A lot of effed up news in my state today.
Moron tests positive and decides to attend and not tell people, now grandma is dead.
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I donât get it. What do they have to gain from this if itâs âfreeâ?
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All your private information. Additionally- if not vetted- are they actually providing real test.
Weâve had COVID grifters here several times.
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Of course anti-vaxxers would try that shit
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from the article:
âIâm glad weâre going to be able to celebrate the new year in the freest state of the United States.â
yes, sir. freedom without responsibility is great.
employees stay home and collect a paycheck free from work, employers feel free not to pay workers even when they do show up. also from on prison is a staycation: but feel free to stay or go, whatever. itâs all good people.
if only civilization had thought this up 5000 years ago when the earth was first made
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I have so much less tolerance for doctors who spew this shit because they cannot play the âI didnât know any betterâ card. He fucking well does know, he is abandoning his responsibility, his oath and his patients for power and money. But,of course, he will not be held responsible.
He will just go on, along with his few fellow travellers, (demon-sperm doc, anyone? Just as reliable) making our jobs harder, because the MAGAts can point to them and say âwell, they are doctors too! So what you are saying is just an opinion, and I like theirs better.â FML.
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Let me just add that the local HD just released long delayed numbers for the last week. Augusta and Rockingham counties combined for 929.9 new cases per 100,000 population. In the last 7 days. And now the deaths are coming in as well. In the last week, 1% of the entire population tested positive, in an area where getting tested is exceptionally difficult. Yeah, this is gonna be fun.
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Away we go!
Whoopi!!!
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Victoria Australia reported yesterday that one in five PCR tests were coming back positive.
And thatâs after the Feds changed the rules so that you canât get a PCR test (like, youâre literally not allowed to) unless you have spent more than four hours at home with a confirmed case, and/or (I think itâs âandâ, but they keep changing it so Iâm not sure) you have symptoms. Working next to someone for eight hours who turns out to be a confirmed case is no longer enough to warrant getting tested.
Itâs also slowing everything down: they used to be able to batch the tests: if you tested twenty at a time, and the whole lot came back negative, then thatâs twenty tests done. But if you have to do them one at a time, that takes twenty times longer, and the positive rates are now so high that they canât batch them any more: batching the tests saves no time.
We are being told to use RATs instead. Even though 1) weâre being told that we have to buy them on the open market, and if thereâs price gouging (there is), then the government will ⌠IDK, make a cross face on the next press conference, and 2) you canât get them for love nor money.
Guess that year and a half of lockdown and curfew turns out to have been a complete waste of time, then. The NSW and Federal governments never wanted it, and now theyâve got the free-for-all that everyone told them would happen, and theyâre coming out on the pressers gaslighting the nation to its face that everythingâs fine, the hospital system isnât trembling, and this is how itâs supposed to happen.
Also personal responsibility: if you canât get your hands on testing, if you canât get isolation leave because everythingâs been redefined so that you donât qualify as âexposedâ any more, if you canât get your booster (or even your full dose) because the Feds screwed the pooch so hard on the logistics in the first place, then itâs all your fault somehow.
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I predict that âwe need to forgive each otherâ will be a sentence we will hear frequently. Until enough people are convinced not to ask for the responsibles to take responsibility because it is morally wrong.
FTR, the now former German minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) already said this at the beginning of the pandemic, in future tense, back then. âWir werden in ein paar Monaten einander wahrscheinlich viel verzeihen mĂźssen.â
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Florida and Arizona might have disproportionately large elderly populations because of retirement migration, but I guess their pre-pandemic death rates would account for that so itâs still not an excuse 
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Yikes! Thatâs frankly terrifying. Best of luck and good vibes to you, @docsoc.
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Today, Japan recorded 1,268 new cases of COVID-19 (including 117 at airport quarantine), surpassing 1,000 for the first time in 3 whole months. Worst hit was Okinawa Prefecture, with 225 (a lot of these cases are among people working at US military bases), followed by Tokyo with 151, Osaka with 124 and Hiroshima with 109. With the busy/festive New Yearâs holidays behind us, I can only imagine that it will get worse as more people who were exposed during the holidays start to come down with symptoms.
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Iâm starting to think that Bruce Arthur, the Toronto 
Starâs COVID columnist, has been told to go a bit easier on the government. He was banging the Omicron warning drum hard at the end of November. There is a tidbit in this story that is really telling:
⌠the science table made its modelling presentation Dec. 16, [and the] next day, according to multiple public health sources, 27 of the provinceâs 34 public health units agreed that if the province did not impose restrictions, the units themselves would. Public health units held a conference call to confirm it just before the hasty provincial announcement.
Premier Ford has tried before to push responsibility for COVID response to the regional/county units. This time they decided to rebel en masse, during an election year no less, and thatâs apparently what it takes around here for Ford to sit up an notice. Meanwhile, heâs made his new Chief Medical Officer look foolish for promising 5 days ago that schools would stay open. Iâm not sure Ford could look more foolish short of putting on an actual clown suit.
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Eh, you guys are just pikers. USA! Weâre Number One!!
Oh, shit, what do you mean, âthatâs not a good thing?â
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