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Here’s a representative comment from my hometown’s school district page after they announced masking. It’s not special— it’s average. What is striking to me is the complete absence of any sort of persuasion or argument; not even anything relevant to the school or town. It’s just a regurgitation of word and names that run across the Fox News chyron. This is where we are as a nation.

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I don't really know what to say anymore tbh. What happened last night is hard to put into words for anyone who hasn't worked in a hospital healthcare setting. Just unreal. Everyone is getting fucked.

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

That tweet from Eric Topol is interesting.  It looks like the vaccine in Israel was very effective for 4 months, and then their case count shot up.  I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the other countries follow suit, save maybe Iceland.  He points out waning immunity as a possible factor, but I imagine the delta surge came into play as well.

You have to read the charts carefully, because most of the trace colors change between the two.  For some reason, the UK doesn't appear on the second chart, either.  "Data presentation", how does it work?

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35 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

Fuck Eric Clapton.  Never did get him but that’s beside the point, why do we need his medical advice?

I agree with “Fuck Eric Clapton” over his anti-vaccination stance. But come on. It’s okay if you don’t remember him from The Yardbirds. But Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos? That’s to say nothing about his solo career. He also played guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Kind of a legend. Doesn’t mean he knows shit about medicine.

Also, you should own Disraeli Gears, Blind Faith, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, and Derek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmore. They’re all classics. 

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3 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I agree with “Fuck Eric Clapton” over his anti-vaccination stance. But come on. It’s okay if you don’t remember him from The Yardbirds. But Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos? That’s to say nothing about his solo career. He also played guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Kind of a legend. Doesn’t mean he knows shit about medicine.

Also, you should own Disraeli Gears, Blind Faith, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, and Derek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmore. They’re all classics. 

Counter point, all those albums are boring as fuck

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I agree with “Fuck Eric Clapton” over his anti-vaccination stance. But come on. It’s okay if you don’t remember him from The Yardbirds. But Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos? That’s to say nothing about his solo career. He also played guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Kind of a legend. Doesn’t mean he knows shit about medicine.

Also, you should own Disraeli Gears, Blind Faith, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, and Derek and the Dominos Live at the Fillmore. They’re all classics. 

It was Enoch Powell first. Van Morrison also has questionable opinions about covid, but I don't think he's gotten on stage and drunkenly ranted about England for the English.

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Eric Clapton going to be the next one to FAFA?
 



 

 

this guy really hates regulations! fuck vaccines, fuck safety requirements for fall protection. freeeeeduuuummmmmbbbbbb!

also, other than Cream, his music sucks shit. end of story. almost as bad as The Eagles, but not quite. He could at least play the guitar

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https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-professor-resigns-mid-class-after-student-refuses-to-wear-mask/article_598ba244-077b-11ec-ba9b-cb3534ab07cc.html?fbclid=IwAR12SMPuPMNS6HoFj8Qu-MId03EDFRjDgJGbb4eWANVTxJrV3ZGJG4PYDPg
A University of Georgia retiree-rehire professor resigned on Tuesday after one of his students refused to properly wear a mask in an upper division psychology seminar class held at the psychology building.
During Irwin Bernstein’s second class of the semester, the student, who was not present on the first day of class, arrived at the 25-person class unmasked and was asked by Bernstein to retrieve one from the advising office. The student was given a spare disposable mask from a peer but did not wear it over her nose.
Bernstein asked the student to pull her mask up to wear it correctly, but she said she “couldn’t breathe” and “had a really hard time breathing” with the cloth over her mouth and nose.
Written on the board at the front of the classroom was, “No mask, no class,” according to fourth-year psychology major Hannah Huff.
The 88-year-old psychology professor explained to the student that he could die from COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and age-related problems, Bernstein said in an email to The Red & Black.
Only about 15 minutes into the Tuesday lecture, which consisted of Bernstein taking the student attendance, he asked the student to pull her mask up again, but this time, the student did not respond.
Bernstein, who was already informed that two of his absent students tested positive for COVID-19, then announced his resignation on the spot and left the class immediately.
“At that point I said that whereas I had risked my life to defend my country while in the Air Force, I was not willing to risk my life to teach a class with an unmasked student during this Pandemic,” Bernstein said in an email to The Red & Black. “I then resigned my retiree-rehire position.”
Huff said she sat at the front of the class on Tuesday in shock, anger and silence for a few minutes, like the rest of her peers, as she tried to comprehend what happened.
“Professor Bernstein said, ‘That's it. I’m retired,’ and we watched him pack all of his papers into his bag and walk out of the classroom,” Huff said.
“Resignation was an all or none decision ... I felt some relief as I had been getting more concerned as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in recent weeks,” Bernstein said.
Some students began logging onto Athena to find last-minute seats in other seminars. Others stared at the student and asked, “You know we need this class to graduate, right?” In response, the student said, “Well, this is a blessing in disguise,” according to Huff.
Huff, who is expected to graduate in December, said she has now been moved to another upper division psychology seminar at 8 a.m., opposed to the original 9:30 a.m. class time.
“The damage is done. Obviously she has her values, and they’re clearly not going to change even when someone asked you to do something that will make them feel comfortable,” Huff said. “Bernstein is there for you [the student]. Like, he came out of retirement to do something for us, but you just can’t take it out of the kindness of your heart to put a piece of fabric on properly.”
The seminar, primarily filled with upperclassmen, is a requirement to graduate for all psychology majors. All students affected by the resignation of the instructor were moved to a new section of their courses, according to UGA spokesperson Greg Trevor.
Immediately after the class abruptly ended, Huff called her mother in panic worried that she wouldn’t be able to graduate.
“This is not what I signed up for. This was not my original plan for my final semester here. It’s heartbreaking. It’s surreal,” Huff said. “I kept thinking to myself, ‘There’s no way this is happening.’ There was definitely hidden hostility in that room, and I do feel a little bit of anger toward this girl, but mainly agitation.”

Bernstein began teaching part-time at UGA in 1968 and became a full-time faculty member in 1971 while he continued research at Emory University’s Yerkes Primate Center until 1993.
Although he retired from UGA in 2011, he still taught as a part time retiree-rehire for many years and was asked by his former psychology department to return this year to teach two courses this semester. Now, Bernstein will not teach either.
On Aug. 18, the first day of in-person classes, Bernstein told his students that he would teach under a “no mask, no class” policy.
Unmasked students who arrived on the first day of the seminar were directed by Bernstein to retrieve one from the front office and the Advising Office. Every student was masked during the remainder of the class time, Bernstein said in his email to The Red & Black.
Bernstein wrote in an email to The Red & Black that the head of the psychology department said he could not enforce a mask policy upon his students. UGA follows the policies of the University System of Georgia, which only encourages masks inside campus facilities and does not allow its institutions to enact mask or vaccine mandates.
The now-resigned professor said USG is in compliance with the policies of the state of Georgia which “forbids us from requiring masks.”
“I am sorry that the pandemic has caused so much dissension. I personally do not agree that stimulating the economy is more important than people’s lives and am disappointed that some people feel that it is,” Bernstein said.
 


I sent this to my cousin who is a professor at UGA. She replied:

I know! He's a great man too and very well respected in my department and in his field. The level of disrespect makes me so mad - I cannot imagine treating one of my elders like this!

He told one of my colleagues that he did it partially for those of us who can't afford to just walk out. He can afford it so he made a stand for us.
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I sent this to my cousin who is a professor at UGA. She replied:
 

Perfect metaphor for COVID. Most of us learning to get along and figure shit out. The loudest voices who want to “get back to normal” refusing to do even the smallest thing that would allow that. 
 

Here’s what should have happened:

Prof: Hi, campus police? I have a student who’s refused twice to mask.

Police: Ma’am, I’ll need your student ID. My partner and I will escort you off campus. Stuff in your dorm? Movers will ship it. Car? Pick it up at the towing facility. No, you may not re-enroll. And I’m afraid the registrar will have a permanent hold on your transcript, so don’t call to have credits transferred. It seems we made a mistake in admitting you. 

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s not unusual for customers at Standard Seed & Feed to buy ivermectin, but the owner of the Jacksonville store said Thursday he’s never seen it fly off the shelves like it has lately.

Store owner Frank Wallmeyer said he usually stocks up on the livestock medicine by buying a dozen bottles at a time. Yet ever since people have been seeking it out as a form of self-medication against COVID-19, it has exploded in popularity.

“Now we’re buying it 100 at a time,” Wallmeyer told News4Jax. “They’re using it for COVID. And it’s a horrible, horrible disease and people are desperate and they’re willing to try anything they think will work.”

 

Here's a live look at the concerned feed store owner:

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Slightly dirty, but we've filled out the screener questions on ARC to say asymptomatic in order to skip the appointment requirement. Even then, first available appt for curbside was the following day (this was last week). Neg result by the way.

They do have a telemedicine option where you can speak to an on-call doc very quickly (in order to then do a drive-up test anytime), if you pay for some e-med account on there (think it's $40 for a one-off). 

At-home test if you want to know something immediately, obv. less accurate than the PCR test ARC does. 

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4 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

Fuck Eric Clapton.  Never did get him but that’s beside the point, why do we need his medical advice?

If I've got a cover band about to play "Layla," and Eric Clapton offers to sit in, well, that's great. Other than that, I wouldn't trust the man to change a light bulb.

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12 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Our 9yo started showing some symptoms this afternoon. Called Walgreens, CVS and a few others and nobody can get her in today. ARC said it could be days. Is at home our best bet?

I would absolutely start with an at-home test.  I don't know how accurate they are relative to what can be administered elsewhere, but it's something.

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Nothing much to report on the Juco front. Staff masked up pretty solid. One class where it trends older students, solid as well. I've got a half-dozen regulars out of 15 on the roll, we spread out in an auditorium properly masked, with more than 6' of space.

The ones I have to watch are the non-fully-developed frontal-lobe kids in an intro class who were in High School yesterday. They'll cheerfully do anything I ask them to. They also won't think about the virus 5 seconds before I show up or 5 seconds after I send them off. Because the virus only enters the room when the teacher does.

I must be a good actor because instead of channeling my true Streetcar Named Desire alcoholic rage when walking in on a bunch of them chin-strapping it and yacking away, I instead calmly explain what we are doing and why we are doing it, they mask up, and I add that if they want, when we aren't in the building, they can spread out and take them off. Then we go outside (where oddly, some of the inside-unmasked become outside-masked,) have class, then I turn them loose.

And watch them go sit together in a couple of cars, together, still unmasked.

At this point I figure the hour that I have them is the one hour they are getting less exposure.

I don't like masks either, so I chill between classes on a bench out front. You'll see every variant of behavior as people walk in. I mind my own classes, unless I see something spectacular like a chin-strapper about to enter the little elevator.

In any case, it's starting to get a little more normal, where I have things like students ask me multiple times via email when a 5-minute assignment watching two videos is due.

 

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29 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

I like how when Mr. Jeepers finally throws an actual punch at Middle-Aged Gray-Jacket Guy, he manages to put his own ass down on the ground.

Pos rep for reminding me of a criminally underrated SNL recurring character. 
 

 

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38 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

I like how when Mr. Jeepers finally throws an actual punch at Middle-Aged Gray-Jacket Guy, he manages to put his own ass down on the ground.

I like how he and his girl are wearing coordinated outfits.  That's how you know he's really tough.

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I have all online classes again this semester, but one guy in my department said that basically none of the students in his classes were wearing masks in class this week.

I have the Alabama mask mandate on my side. You'd best believe that some of them would try me even with it, but I just hammer that "we follow the mandate" plus "I am wearing it, so you do the same as I do," which is how we got the new recruits to fasten their chin-straps back when the Scots-Irish were called "Roman soldiers" and we were guarding that damn wall for Hadrian.

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