D&D and the rising pandemic

[Dannyalcatraz]

One man is on a mission to identify the masks that offer the best protection from COVID-19. Here's what he found.

Aaron Collins is helping Americans find high-quality face masks that will protect them and others from COVID-19 without taking supplies away from frontline medical workers.

www.yahoo.com

 

[MarkB]

Not too practical in the northern hemisphere right now, but there’s nothing wrong with setting up some folding chairs & TV trays on the lawn and do socially distant gaming that way.

Aside from not having a lawn myself, I'm not sure I'd be up to sharing our gaming shenanigans with every neighbour in hearing range.

 

[Umbran]

Ugh.

I've mentioned before that my wife is a veterinarian. She runs a house-call-only practice, which I have to say has been a challenge with covid. For the spring, summer, and winter, she's been doing medicine outside, which is awkward, but has functioned. Now, there's a foot of snow on the ground, which makes that a real challenge.

when deciding who was an "essential worker" in terms of reopening and getting back to work, our state classified Veterinarians in with agricultural workers as "necessary". But, in terms of getting vaccinated... she's ranked down at the bottom (with me - I'm an officer-worker type, and can and do work from my house).

Other states have figured out that veterianrians are health care workers, and need to be vaccinated early. But Massachusetts? Nope. sigh.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Ugh.

I've mentioned before that my wife is a veterinarian. She runs a house-call-only practice, which I have to say has been a challenge with covid. For the spring, summer, and winter, she's been doing medicine outside, which is awkward, but has functioned. Now, there's a foot of snow on the ground, which makes that a real challenge.

when deciding who was an "essential worker" in terms of reopening and getting back to work, our state classified Veterinarians in with agricultural workers as "necessary". But, in terms of getting vaccinated... she's ranked down at the bottom (with me - I'm an officer-worker type, and can and do work from my house).

Other states have figured out that veterianrians are health care workers, and need to be vaccinated early. But Massachusetts? Nope. sigh.

My partner is an infectious disease doctor taking consultations and going into the hospital this week to work with COVID patients.

She is somehow in the B category for the vaccine.

???

 

[Eltab]

Brazilian President Bolansaro took up then fumbled an opportunity:
He was going to get vaccinated first. He had had COVID a while ago, and said that he could wait because he had antibodies. So far so good.

Alas he did not announce that he would donate his shot to a charitable case, but instead created some kind of hyperbolic complaint about lawsuits and alligators.
(I suspect the translation from Portugese to English did him no favors and compounded the foot-in-mouth event.)

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

The government in the us [] ... hardly a good example

Yes.


(edit: there is a sense of sadness and frustration that comes when one's individual efforts are not matched within the community, and knowing that the efforts within the community are consistently undermined by the government. I wonder about our continued capacity to solve issues that require collective action, when something like a pandemic can prove so divisive instead of uniting us against a common threat.)

 

[Thomas Shey]

Ugh.

I've mentioned before that my wife is a veterinarian. She runs a house-call-only practice, which I have to say has been a challenge with covid. For the spring, summer, and winter, she's been doing medicine outside, which is awkward, but has functioned. Now, there's a foot of snow on the ground, which makes that a real challenge.

when deciding who was an "essential worker" in terms of reopening and getting back to work, our state classified Veterinarians in with agricultural workers as "necessary". But, in terms of getting vaccinated... she's ranked down at the bottom (with me - I'm an officer-worker type, and can and do work from my house).

Other states have figured out that veterianrians are health care workers, and need to be vaccinated early. But Massachusetts? Nope. sigh.

That's dumb as a box of rocks.

 

[Garthanos]

I wonder about our continued capacity to solve issues that require collective action, when something like a pandemic can prove so divisive instead of uniting us against a common threat.)

It was leveraged into divisiveness by straight up lies which were then followed up with erratic reinforcement, leadership really does mean something

 

[Istbor]

Didn't sleep well. Work was stupid busy, and on top of that I read about a new possible COVID-19 strain that is supposedly more infectious. I am going to be looking into this more to see what happens. And trust in some of the experts that think our efforts with the vaccine will not be thwarted.

2020 is not pulling any punches.

 

[Garthanos]

Didn't sleep well. Work was stupid busy, and on top of that I read about a new possible COVID-19 strain that is supposedly more infectious. I am going to be looking into this more to see what happens. And trust in some of the experts that think our efforts with the vaccine will not be thwarted.

2020 is not pulling any punches.

in the UK I think it was.