Originally posted by Kamban
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For the teachers that want to go back to online classes.: let’s do it professionally.
Old job: show up in the classroom and teach 20-30 students.
New online job: Show up in the studio and be part of a production team. Every lesson is scripted and professionally produced to maximize the valuable time, educational goals and maintain student interest. No more of the teacher staying at home, they won’t like the commute.
Goal accomplished, no student interaction.
Just one third grade teacher needed. The others don’t get paid.
I would bet teachers would vote to get paid and go to work.
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Originally posted by HikingDO View Post
I agree with all of this. However, what will the media report on if they can’t give us our daily ghastly covid numbers?🙄
Go ahead and sensationalize the number of cases to increase the eyeball views to their website.
But government should mandate that every hospital that accepts Medicare/medicaid and is 501c should also publicly post their admission rate, ICU admission rate and death rate, separated as being vaccinated versus unvaccinated.
Maybe a bot can gather and aggregate that into a common COVID site. And let people see those numbers, especially death among the vaccinated vs unvaccinated and make their own minds. No judgements, just posting raw data for all to see
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Originally posted by Kamban View Post
Another radical idea
Go ahead and sensationalize the number of cases to increase the eyeball views to their website.
But government should mandate that every hospital that accepts Medicare/medicaid and is 501c should also publicly post their admission rate, ICU admission rate and death rate, separated as being vaccinated versus unvaccinated.
Maybe a bot can gather and aggregate that into a common COVID site. And let people see those numbers, especially death among the vaccinated vs unvaccinated and make their own minds. No judgements, just posting raw data for all to see
*Covid: hospitalizations and deaths (declining) however the statistics can be cherry picked is success. They won’t touch vaccinated or unvaccinated.
*Vaccinated: forget the one shot, 2 shoot, booster or 2nd booster. The signal came out from the CDC Director.
“Up to Date”- This allows complete flexibility for changing the goals and guidelines. Politics leading science. The CDC will fund whatever r&d and studies needed to declare success for vaccines. Hey, political success requires achieving numbers. Whatever it takes. Set the goals that the vaccination messaging was successful. Up to date. Undefined.
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We are in a surge, big time. We have tested more in this last week than 5x our typical average!
We have 5% of our total staff out positive with COVID today.
Our vaccination rate is super good, 96% with 4% exemptions and most also boosted.
COVID sucks and is literally sucking the life out of us. Ugh!
Our County Public Health thinks this is not the peak, expects that in 1-2 weeks but who knows.
Stay safe, stay masked, hang in there.
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Sometimes I wonder if we are really struggling with “not knowing what we don’t know” regarding this new virus.
What should work doesn’t seem to produce the expected results. Tons of frustration. Don’t fight Mother Nature?
Headlines get attention.
Travel restrictions. Makes sense.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59903785
Australia has been very very aggressive in just about every way. Vaccinations, lockdowns, regulations galore. Did they work? Australia is getting crushed.
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/31/10694...h-in-australia
Lowering the curve worked. Just not for very long. More battles to fight. Socially, we might be fighting the last battle simply because we didn’t know more.
This might be a real world example of evolution.
Messaged as a mutation, real time evolution of Mother Nature’s process accelerated.
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Originally posted by Kamban View Post
Another radical idea
Go ahead and sensationalize the number of cases to increase the eyeball views to their website.
But government should mandate that every hospital that accepts Medicare/medicaid and is 501c should also publicly post their admission rate, ICU admission rate and death rate, separated as being vaccinated versus unvaccinated.
Maybe a bot can gather and aggregate that into a common COVID site. And let people see those numbers, especially death among the vaccinated vs unvaccinated and make their own minds. No judgements, just posting raw data for all to see
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Our biggest problem has been staffing. Tons of floor nurses and specialty nurses are out with COVID colds, crippling certain areas of the hospital. I still haven’t admitted anyone with respiratory failure from COVID this surge. Admitted a couple of people for other things that happened to test positive for COVID as a side note only. Most, by far, are still going home.
The past day, there has been the slightest let-up in volume, and swabs are coming back negative a bit more frequently. I wonder if we have peaked?
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Originally posted by Tim View Post
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sorry, it is cases and deaths, not hospitalizations and deaths, vaccinated vs unvaccinated.
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Originally posted by FIREshrink View Post
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...gtype=Homepage
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sorry, it is cases and deaths, not hospitalizations and deaths, vaccinated vs unvaccinated.
Again, it’s interesting to parse the data. Particularly using the different criteria. Deaths by age groups are highly in the older categories, as expected. But, that segment is highly vaccinated.
Forgive my ignorance, but the only conclusion I can draw is older people are more likely to die from any illness. I am not qualified for judging the statistical significance. Yes, older people die more frequently than other age groups. Not sure if a third or forth booster would change that.
I would expect both higher deaths for both vaccinated and unvaccinated. Musings only, not knowledge. Immune systems get weaker as one ages.
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I'm very pro vaccine, but I question the utility of a 4th vaccine booster of the same shot... If it's to protect from variants, shouldn't we be "boosting" with more variant specific vaccines a la the flu shot? (this was in reference to moderna's ceo in the news).
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Originally posted by billy View PostI'm very pro vaccine, but I question the utility of a 4th vaccine booster of the same shot... If it's to protect from variants, shouldn't we be "boosting" with more variant specific vaccines a la the flu shot? (this was in reference to moderna's ceo in the news).
So I do the next best thing - get a full dose vaccine as a booster than a reduced dose booster. I have also lost faith in Pfizer, due to its tendency to hype things and claim more efficacy that it really has. I might get a full dose Moderna as my 4th vaccine around 6 months from my 3rd vaccine and hope for the best.
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