outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

the lady sitting next to him called it a 'racket' to make money, then said she was a teacher not long after.

god help us

I checked: God is on a cig break.

p much we are all living in a low-security lunatic asylum

what if God smelled like a bus

just a bum like one of us

If anti-vaxxers make this shit drag on for another year, we're gonna start seeing some violent reactions to their pisspants baby tantrums.

Sorry kevin, I misunderstood!

some of us (*looks at myself*) are very bad at responding to emails in general though!

Israel has vaccinated over 10% of its population already.

Honestly of all the things the us has screwed up this year, the vaccine rollout is the most depressing. Almost a year to prepare.

I’ve posted this before, but this was written in May

https://newrepublic.com/article/157704/coronavirus-vaccine-united-states-health-care

“The U.S. simply does not have anything resembling the infrastructure necessary to ensure that everyone gets anything, including food or water or shelter, let alone something that requires access to a health care worker. To the extent that we have ever aspired to this sort of capability, those traditions have long eroded, worn down by our debased politics. We do not have a National Health Service–style system, which was able to produce a (poorly handled but nevertheless extant) list of patients who were at high risk for the coronavirus. My mother in Britain, who has received immunotherapy for lung cancer for the past two years, was on this list. She received a text from the government telling her to stay inside for 12 weeks, plus a phone call and two letters, which also advised her of government resources for food and help for the extremely vulnerable and suggested that she spend time with the windows open or sitting on her doorstep.”

“and one dose of a two-dose vaccine.”

Feel like one of the outcomes of this is going to be US culture becoming like I dunno Mexico or Russia, where *everyone* (not just the “don’t tread on me” types) assumes everything the government says is a malicious or incompetent lie.

“and one dose of a two-dose vaccine.”

Oh come on, that second dose will be forthcoming, for those that live long enough

Feel like one of the outcomes of this is going to be US culture becoming like I dunno Mexico or Russia, where *everyone* (not just the “don’t tread on me” types) assumes everything the government says is a malicious or incompetent lie.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, December 31, 2020 12:18 PM (thirty-nine seconds ago)

this is sort of the point of the last 40 years of the conservative movement!

TS: say you’re going to do something stupid and then doing it, vs saying you’re going to do something good and then fucking up completely through lack of interest and malice.

this is sort of the point of the last 40 years of the conservative movement!

The hospital in my parents town in the panhandle was desperately calling random people in the county offering to give them the vaccine. Only 1/3 of nurses took it

— kai (@alaskan214) December 31, 2020

here is the said nhs coronavirus advice - ibuprofen and honey and, yes, opening a window.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/how-to-treat-symptoms-at-home/

that's roughly what my GP recommends for literally every ailment i've ever seen him about and it usually works tbf

the vaccine rollout in France is verrrrry slow right now, because the government is waiting to make sure every person has actively consented to it before administering it, and giving people considerable time to consent or not. Right now this is just for people in nursing homes. We've vaccinated 100 people since Sunday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

uk has vaccinated nearly 1m

(can't open caek's link properly on my phone)

The Imperial report on the new UK B117 strain is out. Very concerning findings, that highlight why we need to act on this *now*. These findings suggest that the situation within the UK is likely to get much worse than it is now. Here's why-

Thread.

— Deepti Gurdasani (@dgurdasani1) December 31, 2020

Thread on the U.K. strain.

A year ago:

One to watch, particularly with the Lunar New Year holidays approaching. Chinese officials investigate cause of pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan | Article [AMP] | Reuters https://t.co/ZjjfkCcc5O

— Peter Horby (@PeterHorby) December 31, 2019

Dad and mom waiting to get vaxxed. Moderna.

https://i.ibb.co/0MLQH2s/IMG-20210102-121431.jpg
postal family credit union

<3

postal family credit union?

I keep forgetting ImgBB puts bullshit spam tags below its photos and forget to remove them

ah! imgur does not fwiw.

cool! think i'll move them over there, good excuse as any.

so dad fell again outside shortly after vaxx. not related to fatigue or dizziness, I was dicking around on my phone and was slow to react to him moving his walker awkwardly and striking a wooden plank, which sent the walker flying over and him. fortunately he fell on his butt, backwards, and I got him up. little scrape only.

that'll teach me to stop paying attention for a millisecond. we're still working on the damn wheelchair as now the insurance and the wheelchair-store are fighting over network issues. hopefully get that worked out soon.

this is good https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/17/how-covid19-has-been-curtailed-in-cherokee-nation/

ime getting wheelchairs approved is always a big long wrangle with insurance, good luck for a quick, easy process!

I like that photo, Neanderthal!

What the fuckhttps://t.co/EF6DFBgbYW

— Q. Anthony (ɔpɛ asem) (@andraydomise) January 3, 2021

What should Israeli public health officials do differently given that Palestine manages its own public health and hasn’t asked for help?

"Israeli officials have suggested they might provide surplus vaccines to Palestinians and claim they are not responsible for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, pointing to 1990s-era interim agreements that required the authority to observe international vaccination standards.

Those deals envisioned a fuller peace agreement within five years, an event that never occurred. Almost three decades later, Israeli, Palestinian and international rights groups have accused Israel of dodging moral, humanitarian and legal obligations as an occupying power during the pandemic."

What should Israeli public health officials do differently given that Palestine manages its own public health and hasn’t asked for help?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, January 3, 2021 8:54 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

What should an occupying army enforcing apartheid owe to those whose lands it is occupying?

that, plus i don’t see the plo much less hamas/dawah asking israel for help even if it was the last motherfucker on earth

I have no idea why you trust the guardian implicitly on this issue but not on any other but sure, xxp

(I do know why actually)

that, plus i don’t see the plo much less hamas/dawah asking israel for help even if it was the last motherfucker on earth

This is the air powered costume an employee wore in the Emergency Dept.of Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center Xmas day to spread cheer. Turns out employee unknowingly had covid , now 43 employees have covid .Kaiser investigating if costume blower helped spread the virus. pic.twitter.com/DLLi8z5e2T

— Marianne Favro (@mariannefavro) January 3, 2021

A bit too on the nose IMO

no words

spreading cheer, and spreading virus

Holy shit. I took my daughter to that exact hospital in early February for high-fever, rampant coughing & nausea.

My post upthread:

Our household also contracted what Lily Dale experienced a bit upthread in the past 6-8 weeks, came back for seconds (thirds with my wife). Our little one had to get an injection at the pediatric ER for her cough (they deemed it common croup based on obvservation i.e., no swab/sample/bloodwork).

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:37 PM (ten months ago)

I have no idea why you trust the guardian implicitly on this issue but not on any other but sure, xxp

(I do know why actually)

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 3 January 2021 bookmarkflaglink

This isn't about trust. The Guardian are a liberal rag that allow for 'both sides' views on a lot of issues, including Israel-Palestine.

I have put a tweet about Pfizer and Argentina a few days ago and also have seen reports that the global south will get vaccines so what the Palestinians get is part of that too and I will keep putting that in here, whether you like it or not.

*vaccines later than the global north

Now we're onto blaming the public and covering up the dire situation in UK hospitals.

FleetStreetFox pontificating on why journalists aren't allowed into hospitals pic.twitter.com/UyQhD3wn9P

— keewa (@keewa) January 4, 2021