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Allanfan20
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9/15/2021  9:25 AM
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Convinced DeSantis does not care. Here is the governor of a highly elderly population. You would think he would be more concerned. Almost like he feels the elderly are no longer important. Nor the one with asthma or other compromised conditions.

Some politicians like him are such sociopaths, they would only be spurned into action if their poll ratings plummeted rather than the death ratings rising. His numbers are falling, but not by enough yet

I know people who think he is awesome. They are wrong, clearly but I am telling you this. He could very well become our next president. People LOVE him.

This

My family live in Fl and, when the topic comes up, they say that the man can do no wrong in the eyes of FL Republicans

Not just Florida republicans. I have republican friends up here that think he is the man.

The scary thing is Republicans have a LOT of candidates that suck but they universally love. Trump, his kids, DeSantis, Hawley 🤮. Who do democrats have that they all agree on? Oh boy.

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9/15/2021  6:51 PM    LAST EDITED: 9/15/2021  7:18 PM

At the end of the article.

"More than 65 percent of Floridians are vaccinated, and death rates and the spread of the virus have begun to decline in the state after a brutal August, according to weekly COVID-19 data from Florida's Department of Health."

That number is going in a positive direction. Keep it going Florida.

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9/15/2021  7:32 PM
Clean wrote:

At the end of the article.

"More than 65 percent of Floridians are vaccinated, and death rates and the spread of the virus have begun to decline in the state after a brutal August, according to weekly COVID-19 data from Florida's Department of Health."

That number is going in a positive direction. Keep it going Florida.

Another article on this situation with more info.

"The last time she talked to her uncle during a Facetime chat from his hospital bed, he told her he wished he’d followed her advice.

“Tell all of our family to get vaccinated. It’s horrible. It hurts,” she said he cried, as he gasped for air."

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9/15/2021  7:51 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000007923534/arkansas-vaccine-hesitant.html

Must watch NY Times video on Vaccine Hesitant.

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9/16/2021  11:00 AM
Heartbreaking

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/appalachia-covid-schools-masks_n_613defdce4b0dda4cbcfd185

Our School Board Refused To Mandate Masks. Now Things Are Bad. Really Bad.
Sadie Kneidel


Note: This piece was written on Tuesday, Sept. 7.

Let me start by saying how much I love the public schools in our rural North Carolina county.

My son has had a wonderful experience at our local elementary school, when he’s been able to attend, over the past three years. Over those same three years, I’ve worked for our district as the Spanish-language liaison.

Now, let me start again by saying how much my heart is broken.

Those three years have been years marked by COVID-19. My son’s kindergarten year, cut short. His first grade year, with three different teachers, a period of virtual school, six months of home schooling, two months in person. Second grade, now, defies description.

I haven’t said much to anyone about what I’m witnessing. I have to connect with people on all sides of the spectrum without putting them off, so I can get them the information they need. I flow like water through beliefs, terrors, confusions, desperations. With each phone call, I close my eyes and try to make myself a blank slate, until I can read where this person is at and respond as compassionately, as firmly, as helpfully, as urgently, as effectively as I can.

In the high country of Appalachia, with fewer than 18,000 residents in our county, it took COVID a while to reach us. But it’s here now. Since 7:30 this morning, I’ve done nothing but make COVID calls. In normal times, my job involves a variety of things: tutoring newly arrived students; interpreting Individualized Education Programs; refereeing meetings with counselors and principals; translating documents; relaying messages about soccer practice, the school play, a forgotten trumpet. But now it’s just COVID. All day and every day, COVID.

Yesterday, I foolishly didn’t look at my email for a few hours. It turned out I’d missed an entire class going into quarantine ― a dozen students whom I failed to call, who showed up to school this morning only to be sent home again. “But my child was wearing his mask,” one mother says, bewildered, when I finally call. “Why does he have to quarantine?” Because the other child, the positive case, was not wearing a mask, I explain.

Against the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the state Health and Human Services toolkit, our local health department and our school nurses, our local school board has decided to not require masks. As a result, roughly 10% of our school community is in quarantine. Based on our district’s COVID policy, most of these children would not be in quarantine if their classmates had been wearing masks. A estimate of the incidence rate within our school system is 1175/100k, almost six times the CDC’s threshold for “highest risk of transmission in schools.”

I make call after call. “I’m so sorry. Your child has been exposed. You need to come pick her up.” “I’m sorry, yes, I know you had to ask off work yesterday too. Yes, I know he just had a test last week.” “I’m so sorry. I know that she just got well on Friday.” “Yes, if he has a cough, you should take him for a test.” “The fever still isn’t better? Ay, and the little ones? Yes, you’d better call your doctor.” “Yes, señora, I understand that you would feel safer keeping them all home this week, but if you do, they’ll be counted absent.”

A parent calls me to ask anxiously, ‘Is it safe for the children to be at school?’ ‘Not really,’ I say. Three days later, she calls to tell me her two oldest are home sick. Before I can hang up, another mom beeps in: four children, all sick, fevers, coughs, the second one coughing so hard she can’t catch her breath.

It starts before I’ve had breakfast. A mother calls: She is not allowed to take another day off work. A father laments: I don’t have a car to come pick up my child. Another dad: I’m the only one who can drive. I have the car at work from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Where can I get him tested before or after those hours? A mom who thought a quarantine is supposed to last 40 days because the word for “quarantine” (cuarentena) is so similar to the word for “forty” (cuarenta). A mom who says she heard that you can die from the vaccine and is genuinely afraid to get it, although both her children have been in quarantine longer than they’ve been in school, and are now home with fevers as they await the results of their second tests of the school year. A parent who calls me to ask anxiously, “Is it safe for the children to be at school?” “Not really,” I say. Three days later, she calls to tell me her two oldest are home sick. Before I can hang up, another mom beeps in: four children, all sick, fevers, coughs, the second one coughing so hard she can’t catch her breath. They’re heading to pick up a nebulizer.

Between calls, I find myself resting my forehead on the desk.

At the end of last year, a student and I talked about her transition to a new school this fall. Her family fled here from a conflict-filled country to the south; her sister was just freed from months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Another transition for her felt ominous. “Will you still come see me?” she asked nervously. “What if I don’t know where to go?”

“I’ll be there,” I promised. “I’ll find you. We’ll figure it out together.”

Well. I haven’t been there. I haven’t found her. She’s been in quarantine already. She’s currently at home sick. I’m home with my son. Even if I could go see her, should I? Would it be safe? What will her test results be this time? What would have happened if I’d gone? I wonder if she feels afraid and lonely in the new school. I wonder if she feels like I’ve let her down. I feel like I’ve let her down.

I think about all the kids being let down right now. Missing their English lessons, their speech therapy, their football practice, their dance classes. Failing their tests, a lump in their throats, unable to do the packets of worksheets sent home. Anxious parents hovering, encouraging, scolding, not able to help them because they don’t speak the language. Our local health department reports that 79% of the kids in quarantine right now are there because of school contacts, not household contacts. If everyone were wearing a mask, how much of this could not be happening? Truly, it breaks my heart.

As for our family, we kept our son home the first two days of school, to see how things would go. Days 3-5, school was closed due to flooding. By the next Monday, his class was in quarantine for all of week two. The third week, they went for one day, and then there was an early dismissal and another day of closure due to another storm. After that, we withdrew him. We’re so privileged to be able to do so. And it, too, breaks my heart.

They say that anger covers sadness or fear. I’ve had my angry moments. I’ve felt the fear. And now I’m just sad.


Sadie Kneidel (she/her/hers) is a writer and naturalist with degrees in Spanish, women’s and gender studies, and clinical mental health counseling. She is proud to provide Spanish-language services to her local community in western North Carolina.

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9/22/2021  3:47 PM
Who would have guessed the Family Guy cartoon would perfectly explain how the mNRA vaccines work.

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9/22/2021  9:47 PM
THREAD about latest FDA/CDC booster guidance/steps

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9/22/2021  10:48 PM
martin wrote:THREAD about latest FDA/CDC booster guidance/steps

Only a matter of time before they approve boosters for 18+.

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9/23/2021  2:48 PM
Allanfan20 wrote:
martin wrote:THREAD about latest FDA/CDC booster guidance/steps

Only a matter of time before they approve boosters for 18+.

Once it's my time for the booster I will be front of the line. These stories I read about what goes on in ICU's are crazy. The sad thing is that one doctor said if you have to be rushed to the hospital due to difficulty breathing
and must be immediately placed on a vent you are already too late. In his experience only about 10% of those people live. This means my mother never really had a chance to survive. She was too tough for her own good.

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9/23/2021  9:48 PM
Moderna CEO says the pandemic will be over within a year.

He said from that point it will be treated like the flu.

RIP Crushalot😞
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9/23/2021  11:25 PM
Clean wrote:
Allanfan20 wrote:
martin wrote:THREAD about latest FDA/CDC booster guidance/steps

Only a matter of time before they approve boosters for 18+.

Once it's my time for the booster I will be front of the line. These stories I read about what goes on in ICU's are crazy. The sad thing is that one doctor said if you have to be rushed to the hospital due to difficulty breathing
and must be immediately placed on a vent you are already too late. In his experience only about 10% of those people live. This means my mother never really had a chance to survive. She was too tough for her own good.

Sorry about your mom, man.

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9/24/2021  8:53 AM
Clean wrote:
Allanfan20 wrote:
martin wrote:THREAD about latest FDA/CDC booster guidance/steps

Only a matter of time before they approve boosters for 18+.

Once it's my time for the booster I will be front of the line. These stories I read about what goes on in ICU's are crazy. The sad thing is that one doctor said if you have to be rushed to the hospital due to difficulty breathing
and must be immediately placed on a vent you are already too late. In his experience only about 10% of those people live. This means my mother never really had a chance to survive. She was too tough for her own good.

Sorry for your loss! Friend of mine, vaxxed got the Delta and he was in hospital for a week on Oxygen. Not vented. 50 years old. Vax hypothetically saved his life as it did not progress beyond. About 5 years removed from his heavy smoking habit. Covid went for his longs. Real life stories are making it real for people and they are slowly moving to get vaxed. Moderna CEO may be right but this is America, home of the defiant. We did with Small pox and other vax in the past. We did not want to mask with Spanish Flu Pandemic, and we continue as the same. Its our independent spirit.

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9/24/2021  2:34 PM
Hopefully I did not poorly explain what I was trying to say in my previous post. While my mother did pass from COVID it was not recently. She passed near the beginning of the pandemic where not much was known about it. This has made me seek out a lot of info on Vaccines and viruses. With the new info I have gathered I look for things that seem to be common between all the cases. I also look back on my families Covid experience with more knowledge to see if we would have done things differently could we have had a better outcome. A lot of people like my mother try to beat it on their own and wait until things get dire before they go to the hospital. To be honest she never called 911. I had to call it for her after I heard how much she was struggling to breath. I had been calling her for 2 days prior but she never picked up the phone. I now know it was because see was sleeping all day due to being so weak from the virus.

The info also helps me plan what to do if I catch it because I am at high risk. I ended up buying an O2 meter. My normal O2 levels are 97. When I notice it getting lower I will get checked out. I want to get medical help before there is too much damage to my lungs. I am fully vaxxed so it might never get to that point but after hearing my mother struggling to breathe I never want to go through that so I will be vigilant as possible. This is also why I wear a N100 mask. N100 masks have a 99.97% filtration efficiency compared to a N95 with 95%. Other masks relies on other people being masked to truly be effective. Since masks and vaccines have been politicized we can't rely on other people being masked or vaxxed. So I am taking no chances.

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9/24/2021  11:04 PM
League told Wiggins to **** off. Denied his appeal to be exempt from Vax mandate.
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9/24/2021  11:55 PM
I found an article that puts together all the things I noticed from all the stories about COVID. They call it the 7 stages of COVID.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-26/pandemic-covid-19-stages-vaccination-intensive-care-respiratory-therapist

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9/25/2021  7:18 AM
Clean wrote:I found an article that puts together all the things I noticed from all the stories about COVID. They call it the 7 stages of COVID.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-26/pandemic-covid-19-stages-vaccination-intensive-care-respiratory-therapist

This is the kind of information that should be delivered daily to the intellectually challenged among us.

Although I’m sure they would tune it out so they can keep pretending it’s just the flu. Or find some other defense mechanisms to keep pursuing their simple, selfish desires.

Meanwhile the rest of us get to deal with a pandemic, as well as these parasitic delusional weakling snowflakes.

Hmmm. I do believe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.

Oh good lord... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XkmGrX7O0lQ
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ToddTT wrote:
Clean wrote:I found an article that puts together all the things I noticed from all the stories about COVID. They call it the 7 stages of COVID.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-26/pandemic-covid-19-stages-vaccination-intensive-care-respiratory-therapist

This is the kind of information that should be delivered daily to the intellectually challenged among us.

Although I’m sure they would tune it out so they can keep pretending it’s just the flu. Or find some other defense mechanisms to keep pursuing their simple, selfish desires.

Meanwhile the rest of us get to deal with a pandemic, as well as these parasitic delusional weakling snowflakes.

Hmmm. I do believe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.

Its ok, he important thing is you woke up.

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