https://uihc.org/news/kate-benge-covid-19-more-haunting-any-horror-story - Kate Benge: ‘COVID-19 is more haunting than any horror story’
Showing posts with label Coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coronavirus. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Friday, August 25, 2023
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Saturday, March 11, 2023
3 Year Anniversary of COVID-19
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic:
As you can see, the 3 year anniversary of COVID-19 is on 3-11-2023.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of 10 March 2023, the pandemic had caused more than 676 million cases and 6.88 million confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history.
As you can see, the 3 year anniversary of COVID-19 is on 3-11-2023.
https://youtu.be/ Pv_e7s0PBZE - Corona, Corona Song
Thursday, February 23, 2023
My COVID-19 Wake-Up Alarm
I've noticed that COVID-19 isn't in the news a lot. Occasionally, I'll see an article that discusses abstract topics such as How COVID-19 Changes the Heart—Even After the Virus Is Gone or when Michael Knowles talks about a new COVID-19 medicine, as he did in the lead story of episode 1188 with the tagline Pfizer sells a COVID drug with lots of unpleasant side effects in the video description.
All I can say is that I have a co-worker who wasn't at his cubicle for two weeks. Yesterday, I saw him at his cubicle so I went to him and said, "I noticed that you were gone. Sometimes when I'm gone and I come back, I wonder if anyone noticed that I was gone so I am just letting you know that I noticed." I've known this co-worker for decades. We both worked together at Quintrex Data Systems in Cedar Rapids for several years before we both eventually left. My point is when I found out that my co-worker was gone for two weeks due to his recent battle with COVID-19, it was a wake-up call, a reminder that COVID-19 is still a "thing" in the world.
Be careful out there.
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Friday, August 12, 2022
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
How Much Does One-Way Masking Protect You From COVID On A Plane?
It's interesting. I was under the impression that the filters on a plane are really awesome, replacing all of the air in the plane every 3 minutes. This article -
How Much Does One-Way Masking Protect You From COVID On A Plane? - makes me wonder if that is true.
Friday, April 8, 2022
Monday, December 27, 2021
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Monday, September 13, 2021
Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Dr. Fauci Responds To Asinine DeSantis Comment On Vaccination
From https://crooksandliars.com/2021/09/dr-fauci-responds-asinine-desantis-comment:
"If we want to protect the children, particularly those who are not yet eligible for vaccination, you want to surround the children with people who are vaccinated, teachers, school personnel, everyone else. But also in order to protect those who can't get vaccinated. There are certain simple things you have to do. You mentioned one of them, universal masking in the school, and even though there are, you know, some government leaders locally who are trying to push back on that, we have to get the school system masked, in addition to surrounding the children with vaccinated people.
"That's the solution. We don't need to see a big uptick at all in cases if we do it right."
"The trouble is, as you know, politics still trump the science, right? You listen for instance to the governor of Florida, one of the states of course that has banned mask mandates. The way he described vaccinations was really remarkable, and again, defies the science. I want to play it now, just describing who the vaccine is for. Have a listen, I want to get your reaction," Sciutto said.
The vaccines have helped people ward of severe illness, and we obviously work hard to distribute it. At the end of the day, though, it is about your health and whether you want that protection or not. It really doesn't impact me or anyone else.Sciutto asked Fauci to explain why that's false.
"Well, that's not true at all. I mean, obviously it's important for you as an individual, for your own personal protection, safety and health. but when you have a virus that's circulating in the community, and you are not vaccinated, you are part of the problem because you're allowing yourself to be a vehicle for the virus to be spreading to someone else," Fauci said.
"So it isn't as if it stops with you. If that were the case, then it would be only about you. But it doesn't. You can get infected even if you get no symptoms or are minimally symptomatic and then pass it on to someone who might, in fact, might be very vulnerable, an elderly person, a person with an underlying disease, so when you're dealing with an outbreak of an infectious disease, it isn't only about you. There's a societal responsibility we all have."
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Friday, August 20, 2021
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Friday, August 13, 2021
EE has an Alternative Suggestion
If you click this link - Instead of Mandating Vaccines, Employers Should Do This - by Erick-Woods Erickson - be sure to read the comments. If you don't want to go down a rabbit hole of opinions, here's just the article that EE wrote. In my opinion, EE is a fantastic writer and doesn't get nearly enough credit.
There is an employee labor shortage. A hospital or medical practice mandating the COVID vaccine to staff could find themselves with further staffing shortages as doctors and nurses move to other providers and private practices not mandating the vaccine. A local hospital here in Middle Georgia is so overwhelmed with COVID and short staffed that it had a 30 hour wait for emergency room visits the other day.
That’s just hospitals.
Other businesses are weighing what to do and some are mandating vaccines. Like it or not, there are some employees who simply do not want or do not think they need the vaccine either because of natural immunity due to prior infection or for other health reasons. I know one person whose doctor is adamant she cannot get the vaccine because of a pre-existing autoimmune condition and is having to convince her employer not to fire her. She has had to get a lawyer involved.
I know a number of people, mostly nurses still of child bearing age, who flat out do not want the vaccine and are happy to quit and go work for doctors instead of hospitals. I know a pilot at United Airlines who intends to quit over the vaccine mandate.
I have an alternative. Instead of mandates or no mandates, do this.
First, employers should make clear to employees that they will not be forced to get the vaccine, but the employers do encourage vaccination.
Second, set a policy that if an employee gets the vaccine and still tests positive for COVID that the employee will not be required to take existing PTO for sick leave or vacation. Instead, the employee will be given time off with pay and will return after a negative PCR COVID test or fourteen days after testing positive. There’ll be no deduction in PTO.
Third, set a policy that if an employee chooses not to get the vaccine, the employee will have to take PTO. If an employee uses up all sick days, he will have to cut into his vacation days. If he uses up all of the above, he will have his pay reduced each day missed. He will be required to have a negative PCR COVID test to return to work, which typically takes 24 hours to get back.
Fourth, if possible, allow employees to work from home if feasible, but do not allow a COVID positive employee to work from home. Require employees to take the time off and rest, even asymptomatic employees.
Doing these things will encourage employees to get vaccinated and put the burden on the unvaccinated employees without forcing them to pick between their job and a vaccine some remain skeptical of or have other reasons to not take.
This does not have to be a binary choice. Employers can provide this alternative to mandates and I think they should. It is the fairest solution.
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