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Sheepdog

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I'm just glad to see you back. We were worried sick.
My mother restricts my internet access during the MMA off-season in order to stop me from joining that Furry community again.

I just like the way the fucking fursuit's material feels on my skin alright, mother!
 
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Having a hard time opening your link so I hopped here:

The relaxed requirements only apply to healthcare workers who are asymptomatic, and they will need to wear N95 respirators rather than standard medical masks. The department wants these workers to treat only patients who have already tested positive, the letter says, although it recognizes that “this may not always be possible in settings such as the emergency department” where the status of Everyone’s infection is not always known.
I guess I don't have an issue with someone that is positive treating a positive patient. But it appears they leave the door open for them working in any department? I wonder why they are testing so many asymptomatic patients. That seems a poor use of testing resources.
 

MMAHAWK

Real Gs come from California.America Muthafucker
Feb 5, 2015
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Having a hard time opening your link so I hopped here:



I guess I don't have an issue with someone that is positive treating a positive patient. But it appears they leave the door open for them working in any department? I wonder why they are testing so many asymptomatic patients. That seems a poor use of testing resources.
What about quarantine?
They will be around other nurses, doctors, custodians, and maintenance that they can infect at work.
Along with all the other everyday stops traveling to and from work.

Also can a person with a certain strain be infected by a different one?
 
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What about quarantine?
They will be around other nurses, doctors, custodians, and maintenance that they can infect at work.
Along with all the other everyday stops traveling to and from work.

Also can a person with a certain strain be infected by a different one?

I share all of those concerns.
A lot of this is moving targets because of omicron being transmissible for shorter periods of time. But I don't think there's any good data on asymptomatic cases on their risk of spread.
With studies on Delta an N95 should lower The risk for viral output so low It would take hours and hours of exposure to be infected from them. But again this is sort of circumstantial evidence based on other studies and not right now.


Right now omicron antibodies appear to be protective against reinfection with Delta. And we saw the same thing with Delta antibodies preventing reinfection with Wuhan.
So right now if you catch COVID you probably have a buffer against infection with any COVID for some period of time. Although it's quite variable on how long that is. Huge variations in antibody response from people.

Obviously their policy is all about staffing. I'm not much of a policy expert but I can't be mad about the attempts to balance harm of interventions with harm of the disease. It's just filled with logistical problems. I'm definitely not supporting their policy on the face of it. Just trying to understand If it's one that could be modified and fixable or if it's just dumb from top to bottom.
 

Hauler

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The Supreme Court failed to rule on the repeal of Biden's mandates, so they are now in effect.

Companies with 100+ employees must now verify vaccination, and employees who have not been vaxxed must mask up.

Additionally, those unvaccinated employees must undergo weekly testing starting Feb 9. That's roughly 25,000,000 tests a week nationwide (Assuming 30% of qualified employees aren't vaxxed). So roughly 108,000,000 tests a month.

I didn't know these tests were so readily available. Thankfully, they've authorized OSHA, an organization that is steeped with logic and understanding - to enforce this mandate.

What a clusterfuck.
 
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I didn't know these tests were so readily available.
They aren't. We are already running out. We have been failing to provide broad easy access testing since the beginning of this.

I wonder what the exception is when there are no tests even in a local market. That's would happen sometimes even without the current shortages.
 

Hauler

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They aren't. We are already running out. We have been failing to provide broad easy access testing since the beginning of this.

I wonder what the exception is when there are no tests even in a local market. That's would happen sometimes even without the current shortages.
I figured as much. My comment was a little tongue-in-cheek.

So Biden's mandate will be overturned or modified eventually. The question is when? And by how much?

Being the vaccine police for employees kind of sucks.
 

sparkuri

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With studies on Delta an N95 should lower The risk for viral output so low It would take hours and hours of exposure to be infected from them.
That's very interesting. When kids were still young & in the house, they tried explaining why dishes in the dishwasher still had specs of dirt on them, reasoning you might as well drink from it because if it didn't come off in the dishwasher it certainly won't come off in your drink.

N95's obviously don't differ in particulate matter enough to make the difference, 13-19% might be looked at from the other direction, 81-87% inneffective.
Over hours, ridiculous.

Listening to you explain away the worst possible national response on earth is a case study in itself.
Padding it with disagreeance while concurrently maintaining a belief of administrative benevolence seems to be consistent in every microcosm.
I'm just amazed, stupified, wondering if the loss of smell covers the cognitive analogy, scientifically.

I think if you were my kid I'd record every moment and play it back later like a bad haircut.
 
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That's very interesting. When kids were still young & in the house, they tried explaining why dishes in the dishwasher still had specs of dirt on them, reasoning you might as well drink from it because if it didn't come off in the dishwasher it certainly won't come off in your drink.

N95's obviously don't differ in particulate matter enough to make the difference, 13-19% might be looked at from the other direction, 81-87% inneffective.
Over hours, ridiculous.

Listening to you explain away the worst possible national response on earth is a case study in itself.
Padding it with disagreeance while concurrently maintaining a belief of administrative benevolence seems to be consistent in every microcosm.
I'm just amazed, stupified, wondering if the loss of smell covers the cognitive analogy, scientifically.

I think if you were my kid I'd record every moment and play it back later like a bad haircut.
Post some more guys blowing vape smoke instead of clinical studies while you're at it.


Remember when you were wearing N99's and gloves while screaming a poor checkout lady for wanting to swipe your credit card...and now you act like everyone is too stupid to see the truth you obviously see.
 

sparkuri

Pulse on the finger of The Cimmunity
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Remember when you were wearing N99's and gloves while screaming a poor checkout lady for wanting to swipe your credit card...and now you act like everyone is too stupid to see the truth you obviously see.
Unlike you and others, I change my position based on a changing situation.

Do you buy the same model defective vehicle over and over?

If D241 were still here I'd say "you were right in your analysis, you were wrong in your delivery".

If you don't change your stance as information comes in it becomes a pride issue & detrimental liability.