How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Beebo Brink]

The main problem for me was I did not see how the joke was really that funny. That made the hoorah around it quite obscure. Your condescending remarks have not helped either.

If you read my comments as condescending, that was not my intent. I was trying to bring clarity to the discussion. By the same token, I've tried not to react to your tone even though it comes across as arrogant, brusque and dismissive; I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that this too, was unintentional on your part.

I do have a flat affect. In contrast to your appraisal, I'd suggest it means: though I generally understand your nuances perfectly well, my responses may not show it in ways you understand.

If you understand the nuances, then apparently your responses to them are deliberately judgmental and priggish. Thank you for providing the appropriate context with which to understand your contributions to our discussions. I'll keep that in mind moving forward.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Covid vaccines bring hope, but in many parts of the UK this crisis will last | John Harris

The pandemic has badly hit people who were already facing financial hardship. Guardian columnist John Harris met some of them; it was a sobering experience

www.theguardian.com

The devastating effects of Covid-19 and its economic consequences on some of Britain's poorer areas. I assume there's a similar situation, if not worse, in many parts of the US and elsewhere.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The Covid vaccines bring hope, but in many parts of the UK this crisis will last | John Harris

The pandemic has badly hit people who were already facing financial hardship. Guardian columnist John Harris met some of them; it was a sobering experience

www.theguardian.com

The devastating effects of Covid-19 and its economic consequences on some of Britain's poorer areas. I assume there's a similar situation, if not worse, in many parts of the US and elsewhere.

Indigenous satirist has a take on how it's going:

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Now's about a good time for airports and airlines to sell their passenger manifests from Thanksgiving to various funeral homes for targeted advertising.

 

[Sid]

"I don't know what keeps me going, I don't know how I haven't broken down," he said. "My nurses have broken down. My nurses cry in the middle of the day because they get so sad, sometimes for situations like this. Just seeing a patient that's crying because he wants to see his family."

Varon said he was frustrated by people not doing the right thing as coronavirus patients continue to fill his hospital beds.
"I do this day in and day out and people are out there doing the wrong thing. People are out there in bars, restaurants, malls -- it is crazy -- it's like we work, work, work, work, work and people don't listen and then they end up in my ICU," he said.

"What people need to know is that -- I don't want to have to be hugging them. They need to do the basic things: keep your social distance; wear your mask; wash your hands and avoid going to places where there are a lot of people. Very simple. If people can do that health care workers like me will be able to -- hopefully rest."

 

[Clara D.]

The irony of the situation is heavy. It's like people on progressive YouTube channels talking with bad Southern accents to mock political figures.

Y'all rekkin?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Y'all rekkin?

Why, bless his heart.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Hardly surprising, but a striking illustration of the different impacts of Covid-19 on neighbouring districts, based on ethnicity and economic deprivation

Densely packed BAME communities in England bear brunt of Covid-19

Ethnically diverse areas suffer up to four times more infections than mostly white neighbourhoods close by

www.theguardian.com

 

[Sovereignty]

If you read my comments as condescending, that was not my intent.

Your comments were very condescending. It should be obvious.

By the same token, I've tried not to react to your tone even though it comes across as arrogant, brusque and dismissive; I was giving you the benefit of the doubt that this too, was unintentional on your part.

Maybe we are two peas in a pod.

If you understand the nuances, then apparently your responses to them are deliberately judgmental and priggish.

I tried to hold off on being overtly judgmental, but the condescension of your previous post provoked me. Of course, that post was not as judgmental/condescending as your next.

Thank you for providing the appropriate context with which to understand your contributions to our discussions. I'll keep that in mind moving forward.

But you don't understand the context because you don't realize how condescending you were. This particular remark is also condescending.

Sigh.

ETA: flat affect

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Every so often, I realize that I adore the 'ignore' feature.

 

[Clara D.]

But you don't understand the context because you don't realize how condescending you were. This particular remark is also condescending.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

One of first people in UK to receive Covid jab says: 'I feel it's my duty'

Hari Shukla, 87, and his wife Ranjan, 83, to have first of two injections of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

Title of the entry says it all:
Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. more vaccine doses.

U.S. Breaks Record for Most Deaths in a Week

Trump officials passed when Pfizer offered to sell more vaccine doses months ago. Britain is readying a mass vaccination drive.

www.nytimes.com

Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered in late summer to sell the U.S. government additional doses of its Covid-19 vaccine, according to people familiar with the matter. Now Pfizer may not be able to provide more of its vaccine to the United States until next June because of its commitments to other countries, they said.

As the administration scrambles to try to purchase more doses of the vaccine, President Trump plans on Tuesday to sign an executive order “to ensure that United States government prioritizes getting the vaccine to American citizens before sending it to other nations,” according to a draft statement and a White House official, though it was not immediately clear what force the president’s executive order would carry.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

With guns drawn, police raid home and seize computers of COVID-19 data whistleblower

Florida fired her, and now it’s raiding her home

www.theverge.com

Eight months ago, Deborah Birx of the White House Coronavirus Task Force praised Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard as an example of “the kind of knowledge and power we need to put into the hands of the American people.” That dashboard was built by Rebekah Jones.

But in May, Jones was fired by the Florida Department of Health for reportedly refusing to manipulate that data to justify reopening the state — and now, Florida state police have raided her home and taken the equipment she was using to maintain a new, independent COVID-19 tracker of her own.

Where are all the freedom loving Repubs on this?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Pfizer and Moderna RSVP Hell Fuck No to Trump’s “Vaccine Summit”

The drug manufacturers appear to want no part in the administration’s attempt to take credit for the COVID-19 vaccines.

www.vanityfair.com

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol. Invite Biden, Harris, and Fauci.

 

[Free]

Former Alabama state senator dies of Covid, warns in his last words, 'We messed up'

"We let our guards down. Please tell everybody to be careful. This is real, and if you get diagnosed, get help immediately," former Sen. Larry Dixon said.

www.nbcnews.com

A former Alabama state senator died of Covid-19 last week at age 78, officials said.

The former senator, Larry Dixon, a Republican who was also a former executive director of the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners, died Friday, the board said in a statement.

Dr. David Thrasher, a pulmonologist in Montgomery who was a close friend of Dixon's, said Dixon's wife, Gaynell Dixon, told him that her husband's last words to her were a prescient warning to the people of Alabama.

"We messed up. We let our guard down," Dixon said, according to Thrasher. "Please tell everybody to be careful. This is real, and if you get diagnosed, get help immediately."