OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

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    Sending good vibes
     
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    Good luck...our family just went through 3 weeks of heavy colds and nobody got covid...just nasty colds...grandson tested negative yesterday after having another cold this week.
     
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    Now health care workers fighting on the front lines of the pandemic are also coming face to face with patients who dismiss and even threaten them over how they are being treated for the virus.

    "Folks act as if they can come in the hospital and request any certain therapy they want or conversely decline any therapy they want with the idea being that somehow they can pick and choose and direct their therapy. And it doesn't work," Lyons told CNN from the CentraCare hospital he works at in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

    As the highly transmissible Omicron variant, which has become the dominant strain in the US in a matter of weeks, drives up case counts, a newly fueled wave of misinformation about the pandemic and the vaccines designed to end it continues.

    From groundless conspiracy theories that the vaccines contain microchips or alter people's DNA to deliberate falsehoods about vaccine deaths and mask side effects, the pandemic misinformation industry is thriving.

    This dangerous misinformation has also led to a slew of lawsuits being filed against hospitals demanding unproven medical treatments, like Ivermectin. Health care providers are reporting growing hostility between medical workers and patients and their families.

    It's a constant dose of harassment and vitriol.

    "They insult your intelligence, they insult your ability, and most hurtful, they say that by not using these therapies you are intentionally trying to harm the people we've given everything to save," Lyons said.

    About 70% of the patients in Lyons' ICU are sick with Covid-19, and almost all of them are unvaccinated.


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    "These are folks that are advocating for their loved ones that are on life support. And I have a tremendous amount of sympathy," he said.

    But he feels they've been manipulated by bad information and other doctors pushing treatments not rooted in evidence-based science, the most popular one being Ivermectin.

    "And those are the folks that I don't have any respect for -- the charlatans and the snake oil salesmen that are selling this," Lyons continued. "They're preying on people's hope and trying to take advantage of desperate families who would do anything to get their loved one home."
     
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    I’d lay low for another two days. If it’s from the booster it will be gone within 3 days or so. If not, go get tested. Maybe book a Covid test now for Sunday or Monday, just in case. Take the very first time slot so you don’t get stuck behind a hundred people who are taking too long.
     
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    A gathering (no masks of course) of cultists including My Pillow guy and traitor Michael Flynn resulted in widespread illness. They are claiming they were attacked with anthrax because it couldn't possibly be Covid.
    After two years auto correct still wants to change it to vivid.
     
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    People are so easy to program, its pathetic. Masks don't do shit. Even if everyone and their sperm got vaccinated, it wouldn't stop covid. The question is how to help people overcome the infection.

    Reasonable precautions are fine, but if you think the only answer is more vaccines, more masks, and more lockdowns, you've been brainwashed.
     
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    Ah, random dude with Ph.D from Facebook.
     
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    How can anyone believe that?
    So, by that logic the measles vaccine, polio vaccine, small pox vaccine, flu, pneumonia, rabies, mumps, shingles and cholera vaccines were not effective in virtually eliminating them from our country. What is this, do we still live in caves?
     
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    Right. The Surgeons wanted to have guns with their uniforms but the policemen said, Nah, we got these, you can't have these. So, they said, sure, let's have a helmet so everyone will know we have a worthwhile job - but the firemen said, Nah, we got these, you can't have these. So they gathered together around the camp fire and plotted what they could use, air tanks are for scuba divers and fire proof suits are for race car drivers, poodles in a handbag are for old ladies at the grocery store. At last, they found the one item no other profession claimed - a face mask - and they chose these.

    The end.
     
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