Hopefully it’ll panic some of the hesitant: “They’re stealing your shots!”
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Research has found ongoing endothelial dysfunction, hypometabolism in the brains of long Covid patients, microclots in long Covid blood samples, reduced aerobic capacity and impaired systemic oxygen extraction in non-hospitalized patients without cardiopulmonary disease, disrupted gut microbiota that persists over time, damage to corneal nerves, immunologic dysfunction persisting for at least eight months, numerous findings of dysautonomia (a common post-viral disorder of the autonomic nervous system)
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In a cohort of non-hospitalized patients, 31% were dependent on others for care; our own paper from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative found over 200 multi-systemic symptoms that impaired the ability to work and function in daily life. We also found high levels of cognitive dysfunction and memory loss that were as common in 18-29-year-olds as those over 70, a finding that is starting to be highlighted in children and teenagers as well.
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This is exactly what I have been screaming about for months, to no avail. Second day of school and Staunton City schools already starting to report positive cases. We know better, but cannot seem to do better. 
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What’s making me and others uneasy is that the breaking one vial-case got reported earlier, with the allegation that the person broke the vial and replaced the contents with saline, and that they were a “Querdenker”. At some point, authorities reported that maybe thousands of people were affected. And now, the lawyer claims the person actually tried to prevent loss of doses.
This is communications clusterfuck galore. It’s already clear someone fucked up, but right now it’s totally opaque what and who.
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COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free
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Since March, there’s been a 257 per cent increase in the number of sellers using the Telegram messaging app to advertise fake vaccination cards to “those who do not want to take the vaccine,” according to security biz Check Point.
The company said there are now more than 2,500 groups on Telegram trying to sell fake vaccination certificates. Participation in those groups, as measured by the number of followers, grew by 566 per cent. Some of those groups, the company said, have more than 450,000 followers.
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I started in graphics in the quick print world of the late eighties. If the client didn’t have good artwork of whatever logo was used, the only choices were to passive aggressively use what they did provide, or redraw it. I had a strong distaste for the former, so I got really quick at the latter. (Which is why it’s not surprising that I can claim the nineties version of Five-0’s badge and one of the officials seals of the Republic of the Marshal Islands as portfolio pieces.)
To recreate that card and the CDC logo at a sufficient fidelity for that job would have been about two billable hours, tops. (Which was, by a peculiar coincidence, the first LAN I ever worked on.) Of course, now we have the Web, so the “hardest” part of that is just an image search away. I have had business cards that would take more effort to counterfeit. In fact, now that I think about it, literally every business card I’ve ever had with the exception of my most recent employer would have been harder to counterfeit.
ETA: Would it be unethical to put some “high quality” fake templates out there with easily spotted errors?
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I am curious to know what kind of conditions she is working under that made this seem preferable to telling her supervisors that she had broken the vial?! This is starting to sound more like a story about a bad work environment and job insecurity…
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Not to go off topic but I must acknowledge your Transcendental OPerating System joke.
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Is THAT what that stood for? Huh, never even got curious enough to feel curious.
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Yep! Effing hippies
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If you ever discover another kind, dose ’em up again, they’ll resume.
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Soon enough it’ll be a third dose for everyone.
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For everyone that will accept it 
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The whole case is weird.
She said she was worried loosing her job, so she tried to hush up breaking a vial. By doing something much worse. Which got her fired when a co-worker noticed. Which, if I got the TL correct, was in February? Later, allegations that she shared and wrote stuff on social media surfaced, which made everyone question her motivation. This was in April. Then, officials make a statement, indicating that maybe nearly 9k doses might have been saline. And it is reported that the people probably affected will be contacted to get a proper jab.
We’re in August.
Quite some time to try to establish facts.
The press jumps on it, the lawyer weights in, the officials seem to backpedal a bit.
Considering job security: she was working for the red cross in a communal vaccination centre. That means: she was more likely than not a properly trained professional, trained as a nurse. She must have known what she’s doing, and what are the stakes of liability if she’s swapping saline for vaccine, as opposed for dropping a vial. Job security in Germany is not terrible, and you can go to court if you got fired out of reasons which aren’t grave. Sure, there were cases upheld which are ridiculous, but generally, it’s more difficult to fire someone than you would believe.
And considering the age group: that early in the year (and it does not matter if Feb or Apr), high-risk age groups were vaccinated. That means that swapping saline for vaccine was very dangerous for those who received the jab. Everyone knew that, also at the time.
We’re none the wiser right now, and I won’t speculate any more. But what stands is that this case is a total communications clusterfuck. Right now, noone seems to know, and erring on the safe side probably should mean: everyone get a new jab, while still considering the nurse as innocent of swapping around 9k doses against saline.
What a stressful time for the people and their relationships who might possibly have been affected.
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Looks like the dumpster fire Olympics was a success
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