Latest Coronavirus - Yikes

[McDad]

7 day average as low as on March 30 2020 - it's been higher than that every week since then until now.

Does this mean you are ready to close this thread you started last year?

 

[volinbham]

Does this mean you are ready to close this thread you started last year?

hell to the nah

 

[NurseGoodVol]

Can anyone really know the effect it will have on elementary school kids when they're ready to have a family? I know it was a surprise to us

No, we won’t know until people start showing long term effects. Even then, big pharma bears no responsibility, they get a government pass.

 

[MG1968]

Is 50 years ago safe the same as 2021 safe?

Ask a Desert Storm veteran suffering from Gulf War Syndrome that question.

 

[tpsdave]

Give me the reasons why it should be reported on daily. What’s the benefit?

The CDC, by their own admission, has defeated your deadly virus crap.

Also, please provide the irrefutable proof that 3.5 million people died BECAUSE of COVID and not simply WITH it.

And, can YOU provide proof that they did not??? I didn't think so.

 

[tpsdave]

Not surprised on the bottom five...

 

[Boston Vol]

 

[allvol123]

So are we good to now reduce FDA approval time for all therapies? Seems like so many are surely for it now. There are other illnesses that kill people besides covid.

 

[MG1968]

Not surprised on the bottom five...

Even at 34%, Mississippi has more than double the number of vaccinated than Vermont.

The percentages EL posted mean nothing without more context.

 

[tpsdave]

Even at 34%, Mississippi has more than double the number of vaccinated than Vermont.

The percentages EL posted mean nothing without more context.

Isn't it wonderful what we can do with percentages???

 

[DancingOutlaw]

Even at 34%, Mississippi has more than double the number of vaccinated than Vermont.

The percentages EL posted mean nothing without more context.

I think all but MA are in the top 10 for oldest states in the US. We've been through this exercise before. Correlation is not causation.

I had a professor in grad school who when discussing correlation and causation would note that in the summer the sales of ice cream and the number of rapes both go up. He would say, do you think eating ice cream causes people to become rapists? Or that rapists enjoy ice cream? Or that these things have a couple things in common but are otherwise completely unrelated?

 

[Velo Vol]

Can anyone really know the effect it will have on elementary school kids when they're ready to have a family? I know it was a surprise to us

Better outcome than a COVID infection brings, I suspect.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

My job in Nashville is allowing employees who are vaccinated to take their masks off starting today.

Those who are unvacvinated must continue to wear one.

EVEN THOUGH

We don't require masks for customers.

I've been in there a few times including today while I'm not working with no mask on and they don't bat an eye.

Can any of you make sense of this arbitrary rule?

 

[hog88]

My job in Nashville is allowing employees who are vaccinated to take their masks off starting today.

Those who are unvacvinated must continue to wear one.

EVEN THOUGH

We don't require masks for customers.

I've been in there a few times including today while I'm not working with no mask on and they don't bat an eye.

Can any of you make sense of this arbitrary rule?

It's all cover thy azz in case an employee sues.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Is 50 years ago safe the same as 2021 safe?

Isn't that the point of all of this?

They are about to ram the Moderna vaccine down our throats. It is absolutely amazing to me that there are so many sheep in this world that will blindly accept this.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Does this mean you are ready to close this thread you started last year?

And send his fame into oblivion?

 

[utvolpj]

Better outcome than a COVID infection brings, I suspect.

The inability to breed without genetic defects is a better outcome than the essentially nonexistent chance a child will get sick? In what world?

 

[bamawriter]

My job in Nashville is allowing employees who are vaccinated to take their masks off starting today.

Those who are unvacvinated must continue to wear one.

EVEN THOUGH

We don't require masks for customers.

I've been in there a few times including today while I'm not working with no mask on and they don't bat an eye.

Can any of you make sense of this arbitrary rule?

My company's policy is pretty much the same. They also did away with "public health" time off. If an unvaxxed employee has to quarantine because of a COVID exposure, it counts against their PTO from here on out.

It's not really arbitrary when you consider the expense the company has to incur should an employee have to be out or what they'll absorb if they provide insurance to someone that winds up in the hospital for an extreme case.

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

It's all cover thy azz in case an employee sues.

I'm going to refuse tonight when I go in and I might be liable to threaten that. My dad's a lawyer there's definitely a case there.

That would be an absurd means to fire someone.

And I'm one of their better employees and everyone likes me.

There was only 10 cases in TN yesterday. TEN.

It's practically discrimination. I wait tables there. If I'm one of the only ones wearing a mask and someone asks why and I tell them I'm not vaccinated they could judge the heck out of me. "Oh must be some antivaxxer trumper racist etc."

It's a slippery slope I tell ya and ima open a can of worms on their arbitrary asses tonight. I'm SICK of this bs.

 

[BreatheUT]

Convince the poorly educated to go ahead and get vaccinated.

Who do you define as poorly educated, and what does it have to do with getting vaccinated?

 

[PlanetVolunteer]

My company's policy is pretty much the same. They also did away with "public health" time off. If an unvaxxed employee has to quarantine because of a COVID exposure, it counts against their PTO from here on out.

It's not really arbitrary when you consider the expense the company has to incur should an employee have to be out or what they'll absorb if they provide insurance to someone that winds up in the hospital for an extreme case.

An employee wearing a mask and not wearing a mask has no bearing on that

And the last two days I worked I took it off at the end of the shift and they didnt care.

Its totally arbitrary. If they are worried about an employee getting sick from covid if they're unvaxxed they might as well fire them all now.

And there's no way that a company would have to bear the responsibility for someone getting sick and going to the hospital. How could you prove someone got sick from working in the restaurant and second, how would wearing a mask suddenly make the company immune from any responsibility if someone winds up in the hospital sick?

 

[allvol123]

My company's policy is pretty much the same. They also did away with "public health" time off. If an unvaxxed employee has to quarantine because of a COVID exposure, it counts against their PTO from here on out.

It's not really arbitrary when you consider the expense the company has to incur should an employee have to be out or what they'll absorb if they provide insurance to someone that winds up in the hospital for an extreme case.

So they are also encouraging someone exposed, to not tell anyone, so they can continue to come to work and get paid.

 

[Grand Vol]

At the senior PGA this last week, I'd say less than 10% of patrons that attended had a mask on.

The Tour still had a hard "bubble" for the players, but most of them weren't wearing a mask either.

People are fine with this. The only ones still fine are the ones willing to lie on their back and spread their legs for more government control.

 

[volinbham]

Even at 34%, Mississippi has more than double the number of vaccinated than Vermont.

The percentages EL posted mean nothing without more context.

the other issue is that the % is reported for total population. If you look at adults, even the bottom states are at 50% vaccination. further when look at the most vulnerable (50/55 and up) all the states are over 70%

at a minimum the data should be reported as a % of those eligible (12 and up).

OR

we could expose EL for being racist - Vermont is over 96% white and asian; the two demographics most likely to get the vaccine. Mississippi on the other hand is over 40% African American and Hispanic; the two demographics least likely to get the vaccine.

 

[bamawriter]

An employee wearing a mask and not wearing a mask has no bearing on that

Your employer appears to disagree.

And the last two days I worked I took it off at the end of the shift and they didnt care.

Now that's a decent argument. If they are going to enforce the policy, they can't pick-and-choose.

Its totally arbitrary. If they are worried about an employee getting sick from covid if they're unvaxxed they might as well fire them all now.

Well yeah, they could do that. Of course, it's also possible that they're trying to goad their unvaxxed employees into quitting so they don't have to fork out for unemployment.

And there's no way that a company would have to bear the responsibility for someone getting sick and going to the hospital.

If they're providing insurance, they wind up paying for hospitalizations no matter where or how the employee got sick. That stuff adds up quick.