Coronavirus

Originally posted by Robtard
Rightist love their fake news confirmation bias nonsense.

Why they'll** take sheep de-worming meds and dangrous levels of vitamin D enemas to protect themselves from covid, instead of a vaccine that's proven to work.

**at least the ones that acknowledge covid is real to begin with

confession: i think this all may have been my fault

for as long as i can remember, i've always wished for a virus that would target and eliminate stupid people. i forgot to add into my prayers "...a virus which intelligent people are easily and completely immune to". lesson learned.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
confession: i think this all may have been my fault

for as long as i can remember, i've always wished for a virus that would target and eliminate stupid people. i forgot to add into my prayers "...a virus which intelligent people are easily and completely immune to". lesson learned.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
My first degree is Molecular Biology from King's... just a thought.

Rand Paul reveals his wife invested in remdesivir parent company Gilead Sciences at the start of the pandemic

Congressional members are required to disclose stock trades within 45 days. Rand Paul’s reporting came 16 months late. -snip

I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for that from Rand 'Let The Virus Spread' Paul.

Originally posted by Robtard
Rand Paul reveals his wife invested in remdesivir parent company Gilead Sciences at the start of the pandemic

Congressional members are required to disclose stock trades within 45 days. Rand Paul’s reporting came 16 months late. -snip

I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for that from Rand 'Let The Virus Spread' Paul.

Yep:

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul waited more than a year to disclose that his wife purchased stock in a company that makes a COVID-19 treatment, an investment made after Congress was briefed on the threat of the virus, but before the public was largely aware of its danger.

The Republican filed a mandatory disclosure Wednesday revealing on February 26, 2020 that Kelley Paul purchased somewhere up to $15,000 worth of stock in Gilead, which makes the antiviral drug remdesivir. Under a 2012 law called the Stock Act, which was enacted to stop lawmakers from trading on insider information, any such sale should have been reported within 45 days.

Word of the looming danger posed by the coronavirus began to spread through Congress in late January 2020, after members received the first of several briefings on the economic and public health threat that it posed.

The disclosure, made 16 months late, adds Paul to a growing list of lawmakers who have drawn scrutiny for their stock trading during the outbreak, which was declared a pandemic in March 2020.

Paul, however, is unique in some respects. The first senator to catch COVID-19, he has repeatedly railed against mask mandates and other public health tools to stop the spread of the virus.

YouTube suspended Paul for seven days on Tuesday and removed a video he posted that claimed cloth masks do not prevent infection, saying it violated policies on COVID-19 misinformation.

It is the second time this month that one of Paul's videos has been taken down by YouTube for breaking its rules about misleading content. Paul called YouTube's decision a "badge of honor" in a Tweet.

In other words, this ******* has been lying about masking and vaccines, so people would be end up hospitalized and treated with remdesivir, to drive up the manufacturer's stock price, so he could cash in.

Residents in Hillsborough County, Florida have been asked to cut back on non-essential water usage like watering lawns and washing cars and warned to expect a "change in taste and odor in drinking water" as dwindling supplies of liquid oxygen, ordinarily used to purify drinking water, are diverted to hospitals.

The supplier said it had not been receiving expected shipments of liquid oxygen as deliveries are being diverted to local hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients.

Residents in the Tampa Bay area might "notice a slight change" in the taste and smell of drinking water, Hillsborough County said, but stressed the change "will not alter the quality of the drinking water."

The Florida Hospital Association is sounding the alarm, saying a survey shows 68 hospitals have less than a 48-hour supply of oxygen.

Hospitals are using three to four times as much oxygen as they were before the pandemic because more than 17,000 patients are hospitalized statewide with COVID-19. The FHA survey, which was done today, shows 68 hospitals have less than 48 hours worth of supply, with about half of these have less than 36 hours.

“This is not like running out of masks. This is life saving,” said Florida Hospital Association President Mary Mayhew.

Florida on Thursday reported 21,765 more COVID-19 cases and 901 deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

All but two of the newly reported deaths occurred after July 25th, with about 78% of those people dying in the past two weeks.

The majority of deaths happened during Florida's latest surge in COVID-19 cases, fueled by the delta variant.

It is the largest single-day increase to the death total in the state's COVID pandemic history.

Just when it seemed Florida's public-health crisis could not get any worse, conditions in the Sunshine State deteriorated even further.

More people in Florida are catching the coronavirus, being hospitalized, and dying of COVID-19 now than at any previous point in the pandemic, underscoring the perils of limiting public health measures as the Delta variant rips through the state.

This week, the virus is claiming the lives of roughly 227 Floridians per day, which is by far the most in the United States right now.

It was against this backdrop that Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, returned to Fox News—again—to push the curious message that President Biden has failed to "end covid" and should follow his state's lead, even as Florida experiences record-breaking cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

"We are the first state to start the treatment centers for monoclonal antibodies," DeSantis during the interview. "We're having great success with that. That should have been a bigger plan, a bigger part of this whole response throughout the country from the beginning."

It is a bit like listening to an official, who is undermined efforts to install sprinklers and fire extinguishers, brag about the efficacy of a local burn unit treating some fire victims.

There are several core truths in Florida that are inescapable:

[*]COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and fatalities have never been worse.

[*]School districts across the state feel the need to defy the governor's political wishes when it comes to protecting kids against the virus.

[*]Prominent Florida businesses are defying DeSantis, too.

[*]The state's funeral homes and crematories are "overwhelmed" with "an influx of bodies like they've never seen."

[*]On a range of issues related to the pandemic, most Floridians believe the governor has the wrong approach to the crisis.[/list]

Yeah, it is a real great success.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Residents in Hillsborough County, Florida have been asked to cut back on non-essential water usage like watering lawns and washing cars and warned to expect a "change in taste and odor in drinking water" as dwindling supplies of liquid oxygen, ordinarily used to purify drinking water, are diverted to hospitals.

The supplier said it had not been receiving expected shipments of liquid oxygen as deliveries are being diverted to local hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients.

Residents in the Tampa Bay area might "notice a slight change" in the taste and smell of drinking water, Hillsborough County said, but stressed the change "will not alter the quality of the drinking water."

They can get water piped down from Flint.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Republican Governor of Texas Greg Abbott issued an executive order Thursday, reiterating his opposition to mask mandates, Covid-related business restrictions, and vaccination requirements, and issuing fines of up to $1,000 on those who fail to comply.

The measure bans government agencies from requiring individuals to get vaccinated or provide proof of vaccination. Public and private entities receiving state funding are prohibited from denying entry to individuals based on their vaccination status.

"Texans have the individual right and responsibility to decide for themselves and their children whether they will wear masks, open their businesses, and engage in leisure activities."

Killing your own voters seems like a weird strategy, but go off.

A month ago, as the Covid-19 crisis in the Lone Star State intensified, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a controversial order that no governmental entity could require people to get a vaccine that had been approved "under an emergency use authorization."

This week, the FDA formally granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech's two-dose vaccine, so Abbott issued a new order banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates regardless of a vaccine's approval status with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Abbott's latest order is simple, saying "no governmental entity can compel any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine."

It is worth notingthat the public health crisis in Texas continues to intensify. Not only are daily infection rates alarmingly high, but hospitalizations and COVID fatalities statewide are getting worse.

Given these conditions, it is tempting to assume the governor would rescind his previous order, especially since it was so careful to focus specifically on vaccines that received emergency use authorizations. Instead, Abbott replaced it with an order that went further in the wrong direction.

The move brings Texas in line with Florida, where the coronavirus crisis is now worse "than at any previous point in the pandemic."

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Just when it seemed Florida's public-health crisis could not get any worse, conditions in the Sunshine State deteriorated even further.

More people in Florida are catching the coronavirus, being hospitalized, and dying of COVID-19 now than at any previous point in the pandemic, underscoring the perils of limiting public health measures as the Delta variant rips through the state.

This week, the virus is claiming the lives of roughly 227 Floridians per day, which is by far the most in the United States right now.

It was against this backdrop that Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, returned to Fox News—again—to push the curious message that President Biden has failed to "end covid" and should follow his state's lead, even as Florida experiences record-breaking cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

"We are the first state to start the treatment centers for monoclonal antibodies," DeSantis during the interview. "We're having great success with that. That should have been a bigger plan, a bigger part of this whole response throughout the country from the beginning."

It is a bit like listening to an official, who is undermined efforts to install sprinklers and fire extinguishers, brag about the efficacy of a local burn unit treating some fire victims.

There are several core truths in Florida that are inescapable:

[*]COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and fatalities have never been worse.

[*]School districts across the state feel the need to defy the governor's political wishes when it comes to protecting kids against the virus.

[*]Prominent Florida businesses are defying DeSantis, too.

[*]The state's funeral homes and crematories are "overwhelmed" with "an influx of bodies like they've never seen."

[*]On a range of issues related to the pandemic, most Floridians believe the governor has the wrong approach to the crisis.[/list]

Yeah, it is a real great success.

Morgues throughout AdventHealth's Central Florida Division have reached capacity due to COVID-19 deaths.

"The Central Florida Division of AdventHealth has reached capacity of our hospital morgues due to an influx of COVID-19 patients. We have begun utilizing rented, refrigerated coolers at 10 of our campuses throughout Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, and Volusia counties. These coolers are quickly becoming filled also."

AdventHealth's Central Florida Division attributed this capacity issue to backup at local funeral homes. Funeral homes across Florida say they are overwhelmed with bodies right now.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' administration backed down from its threat to withhold school officials' salaries if they resist his anti-mask rule, saying instead that the defiant officials should be responsible for the "consequences of their decisions."

The move by the governor's office represents a tacit acknowledgement that it legally can not take away the salaries of school board members and others despite previously threatening to.

DeSantis could levy hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against school districts for disobeying his mask orders, but it would be up for the board leaders themselves to cut their own pay.

A Florida judge ruled Friday that the state overstepped its authority in restricting school districts from enacting mask mandates after parents sued officials amid a surge of coronavirus infections.

Judge John Cooper of Florida's Second Circuit sided with parents from six Florida counties who challenged Ron DeSantis and state education officials in court this week, arguing that the governor's order infringes on classroom safety guaranteed by the state's constitution.

In a milestone decision in the heated debate about mask mandates in Florida, Cooper ordered that the state cannot require districts to offer voluntary mandates over "the preservation of general welfare," comparing the masking issue to the difference between the right to drink alcohol and the criminality of drunk driving.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
More than 20,000 students in Mississippi were quarantined due to coronavirus exposures over the past week, according to Mississippi state health department data released Tuesday. Nearly 6,000 have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past two weeks, and two have died.

The state health department reported only 199 at the same point in August 2020, compared with this year's 5,993.

Republican Governor Tate Reeves opposes mask mandates in schools. The situation and the deaths of at least two teenagers from COVID-19 since late July has led to increased calls for Governor Tate Reeves to reverse his opposition to a statewide mask mandate and take aggressive action to stem the viral tide.

Liberty University administration announced on Thursday that it is enacting a campus-wide quarantine from August 30th to September 10th.

There are 159 known active cases of the coronavirus at Liberty, according to the Lynchburg, Virginia college's COVID-19 tracker; the highest number since last September when 141 individuals tested positive for the virus.

Liberty took criticism last year when it welcomed back students on campus following spring break, when most other schools had already canceled the rest of the in-person school year over the rising pandemic.

Masks and social distancing are not required for either students or faculty. Free vaccines clinics will be coming to the school, but vaccination is also not required.

159 is more than 141.

Veteran dies of treatable illness as COVID fills hospital beds, leaving doctors "playing musical chairs" (Bellville, Texas)

"He served two deployments in Afghanistan, came home with a Purple Heart, and it was a gallstone that took him out."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-us-hospital-icu-bed-shortage-veteran-dies-treatable-illness/

are you MAGAt jerkoffs ready to take this shit seriously yet?

The Education Department announced Monday that it is investigating five Republican-led states that have banned mask requirements in schools, saying the policies could amount to discrimination against students with disabilities or health conditions.

The department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to education chiefs in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. Those states have barred schools from requiring masks among all students and staff, a move that the department says could prevent some students from safely attending school.

"It's simply unacceptable that state leaders are putting politics over the health and education of the students they took an oath to serve," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.

it's almist like they want more people to die, beause they still haven't taken a break from causung more chaos and trying to provoke civil war

Kill yourselves