DC public schools were originally scheduled to be mostly closed Monday and Tuesday of this week. I say mostly, because they were going to use Monday to distribute rapid tests to students and faculty, Tuesday as the day for everyone to submit results, and then everyone with a negative test could return on Wednesday. Well, it decided to snow today, so now a snow day on Monday has led them to cancel Wednesday classes so that they can shift the testing process back by a day. (And, given DC covid rates, they’ll probably close again when like 30% of the faculty tests positive)
The audacity of this fraud is amazing to me. I think I mentioned what this group did before but holy shit. (This paper is from a few FLCCC folk, including one that wrote some things I liked about sepsis a ways back that ended up never being replicated)
Cliffs are they added a bunch of patients just before the end date of their study. They went on to die in really high numbers, but after the end of the study date so they reported them as alive in the paper
As mentioned earlier, Columbus City Schools are open for business (masking and other measures in place), but individual schools will go remote if staffing is too low. Apparently that ended up being 8 schools on this first day back. Going to be an interesting next few weeks.
it’s summer down there, there are a ton of people coming and going, it seems inevitable that someone would get through at some point regardless of how well they’re testing.
Here in Dublin (right outside of Columbus), there’s been an important update to COVID-related protocols.
Before, masks were mandated for grades K-8 unless the parent requests an exemption. Masks were “welcome” in high school.
Yesterday, the district sent out an email with the following escalation (bold and underline in the original email):
Due to the current surge of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus, Dublin City Schools is requesting that all staff, students, and visitors wear a mask during school hours and at school events from Jan. 3, 2022 through Jan. 15, 2022, regardless of vaccination status.
Also, important to add the anti-bullying point:
No student, staff member or visitor shall be ridiculed, bullied or harassed for exercising their choice to wear or not wear a mask in our schools.
Despite this totally meaningless and toothless change, I’m confident that half of Dublin is in an absolute uproar for this request.
My mom is currently waiting in line for a test at our tribal clinic. Then she’s going grocery shopping afterwards because her accountant told her she doesn’t need to quarantine since she’s had her booster.
lol just got a message saying we’ve run out of space in the ER. As in, we don’t have space to put people in the waiting room or anywhere else. We have three tents as surge capacity.
Granted this is the small ER I work at with only 12 beds but fuck me.
Everyone has decided that going to the ER is the only way to get tested.
I’m sure that testing shortages are a cause, but they typically aren’t trying very hard to go elsewhere. They also have access to schedule outpatient testing. Usually they just come to the ER with sniffles. Sometimes they actually have a fever. The former are positive a small amount of the time. The latter are almost all positive.
I keep hearing people saying “go to the ER to get tested.” I tell people don’t do that but a lot of people think that is the best fastest way to get tested.
As for me, Covid closing in. Still waiting on test results for the guy at group home and talked to me lifelong friend him and his entire family (three kids) came down with Covid over Christmas, in New Jersey. He is a doctor and has been pretty careful. Not sure how they got it.
That is the worst. I have a lot of anxiety in general but that would put me over the edge. Temporary relief and disappointment with the cancellation. Doing it again would be argh.
My work conference call had lots of talk about coworkers/families getting Covid. Sounds like everyone’s experience was “a couple days of the sniffles,” thankfully. We’re remote all week (partly at my insistence, having just gone to the wild probable-superspreader wedding).