Fear and Loathing, a Rat Flu Odyssey

[stealurface831]

tested negative today for the second day in a row but still in quarantine until tuesday as my old man has tested positive. got my schedule confirmation for the first round of the vaccine on wednesday! ready for this shit.

[skaredshtles]

tested negative today for the second day in a row but still in quarantine until tuesday as my old man has tested positive. got my schedule confirmation for the first round of the vaccine on wednesday! ready for this shit.

Are they handing out vaccines in your neck of the woods differently than most of the country? Or are you considered an "essential worker"?

[stealurface831]

Are they handing out vaccines in your neck of the woods differently than most of the country? Or are you considered an "essential worker"?

i'm a first responder

[Benny Profane]

X

[skaredshtles]

i'm a first responder

Ahhh... gotcha.

[funkendrenchman]

Sorry about your friend Dan.

I like the sounds of that study. I feel fine again, but how long does this no taste thing last?

Generally, around 3 weeks. Glad you're feeling better.

[Mofro261]

Sorry about your friend Dan.

I like the sounds of that study. I feel fine again, but how long does this no taste thing last?

Up to 6 months...for some of the unlucky ones, it hasn't come back.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/healt...ess/index.html

[stuckathuntermtn]

X

Nice to see The South leading for once.

[Smoova]

Nice to see The South leading for once.

It has certainly risen again ...

[dannynoonan]

Nice to see The South leading for once.

Weren't they leading in infections for most of the year?

[Rideski]

Apparently DU is working on an antibody test that looks at 12 criteria instead of two if I remember the article correctly. Because of this perhaps able to predict who would have a bad reaction.

[XXX-er]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/...9flLRu20U4nWXU

More than three-quarters of people hospitalised with COVID-19 still suffered from at least one symptom after six months, according to a new study.

[summit]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/...9flLRu20U4nWXU

More than three-quarters of people hospitalised with COVID-19 still suffered from at least one symptom after six months, according to a new study.

And yet some people are more worried about the vaccine

[XXX-er]

they all sound the same when they are gurgling into a chest tube

[mfcf13]

I read back two pages and didn't see this brought it up...if it was further back my apologies, because the thread was discussing this, so it probably was already...but

Healthcare workers on the front line are seeing the truth of who COVID is killing, etc., and yet it appears there is a pretty huge chunk of healthcare workers declining the vaccine. A bunch of article in the news about it today. There just seems to be more to all this then what one would think in a deadly pandemic.

There just seems to more to this? Yup, some healthcare workers are nut jobs.

Meet Dr. Parry, she was at the Capitol the other day. Gotta love her Q flag.
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/statu...98242809139208

(see also: the doctors who were pushing Trump's Hyrdochlorquine theory).

[ill-advised strategy]

There just seems to more to this? Yup, some healthcare workers are nut jobs.

Meet Dr. Parry, she was at the Capitol the other day. Gotta love her Q flag.
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/statu...98242809139208

(see also: the doctors who were pushing Trump's Hyrdochlorquine theory).

Dismal

[ill-advised strategy]

how long does this no taste thing last?

We’re from Michigan, Bob.
Being tasteless is our birthright, cradle to grave.

[bodywhomper]

A friend, who is an NP at a family practice office, got her second Pfizer shot today. She came down with covid two days after the first vax. She had 5 known exposures at work prior to getting the first vax. It sounds like she was being consistently exposed for the past few months. Her husband, two kids, and mother (lives with them) all caught it, too, with symptoms. All on the mend now (hopefully!).

[Tri-Ungulate]

Healthcare workers on the front line are seeing the truth of who COVID is killing, etc., and yet it appears there is a pretty huge chunk of healthcare workers declining the vaccine. A bunch of article in the news about it today. There just seems to be more to all this then what one would think in a deadly pandemic.

There just seems to more to this? Yup, some healthcare workers are nut jobs.

Well there's that, and then again, the definition of healthcare worker can be broad, and encompass any number of individuals involved in the enterprise. This includes people with limited medical knowledge. Even those with some degree of training, say, a PA student from Tennessee perhaps, might balk because their understanding of the situation is, shall I say, incomplete. There are healthcare workers who don't ever see COVID19 patients, or at least sick ones, and don't realize how serious the disease can be. Then there are those who have bought into the whole freedumbz bizness, of which there are more than a few. There's tons of overlap between the aforementioned categories, and there are others not mentioned.

But gretch, what do you mean by "pretty huge chunk"? Let's see those articles you're referring to. Do you have any data backing up that assertion or are they those "heard it on teh Interwebz, or from a friend's sister-in-law's hairdresser whose roommate is a medical assistant" stories?

[Name Redacted]

I read an article a little while back that a disproportionate number of HCW's declining the vaccine were people of color who reference the Tuskegee incident when asked why they were declining. The do not trust the government to have their best interests at heart. There is a lot of people of color at all levels of the healthcare field.

[John_B]

Well there's that, and then again, the definition of healthcare worker can be broad, and encompass any number of individuals involved in the enterprise. This includes people with limited medical knowledge. Even those with some degree of training, say, a PA student from Tennessee perhaps, might balk because their understanding of the situation is, shall I say, incomplete. There are healthcare workers who don't ever see COVID19 patients, or at least sick ones, and don't realize how serious the disease can be. Then there are those who have bought into the whole freedumbz bizness, of which there are more than a few. There's tons of overlap between the aforementioned categories, and there are others not mentioned.

But gretch, what do you mean by "pretty huge chunk"? Let's see those articles you're referring to. Do you have any data backing up that assertion or are they those "heard it on teh Interwebz, or from a friend's sister-in-law's hairdresser whose roommate is a medical assistant" stories?

I'm not going to pretend to understand why but The Guardian suggests up to 40% of HCW in LA have refused the vaccine. 4th paragraph. https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...health-workers

[Lvovsky]

There just seems to more to this? Yup, some healthcare workers are nut jobs.

Meet Dr. Parry, she was at the Capitol the other day. Gotta love her Q flag.
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/statu...98242809139208

(see also: the doctors who were pushing Trump's Hyrdochlorquine theory).

She looks like an elitist

[bodywhomper]

Just learned that director level for a nearby public health dept will not vax at recommendation of multiple physician friends. Their boss won’t either. “Too early.” I mentioned that I have multiple Dr friends that work in ER that are already past their second vax. Response was, “well, they probably have no choice.”

[old goat]

Well there's that, and then again, the definition of healthcare worker can be broad, and encompass any number of individuals involved in the enterprise. This includes people with limited medical knowledge. Even those with some degree of training, say, a PA student from Tennessee perhaps, might balk because their understanding of the situation is, shall I say, incomplete. There are healthcare workers who don't ever see COVID19 patients, or at least sick ones, and don't realize how serious the disease can be. Then there are those who have bought into the whole freedumbz bizness, of which there are more than a few. There's tons of overlap between the aforementioned categories, and there are others not mentioned.

But gretch, what do you mean by "pretty huge chunk"? Let's see those articles you're referring to. Do you have any data backing up that assertion or are they those "heard it on teh Interwebz, or from a friend's sister-in-law's hairdresser whose roommate is a medical assistant" stories?

I don't know the number of docs refusing the vaccine--I'm more concerned with the ones doing telemedicine, reading xrays, etc who are getting it--but the libertarian--authoritarian streak is strong among doctors. (Yes I know it sounds like an oxymoron but it isn't--my liberty, your obedience is the line of thinking). Those who go into politics tend heavily far right Republican. Then there docs like Slobodon Milosevic, Bashir al Assad, Che Guevara (wait a second, how did he get in there). It does depend a lot on age and gender and type of practice.

[skifishbum]

wife got her 1st tues as a 1b healthcare worker
no side effects
soli trollers git their second this week
as as most of the 1as in ihc
id take some antivax dumbfucks docs shot
if i could