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This kind of stuff drives me nuts though. It's all half measures. Like, where do these arbitrary numbers come from? -Guests must be seated > Does it spread more when you're standing? -Must wear a mask unless eating or drinking > Its a wedding. Of course I'm gonna be drinking. -No more than 10 people at a table. > Why not 8? or 12? Listen, if you're gonna implement lockdown procedures (and I'm not saying your shouldn't), then lets get serious and lock shit down. At this point, I feel like a lot of these are just paying lip service to make it look as though the officials are trying to do something. Lock it all down, or open it all up. Quit with this middle of the road shit.

A person is smart. People are stupid. Yup. There's ALWAYS a nursing shortage but now its even worse. I have never worked in HR, but it had always seemed to me that hospitals focus 90% of their efforts on recruitment and 10% on retention, which makes zero sense to me. Nurses are leaving the bedside in swarms. The hospitals locally were already near max capacity and understaffed before this wave started. Now throw in the Covid patients to an already overworked and burnt out staff, and you don't have a good combination for keeping nurses around. As it turns out, calling nurses heros every 5 minutes (cringe) and buying them a pizza doesn't get you very far. :dumb: I'm somewhat disappointed in the summer preparation or lack thereof. We KNEW this was coming and yet, it seems as though we did nothing to prepare. There are already supply shortages that started before this wave, rooms around the hospital were never modified to accept Covid patients, staffing was never bolstered or incentivized to stay (unless you count the threats). I keep hearing people mention setting up the Contention Center again. Like, who are you going to get to staff it? You can't even staff a hospital on a normal day with no pandemic. I've heard talk about pulling the nurses that have moved onto administrative roles to fill those gaps. Lol! Best of luck to those patients. I keep waiting to hear that they've canceled elective surgeries again. There's been no talk of it yet but I would bet its coming.

Take this opportunity to delete all of your mainstream social media. You'll be better for it. Did it January 1st this year and haven't looked back. Don't know what's going on in everyone's lives and don't give a fuck. It's been glorious. 5/5 stars. Would highly recommend.

Also, be sure to wipe down and disinfect any trees that you touch.

They're all idiots.

Now you're starting to catch on!

Just so you know, this isn't how it usually plays out in the hospital, even for the 80 year olds.

I hope he does. And I hope it annoys everyone as much as it annoyed everyone hearing "Russia" in every other sentence for the past 4 years.

Care to Copypasta for those of us who aren't subscribing to WSJ?

This guy gets it.

I wouldn't trust any surgeon who prescribed anticoagulants for a knee surgery.

Can confirm. Though the percentage of hospitalizations per positive test is down, the overall positive test numbers are still up. We deal with an actual finite number of beds in hospitals, so while the percentages look better on paper, that doesn't actually mean shit in the healthcare world. There are still only so many available beds and so many available healthcare workers to care for them. I do my part, wear my mask, wash my hands, etc., but I'm to the point where I feel the country should lock up the (typically) vulnerable population or those who truly want to wait it out, open the contingent healthcare facilities, lock down the borders, roll in the full time military for assistance, and everyone take off the masks and go for herd immunity. Deal with the rapid spike and the fallout from it, and lets get on with this. This dragging it on while waiting for a viable vaccine is tiring. I'm no anti-vaxxer or conspiracy theorist, but if you think I'm going to take some experimental vaccine fresh out of the lab, you've got another thing coming. And, I'm sure they're going to mandate this for healthcare workers, so I'm curious how that is going to play out. I, like probably many of you, am over the whole thing. Hospital supplies are already tight, and the places are packed with patients (not jus C19 patients). We've had the whole summer lull to prepare for this and its seems as though we didn't. The longer we drag this on, the more it mutates, and the harder its going to be to stop. Just my off-the-cuff opinion. I'm no expert.

Columbus hospitals have been on citywide diversion since 2200 Monday.

Boy, you really got me there. :dumb:

Come on, Man. Have a little faith here. We've really got Harris calling all the shots. You know, the bitch that sucked enough dick to work her way into a Vice Presidency. Im honestly impressed. That must have taken quite a bit of work or she has some serious technique. At least she's with the appropriate running mate. He's got the quid pro quo thing down pat. If I were Joe, I certainly wouldn't accept any drinks from her or any shit like that.

Fixed that for you, Bro. Btw, that's pretty much all of them. Don't kid yourself that its just one side or the other.

Sign me up for some Candace Owens.

The Repubs could absolutely kill it in 2024 if they could manage to find someone who isn't a career politician, AND, who also isn't an idiot (Trump...). They seriously had a great shot at doing this and, as usual, blew it. Now we're back to career politics which is the same shit everyone was so tired of in 2016. Shit ain't gonna change.

The Toilet Paper industry panics.

Even with Trump (most likely) losing, I think its pretty telling just how close it really was. Contrary to what the media hammers down your throat everyday, a fair amount of people do agree, at least in part, with what Trump says or does. I'm still amazed by how polarized our country is and how evenly it is split. Im convinced that had Trump not been so damn abrasive in his personality, he would win by a landslide. Kind of like how Trump didn't win in 2016, Hillary lost. Biden didn't win here, Trump just lost it. I wish we could get a real candidate who isn't a career politician. I think that's still something the People want, hence, Trump. The mainstream Politicians and Media continue to show just how out of touch they are with the average American, and the polls showed that yet again. I'm not sure when they're going to figure that out.

I was waiting for the molotov cocktails and rocks to be thrown but... ...oh wait. Wrong team.

I particularly love that what started out as an internet joke about the beginning of the next civil war, 'the Boogaloo', has somehow been taken seriously by some in the media like its something more than a bunch of Reddit idiots talking shit behind their keyboards.

Full disclosure: I've not read the deets just yet so take this with that in mind. I don't like the idea of general society schmucks Monday morning quarterbacking for people whose job they have no idea about. I run into the same shit in the healthcare field. The general public has NO IDEA about how things really are. I imagine its the same in the LEO world. These aren't the people I would want providing oversight.

Out of curiosity, how would you solve this situation?

Fucking thank you. For fucks sake, EMS always prioritizes scene safety first. Always. Some manic prior offender isn't going to have one step taken towards him by EMS until police assure them it is safe. Better send in the social workers! :dumb: