COVID OMICRON Thread

[BigRed]

If you get sick or injured and need a hospital bed, there isn’t one available for you.

Due to?

 

[BigRed]

Sounds like they need help with staffing. I see story after story of hospital staff suffering from burnout. And hospitals with "bed shortages" due to lack of staffing. This seems to be a quick method to give some relief. Drop the vaccine mandates and watch the staffing issues improve. It's worth a try, don't you think? Rather than calling in the National Guard, why not bring the people back with the experience to help the most?

Bringing in the national guard is yet another oppotunity for state to provide a solution to the problem state made demonstrating yet again its necessity.

 

[jsharmon7]

Due to?

I checked…still no bed for you.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Again, big assumption to make from what I’ve heard from actual nurses. What I’m saying though is it doesn’t actually matter. If you get sick right now, you’re going to have a bad time. For whatever reason has caused it.

Agreed, but there is a solution that could help. I'm not claiming it would completely solve the problem, but it would help. It would certainly help more than keeping people that want to work from working because of the ridiculous mandates, and work more quickly than having to train National Guard members or temp agency personnel (as hoosierdoc said).

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Bringing in the national guard is yet another oppotunity for state to provide a solution to the problem state made demonstrating yet again its necessity.

Digging holes and filling them back in... it's "make work".

 

[BigRed]

Digging holes and filling them back in... it's "make work".

With the barrel of a gun to your head to pay for it.

 

[wtburnette]

Agreed, but there is a solution that could help. I'm not claiming it would completely solve the problem, but it would help. It would certainly help more than keeping people that want to work from working because of the ridiculous mandates, and work more quickly than having to train National Guard members or temp agency personnel (as hoosierdoc said).

Hundreds to thousands of healthcare workers have been put out of work due to the vaxx mandate, so yeah, seems like a self inflicted wound to me. Blame the POS healthcare organizations, not the virus as the buck stops at the idiots in charge making this type of decision. And yes, there would be at least some relief by dropping the mandates and bringing people back to work.

 

[BigRed]

I checked…still no bed for you.

Do not assume I ever expected there would be one.

 

[actaeon277]

 

[semperfi211]

CDC Admits Nearly 8 in 10 Omicron Patients Are Fully Vaxxed | Headline USA

(Gregg Pupecki, Headline USA) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data on the highly mutated omicron variant of COVID-19 acknowledging that more than three quarters of new omnicron cases in USA were among those fully vaccinated. The new strain, deemed weaker than the...

headlineusa.com

 

[thunderchicken]

I have a coworker that was diagnosed with Covid and part of the diagnosis was pneumonia. He has been in the hospital for over 3 weeks and as I understand it now, he has one lung that has virtually stopped working and the other has been in limited capacity. They have told him he will need at least a lung transplant possibly a double lung transplant. No he wasn't vax'd and as I understand hasn't been the most cooperative patient either. Now, I have no idea if it is the omicron variant or not but since late summer I've known multiple people both fully vax'd and non vax'd that have been hit incredibly hard by this stuff.
When these vaccines came out, I wanted to wait a while and see how effective they would be and to see if there would be any orders to stop their use due to side effects or lack of effectiveness. I think HoosierDoc is being straight with all of us when he says he believes we will either all get it at least once (or may have already had it).

 

[d.kaufman]

 

[BigRed]

CDC Admits Nearly 8 in 10 Omicron Patients Are Fully Vaxxed | Headline USA

(Gregg Pupecki, Headline USA) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data on the highly mutated omicron variant of COVID-19 acknowledging that more than three quarters of new omnicron cases in USA were among those fully vaccinated. The new strain, deemed weaker than the...

headlineusa.com

Big pharma is making the biggest killing of all!

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

 

[bobzilla]

This isn’t possible. The news says that 90% of all Covid cases are unvaccinated.

 

[Tryin']

Well, working on day 6 of my 2nd round of the Rona. This iteration has been highly annoying, with very little in the way of serious symptoms. Fever, headache, and fatigue are constant, with sore throat, coughing, and muscle aches making occasional appearances. Also developed a rash on my arms, but that may be heat or acetaminophen related. I quit taking Tylenol last night, so we will see if it goes away. Overall, a much less dire experience than round 1 in early 2020. A little sad that immunity is def not lifetime. I'm the 5th person in my immediate circle to get diagnosed in the last two weeks, and the third to be a re-infect case.

 

[melensdad]

This isn’t possible. The news says that 90% of all Covid cases are unvaccinated.

No, actually the liberal politicians and the liberal media is saying it is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" but the medical community actually issued a warning to those voices. There are plenty of media voices that are telling the truth and showing that in some regions with high vaccination rates the case load is made up of vaccinated.

However, all that bias noted, the hospitalizations tend to be mostly the unvaccinated by a large majority.

Omicron may change things up even more. It is barely here in the USA now, we still have a vast majority of Delta. Omicron will likely become a wave in January.

 

[HoughMade]

I'm late to the Omicron thread...but then again, Omicron is just one more thing I've added to my ever lengthening list of things I don't care about.

 

[tbhausen]

Local story about a small study showing Pfizer vaccine is very ineffective against Omicron:

Small study shows Pfizer vaccine yields 40-fold reduction in antibodies against omicron variant

Researchers at the African Health Research Institute in South Africa evaluated blood samples from 12 people who received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

www.wishtv.com

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

France to ban non-essential UK travel over Omicron case surge

France will ban non-essential travel to and from Britain from the weekend to slow the spread of the Omicron Covid-19 variant that is causing record numbers of cases on the other side of the Channel,…

www.france24.com

Looks like it is heating up again in Europe. Just two more weeks...