D&D and the rising pandemic

[Dannyalcatraz]

Things are getting ugly in The South.
Doctors in North Texas considered taking COVID-19 patients’ vaccination status into account when determining who gets ICU beds

Over 20,000 Mississippi students under quarantine after 1st week of school

More than 20,000 students across Mississippi are in quarantine after the first week of in-person classes. Mississippi, which has the lowest vaccination rate among all states -- about 34%, according to state data -- is reeling from rising COVID-19 cases and the highly transmissible delta...

www.yahoo.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/20/dan-patrick-covid-african-americans/

 

[Janx]

Things are getting ugly in The South.
Doctors in North Texas considered taking COVID-19 patients’ vaccination status into account when determining who gets ICU beds

Over 20,000 Mississippi students under quarantine after 1st week of school

More than 20,000 students across Mississippi are in quarantine after the first week of in-person classes. Mississippi, which has the lowest vaccination rate among all states -- about 34%, according to state data -- is reeling from rising COVID-19 cases and the highly transmissible delta...

www.yahoo.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/20/dan-patrick-covid-african-americans/

simple triage ethics under limited resources. Vax'd folks have better chances. Unvaxxed folks are high risk terrorists taking up resources from stage 4 cancer patients.

They made their bed. They can die in it. At home.

 

[Umbran]

Things are getting ugly in The South.

Sometimes I am so happy about where I live. It isn't perfect but... the governor has put in a vaccination mandate for all State workers - the legislature is working on the extension of the program that will allow those workers do get vaccinated by effectively giving them some extra paid sick days to get shots.

The Mayor of Boston has instituted a mask mandate for all indoor public places in the city starting next week, iirc.

A mask mandate for all K-12 students is going to be voted on Tuesday, expected to pass, and will run until October 1, with considering extensions at that point.

They made their bed. They can die in it. At home.

And, if they were independent, that'd be fine. But those deaths are going to have knock-on effects throughout the nation.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

simple triage ethics under limited resources. Vax'd folks have better chances. Unvaxxed folks are high risk terrorists taking up resources from stage 4 cancer patients.

They made their bed. They can die in it. At home.

Oh, I understand triage & medical ethics. This situation is complicated. In neither do you get the luxury of making value judgments over the morality of your patients into account. So a “terrorist” and a “saint” should be evaluated on the nature of their respective afflictions, not on who they are.

It’s further complicated by the optics of this discussion in the context of the politicized “us vs them” response to the pandemic here in TX and elsewhere. This could get people shot. As in, with bullets.

 

[Garthanos]

Vaccine hesitant coworker caught covid.

 

[J.Quondam]

Half the admins at my brother's kids' school have developed covid. Small town, pretty much no one wears mask. Because of course they won't. At another school in the vicinity, a kid showed up at school knowing he had covid (not sure if the parents knew or not), and now a dozen students are in quarantine.
These "freedumb" folks who risk getting other people's kids sick are absolutely vile. Sorry, not sorry. They are.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Half the admins at my brother's kids' school have developed covid. Small Texas town, pretty much no one wears mask. Because of course they won't. At another school in the vicinity, a kid showed up at school knowing he had covid (not sure if the parents knew or not), and now a dozen students are in quarantine.
These "freedumb" folks who risk getting other people's kids sick are absolutely vile. Sorry, not sorry. They are.

My report from family that called today is this:

Local high school this week:
79 positive kids.
4 positive teachers.
6 positive staff.

...and the high school has the lowest rates in the district. The nearby middle school has 13 positive teachers and they aren't reporting the kids this week.

 

[J.Quondam]

It's infuriating.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

It's infuriating.

It's infuriating because it doesn't have to be this way.

I can't even imagine how infuriating it is to the people in other countries who are looking at us going through this and saying, "Wow, it must be nice to have so much vaccine around that you guys are complaining about all the people that just won't get vaccinated."

 

[Garthanos]

...and the high school has the lowest rates in the district. The nearby middle school has 13 positive teachers and they aren't reporting the kids this week.

High schoolers here I expect have highish vaccination rates AND are required to wear masks on top of that.