I'll be the Janitor off Scrubs, just doing 14 lifetimes of work to pay off a weekends stay.
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I'll be the Janitor off Scrubs, just doing 14 lifetimes of work to pay off a weekends stay.
Sounds like a typical grim day in the hospital mate!
Hope she's settling in well into her new job ( minus the crapping bit!)
Cheers, she’s actually loving it in all fairness mateSounds like a typical grim day in the hospital mate!
Hope she's settling in well into her new job ( minus the crapping bit!)
Spot on mate, my sister does the same. Takes a real strong person imo to do the job they do as they're long days with a variety of stuff going on. I'm always quick to tell my sister how proud I am of her, she's made of bloody steel!!!
tsubaki
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I keep noticing how all the unhealthy overweight people in the media who probably can't run for more than ten minutes or lift anything heavier than a small cat also seem to be the ones insisting healthy people who control their weight & health through good food, will power & exercise HAVE to take an injection to keep THEM healthy.
Case in point: Andrew Neil
ANDREW NEIL: Time to punish Britain's five million vaccine refuseniks
ANDREW NEIL: There are still 5 million unvaccinated British adults, who through fear, ignorance, or sheer stupidity refuse the jab. In doing so they endanger not just themselves but the rest of us.www.dailymail.co.uk
fairly sure there is a photo of Andrew Neil looking like he is, is about to or has been exercising, together with what may or may not be his personal trainer
Martin Alvito
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Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying 'at a rate we've never seen die before' -- and it's taking a toll on health care workers | CNN
Nurse Katie Sefton never thought Covid-19 could get this bad -- and certainly not this late in the pandemic.
About as simple as math gets. Get vaccinated, get boosted, and if you contract the disease it doesn't kill you. Don't get vaccinated and boosted, and you'll be taking your chances in overwhelmed hospitals using makeshift wards.
You've managed to post from a few geographically interesting locations all within the same day.
It does make one wonder
No officer, it is because I am an ex-pat, living in China and using a VPN! A real shill would not have such a low post count I don't think!
What possible conspiracy could I be involved with anyway?
All I ever said was that I disagree with vaccine mandates and continuous lockdowns! Is this really such a heretical position? I'm a deranged anti-vax, conspiracy theorist, working for a secret organization just because I disagree with the majority held opinion? A wise man once said:
"Madness is rare in individuals but in groups, parties and peoples it is the norm."
Btw QR codes and the government tracking everyone's every movement here in China! Do people not have to ask themselves if that's really worth it in the long run?
Anyway, can't spend my life going round and round in circles on this as I do have real work to be getting on with!
Whatever the truth may be, it will all come out eventually so let's hope everything will work out okay. The real danger IMO is not even COVID but the nutters in the US state department getting us into war with Russia/China next...
Anyhoo...
NilSatisOptimum
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Omicron is expected to reduce hospitalisation to a lower proportion of cases anc let's hope it does. The caveat to that sentence is this virus has always been seen first in those people who are generally younger who are out and about and we know already, most likely to suffer only mild illness, immune compromised people tend to be less out and about this avoid the initial wave.
Whatever the outcome on hospitalisation on immune compromised or not. If cases rise exponentially, will still unfortunately result in a problem for our hospitals. This is most easily solved by vaccination, however, vaccinations alone are just simply insufficient, and hence the introduction of some social restrictions will be needed to try and avoid exponentially rises.
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It wasn’t. The justification was rising case numbers, and the increased transmissibility of Omicron. I.E case numbers are now rising, Omicron is expected to replace Delta as the dominant variant, and the virus will transmit upwards through age cohorts.
You’re right that hospitalisations have just been on a downwards trend, but the lag of 2-3 weeks between rising case numbers and hospitalisations, means we’d expect that to go back up in the next couple of weeks.
Here’s the cases / hospitalisations slide they presented, where the green cases decrease maps to the green hospitalisation decrease ( 2-3 week lag). The blue increase maps across, then the red decrease. There’s then a new (yellow) cases increase, which hasn’t yet materialised into hospitalisation increases, but we should expect that to start going up now. The concern is that the new increase could be exponential due to Omicron.
It looks pretty hopeful at this point that omicron will be a useful mutation in terms of reduced severity, and it’s definitely possible the new restrictions are over cautious, given what we know so far. But I can understand the reasoning, given every time they’ve brought in previous restrictions they did it weeks too late.
TLDR: decision could well be over cautious, but doesn’t contradict the totality of the dataset.
They are gearing up for January restrictions or a lockdown. This is all about trying to normalise this to make it an annual thing. It's not proportionate at all, and it's not the public's job long term to stay indoors to help the health service. It's not a moral duty.
I'm fed up seeing governments bringing in rules just to look like they are doing something. And any "expert" calling for a lockdown needs to get a grip and should be ignored.
I'm fed up seeing governments bringing in rules just to look like they are doing something. And any "expert" calling for a lockdown needs to get a grip and should be ignored.
Ghost Rider
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I have noticed for a good while now since this variant was discovered that we seem to have gone from a society that demands evidence to one that is twisting evidence to a negative connotation. Go back 9 months ago and numbers dropping after the winter would be seen as a positive, now it seems it's a negative with could/may/possibly constantly being used to explain something worse. I'm not niaeve to think that numbers won't increase with the winter because they will.
But a drop in figures in the run up to now is a good sign , it means everything in terms of jabs is finally working, again clear evidence of it.
Just generally , I've not read hundreds of them but every opinion or verdict about the new variant has been positive, except for ones from this country. Only British seem to pull negative from the data when other scientists are pulling positive , albiet with a too soon to tell disclaimer still.
Just seems to be a British thing, even when it's good , people want to look for the bad. It's fine to be cautious , we should be looking for the wins though not the potential losses that have not yet happened.
NilSatisOptimum
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Those who have compromised immune system that I know can rest now as common sense indeed prevails, such measure increases their chance of living longer, selfish I know, but I like them in my life..
grandjoeblue
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Seen various sources saying 1m cases a day in the UK of the new variant before the end of December. Quite a lofty prediction considering South Africa are only on 22,000 cases per day and it started there.
efcfanwirral
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Yep whatever happens this year happens next by default. Pre 2020 life isn't coming back for a long time if ever., We just have to hope what does happen isn't too damaging to businesses (so some financial help and not a 7 month set of restrictions again)
efcfanwirral
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A full lockdown and some sort of ban on household mixing is the only thing that could let them rest. Probably a permanent one...
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