Cancer Posted January 12, 2022 Report Share Posted January 12, 2022 Did that as part of my job for a while. Gets depressing fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Ugh. Out of perverse, morbid curiousity, I just reloaded the WorldOMeters page. Last time was my prior post, so 4 hours ago. In that time alone, 1.2 million new cases. Granted that case reporting has time dependencies and it's not a rate or anything like that, but in one local afternoon...more than we ever got in a full 24 hours. Oh, and scrolling down...the total for the day broke 3 million handily. (3.1 million, and their data day isn't over yet. Think it's getting close, tho.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33050352/novak-djokovic-profile-selfishness-sports-leaders-failing-us-all TL;DR -- Sports in general have put money over safety, and high-profile stars have been some of the worst offenders, using their status to assert a privilege to act the way they want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 I am shocked, shocked, to find gambling that sports has put money over safety here! Matt the Bruins and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 One of the things I realized is that I'm still not comfortable going out into the real world because of COVID. I had vaccine and booster, but I still live with high risk people. The fact that I have to take public transportation to get to work increases my risk all the more. Lord Liaden, BarretWallace and DShomshak 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 1 hour ago, tkdguy said: One of the things I realized is that I'm still not comfortable going out into the real world because of COVID. I had vaccine and booster, but I still live with high risk people. The fact that I have to take public transportation to get to work increases my risk all the more. I’m in the same boat. I have several relatives of advanced age and one who caught stage 4 cancer. I don’t live with them but I do have to help them out now and then. Meanwhile my kids are still going to in person school, with substitute teachers since the regulars all have COVID. I’m doomed. The good news is that the latest Pfizer study has Omicron as 1/10 as lethal as Delta. So unclevlad’s 1.2M cases will only result in 1200 dead, not 12,000. Hooray… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 I know one kid who got a mild case of Covid. And it's her mom's fault for allowing someone in the house who turned out to be positive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 The Omicron variant seems to be more pervasive among young people than any of the previous ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarretWallace Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 8 hours ago, tkdguy said: One of the things I realized is that I'm still not comfortable going out into the real world because of COVID. I had vaccine and booster, but I still live with high risk people. The fact that I have to take public transportation to get to work increases my risk all the more. I am horribly torn. On one hand, I miss my people and I yearn for the day when I can socialize without fear again. On the other hand, I have no idea when that will be able to resume. In particular, my Saturday gaming group might resume this weekend. Two of the usual attendees (a high school classmate of mine and his dad) were hospitalized with Covid recently, and I think they finally got their jabs. I have no idea whether they are still contagious. I want so badly to relax around the game table with everyone again, but don't know if I can relax enough to relax! We've put off a Christmas gathering several times because illness is hitting one of my sisters and her husband. Argh...Covid will probably never go away completely, but I look forward to when it becomes more endemic vs. pandemic, sort of like the flu. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Matt the Bruins, Pariah, Pattern Ghost and 1 other 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Obviously an elitist liberal, so he can't be believed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 16 hours ago, tkdguy said: One of the things I realized is that I'm still not comfortable going out into the real world because of COVID. I had vaccine and booster, but I still live with high risk people. The fact that I have to take public transportation to get to work increases my risk all the more. That said, I just accepted a job offer. Travel time isn't too bad, and it's a full-time position, albeit a contract job. Not thrilled about it, but needs must. Cancer, Pariah, L. Marcus and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 A pity the words in "Travel time" aren't in the opposite order. It'd be a much more interesting gig, I suspect. Tom Cowan and assault 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 If time travel were involved, I wouldn't hesitate to take the job. As it is, it's less than an hour by bus, and it's not in some out of the way place for people without cars. assault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Canada: Unvaccinated father loses right to see his child https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59979408 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Parental rights have not been absolutes in Canada for a long time. There have been a number of high-profile cases over the years in which the courts have overruled the wishes of parents on the grounds of a child's best interest. Of course no few Canadians now see COVID as fundamentally different from... everything that it's not fundamentally different from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Lady P is negative! (Funny thing is, it's now the 5th day since she tested. We'd be out of quarantine tomorrow regardless.) Old Man, DShomshak, tkdguy and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 6 minutes ago, Pariah said: Lady P is negative! That's a change? (Kidding!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Tom said: Canada: Unvaccinated father loses right to see his child https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59979408 I submit that not being vaccinated would be an exemplar of what is meant by "not in the best interests of the child." It would be interesting to hear about similar cases in different parts of the US, particularly anti-vax-heavy ones. Because I think most judges would agree. Not all, but most. EDIT: bopping around some of the stories on BBC news, found this:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59960949 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 4 hours ago, Tom said: Canada: Unvaccinated father loses right to see his child https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59979408 And then there's people like this father: Canada man flees with daughter, doesn't want her to get COVID vaccine (usatoday.com) He was supposed to return his daughter to his ex-wife after a weekend in November, but "decided to keep her." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 hour ago, BoloOfEarth said: And then there's people like this father: Canada man flees with daughter, doesn't want her to get COVID vaccine (usatoday.com) He was supposed to return his daughter to his ex-wife after a weekend in November, but "decided to keep her." Wellll.....the guy is an idiot. Talk radio shouldn't have any legal protections...the numbers of incoming calls should be recorded. A subpoena should be trivial to get the number of that caller, and hopefully that'll target a search effort. Plus, it wouldn't surprise me that this elevates the case status; it's like waving the red flag at the cops. Hopefully the guy will be caught soon, for so many reasons. And when he is...in the US, what he's done is parental kidnapping, and I suspect in Canada, with their vaccination policies, it might even be child endangerment. #1, I hope the kid gets returned to her mother ASAP, but #2, I hope this guy gets put away for a few decades. Joe Walsh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Crossposted from The Academics Thread: We had a test-to-stay event at my school today. We tested about 1600 kids, about 14% of them came back positive. Yikes. And I just heard on the news that my district School board held an emergency meeting tonight and voted unanimously to go to distance learning through the end of next week. Here we go again.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 There’s really no good solution. Distance learning sucks. Some kids simply can’t do it. Meanwhile my kids are going to in person school and exposing themselves to COVID while doing nothing in class because the regular teacher is… out with COVID, so they have a sub. Meanwhile I have to go to war with the high school tomorrow so that’ll be fun. BarretWallace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 12,990 new cases in Utah today, including 3,007 school-age cases. The seven-day positivity rate here is 36.5%. I don't recall it ever being this bad the first time around. Sadly, there's really not a lot that can be done to fight it here due to the efforts of our armchair libertarian State Legislature over the past year and a half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Old Man said: . Meanwhile I have to go to war with the high school tomorrow so that’ll be fun. *standard jokes about not understanding analogy, asking you to be mindful of the setting up of your artillery* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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