Covid punishments....

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(07-23-2021, 12:22 PM)Go Cards Wrote: I work on covid floors and Emergency room where they arrive at hospital and am well aware of how bad it is and how the numbers are padded to get that payday as well. 
My mother who has a history of heart problems went to her heart Dr with chest pains and tiredness and was told to go immediately to the ER but not to drive per a heart attack may be imminent but no covid was suspected. I  helped her in vehicle and took her to the door of hospital and then parked my vehicle. Came in about 10 minutes later and was told she had "covid symptoms" per saying she was short of breath and was listed as covid patient. Nobody was allowed to be with her because of this diagnosis even. This person will no longer look me in the eye at work and looks to the floor when passing. She ultimately had a blockage of main artery as suspected and it was cleared and stint added. Not before she was listed as a covid patient though. Money, money, money !

Do not believe these positives with no symptoms either. One person in my household of 3 was diagnosed with covid and we figured all 3 would have contracted since we were told to lockdown with her and expected it. Yet nobody contracted this while breathing same air and sharing bathroom. 

Should be noted that patients have been in isolation with deadly airborne diseases for as long as Ive worked at hospital and we've never come close to being overwhelmed and pneumonia deaths just strangely disappeared for a long time.

They do not mandate vaccines to those who treat the dying covid patients and in fact for the first two months we were denied masks per a shortage while there wasn't even a vaccine close to being available and very few people contracted this most contagious disease in world history whilst being directly exposed until they were put in isolation and then masks could be worn while entering the room. 

If it was so bad as you claim every grocery store clerk would have died long ago per the first thing everybody did was rush to the grocery store before lockdown and they were exposed to everybody during its peak when no masks or vaccines were available. Then everybody had to go back daily because of the toilet paper shortage.

It's a sad death to those who do pass from this horrid disease and know coworkers and friends who did die. But the #'s are far from being legit like you claim. As stated before I know Dr's who highly recommend and others that refuse to get it. 

Believe what you read and I will trust my eyes and experiences. 

But the NFL can definitely tell players they must or not play, its their business and players are free to walk away if not liking. I disagree but it is what it is and would expect anybody with a view like yourself to want all fans in attendance to show their vaccination card before entering too. 

Disagree with this stance though yet all are welcome to combat covid however they choose by becoming a recluse or whatever they think is best for them and their families. 

I shall choose to live my life and am still on fence about next vaccine. Will cross that bridge when it arrives per things can change quickly in between now and then. But as of now I do not see with my own eyes what is being claimed at all. Only thing that has changed is many people are being paid to stay home or are scared and quit. Only forcing the rest of us to be severely overworked during the last year and yet still few are contracting while being so stressed out and beat down from so many hours worked and around the most severe cases daily.   

P.S. NFL players are not school kids. Yet not telling anybody what they should choose to do in this matter. because as I stated I am vaccinated and still on fence about another. But never going to shame anyone who chooses not too per the masses are still walking amongst us and the amount of deaths is virtually the same as previous years before it hit.  

This is a great post.  Brother, I feel for you.  The past 30 months have been a virtual shit show about facts and misinformation.  We used to have honest, unbiased, REPORTING (not the political activists of today, but honest reporting) of information that was important to society.

What is a citizen to do?  They are surrounded by news sources, social media, and their own physicians and families all shouting different things.  Mission accomplished, social engineers, we are clearly divided.

Two points I wish to respond to about your post:

The first, is the point about hospitals stating "covid-like symptoms" and calling it covid for billing purposes.  100% accurate.  Why did they do that?  It wasn't just money and greed, though that is the root of it, but it had to do with their loss of their greatest source of income:  elective surgeries.  Hip and knee replacements pay everyone in the hospital very well.  I have no problem with that as it helped to balance out the poor reimbursement on things such as a COPD stay.  It wasn't meant to offset the loss of those surgeries, but that is exactly what the inflated covid reimbursement became.  And therefore(to your last point), you got vastly inflated numbers of covid cases, and fatalities.  Don't believe me?  Look at the number of deaths attributed to the flu.  It was barely a number.  Some tin foil hat moron said "See!  Masks work!  It almost eliminated the flu!"  Good grief.

The consequences of those inflated numbers was the fear-mongering that lead to massive shutdowns and economic crippling. And the worst is yet to come.  On a recent flight (my first since covid), there were virtually no restaurants open in the Philly and Boston airports.  Charlotte?  Booming.  Why the difference?  State leadership, I suppose, and I was told they couldn't get anyone to work those jobs.  If we think everyone taking handouts that are perfectly capable of working won't come back to bite this country in the ass, just wait.  

That all being said, the bottom line is covid is real, and is a serious threat to anyone that is elderly or immune compromised.  The nation had a huge dilemma:  Do they shut down to protect a specific group that likely is retire?  Right or wrong, they shut down to help protect those at most risk.  There is a flu shot, and it helps protect the elderly who are most at risk of death from the flu because they can't handle the stress on their bodies.  There is a pneumonia vax.  There is a shingles vax.  These are designed to protect people.   The fact that the covid vaccine is based on something called messenger RNA technology instead of a piece of the virus only makes it safer and more effective.  This technology has been around for about a decade or more and the scientist that developed it won the Nobel Prize for medicine.  It is being used for a number of rare diseases and represents a huge step in medicine.  There is a covid vaccine based on this technology and is accessible to everyone.  I look at it as maybe everyone doesn't need to get it but all those at risk absolutely should.  I got it because of my job and the fact that I take care of my folks.  

I don't consider myself one of those at risk, but if my getting the vaccine helps to open our country back up, I am glad to do my part.