SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19)

We had more disease and pandemic outbreak detection resources in place, assisting and cooperating with numerous other nations. Even in Wuhan.

Somebody (at the Cabinet level) defunded and cancelled an important chunk of it.

 

Now that coronavirus is practically dead in many areas of thought, shouldn't we be watching the trends of the monkey pox? Seems 4 gay victims recently acquired it in the UK.
Great, more pestilence.
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i think bird flu

 

somehow, that's either going to be blamed on trump or pootin.

kind of like how current inflation is being blamed on em.

lol

 

FDA greenlights nonprescription test for Covid, flu and RSV

 

we got the 'honor':

40038782

 

son, 37 year old, triple vaxxed and front line medical worker tested positive tuesday. on paxlovid, but there are questions about that. he fells like he has a cold and flu at the same time.
his wife felt poorly yesterday and today, but still negative. 3 sons 5 and under still okay and 2 oldest still in school.

i have been surprised that his hospital has not recommended 4th shot for them.

 

Even hermits have to get out every now and again…..

 

i noticed, and so did who

 

youngest son (8 months) tested positive today, 102f fever

 

As in now over 2 million cases of "fever", a “major national emergency”? In a country that had no previous vaccination program, even declining to accept its allocation from the international COVAX program? Now having sent three cargo planes on a very unusual trip to China to pick up an unknown cargo?

It sounds like they have a very serious problem developing, beyond their medical system capacity.

 

Dead only in the mindshares of some people, not in actual activity.

It was discovered 64 years ago. Certain rodents appear to be the natural reservoir. It doesn't seem anywhere near as contagious as covid-19 or smallpox, numerous small outbreaks have not led to any real epidemic.

It and other pox variants do seem to have become more common since the end of universal smallpox vaccination, now that there are very large numbers of unvaccinated people, e.g. most American born since 1972. But a monkeypox/smallpox combo vaccine was approved in the U.S. in 2019, and is now included in our Strategic National Stockpile:
FDA approves first live, non-replicating vaccine to prevent smallpox and monkeypox | FDA

 

fed health systems have given an ultimatum to staff:
1 comply, 2 take pay cuts and be moved to non patient care positions, or 3 be terminated

remember when they were "heros?"
remember when they were "essential workers" ?
remember when they couldn't get enough staff to care for all the truly important patients ?

well, things must be really easy now as there will be hundreds of full time staff fired from each fed healthcare center.

guess who will replace them ?

that's right, their replacements will be contract/travel staff, who do not have to follow va/fed demands, and cost 3-4 times as much hourly.

everything to do with control, nothing to do with providing excellent patient care.

... but we already knew this wasn't about a virus.

let's see how those positions are filled in 23 days, since they currently have not hired, oriented, or trained any replacements. this should be fun to watch.

 

We are going back to masks at work next week. The risk level for the county has been going up.

 

big time. but most seem to accept it as the cost of doing business