.
Our last few conversations had degenerated into yelling matches over Trump and Covid and it was me that was brainwashed by CNN.

When announcing she was coming over to grab some stuff I asked if she had been vaccinated yet, knowing previously that she was a denier.
Normally we would hang out and do things, but there was no way that was going to happen this time.
She ignored my asking 3 times and when I had her here she finally admitted that it was OK because she had antibodies.


That was how last Sunday went.
When the last of her stuff goes, i'm pretty sure we'll never talk again.

Stink Billyums posted:

https://twitter.com/GovCanHealth/status/1438521798761517056

Spazzle posted:

PatriotShield

Platystemon posted:

Ivaxmectin

Sono posted:

A Sherlock Holmes villain, a Spider-Man villain, and a Bond villainess.

Stink Billyums posted:

wasn't doctor doom from vaxzervia?

Sono posted:

A Sherlock Holmes villain, a Spider-Man villain, and a Bond villainess.

ben shapino posted:

https://twitter.com/rocket_jenross/status/1438498392204890112

She is actually one of the smartest person she knows.

Fallom posted:

Why are people with treatable, survivable conditions being turned away from hospitals full of COVID patients that are presumably less likely to survive? I think I'm still confused about how triage is being employed. It seems like hospitals are only practicing it at admittance and won't discharge patients once admitted.

Zugzwang posted:

Someone in the c-spam thread posted a nice graph of cases since the beginning of the pandemic. Suffice to say that we are starting from a way higher baseline now than we were last year at this time, and cases only went way up from there.

Obviously we have vaccines now and a lot more "natural immunity", so who knows how that will all shake out, but still. It's not looking good.

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Cases don't matter anymore, only deaths.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Stink Billyums posted:

wasn't doctor doom from vaxzervia?

smoobles posted:

once it's approved I bet SpikeVax will have some badass, 90s toy-style TV commercials

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

It's 2032. The new Redbull vaccine SickKilla has been developed to fight the Lungbuster variant.

HD DAD posted:

Lungbuster could be a Final Fantasy boss.

How are u posted:

And they are all unvaccinated people, wild. Why won't people just get their shot??

Barudak posted:

They were all in love with dying they were doing it in Florida

Barudak posted:

They were all in love with dying they were doing it in Florida

Zugzwang posted:

They’re doing it in Texas too, I assure you

HD DAD posted:

Lungbuster could be a Final Fantasy boss.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

The mild covid patients can just be fitted with an oxygen cannula and parked in a makeshift ward in a tent or in the carpark with a RN and a handful of interns to watch over them, it's the ICU beds that are the big issue when it comes to triage. Severe covid cases who don't need intubation have a pretty good chance of surviving and once they've been intubated and put into an induced coma the hospital is stuck with them until their condition changes, and back during the last wave the intubated patients could linger for weeks before they died. 'Tubed patients seem to be dying a lot quicker under delta and not lingering as long so uhhhhh I guess that's good news in regards to triage????

I've also been hearing stories of mild covid cases being sent back home with oxygen, expect to see a lot more of that happening in the coming weeks

Zil posted:

I thought medicine names couldn't have real words in them like that? Figured Spike would be on that list.

Stink Billyums posted:

A couple months ago Alberta decided to follow Florida's lead and basically declare the pandemic over and stop doing anything to mitigate it.

https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1438300023561801730

Stink Billyums posted:

A couple months ago Alberta decided to follow Florida's lead and basically declare the pandemic over and stop doing anything to mitigate it.

https://twitter.com/CBCNews/status/1438300023561801730

LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:

What could changing the names possibly do other than cause confusion / feed conspiracy theories? I don’t get it

Zil posted:

I thought medicine names couldn't have real words in them like that? Figured Spike would be on that list.

QuarkJets posted:

Oopsie, we killed a bunch of our voters by not taking the deadly virus seriously. Who could have possibly foreseen this?!

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Lol I'm not giving them, I just point people at chairs (and try to catch them if they fall out of them).

Basically early on in the pandemic the UK government asked for volunteers to help out with delivering food and drugs to people isolating, ferrying people to and from doctors appointments, etc. I (and 700k other people suddenly at a loose end due to lockdown) signed up with the Royal Voluntary Service and when it came time to start vaccinating they asked for help with stewarding, because most of the centres are small pharmacies or other venues that don't really have the staff to handle simple stuff like cleaning chairs, managing queues, etc.

I've been doing a half-day every week or so since spring - originally because it let me jump the queue to get that sweet sweet vax in my veins, but I've kept it on both because it's a lot of fun for me - it's nice to be out and about, and to get to order people around while wearing hiviz soothes a deep part of my soul - and also because it is actually fairly important. Not as much as the actual clinical staff, obviously, but we're the human face on the majority of the process, and just with a bit of light banter and minimal organisational skills it makes everything a lot less stressful for all involved.

I've also (and look away now the people who believe that everyone should be sitting at home glistening in hand sanitiser) used it as an excuse to get into quite a few places I'd never be able to get into ordinarily - the Science Museum was a particular highlight, one of my favourite places when I was a kid, and getting to sneak in through the staff entrance and walk through the at-the-time completely closed halls on my breaks was fantastic. When they started to use football stadiums as mass centres I took the opportunity to do a bit of ground-hopping too, at stadiums from the tiny Brisbane Road (which has a pharmacy in the health centre built into its new main stand) to the Emirates. The absolute highlight though was getting to go to the London Stadium, a place I have a season ticket for but of course haven't been able to visit for over a year, and not only get to take breaks in the ultra-swish executive boxes but also, thrillingly, got to walk on the hallowed carpet around the pitch (this is a joke that basically means nothing to any non-West Ham fan but trust me, it's a big thing).

Rambling aside, the use of RVS and other voluntary orgs definitely has helped with our relatively fast rollout, because stuff like queue management and babysitting the people who've had their jab is something that would otherwise take actual useful people away from their roles (and it's very, very notable just how much slicker the NHS+volunteer-run vaccination centres are than the Serco and other private-sector run mass testing centres are)