COVID Developments and News

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding

First - I am not a lawyer.

...but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Judges can "instruct" juries all they want but once the door closes in that deliberation room, it's on.

THAT and in addition to:

"I will never serve on a jury because there's enough public information about me to show that...."

..... is why you will never have to serve jury duty -

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by weederr33

JFC I avoid this thread for a few days due to being distracted with one more relevant to me, and then I see a post about a stillborn child. O_o

I will openly admit when I see posts like that, especially with the emojis I get suspicious as I would just make it more dry and to the point. But that's me. Regardless, if that is a real situation, it's a pretty fucked up one. Beyond the immediate desire to find a new employer asap, I'm not sure what else to do.

Oh, I also have doubts as to the authenticity of the story itself unless the person is identified. Doesn't mean we can't argue about it!

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Oh, I also have doubts as to the authenticity of the story itself unless the person is identified. Doesn't mean we can't argue about it!

Oh. Well in that case it's just propaganda fake news!

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by weederr33

Oh. Well in that case it's just propaganda fake news!

It is more like Schrodinger's news. It could be fake or real, but nobody has confirmed it yet.

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by Spuds

It is more like Schrodinger's news. It could be fake or real, but nobody has confirmed it yet.

Nope it's fake. You clearly don't know what you're talking about. This is a planned event from our government to control everyone. Read a book!

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by weederr33

Nope it's fake. You clearly don't know what you're talking about. This is a planned event from our government to control everyone. Read a book!

Our government can barely plan a birthday party, how would they be able to plan such an elaborate and complex hoax!? You need at least one person with an imagination and ability to use the internet.

[wbradley]

Ontario has 78.4% of all elligible adults fully vaccinated and 84.x% single vaccinated.

Still we have more that 800 infections reported in the last day and a few deaths.

Typically the unvaxxed are 4 or 5 to 1 to vaxxed infections. Not sure regards to hospitalizations but I'd guess there are very few fully vaccinated people hospitalized.

Keep pushing everyone.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Our government can barely plan a birthday party, how would they be able to plan such an elaborate and complex hoax!? You need at least one person with an imagination and ability to use the internet.

tuesday doesn't work for me. we need to move it to thursday.

[Irace86.2.0]

Hospital staff must swear off Tylenol, Tums to get religious vaccine exemption


https://arstechnica.com/science/2021...ine-exemption/

A hospital system in Arkansas is making it a bit more difficult for staff to receive a religious exemption from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The hospital is now requiring staff to also swear off extremely common medicines, such as Tylenol, Tums, and even Preparation H, to get the exemption.

The move was prompted when Conway Regional Health System noted an unusual uptick in vaccine exemption requests that cited the use of fetal cell lines in the development and testing of the vaccines.

"This was significantly disproportionate to what we've seen with the influenza vaccine," Matt Troup, president and CEO of Conway Regional Health System, told Becker's Hospital Review in an interview Wednesday.

"Thus," Troup went on, "we provided a religious attestation form for those individuals requesting a religious exemption," he said. The form includes a list of 30 commonly used medicines that "fall into the same category as the COVID-19 vaccine in their use of fetal cell lines," Conway Regional said.

The list includes Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, aspirin, Tums, Lipitor, Senokot, Motrin, ibuprofen, Maalox, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, albuterol, Preparation H, MMR vaccine, Claritin, Zoloft, Prilosec OTC, and azithromycin.

Conway Regional notes that the list includes commonly used and available drugs but that it is not an all-inclusive list of such medicines.

Employees are asked to attest that they "truthfully acknowledge and affirm that my sincerely held religious belief is consistent and true" and that they do not and will not use the medications and any others like them.

The intent of the form is twofold, Troup says. First, the hospital wants to ensure that staff members are sincere in their stated beliefs, he said, and second, it wants to "educate staff who might have requested an exemption without understanding the full scope of how fetal cells are used in testing and development in common medicines."

Troup says that employees who do not sign the attestation form will be granted a provisional exemption, which is only temporary. They may be asked to sign the attestation later and, as the attestation notes, if they fail to get an exemption or a vaccine, they face disciplinary action, including termination.

In an interview with an NBC-affiliated outlet in Arkansas, Troup noted that only about 5 percent of the hospital system's staff had filed for a religious or medical exemption and that the rest of the workforce is partially or fully vaccinated.

“A lot of this, I believe, is a hesitancy about the vaccine, and so that’s a separate issue than a religious exemption,” he said.

[dpfarr]

I wish my campus would do that for religious exemptions.

[soundman98]

That's a really interesting way to do it. I like it!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

Hospital staff must swear off Tylenol, Tums to get religious vaccine exemption


https://arstechnica.com/science/2021...ine-exemption/

Originally Posted by dpfarr

I wish my campus would do that for religious exemptions.

Originally Posted by soundman98

That's a really interesting way to do it. I like it!

Not sure I understand how it will matter. If you are willing to lie for the first exemption, what is going to stop you from lying about the remainder?

[reni]

Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated People Less Likely to Cause ‘Long COVID’

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/0...se-long-covid/

It seems like so much focus is placed on the mortality rate, as in people claiming COVID is not that dangerous because they think that they are unlikely to die from it, but the long-term effects are eventually going to be a huge issue going forward. COVID may have "only" killed about 700k in the US so far, but what about the millions that will have chronic heart/lung/kidney/brain conditions for years or even decades to come?