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Meanwhile here at Bend’s lone hospital, which is the largest east of the Cascades and serves a large swath of Eastern Oregon…

From the head of the ER, Dr. Nathan Ansbaugh:

"It's frustrating that we're at the same place we were at the start when there's a prevention available. We're all pretty fried."

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2 hours ago, mysfit said:

Some people are just too +++++ing stupid to live. I just wish their idiocy didn't impact others.

If you want an adventure in drooling stupid - try twitter and go down the rat hole of hard core trumpers :blink: I'm honestly surprised some of these people can hold a menial mindless job much less drive, walk & wipe themselves :unsure:

My only hope is that the accounts are mostly bot accounts that appeal to the trump cult, because that's the only hope for the future of this country - But JFC, it's an adventure in drooling stupidity, racism, lies, conspiracies and itching for civil war of some sort 

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43 minutes ago, UNLV2001 said:

If you want an adventure in drooling stupid - try twitter and go down the rat hole of hard core trumpers :blink: I'm honestly surprised some of these people can hold a menial mindless job much less drive, walk & wipe themselves :unsure:

My only hope is that the accounts are mostly bot accounts that appeal to the trump cult, because that's the only hope for the future of this country - But JFC, it's an adventure in drooling stupidity, racism, lies, conspiracies and itching for civil war of some sort 

Hard pass on that 

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58 minutes ago, UNLV2001 said:

If you want an adventure in drooling stupid - try twitter and go down the rat hole of hard core trumpers :blink: I'm honestly surprised some of these people can hold a menial mindless job much less drive, walk & wipe themselves :unsure:

My only hope is that the accounts are mostly bot accounts that appeal to the trump cult, because that's the only hope for the future of this country - But JFC, it's an adventure in drooling stupidity, racism, lies, conspiracies and itching for civil war of some sort 

Comment sections on news articles are worse. I do my best to avoid all that crap. It's all just way too depressing.

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One of the Final Five..........

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Something that we should be paying attention to...

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The number of very sick children admitted to Children's Hospital New Orleans with Covid-19 has exploded over the past two weeks — from zero to 20.

"I've never seen anything like it," said Dr. Mark Kline, the hospital's physician-in-chief. "We are seeing children fall ill that we just simply didn't see in the first year of the pandemic, before the delta variant came along."

Doctors at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Infectious Diseases in Florida have seen similar surges recently. "The last two weeks, cases have continued to increase," said Dr. Federico Laham, medical director for the hospital. "I don't think we have reached our peak."

Despite the dramatic increase in cases, Laham and other pediatric infectious disease experts nationwide tell NBC News that there is no hard evidence yet that the delta variant has transformed the virus into something more dangerous in kids.

"It's too early to tell," said Dr. Bernhard Wiedermann, an infectious diseases specialist at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. "It's going to take time and a collection of data from multiple sites to know" whether the delta variant is, in fact, more virulent in kids than previous versions of the virus.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/delta-variant-more-dangerous-children-growing-number-kids-are-very-n1276035

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2 hours ago, UNLV2001 said:

If you want an adventure in drooling stupid - try twitter and go down the rat hole of hard core trumpers :blink: I'm honestly surprised some of these people can hold a menial mindless job much less drive, walk & wipe themselves :unsure:

My only hope is that the accounts are mostly bot accounts that appeal to the trump cult, because that's the only hope for the future of this country - But JFC, it's an adventure in drooling stupidity, racism, lies, conspiracies and itching for civil war of some sort 

I thought they left Twitter for Parler or something. 

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Update on vax effectiveness with Delta from an epidemiologist. Some nuances in terms of transmission and levels of effectiveness.

With the vax you are contagious for fewer days and much less likely to become seriously ill with Delta. 

 

But what comes after Delta? As long as this bug is able to move through people it's going to mutate. I foresee the need for boosters targeting some of these variants. That will be prolonged the longer it takes to reach herd immunity.

 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=343693350745644&id=100053149454347

One of the Final Five..........

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12 minutes ago, SharkTanked said:

So... kinda like the annual flu shot then?

That's one of the other things that grinds my gears.

 

Back in October/November, when the vaccine was close to being available, the general consensus was just that - it was gonna end up being like the flu shot.  And people were ok with that.  Now?  Bitching that it might end up like the flu shot.

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This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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1 minute ago, Joe from WY said:

Just read a Facebook comment string of a bunch of health care workers (who work in respiratory care at that) out in the Valley who are anti-vaxxers going apeshit over a vaccine mandate at their hospital. hahaha. What a +++++ing strange world we live in.

I know someone who is a respiratory therapist and he is bitching about the local hospital requiring vaccinations as a condition of employment. I have no sympathy for him. 

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Just now, Joe from WY said:

I'm just worried some yahoo is going to get ideas and blow the head off of some poor schmuck going door to door now. I put the odds of that happening somewhere in that part of the world at greater than 50/50 should the door to door thing come to fruition. These people are +++++ing crazy.

"Good morning ma'am.  I'm with Jehovah's Witnesses, and...."

 

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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Just now, Joe from WY said:

I'm just worried some yahoo is going to get ideas and blow the head off of some poor schmuck going door to door now. I put the odds of that happening somewhere in that part of the world at greater than 50/50 should the door to door thing come to fruition. These people are +++++ing crazy.

Oh yeah. That could happen. You won't find me volunteering to knock on doors in Eastern Oregon, I can tell you that much.

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