I didn't ask if vaccines are helpful; I'm asking do you think what we're doing now will reduce actual numbers? Will partially shutting down industry and forcing the last hold-outs to get a shot substantially reduce the numbers?
This makes zero sense to me. Are you saying that being vaccinated makes no difference? If you're vaccinated, you're not dying anywhere near as much as if you weren't. Shit is hugely different with vaccinations. Yes, it still sucks, but it would be so much worse if people weren't vaccinated. Why do you think there's such a push to get people vaccinated? Just for shits and giggles? That's the thing with Omicron... it's way more contagious. This is why people are so concerned about getting vaccinated... because even when you ARE vaccinated, it's affecting people... and helping more people to live. If nobody was vaccinated our hospitals would be shut down and death rates would be measured by the reefer trucks parked in the hospital parking lots.
Just in case anyone was misinterpreting the things that I (and the philosopher) was saying: There should be a vaccine mandate, there always should have been a vaccine mandate. There should never have been a choice to get it or not. Deltacron might be the thing that breaks it wide open. Busting through vaccines, the contagiousness of omicron with the ass kicking of delta.
So just to give a real life example of what the hospital overcrowding is doing: my cousin who was a passenger in a car wreck a few days ago, who barely survived and has to have basically all of his lumbar column fused together, actually had to be transferred to a military base for the surgery because there were no more level 1 trauma rooms available in the city. He was then released last night, early, to do the rest of his care at home, because they needed the bed for someone else. he’s not even 30 and did not get anywhere the quality of care he could have gotten, and needed, had the hospitals not been flooded by people refusing the goddamn shot and nurses and doctors are getting burnt out and leaving (I know, I’m hiring many of them). They did the absolute very best they could. But even getting a nurse in to see him while he was there was challenging. Resources are thin.
There is not a single hospital reporting to the CDC with less than 80% of its beds occupied. I've taken classes with more people than the sum vacancies of the entire US's icu beds. We are fragile as fuck right now, and it's getting worse every day.
Sure glad the CDC is saying, "Stay away from those pesky Canadians" lol https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coron...americans-to-avoid-travel-to-canada-1.5734376
That's because you were born after we had eradicated most of the deadly infectious diseases, and you were still vaccinated for many of them when you were very young. Up until early 2020 you didn't really run the risk of killing another adult just by sitting next to them on a plane. Now you do.
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1480976894589906950 The full exchange can be found elsewhere, but basically Senator Marshall was asking if Fauci would commit to a financial disclosure in order to insinuate that Fauci is engaged in some kind of insider trading and is actually making decisions to benefit his investments. When Fauci pointed out that his financial disclosures have been public record for almost 40 years, Marshall floated the idea that "big tech" is somehow hiding them. The above hot mic was caught after the exchange.
You're not the first to say that. Thing is, this is a more frequent series of events than the usual late-forties stuff. Im not freaking out, but it’s a little concerning.
The wife has been working from home the last few days and she's said that there has a been a few times where she is doing a standard work task that she does numerous times a week and just completely brain farts. Ends up just staring at the screen for a moment trying to figure out the next step. She's hoping that it's just from being unorganized using the home office.
Province of Quebec is looking at an extra tax charge for the unjustified unvaccinated adults. I'm sure that this will be Trudeau's fault in no time. This is a slippery slope to a two tier health care system. Which is a step away from the disastrous public/private model for "care" https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...19-one-day-after-top-doctors-resignation.html
They have seen a 4 fold increase in vaccination rates since they announced that you need a vaccine card to go to liquor/weed stores.
Since United enacted their vaccine mandate they have stopped losing employees to covid deaths https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...pears-ended-weekly-deaths-employees-rcna11760
Yes, but what I mean is that I want the cost to increase based on income. Otherwise it is just a tax on the poor instead of a tax on the stupid.