Cooked Crack Posted January 18, 2022 Share Posted January 18, 2022 https://www.covidtests.gov/ Government site up. Ordered mines. Will see how long it takes to get them. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 (edited) Feelin particularly frustrated right now, and I hate that word. Wife's friend has now failed three PCR tests in a row, my wife and daughter both passed. Now wife's friend is working on a waiver with her country's department of health to get an antigen test instead so she can go home. She went to try to get one tonight, and my wife stopped me from going, too, because I passed the antigen test but failed PCR, her argument that I'm not leaving the country so can keep getting PCR until I come back clean. I haven't seen my parents all year, I told my sister to cancel her flight to be here for my daughter's first birthday, I'm getting serious cabin fever. Now I'm reading you can fail the PCR test, but not be contagious anymore. This whole testing thing is fn BS of the highest order. The rapid tests seem useless, the PCR tests too freaking sensitive, I just want this to be over with so I can get on with my life. I'm not getting an indication Biden is going to come back with updated vaccine mandates, has anyone heard differently? What I'm reading seems to be a re-emphasis on testing, focused on at home rapid tests. We getting very close to people in general just wanting to move on and live with this crap, forget the testing, forget the vaccines, it's a mess. Nature wins, flawless victory. Edited January 19, 2022 by Renegade7 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Sorry you're going through all of that, Renegade. 🙏 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Nature always wins… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 7 hours ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said: Nature always wins… Never go to an island with dinosaurs on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball Security Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 54 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said: Well, I’m pretty sure she won’t catch it in the future. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 (edited) Got beat to it Edited January 20, 2022 by Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 China brings back anal swab testing for Covid two weeks before Winter Olympics begin China has brought back anal swab testing to screen for Covid-19 in a bid to stop the spread of the Omicron variant, just two weeks before the Beijing Winter Olympics begin. At least 27 people underwent the controversial anal swab tests at an apartment building in Beijing where a 26-year-old woman had contracted Omicron, the city's first recorded case of the variant, according to Chinese newspaper The Beijing News. The anal tests involve inserting a sterile cotton swab up to two inches (5cm) into the rectum and rotating it several times. The swab is then removed before being analysed in a lab. Beijing is in the midst of a strict lockdown and testing regime after the city reported its first local Omicron infection on January 15, and 11 cases have been confirmed in the capital as of Thursday afternoon, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. How to give yourself an anal swab Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Oh, s-word... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 On 1/20/2022 at 8:16 AM, Ball Security said: Well, I’m pretty sure she won’t catch it in the future. Mission failed successfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 Is COVID retreating in the U.S.? Data paints encouraging scenario New coronavirus cases are falling in parts of the United States hit hardest by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, according to a Reuters analysis of public health data, offering an early indication the virus might once again be in retreat. COVID-19 infections have decreased in 19 states Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, an analysis of the past week through Thursday compared with the prior week showed. In the Northeast, which saw some of the highest case loads during the latest surge, infections are down 40% week-over-week. "Certainly it bodes well for us in terms of the trajectory of Omicron," said Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University in New York City. The drop was more modest at the national level with new reported COVID-19 cases down 7% during the same time period, according to the Reuters tally, as Omicron surges in some other parts of the country. COVID-19 data often lag a few days behind the actual state of affairs. In the Midwest, cases climbed 11% over the past seven days compared with the previous week, and were up 2% in the South, although the increase has slowed considerably in recent weeks. Western states saw a 3% week-over-week drop in new infections, according to the tally. Nationally, new cases are averaging a still-high 738,000 a day, down from a peak of 805,000 on Jan. 15. Click on the link for the full article Deaths, which usually lag new infections by about three weeks and are occurring primarily among the unvaccinated, are averaging more than 2,000 a day, up 50% from the start of the month. That is highest average number of COVID-19 deaths since the end of September, but lower than the record of 3,300 lives lost a day in January 2021. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 22, 2022 Author Share Posted January 22, 2022 Alabama tops 45% COVID positivity rate, among highest in nation Omicron is still surging in Alabama. The Alabama Department of Public Health reported Alabama’s COVID positivity rate - the percentage of tests that come back positive in a 7-day period - reached an all-time high of 45.3% on Wednesday. It’s difficult to compare positivity rate from state to state in the U.S. because each states reports COVID numbers differently, and at different times. But data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicates Alabama’s positivity rate is among the highest in the nation - if not the highest. As of Monday, the last day for which HHS had data, no state had a higher rate than Oklahoma’s 44.9% - a number Alabama has now passed. Click on the link for more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 30 minutes ago, China said: Is COVID retreating in the U.S.? Data paints encouraging scenario New coronavirus cases are falling in parts of the United States hit hardest by the fast-spreading Omicron variant, according to a Reuters analysis of public health data, offering an early indication the virus might once again be in retreat. COVID-19 infections have decreased in 19 states Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, an analysis of the past week through Thursday compared with the prior week showed. In the Northeast, which saw some of the highest case loads during the latest surge, infections are down 40% week-over-week. "Certainly it bodes well for us in terms of the trajectory of Omicron," said Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University in New York City. The drop was more modest at the national level with new reported COVID-19 cases down 7% during the same time period, according to the Reuters tally, as Omicron surges in some other parts of the country. COVID-19 data often lag a few days behind the actual state of affairs. In the Midwest, cases climbed 11% over the past seven days compared with the previous week, and were up 2% in the South, although the increase has slowed considerably in recent weeks. Western states saw a 3% week-over-week drop in new infections, according to the tally. Nationally, new cases are averaging a still-high 738,000 a day, down from a peak of 805,000 on Jan. 15. Click on the link for the full article Deaths, which usually lag new infections by about three weeks and are occurring primarily among the unvaccinated, are averaging more than 2,000 a day, up 50% from the start of the month. That is highest average number of COVID-19 deaths since the end of September, but lower than the record of 3,300 lives lost a day in January 2021. Alabama losing to Georgia again 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Wife's friend got waiver to go home with negative antigen test, left this morning. Jus got back my latest PCR results, came back negative. Wife and daughter never tested positive on PCR. God is good. 7 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Heard we’re gonna have enough supply of Pfizer antiviral by April. Now that we hopefully have, at least, through Omicron under control we can shift resources to long Covid. Word is it’s still pretty small percentage of those that recover and the severe ones are really low percentage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry.Randolphe Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 Kinda interesting on that chart that virtually all of the positive and rising states are red states..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 Selfish assholes are why we can't have nice things: St. Charles library temporarily closes in-person services after threats over mask policy The St. Charles Public Library is now closed to in-person visits after backlash over the library's mask policy. "We are masked; follow the rules, and it's the ones who don't who cause something like this," said library patron Ute. Officials at the west suburban library said they stopped letting people come inside the newly renovated facility after an incident earlier this week. The library's director, Edith Craig, said police were called after a group of about 35 to 40 adults and children stormed inside the building and refused to wear masks. After the incident is when the threats to library staff members over the library's mask policy began. "Unfortunately, the incident kind of escalated from that day, and that, as I said before, voicemails and emails started, and the library felt that at this time we're going to take a pause," Craig said. The St. Charles Library follows Illinois' mask mandate, which was reinstated by Gov. JB Pritzker in response to a COVID-19 surge. It requires anyone over the age of 2 to wear a facial covering in indoor public settings, regardless of COVID vaccination status. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Almost all of our guests at work are masked, we have no issues on that front. I did have one nitwit who asked why I was wearing one (I have 3 Caps masks, and always wear one with 2 filters). I said, "This is the only fan gear allowed in the uniform. " The crickets and blank stare that followed were epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 I tried to feel bad here, but nothing happened. I'm exhausted with this ****. COVID-19 is killing Trump supporters by the hundreds each day https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/15/2074895/-Journalist-states-the-obvious-COVID-is-killing-Trump-supporters-by-the-hundreds-each-day?fbclid=IwAR0shoWa5H9sVsYxPxZ7dlBky9E2N5JzlX1jpLP5idN-OMU1aOW4QkOCiu0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 54 minutes ago, LD0506 said: I tried to feel bad here, but nothing happened. I have no trouble feeling bad. Because it's not enough. Not enough to make them change. Not enough to eliminate them from the gene pool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball Security Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 19 hours ago, China said: Selfish assholes are why we can't have nice things: St. Charles library temporarily closes in-person services after threats over mask policy The St. Charles Public Library is now closed to in-person visits after backlash over the library's mask policy. "We are masked; follow the rules, and it's the ones who don't who cause something like this," said library patron Ute. Officials at the west suburban library said they stopped letting people come inside the newly renovated facility after an incident earlier this week. The library's director, Edith Craig, said police were called after a group of about 35 to 40 adults and children stormed inside the building and refused to wear masks. After the incident is when the threats to library staff members over the library's mask policy began. "Unfortunately, the incident kind of escalated from that day, and that, as I said before, voicemails and emails started, and the library felt that at this time we're going to take a pause," Craig said. The St. Charles Library follows Illinois' mask mandate, which was reinstated by Gov. JB Pritzker in response to a COVID-19 surge. It requires anyone over the age of 2 to wear a facial covering in indoor public settings, regardless of COVID vaccination status. Click on the link for the full article Besides Fisting for Dummies, I doubt any of those 35-40 people have ever read a book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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