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8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, that isn't born out by the data.  According to the City of Austin, there are currently 70 ICU beds occupied by covid patients in the 5-county Austin MSA (Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell counties).  Total ICU capacity in the MSA is ~ 483 beds, at least for the 3 major hospital networks (Seton, Baylor S&W, St. David's), so we're currently at about 15% capacity occupied by covid patients.

Let's not go overboard.

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We are stage 2 now. In the world we actually live in. 

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I'd just like to point out that neither myself nor any of my fellow nurses, fellow advanced nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers ever swore an oath that we would lay down our lives for

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Welp, it finally happened. I snapped in public today. I went into work for a bit this morning because I’m trying to figure out the safest way to host physicians we are recruiting given our CV-19 sit

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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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23 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

 

Will we ever get back to the world we lived in before?  I'm getting increasingly discouraged.  And it's killing us -- depression, loss of connection, etc.  As a species, we aren't doing well.

Don’t be discouraged. 

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America’s daily rate of new cases is half of what it was in mid September and less than a third of its peak in January. As I’ve been tracking for the past four weeks, COVID-19 hospitalizations are declining rapidly in the southern states and going up in some of the northern ones; the Delta wave has passed through the south and is moving north — and credit those northern states for higher vaccination rates, meaning fewer of those who get infected need to go to the ER or intensive-care unit. There’s plenty of room in the overwhelming majority of hospitals from coast to coast; as of this writing, just 7 percent of the nation’s hospital beds that are being used are being used for COVID-19 patients.

For those who end up in the hospital, doctors have a lot more treatment options now than at the start of the pandemic — remdesivir, anti-inflammatory drugs such as dexamethasone and other corticosteroids, enoxaparin to prevent blood clots, tocilizumab, baricitinib, and a bunch of other ones with names that sound like Aztec deities. And of course, there are monoclonal-antibody therapies.

As of this morning, 96 percent of U.S. senior citizens have at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine; 79.2 percent of all U.S. adults, 77.4 percent of eligible Americans, and nearly two-thirds of all Americans have received at least one shot of a vaccine. Fifty million American kids will become eligible for vaccination soon, probably next month. As mentioned yesterday, it is exceptionally rare for a COVID-19 infection to send a child to the hospital, and almost unheard of for a COVID-19 infection to kill a child who did not already have serious health problems, usually involving the immune system.

By now, every adult has heard all of the assurances about the vaccines several times over and knows lots of people who got vaccinated. If they haven’t gotten vaccinated yet, it’s because they don’t want to, and they should be left to live with those risks and the consequences of their own decisions. Americans cannot force other Americans do something they don’t want to without enormous and lingering friction. This never works out well in the long run.

Throughout the year, the number of people attending sporting events, concerts, movie screenings, festivals, conferences, and other large gatherings has steadily increased. For two months, tens of thousands of people have attended college- and pro-football games, weekend after weekend, and those games haven’t become super-spreader events. Earlier this month, University of Florida epidemiologist Cindy Prins, Ph.D., who tracks coronavirus trends nationwide, concluded that, “I’m not seeing a lot of COVID ramifications. When we see these full stadiums, it makes people feel nervous because we’ve been avoiding crowds for such a long time. But some of these outdoor events really are not the super spreader events that people have worried they’re going to be.”

If tens of thousands of people can get together and be safe, you don’t have to worry about the guy at the grocery store whose mask slips below his nose.

It is safe to go about our lives — particularly if you’re vaccinated.

 

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21 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, that isn't born out by the data.  According to the City of Austin, there are currently 70 ICU beds occupied by covid patients in the 5-county Austin MSA (Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell counties).  Total ICU capacity in the MSA is ~ 483 beds, at least for the 3 major hospital networks (Seton, Baylor S&W, St. David's), so we're currently at about 15% capacity occupied by covid patients.

Let's not go overboard.

Austin MSA covid data

15% of covid, but what does that mean for actual capacity? 

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Evangelicals don't do mission work, or spread the gospel in foreign lands.  They proselytize online and in their neighborhoods and family gatherings and Chili's and school functions and at the office.  And after a long day of doing little to none of the Lord's work, they go home, turn on a FoxNews story about a tragedy happening on some far corner of the Earth and say to their spouse and children, "You know what those folks need, don't ya?  They need them some Jesus in their life."  

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Follow up. Dude made it off the vent, but is STILL in the hospital, and still on oxygen. The Gofundme dropped today. This dude is a blue collar plant maintenance type, so I'd imagine this will bankrupt him, even if he's got insurance. He's still got to go to a "lung rehab place" once he gets out of the hospital. I imagine that's a longish term rehab hospital or something but I don't speak Silsbee, so who knows. 

Still in the hospital. Going on 2 months. 

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12 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

That needs to be the norm against those fucking bullies.  Hit them in the fucking mouth and shut them the fuck up.

Hell. Yes. 

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These types of people have always existed, but much of modern America treats this sociopathy as a virtue so they no longer feel socially restrained from expressing it. The real problem is that we let them get away with it. We realize that avoiding confrontation is usually good from a social standpoint, so when we see it all we do is put on a shocked face and chuckle among ourselves when they're gone about how awful they are. But with people like this, that approach is actively harmful to society at large. It makes them think more people agree with them than actually do. These people need to be immediately challenged on their bullshit. When a group of people see a woman cough on someone because someone asked them to wear a mask, they need to all yell at her and pelt her with garbage. When they see some asshole start pushing a grocery store clerk, they need to punch the fucker in the face, knock him over, and kick the shit out of him. These people need to be afraid of what will happen to them if they behave this way in public. It won't make them better people, but it will put a stop to a lot of this shit.

 

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38 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

From a rally against mandates. Not helping the anti-vax stereotypes.

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FDNY and NYPD are full of shitheads.  A lot of them are racist assholes who treat NYC taxpayers (you know, the people who pay their fucking salaries with our taxes) like shit.  9/11 was 20 years ago, and because of the sacrifices that were made on that day, they think they are above the rest of us. 

No more free pass.  You fuck around, you find out.  Also, most of them live in Staten Island which explains a whole lot.  Staten Island is New York City's asshole.  It honestly has more in common with New Jersey than it does NYC.

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7 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

FDNY and NYPD are full of shitheads.  A lot of them are racist assholes who treat NYC taxpayers (you know, the people who pay their fucking salaries with our taxes) like shit.  9/11 was 20 years ago, and because of the sacrifices that were made on that day, they think they are above the rest of us. 

No more free pass.  You fuck around, you find out.  Also, most of them live in Staten Island which explains a whole lot.  Staten Island is New York City's asshole.  It honestly has more in common with New Jersey than it does NYC.

Staten Island has more in common with parts of the South.

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6 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

FDNY and NYPD are full of shitheads.  A lot of them are racist assholes who treat NYC taxpayers (you know, the people who pay their fucking salaries with our taxes) like shit.  9/11 was 20 years ago, and because of the sacrifices that were made on that day, they think they are above the rest of us. 

No more free pass.  You fuck around, you find out.  Also, most of them live in Staten Island which explains a whole lot.  Staten Island is New York City's asshole.  It honestly has more in common with New Jersey than it does NYC.

You've just described every city's police and fire departments. Shit, we have members of the Los Angeles Fire Department who live in Texas and fly into CA for their shifts:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-08/lopez-column-more-than-100-la-firefighters-live-outside-california

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