Budley Doright
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Just saw a text from the office manager to tech group paying double time to take 3 calls. I would take them but I loath the new owners lol.
Pandemic 2020
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CunningCanuk
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How are things going with cases and hospitalizations in the Kingston area?
Budley Doright
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Testing is now limited to high risk and healthcare only. I hear the hospitals are fucked due to people off 
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DIY-HP-LED
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It's so fucking contagious it's penetrating the PPE of hospital workers, it doesn't take much to get ya, just being in a confined space with someone infected for a short time will do the trick. Like I said before, we might not have much choice about getting this shit, but we might have some control over when we run up against it with luck and a boost.View attachment 5059190Testing is now limited to high risk and healthcare only. I hear the hospitals are fucked due to people off
Here's where we stand in NS and it ain't good, total population is 1 million and over 90% of the eligible have had a single dose and almost 84% double dosed, but only 128 K boosted so far.
Nova Scotia (1,893) - The province reported 1,893 new cases over the past two days, including 709 on Jan. 1 and 1,184 on Jan. 2. We currently have 7,617 active cases in NS. We've got 40 in the hospital and 4 in the ICU, so far, but this is just getting going.
As you can see we had it pretty good through most of the pandemic, but the shit hit the fan in December.
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injinji
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Not very often. Once in a while a volunteer fire department or the like will have a wild game fund raiser with gator meat. I don't try for the lottery to get permits to hunt them myself, but some folks I know do.
DIY-HP-LED
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They should just go home, WTF do they think will happen if they test positive? The hospitals are overwhelmed and any treatments would be in very short supply, there's not much that can be done for them other than putting them on oxygen. There will not even be enough staff for that, or to give them the cheap drugs that can keep them out of the ICU, if there was an ICU bed available.
why do you need to test? aren't you vaxxed? why do we need to travel and not expect cancellation?.all of the sudden testing everywhere.
why can't people just stay home?
in a Pandemic which was over 1/1/22
just ZOOM FFS already.
this.
Omicron is 'not the same disease' as previous Covid variants, Oxford University scientist says
Horrific scenes seen in previous Covid-19 waves are "now history," according to John Bell, a regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford.
vaxx or not we need to stay home..this is why i'm concerned about Chinese lockdown and Israel's 4th shot.
DIY-HP-LED
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We are not sitting idly by while this thing mutates and runs wild, there is lot's of research and development. Last year we had no chance, now we have multiple vaccines and more coming. We also have and will have more antiviral medications and effective antibody therapies. One of the biggest delays are safety concerns and clinical trials to establish efficacy and dosing, there are lot's of things in the works and ready to go. There are vaccines in development and testing that can knock out all coronaviruses, not just covid. Pandemics also end naturally, when a less virulent, but more contagious strain evolves and that might be happening with omicron, but don't count on it.
This is a respiratory disease, at least that's how it spreads, it's airborne and will end up as another player in the cold and flu season since it's endemic. Since vaccines it's been killing idiots more than any one else and it's reaching a point where it might being doing more good than harm, in America at least!
Budley Doright
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I’ve had gator a few times (when I had my place in Florida) and it was actually quite tasty but it’s all in the sauces I think. I’m more of a Cracker Barrel catfish/meatloaf kind of guy lol.
printer
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Do you have a cold or the Flu rather than covid? Do you have to isolate, is your family in danger?
HGCC
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The family went to visit inlaws, figured it was a good idea to get the kid tested before going back to school.
Budley Doright
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Yes wouldn’t it be nice to stay home. Unfortunately that really is not an option when even missing one day means no food for a lot of peoplethis.
Omicron is 'not the same disease' as previous Covid variants, Oxford University scientist says
Horrific scenes seen in previous Covid-19 waves are "now history," according to John Bell, a regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford.www.cnbc.com
vaxx or not we need to stay home..this is why i'm concerned about Chinese lockdown and Israel's 4th shot.
. This virus has caused a lot of mental health issues for people that live paycheque to paycheque given the extreme stress it brings with it .
CunningCanuk
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If you are sick with any of those it's a good idea to self isolate. Most of those folks are probably there for employment purposes, they need a positive test to get the sick time off. The point is, testing is clearly overwhelmed and soon the hospitals will be too, if they have delta or omicron, their family members probably have it too. Some people do have legitimate and logical reasons to stay in a 2 mile long line for testing, but a positive test won't make much difference for most people, since they can't or won't be treated. It is useful for school and work or other things one must attend, but unless yer gonna get a hotel room after a positive test, you'll probably go back home, but perhaps to a tent in the backyard!
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