CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk

[washparkhorn 9939]

Insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare should not cover the costs of infertility treatment those affected. Inefficient and wasteful.

[Guest Lobo]

The dating reality show for those suffering from horse-paste onset infertility is going to make for a fucking awesome reality TV show.

[CooterBrown 18028]

fart noises
 

The most fucked up part is that this is considered in the line of duty so his beneficiaries make out like bandits at the City’s expense because of his bad decisions.

[brakeman 28422]

But, we still have donald around. Be careful and stay  safe. 

[brakeman 28422]

 

[brakeman 28422]

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20488]

Every kindergarten teacher at a school in San Antonio tests positive for Covid ... school does not inform parents.
 

 

[HenryJames 66170]

 

[Post Oak 20267]

7 hours ago, brakeman said:

 

"When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country? ... Fuck em"

[HenryJames 66170]

 

[Radical Larry 28662]

SeE iT’s JuSt LiKe ThE fLu!!!!

[4th&Five 41589]

 

[GreenspointTexas 9664]

13 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

r/nursing

Written after a particularly hard day....

In the End written by Lauren B., BSN, RN, PCCN

On the day you die from COVID, many things will happen.

A colleague and I will enter the room to carefully prepare and clean your body.

We will shut off all the IV pumps.

We will turn off the ventilator.

We will silence and turn off the monitor that is screaming at us that something is emergently wrong.

We will remove the breathing tube from your throat.

We will pull out the intravenous lines.

We will remove the arterial line that monitored your dangerously low blood pressure.

We will remove the catheter that drained your bladder and measured as your urine output gradually decreased to nil.

In the end, they will leave the room and it will be just you and I.

The machines will be turned off.

The beeping will have stopped.

The alarms will be discontinued.

The room will be silent for the first time in days.

I might have music on, if your family told me what you like to listen to. I’ve listened to all kinds of music at the end.

Classic Rock. Big Band. South American flutes. Chinese ballads. Country and Western.

Today it was the Beatles.

“Yesterday… all my troubles seemed so far away… Now it looks as though they’re here to stay… Oh I believe in yesterday…”

I’ll cover your body with a sheet and try to position you so that you look as natural as possible.

I’ll dial the phone number or open the video chat and your family will pop up.

They will see you and begin sobbing uncontrollably.

They will tell you that they love you.

They will question their God.

They will tell you that they don’t know how they will go on without you.

They will thank you for being a great partner, great spouse, great child, great friend, great person...

They'll put the dog up to the camera so you can "see" them one more time.

Old grudges will be forgiven or put aside.

I will be privy to family secrets and skeletons that nobody else knows about.

I’ll never breathe a whisper; your secrets are safe with me.

I will listen silently as they beg and weep and plead and grieve.

I will close my eyes tightly at the scream that signifies pain so raw and deep that it stings even my numb and burned-out heart.

I will try to hold back the tears that gather in my own eyes as I empathize with the pain your family is feeling.

I will fail.

I will cry silently too.

I will wait patiently until their tears have slowed and they have told me that they are ready.

I will hang up the phone or shut off the video.

I’ll sigh to myself as I start to clean up.

The bag that your battered body lies in won’t be zipped up yet.

I know it sounds crazy, but I don’t believe in zipping up the bag until I’m ready to leave the room.

I can’t bring myself to clean your room while you lie there inside a dark zipped-up bag, ignored because you no longer breathe.

So, I’ll take down the drips.

It will take me a while.

You’ll have been on a lot of drips.

Sedation.

Pain medication.

Fluids.

Pressors.

Anti-anxiety medications.

A blood thinner.

I’ll take them all down and puddle the lines on the floor while I dispose of the excess contents.

I’ll gather the unopened supplies in the room and begin throwing them in the trash.

The new cardiac electrodes that don’t need to be placed on a chest that no longer has a beating heart.

The pulse oximeter that would read “zero” if I were to attach it.

The oral care kit that we used to try to prevent you from getting a secondary infection in your lungs.

The bags of dialysate that were used in a valiant attempt to preserve your kidneys.

The tubing that was attached to the ventilator to breathe for you.

The numerous pictures and cards that your family dropped off at the front desk of the hospital for us to hang in your room for encouragement and support.

All of it will go in the trash.

Nothing can be salvaged from a COVID room.

I’ll tidy up the many caps that have found their way onto the floor.

Caps from IV flushes. Caps from medications. Caps from IV tubing. Caps from respiratory equipment.

Caps that were opened and discarded so quickly as we worked so feverishly that they’ve long since been forgotten and relegated to the floor.

Finally, I will be done cleaning.

I will stroke your hair. I will hold your hand. I will position you so you look comfortable.

I will wonder why you didn't get vaccinated.

Fear? Conspiracy? Misinformation? Just never got around to it?

It doesn't matter now.

I will look into your face one more time.

I will zip the bag.

I will leave you in the room to be transported to the morgue.

You, however, will never leave me.

Memories like this are not ever forgotten.

Because in the end, on the day you die from COVID, it will be just you and I.

By LetMeGrabSomeGloves

As someone who has done this exact thing many many times in the CVICU, I cant tell you, if people saw this happen once… only once…. the entire US would be vaxxed overnight

[HenryJames 66170]

 

[HenryJames 66170]

59 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

As someone who has done this exact thing many many times in the CVICU, I cant tell you, if people saw this happen once… only once…. the entire US would be vaxxed overnight

Sounds like something a crisis actor would say.

[pyrohornIII 4820]

On 9/8/2021 at 8:34 AM, Lobo said:

This is gonna sound misogynist, but I don't care.  

You can literally feel the cuntiness oozing out of that woman over his left shoulder in the eyeglasses. 

If you say "cunt" three times in a mirror at midnight, she appears behind you and asks to speak with Satan's Manager.  

I don't who that kid is, but he's got a quiet leadership quality to him that will serve him well in life.  Provided he gets as far away from that fucking town he can. 

i wish they would slip the vaccine into chewing gum and snuff.   They don't give a shit about any other additives of substances that are put in them.  

22 hours ago, OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys said:

perusing r/HermanCainAwards and started wondering about the scale of kids being orphaned from this, particularly in SEC country.  so many seem to be 35 year olds with 2 sub 10 year old kids. are the numbers big enough that it is something to be worried about?  are we just assuming the system absorb them as well as any orphan?

Once that kid draws it's first breath, it's on its own.  Bootstraps and all.   GQP made sure they made it out of the womb, now it's their time to do their part.

19 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

I guess we could also create student loans for kids to pay their share of weight on the system when they fail repeatedly in those areas where in person schooling was outlawed... Or make the teachers give up 1-2 years pension benefits, etc.     It's only fair if we make everyone do their part  

Or, I don't know, develop a decent online education program that kids can use when they do have to be quarantined at home.  Maybe something like a cross between Sesame Street and the old Leapfrog systems.   But I forgot, then you'd have to fund hi speed internet and give those ingrates computers too.  Forget that.   I'm really surprised that grifters like DeVoss haven't already started programs like this.  

[Bozo_Casanova 26549]

2 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

As someone who has done this exact thing many many times in the CVICU, I cant tell you, if people saw this happen once… only once…. the entire US would be vaxxed overnight

The increasing existential despair I'm hearing from Doctors and nurses when they confront people not getting vaccinated or attending mass indoor events as if everything was fine reminds me of the scene between the Doctor and the Bishop in Bernard Pomerance's play "The Elephant Man"
Quoted below, emphasis in bold added by me. 

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BISHOP : I find my sessions with him utterly moving, Mr. Treves. He struggles so. I suggested he might like to be confirmed; he leaped at it like a man lost in a desert to an oasis.

TREVES : He is very excited to do what others do if he thinks it is what others do.

BISHOP : Do you cast doubt, sir, on his faith?

TREVES : No, sir, I do not. Yet he makes all of us think he is deeply like ourselves. And yet we're not like each other. I conclude that we have polished him like a mirror, and shout hallelujah when he reflects us to the inch. I have grown sorry for it.

BISHOP : I cannot make out what you're saying. is something troubling you, Mr. Treves?

TREVES : Corsets. How about corsets? Here is an pamphlet I've written due mostly to the grotesque ailments I've seen caused by corsets. Fashion overrules me, of course. My patients do not unstrap themselves of corsets. Some cannot -- you know, I have so little time in the week, I spend Sundays in the poor-wards; to keep up with work. Work being twenty-year-old women who look an abused fifty with worn-outedness; young men with appalling industrial conditions I turn out as soon as possible to return to their labors. Happily most of my patients are not poor. They are middle class. They overeat and drink so grossly, they destroy nature in themselves and ll around them so fervidly, they will not last. Higher up, sir, above the middle class, I confront these same -- deformities -- bulged out by unlimited resources and the ruthlessness of privilege into the most scandalous dissipation yoked to the grossest ignorance and constraint. I counsel against it where I can. I am ignored of course. Then, what, sir, could be troubling me? I am an extremely successful Englishman in a successful and respected England which informs me daily by the way it lives that it wants to die. I am in despair in fact. Science, observation, practice, deduction, having led me to these conclusions, can no longer serve as consolation. I apparently see things others don't.

BISHOP : I do wish I understand you better, sir. But as for consolation, there is in Christ's church consolation.

TREVES : I am sure we were not born for mere consolation.

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by Bozo_Casanova

[Longhorn_Fan68 33899]

United is out of fucks

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by Longhorn_Fan68

[Brisketexan 105329]

6 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

United is out of fucks

 

Actually, United gives lots of fucks.  It just gives the right ones. It gives a fuck about stopping the spread of a deadly virus.  It gives a fuck about protecting its passengers (and thus its business, which is what employs all of the dipshits who still need to get vaxxed).  It gives a fuck about all of these things.  It just doesn't give a fuck about morons using what we all know are almost all bullshit excuses to avoid doing one simple thing to protect all of those fuck-worthy things.  So, fuck 'em.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20488]

Kentucky sees huge surge in Covid cases.  The toothless 66-year-old great grandmother at the beginning of the video is classic.

Kentucky sees biggest Covid-19 surge yet - Bing video

[Longhorn_Fan68 33899]

what took so fucking long?

 

[Brisketexan 105329]

12 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

what took so fucking long?

 

Know what's gonna be awesome?  When all the "muh freedoms!" dipshits file suit gunning to get their super-duper-muh-rights claims before the US Supreme Court, which can then just cite itself:

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So when the Cambridge board of health decided that all adults must be vaccinated for smallpox, Jacobson sought refuge in the Constitution’s promise that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”

The year was 1904, and when his politically charged legal challenge to the $5 fine for failing to get vaccinated made its way to the Supreme Court, the justices had a surprise for Rev. Jacobson. One man’s liberty, they declared in a 7-2 ruling handed down the following February, cannot deprive his neighbors of their own liberty — in this case by allowing the spread of disease. Jacobson, they ruled, must abide by the order of the Cambridge board of health or pay the penalty.

“There are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good,” read the majority opinion. “On any other basis, organized society could not exist with safety to its members. Society based on the rule that each one is a law unto himself would soon be confronted with disorder and anarchy.”

FAFO.

[jimmyjazz 46130]

6 hours ago, Post Oak said:

"When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country? ... Fuck em"

When Howard Stern is the voice of reason . . . yikes.

[NameAlreadyInUse 5120]

2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

When Howard Stern is the voice of reason . . . yikes.

Tell me you never listened to Howard Stern without telling me you never listened to Howard Stern.

[Pescado_Rojo 19428]

2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

The increasing existential despair I'm hearing from Doctors and nurses when they confront people not getting vaccinated or attending mass indoor events as if everything was fine reminds me of the scene between the Doctor and the Bishop in Bernard Pomerance's play "The Elephant Man"
Quoted below, emphasis in bold added by me. 

 

So one of the guys I fish with a lot does this big annual trip in Port Mansfield with a group of old friends and their sons. The friend that owns the house down there is a Dr, and sent a group text asking if everyone was vaccinated. Two of the guys in the group are Aggie engineers in commercial construction, and neither of them or their kids were vax'd. He told them they would need to wear a mask the whole time they're in the house if they aren't, and they both blew up on him with muh freedom and stupid libtard comments, so he un-invited them to the trip and now there's a big fight within the group and it's probably ended some long term friendships. 

[Bama Chick 28596]

This is my favorite part of Biden’s new rules.

This will make a real meaningful difference at my hospital and others like mine.

[JimmyJames 12271]

28 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

what took so fucking long?

 

This is absolutely excellent news. 
 

Fuck your feelings you fucking anti vaxer  morons. 

[jimmyjazz 46130]

1 minute ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Tell me you never listened to Howard Stern without telling me you never listened to Howard Stern.

I've listened to him many times, and largely find him a total jackass.  That said, he nailed it with that statement.

[Pescado_Rojo 19428]

1 minute ago, Bama Chick said:

This is my favorite part of Biden’s new rules.
 

 

This will make a real meaningful difference at my hospital and others like mine.

 

It still blows my mind there are so many anti-vax nurses. I'd love to see the breakdown by education (LVN, RN, NP, etc)

[JimmyJames 12271]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

I've listened to him many times, and largely find him a total jackass.  That said, he nailed it with that statement.

Haven’t listened to him in 25 years as he’s not the same anymore and is now just mailing it in for the bucks but he’s always been pretty smart. Told trump not to run for president because he wouldn’t mentally be able to handle it. 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11820]

10 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

So one of the guys I fish with a lot does this big annual trip in Port Mansfield with a group of old friends and their sons. The friend that owns the house down there is a Dr, and sent a group text asking if everyone was vaccinated. Two of the guys in the group are Aggie engineers in commercial construction, and neither of them or their kids were vax'd. He told them they would need to wear a mask the whole time they're in the house if they aren't, and they both blew up on him with muh freedom and stupid libtard comments, so he un-invited them to the trip and now there's a big fight within the group and it's probably ended some long term friendships. 

His house, his rules.  That they happen to be the correct rules is a bonus.

[jimmyjazz 46130]

2 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

His house, his rules.  That they happen to be the correct rules is a bonus.

Yeah, I don't know how old @Pescado_Rojo is, but I'm way past the point of giving a fuck about some dumbass "friend" who is that out of touch.  I have better things to do in my impending twilight years than spend time with guys like that.

[4th&Five 41589]

 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11820]

3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yeah, I don't know how old @Pescado_Rojo is, but I'm way past the point of giving a fuck about some dumbass "friend" who is that out of touch.  I have better things to do in my impending twilight years than spend time with guys like that.

I think he's about our age, or maybe just a few years younger than you and I.  I have an aggy friend similar to the 2 he mentioned whom I've known since kindergarten, but haven't seen in person in probably 10 years.  We keep in touch by text but I have no desire to do anything with him in person, it would end badly.

[Pescado_Rojo 19428]

1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yeah, I don't know how old @Pescado_Rojo is, but I'm way past the point of giving a fuck about some dumbass "friend" who is that out of touch.  I have better things to do in my impending twilight years than spend time with guys like that.

51, and 100% agree. Honestly, I felt like Doc was going out of his way to try to make the trip happen by giving them a mask option. If it was me, I'd have told them I'll hopefully see them next year if all this is behind us. I've met most of the guys individually or in small groups, and one of the anti-vax guys didn't surprise me at all, but the other one was actually a pretty big surprise. 

[Biff Tannen 45734]

8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yeah, I don't know how old @Pescado_Rojo is, but I'm way past the point of giving a fuck about some dumbass "friend" who is that out of touch.  I have better things to do in my impending twilight years than spend time with guys like that.

It's even more fun when they are in your immediate family.  I get to deal with that tonight.  Luckily, so far anyway, they have kept it to themselves. 

[jimmyjazz 46130]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

It's even more fun when they are in your immediate family.  I get to deal with that tonight.  Luckily, so far anyway, they have kept it to themselves. 

My immediate family is my wife and kids, and my sister.  I have one remaining aunt, and I just don't talk to her any more.  I probably reply to her Xmas and Easter Jeebus texts most years, but she's been a FOX News junkie for at least 15 years and I just can't stand to listen to her "can you BELIEVE yada yada yada".  Shut up, Nancy.

[kevwun 15890]

25 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

This is my favorite part of Biden’s new rules.
 

 

This will make a real meaningful difference at my hospital and others like mine.

 

I hope there's a website or hotline to report companies that don't follow the requirement.  I am going to gleefully turn anyone I find out about in.

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

2 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Tell me you never listened to Howard Stern without telling me you never listened to Howard Stern.

I listened to Howard Stern a few times. Then I realized it was the same show every time and I stopped listening. I didn’t even know he was still on the air. I never listened to Don Imus. Shock jocks suck and paved the way for even bigger douchebags like Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones. Popular culture would be better off without all of them.

Larry Lujack out of WLS in Chicago ruled. This is a crackly recording off vinyl but it’s good material. I used to listen to Animal Stories every morning before school. I have a couple CD’s. You could spend a lot of time chasing down this rabbit hole (pun intended) on YouTube. Other than that he was just a great DJ. He passed away in 2013 (RIP).

 

[4th&Five 41589]

Same show every time?  Yesterday he had Steve Martin and Martin Short on and today he had Metallica, Elton John and Miley Cyrus on. 

Edited September 9, 2021 by 4th&Five

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

6 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

Same show every time?  Yesterday he had Steve Martin and Martin Short on and today he had Metallica, Elton John and Miley Cyrus on. 

What? Steve Martin and Martin Short without Selena Gomez? The hell you say! They’re making the rounds promoting their new show. They were all three on Colbert the other night. Selena appeared solo on Fallon’s show last night. Martin and Short did some show together a few years back and I’ve seen them together promoting that on numerous talk shows. What’s special about that?

[4th&Five 41589]

3 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

What? Steve Martin and Martin Short without Selena Gomez? The hell you say! They’re making the rounds promoting their new show. They were all three on Colbert the other night. Selena appeared solo on Fallon’s show last night. Martin and Short did some show together a few years back and I’ve seen them together promoting that on numerous talk shows. What’s special about that?

You said it was the same show every time and that's dumb.  He talks to his guests for an hour or more too.  Did Colbert? He's widely thought to be one of the best interviewers out there right now but I understand that's not for everyone.

[RomaVicta 30016]

4 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

 

55 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Know what's gonna be awesome?  When all the "muh freedoms!" dipshits file suit gunning to get their super-duper-muh-rights claims before the US Supreme Court, which can then just cite itself:

FAFO.

I wonder what the odds are that some freedom-loving anti-vaxxers in fear for the future of Amuhrca (not the Republic of the United States of America) do a little terrorism to maim, kill, and scare the people that are trying to force them to survive a plague?

1980 Idiot World looks like collection of Nobel Prize winners compared to Present Day Idiot World.

This time in American history will be the most confounding, infuriating, and hilarious reading for the survivors of global warming. "They kept making and buying gas and diesel powered cars right up until the roads flooded and the factories were consumed in wild fires. Boy, glad they had a good time fucking everything up for us."

Inadequate apologies to Greta. At least Americans heaped scorn and ridicule on you after patting your head and praising your spunk. Thing is...

[Judge Roybeanbag 11820]

24 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

My immediate family is my wife and kids, and my sister.  I have one remaining aunt, and I just don't talk to her any more.  I probably reply to her Xmas and Easter Jeebus texts most years, but she's been a FOX News junkie for at least 15 years and I just can't stand to listen to her "can you BELIEVE yada yada yada".  Shut up, Nancy.

I'm thankful both my sisters who live here in town are pretty sensible.  Here's an excerpt from an email my oldest sister sent me - her husband is a cancer patient who is recovering from surgery (I've posted about him in the Movie & TV thread) - he had an adverse reaction some medication they gave him, and she had to spend about 18 hours in the ER with him this past Sunday.  Not sure what hospital this was but they live in NW Austin.

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They don't have any available beds anywhere and we listened to 9 or 10 code blue announcements during that time. Covid patients were everywhere and there was a steady stream of staff coming in looking through empty cabinets looking for non-existent supplies. At one point, both of the ER's crash carts were depleted and they couldn't find what they needed to restock them. And then they sent a patient that had coded down from a regular room back to the ER because there wasn't an ICU bed and they died. 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

14 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

You said it was the same show every time and that's dumb.  He talks to his guests for an hour or more too.  Did Colbert? He's widely thought to be one of the best interviewers out there right now but I understand that's not for everyone.

Plus he has porn stars riding a sybian!

How long did he interview Martin and Short?

Edited September 9, 2021 by WhatTheBuck

[4th&Five 41589]

4 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Plus he has porn stars riding a sybian!

How long did he interview Martin and Short?

I don't think a porn star has been on in over a decade.

90 minutes

[Horn Dog 9925]

49 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I hope there's a website or hotline to report companies that don't follow the requirement.  I am going to gleefully turn anyone I find out about in.

Yes a 10k civil bounty on non-compliant companies, individuals and those that transport them would be the chef's kiss.

[Horn Dog 9925]

1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

It still blows my mind there are so many anti-vax nurses. I'd love to see the breakdown by education (LVN, RN, NP, etc)

There is a low level nurse in my department who has been very vocal about her non-vaxed status and how its unneeded cause she's healthy (she's obese) and believes in god.   Walked in this morning and was informed that she was admitted overnight with COVID and may be looking at ICU admission soon.   I wish I gave a shit anymore...

[RomaVicta 30016]

1 hour ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

So one of the guys I fish with a lot does this big annual trip in Port Mansfield with a group of old friends and their sons. The friend that owns the house down there is a Dr, and sent a group text asking if everyone was vaccinated. Two of the guys in the group are Aggie engineers in commercial construction, and neither of them or their kids were vax'd. He told them they would need to wear a mask the whole time they're in the house if they aren't, and they both blew up on him with muh freedom and stupid libtard comments, so he un-invited them to the trip and now there's a big fight within the group and it's probably ended some long term friendships. 

We lend endorsement with our friendship. I'd be grateful to have these friends revealed for what they were so I could re-evaluate my wisdom in extending friendship to persons who don't give a shit about contracting or spreading a potentially deadly disease.

After offering a generous compromise, these "friends" pretty much declared their priorities. It's painful to let go of memories and connections, but it's worse to have fuckwads like these telling anyone that they have the privilege of friendship with you.

[RomaVicta 30016]

1 minute ago, Horn Dog said:

There is a low level nurse in my department who has been very vocal about her non-vaxed status and how its unneeded cause she's healthy (she's obese) and believes in god.   Walked in this morning and was informed that she was admitted overnight with COVID and may be looking at ICU admission soon.   I wish I gave a shit anymore...

I hope this passes and we all start giving a shit about fellow citizens in general. That doesn't appear to be in the cards.

Good luck to you.