“Public health experts say the continued reluctance of scores of first responders to be vaccinated poses a particular risk to the public.”
No shit. They shouldn’t be exposed to the people that so desperately need their services.
How could that not be a problem?
It’s so scary that medical professionals are behaving like this. What other shit is hiding in there that hasn’t come to the surface because of the pandemic?
Medical unprofessionals.
And 17 months too late for a good reason to offer…
“You’re not the boss of me! You can’t tell me what to do! Waaah! I’m not eating my broccoli, I want ice cream and cookies! And I won’t go to bed!”
What an infantile, inane, and idiotic attitude.
Especially for law enforcement, whose job is basically to force people to do what they don’t want.
Although, if you read down the article it seems that not many are following this advice. (Or they’re not seeking medical help for the results of drinking iodine. Which is a possibility.)
There’s so much to unpack, from age distribution over reporting to medical infrastructure - I give up.
I belive we would have the power to save many lives, probably up to millions - but I also believe we choose not to. Still, it’s not an apocalyptic scale clusterfuck - just a rehearsal for that.
@anon29537550, Is there are big change going to happen for how the medical community views and deals with long term infection consequences as a result of long covid? Are doctors/researchers going to end up taking things like Chronic Lyme Disease or PANDAS more seriously or is long covid going to end up being lumped in the same category of “there might be something there but its hard to figure out and we aren’t that interested so we are just going to pretend that there isn’t really anything there.”?
This short* video from CNN gives a good sense** of the enormity of the sea of flags/lives lost…
*2 minutes and 20 seconds long
**or so it seems to me—I haven’t been there
My thought, with nothing to really back it up, is that covid will lead to dramatic increases in the attention paid to long term effects of viral-immune system interactions. I suspect that there will be a ton of “Holy shit, how did we not see this before?” moments. It will be very interesting.
Fuck this guy.
Today, Japan, a country of 126M people, reported only 602 new cases of COVID-19. No one prefecture reported more than 96 (Osaka), while Tokyo (87) is in double digits for the first time in 11 months!
60.9% of the population is now fully vaccinated and 71.3% has had at least one shot.
What the actual fuck New Zealand… NO!!! You guys were the ONLY ONES who got this shit right!
And that’s the innovative program, rather than the usual grind.
As usual the transcript of the program is a condensed version. The account of debugging a high-flow oxygenator at home is a scary listen in the audio.
Their efforts up to now have been impressive. But I think at this point they’re just acknowledging the reality that the strict lockdowns and contact tracing that had worked for them in the past is no longer able to completely eliminate the virus in the country. It’s probably inevitable that they’d get to this point eventually.
Note that they’re not just ending lockdowns and giving up entirely:
Waiting until 90% of the population is vaccinated sounds fairly reasonable to me. With all the human and animal reservoirs for this virus around the world most epidemiologists no longer believe complete elimination is possible anymore, so the long term strategy has to be about mitigating harm rather than a complete and total victory.
