Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Friend related a story of a young boy, her friend's child, who suffered a burst appendix during the crest of delta last month and had to wait six hours to into surgery because everything was full of covid patients here and almost all surgeries had been suspended and there were no beds. He was OK in the end, but had to spend five days in the hospital in part because of the long wait for surgery.

 

Maryland too.

 

well that doesn't count though because the hospital was still open, lolz collapse, the walls are still up

 

The caller is inside the house. With the kids.

TikTok is pushing COVID-19 misinformation to children and teens within minutes of creating a new account, whether they actively engage with videos on the platform or not, a new report has found.

The report, published Wednesday by the media rating firm NewsGuard, raises questions not only about how effectively TikTok is enforcing its medical misinformation policies, but also about how its own recommendation algorithms are actively undermining those policies.

In the report, NewsGuard researchers describe the results of a limited experiment they conducted in August and September, in which they asked nine kids between the ages of 9 and 17 to create brand new TikTok accounts and record their experiences on the app over the course of 45 minutes. In that time — and under the supervision of their parents — eight of the nine kids were shown COVID-19 misinformation, the report says. That was true even for four of the kids, who were told not to follow any accounts or interact with the videos they saw.

All in, the kids in the experiment were shown a total of 32 COVID-19 misinformation videos over the course of that 45-minute period, including videos that claimed COVID-19 vaccines kill people and that COVID-19 is actually "the name of the international plan for the control and reduction of populations." One of the teens in the experiment who was instructed to engage heavily with health-related content on TikTok was "almost exclusively shown misinformation" within a 30-minute time frame, the report reads.​

New report shows kids see COVID-19 misinfo on TikTok in minutes

 

Yeah, I've got a four-hour robotic assisted cancer surgery scheduled in six days that's now considered "outpatient" because they don't want to 1. take up a bed they might need, 2. expose me to a situation where COVID is present. And I just got the swab report back a few minutes ago. I'm negative. (Gwen said, "Well, that fits your personality.")

From what I tell -- and I'm getting conflicting information -- the only way I wind up overnight is if there are complications. Otherwise, it's "go home and call us only if the catheter falls out or you're bleeding to death."

 

Damn. Good luck

 

Thanks. Lovely time to be anywhere near a hospital but they assure me I'll be fine.

All I have to do is fall asleep. I'm hoping the urologist and his staff are lucky.

 

Good luck. It's a sucky time to have to do it, but at least it isn't opening you up for full invasive surgery and a hospital stay. They do a lot of laparoscopic surgery as 23 hour admits even when the hospital isn't full of Covid.

 

All the best, @maumann.

 

Send them to a refuge in Nebraska or Wyoming where all the vaccine refusniks who have COVID can mingle with each other.

 

Good luck. We want updates during surgery!