I don’t read this thread a lot, so I’m not really in a position to judge, but I wanted you to know that there have been multiple complaints about your posting in this thread and now there’s a request for containment. I’m making this post as a favor to you. I’m trying to prevent that from happening and giving you the chance to pull back a little bit. I’m not saying you’re wrong or right, but say you are right, then you’ll get a better chance to make your points if you do it maybe a little less often or just let some disagreements go.
Again, I don’t follow closely, so…shrug…just taking a stab at this.
Sometimes I feel that the country never progressed beyond the 90s in fashion.
Personally, I don’t mind that. I like flannel.
Paperwork needed for flying back home has hit some annoying snags. Aside from the covid test, I need to fill out paperwork declarations for both The Netherlands and Czech Republic even though I’m only transferring through the airport in the former.
So yeah this is pretty heavy stuff. I really need to sleep it off.
She’s talking about patient safety. Is there data that shows that limit is super important? Maybe. All I know is that California is the only place I’ve ever worked were ratios were kept at a strict 4 to 1. Somehow everywhere else got by on normal days. In covid times, it’s time to do a bit more.
Unbelievable that the WSOP isn’t online this year. Like… It’s the one thing where we already have the infrastructure to do it seamlessly online and have had that infrastructure for 20 years.
If he’s reported then he’s reported I suppose. But given the most recent posting was him getting called an idiot by several people for something he was later shown to be correct about, then the timing of this feels off.
Yeah I’m a bit puzzled by this. He had a really bad take on something a few months ago but apart from that he’s been posting mostly BBC/Sky articles and getting grief. Part of it I think is due to the BBC articles in particular being c’n’ps with no link - but that is because the BBC ones are mostly from their rolling news which means links don’t work so well. I read most stuff but could obviously have missed something important wrt this so please don’t hate on me too.
I ended up down the social media hole to a couple prolific Covid deniers pages this morning somehow. In the midst of all of the insane misinformation they each recently made posts explaining cognitive dissonance and how the left refuses to be convinced by facts because of it. Posted completely unironically.
I don’t really have a point I guess other than I don’t see Covid ever ending here with these people spreading lies and all patting each other on the back for it. Like life will go on and I think for the vaccinated we will resume our normal lives at some point this next year but we are still going to have morons dying from Covid and/or getting serious health complications from it for years and years thanks to these morons.
We’ve been getting attacked by the local gangster crew… Seems there paranoid wrt there boy getting it again… 3 drivers so far in the same place, call went out yesterday to stay away from the street but its where we all sit at times.
Fauci guesses indoor gatherings possible safely in Q4 ‘21 if we get high vaccine uptake. Given the large non vax movement in USA that you are talking about, a return to our normal lives this year may be too aggressive of a target.
We probably don’t get the uptake we need to get to herd immunity if it is 80 percent needed. We are still learning on the fly how long vaccination protection lasts, that complicates a full reopening, especially if uptake hovers at 50 percent. There are people who legitimately can’t get a vaccine, so reopening while they are at risk is a dicey moral and political question. Possibly a legal one when vaccine passports become involved (not sure this Supreme Court ends up going for vax requirements for domestic events, which will hinder return to normal for the vaccinated)
It would be easier if everyone was just confident in vaccines and this rollout went smoothly, but doesn’t seem like a likely path. I feel somewhat confident I will be able to see my non immune compromised family in person at some point in 2021 as most will get vaccinated. Feels better than it did six months ago that there is an other side, but societal luxuries like travelling freely/responsibly, full crowds at sporting events and restaurants, unrestricted in person school, and de masking seem more like 2022 or 2023 events to me.
Also share your worry that the new normal is going to mean like 30,000 domestic COVID deaths a year/six figures worldwide in the background. Wont shut down modern society, but depressing to think about and will continue to add stress to the healthcare system during the winter season