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Faceplams: Looks like I'm going to get a Moderna booster in a few weeks. I definitely qualify. I have to juggle the timing with the chemo schedule though.
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Looks like I'm going to get a Moderna booster in a few weeks. I definitely qualify. I have to juggle the timing with the chemo schedule though.
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5,600 kids in Tampa school districts in quarantine
over 300 teachers in the district in quarantine
the district I teach at here in NJ had a zoom town hall to discuss reopening for sept. in typical fashion, the district was 25 minutes late to it's own meeting. and it ended in a matter of minutes due to "hackers" shouting racial slurs and pornographic sounds.
we are in serious trouble.
the fall and winter is going to be uglier than last fall and winter....
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New Zealand is in total lockdown after learning about 1 new covid case. Only 26 of their people have died during this whole time.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/asia/...hnk/index.html
This Cannot Continue
My friend in Canada got a temping job until the new university course starts next month, she was telling me there was a cliq of people that flat out refused to get the vaccine or wear masks regardless of gov guild lines, One of whom was her supervisor (who was also visibly ill with what she insisted was just the flu...the fuck was she even doing in an office with the flu!?). She was worried as she hadn't gotten both her vaccines yet so let her temp agency know as per gov advice...my friends contract was terminated the next day. I fucking hate people.
She's not that bothered as she's back at uni soon, but the fucking selfishness of some people really ticks me off...
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I love this approach by NZOriginally Posted by ickyvicky
meanwhile over here, people are fighting over putting a damn mask on. it's pathetic.
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^^ same
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yes. why aren’t there lock downs right now? i know everyone is patting biden on the back for different things but i think he’s too scared to do a lockdown. i think it would hurt him politically and that’s why he’s not calling for it. (prove me wrong joe)
i posted in the coping thread that it’s in our house. i have one kid positive and one kid negative. they’re letting the negative come to school as long ask she wears a mask. i’m like cool, how about EVERYONE wear the damn mask. why is it optional? really hoping i can get my kids vaccinated soon. this whole ordeal has been rather gut wrenching. my decision to let my negative kid go to school has been hard. i’ve spoke with school and our pediatrician but it still feels weird to send her.
if my positive kid showed symptoms, i would keep the other kid home. But they’ve had virtually no symptoms. so they’re not pushing out virus. they have separate rooms and our home is equipped with a uv filter in the AC. the kids had their second covid test yesterday and i’m awaiting results today. i feel like we’re fighting a good fight over here.
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Texas governor Greg Abbott tested positive. Just last night he was at a GOP event shaking hands, hugging, and taking pictures.
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Ehhh, I'm not sure that's accurate at all. If that was the case, COVID wouldn't have been such a problem to begin with.
But I get it - you gotta do what ya gotta do.
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i thought it was bullshit too but the pediatrician explained to me that someone who is coughing and sneezing is constantly pushing it out, filling a room with it. the kid obviously had enough viral load to test positive so he definitely had it. but i believe he’s not shedding enough of it to get her sick. we’ve quarantined him as much as possible and kept him 6 feet from the other kid as much as possible. that is difficult for sure.
i’m just waiting for their test results right now. the test place i go to is easy to access and totally free. as long as we’re in school, i might test her periodically like before events or weekend plans. if she doesn’t get it from her brother, she can get it at the school anytime. masks are optional there. she’s not the the only sibling allowed to attend after close contact at home. i am 100% doing what i have to do for my kids and their learning. my younger one is falling behind after ipad learning all of last year. it fucking sucks that we did what the science recommends and we’re still here. we stayed home for 15 months and we got vaccinated and this still happened to us. predictably, from an unvaccinated relative.
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I totally get it. I know (from what I've read of your posts!) that you'ven been 100% responsible, and I wasn't trying to sound judgy. I can only imagine how this has impacted kids' learning and social development.
I stayed home for 14 months, got vaccinated, and I don't know what to do anymore. I got my PCR negative result, which means the at-home Ellume test was a false positive. BUT! I have to fly for a wedding on labor day weekend...which to me spells it out that I'm probably going to come into contact with the delta variant, and hope my moderna vaccination will hold up. The odds are in my favor, but it's difficult to put myself in the way of potential harm when I spent so long protecting myself. IFFF I were to need medical treatment when I get home after the weekend - I'm fucked. Florida hospitals are overrun. But I know if I just stay home and do nothing, I'll go insane because I really need to see and hug friends.
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Ah yes, the ol' Trump routine.
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what is wrong with Texas.
After Texas parent rips mask off teacher’s face, school official warns: ‘Do not fight mask wars in our schools’Some parents physically and verbally assaulted teachers because of masks. One parent ripped a teacher’s mask off her face, Leonard said. Others yelled at another teacher to remove her mask because they claimed it made it difficult to understand what she was saying.
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Most everyone who is listening to Greg Abbott seriously are playing stupid games and are going to win stupid prizes. Also, (not from Texas) but it wasn't until I saw the picture of Greg Abbot at the GOP event did I realize he was in a wheelchair. Sorry, I know it's not really relevant.
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Texas school district finds unique loophole in Gov. Abbott's ban on mask mandates
The school board of Paris, Texas, voted to make masks a requirement in the district's dress code, noting that the state doesn't have the power to usurp the school dress code without also suspending part of the Texas Education Code, which gives local school boards the power to write and enforce dress codes.
If a student can be booted from class because their skirt is 1/4-inch too short, then students can be required to wear face masks at all times on school property.
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I'm also not from Texas and I realized a couple months ago. Doesn't seem like his political record is very kind to the disabled so I've assumed it was hidden as much as possible on purpose.
Just tickles my balls!
Got my Pfizer vaccine booked in for September 14 with a second dose on October 5.
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It's Texass?
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I wonder if I can book my booster. I got my second Moderna dose at the end of March.
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FDA: Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine
Antivax plague rats:
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I asked my boss and apparently they're doing boosters starting mid September, which is right about 8 months after the second shot that we all got in the first wave of vaccines. Not only that but apparently there's a Delta shot in October-ish that is going to be like getting a flu shot where it targets the delta, much like a flu shot targets that year's strain.
edit: I work in a healthcare/hospital-adjacent setting.
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Successfully bullied and peer pressured my trumpty dumpty boomer ass parents to get an appointment to get the Pfizer vaccine today. Appealed to all their emotions and manipulated the F U C K out of them. (It was easy, they’re trump fans)
We’ll see if they show on Wednesday.
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How did you do it?
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I treated them the way their orange leader does, I appealed to their emotions and manipulated them.
My grandma died of cancer, I spoke with my mom on the phone as her baby boy, her son that loves her. I asked her how she would have felt if her mother had some way to prevent herself from dying of the cancer she did, if there was some miracle shot that could have prevented her from dying of cancer then how would she feel? Would she be angry at her mom? Would she constantly wonder what if? How would she feel every day knowing she could have had more time with her mom but her mom decided to gamble with her life and lose?
With my dad, i told him that I was going to propose to my girlfriend in a few months. What if i propose, then a few months later they both get nailed from covid and while i'm walking down the isle they've got a breathing tube down their throat and they die before they get to see their grandkids.
I told them both how it would make me feel watching both my parents either become forever changed or dead before 70 in a preventable fashion and how i would be angry, confused and hurt for the rest of my life.
I didn't lie to them about anything but I told them how I would feel if I had to go without my mom and dad. It worked.
Bite me
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That all seems very logical to me except for the percentage of Black vaccinated...seems high based on all the reporting on trust in government / vaccine hesitancy. But if 76% is true I think that's a huge win.
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