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toomuchbaloney · Jan 19, 2022

1 hour ago, Beerman said:

Are the staff out because they were seriously ill, or have minor or no symptoms but tested positive?

I was out over Christmas because I tested positive. I had some sniffles and a cough, failed my employee screening so was tested. I've worked sicker several times, especially the first year or so in the peds hospital.

As our Democrat governor has said, the emergency is over. Everyone has had the chance to get vaccinated. There are treatments. No state mask mandates here. Some counties have them, but businesses are ignoring them and/or they aren't being enforced. I can't tell you how many times the last month I've seen a "mask required" sign on the door, stopped and put one on, and quickly see that many employees aren't even wearing them.

In my peds ER, parents of kids with minor symptoms are coming to get their laughing, smiley kids tested. At my vaccine job in a east coast city, several non-sick appearing people a day stop to see if we have tests. It seems we are causing a lot of problems by thinking everyone needs to get tested. Omicron for a vast majority, especially the vaccinated, is a cold. I still want people to get vaccinated, and we still need to pay attention for what might be ahead, but most of everything else going on right now is craziness.

"The Democratic governor of Colorado recently said the COVID-19 emergency is "over" and it's the unvaccinated's "own darn fault" if they get sick from the deadly virus." https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/12/14/22834582/colorado-governor-jared-polis-covid-19-emergency-over-unvaccinated-pandemic-vaccine-masks

As you are aware, the public health emergency caused by the covid pandemic is not over yet. It is not time to relax our efforts to mitigate this contagion.

subee, MSN, CRNA · Jan 19, 2022

14 hours ago, Tweety said:

I wasn't equating gun violence and covid and yes please let's not discuss guns. I was equating the mindset of people that don't care if your kids die from a crazed killer, certainly aren't going to care if people die from covid because of their rights to take no protection from covid and run their business or church or be unvaccinated.

One of my coworkers conspiracy believing unvaccinated husband caught covid and took Ivermectin don't you know he had a much more milder cases than his vaccinated, but not boostered, wife that didn't take it. Even though many people are reporting mild cases of Omicron. I don't know where he got it but my guess is he already had it on hand and saved it for just this moment.

What baffles me is here is a man that doesn't trust the vaccine that has a proven track record, but trusts putting Ivermectin in his body that has had flawed studies and is inconclusive. How do you talk logic with such people?

I think it had a placebo effect on him because he believed in it. Also, I've known many people that just had the sniffles and mild cases of Omicron.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809

I don't know anyone personally who has been "really" sick with Omicron. The couple I mentioned before got Covid before Omicron was here. Our hospital is swamped now and I am assuming it is Omicron because more people are being admitted who are vaccinated (but much lower incidence of boostered people admitted). Also there are no boostered people on a vent here. I thought it was ironic that while I was filling out my form for my "free" Covid tests that I would have to ask for something for free rather than go to my local drug store and pay for them, but they don't have any in stock.

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Jan 19, 2022

CDC 1/17/22

Covid Deaths

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The current 7-day moving average of new deaths (1,729) has increased 36.8% compared with the previous 7-day moving average (1,264). As of January 12, 2022, a total of 842,873 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in the United States.

Daily Trends in Number of COVID-19 Deaths in the United States Reported to CDC

Two years after COVID infection started, 1,700 Americans are dying DAILY due to COVID-19.

toomuchbaloney · Jan 19, 2022

1 hour ago, NRSKarenRN said:

CDC 1/17/22

Covid Deaths

Daily Trends in Number of COVID-19 Deaths in the United States Reported to CDC

Two years after COVID infection started, 1,700 Americans are dying DAILY due to COVID-19.

While we have people suggesting that covid is now in an endemic phase...how did we get here.

nursej22, MSN, RN · Jan 21, 2022

It appears that Mitch McConnell said the quiet part out loud.

I love that many are posting selfies on Twitter proclaiming they are Americans, #mitchplease.

subee, MSN, CRNA · Jan 21, 2022

5 minutes ago, nursej22 said:

It appears that Mitch McConnell said the quiet part out loud.

I love that many are posting selfies on Twitter proclaiming they are Americans, #mitchplease.

OMG! Mumbling and incompetent? And people put that label on Biden for stuttering.....This guy has more serious frontal lobe issues:)

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jan 21, 2022

On 1/19/2022 at 1:01 PM, toomuchbaloney said:

While we have people suggesting that covid is now in an endemic phase...how did we get here.

On 1/19/2022 at 11:38 AM, NRSKarenRN said:

CDC 1/17/22

Covid Deaths

Daily Trends in Number of COVID-19 Deaths in the United States Reported to CDC

Two years after COVID infection started, 1,700 Americans are dying DAILY due to COVID-19.

The one thing I can take away from this is that the number of deaths is lower now than during the delta wave even though number of infections is probably three to five times higher now.

Is 1,700 deaths a day in a country of nearly 330 million people acceptable?

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jan 21, 2022

On 1/19/2022 at 1:01 PM, toomuchbaloney said:

While we have people suggesting that covid is now in an endemic phase...how did we get here.

I think it's pretty much assured that it's here to stay. That it's "endemic" really can't be said because it doesn't quite meet that definition and it's not set up a predictable pattern, say like cold and flu has a season.

I think people before scientists and governments, at least by the behavior I see and hear here in Florida is that we're moving towards of state of living with covid and that it's not going away.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/what-will-it-be-like-when-covid-19-becomes-endemic/

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jan 21, 2022

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Presumably, McConnell meant that Black voters turn out at rates equivalent to Americans overall. In recent elections, that’s been true. Black turnout exceeded the national turnout rates in 2008 and 2012 before aligning with them in 2016 and 2020. Hispanic rates, by contrast, are well below the national rate while White turnout is above.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/20/mcconnell-waves-off-voting-concerns-since-black-people-turn-out-heavily-americans/

There's a deeper dive into what he is saying.

Side note: Yes, it's interesting to listen to his speech pattern and have it not be an issue with people but it is if it's Biden. But I wouldn't call him "mumbling and incompetent". He's a seasoned professional at the top of his game and he knows how to play it. Sometimes....he misspoke this time.

To me I have to wonder that republican states like Georgia and Florida that passed voting changes knew the stats that African Americans were voting more (especially when Obama and Mrs. Harris were running) that they took notice and decided to make it harder. Just sayin'

Guests · Jan 21, 2022

30 minutes ago, Tweety said:

I think it's pretty much assured that it's here to stay. That it's "endemic" really can't be said because it doesn't quite meet that definition and it's not set up a predictable pattern, say like cold and flu has a season.

I think people before scientists and governments, at least by the behavior I see and hear here in Florida is that we're moving towards of state of living with covid and that it's not going away.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/what-will-it-be-like-when-covid-19-becomes-endemic/

No question that this covid isn't going away but health professionals should have a working understanding of the meaning of these words. That some claiming to be health professionals hold such unprofessional comprehension of these terms while simultaneously creating confusion and hesitancy and doubt about this pandemic and vaccination is a problem.

Let's admit it...there's millions of our neighbors who have been living as if we aren't in a pandemic anyway and that's part of the problem.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jan 21, 2022

13 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

No question that this covid isn't going away but health professionals should have a working understanding of the meaning of these words. That some claiming to be health professionals hold such unprofessional comprehension of these terms while simultaneously creating confusion and hesitancy and doubt about this pandemic and vaccination is a problem.

Let's admit it...there's millions of our neighbors who have been living as if we aren't in a pandemic anyway and that's part of the problem.

It is a word being thrown around and an understood professional definition would be important for people to understand.

I'm not really seeing where health care professionals are saying it's endemic but I'm sure you can find them out there. But mostly they are saying that it will become endemic. I think governments are proceeding with this idea that we didn't defeat covid.

And yes covid denial and minimizing was a problem.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/12/doctors-warn-covid-will-become-endemic-and-people-need-to-learn-to-live-with-it.html

Guests · Jan 21, 2022

35 minutes ago, Tweety said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/20/mcconnell-waves-off-voting-concerns-since-black-people-turn-out-heavily-americans/

There's a deeper dive into what he is saying.

Side note: Yes, it's interesting to listen to his speech pattern and have it not be an issue with people but it is if it's Biden. But I wouldn't call him "mumbling and incompetent". He's a seasoned professional at the top of his game and he knows how to play it. Sometimes....he misspoke this time.

To me I have to wonder that republican states like Georgia and Florida that passed voting changes knew the stats that African Americans were voting more (especially when Obama and Mrs. Harris were running) that they took notice and decided to make it harder. Just sayin'

What are the odds that republican led states which historically disenfranchised voters of color saw historic turnout in those neighborhoods that didn't support them and decided that the best way for republicans to win with the most votes was to have fewer of those other votes rather than more of theirs? I'd say the odds are pretty good given that questionable election related legislation flowed from those states before the ink was dry on the SCOTUS removal of the protections.