malamud69

TMB...Once again I must applaud your zest… But it reminds me of an old adage : “ If you could reason with reli...ous people there would be no reli...ous people”

Point is that the flu argument/nonsense is the apples to oranges comparison a vociferous minority loves to tout...Why not use the “Chewbacca is a wookey “ defense or a select read from Dr. Seuss...that’s my point.

Sadly, the ‘human’ simian still has no grasp/understanding concerning the use of the frontal lobe. It would in fact, be easier to ride a stegosaurus across an unleavened earth that was all of 3000 yrs old...just saying

SARS-CoV-2 is NOT the FLU Is this truth incomprehensible? This thread once again compels the invocation of Hitchens... ”That which can be proclaimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence “

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We are no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back” Carl Sagan

This! Thank you...

“That which can be proclaimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence “

“That which can be proclaimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence “ ...Hitchens

Look to 80’s British film “Threads” (Nuclear Holocaust) details the fragility of human society/existence. I was just commenting to a close confidant in the ED the other day...if we are falling apart after a few weeks of “staying in” then we should all take extreme notice of how our “systems” pale in comparison to Mother Nature...

In my case they keep records for a certain number of years then those records are destroyed -that is essentially all I was told in the two or three sentence letter of completion… CONGRATS! And it does take a while for that “uneasy feeling“ to sort of dissipate. I’m about three months past my completion and still have that weird feeling every once in a while that I’m amazed that I don’t have to check in or go P into a cup...enjoy! Of course I was “free” and then C19 showed up! Ugh

Never ever ...not once Got a random letter of completion from somebody in the program I never had any interaction with ever for the entire four years I was involved… My “case manager/director of the program” who supposedly had my back not one time wished me well/or even offered their congratulations for my completion... pure and simple bs completion of a complete scam/ sham/mumbo-jumbo driven pseudoscientific horse$&@“ money making travesty

Update: Major city hospital/trauma center-close to NYC Hospital/corporation attempted to make people reuse PPE-Union fought back-policy immediately discontinued. “Hazard pay“ initiated by hospital more as a CYA attempt by management-in actual reality it would most likely never be initiated based on current circumstances and how it was written. Still under-staffing/canceling/mandating more hours to full-time employees while having Perdiem’s fight over the crumbs Current staffing policies changing daily/sometimes shift by shift… Causing confusion among staff Employee testing basically at zero unless they are extremely ill-multiple employees walking around with the sniffles etc...and depending on what political bent they seem to have sometimes wear their masks sometimes don’t and some just don’t seem to care while others 100% care… Drive-through testing tent limited to the number of tests and results take days Most patients that come through emergency are C19 patients yet amazingly still a trickle of the “frequent fliers” with complete nonsensical complaints being allowed in because still no effective pre-triage tent/set up initiated MD/PA shifts and pay cut Due to the lack of staffing when things do get heated/busy things become dangerous and people are not clear as what to do/what not to do -not to mention LTC/similar facilities constantly send residents that they want tested knowing that we cannot test them in that capacity causing more danger for everybody as most every single facility that they are sent from has positive staff and residents Sometimes it feels very calm and sometimes it’s a cluster$&@“ Sadly some staff have become ill w/ C19 Sadly many of us exposed with no follow up because we have very little mass testing capacity...

Hmmm...while I agree with the statement concerning antibody testing, and that we will see a staggering number of people that have already been exposed I am not so sure I believe with the “aren’t smart enough” notion. If the powers that be could get away with such a scheme/are getting away with such a scheme...You can bet that they are doing that very thing… Remember ultimately this is profits over people-Has been for decades and will continue as such.

To the OP They are rabbit holes, you are in the twilight zone, and unfortunately you’re caught up in a money making machine regardless of COVID-19, regardless of reality/ logic/any semblance of “helping”… Unfortunately the decisions that you are now faced with are true and valid...I always suggest that people read the DODIS book concerning the fallacy/BS of the 12 step Mumbo jumbo And what you say concerning selling it all and going to live out in the woods/in isolation is probably not the worst idea I’ve ever heard concerning the current insanity surrounding the COVID-19 scenario… I just finished four years of a program that sucked my bank account and had me living on eggshells every minute of every day… All I can say is that I luckily finished the “program” almost days before this outbreak hit the region that I live in...I feel your pain… You can and will prevail over the insanity… Remember you are literally dealing with a machine that treats you only like a number and only for a way to make money Treat the machine with respect if you must so you can survive it

Yes… Same feeling here… Mine “Ended” mid January. Non-work related, savings decimated… And now as soon as that is completed I am dealing with C 19… The cushion would’ve been nice to take some time off to care for my elderly parents who are now in grave danger due to this pandemic…As an aside: the anti-climactic ending consisted of an emailed letter from a person I have never once met or interacted with ever during the entire four years… No follow up from the case manager or the director or anybody that had my “best interest at heart”