Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #99

[LaborDayRN]

Or how about these stupid parents just respect the school policy to keep staff and children safe during a pandemic, and stop kicking up a ridiculous fuss over a bit of fabric? Or alternatively just home school their precious little angels.

Really, what are they teaching the next generation of Americans? To shout and tantrum every time there’s something they don’t like? Honestly I’m shocked to see such a carry on. The level of anger, arrogance and hatred is sad and dangerous. Like teachers haven’t gone through enough already. How dare they!

I can't "like" this post enough! So VERY well said! Bravo!!!

 

[Reasonable & Just]

Who is going to teach the maskless class?
Not the teacher wanting to be masked.
If teachers get sick, we will go fully remote which I guess is what the anti-maskers want to happen?
JMO

Oh they definitely don't want that, either. They want what they want - for the rest of us to cater to their fantasy land where they get whatever they want with no consequences.

 

[weepingangel]

Florida coronavirus: At least 5 South Florida officers died from Covid-19 in one week - CNN

 

[nhmemorymaker]

Or how about these stupid parents just respect the school policy to keep staff and children safe during a pandemic, and stop kicking up a ridiculous fuss over a bit of fabric? Or alternatively just home school their precious little angels.

Really, what are they teaching the next generation of Americans? To shout and tantrum every time there’s something they don’t like? Honestly I’m shocked to see such a carry on. The level of anger, arrogance and hatred is sad and dangerous. Like teachers haven’t gone through enough already. How dare they!

so many many of my friends are feeling the very same... Those of us who have been around a long while... , who have tried to live with hope and faith all our lives........... have never felt the despair we feel today.

Truth:

Really, what are they teaching the next generation of Americans? To shout and tantrum every time there’s something they don’t like? Honestly I’m shocked to see such a carry on. The level of anger, arrogance and hatred is sad and dangerous.

 

[SouthAussie]

Florida coronavirus: At least 5 South Florida officers died from Covid-19 in one week - CNN

I searched every one of those five officers on Google, to see if they were vaccinated.

For three of them there is no mention of vaccination at all. Neither yes, nor no. Just that they died from complications of covid and the distraught families that survive them.

For two of them ...

Diaz said he’s not sure whether Sepot was vaccinated. (Jennifer was a 27 year old Fort Lauderdale officer)
Fort Lauderdale police officer dies of COVID-19; 27-year-old survived by husband, 2-year-old daughter

The department doesn’t require its officers to be vaccinated. Williams’ vaccine status is not known. (Robert was a 47 year old West Palm Beach officer)
West Palm Beach police officer, 47, dies of COVID-19

We can all draw our own conclusions from that ... but in my experience, when it is not mentioned (or is unknown) if a person is vaccinated and they have covid, it is because they are not vaccinated.

 

[doublestop]

I don’t know what the actual law was here when our kids had to wear them, but up and down the UK the conversations went something like this:

Parents: right kids, I know it’s a pain but you have to wear a face mask in class to help protect your friends and teachers.

Kids: urgh, I don’t really like wearing a face mask.

Parents: well thems the rules, so here’s your mask and here’s a spare and wash your hands and have a good day!

And so it went in normal US homes too. It's the abnormal homes where it was "Ok, don't then."

 

[nightowl1975]

Across the United States, religious figures, doctors, public officials and other community leaders are trying to help people circumvent COVID-19 precautions.

In Oregon, superintendent Marc Thielman of the rural Alsea School District told parents they can sidestep the governor's school mask requirement by applying for an accommodation for their children under federal disabilities law.

In Kansas, the Spring Hill school board is allowing parents to claim a medical or mental health exemption from the county's requirement that elementary school students mask up. They do not need a medical provider to sign off.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry posted sample letters that would allow parents to seek a philosophical or religious exemption from Edwards's mask rule at schools — or from a vaccine requirement, if one is enacted.

In California, the state medical board is investigating a doctor who critics say is handing out dozens of one-sentence mask exemptions for children in an attempt to evade the statewide school mask requirement.

Pastor Greg Fairrington of Rocklin's Destiny Christian Church has issued at least 3,000 religious exemptions to people with objections to the vaccine, which is becoming mandatory in an increasing number of places in California.


...an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, warned ... The virus is "looking for fractures in the system," he said, "and we have plenty of fractures in the system."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-august21-2021-1.6148680

Honestly? My first thought is… let them. And let nature take its course. Survival of the fittest and all that. Perhaps after a few of them die of covid, or become severely ill with it, some will see the light. Or not. But you cannot fix stupid. At some point, it seems the only thing left to do is let nature take its course.

 

[nightowl1975]

We can all draw our own conclusions from that ... but in my experience, when it is not mentioned (or is unknown) if a person is vaccinated and they have covid, it is because they are not vaccinated.

It’s also possible that they are intentionally keeping it out of the media if any of these officers were fully vaccinated but died anyway. There are cases where this is happening, and there is concern that the optics look bad when trying to convince vaccine skeptics to see vaccinated people dying anyway. Of course there’s no acknowledgement that these vaccinated deaths are occurring at drastically lower levels than unvaccinated deaths, but I digress.

 

[SoCalDavidS]

...an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, warned ... The virus is "looking for fractures in the system," he said, "and we have plenty of fractures in the system."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-august21-2021-1.6148680

I reject that conclusion. We Do Not have a "system." We have complete chaos.

 

[Turkeytrot]

Superintendent says he didn't encourage parents to get ADA accommodations

Found this one in regards to the superintendent from Oregon

 

[MimosaMornings]

And so it went in normal US homes too. It's the abnormal homes where it was "Ok, don't then."

I doubt the conversation got that far.

“Here’s your sign to hold up at the protest”

“Dad doesn’t believe in this Covid crap and no one is going to make us wear a mask”

Standing beside Mom in a frenzied crowd holding the sign she made for you and yelling at your classmates across the street.

Sounds like a great start to the school year. Sigh
JMO

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

'It's impossible': Lack of Covid safeguards overwhelm school nurses (nbcnews.com)

"School nurses here are facing a moral dilemma, because the protocols that are in place and coming from the state don't align with their values," one expert said.

Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools have had students in classrooms for only two weeks, and yet Katherine Burdge, a school nurse for the district, said she's more stressed out than at any other point during the coronavirus pandemic.

The district, the eighth largest in the U.S., has had to isolate or quarantine more than 13,485 students and employees since the start of August, and more than 2,650 of them have tested positive for Covid-19. In response, the Hillsborough County school board ordered a more restrictive mask mandate Wednesday after hours of debate, defying Gov. Ron DeSantis' order that masking decisions be made by parents.

"It's frustrating and overwhelming just to be in the position that we are in," Burdge said. "We have so many children as well as teachers that are either isolated or quarantined right now. It's really tough for nurses...

 

[Cool Cats]

A longtime nurse in Lewiston vows to quit her job rather than get the shot

Sun, August 22, 2021, 5:19 AM

Annette Roy of Lewiston, a licensed practical nurse since 1977, is dead-set against the COVID-19 vaccine.

She said she and her husband, Lionel, are the only ones in their family who are not immunized, a decision she thinks will keep the couple safe. The rest of her family, she fears, is not.

"I bet within three years, I will go to their funerals," she said this week.

Given her stance, which flies in the face of some scientific studies and public health advice, it's hardly surprising that she has no intention of getting jabbed in time to keep her job after the Oct. 1 deadline that Gov. Janet Mills set for health care workers to be fully vaccinated.

"Today I throw in my towel," Roy said. "I'm walking away from my profession. I'm done," she said.

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For 22-year-old Meghan Curley of Farmington, a certified nursing assistant at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, the mandate is unsettling.

Suffering from autoimmune issues herself, she's worried the vaccine might wind up hurting her.

"I don't know what to do," Curley said Friday. "I'm just kind of protesting it as much as I can" and hoping it will work out. She said she doesn't want to be forced to quit a job that lets her help people so much.

Roy said she cannot believe that Mills and President Joe Biden, whom she called "the demented one," are ordering her "to put a poison into my arm."

"I'm not taking the poison," Roy said.

She is convinced from her research, which includes watching a YouTube video from a purported nurse who gives her name only as Nicole, that the vaccines haven't been studied enough to know if they are safe.

 

[Turkeytrot]

Then we have this going on..

"Side note: It’s a good thing people weren’t having to carry around their vaccination cards for this one, because there wouldn’t be much left of them. And then what?" (From the article)
And as you can see, no masks and they're packed in there like sardines.


Hella Mega concert with Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer delivers on the Mega

 

[jjenny]

It’s also possible that they are intentionally keeping it out of the media if any of these officers were fully vaccinated but died anyway. There are cases where this is happening, and there is concern that the optics look bad when trying to convince vaccine skeptics to see vaccinated people dying anyway. Of course there’s no acknowledgement that these vaccinated deaths are occurring at drastically lower levels than unvaccinated deaths, but I digress.

Most simple explanation is that these cops were not vaccinated. A lot of cops aren't vaccinated.
Even in NY, vaccination rate for their police department is under 50%.

 

[Skigh]

New York City's homecoming concert was dramatically cancelled half way through, and revelers were told to leave Central Park immediately and seek shelter as Tropical Storm Henri barreled down on the city.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC officials had ignored a storm watch for the Big Apple ahead of the concert, and planned to push ahead with the event on the Great Lawn in Central Park.

The 'We Love NYC, The Homecoming Concert' was intended to mark the end of the Covid pandemic in the city that was the global epicenter for the virus back in April 2020.

But just after 7:40pm, as Barry Manilow was singing a medley of his hits on stage, the music was suddenly stopped as lightning strikes were reported within the city.




Does New York really think the city is finished with Covid?

 

[weepingangel]

Longtime NYPD cop dies of COVID, marking departments 60th death from virus

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I posted this on the Michigan Covid thread a couple of days ago and thought some here might like to see this video. Michigan schools will reopen over the next three weeks, and I anticipate ongoing angst over the mask issue. Local school board meetings have been quite animated with parents protesting for or against mask mandates. Things could get ugly when the school year commences.

School mask debate gets heated in Macomb County (clickondetroit.com)

 

[TootsieFootsie]

More than 200 primary kids diagnosed with COVID-19 in one weekend

More than 200 NSW children aged nine and under were diagnosed with COVID-19 over the weekend ahead of the state government revealing plans for when schools will open despite primary students being unable to be vaccinated.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

UK scientists look at reducing boosters to save vaccine for rest of the world

Scientists in Britain are examining whether smaller doses of Covid vaccine could be used as part of booster programmes, amid hopes that the approach could also increase the supply of jabs across the world.