The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc

naturalgyrl5199

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I always said that school districts were doing a disservice to students trying to make virtual learning exactly like face to face learning. With things going the way that they are, school districts really need to revamp what virtual learning is.
They do.
My daughter's entire 1st grade was virtual learning. She performed well. Straight As.

But VIRTUAL LEARNING SUCKS!
Mentally, the energy it took to be a teacher and hold down a full time job bout had me and husband in the crazy house. It was definitely too much.
 

naturalgyrl5199

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I understand potentially increasing health costs, but this is getting out of hand. It just seems like an attack now.
This type of penalization is rife when it comes to health care and economics. Ask a person with more than one health issue what their life insurance premium is compared to someone of the exact same age with none. Obesity (on paper), Hip to waist ratio, then add more money for each health issue. They literally start from weight, then add behaviors (smoking, vaping), then add more money per issue.

The average employee doesn't know or care how much of their healthcare costs are being subsidized by their employer. A payroll deduction for unvaccinated employees only to offset the employer portion of healthcare expenses is based in science and economics (mainly economics tho :look:). Withholding peoples paycheck for protecting themselves is pettiness for the sake of being petty.
Employee health insurance is a gold mine for Gov/City/County employees. I do the budgets. so I may be paying someone 50K. But for my budget, their actual salary that I set aside is 105K. (real person). Their out of pocket looks like less then $300/month for a family plan (Thats the one good thing in Florida). Since both me and hubby are gov......we pay $60/month for our health insurance and that insurance has literally won awards. That's for a family plan. Our jobs contribute about 20K for it. As we have added children--premium stays the same. Point is, the unhealthier you are, the costs to your employer add up. Hospitalizations, frequent doctor visits, etc. Jobs have a right to mitigate their risk. People's bottom line isn't a bottomless pit....
 

MomofThreeBoys

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We are. Too many people act like the whole last year and a half simply didn't happen.


I know that for the most part the average American doesn't watch any international news unless it's something huge and even then... but I really feel like too few Americans saw what Delta did to India and what happens when hospitals start turning people away. "It could never happen here" is not something anybody who acknowledges the last year and half could let come out of their mouths. None of this is supposed to be happening here, yet here we are.

In adorable news, I was side eyeing the new temp's mask and asked her to do the match test. I handed her the box of matches and her 1990's born self admitted she didn't know how to strike a match and she flinched when I did it. Then she dead :moon: looked at the match and said "omg, it's on fire". I don't think I have stopped laughing yet. :rofl:
Omg I’m crying lolololol
 

B_Phlyy

Pineapple Eating Unicorn
Our newly appointment CEO just mandate all employees and new hires get vaccinated. Cutoff date for first dose is 9/15/21. You can only opt out if you have a signed medical notification or religious exemption. No word of consequences if you don't get vaccinated but I'm sure they'll announce it if the deadline passes and they aren't +99%
 

sunshinebeautiful

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I always said that school districts were doing a disservice to students trying to make virtual learning exactly like face to face learning. With things going the way that they are, school districts really need to revamp what virtual learning is.

There's been quite a bit of movement on that front for higher education, at least from what I've seen. In fact, part of the reason why I was hired at my new job has a lot to do with this. It is puzzling that the same realization/let's do something about this issue didn't happen for K-12.
 

naturalgyrl5199

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1st day of school in the state capitol of FL. Her school van driver demanded they all have masks. My little one had some extras so of course they asked me to give a little kid one. All year masks are mandated for the bus and school transport either way.

Last night's School Board Meeting was absolutely pandemonium. Over 1500 people watched but the building wasn't crowded with non-mask wearers. More masked parents were in there to thank the Superintendent. One representative of the crazies noted their absence as some sense of solidarity saying they would make the Superintendent pay. Superintendent cried bc he is getting so many threats from people in the grocery store and via email. Says it used to be nice to live here. Town too divided. Superintendent is biracial, but white passing. Very pro-student. Tried to explain that he was FOR the "mask optional" until child hospitalizations skyrocketed and made that decision. His rationale is sound but these parents DGAF. I told MANY that this county was blue voting but red under skin. The 1 white lady on the board wanted the "optional" despite being Dems (I WILL *NOT* forget that) and then the 2 black board members and 1 other white board member wanted the mask mandate extended to ALL of K-12 not just K-8 which he did go ahead and grant. So the mandate has NO TEETH because parents can opt out with just a form starting next week, when before you had to have an MD note. The white board member said "its too hard to get into a doctor bc they are now being bombarded" and though the other board members said "tough tit" the Superintendent caved and made it easier for parents to opt out. So this week there is a mandate and teachers and bus drivers will be enforcing it. They "promised" no kids will get bullied for not wearing it ---its not even a thing, its a made up thing according to teachers actually teaching under the mandate last year." My daughter is excited and so far doing good with the mask. We will see. *sigh*
 

Peppermynt

Defying Gravity
Just heard back from a good friend - she has Covid. :confused:

I texted her end of July and didn't hear back. Texted her again today and she said she's on day 13 of symptoms. She has the Delta variant version. Thankfully she is vaccinated (and had been double masking) but she caught it anyway. So far her 3 kids and hubby are all testing negative. She said Sunday was the first day she felt okay enough to get out of bed. And then was totally exhausted on Monday because of that. Stay alert y'all.
 

ScorpioBeauty09

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California will require all teachers and staff to be vaccinated or have weekly testing.

I figured it was coming and I'm glad. My sister works in a school. I'm curious what my HS BFF will do. She's a teacher and has refrained from getting the vaccine because her SO doesn't want either of them to. I cut her from my wedding when she told me that. She can't afford to quit her job since her SO doesn't make enough to take care of their children.

FH's father spent the weekend with his sisters and one of them is quarantining for COVID. FH's immediate family are all vaccinated but FH's mom and sister asked his father to stay away to quarantine. He refused so it was a race to get out of the house before he got back. FH's sister is staying with a friend and FH's mother is staying with FH.

Craziness... :rolleyes:
 
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Crackers Phinn

Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.

Anti-vaccine radio host in Florida dies of Covid-19 at age 65​

A right-wing radio host who called vaccines “bogus bull ****” had a change of heart after being hospitalised with Covid-19, friends say.

Dick Farrel, 65, a former Newsmax host and pioneer of the shock jock genre, died on Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida, from complications relating to Covid-19.


Prior to getting sick, Mr Farrel wrote on Facebook that Dr Anthony Fauci was a “power tripping lying freak”, mocked vaccines and referred to the pandemic that has taken more than 600,000 American lives as a “scamdemic”.


His close friend Amy Leigh Hair said that Mr Farrel had written to her from hospital begging her to get vaccinated.

“He texted me and told me to ‘Get it!’ He told me this virus is no joke and he said, ‘I wish I had gotten it!’”

His partner Kit Farley said he “fought like a tiger”, and pleaded with people not to put off “getting attention for this illness”.


“He was known as the other Rush Limbaugh. With a heavy heart, I can only say this was so unexpected. He will be missed,” she wrote on Facebook.

Radio veteran Dick Farrel has passed. pic.twitter.com/dxxPcKSQHA
— T.A. Walker (@timallanwalker) August 6, 2021
Another friend, Mick McCabe, told WPTV: “Dick was a pioneer ‘shock talk’ host, certainly here in South Florida, and a loyal friend both personally and to listeners here for decades.”
 

Black Ambrosia

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Imagine that. It’s
My old coworkers in the nicu said they are seeing pretty horrible things happening to unvaccinated pregnant moms. Y’all be careful out there.
Idk if I mentioned this before but my gynecologist recently told me about a pregnant patient who passed. She didn’t want to be vaccinated. Both she and her unborn baby are gone. He was so frustrated.
 

B_Phlyy

Pineapple Eating Unicorn
So after a few weeks of low testing turn out and almost no positives, we are seeing 20+ symptomatic patients every day. Our positive rate is about 40%. Yesterday, we had a whole family of 4 test positive. 2 adults and 2 children under 10. Recently returned from a long weekend in...South Dakota. They did a pit stop in Sturgis after heading home from Deadwood. I hate it here.
 

sunshinebeautiful

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A friend of mine told me that the monoclonal antibody treatments are showing great promise. the treatment is man made and not fda approved but people who turn their nose up at the vaccine grasp at it like a lifeline When the time comes.

I've heard this a couple of times too :nono:

I want to see what the "it's not FDA approved" people say/do when it does get approval, which is coming down the pipeline soon
 

oneastrocurlie

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So after a few weeks of low testing turn out and almost no positives, we are seeing 20+ symptomatic patients every day. Our positive rate is about 40%. Yesterday, we had a whole family of 4 test positive. 2 adults and 2 children under 10. Recently returned from a long weekend in...South Dakota. They did a pit stop in Sturgis after heading home from Deadwood. I hate it here.

Oh boy.
 

Crackers Phinn

Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.
We went to the grocery store last night around 11PM and there were probably 15 other customers and 4 were unmasked. Whatever new ventilation system Ralph's has installed needs to catch on because no matter where I walked in the store it felt like air was blowing directly down on me. I think it's so that if anybody talks, cough's or sneezes without a mask then droplets would be pushed immediately down instead of forward.

People were good at avoiding each other but I swear folks think the 6 foot floor markers are just decoration. I was at the checkout and sent dh to grab something and the next thing I know the couple behind me (no cart) were like a foot behind me. They were masked but still. We ain't in 2019.
 

Crackers Phinn

Either A Blessing Or A Lesson.
Studies are showing that Moderna is more effective against Delta than Pfizer. Now I’m so mad I picked that one. Where’s my daggone booster
Not go lie I wanted the Pfizer shot cuz I figured that if they could invent a pill that resurrects dead penii then they was go come through with the greatest vaccine of all time but it's microchip Moderna for the win!!! Now the gubment, aliens or both can find me through pinging my cell phone or with a magnet pointed at my arm. :duck:
 

Kanky

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Parent and child tested positive for Covid. Parent sent the child to school anyway. :ohwell:

 

dancinstallion

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Parent and child tested positive for Covid. Parent sent the child to school anyway. :ohwell:


That parent needs to be charged, fined or something. :nono:

Thats why I am making my kids double mask at school. Dd wants to wear clear glasses to act as a shield.
 

dancinstallion

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"Twenty-seven people sailing on Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Vista ship have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those who tested positive, 26 are crew members and one person is a passenger, according to a news release from the Belize Tourism Board Wednesday.

On the ship, 99.98% of crew members are vaccinated, and 96.5% of passengers are vaccinated, the tourism board said, noting that all of the people who tested positive are vaccinated. Most are asymptomatic, and a few have mild symptoms."
 
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