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

[Everything Zen]

^^^^ People act like getting monoclonal antibodies is what you REALLY want to be doing when you get sick. Cancer patients get monoclonal antibodies- the side effects are terrifying and it costs around 40k a treatment for drugs like Avastin that may only prolong life for a few months.

 

[Crackers Phinn]

That picture. How are you in a hospital room with someone admitted for covid and you pull your masks down for a photo? Or maybe they were already down. That's even worse. And the picture is not how I'd want to remember a loved one. It would be painful for me to see them like that.

I'd find a way to come back and haunt people if they took a picture like that of me.

 

[Peppermynt]

I'd find a way to come back and haunt people if they took a picture like that of me.

I honestly think they are trying to show that they are oppressed and victims. Because they are always the real victims. /s

But with each unnecessary death a librul gets owned so, carry on I guess.

 

[vevster]

:celebrate:

 

[Black Ambrosia]

 

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[yamilee21]

Many people were saying that Spotify would obviously pick Rogan over Neil Young. I wish other artists had joined with him in pressuring Spotify. I don’t use it, but even though I figured they would choose money over the public good, I doubt I will ever use Spotify now.

 

[dancinstallion]

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‘Bunch of Idiots’: Grown Man Accused of Spitting on and Shoving Kids for Wearing Masks​

via CBS Los Angeles

Spoiler

"A middle-age Southern California man is accused of lying in wait outside local schools for children wearing masks—and then following them around so he can cough at them, spit on them, and taunt them for being “stupid” enough to don the face coverings.

The man, captured on video wearing a “Your mask makes you look stupid” T-shirt, has allegedly been continuing his anti-mask harassment campaign for a month in suburban La Crescenta, with a string of alleged incidents under his belt.

Fed-up parents finally had enough this week and gathered at the Crescenta Valley Station to demand police take action.

“[The kids] were obviously getting scared. He was getting three to five inches away and coughing in their faces,” one parent who witnessed the alleged harassment, identified only as Ned, told CBS Los Angeles.

The Crescenta Valley Station, part of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, issued a statement Monday promising a “thorough investigation” into the man after one incident was captured on camera.

“Crescenta Valley Station is aware of a video circulating on social media regarding a dispute between an anti-mask adult and others over the masking of children. The incident appears to have occurred off school grounds sometime last week,” police said.

In the video, the man can be seen apparently harassing a group of middle schoolers in a mall parking lot, yelling: “Stay scared. Keep your masks on that don’t even work!”

One of the kids in the group can be heard shouting back, “We’re 13!” The anti-masker then launches into an expletive-laden tirade at an adult who tried to intervene, screaming, “Look at this grown man with a mask on. What a fricken coward. What a total p—y… Where’d you buy your mask? The stupid store?” He storms off after calling the group a “bunch of idiots.”

The anti-masker has allegedly been involved in several similar incidents near schools, with the sheriff’s department saying some of the kids who were targeted reported that the man also spit on them, according to local outlet KTLA.

He has also been accused of shoving children in some cases. The man has not yet been publicly identified, but Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Lt. Robert Hahnlein told reporters that police know who he is and are working with police in Glendale to investigate the incidents.

Officers were called to at least one incident under investigation, but the deputy who responded scolded the kids and “decided to lecture [them] about freedom of speech instead of taking their names and writing an incident report,” Emily Lanigan, one of the parents affected, told CBS LA."]

 

[yamilee21]

There is no freedom to cough and spit on people, and freedom of speech does not include the freedom to harass and verbally abuse others. That is assault, and the cops that are covering for him because they are aligned with his opinions should be disciplined for not doing their jobs!

 

[sunshinebeautiful]

This is a sad state of affairs

 

[oneastrocurlie]

 

[BrownBetty]

There is no freedom to cough and spit on people, and freedom of speech does not include the freedom to harass and verbally abuse others. That is assault, and the cops that are covering for him because they are aligned with his opinions should be disciplined for not doing their jobs!

These parents are playing. The first time maybe I would of went to the cops. After that, he would of got that behind whooped every time he bothered the kids. He would be tired or in the hospital either way, he would stop.

 

[prettywhitty]

This is troubling. The systems in America are being held together by duct tape and safety pins.

 

[naturalgyrl5199]

Ugh, My friend, an Exercise Science professor at Purdue, high level marathon runner and biker, vegan and health nut just got over COVID. He is vaccinated, boosted but is absolutely worn down from exertion. He and I attended college together in the same department (Nutrition Food and Exercise Sciences). He says he is very winded from just playing in the snow from his kids. He is 43. He will get over it, and be fine. No hospitalization needed. But health is wealth, and people in the categories of top health have the best survival rates.

Also-If he had underlying health issues, It didn't stop him from running 1 or 2 (yes 26 mile) marathons a year or a Tough Mudder race every few of years. A 10K or a 1/2 Marathon or even the big Boston. He has done them all.

 

[dancinstallion]

A lot of people are cancelling Spotify. I am about cancel mine just to be petty cuz I don't use it and forgot was I was still paying.

 

[BrownBetty]

I have an older family member on a ventilator due to pneumonia from covid. They are boosted but have comorbidities and old. I'm praying for the best outcome because I just can't with anything else.

They passed yesterday.

 

[MomofThreeBoys]

They passed yesterday.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[BrownBetty]

Sorry for your loss.

Thank you. It is such a big loss.

 

[Seattle Slew]

They passed yesterday.

I am so sorry for your loss. I hope they found some comfort in their final days.

 

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[Everything Zen]

^^^Good! I’m all for free speech but people have to remember that this just means you ain’t facing criminal consequences. Everything else is fair game.

 

[Kanky]

Hong Kong is making people euthanize their hamsters because some of them are Covid positive.

 

[Seattle Slew]

$100 million. For a lying podcast. Geez

 

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[Black Ambrosia]

The article briefly mentions Trudeau and family leaving the Ottawa residence yesterday. Foreign and conservative outlets are reporting that they are at an undisclosed location for their safety. There are other reports that they've fled the country but those don't seem credible.

 

[Crackers Phinn]

Again, I gotta wonder how many of these "breakthrough" cases are actually vaccinated people. One nurse sold approx 7K fake cards and added unvaxxed people to the vaccinated database in 3 months.

Spoiler: Janky Nurse Selling Vaccine Cards and Adding Unvaxxed to Medical Database

New York pediatric nurse 'sold fake COVID vaccine cards and raked in $1.5million in just three months': Cops found $900,000 in CASH at her home and her cop husband now 'faces internal probe'​

• Julie DeVuono, 49, of Amityville, Long Island, has been charged with forgery and offering a false instrument for filing fake vaccination cards
• She and her practical nurse Marissa Urraro, 44, alleged were stealing fake vaccination cards at Wild Child Pediatrics Healthcare
• When cops searched DeVuono's home, they found $900,000 in cash stashed inside NYPD-issued helmet bags - causing an internal probe on her cop husband
• They also found a ledger that appears to show that the nurse made $1.5million in the last three months selling the fraudulent vaccine cards

A Long Island pediatric nurse practitioner and her employee are accused of making $1.5 million from selling fake COVID-19 vaccine cards, and her NYPD officer husband is reportedly facing an internal probe for his potential involvement.

Nurse practitioner Julie DeVuono, 49, who owns Wild Child Pediatrics Healthcare on Long Island, and her employee Marissa Urraro, 44, a practical nurse, are accused of selling fake vaccination cards after undercover detectives obtained one 'on one or more occasions.'

DeVuono allegedly charged $220 for adults and $85 for children to enter falsified information to the New York State Immunization Information System - reportedly making $1.5 million in just three months, according to CBS New York.

Despite receiving vaccines and syringes being sent to the practice from the government, patients never received a vaccine.

When police searched the DeVuono's home in Amityville, they found $900,000 in cash, some of it found in NYPD-issued helmet bags, sources told the New York Daily News, drawing suspicion to her husband Derin, a police officer at Brooklyn's 60th Precinct.

Both nurse practitioners have been charged with forgery, and DeVuono for offering a false instrument for filing.

Both women were seen leaving Suffolk County Court on Friday where they pleaded not guilty at their arraignment hearing and they were both released without bail.

Derin is now reportedly under an internal investigation to see if he was involved in his wife's fraudulent business. In 2020, Derin had lost five vacation days after he was accused of making a penis-shaped flight path in an NYPD plane in 2017 when he was a part of the force's Aviation Unit.