D&D and the rising pandemic

[J.Quondam]

Just to drive home the point of the failures of covidiocy:

As COVID cases rise, so do hospital-related infections

Overcrowding from COVID care is allowing infections to rise again.

arstechnica.com

By taking up hospital space, covidiots not only are making it harder for people with other illnesses to get the treatment they need, but they're also boosting the odds that that everyone who does end up in hospital get even sicker, because so many patients are packed in so tight.
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And a propos of nothing probably... For the first time since the pandemic began, I needed to visit a medical facility last week. At the clinic, roughly 4 in 5 of the check-ins that I overheard were covid-related. Sitting in the waiting room among coughing people,


* So far, no covid!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Looking forward to my flu shot (when available) and getting the shingrix stab, too.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Just to drive home the point of the failures of covidiocy:

As COVID cases rise, so do hospital-related infections

Overcrowding from COVID care is allowing infections to rise again.

arstechnica.com

By taking up hospital space, covidiots not only are making it harder for people with other illnesses to get the treatment they need, but they're also boosting the odds that that everyone who does end up in hospital get even sicker, because so many patients are packed in so tight.
--
And a propos of nothing probably... For the first time since the pandemic began, I needed to visit a medical facility last week. At the clinic, roughly 4 in 5 of the check-ins that I overheard were covid-related. Sitting in the waiting room among coughing people, I found myself thinking, It's going to suck BAD if I get covid* on top of shingles.**


* So far, no covid!
** Shingles is really unpleasant.

Gods above, I can't even imagine that combination, and kind of don't want to.

 

[Ryujin]

Just to drive home the point of the failures of covidiocy:

As COVID cases rise, so do hospital-related infections

Overcrowding from COVID care is allowing infections to rise again.

arstechnica.com

By taking up hospital space, covidiots not only are making it harder for people with other illnesses to get the treatment they need, but they're also boosting the odds that that everyone who does end up in hospital get even sicker, because so many patients are packed in so tight.
--
And a propos of nothing probably... For the first time since the pandemic began, I needed to visit a medical facility last week. At the clinic, roughly 4 in 5 of the check-ins that I overheard were covid-related. Sitting in the waiting room among coughing people, I found myself thinking, It's going to suck BAD if I get covid* on top of shingles.**


* So far, no covid!
** Shingles is really unpleasant.

Thanks for reminding me. Now that I have the Covid vaccinations well out of the way, I need to book in for the Shingles vaccine. Fortunately, my employer covers it, and I got luck with my first bout not being too bad.

 

[nedjer]

The media will report and in some cases condemn an incident, but never quite get round to the root causes of social and political media fuelling misinformation by presenting so-called 'debate' in the name of 'balance'. There is no debate over the climate crisis, just look out the window; there is no debate over what prevents Covid, just look at where it's under control; there is no debate over whether or not doctors and nurses are a good idea, because even anti-vaxxers turn to them once their lungs start seizing up.

Be good if they could show me a show where all the anti-vaxxer attacks on doctors and consequences of Covid bed-blocking are brought together and discussed in terms of the medical impacts on service delivery. No insert from Senator Loads O' Loot or plucky young stars of The Activist. We need less strictly dancing and more strictly facts.

 

[niklinna]

That Lucifer, ignoring social distancing. (Which should've been called "physical distancing" but has that ship ever sailed.)

 

[Cadence]

Looking forward to my flu shot (when available) and getting the shingrix stab, too.

My second shingles shot is in January. Need to start thinking of the flu one.

 

[J.Quondam]

Oh look! No baby deliveries, thanks to covidiots:

New York hospital to 'pause' delivering babies after staffers quit rather than get vaccinated

The Lewis County Health System is working on "contingency plans" in case it faces more mass resignations that put other essential services at risk.

www.yahoo.com

I still can't fathom how healthcare workers, of all people, can be antivaxxers. How do people like that even get hired to work in the medical field in the first place?

 

[Eltab]

Oh look! No baby deliveries, thanks to covidiots:

New York hospital to 'pause' delivering babies after staffers quit rather than get vaccinated

The Lewis County Health System is working on "contingency plans" in case it faces more mass resignations that put other essential services at risk.

www.yahoo.com

I still can't fathom how healthcare workers, of all people, can be antivaxxers. How do people like that even get hired to work in the medical field in the first place?

If you fire big chunks of your medical staff in the middle of a pandemic, the idiot is not the staff.

 

[Cadence]

If you fire big chunks of your medical staff in the middle of a pandemic, the idiot is not the staff.

If big chunks of your medical staff doesn't care about spreading the pandemic or becoming patients themselves or passing on the message to others not to care... kind of feels like the staff might be in on the inanity too?

Anyway, getting back to jobs that won't be automated and pay a lot, how much are travelling nurses making now?