Having to handle multiple classrooms due to sub shortages a couple times a year, and elderly or vulnerable teachers who can't risk getting COVID, are also major issues, not to mention all of the death threats from parents that are specifically mask- and vaccine-related.Bart Harley Jarvis wrote: ↑Feb 08, 2022I'd be willing to guess the book-burning, cameras in classrooms and parental review of every action inside of school buildings is going to be more detrimental to the teaching profession than anything Covid related. sh*t, after having to do online schooling for months on end, you'd think rational parents would be more empathetic and appreciative of what teachers do, but rational parents aren't the ones making life harder for them.Ebsy wrote: ↑Feb 07, 2022The damage done to schoolchildren over the course of the pandemic is going to have an impact on all of us for the rest of our lives. We don't have great testing data yet due to disruptions, but there has been copious reporting on the national teacher shortage which is being driven in no small part by degrading conditions in public schools.
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@leeharveyawesome - Thanks buddy. I'm over the worst part. Having been through it two times - once before vaccines and once being vaccinated - I can definitely tell you that enduring the Covid plague with vaccinations was definitely better than when I wasn't vaccinated. Noting that you're still not vaccinated, consider me a case study. While vaccination against the plague won't keep you from getting sick, it will definitely make the sickness less severe when you do get the plague. Stay safe.
The biggest takeaway I have from the past 2+ years is recognizing just how fragile modern civilization is. I'm now trying to figure out what's antifragile.MarkHaversham wrote:COVID is really shining a light on a lot of problems with society. The poor school conditions, the private health care system, just-in-time supply chains, skeleton crew corporate workforces with no training, poor working pay and sick leave, rudeness toward retail workers, the role of women, societal atomization... all problems that have been developing for decades but now we've become acutely aware of them.Trololzilla wrote:To be fair, COVID is merely exacerbating poor teaching conditions that have existed since long before the pandemic.Ebsy wrote:The damage done to schoolchildren over the course of the pandemic is going to have an impact on all of us for the rest of our lives. We don't have great testing data yet due to disruptions, but there has been copious reporting on the national teacher shortage which is being driven in no small part by degrading conditions in public schools.
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In my book: self-sufficiency, anti-consumerism, preparation, and mutual aid. Of course, it's an unfortunate irony of the pandemic that it makes it difficult to interact with the community for mutual aid.gone corporate wrote: ↑Feb 08, 2022The biggest takeaway I have from the past 2+ years is recognizing just how fragile modern civilization is. I'm now trying to also figure out what's antifragile.
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St. Louis, Missouri:
Research team including MU professor detects ‘cryptic’ COVID variants in New York City sewers https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/research-team-including-mu-professor-detects-cryptic-covid-variants-in-new-york-city-sewers/article_381c40a2-8537-11ec-b5fa-33aba4d2fb81.html
Johnson had ample experience in analyzing wastewater for COVID-19 variants. As a researcher at Missouri’s Coronavirus Sewershed Surveillance Project, he had been examining samples of sewage water from 59 community wastewater facilities from across the state since May 2020.
In March 2021, when carrying out wastewater analysis in his lab at the university’s Bond Life Sciences Center, Johnson discovered a “cryptic” lineage in samples from St. Louis, which persisted for six weeks. However, afterwards, that lineage disappeared.
Research team including MU professor detects ‘cryptic’ COVID variants in New York City sewers https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/research-team-including-mu-professor-detects-cryptic-covid-variants-in-new-york-city-sewers/article_381c40a2-8537-11ec-b5fa-33aba4d2fb81.html
Johnson had ample experience in analyzing wastewater for COVID-19 variants. As a researcher at Missouri’s Coronavirus Sewershed Surveillance Project, he had been examining samples of sewage water from 59 community wastewater facilities from across the state since May 2020.
In March 2021, when carrying out wastewater analysis in his lab at the university’s Bond Life Sciences Center, Johnson discovered a “cryptic” lineage in samples from St. Louis, which persisted for six weeks. However, afterwards, that lineage disappeared.
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COVID poopsilon.
Hopefully it's a non-competitive variant that can't maintain a foothold, and not a variant brewing in rats to jump over and kill us all.
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one of the all-time greatest gif posts I've ever seen
Seems that both city and county are back to pre-Omicron daily case counts
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Positivity is still high, but there's a good chance we'll see a vday/super bowl bump in a week, so if you need to have a stranger spit in your face now is probably the time to do it! Or whatever it is people do when they leave the house, I don't remember.kipfilet wrote: ↑Feb 14, 2022Seems that both city and county are back to pre-Omicron daily case counts
The infection rate is so low that it's gotta be due to previous infection, so we should be able to avoid another peak in cases for another month.
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Why Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/why-covid-19-vaccines-are-a-freaking-miracle/
https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/14/why-covid-19-vaccines-are-a-freaking-miracle/
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My favorite crowd of idiots is the “99% survive covid” without any awareness that 1% chance for dying from something isn’t small or why not take a vaccine+ booster that decreases that chance by 31 times
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Most of the unvaccinated people are such idiots (you know, the ones that aren't <5yo, immunocompromised, parents were Tuskegee veterans etc.), but the no-booster crowd I think mostly falls on poor communication. The CDC was really pushing "you just take these two shots and forget about COVID forever" back in 2021 to boost uptake, and low-information people took that to heart.dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑Feb 15, 2022My favorite crowd of idiots is the, 99% survive covid without any awareness that 1% chance for dying from something isn’t small or why not take a vaccine+ booster that decreases that chance by 31 times
Speaking of under 5's, it's really depressing that Pfizer under-dosed young kids to avoid minor side effects so they wouldn't scare off anti-vaxxers who were never going to get the shot anyway, just a massive over-correction. And then the FDA is in full CYA mode and refusing to approve, even though apparently 6mo-2yo shots show effectiveness at 2 doses, but FDA has to do the paperwork in order because there's no hurry or anything. Augh!
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It’s never going to be over, people will keep dying in elevated numbers, a lot of children as of late. Nothing will change in March that hasn’t already been the case since last summer.
I'd bet my last dollar you were one of the people saying "Over by the end of June" in May 2020.whitherSTL wrote: ↑Feb 15, 2022Over by end of March.
Want to put some money on that?whitherSTL wrote: ↑Feb 15, 2022Over by end of March.
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Thousands of Australian nurses go on strike as Covid cases mount
SOME 20 HOURS AGO
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60256146
SOME 20 HOURS AGO
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60256146
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whitherSTL wrote: ↑Feb 15, 2022Over by end of March.
I guess by that definition it's possible, but I suppose the follow-up question is: how many times can COVID be over? Like, if everyone forgets about COVID in March, and then we have a massive Deltacron wave in April that kills 4000 per day and prompts a return to masking, are you still "right"?whitherSTL wrote:Over = people living like February 2020. I’m seeing it already. Mask optional policies in schools, packed sporting events no masks, etc.
Taking your definition at face value, COVID has already been over at least three times.
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For those who consider its 'over' than fine than how are you preparing and what are your ideas/plans to deal with the next pandemic/outbreak?
2020 Revealed How Poorly the US Was Prepared for COVID-19—and Future Pandemics
JAMA https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777457
2020 Revealed How Poorly the US Was Prepared for COVID-19—and Future Pandemics
JAMA https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777457
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We work out daily. Eat well. Take Vitamin D, C and Zinc. And we’ve (my family) never really had it.chris fuller wrote: ↑Feb 16, 2022For those who consider its 'over' than fine than how are you preparing and what are your ideas/plans to deal with the next pandemic/outbreak?
2020 Revealed How Poorly the US Was Prepared for COVID-19—and Future Pandemics
JAMA https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777457
Hmmmmmm….
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The Omicron Wave Is Receding But the Pandemic Is Far From Over
https://time.com/6148270/covid-19-pandemic-far-from-over/
https://time.com/6148270/covid-19-pandemic-far-from-over/
It aint over
Omicron Sub-Variant Forecast to Cause S. Africa Infection Surge
Omicron Sub-Variant Forecast to Cause S. Africa Infection Surge
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Sub-variant spreading rapidly in South Africa, scientist sayshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-02/omicron-s-ba-2-may-cause-infection-wave-hump-de-oliveira-says
COVID-19 deaths continue to rise among children in the US
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/17/chde-f17.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/17/chde-f17.html