Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Mngwa-

I am not so worried by it anymore. It feels different down here. I was here unvaccinated for many weeks, and that was an unpleasant experience.
Going to hospital floors, medical retailers, pharmacies, waiting rooms - places a reasonably healthy person doesn't want to be.
Or perhaps I am so fucking fatigued by all of it that I really don't care anymore.

My response if anyone asks about masking is my usual - I have the virus. That ends that discussion promptly.

 

Covid didn't cause hospitalizations but people with Covid did? And those non-covid-but-somehow-covid-with hospitalizations didn't actually count because they weren't requiring intensive care? But it didn't spike, it went up and went down, but it didn't spike...
That is some real "separating the fly shit from the pepper" stuff right there...

 

Yeah it was uncomfortable to be down here during the height of Delta and omicron because many people weren't masking. It is better now.

 

It’s a bit of an odd mix there. You have the fishermen in New Bedford, the rich folk in Marion and Westport and the rednecks in Freetown and Berkley.

 

Omicron was so contagious - and, in many folks - asymptomatic - that people hospitalized for other reasons had it…which became a COVID hospitalization.

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/01/...pitalized-with-covid-vs-for-covid-is-shifting


Some patients showing up at hospitals have unrelated emergencies or are seeking care they delayed earlier because they were afraid of getting infected, Greene said. But then they test positive for the virus, adding to the reported COVID-19 hospitalizations.

 

And you don't think that having Covid on top of whatever put them in the hospital complicates things, puts patients more at risk, takes longer to treat and to recover from?

 

A world's most beautiful beach is a few miles from where a shooting happened in a strip club parking lot.

 

If you want to see rednecks, drive through Rochester. You will get why Scott Brown was elected Senator. (Except Martha Coakley bring the world's worst politician imaginably.)

 

What it means


The upshot of all this, health experts said, is that although omicron appears to make people less sick than earlier virus variants, it doesn’t mean this surge has been easier on hospitals.


They still have to keep COVID-positive patients separate from those who aren’t infected, regardless of what brought them to the hospital, and nurses have to don and frequently change protective gear. And with omicron spreading so easily, a larger number of people getting infected inevitably means more infected people ending up in hospitals.


Gohil said rehab and long-term care facilities that normally take people who no longer need hospital-level care, but aren’t ready to go home, are now filling up or dealing with outbreaks, so some patients may have to stay in the hospital longer.

 

Of course not. I think there's a written rule that if you have diabetes, or cancer, or a heart condition you can ONLY DIE from those. Duh.