The COVID-19 Thread and Hypothetical Boxing Predictions
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That RN is a nice woman; I have no idea about her political leanings, but, I don't get a conservative vibe from her at all.
Talking to my boss this morning, she told me that there's quite a few of my co-workers that did not get vaccinated, even though it was free and CVS came and did them on site. That's . . . disturbing. The impression I got, on those vaccination days, from my own firsthand observations, was that most of us got the shots (and many of them posted photos, on FB, showing off their vaccination cards to the world afterwards). I'd say my sense of things was that at least 90-95% of us got the vaccine, but, apparently not.
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Director of nursing just announced that we're going back to twice weekly Covid testing at work, because Michigan Covid cases are on the rise once more. So, I get to shove giant Q-tips up my nose every Tuesday and Friday instead of just Tuesdays again. I get paid for two hours to do it, if I have those days off, but, it's still annoying, and I dearly hope that this shit ends sometime in 2021.
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Got my 2nd Pfizer dose earlier today. I feel fine right now, but I'm expecting some symptoms tomorrow. Will report on how things go. I'm glad that I can at least feel less anxious about the virus, and that I've got a layer of insurance so to speak.
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Director of nursing just announced that we're going back to twice weekly Covid testing at work, because Michigan Covid cases are on the rise once more. So, I get to shove giant Q-tips up my nose every Tuesday and Friday instead of just Tuesdays again. I get paid for two hours to do it, if I have those days off, but, it's still annoying, and I dearly hope that this shit ends sometime in 2021.
Well, it's giant in the sense of length of the shaft, the actual swab is about normal.
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We have to swab ourselves, a RN just observes. When we first started testing, around this time last year, the nurses did it to us a couple of times in the beginning, but, then they made us swab ourselves everytime thereafter.
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My last Covid test was just spitting in a little plastic container.
The three prior were brain-scraping qtips up the nose.
The three prior were brain-scraping qtips up the nose.
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Might be a liability thing. Cool if you give yourself a bloody nose or puncture your brain, not so much if a nurse does it to you.
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Different, rotating nurses, usually two working together (one manning the laptop and rapid testing machine, the other providing and supervising the swabbing); they couldn't all share the same fetish.
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On a lighter note, when I went into work this morning, for my second weekly Covid test, one of the nurses gravely joked to me that her partner was going to have to give me a rectal swab today. I thought about that for a few seconds and replied, "I'm taking a sick day then.", and she retorted, "Too late, you're already here." I don't know how sticking a Q-tip up somebody's ass tells you whether or not they have a respiratory disease, but, they're RNs, so, they know what they're doing, right? My bum hurts. 
Even "funnier", the woman that does payroll announced that we completely ran out of call-in slips (they're three-sheet carbon copy forms); I'm not exaggerating when I say that someone, often several someones, calls in sick almost every fooking day at my job, and it's usually CNAs, so we go through a LOT of those forms. I'm proud to say that I've never called in sick, even though I'm also incurably ill.
Even "funnier", the woman that does payroll announced that we completely ran out of call-in slips (they're three-sheet carbon copy forms); I'm not exaggerating when I say that someone, often several someones, calls in sick almost every fooking day at my job, and it's usually CNAs, so we go through a LOT of those forms. I'm proud to say that I've never called in sick, even though I'm also incurably ill.
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Bare minimum 2022, Infants and young children need to be vaccinated next yet. Then you'll be require to take another round of shots again as well since your "immunity" will have worn away by then, that is if they do not push out the 3rd extra booster before the end of the year. Thats why nothing will change with this current set of vaccinations. You take the shot, and all precautions and social distancing and mask wearing will still continue. This is what Fauci and the others have yet to say yet other than hinting at maybe by the end of 2021/beginning of 2022 children will be able to start getting the shots.
Bill gates said hopefully end of 2022 according to him: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...-2022-and-vaccine-sharing-to-ramp-up-12285840
IMHO it will never go back to resembling "normal" in choice places sad to say. Other choice places its pretty much normal despite people wearing a mask by themselves outside by themselves or in their car.
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If people would get thier shit together, there would be no need to vaccinate children (particularly those under 12).
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thats not the option though, its the plan. If you go listen to some fauci interviews he basically says this, doesn't matter about adults getting vaccinated while there's the children left un-jabbed. Its a whole group of the population not vaccinated. Basically what he implies.
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Stop fear-mongering. Shit will be better soon.
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Soon when?
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Soon as the vaccine gives us all super powers, we divide up along superhero and supervillain lines, and everyday life becomes Marvel Cinematic Universe but with shitty real world explosions and effects instead of CG. I'm going to go by Captain M, the MAME Master. None of you fooks give away my secret identity, k?