Insanite posted:

lol, i feel like poo poo like this will have bipartisan support in a majority of american states

https://x.com/DianaCejasMD/status/1788711268548747690

Shady Amish Terror posted:

I mean, it works; I had started wearing masks a couple of years before covid for this exact reason. I'll take any kind of normalization of masking at this point rather than having to endure yet another conversation with someone in my life about how not wanting to die or kill family members via disease is itself somehow pathological.

maxwellhill posted:

hey, updates on carageenan nasal sprays. they're getting harder to get.

Insanite posted:

lol, i feel like poo poo like this will have bipartisan support in a majority of american states

https://x.com/DianaCejasMD/status/1788711268548747690

Bixington posted:

Had a dude passively utter "Your eyes are mucus membranes" while walking by my friend and I while we were masked in a farm store.

It was so bizarre that it took until this evening to piece together that it was likely some sort of anti-mask idea. To be fair, dude was right.

That's been the only remotely negative thing I've experienced while masking, which is nice.

Bixington posted:

Had a dude passively utter "Your eyes are mucus membranes" while walking by my friend and I while we were masked in a farm store.

Bixington posted:

Had a dude passively utter "Your eyes are mucus membranes" while walking by my friend and I while we were masked in a farm store.

It was so bizarre that it took until this evening to piece together that it was likely some sort of anti-mask idea. To be fair, dude was right.

That's been the only remotely negative thing I've experienced while masking, which is nice.

Insanite posted:

lol, i feel like poo poo like this will have bipartisan support in a majority of american states

https://x.com/DianaCejasMD/status/1788711268548747690

Bald Stalin posted:

Symptomatic sore throat 5 days ago, started RATs 1 daily 3 days ago when runny nose started all neg, lost sense of taste today which is day 5. Today is less runny/not blocked yet taste gone? Not taking any meds. It's gotta be COVID right?

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Might be flu, have you handled any wild birds lately?

Bald Stalin posted:

My Australian suburb is chock full of bird life and they love making GBS threads on my front gate which I have to touch to open/close, does it come from poop?

I'm going to get some of those expensive COVID-19/fluAB/RSV tests. $20 a pop is crazy tho

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2791037/japan-to-destroy-unused-oral-covid-drugs-worth-1-9bn posted:

Japan to destroy unused oral Covid drugs worth 9bn
Amount represents 77% of all oral treatments procured during the pandemic
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Calculations using publicly available data on the volumes of purchases and shipments showed that Japan still held Xocova for 1.77 million people, Lagevrio for 780,000 and Paxlovid for 1.75 million as of March 31.
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Pingui posted:

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/nursing-homes-wield-pandemic-immunity-laws-duck-wrongful/story?id=110028264 posted:

Nursing homes wield pandemic immunity laws to duck wrongful death suits
Some families who lost loved ones say they were misled about safety
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While there's no full accounting of the outcomes, court filings show that judges have dismissed some suits outright, citing state or federal immunity provisions, while other cases have been settled under confidential terms. And many cases have stalled due to lengthy and costly arguments and appeals to hash out limits, if any, of immunity protection.

In their defense, nursing homes initially cited the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, which Congress passed in December 2005. The law grants liability protection from claims for deaths or injuries tied to vaccines or "medical countermeasures" taken to prevent or treat a disease during national emergencies.

The PREP Act steps in once the secretary of Health and Human Services declares a "public health emergency," which happened with COVID on March 17, 2020. The emergency order expired on May 11, 2023.

The law carved out an exception for "willful misconduct," but proving it occurred can be daunting for families – even when nursing homes have long histories of violating safety standards, including infection controls.

Governors of at least 38 states issued COVID executive orders, or their legislatures passed laws, granting medical providers at least some degree of immunity, according to one consumer group's tally. Just how much legal protection was intended is at the crux of the skirmishes.

Nursing homes answered many negligence lawsuits by getting them removed from state courts into the federal judicial system and asking for dismissal under the PREP Act.

For the most part, that didn't work because federal judges declined to hear the cases.
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Platystemon posted:

Pingui posted:

Nothing inherently new in this article, but it does provide a decent overview of the general dehumanization of nursing home residents as well as the the political and judicial game of hot potato happening. Here just an excerpt surrounding that truth, while the article proper is generally more human interest focused.

quote:

Some families who lost loved ones say they were misled about safety

Rescue Toaster posted:

The place where my grandmother was did an amazing job for at least the first two years. Around the bivalent times they stopped organizing vaccines though so people had to leave to get them from pharmacies which was dumb. They did lockdown again pretty good for the omicron wave at least.

That place was owned/operated by the county though, so very different than private ones. She never caught COVID and thankfully was able to do pretty frequent visits (with masks) once vaccines were available before she passed for other reasons.

Oracle posted:

Yeah the private/conglomerate owned ones are poo poo tier, public owned can vary depending on budgeting but tend to actually be staffed by locals. Those are increasingly unicorns though as local government hit critical levels of ‘starve the beast’ budgeting decisions from the 80s/90s and have to start selling off assets that are money drains because lol raising taxes even with three years of record inflation and tons of unfunded mandates from the state.

Sorry my Illinois is showing again.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Not that the law matters much, but wouldn't this be very much... I dunno if you can call a law illegal, but yeah, thanks to the ADA?

Bald Stalin posted:

My Australian suburb is chock full of bird life and they love making GBS threads on my front gate which I have to touch to open/close, does it come from poop?

I'm going to get some of those expensive COVID-19/fluAB/RSV tests. $20 a pop is crazy tho

Oracle posted:

Yeah, as a family member who’s had people in homes, this:

Platystemon posted:

Kragger99 posted:

nobody wants to moo anymore

Shiroc posted:

We'll just pasteurize the dairy workers

Oracle posted:

As an Illinois resident, yeah, no. Please don’t.

big cummers ONLY posted:

big cummers ONLY posted:

Sup fellow Illinois person. I was the admin assistant/phone answerer for Long-Term Care regulation (nursing homes etc) at the state public health department when COVID started. It was traumatic. I was the only person in the department who would wear a mask. The state did nothing to help anyone in nursing homes. I've suppressed most of the specifics I witnessed. Finally got a promotion to a different department in summer 2020 while I was hospitalized in the psych ward lmao!

space chandeliers posted: